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30/08/2024
The Gaza war is already one of the bloodiest of recent times. And there’s little sign of the Israeli leadership wanting the fighting to cease: ‘total victory’ for Netanyahu means regionalising the conflict.
Alain Gresh in the September issue.
Subscribers // by Alain Gresh (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, September 2024)
30/08/2024
After the mass exodus of Palestinians from their homes in the 1948 Nakba, those who remained were promised ‘complete equality of social and political rights’. But the reality proved very different.
‘Arab-Israeli coexistence at breaking point’ by Ariane Bonzon, in the September issue.
Subscribers // by Ariane Bonzon (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, September 2024)
30/08/2024
Sahra Wagenknecht, the combative, charismatic leader of a new leftwing party, is tired of leftist liberalism. So who’s she appealing to, and why?
Pierre Rimbert and Peter Wahl in the September issue.
Subscribers // by Pierre Rimbert & Peter Wahl (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, September 2024)
29/08/2024
‘Former president Donald Trump hates dramatic surprises that are not of his own making – especially when they come with a price tag.’
Serge Halimi in the September issue.
Subscribers // by Serge Halimi (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, September 2024)
29/08/2024
Cleansed of even the mildest social-democratic sentiment, UK Labour now hopes to establish itself as the primary representative of British capital, wresting that title from the Tories.
Oliver Eagleton in the September issue.
Subscribers // by Oliver Eagleton (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, September 2024)
28/08/2024
On 30 July Emmanuel Macron sent a letter to Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, recognising his country’s sovereignty over Western Sahara. This was not just a departure from international law; it also puts the fragile balance of French-Algerian relations at risk.
Akram Belkaïd's September editorial.
Open access // by Akram Belkaïd (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, September 2024)
28/08/2024
September 2024 issue.
Inside: Macron picks a side in the Western Sahara dispute, on the Trump campaign trail, Gaza special report: Netanyahu’s aim of ’total victory’, Israel’s assault on Gaza’s schools, Arab-Israelis’ co-existence under threat, Israelis’ growing disenchantment with Bibi’s war, UK, how Keir Starmer ditched Labour’s socialist agenda, a new leftwing alternative for Germany? Tajikistan reinforces its identity through A***n myth, hospitality industry fights abuse in the kitchen…
28/08/2024
Our September issue is online.
Inside: Macron's opinion on the Western Sahara, the Trump campaign trail, Gaza special report: Netanyahu’s aim of ’total victory’, Israel’s assault on Gaza’s schools, Arab-Israelis’ co-existence under threat, Israelis’ growing disenchantment with Bibi’s war, UK, how Keir Starmer ditched Labour’s socialist agenda, a new leftwing alternative for Germany? Tajikistan reinforces its identity through A***n myth, hospitality industry fights abuse in the kitchen…
…on the Trump campaign trail, Gaza special report: Netanyahu's aim of 'total victory', Israel's assault on Gaza's schools, Arab-Israelis' co-existence under threat, Israelis' growing disenchantment with Bibi's war, UK, how Keir Starmer ditched Labour's socialist agenda, a new leftwing alternative ...
28/08/2024
The secret Five Eyes intelligence alliance grew out of cold war cooperation between the UK and US to monitor the Soviet Union. Now it’s focused on China, and the US is keen to recruit new members.
(August in the archive.)
Subscribers // by Philippe Leymarie (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, April 2022)
27/08/2024
In the South Pacific region, Australia is supreme, yet it is only a minor power compared with China. Canberra is still dependent on its US-inspired traditional defence and trade policies.
(August in the archive.)
Open access // by Olivier Zajec (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, May 2010)
27/08/2024
The West’s pivot to Asia has heightened tensions in the Indo-Pacific. With the US and China vying for predominance and increasing their military presence, the region’s nations face a difficult balancing act to secure their interests.
(August in the archive.)
Open access // by Martine Bulard (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, June 2021)
26/08/2024
As major powers jockey for position in the Indo-Pacific, the region’s smaller states face catastrophic climate change.
(August issue.)
Subscribers // by Géraldine Giraudeau (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, August 2024)
25/08/2024
In the South Pacific, Vanuatu specialises in phone s*x lines, Tonga sells passports of convenience, television channels across the world pay well to use Tuvalu’s “.tv” internet domain suffix.
Open access // by Jean-Marc Regnault (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, June 2005)
25/08/2024
In the South Pacific, state development aid has not achieved its desired objectives: external economic dependence has increased.
(August in the archive.)
Open access // by Jean-Marc Regnault (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, June 2005)
25/08/2024
Californians love their coast – what leisure activity could be more democratic than going to the beach? In reality, wealthy landowners are doing their utmost to keep beachfront spaces private and exclusive.
(August in the archive.)
Subscribers // by Isabelle Bruno & Grégory Salle (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, August 2024)
Open access // by Cécile Marin (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 0443)
23/08/2024
The Cook Islands are on the front line of climate change: their inhabitants are already experiencing the brunt of its impacts. So will their offshore mineral riches prove a blessing or a curse?
(August issue.)
Subscribers // by Glen Johnson (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, August 2024)
23/08/2024
In response to protests against pollution, Serbia cancelled all lithium mining licences in January. But there’s pressure from multinational Rio Tinto and the EU to reconsider.
(August in the archive.)
Open access // by Saša Dragojlo & Ivica Mladenović (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2022)
22/08/2024
Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Macedonia are the new front line between Russia and the West, US Secretary of State John Kerry told the Senate foreign affairs committee in 2015.
(August in the archive.)
Open access // by Jean-Arnault Dérens & Laurent Geslin (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, July 2015)
22/08/2024
When Kosovo declared independence on 17 February 2008, its premier Hashim Thaçi boasted that ‘a hundred’ countries would recognise the new state within a few weeks. Yet two years later only 69 of the 192 members of the UN had done so.
(August in the archive.)
Open access // by Jean-Arnault Dérens (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, September 2010)
21/08/2024
For a decade, over half of China’s investment in Europe has gone to the Balkans, particularly Serbia. The priority sectors are energy, infrastructure and mining, with scant regard to environmental impacts.
(August issue.)
Subscribers // by Jean-Arnault Dérens & Laurent Geslin (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, August 2024)
21/08/2024
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20/08/2024
Turks welcomed 3.5 million refugees fleeing from Syria’s civil war. But with most of them hoping to settle permanently in the country, a worsening economy and global pandemic, relations have grown strained and resentment is on the rise.
(August in the archive.)
Open access // by Ariane Bonzon (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, May 2020)
20/08/2024
Europe is coping badly with a great migratory influx, including many fleeing Syria’s civil war. By 2015, Syria’s neighbours, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, had already taken in more than 3.5 million refugees, changing the map of the region.
(August in the archive.)
Open access // by Hana Jaber (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, October 2015)
19/08/2024
Since 2011 Lebanon has hosted some 1.5 million Syrian refugees fleeing civil war and a dire economic situation, and now has the most refugees per capita in the world: a fifth of the population are Syrian refugees. Barely tolerated by the Lebanese, they face unprecedented intimidation, violence and deportation.
Open access // by Charles Lawrie (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, August 2024)
19/08/2024
The great Lebanese intellectual Georges Corm died on Wednesday 14 August, aged 84. Corm was an economist and historian of the Middle East, as well as a former finance minister of Lebanon and a consultant to international organisations. He wrote numerous books about the region, its history and political dynamics, notably Le Proche-Orient éclaté (1956-2012) (Gallimard, 2010).
Corm’s research into the distribution of power among communities in Lebanon led him to question the reading of conflicts along confessional lines. He was a regular contributor to Le Monde diplomatique over more than 50 years. In one of his last articles, in 2013, he wrote: ‘The Palestinian question is no longer perceived as a war of national liberation that could be resolved by creating a single country where Jews, Christians and Muslims lived together as equals, as the PLO has long called for. Instead it is regarded as Arab-Muslim opposition to a Jewish presence in Palestine and so, for some, a symbol of enduring anti-Semitism that must be opposed. But if Palestine had been invaded by Buddhists, or post-Ottoman Turkey, resistance would have been just as strong.’
Open access // by Georges Corm (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2013)
19/08/2024
Israel has always feared Lebanon’s multi-confessional culture and wanted to break it up. But the latest attack, unlike earlier interventions and invasions, has so far failed to provoke internal conflict.
(August in the archive.)
Open access // by Georges Corm (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, September 2006)
18/08/2024
An unexplained decision by the Lebanese government in 2008 to challenge Hizbullah over its military capabilities provoked a Hizbullah-led alliance of militias to defeat those of the prime minister and a Sunni party. With the election of a new president, Michel Suleiman, the fighting ended, but Hizbullah’s participation in government is a blow for the US.
(August in the archive.)
Open access // by Alain Gresh (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, June 2008)
17/08/2024
Hizbullah, the ‘party of God’, has became directly involved in fighting ISIS and Sunni rebels in Syria in 2016. This raised tensions with Sunnis back home in Lebanon.
(August in the archive.)
Open access // by Marie Kostrz (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, April 2016)
17/08/2024
Rising tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border may provoke regional war, meaning devastation in southern Lebanon and even the country’s collapse. Did Hizbullah miscalculate in opening its pro-Palestinian ‘support front’ against Israel?
(August issue.)
Subscribers // by Emmanuel Haddad (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, August 2024)
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