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There
are now no Middle Eastern certainties
The
democratic Arab revolts are redrawing political, diplomatic and ideological
boundaries in the Middle East. Repression in Libya threatened this dynamic
process, and we do not know where the UN-approved actions of western forces in
support of the Libyan rebels will leadEven a broken watch tells the right time
twice a day. So a UN Security Council resolution authorising the use of force
against Libya is not necessarily wrong just because it was a US, French and UK
initiative. Unarmed (...)
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by Barbara Wilson
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Those
who rose in revolt this year, whether successful, stalled or repressed, know
what they want, socially, politically and economically. But they may not be able
to get it
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by George Miller
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All
the Gaddafi family speeches and promises about reforming the political system
were lies, never meant to lead to any real transformation. Only revolt offered a
chance for change
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by Stephanie Irvine
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Muammar
Gaddafi helped establish the current pattern of oil company exploration and
licensing, when opening up Libya in the 1960s. Major US oil companies can hardly
bear to stay out of Libya, and have only done so during enforced periods of
embargo
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by Stephanie Irvine
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Just
in time, King Mohammed VI announced a total constitutional reform for Morocco,
in the hope of avoiding what happened in Tunisia and Egypt. His own behaviour,
and that of his associates, is tainted, yet he is loved and respected. Will he
now really permit change?
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by Tom Genrich
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Those
Arab states that have erupted this year - and others that may follow - want
freedom and democracy, but also to end the way their countries have been run for
the financial benefit of rulers and their friends
Translated
by Krystyna Horko
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Earthquake,
tsunami and nuclear energy fears
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The
Japanese are in shock after the 11 March earthquake and tsunami, which left
untold thousands dead, more than 400,000 homeless, towns obliterated and a power
station leaking radiation. The threat of a meltdown at Fukushima has re-opened
the worldwide debate on the use of nuclear energy
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Even
before the potential catastrophe at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, the
inhabitants of Maharashtra in India were fiercely protesting against the imposed
and governmentally enforced arrival of the world's largest nuclear complex. If
they can defeat or delay its construction, the entire global nuclear industry
will change
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A
glimmer of hope for us trade unions
Thirty
years after Ronald Reagan began his presidency by suppressing an air traffic
controllers' strike, the conflict over union-busting laws introduced by the
Republican governor of Wisconsin alerted all Americans to what they had
lost
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America's
global military bases don't help security
US
defence secretary Robert Gates announced army cuts in January. Yet the military
budget, with $553bn forecast for 2012, goes on growing. Outside of the US, this
only increases the insecurity it is intended to prevent
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Serbs
and dissident Albanians kidnapped and murdered
People
in Kosovo are beginning to talk about the missing Albanians - those who opposed
what is now the ruling group in the country, and then disappeared - but not the
missing Serbs
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by Charles Goulden
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No
cosy Chi-America as planned
China
now has the world's second biggest economy, though its actual GDP per capita is
much less than Tunisia's. But sharing the wealth and securing it for the future,
while fulfilling pent-up domestic demand, represent a great challenge for
China
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by Tom Genrich
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China
would like the world to see the news its way. And it's willing to pay big money
to set up news media in those places from which the West is withdrawing
cover
Translated
by Tom Genrich
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'A
time of degradation and desolation'
A
small group of Italians from Venice and Padua are trying to reclaim their
cities, and their own souls, from contemporary incivility and corruption by
taking to the water. But only in old wooden boats, and always unmotorised
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