Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday, 7 June 2011


Le Monde diplomatique

June 2011

...Pakistan after Bin Laden; Bangladesh deislamises; India and China make common cause; the French left on Europe; DSK, media collusion, UK, stand against the cuts; Arab world: protests gather pace in Syria and Yemen, Egypt's Christian citizens; Sudan busts US sanctions; facing the cut, cosmetic surgery...and more...

  • Taking liberties with egality - Serge Halimi

    Any criticism of the privileges enjoyed by the oligarchy, of the venality of the ruling classes, of generous handouts to the banks, the joys of free trade or savage wage-cuts in the name of international competition, is now construed as "populism" and "playing into the hands of the extreme right".
    When New York's courts refused to grant special treatment to the IMF's managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, accused of raping a chambermaid in a Manhattan hotel, a commentator - joining the (...)
    Translated by Barbara Wilson
  • Pakistan after the death of Bin Laden

    Now that he's gone* - Jean-Luc Racine

    The assassination of Osama bin Laden in his compound in a city in Pakistan changed the placement of all the pieces on the board and focused attention on how Pakistan's military will react. The great game goes on, and several players have a keen eye on the future of Afghanistan and Pakistan
    Translated by George Miller
  • Love you, hate you: we get along

    China and India: it's a marriage* - Christophe Jaffrelot

    India and China compete and contrast when in direct competition or conflict. But put them against the rest of the world, especially the West, and they make common cause
    Translated by Stephanie Irvine
  • Islamic republic returns to secular constitution

    Bangladesh's last chance* - David Montero

    The prime minister of Bangladesh was voted in on her promise of justice for the crimes of its foundation 40 years ago. This has not quite happened as planned, and has been the excuse for suppression of all political opposition
    Original text in English
  • Still a long hard road to Arab democracy

    Palestine's own spring - Alain Gresh

    Palestinian refugees demonstrated along Israel's border in May, inspired by the Arab protests, in response to the Fatah-Hamas impasse
    Translated by Stephanie Irvine

  • Power of the word in the Syrian intifada* - Zénobie

    We can trace what's happening - and may yet happen - in Syria by what the protesters chant at their demonstrations: the slogans are already a history, a politics, a manifesto and a new identity
    Zénobie is a journalist in Damascus

  • Yemen knows what it doesn't want* - Laurent Bonnefoy and Marine Poirier

    The impromptu coalition of revolution protesting regularly all over Yemen wants the president to leave office. Beyond that, it doesn't yet have a programme, although it does have an agenda
    Translated by George Miller

  • Citizens first, Christians after* - Rudolf El-Kareh

    Sectarian clashes between Christians and Muslims are a major setback for the new popular movements across the Arab world. For Middle Eastern Christians are by no means outsiders in the countries in which they have long lived
    Translated by Stephanie Irvine

  • Egypt's sectarian divide - Glen Johnson

    LMD English language exclusive

  • Tunisia: not over yet - Don Duncan

    LMD English edition exclusive
  • Against the cuts but no part of the parties

    Britain's freelance protesters* - Tony Wood

    New and informal alliances between unions, students, and local and issues-based groups have been protesting powerfully against the UK coalition government's austerity programmes and national inequalities
    Original text in English
  • Closed circle of french media and politics

    At the court of DSK* - Marie Bénilde

    Translated by Krystyna Horko
  • The french left and the EU

    Yet another Europe* - Antoine Schwartz

    The French left don't like Europe the way it is - they believe there has to be something better, yet another version of Europe, but can't agree on what should be done to make it happen
    Translated by Charles Goulden

  • A federalist's vision* - Antoine Schwartz

    Translated by Charles Goulden
  • Gum arabic, sudan's other crucial export

    Soda pop diplomacy* - Guillaume Pitron

    Sudan produces half the world's supply, and the best quality, of gum arabic, which is almost as crucial to modern life as oil; it's in every bottle of Coca-Cola for a start. Even fierce sanctions against Sudan didn't apply to gum arabic supplies
    Translated by Stephanie Irvine

  • Coca-Cola and gum arabic* - Guillaume Pitron

  • Istanbul hosts un conference for LDCs

    The world's poorest - Wendy Kristianasen

    LMD English language exclusive
  • Change yourself if you can't change the world

    My face is my fortune, sir, she said - Mona Chollet

    Cosmetic surgery and allied procedures were less hard hit by the great global crash than many other businesses. Women saw their faces and bodies as assets needing investment to help them in a tough market
    Translated by Ursula Meany Scott

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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 11:32