Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday, 19 June 2012


19 June 2012
Le Monde diplomatique

June 2012

... Greece heads for exit; EU in denial; Poland's ailing east; US healthcare, decision time; Mississippi, republican and poor; Israel, prison as a means of control; Sudan's contentious pair; Nicaragua, Ortega backs down; Burma's Chinese border struggle; the UN at work; refugees special report...and more...

  • Radical solutions - Serge Halimi

    Last month's student protests in Quebec have made it clear, yet again, that austerity policies cannot be imposed except by authoritarian methods. More than a third of the students in the province struck after Jean Charest's liberal (centrist) government decided to increase student fees by 75% in five years; the National Assembly of Quebec, in a special session on 18 May, curtailed the rights of free association and demonstration. Thus, cutting off a democratic achievement (access to higher (...)
    Translated by Barbara Wilson
  • Default and exit from the eurozone?

    Greece could begin again - Costas Lapavitsas

    Greece is heading for an exit from the euro, and the rest of the eurozone periphery may follow, precipitating a huge change in the EU. After the crisis, Greece could slowly recover
    Original text in English

  • The coup in Brussels* - Raoul-Marc Jennar

    Translated by Krystyna Horko
  • Remote and rural eastern Poland

    The EU's far frontier - Laurent Geslin

    The EU has invested heavily in modernising eastern Poland. But joining the Schengen area has cut Poland off from its eastern neighbours and the country's rural east is lagging behind
    Translated by Charles Goulden

  • Step across the border*

    Translated by Charles Goulden
  • Does the president or the Supreme Court run the US?

    History judges healthcare - Daniel Lazare

    A judicial review of new health legislation in the US means that the Supreme Court judges will try to decide whether the founding fathers of the nation would have approved the legislation
    Original text in English
  • Where civil war animosities still rule politics

    Mississippi: rightwing, white and poor* - Olivier Cyran

    The state's median income is the lowest in the US, but for 40 years it has unfailingly voted for a Republic president and government, which is almost guaranteed to do most Mississippians economic harm. The illogic of politics here has more to do with race and history than ideology
    Translated by Krystyna Horko
  • Southern independence not the end of the story

    Sudan's fractious pair* - Jean-Baptiste Gallopin

    Although South Sudan became independent last year, it is still in contention with the Republic of Sudan. Yet the two states must cooperate if they are to survive economically - and Khartoum still faces major, and violent, internal dissension
    Translated by Stephanie Irvine
  • Palestinians' long hunger strike

    Prison as a means of control* - Stéphanie Latte Abdallah

    Palestinian political prisoners last month forced an agreement - through a long hunger strike - to end solitary confinement, limit detention without charge and allow more family visits. But the Israeli prison system remains a key means of controlling the occupied territories
    Translated by Stephanie Irvine
  • Poverty or a roof and cheap beans?

    Why Nicaragua chose Ortega - Maurice Lemoine

    Daniel Ortega's re-election as president of Nicaragua confirmed the leftwing allegiances of much of Latin America. But his Sandinista government has abandoned many of its principles, especially on women's rights, to stay in power
    Translated by Charles Goulden
  • Where Burma dissolves into China

    The Kachin borderlands - Patrick Boehler

    China is wholly involved in the political and economic life of Burma's would-be breakaway border state of Kachin, at both high and low levels
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  • Getting on with the world's business

    The other UN - Anne-Cécile Robert

    Besides the well-known building in Manhattan, the UN has three other main HQs, one of them in Vienna, where nine important organisations do the practical work
    Translated by Stephanie Irvine
  • Third world's multiple roads to independence

    Not always a place for Marx - Alain Gresh

    In most of what became the third world, the anti-colonial struggle rather than social issues shaped the debate
    Translated by Charles Goulden
  • Supplement: a world of refugees

    The UNHCR's evolving mandate - Augusta Conchiglia

    Fifty million people in the world today are uprooted. This large number, a clear indication of current global tensions, includes people who have been forced to leave their homes for political reasons or as a result of natural disasters. In 2011 more than 35 million people received assistance from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). They include 10.4 million
    Translated by Krystyna Horko

  • People who don't exist - Augusta Conchiglia

  • Libya's aftermath spills over into Tunisia - Vicken Cheterian

    The Libyan war created thousands of refugees, now living in camps along the country's borders. Shusha, in the southeast of Tunisia, is one such camp
    Original text in English

  • New challenges - António Guterres

    Original text in English

  • A person of no fixed abode - Philippe Joël

    International organisations have to work within their mandates, but also respond to unexpected situations: who do they have the right to help?
    Translated by Charles Goulden

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