Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Saturday, 3 November 2012


2 November 2012
Le Monde diplomatique

November 2012

... special report Islamist ascent in 'Arab Spring': Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Gulf; Colombia gives peace a chance; Roma who went nowhere; US, another world is possible; Africans' southern odyssey; Poland, where next? Top politicians' golden sunset... and more...

  • What happens when you can't trust the state - Serge Halimi

    There would seem to be no chance that a man who made a fortune out of financial speculation might reach the White House just four years after private banks caused a crisis and had to be bailed out by taxpayers. The uncertainty to the very last minute about the outcome of the US election was probably due to worsening distrust of the state, and everything it does.
    The problem of public debt is now at the very heart of US political life, thanks to the dramatic increase in budget deficits (...)
    Translated by Barbara Wilson
  • Political Islam after the 'Arab Spring'

    Gulf cools towards Muslim Brothers - Alain Gresh

    An Islamist wave coming from an alliance between Muslim Brothers, Salafists and Gulf emirs seems to be sweeping the Middle East. But Islam is not the key to deciphering the new political landscape.
    Translated by George Miller

  • Tunisia's new opposition - Hèla Yousfi

    Tunisia's biggest union, the UGTT, with its strong nationalist roots, is acting more and more like an opposition party. In its standoff with the ruling Annahda Party, political rivalry is to the fore and pressing economic issues have been sidelined.
    Translated by Charles Goulden

  • Morocco's Islamists, in government but not in power - Wendy Kristianasen

    King Mohammed reacted swiftly to the Arab Spring and the local demonstrations it inspired, introducing reforms that have produced a coalition government with an Islamist prime minister. But has Morocco's balance of power changed?
    Original text in English

  • Egypt: from military to religious dictatorship? * - Alain Gresh

    The army has been sidelined but the new president is facing economic and social problems - and the fear of one section of Egyptian society of seeing a Muslim Brotherhood state emerge.
    Translated by George Miller

  • A marriage of convenience - Eric Rouleau

    Political Islam came to life after the Arab defeat of June 1967, with a new alliance between the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's president Anwar Sadat.
    Translated by Charles Goulden

  • Eric Hobsbawm

  • US: time to stand up for a better world

    Call it as it is - Rebecca Solnit

    Now is the time to see that most of our problems are the result of the insatiable greed of the very few. And to say so, clearly and repeatedly. It's the only way to start changing towards reality
    LMD English edition exclusive

  • America's degree scam - Christopher Newfield

    Overpriced student loans unlikely to be repaid may follow subprime mortgages as a financial disaster, as the US dismantles its successful postwar higher education system
    Original text in English
  • Presidential change may lead to ceasefire

    Colombia gives peace a genuine chance* - Gregory Wilpert

    President Santos sees his country's future out in the world, and is prepared to negotiate an end to a 50-year civil war to better its chances
    Original text in English
  • Indigenous Roma, not travelling people

    Gypsies who went nowhere* - Henriette Asséo

    The EU misclassification of Roma as inherently itinerant has done considerable, and continuing, damage to groups of often deeply rooted people
    Translated by Stephanie Irvine
  • In search of external direction

    Poland - west, east, or even south?* - Dominique Vidal

    In its foreign policy, the Polish government has successively (and sometimes simultaneously) looked to the US and Nato, to the EU, and to its unique place on the edge of the former Soviet Union
    Translated by George Miller

  • What economic miracle?* - Dominique Vidal

    Translated by George Miller
  • 'They're not going to find anything better elsewhere'

    African odysseys turn to the south - Guillaume Pitron

    Fewer than 5% of African migrants now want to reach Europe or America. They're looking instead to neighbouring countries, or the continent's dreamland, South Africa. It's a long, hard way there, and they may be no better off if they reach it.
    Translated by George Miller
  • Get richer, and no less powerful

    Blair Inc.* - Ibrahim Warde

    Translated by the author

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