Current issue: October 2011

…saving the eurozone; Palestine, the UN bid; US left, Obama disenchants; Arab Spring: Tunisia readies for elections; Egypt and Tunisia rethink their economies; Syria, rule by security; Germany’s Greens, part of the establishment; Filipino maids for export; understanding terrorists; who runs Russia? Oh Calcutta! Twitter’s non-stop news…and more…

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Filipino maids for export

by Julien Brygo

Twelve percent of the Philippines’ GDP comes as remittances from nationals abroad. Many of those are maids, sent all over the world into domestic service to support their children back home. The Philippines government is even training them in servitudeBéatrice, a Franco-Belgian expatriate, lives in the gated community of Stanley Knoll, named after the explorer Henry Morton Stanley, in a house (...)

How Syria works

by Zénobie

Calcutta’s new idol  *

by Cédric Gouverneur

Saving Greece, saving us all  *

by Laurent Cordonnier

Calcutta: running on empty  *

by Cédric Gouverneur

The compromiser-inchief  *

by Eric Alterman

And also ...

Privatising the Arab Spring * — Germany goes for sustainable capitalism — Why the US recognised Israel * — Tunisia: democracy year one * — Tomorrow, but not today * — Who rules Russia? * — The secret lives of terrorists * — What’s happening? — How the voting will go * — Green and golden *

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