Current issue: December 2011

…Europe in crisis: the dismantling of Greece, the ECB, bank of banks; Middle East, new geopolitical map; Libya’s next battle; Russia 20 years on: not Putin again! military state of the art; DRC goes to the polls; Africa’s Great Green Wall; China plumps for coal; India’s art goes global; Albert Camus, writer, witness, activist…and more…

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Africa’s disputed trees

by Mark Hertsgaard

The Great Green Wall of Africa can either be a literal project, a 15km-wide west-east forest meant to keep the Sahara out, or a metaphor for the addition of trees to the African landscape wherever they’re needed At first the women weren’t sure they could do it. Or should do it. Many in the village agreed. Digging holes, planting trees, being leaders, weren’t these men’s jobs? “Everyone said we (...)

Congo gripped by election fever  *

by Tristan Coloma

Russia deserts its guns  *

by Vicken Cheterian

End of an era  *

by Nina Bachkatov

Outraged justice  *

by Robert Zaretsky

Eurozone’s bank of banks  *

by François Ruffin

And also ...

China’s dark power — Greece in chaos — Made in India * — Rule by troika — Libya still under arms — Upheaval across the Middle East * — Putin is back * — From wars to ballot box *

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