Current issue: October 2013

… Syrian crisis special report: US, France, Iran, UN; Germany, Merkel’s hat-trick, workers’ changing loyalties; US, decline of Detroit; Brazil, big business; Balkans, who lives where? North Korea, re-educating refugees; Burmese labour for Thailand’s fish trade; watching tv in China … and more…

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Whose Internet?

by Dan Schiller

Many states police their own inhabitants’ online activities but the US does it wholesale. Microsoft, Google and the rest have expressed their reservations.

The meaning of Merkel’s victory

by Chris J Bickerton

Angela Merkel and her Christian Democrat party (CDU/CSU) have won a resounding victory in Germany’s general election. Merkel has broken what had become an established rule of European politics since the beginning of the crisis: incumbents don’t (...)

Van der Walt

by Heinrich Bohmke

The red line moment  *

by Michael Klare

Life on the Thai docks  *

by Xavier Monthéard

Brazil’s biggest business  *

by Anne Vigna

Chance for peace in Cyprus?  *

by David Courbet

And also ...

Obama’s credibility — and that of his critics — Franceʼs resounding defeat * — Is Iran for turning? * — A question of collective security * — The social partnership breaks up — We lost Detroit * — Who lives here? * — Capitalism 101 * — China’s must-see TV *

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