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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Van der Walt

by Heinrich Bohmke

An encounter, a failed pitch, a threat of violence, and the rare sound of Afrikaans, on the streets of South Africa’s administrative capital.

The social partnership breaks up

by Olivier Cyran

After her re-election, Angela Merkel will again propose to the EU that the German economic model — thrift, probity, austerity and a formal partnership between employers and workers — should be the norm for all Europe. But that partnership, once  (...)

Who lives here?  *

by Jean-Arnault Dérens

Whose Internet?

by Dan Schiller

The red line moment  *

by Michael Klare

The meaning of Merkel’s victory

by Chris J Bickerton

Life on the Thai docks  *

by Xavier Monthéard

And also ...

Obama’s credibility — and that of his critics — Franceʼs resounding defeat * — Is Iran for turning? * — A question of collective security * — We lost Detroit * — Chance for peace in Cyprus? * — Brazil’s biggest business * — Capitalism 101 * — China’s must-see TV *

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