Current issue: August 2014

... assault on Gaza; Egypt’s workers struggle on; Syria’s new artists in exile; IT, how much for your data? rise of the web documentary; Piketty in the light of Marx; Latin America’s very modern coups; Balkans, hope after the rains, Algeria’s frustrated youth; Vietnam’s Costa del Cam Ranh; Gabriel Garcia Marquez remembered ...

Must read

Costa del Cam Ranh

by Jordan Pouille

Expat Russian entrepreneurs, budget Russian tourists, and a government hoping the post-Vietnam war exiles will come back home rich to retire: Vietnam is a demonstration model for change.

Unfair and unbalanced

by Serge Halimi

The Israeli army’s punitive expedition in Gaza has revived a major aspiration of modern journalism: the right to be lazy. In professional terms, this is known as “balance” (the far-right US television channel Fox News describes itself, not without (...)

Latin American coups upgraded  *

by Maurice Lemoine

Robots before humans

by Pierre Rimbert

Syria’s exiled artists

by Angela Robson

How much for your data?  *

by Evgeny Morozov

Egypt on strike  *

by Moustafa Bassiouni

And also ...

The Balkan floods * — Gaza: Palestine first and last — Something better than this * — Goodbye to Gabriel García Márquez * — Rise of the web documentary * — Forbidden *

  • ✪ The staff - Contact us

  • ✪ Republishing enquiries

    tel: +1 336 686 9002

    email: rights@agenceglobal.com

  • ✪ LMD around the world

    Le Monde diplomatique, originally published in French, has editions in 25 other languages

✪ Sites we like