Current issue: December 2014

...Mexico, a massacre too far; Ukraine’s uncertain east; Afghans fearful as West pulls back; US, philanthropy or welfare? Italy stems migration; South Africa’s own subprime crisis; fall of France’s man in Africa; China’s workers strike; media information belongs to us all; scripting the future ... and more...

Podcasts

Rafael Barajas on Mexico’s violence

In this interview about Mexico’s current state of crisis following the disappearance of 43 students in September, journalist and political cartoonist Rafael Barajas tells George Miller: "The social fabric in entire zones [of Mexico] has been (...)

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Whose Europe?

by Stefano Liberti

Italy has borne the cost of policing the migrant waterways of the Mediterranean, in order to save lives, then to allow those saved to try to find a future elsewhere in Europe. That policy no longer (...)

Ode to the banana tree  *

by Ericka Beckman

In search of an enemy within

by Serge Halimi

Subcontracting social welfare  *

by Benoît Bréville

Freeing the fourth estate  *

by Pierre Rimbert

Buying back ‘il manifesto’

by Dominique Vidal

And also ...

Failing states * — Afghanistan alone again * — Mexico, a criminal country — Charity for love and profit * — The economic miracle that isn’t — A Chinese alternative * — South Korean sea power * — The fall of Blaise Compaoré * — Inventing the future * — The bottom line *

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