Current issue: September 2015

… Iran, life after sanctions; Turkey, a new more dangerous chapter; Bolivia, eyes on the sea; Francis the reformer; fast food, profit before people; big business and Brussels bureaucrats; climate change refugees; Texas, a little home fracking; Ramadan in Montpellier; who’s that woman in the burqa? making money from memories… and more…

Must read

Frappuccino society

by Benoît Bréville

Subway and Starbucks have different biographies and policies. But both exploit their staff and suppliers to profit the parent firm

Iranian hopes and fears

by Camelia Entekhabifard

Iranians expect urgent economic improvements after the end of sanctions, and the regime will have to manage these expectations or face disappointment. Any political opening will depend on two major elections next (...)

Ramadan in Montpellier  *

by Pierre Daum

Erdoğan’s tough stand  *

by Akram Belkaïd

Oil in the Texan yard  *

by Christelle Gérand

A choice of billionaires

by Serge Halimi

The saltpetre war  *

by Cédric Gouverneur

And also ...

Francis, the whistleblower pope * — Country without a port * — The Brussels lobbyists * — Irish media in the dock * — Climate change conflicts * — I am not that woman in a burqa * — Memory as paying business * — Change of strategy on the market for souls * — Spain’s new laws violate human rights *

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