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Asian collision course
Philip S Golub
, March 2017
Donald Trump challenged the One China policy, but soon backed off. He wants concessions from China on trade and security, and he might even attempt to (...)
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Why Europe fails to learn
Serge Halimi
, March 2017
As Benjamin Franklin remarked, ‘Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools learn in no other.’ He was brilliant enough to invent the lightning conductor but could not predict the formation of the European (...)
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The SNP’s big gamble
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Simon Jones
, 15 March 2017
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, has announced in Edinburgh that she would ask the Scottish parliament for permission to hold a second referendum on independence, she will take her request to parliament next week. The timing of (...)
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Cool about Revolutionary ardour
Korine Amacher
, March 2017
Putin’s Russia has a history problem. How do you commemorate the 1917 Revolution without celebrating it and encouraging mass movements against the system?
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New man Macron’s old-style expertise
François Denord
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Paul Lagneau-Ymonet
, March 2017
Emmanuel Macron projects himself as having no past and no allegiances. But he’s very well connected to huge networks of influence.
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West
, anger left and right;
French elections
: Macron, new face, old ideas; basic income for all, says Benoît Hamon; get me out of Vaulx!
Germany
after the welcome party;
UN
, keeping the peace; how should
Putin
remember 1917?
China special report:
Trump, too late to contain China; not even liberals want democracy; China rocks on…
Why the system will still win
Perry Anderson
, March 2017
Brexit, Trump’s win, Europe’s populist movements: the West is protesting, from the left and the right, against the neoliberal, globalist orthodoxies of the past 40 years.
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Germany after the welcome party
Olivier Cyran
, March 2017
Germany took in more than a million migrants in 2015-6. Reactions to the newcomers range from mild neglect and slow bureaucracy to intense local hatred.
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Financing a basic income
Mona Chollet
, March 2017
Socialist presidential candidate Benoît Hamon is wooing French voters with the promise of a basic income for all. The idea has sparked debate across the political (...)
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Prepare, pursue, prevail!
Open Page
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Andrew J. Bacevich
• FROM
TomDispatch, 21 March 2017
By way of explaining his eight failed marriages, the American bandleader Artie Shaw once remarked, “I am an incurable optimist.” In reality, Artie was an incurable narcissist. Utterly devoid of (...)
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Fastest way out of a banlieue without hope
Hacène Belmessous
, March 2017
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Why Europe fails to learn
S. H.
, 3 March 2017
As Benjamin Franklin remarked, ‘Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools learn in no other.’ He was brilliant enough to invent the lightning conductor but could not predict the (...)
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Myanmar’s one-woman democracy
Christine Chaumeau
, 6 January 2017
The military have stepped back, but are not completely gone. For now, the Burmese population are still counting on their adored historical opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The (...)
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Corb, architecture’s great dictator
Olivier Barancy
, 3 February 2017
Le Corbusier’s 1924 plan for Paris would have obliterated its historic heart to build a totalitarian ‘radiant city’. Life in it would not have matched the dream. The Voisin Plan was (...)
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Fastest way out of a banlieue without hope
H. B.
, 3 March 2017
The brightest of the young from the Lyon banlieues see their best hope in education, entrepreneurship or working abroad: anything to avoid being judged as minorities. ‘All this talk (...)
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Who contributes to UN peacekeeping
Cécile Marin, March 2017
Central Asia, vital cooperation on energy
Cécile Marin, February 2017
Widely varied legislation
Cécile Marin, January 2017
Lands of the Sami
Cécile Marin, January 2017
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The SNP’s big gamble
S. J.
, 15 March 2017
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, has announced in Edinburgh that she would ask the Scottish parliament for permission to hold a second referendum on independence, she (...)
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Collapse of the American party system
Harvey B. Feigenbaum
, 24 February 2017
The US presidential election of 2016 was a shock. The Democratic Party found itself in disarray when Hillary Clinton lost. Barak Obama, speaking in the days before he left office, (...)
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Exiled in Exarchia
S. J.
, 15 February 2017
The Exarchia district slouches up the Athenian hillsides, twenty minutes’ walk from Syntagma Square, seat of government in the heart of Athens. Occasionally it stirs, exploding in (...)
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Iceland worries about tourist boom
Silla Sigurgeirsdottir
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Robert H Wade
, 9 February 2017
Iceland is surfing a tourist boom. From 440,000 tourists in 2008, numbers started surging in 2011, and reached 1.3 million in 2015, and 1.8 million in 2016. (The population is 330,000 (...)
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Prepare, pursue, prevail!
A. J. B.
• FROM
TomDispatch, 21 March 2017
By way of explaining his eight failed marriages, the American bandleader Artie Shaw once remarked, “I am an incurable optimist.” In reality, Artie was an incurable narcissist. (...)
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President blowback
Tom Engelhardt
• FROM
TomDispatch, 16 March 2017
If you want to know where President Donald Trump came from, if you want to trace the long winding road (or escalator) that brought him to the Oval Office, don’t look to reality TV (...)
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Trump’s military nostalgia (or “Victory at Sea” all over again)
Michael T Klare
• FROM
TomDispatch, 14 March 2017
If you are an American male of a certain age — Donald Trump’s age, to be exact — you are likely to have vivid memories of Victory at Sea, the Emmy award-winning NBC documentary series (...)
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Doubling down on dystopia
John Feffer
• FROM
TomDispatch, 12 March 2017
Dystopias have recently achieved full-spectrum dominance. Kids are drawn to such stories — The Giver, Hunger Games — like Goths to piercings. TV shows about zombie apocalypses, (...)
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