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Is Sweden green enough?
Florence Beaugé
, August 2017
The country pioneered national environmental policy and hopes to be carbon neutral by 2045. It has organic farmers, low fossil fuel use and dedicated environmental businesses.
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The right way to end terrorism
Alain Gresh
, April 2015
That yesterday’s terrorist is today’s state leader has been a global commonplace for 70 years. Perhaps it is time to retire the word, and the concept, of terrorism.
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When all the world’s a war…
Open Page
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Rebecca Gordon
• FROM
TomDispatch, 15 august 2017.
In Arizona, Trump’s Mexico wall already exists
Maxime Robin
, August 2017
With or without a wall, whatever its shape or medium, there’s a war zone between the US and Mexico, full of the lost, the desperate and the dead.
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Arizona
, US-Mexico warzone;
air-con
’s chilly blessing;
Germany
, what does the SPD want? press of the
German right
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Indonesia
’s new form of fundamentalism;
Algeria
20 years on;
EU industry
, dream not come true;
Sweden
, how green is my valley? Spoiled for
genetic choice
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The language we can’t call Serbo-Croatian
Jean-Arnault Dérens
&
Simon Rico
, July 2017
Fears on both sides of the Persian Gulf
Outside in
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Camelia Entekhabifard
, 12 August 2017
Why the EU has no industrial policy
Jean-Michel Quatrepoint
, August 2017
Africa in post-Brexit Europe
Outside in
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Roland Hsu
, 12 August 2017
Can Indonesia’s founding principles survive?
Martine Bulard
, August 2017
Indonesia’s Islam and its syncretic culture are threatened by a new form of fundamentalism rooted in ethnic nationalism and resentment of economic inequality.
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We’re the 99% and we’re not so united
Serge Halimi
, August 2017
Water boils at 100°C; that’s certain. But there’s little point expecting the behaviour of societies to conform to the laws of physics. That 1% of people command the majority of the world’s wealth does not mean (...)
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A West Bank day
Abaher Al-Sakka
&
Sandra Mehl
, October 2015
Checkpoints between Israel and Palestine aren’t there for security but to divide and control a despised Other.
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Summertime, and the living is easier
Benoît Bréville
, August 2017
In 1960 only one US home in eight had air-con. Now American life is inconceivable without it, and the rest of the world wants to be cool too.
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After the fall
Peter A. Coclanis
, 30 June 2017
Much ink has been spilt recently on the ouster of Travis Kalanick, erstwhile CEO of Uber Technologies, from the ride-hailing service he co-founded in 2009. Since Uber was launched (...)
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Nobody to negotiate with
Gérard Prunier
, 1 July 2017
South Sudan has comprehensively failed as a state in barely six years, with severe famine and a massive internal, and external, refugee problem. The causes go back to colonial (...)
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Is Europe really a sanctuary?
Jean Matringe
, 4 May 2017
Immigration amounting to 0.2% of the EU population has triggered a ‘refugee crisis’ that is really a crisis of the European Union itself, and of its ability to rally member states (...)
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Anger in the Rif
Aboubakr Jamaï
, 1 July 2017
Protests that began last autumn in the Rif may go nationwide as Moroccans demand jobs, infrastructure that works and reform. But will the king listen? There have been major (...)
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South Sudan issues
Agnès Stienne, July 2017
Tomato trade
Agnès Stienne, June 2017
Life in Hagadera
Benoît Bréville, Leopold Charniot
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Cécile Marin, June 2017
Denmark, pushed to the edges
Cécile Marin, May 2017
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Fears on both sides of the Persian Gulf
C. E.
, 12 August 2017
A political storm swept across the region on 4 June when Saudi Arabia and its allies (UAE, Bahrain and Egypt) announced they were cutting ties with Qatar and closing all their air (...)
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Africa in post-Brexit Europe
R. H.
, 11 August 2017
Some see the popular vote in the UK to withdraw from the European Union as a major blow that diminishes the future of Europe. But Brexit is a distraction from the core threat to (...)
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Will AI make society obsolete?
Chris Spannos
, 24 July 2017
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality And Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil (Allen Lane); Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari (...)
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After the fall
P. A. C.
, 30 June 2017
Much ink has been spilt recently on the ouster of Travis Kalanick, erstwhile CEO of Uber Technologies, from the ride-hailing service he co-founded in 2009. Since Uber was launched (...)
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When all the world’s a war…
R. G.
• FROM
TomDispatch, 15 august 2017.
Since September 11, 2001, the United States has been fighting a “war on terror.” Real soldiers have been deployed to distant lands; real cluster bombs and white phosphorus have been (...)
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Can the Pentagon win when putsch comes to shove?
Nick Turse
• FROM
TomDispatch, 15 August 2017.
Winning! It’s the White House watchword when it comes to the U.S. armed forces. “We will give our military the tools you need to prevent war and, if required, to fight war and only (...)
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Slouching toward mar-a-lago
Andrew J. Bacevich
• FROM
TomDispatch, 8 august 2017.
Like it or not, the president of the United States embodies America itself. The individual inhabiting the White House has become the preeminent symbol of who we are and what we (...)
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The Sport of plutocrats
Robert Lipsyte
• FROM
Tomdispatch, 3 August 2017
While waiting for Trump to jump the tracks, let’s savor the day when his inevitable train wreck first passed through a critical safety switch. On June 9th, President Trump alienated (...)
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