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Lebanon fouls the Mediterranean
Emmanuel Haddad
, September 2018
Lebanon’s government suspended trash collection in 2015. Contractors shifted the waste, some of it toxic, to coastal dumps. Over a million tonnes sit on the shore.
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The truths that won’t be heard
Alain Gresh
, September 2018
A never-shown Al Jazeera documentary on the pro-Israel lobby in the United States reveals possibly illegal Israeli spying on American citizens, and the lobby’s fear of a changing political (...)
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Qatar charms and wriggles out of trouble
A. G.
, September 2018
Courting the US: Qatar’s defence minister Khalid bin Mohammad al-Attiyah (centre right, in white robe) with his US counterpart, James Mattis (centre left), in Doha on 22 April 2017 Jonathan Ernst · (...)
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Imran Khan, the army’s choice
Christophe Jaffrelot
, September 2018
Why did Pakistan’s all-powerful military back Imran Khan for prime minister? And will he do what it demands of him, or try to implement some of his own longstanding (...)
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September
2018
…ten years after the crash;
Israel
’s new, unequal law;
Al Jazeera
’s pulled documentary;
Imran Khan
, the army’s choice;
Colombia
after the FARC deal,
China
in global race for electric cars;
Croatian
islanders’ no to mass tourism;
Lebanon
’s trash mountain; hail to the useful sponge…
Some Israelis will be more equal than others
Charles Enderlin
, September 2018
Not the world order we wanted
Serge Halimi
&
Pierre Rimbert
, September 2018
China set to lead in electric car race
Guillaume Pitron
, September 2018
Do we really want electric vehicles?
G. P.
, September 2018
Electric vehicles and the raw materials required
Elsa Delmas
&
Cécile Marin
, September 2018
What’s what in propulsion technology
September 2018
LMD’s New York debates
September 2018
New York University Program in International Relations in partnership with Le Monde diplomatique English edition, International Politics Reviews and RSM will hold the next event in our series of debates, (...)
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Croatians resist the tourism trap
Jean-Arnault Dérens
&
Laurent Geslin
, September 2018
Almost 20% of Croatia’s GDP comes from tourism, much of it mass tourism that spoils its coastlines, and especially the islands, which are fighting back.
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Colombia after the FARC deal
Loïc Ramirez
, September 2018
Colombia elected rightwing Iván Duque as president in July, a win for opponents of the peace agreement with the FARC. Does this mean a return to armed conflict is ever more (...)
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Yemen’s dangerous war
Laurent Bonnefoy
, December 2017
On August 9th at least 29 Yemeni children returning from a picnic were killed when their bus was hit by a Saudi-coalition airstrike. In 2016 the UN had put the death toll in the four-year Yemen war at (...)
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Prisoners on strike
Avery F. Gordon
, November 2006
US supermax prisons, Avery F. Gordon argued in 2006, have lost sight of their function and of their wards: ‘waging war looks more and more like a high-security prison; prison looks more and more like waging (...)
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Meat goes out of style
Benoît Bréville
, August 2018
A meat-free diet used to indicate poverty, but now the affluent adopt it to better their health, or to save animals and the planet. Instead of meat, what does the food industry have on the (...)
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A climate tipping point in the Amazon
Open Page
•
Sam Eaton
• FROM
The Nation on 30 August.
Tropical forests are flipping from storing carbon to releasing it.
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The undefeatable sponge
Ed Emery
, September 2018
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Women do the heavy lifting
Cécile Andrzejewski
, 26 August 2018
France’s last government promised hardship points so workers could retire earlier. But Macron has narrowed the criteria and risks for women are still ignored. Béatrice Boulanger (...)
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What’s what in propulsion technology
31 August 2018
Internal combustion engines convert energy produced by burning a fuel directly into mechanical force. This technology proved far more efficient and easier to adapt to road vehicles (...)
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Colombia after the FARC deal
L. R.
, 31 August 2018
Colombia elected rightwing Iván Duque as president in July, a win for opponents of the peace agreement with the FARC. Does this mean a return to armed conflict is ever more likely? (...)
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The forgotten communist quarrel
S. H.
, 30 July 2018
Even experts get things wrong. A book by journalist François Fejtő begins: ‘17 October 1961 is a date that will be remembered by the authors of history textbooks.’ It has been (...)
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maps
Electric vehicles and the raw materials required
Elsa Delmas
&
Cécile Marin, September 2018
The Sino-Russian frontier
Cécile Marin, July 2018
Global population growth
Cécile Marin, July 2018
Lure of the West
Cécile Marin, July 2018
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Venice festival premiere for Syrian war film on the death of hope
S. H.
, 20 August 2018
A low-budget, first-feature, indie film by a woman director from Damascus, made in exile in Beirut, will premiere at the Venice Festival on 3 September. The Day I Lost My Shadow, (...)
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Iranians can’t wait till 2020
Camelia Entekhabifard
, 10 August 2018
There’s nowhere like Iran to generate weekly, if not daily, headlines around the world. Since the 1979 revolution, there’s always been some event or other to make headlines; wherever (...)
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Cappucino-gate, or the crisis of authentocracy
Yohann Koshy
, 20 July 2018
Why would a politician pretend to not know what a cappuccino is? It’s a question the UK left asked itself during the 2016 Labour Party leadership election after The Observer (...)
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What justice for coerced migrants?
Leanne Tory-Murphy
, 23 June 2018
In the by-now creased photocopy of a photograph, Bakary Cham is wearing a dark blazer over a white shirt. Standing to his right are two other young men. All three stare into the (...)
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