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At the centre, but on the margins
Serge Halimi
, October 2016
Can an outsider like Donald Trump beat a candidate with the experience and backing of Hillary Clinton? That will depend on the votes of a working-class constituency no major party cares about except at election time.
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Refugee summits: too little, too late?
Outside in
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Talha Jalal
, 17 September 2016
Icelandic revival
Philippe Descamps
, October 2016
Brexit, Lexit or Remain?
Renaud Lambert
, June 2016
Jeremy Corbyn has been confirmed as Labour leader with 61.80% of the votes. He has his platform, but can he create a manifesto for a changed future that will appeal to a national (...)
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US election
special report;
Iceland
, from bankruptcy to chill revival;
China
, should France be worried?
Turkey
, anatomy of a near coup;
Algeria
, what language to learn in?
Israel
, security as religion;
Golan Druze
victims of regional conflicts;
Kashmir
, art as resistance;
street art
moves into the galleries…
The limits of eloquence
Benoît Bréville
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S. H.
, October 2016
Barack Obama began his term with fine speeches and high hopes. But he underestimated the US need for radical change.
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Turkey’s rootless coup
Sümbül Kaya
, October 2016
The July coup did not have the political, popular or top-level military support it needed. In retaliation President Erdoğan is engaged in a vast crackdown that may divide and weaken Turkey’s armed (...)
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The Baltic is full up
Nicolas Escach
, September 2016
The seas are being divided into development zones like the land, and in the Baltic, different uses for marine resources are in competition.
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Liberty is security
Open Page
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Karen J. Greenberg
• FROM
TomDispatch, 2 October 2016
One vivid image of the historical relationship between government power and individual liberties in America has long been the swing of the pendulum. It catches the nature of the perpetually changing (...)
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Burning summers after the spring
Ursula Lindsey
, September 2016
Two new accounts of Syria and Egypt, the states that failed after their popular attempts at revolution.
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The high cost of security
Gideon Levy
, October 2016
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Outside in
After the fighting
Jens Malling
, 29 September 2016
The war in Ukraine has caused huge devastation in Sloviansk. Some people were lucky enough to have their homes rebuilt, others were not. There is widespread resentment against the (...)
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Refugee summits: too little, too late?
T. J.
, 17 September 2016
On September 20th, on the margins of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly, President Obama will host a Leader’s Summit on Refugees, perhaps the last symbolic overture of the (...)
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A last challenge to Brexit
John Pedler
, 6 September 2016
What is extraordinary about the result of the 23 June UK referendum on continued membership of the European Union (Brexit) is the unquestioning acceptance — not only by people in (...)
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Perils of a second Sarkozy presidency
Matthew Moran
, 29 August 2016
Nicolas Sarkozy has launched his campaign for the French presidency. Ousted from the Élysée in 2012 by François Hollande and a French public that was exhausted after five years of the (...)
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Strategic plateau
Cécile Marin, October 2016
Growth forecast for Japanese robot market
, 6 September 2016
Rivalries in the Horn of Africa
Agnès Stienne, September 2016
The Baltic’s crowded waters
, 6 September 2016
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Liberty is security
K. J. G.
• FROM
TomDispatch, 2 October 2016
One vivid image of the historical relationship between government power and individual liberties in America has long been the swing of the pendulum. It catches the nature of the (...)
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Madoff in the White House?
Nomi Prins
• FROM
TomDispatch, 29 September 2016
Imagine for a moment that it’s January 2009. Bernie Madoff, America’s poster-child fraudster, has yet to be caught. The 2007-2008 financial crisis never happened. The markets didn’t (...)
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Win, lose, or draw
Nick Turse
• FROM
TomDispatch, 27 September 2016
Winning: it’s written into the DNA of the U.S.A. After all, what’s more American than football legend Vince Lombardi’s famous (if purloined) maxim: “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the (...)
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You must be kidding!
Tom Engelhardt
• FROM
TomDispatch, 22 September 2016
Recently, sorting through a pile of old children’s books, I came across a volume, That Makes Me Mad!, which brought back memories. Written by Steve Kroll, a long-dead friend, it (...)
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After the fighting
Jens Malling, 29 September 2016
Beach life in Crimea
Jens Malling, 5 February 2016
Behind the headlines: Colombia’s Nasa people
Robin Oisín Llewellyn, 7 December 2015
The socialist city
Jens Malling, 11 August 2015
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Turkey’s new dirty war
Laura-Maï Gaveriaux
, 4 July 2016
When the AKP lost its majority in the June 2015 election, President Erdoğan tried to discredit the successful HDP, and win nationalist votes, by declaring war on Turkeys Kurds and (...)
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Icelandic revival
Ph. D.
, 4 October 2016
Iceland picked itself up after national near-bankruptcy in 2008, and has already been through one leftwards and one rightwards electoral cycle since. The new leading contenders are (...)
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Resistance as art
Raphaël Godechot
, 4 October 2016
In the 1990s, the young joined armed rebel groups in Jammu and Kashmir; now they have created their own culture — part local, part international — to express their national identity. (...)
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Vorkuta, a coal monotown
Ph. D.
, 27 July 2016
On 25 and 26 February 2016 a series of underground explosions killed 31 miners and five rescue workers in the Severnaya pit, 10km from Vorkuta, the Russian coal-mining town inside (...)
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