[Reader-list] Le Monde Diplomatique in English, December 2001 (TOC)

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                          December 2001

                          In this issue:
   Palestine as Israel's last best hope, US love-in with Russia
   and China, alienation in the Gulf, Horn of Africa on the US
    terror list, plus Noam Chomsky on terrorism, weapon of the
     powerful... also Lenin and Stalin: the last great Tsars,
   Nicaragua: denying the revolutionaries, the euro that people
    don't trust, no recession in the European flesh trade and
           why VS Naipaul doesn't deserve his prize...



The world's new look

by IGNACIO RAMONET

                                        Translated by Ed Emery

       <http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/12/01newlook>


UNITED STATES, GLOBAL BULLY

Terrorism, weapon of the powerful *

by NOAM CHOMSKY

     The leaders of the United States do not realise that
     their desire to win at everything always has
     consequences, and that their present exploits are likely
     to have high future costs. Osama bin Laden was the price
     of the US victory over the USSR in Afghanistan. What will
     be the next bill due?

                                      Original text in English



BUSH MAKES A BALFOUR DECLARATION AND RETRACTS IT

Palestine: Israel's last best hope

by DOMINIQUE VIDAL

     After 11 September the United States put pressure on
     Israel, and President Bush made his own Balfour
     declaration, promising a Palestinian state beside Israel.
     But the Hamas attacks at the start of December changed
     all that. Yet Israel will suffer badly if Ariel Sharon
     does destroy the Palestinian Authority.

                              Translated by Wendy Kristianasen


   <http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/12/03palestine>


Concrete realities *

by AMIRA HASS

                              Translated by Wendy Kristianasen



'MY COUNTRY WILL NOT BE AMERICA'S GAS PUMP'

Gulf states: ambivalent allies

by our special correspondent ERIC ROULEAU

     The war in Afghanistan winds down, but new targets are
     being selected in Washington. The Iraqi question is thus
     back on the table. But any US action against the Iraqi
     regime risks further inflaming Arab and Muslim opinion,
     weakening the position of the Gulf leaders.

                                    Translated by Linda Butler

       <http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/12/04gulf>


WISH LISTS OF WASHINGTON, MOSCOW AND BEIJING

A trio of soloists *

by GILBERT ACHCAR

                               Translated by Malcolm Greenwood



WHY THE WORLD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE SOVIET PAST

The history of the Russian future *

by MOSHE LEWIN

     The Soviet system created in 1917 finally collapsed a
     decade ago with Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation, and was
     replaced by the Russian Federation. But we still do not
     understand what the Soviet system was like. What was the
     relationship between Stalinism and Tsarism? How did
     conservatism and bureaucracy defeat the need for reform?
     Russia now is divided between nostalgia and rejection of
     its past.

                                    Translated by Barry Smerin



ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA UNDER NOTICE FROM THE US

Horn of Africa: al-Qaida regroups?

by JEAN-LOUIS PENINOU

     Sudan and Somalia are likely to be on Washington's list
     of world terrorist targets, and it could also launch
     military operations in the Horn of Africa, where
     al-Qaida's links are well-established, although little
     known.

                                      Translated by Lorna Dale

       <http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/12/07horn>


EURO: GODLESS, STATELESS AND UNTRUSTWORTHY?

Hard cash *

by BRUNO THERET

     The euro acknowledges no higher political or symbolic
     authority, only the market. Its guarantor is not God, nor
     a nation, nor established mutual trust but an
     unaccountable technocratic institution: the European
     Central Bank.

                                  Translated by Barbara Wilson



ORTEGA 'A FRIEND TO UNITED STATES ENEMIES'

Wasted sacrifices *

by our special correspondent RAPHAËLLE BAIL

                                    Translated by Julie Stoker



Nicaragua: a revolution forgotten *

by FRANÇOIS HOUTART

     Arnoldo Alemán's government is unprecedentedly corrupt
     and so the Sandinista National Liberation Front seemed to
     have a chance, with its moderately reformist plans, in
     the November presidential election. It lost.

                               Translated by Malcolm Greenwood



EASTERN EUROPE EXPORTS FLESH TO THE EU

The Natasha trade *

by FRANÇOIS LONCLE

     There are thousands of desperately poor women from
     eastern Europe working as prostitutes in western Europe,
     often controlled by gangs of criminals making enormous
     profits. But the EU has no coherent strategy to help
     these women, or internationally agreed laws to deal with
     their recruiters, their pimps and their punters.

                                   Translated by Luke Sandford



A business of bodies *

by FRANÇOIS LONCLE

                                   Translated by Luke Sandford



NOT WORTH THE PRIZE

Naipaul in denial *

by PASCALE CASANOVA

                                   Translated by Luke Sandford




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