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- ‘No scruples, no regrets’? https://mondediplo.com/2023/04/01edito 3 comments truereddit
- Alsace's toxic time bomb https://mondediplo.com/2022/05/10toxic-waste 4 comments europe
- If only Assange had been Navalny https://mondediplo.com/2021/11/14assange 28 comments privacy
- Climate change in the Indian farmers' protest https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/climate-indian-farmers 3 comments india
- Israel Deliberately Forgets its History https://mondediplo.com/2008/09/07israel 337 comments truereddit
- Iraqis want US and Iran out https://mondediplo.com/2020/02/03iraq 5 comments politics
- Amongst once again rising tension between US and Iran this article might provide som well-needed nuance. https://mondediplo.com/2019/08/02us-iran 6 comments politics
- Northern Ireland’s deep state: The British government has never accepted responsibility for its collusion with Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary forces during the Troubles. This historical legacy issue will not go away and has lasting effects. https://mondediplo.com/2019/12/07northern-ireland 36 comments europe
- Colombia after the FARC deal https://mondediplo.com/2018/09/06colombia 4 comments geopolitics
- US and Iran, short memories https://mondediplo.com/2019/08/02us-iran 30 comments geopolitics
- Ecuador’s crackdown on abortion is putting women in jail https://mondediplo.com/openpage/ecuador-abortion 8 comments worldnews
- US military document reveals how the West opposed a democratic Syria https://mondediplo.com/outside-in/syria-democracy-documents 155 comments worldnews
- The Saudi predicament https://mondediplo.com/2018/03/05saudi-arabia 2 comments geopolitics
- Is president Trump headed for a war with China? http://mondediplo.com/openpage/is-president-trump-headed-for-a-war-with-china 6 comments politics
- high-level conflict with great-power adversaries like Russia and China...major conflicts, long considered most unlikely, are now deemed ‘plausible’ by western military strategists, who claim that urgent steps are needed to deter and, if necessary, prevail in such engagements. http://mondediplo.com/2016/09/02war 3 comments russia
- US primaries and the unintended consequences of democracy - "The American primary process has done more to make America ungovernable than it has to democratise politics." http://mondediplo.com/blogs/us-primaries-and-the-unintended-consequences-of 7 comments politics
- Le Monde Diplomatique - The Corporate Invasion - Anti TTIP Piece http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/02tafta 3 comments europe
- The value of a frozen conflict http://mondediplo.com/2015/03/04transnistria 3 comments geopolitics
- Can Podemos win in Spain ? http://mondediplo.com/2015/02/03podemos 12 comments europe
- Snowden and the golden age of spying: 5.1 million Americans has security clearances, more than the total population of Norway and significantly more people than you can find in Costa Rica, Ireland, or New Zealand. http://mondediplo.com/openpage/edward-snowden-and-the-golden-age-of-spying 5 comments worldnews
- The corporation invasion: A new treaty being negotiated in secret between the US and the EU has been specifically engineered to give companies what they want — the dismantling of all social, consumer and environmental protection, and compensation for any infringement of their assumed rights. http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/02tafta 10 comments economy
- Uncle Sam doesn’t want you — he already has you http://mondediplo.com/openpage/uncle-sam-doesn-t-want-you-he-already-has-you 3 comments politics
- The great american class war http://mondediplo.com/openpage/the-great-american-class-war 11 comments politics
- Long jail sentences for trivial offences enrich local sheriffs’ and police departments in the state of Louisiana — and keep the local economy going http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/11usprison 4 comments politics
- An over-nuclear Europe [map] http://mondediplo.com/img/arton6942.jpg 91 comments europe
- Arming the Syrian opposition will create another Afghanistan http://mondediplo.com/blogs/arming-the-syrian-opposition-will-create-another 43 comments worldnews
- National borders in 20th century Europe http://mondediplo.com/maps/20thborders 7 comments europe
- Rupees in your pocket - An experiment in paying villagers in one of India’s poorest states an unconditional basic income has been successful enough to change the government’s thinking. http://mondediplo.com/2013/05/04income 15 comments india
- The EU has invested heavily in modernising eastern Poland. But joining the Schengen area has cut Poland off from its eastern neighbours and the country’s rural east is lagging behind. http://mondediplo.com/2012/06/04poland 13 comments europe
- Northeast Asia, the area of the world with the greatest concentration of economic and military power, is on the verge of a regional transformation. And the United States, still preoccupied with the Middle East and hobbled by a stalled and stagnating economy, will be the odd man out. http://mondediplo.com/openpage/why-2012-will-shake-up-asia-and-the-world 3 comments worldevents
- Looking at WikiLeaks cables on pharmaceutical drugs and trade pressures describing U.S. government’s efforts to drive up the price of medicine in developing countries. This is an act of state-sponsored violence that is rarely reported by the New York Times, the Guardian or other newspapers. http://mondediplo.com/openpage/looking-at-wikileaks-cables-on-pharmaceutical 57 comments politics
- "Somewhere on this planet an American commando is carrying out a mission. Now, say that seventy times and you're done ... for the day. Without the knowledge of the American public, a secret force within the US military is undertaking operations in a majority of the world's countries." http://mondediplo.com/openpage/a-secret-war-in-120-countries 15 comments politics
- The people of Iceland have now twice voted not to repay international debts incurred by banks, and bankers, for which the whole island is being held responsible. With the present turmoil in European capitals, could this be the way forward for other economies? http://mondediplo.com/2011/08/02iceland 77 comments worldnews
- A 30-year war for energy preeminence? You wouldn’t wish it even on a desperate planet. But that’s where we’re headed and there’s no turning back. http://mondediplo.com/openpage/the-new-thirty-years-war 5 comments worldevents
- "War is only war, it seems, when Americans are dying, when we die. When only they, the Libyans, die, it is something else for which there is as yet apparently no name. When they attack, it is war. When we attack, it is not." http://mondediplo.com/openpage/attacking-libya-and-the-dictionary 5 comments politics
- "War is only war, it seems, when Americans are dying, when we die. When only they, the Libyans, die, it is something else for which there is as yet apparently no name. When they attack, it is war. When we attack, it is not." http://mondediplo.com/openpage/attacking-libya-and-the-dictionary 6 comments reddit.com
- Young Palestinians were given cameras and training to capture documentary evidence of Israeli abuses. http://mondediplo.com/2010/08/16shooting 32 comments worldnews
- Are the Jews an invented people? - Ashkenazi Jews are not semitic peoples. They're Khazars who converted to Judaism. Do they still have claim to Palestine? http://mondediplo.com/2008/05/18invented 6 comments reddit.com
- Obama: the Democrats in person: "He has come to embody everything the Democratic party has stood for and pursued for 50 years" http://mondediplo.com/2008/04/04obama 3 comments politics
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