The following might interest a number of subscribers of this list. I have
found the French version of Le Monde Diplomatique most interesting,
professional and very insightful. The published articles eventually find
themselves on the Web site plus they have an exhaustive and well classified
archive that can be searched. Note also the other languages covered. Hope
some here find this site useful as well.
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**** Le Monde diplomatique: a unique newspaper - NOW IN ENGLISH ****
At a time when other newspapers around the world are reducing their
international news coverage and analysis, Le Monde diplomatique is
staunchly refusing to compromise its standards in either the quality or the
scope of the topics it addresses. This policy has met with huge success.
Readers like it. Circulation is soaring year on year. Last year alone it
was up 17%, bringing its readership to almost half a million -- in French,
Italian, German, Spanish, Arabic, Greek - and now in English.
The newspaper enjoys a favoured position: it is an independent
enterprise, owned in part by its journalists, employees and readers, and in
part by Le Monde, France's prestigious top daily.
Who reads le diplo and why? Students, academics, businessmen and
women, professionals. Ordinary people who care about society and culture,
who want to understand more about the contradictions and conflicts of the
modern world. Our readership profile is a wonderful mosaic. What our
readers want -- and get -- are original, thought-provoking articles written
by leading experts from around the world, unrivalled coverage and in-depth
analysis of international affairs, insight into the key issues of the day
-- political, social, economic, technological. In short, what goes on
behind the news, around the planet.
Le Monde diplomatique was one of the first French newspapers on the
Internet, recognising from the start the potential of the Information
Superhighway as a medium for communication that transcends political and
geographical borders.
Early in 1997 Le Monde diplomatique launched an English edition to
complement its other foreign-language editions. The edition is translated
by a team of top translators and edited in London by Wendy Kristianasen.
Why not subscribe now? It will only cost you $24 for a year
(approximately 150 French francs or 15 pounds sterling). An on-line
subscription form is available on our web site.
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/
Below we give you some examples from our English edition:
A world transformed (October, 1997)
by Ignacio Ramonet
We are in throes of a global transformation which could be called a
second capitalist revolution. The new technology and world market
have changed the pillars of modern democracy, with progress and
social cohesion giving way to communication and the market. The
key players are now associations of states, global companies and
NGOs. Should we agree to be governed by the WTO rather than the
UN?
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1997/10/leader.html
The mirage of a social Europe (November, 1997)
by Corinne Gobin
France and Italy have undertaken to introduce a 35-hour working
week. But this step forward has been greeted with serious
reservations by most European Union governments, and with downright
hostility by employers and heads of finance. The key word is now
flexibility. But it remains to be seen at this month's European
Council summit what hope there really is for a "social Europe".
What is sure is that European trades unions have been hopelessly
slow off the mark.
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1997/11/europe.html
TECHNOLOGY
Marketing on the Net (November, 1997)
by Dan Schiller
Commercial firms are following the latest developments in
information techology, in particular the Internet, where huge
profits are to be had. Advertisers are devoting a great deal of
thought to means of luring people to particular Websites. Marketing
techniques are growing increasingly sophisticated and now aim to
target defined interest groups. It will come as no surprise to
learn that these selected groups come from the richest end of the
social spectrum...
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1997/11/internet.html
PALESTINE 1947-1997: FROM PARTITION PLAN TO "ALLON PLUS"
(September, 1997)
Fifty years of dispossession
by Jan de Jong
After four years of halting talks, the optimism of September 1993
has vanished and the Palestinians see little mileage in continuing
the Oslo talks. The more so in the light of Benyamin Netanyahu's
formula, known as "Allon plus", under which the Palestinians would
stand to recover no more than half the land of the West Bank.
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1997/08-09/pal1947.html
Who owns what
by Michael R. Fischbach
For the first time, with the establishment of the Palestinian
Authority, the Palestinians are gaining legal control over their
land. But there are all sorts of problems to overcome in
registering and selling land, establishing titles --- and
preventing forgery.
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1997/08-09/palaut.html
In Israel too
by Joseph Algazy
The land grab is not just taking place in East Jerusalem, the West
Bank and Gaza. It is continuing in Israel too. Wholesale
confiscation has always been the name of the game in the Galilee
and it still affects the Bedouin of the Negev. With 92% of the land
in the hands of state bodies, a debate has now begun over
privatisation. But there is no question of land passing into
non-Jewish hands. So much for the equality of Israel's Arab
citizens...
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1997/08-09/israel.html
"The end of labor is to gain leisure." Aristotle.
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