Le Monde Diplomatique
Magazine | Mainstream
Le Monde diplomatique (nicknamed "Le Diplo" by its French readers) is a monthly publication offering analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. Its articles are long, thoughtful, scholarly, and opinionated. First created mainly for a diplomatic audience, as its name implies, it has in recent years taken a critical view on the effects of supposed economic neoliberalism on the world and its population. It thus includes articles both of a not so neutral, scholarly nature, and more opinionated pieces which qualify as advocacy journalism. However, its analysis and ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Why Does Mitt Romney Support Violently Overthrowing Democratically Elected Leaders?
When you gaze at the square-jawed glisten of Mitt Romney, you do not immediately picture the kidnapping of a democratically elected president, nor the installation of a tyrant ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Fouling all our futures
Chinese investors and British pensioners did not think on 20 April that the black tide off the coast of Louisiana would reach them so soon. Down in the Gulf of Mexico, 11 ...Posted by Sirajul Islam -
China’s wild west
With July's violence in Urumqi following last year's riots in Tibet, is China under threat in its frontier provinces? Xinjiang's minorities, the Muslim Uyghurs in particular, ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The US gas garrison
() The Carter Doctrine, established 28 years ago, put the US military in service of assuring the nation's regular supplies of imported oil. This has near-bankrupted the US and ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
MediaCulture: Democracy Now: A Relief From Corporate News B.S.
() A small group of activists in the rural northeastern corner of Tennessee in the United States persuaded their local public radio station, WETS, to start broadcasting the ...Posted by Bruce Sims -
At the gates of paradise
() A grim struggle is being played out at the points where Europe and Africa meet, as African migrants - driven by poverty, war and famine - struggle to reach what they see as ...Posted by Jeppe Kabell -
Hugo Chávez
() Why so much hatred? Because at the same time social-democracy is undergoing an identity crisis in Europe, historic circumstances seem to have confided the responsibility of ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Sudan: genocide in Darfur
() Two million people have fled Darfur in northwest Sudan since 2003, 250,000 of them since last August (1), and the resources of neighbouring Chad are suffering from the strain ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala



