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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:29:19 +0100 (CET)
To: Le Monde diplomatique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: January 2002
Le Monde diplomatique
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January 2002
In this issue:
Kashmir, half a century of dispute; Afghanistan, the secret
connections; al-Qaida, the sect; the US, a fresh laurel
wreath; Israel, where death governs, and Palestine, where is
the EU?... also Argentina fights back, the US plots its
response to unrest in the Americas, nerving ourselves to
challenge neo-liberalism, and discovering the far borders of
the new Europe...
Farewell liberty
by IGNACIO RAMONET
Translated by Ed Emery
<http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/01/01farewell>
THE VALE OF SORROWS
Kashmir: partition's bitter legacy *
by our special correspondent ROLAND-PIERRE PARINGAUX
India claims to be the victim of Pakistan and its
unofficial Kashmir allies in Islamic movements close to
the Taliban a complaint that long predates the attack on
the New Delhi parliament in December. Over half a century
of dispute over divided Kashmir has again come
dangerously close to outright war between the now-nuclear
powers.
Translated by Malcolm Greenwood
A 'disputed' territory *
by ROLAND-PIERRE PARINGAUX
Translated by Malcolm Greenwood
Jammu and Kashmir dateline *
Translated by Malcolm Greenwood
Ordinary villagers *
by ROLAND-PIERRE PARINGAUX
Translated by Malcolm Greenwood
BACKGROUND TO WASHINGTON'S WAR ON TERROR
The US and the Taliban: a done deal *
by PIERRE ABRAMOVICI
Afghan factions, mediated by the UN and US, reached some
agreement in Bonn in December. The agreement was no
sudden miracle; it was possible only because all the
groups had met before, through contacts. The Bonn
proposals were not new. They had been discussed for over
three years.
Translated by Julie Stoker
American Caesar *
by PHILIP S GOLUB
Foreign adventures have helped the Bush administration
buttress its vulnerable domestic base. Post-September
national security has justified an increase in executive
power, even in areas unrelated to military operations.
Executive power over law and enforcement has grown
quickly, worrying those Americans who still believe in
the separation of powers.
Translated by Luke Sandford
Al-Qaida, the sect
by PIERRE CONESA
Al-Qaida has been thought of as a global or national
political movement, or representative of an entire
religion. It isn't. It's just another of the many
death-obsessed sectarian movements to emerge in the past
20 years.
Translated by Harry Forster
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THE PALESTINIANS UNDER SIEGE
Israel's dominion of death *
by DOMINIQUE VIDAL
The UN General Assembly strongly supported the
Palestinian Authority at an extraordinary session on 20
December; it condemned Israel's policy of occupation and
was displeased with the US veto of a resolution demanding
international protection for the Palestinians. But the UN
and international law do not figure in solutions to the
conflict despite Israel's ferocious offensive in the West
Bank and Gaza. By trying to destroy the Palestinian
Authority, Ariel Sharon acts against the interests of the
Israelis, offering only an endless war without any
winners.
Translated by Luke Sandford and Wendy Kristianasen
Recognise Palestine now *
by MONIQUE CHEMILLIER-GENDREAU
Israeli governments, with US backing, continue to ignore
both the declaration of human rights and the Geneva
conventions and even deny the Palestinians their UN
charter rights to recognition as a people.
Translated by Ed Emery
PALESTINIANS IN NORTHERN EXILE
South Lebanon: free but fearful *
by our special correspondent MARINA DA SILVA
There is another Palestinian population anxiously
following what is happening to the people of the West
Bank and Gaza: those who live in south Lebanon. The
Israeli occupation of the region has ended, and the
landscape is slowly being resettled and reconstructed.
But tensions and potential hostilities still threaten any
return to normality along the border.
Translated by Luke Sandford
HOW NEO-LIBERALISM TOOK OVER THE WORLD
There is an alternative
by SERGE HALIMI
Radical conservatism was proclaimed dead in the early
1960s. It wasn't even sleeping. It was planning,
successfully, to become the orthodoxy of the next 40
years. Now we have to nerve ourselves to challenge it.
Translated by Luke Sandford
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ECONOMIC CRISIS ENDS AN ERA
Argentina: IMF show state revolts
by CARLOS GABETTA
After the International Monetary Fund refused to release
more aid to Argentina (already struggling to service an
external debt), the people of the country rose in
protest. They rejected austerity measures, forced the
resignation of the president and the suspension of debt
payments. Since then there have been sequential
presidents but no real end to the chaos.
Translated by Barbara Wilson
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US DEMANDS A SECURE, COMPLIANT HEMISPHERE
Latin America recolonised *
by JANETTE HABEL
Revolt in Argentina, clashes in Bolivia, violent disputes
over land in Brazil, trade unionists murdered in
Colombia, and a general strike in Venezuela: Latin
America has been exasperated by 20 years of
ultra-liberalism. Now the US is using its fight against
global terrorism as a pretext for a military response to
unrest in the Americas.
Translated by Malcolm Greenwood
FROM ROMANIA TO MOLDOVA
What country, friend, is this? *
by our special correspondent GUY-PIERRE CHOMETTE
Translated by Harry Forster
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