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"The United Nations is an institution that is having to take a crash diet."
Read my diet tips for the UN.
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Read my diet tips for the UN.
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At 80, the UN struggles on
Open access // by Richard Gowan (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, October 2025)
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October 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"The United Nations is an institution that is having to take a crash diet."
Read my diet tips for the UN.
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Read my diet tips for the UN.
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And the winner is… Binyamin Netanyahu
The most slapdash accord in the Middle East’s history
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The most slapdash accord in the Middle East’s history
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And the winner is… Binyamin Netanyahu
Subscribers // by Gilbert Achcar (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2025)
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October 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
And the winner is… Binyamin Netanyahu
The most slapdash accord in the Middle East’s history
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The most slapdash accord in the Middle East’s history
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I have a new essay - on the emptiness of sovereignty rhetoric behind "sovereign AI" - in the November issue of Le Monde Diplomatique. English version, paywalled, is here mondediplo.com/2025/11/03tech
Sovereignty for sale
Subscribers // by Evgeny Morozov (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2025)
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October 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I have a new essay - on the emptiness of sovereignty rhetoric behind "sovereign AI" - in the November issue of Le Monde Diplomatique. English version, paywalled, is here mondediplo.com/2025/11/03tech
Belgians are striking for three days from 24-26 November, in protest against the ‘Arizona’ coalition’s plans to cut public spending while significantly increasing the defence budget.
The dangerous illusion
Open access // by Peter Mertens (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, June 2025)
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November 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Belgians are striking for three days from 24-26 November, in protest against the ‘Arizona’ coalition’s plans to cut public spending while significantly increasing the defence budget.
On 21 November 1995, at the US air force base in Dayton, Ohio, a peace agreement was reached which halted the bloody war between Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia that had lasted over three years. The Bosnian war came to an end in the US and under US leadership.
The US washes its hands of Europe
Subscribers // by Serge Halimi (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, April 2025)
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November 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
On 21 November 1995, at the US air force base in Dayton, Ohio, a peace agreement was reached which halted the bloody war between Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia that had lasted over three years. The Bosnian war came to an end in the US and under US leadership.
‘Her days begin and end with Russia,’ a Brussels diplomat said off the record. Another added, ‘We expected her to be, well, more diplomatic.’
The EU’s top diplomat makes her mark
Subscribers // by Pierre Rimbert (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2025)
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November 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
‘Her days begin and end with Russia,’ a Brussels diplomat said off the record. Another added, ‘We expected her to be, well, more diplomatic.’
Narco-trafficking functions as a loosely defined term, grouping disparate local situations, giving them a global structure and helping win Congressional support and funding.
‘Narco-trafficking’ is a useful term
Subscribers // by Laurent Bonelli (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2025)
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November 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Narco-trafficking functions as a loosely defined term, grouping disparate local situations, giving them a global structure and helping win Congressional support and funding.
Feuding drug cartels make great TV – and handy political enemies. In France, as elsewhere, though it’s largely a myth, the ‘narco threat’ has become a justification for expanding the security machine.
The security state’s enemy of choice
Subscribers // by Laurent Bonelli (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2025)
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November 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Feuding drug cartels make great TV – and handy political enemies. In France, as elsewhere, though it’s largely a myth, the ‘narco threat’ has become a justification for expanding the security machine.
Two visions of Jewish identity – one civic, one religious – divide Israel, yet both defend a sacred state. And both believe implicitly that their state is a democracy, ignoring its colonial reality.
Why Israel’s Jews are divided
Subscribers // by Nitzan Perelman Becker (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2025)
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November 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Two visions of Jewish identity – one civic, one religious – divide Israel, yet both defend a sacred state. And both believe implicitly that their state is a democracy, ignoring its colonial reality.
History will record that the main beneficiary of the Trump peace accord, apart from the would-be Nobel laureate himself, is none other than the Israeli prime minister.
And the winner is… Binyamin Netanyahu
Subscribers // by Gilbert Achcar (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2025)
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November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
History will record that the main beneficiary of the Trump peace accord, apart from the would-be Nobel laureate himself, is none other than the Israeli prime minister.
Once the most violent country in Latin America, Honduras has made great strides since the former resistance took power. But stalled reforms cast a doubt over their victory in the coming election.
Honduras: the left tests its limits in power
Subscribers // by Maurice Lemoine (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2025)
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November 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Once the most violent country in Latin America, Honduras has made great strides since the former resistance took power. But stalled reforms cast a doubt over their victory in the coming election.
US presidents George HW Bush and Bill Clinton were determined to pursue policies that were unacceptable to Russia – even though they were fully aware of the risks, especially for Ukraine.
An alternative history of NATO expansion
Subscribers // by Hélène Richard (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2025)
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November 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
US presidents George HW Bush and Bill Clinton were determined to pursue policies that were unacceptable to Russia – even though they were fully aware of the risks, especially for Ukraine.
After floating the possibility of cutting the national defence budget in half, Trump had reversed course by proposing to increase it to more than a trillion dollars for fiscal 2026, up from an already mammoth $895bn in fiscal 2025.
US military’s parade of glories past
Subscribers // by Seth Harp (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2025)
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November 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
After floating the possibility of cutting the national defence budget in half, Trump had reversed course by proposing to increase it to more than a trillion dollars for fiscal 2026, up from an already mammoth $895bn in fiscal 2025.
The AI sector’s collective debt, now standing at $1.2tn, is greater than the banking sector’s. It’s the buildup to the 2008 financial crisis all over again, with silicon in the role of subprime mortgages.
Sovereignty for sale
Subscribers // by Evgeny Morozov (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2025)
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November 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The AI sector’s collective debt, now standing at $1.2tn, is greater than the banking sector’s. It’s the buildup to the 2008 financial crisis all over again, with silicon in the role of subprime mortgages.
Palantir – in which Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff, reportedly holds up to $250,000 of stock – has become the de facto operating system of the US government.
Takeover by Big Tech
Subscribers // by Francesca Bria (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2025)
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November 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Palantir – in which Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff, reportedly holds up to $250,000 of stock – has become the de facto operating system of the US government.
For 50 years, the Nobel committee has rejected the candidacies of dissidents from the Western world. Julian Assange and Edward Snowden have worked for peace in a different way from Machado. But they possess one flaw: they expose our own dirty secrets.
Give him a prize!
Open access // by Benoît Bréville (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, November 2025)
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November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
For 50 years, the Nobel committee has rejected the candidacies of dissidents from the Western world. Julian Assange and Edward Snowden have worked for peace in a different way from Machado. But they possess one flaw: they expose our own dirty secrets.
Our November issue.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Our November issue.
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The war in Gaza exposes not only the inability of the current international order to bring about peace, but also the extent to which it perpetuates Israeli colonial domination over Palestine.
(October in the archive.)
(October in the archive.)
Gaza: if this is not genocide, what is?
Open access // by Insaf Rezagui (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, June 2025)
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October 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The war in Gaza exposes not only the inability of the current international order to bring about peace, but also the extent to which it perpetuates Israeli colonial domination over Palestine.
(October in the archive.)
(October in the archive.)
Twin crises hit Haiti in 2021: the assassination of its president and a major earthquake. And once again, Haitians had very little say in how their state is governed and rebuilt.
(October in the archive.)
(October in the archive.)
Who decides who runs Haiti?
Open access // by Jake Johnston (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, February 2022)
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October 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Twin crises hit Haiti in 2021: the assassination of its president and a major earthquake. And once again, Haitians had very little say in how their state is governed and rebuilt.
(October in the archive.)
(October in the archive.)
Party bigwigs have not endorsed him and media criticism is intense, but Zohran Mamdani is poised to win New York’s mayoral election next month. His message is cutting through to younger voters.
Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York?
Subscribers // by Alexander Zevin (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, October 2025)
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October 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Party bigwigs have not endorsed him and media criticism is intense, but Zohran Mamdani is poised to win New York’s mayoral election next month. His message is cutting through to younger voters.
Since the 1970s, successive governments have tried to redress the injustices suffered by New Zealand’s Māori. But the present administration is rolling back support and even wants to revisit the country’s founding treaty.
In New Zealand, the Māori feel betrayed, again
Subscribers // by Cédric Gouverneur (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, October 2025)
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October 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Since the 1970s, successive governments have tried to redress the injustices suffered by New Zealand’s Māori. But the present administration is rolling back support and even wants to revisit the country’s founding treaty.
Much late modernist architecture in Georgia (from 1960 to 1990) has disappeared, demolished after the collapse of the Soviet Union led to a surge in lawless privatisation and corruption. Three women architects are rescuing these achievements from oblivion.
Georgia’s Soviet-era style
Subscribers // by Jens Malling (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, October 2025)
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October 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Much late modernist architecture in Georgia (from 1960 to 1990) has disappeared, demolished after the collapse of the Soviet Union led to a surge in lawless privatisation and corruption. Three women architects are rescuing these achievements from oblivion.
Founded 80 years ago to safeguard international security, the UN now appears powerless in the face of wars and mass crimes. Lofty declarations alone cannot alter the balance of global power.
Disunited nations: the UN at 80
Subscribers // by Anne-Cécile Robert & Christophe Ventura (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, October 2025)
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October 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Founded 80 years ago to safeguard international security, the UN now appears powerless in the face of wars and mass crimes. Lofty declarations alone cannot alter the balance of global power.
Since the start of the year, Israeli soldiers and settlers have forced thousands of Palestinians from their land. Israel’s creeping annexation of the West Bank has devastated Palestinian food sovereignty.
West Bank: farming under occupation
Subscribers // by Léonore Aeschimann & Pierre Casagrande (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, October 2025)
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October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Since the start of the year, Israeli soldiers and settlers have forced thousands of Palestinians from their land. Israel’s creeping annexation of the West Bank has devastated Palestinian food sovereignty.
Behind the carnage of Israel’s war on Gaza lies a demographic struggle whose outcome threatens the Zionist project itself.
The deadly battle over demography
Subscribers // by Philippe Descamps (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, October 2025)
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October 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Behind the carnage of Israel’s war on Gaza lies a demographic struggle whose outcome threatens the Zionist project itself.