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> Von:  Le Monde diplomatique[SMTP:english@monde-diplomatique.fr]
> Gesendet:     Donnerstag, 13. September 2001 16:39
> An:   Le Monde diplomatique
> Betreff:      September 2001
> 
> 
>    Le Monde diplomatique 
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>    
>                           September 2001
>                                  
>                           In this issue:
>        ... how peace was lost in the Middle East, desperate
>     travellers of the Sahel, the US wealth gap, Cuba, proud of
>       its culture, success story for Islamic banking... and
>                              more...
>                                  
>                                  
>    
> ISRAEL VERSUS PALESTINE VERSUS THE WORLD
> 
> The Middle East: how the peace was lost
> 
> by ALAIN GRESH
> 
>                               Translated by Wendy Kristianasen
>      
>    
>    <http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/09/01middleeastlea
>    der>
>    
>    
> The Middle East: how the war cannot be won *
> 
> by our special correspondent PAUL-MARIE DE LA GORCE
> 
>      The international community cannot protect Israeli or
>      Palestinian civilians, neither side's fighters will back
>      off, nobody knows how to begin the peace process again -
>      must all of this lead inexorably to another formal
>      conflict ?
>      
>                                    Translated by Harry Forster
> 
> 
>      See also the Palestinian proposal on refugees (Taba, the 22nd of
>      January 2001) and the Israeli response (23rd of January 2001),  
>      published on our "special focus on the Middle East".
> 
>    <http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/focus/mideast/refugeespal-en>
>    <http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/focus/mideast/tabaisraeliresponse>
>     
>    
>    
> EMIGRANTS CHASE THE MIRAGE OF A BETTER LIFE
> 
> Sahel: caravan of despair *
> 
> by our special correspondent ALI BENSAAD
> 
>      All of the first world now believes itself besieged by
>      asylum seekers and economic migrants, desperate to escape
>      poverty, chaos and oppression. The way out of Sub-Saharan
>      Africa for tens of thousands every year is a truck ride
>      across the Sahel, to reach relatively prosperous Libya or
>      Algeria, and perhaps from there, Europe - if they do not
>      die on the way.
>      
>                                    Translated by Harry Forster
>      
>    
>    
> AN ISLAND POOR IN EVERYTHING BUT CULTURE
> 
> Cuba: not shabby in soul *
> 
> by our special correspondent FRANÇOISE BARTHÉLÉMY*
> 
>      The Castro regime survived the collapse of Comecon and
>      the US embargo, isolation and mass tourism, though no one
>      knows what will happen when Fidel dies. The economy is
>      battered and the Cubans have lost their financial
>      security, but they value their provision of arts and
>      education perhaps more than ever.
>      
>                                    Translated by Luke Sandford
>      
>    
>    
> TRADE FOLLOWS THE FISH FROM RUSSIA TO JAPAN
> 
> Kuril Islands: sea road to the deep north
> 
> by our special correspondent GUY-PIERRE CHOMETTE
> 
>      There probably will not be a diplomatic agreement between
>      Moscow and Tokyo over the return of the Kuril Islands,
>      annexed by Russia in 1945. But the islanders of both
>      nations are doing business with each other, the border is
>      dissolving into the Siberian mists, and the new
>      generation does not much care.
>      
>                                Translated by Malcolm Greenwood
>      
>        <http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/09/06kuril>
>    
>    
> Conquest by the Red Army *
> 
>    
>    
> FORTY ACRES AND A MULE ISN'T ENOUGH
> 
> More unequal than others in the US
> 
> by DALTON CONLEY
> 
>      The real inequity between African-Americans and other
>      Americans is not in earned income, but in assets and the
>      stakes they will buy in the future - a home, an
>      education. And those assets are a legacy of wealth from a
>      past the ex-slaves were denied.
>      
>                                       Original text in English
>      
>    
>    <http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/09/08richconley>
>    
>    
> THE PROPHET AND THE PROFITS
> 
> Islamic finance
> 
> by IBRAHIM WARDE
> 
>      Islamic banking and financial institutions grew along
>      with political Islam: it declined, they did not. In fact,
>      Islamic finance is now a confident part of the new global
>      world of venture capital, ethical investment and
>      profit-and-loss sharing.
>      
>                                       Original text in English
>      
>    
>    <http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/09/09islamicbankin
>    g>
>    
>    
> THE BUSINESS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
> 
> Copyright is wrong *
> 
> by JOOST SMIERS
> 
>      Copyrights meant to reward artists for their creations
>      are now commercial products that pay most of their
>      dividends to companies that trade in them. We have to
>      think of a new and fairer way to fund creativity.
>      
>                                    Translated by Luke Sandford
>      
>    
>    
> THE LONG DENIED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
> 
> Turkey's carefully forgotten history *
> 
> by TANER AKCAM
> 
>      Turks, and their history books, still cannot accept that
>      there was organised mass murder of Armenians between
>      1915-17. Perhaps that is because so many of the murderers
>      and looters were also heroes of the founding of the
>      modern Turkish republic.
>      
>                               Translated by Wendy Kristianasen
>      
>    
>    
> BEYOND HUMANISM OR BEYOND HUMANITY?
> 
> The current flows back *
> 
> by JEAN-CLAUDE GUILLEBAUD
> 
>                                     Translated by Barry Smerin
>      
>    
>    
> SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN
> 
> Soldier boys and girls
> 
> by JACKY MAMOU
> 
>      Children are one of the main casualties of war: orphaned,
>      displaced, injured (often by land mines), exposed to
>      physical and mental illness, and recruited as soldiers
>      into guerrilla movements. A growing number of
>      international protocols seek to protect minors but where
>      there is violence, children are the first to suffer.
>      
>                                Translated by Malcolm Greenwood
>      
>        <http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/09/13soldiers>
> 
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