Le Monde Diplomatique January 2002

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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

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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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