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please pass this on to your lists kind regards arno tausch -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Le Monde diplomatique [mailto:dispatch@monde-diplomatique.fr] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Jänner 2002 15:29 An: Le Monde diplomatique Betreff: January 2002 Le Monde diplomatique ----------------------------------------------------- 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 <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/01/07sect> 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 <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/01/11alternative> 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 <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/01/12argentina> 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 ________________________________________________________________ _ (*) Star-marked articles are available to paid subscribers only. 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