WG: Le Monde Diplomatique September 2002

enjoy the reading, among all this sadness!
arno tausch

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                          September 2002

                          In this issue:
    ... a special dossier: US, the new Rome, the hawks' first
    strike doctrine, the Christian right and Israel, the fears
    of moderate Islam, why a secret mass grave in Afghanistan?
      .. plus Sabra and Shatila 20 years on; is Germany for
   Stoiber?; India: full granaries, empty stomachs; Argentina's
               life after bankruptcy... and more...


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     It couldn't be easier...


Target Baghdad

by ALAIN GRESH

                              Translated by Wendy Kristianasen

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/09/01baghdad>


AFGHANISTAN'S SECRET GRAVES

A drive to death in the desert *

by JAMIE DORAN

     President Bush wants to attack Iraq as part of his war on
     terror and the "axis of evil", and would like the United
     States to regulate world order, or disorder, alone. A new
     empire is asserting itself on the international stage,
     though not without debate inside the US. Meanwhile
     Washington has been unable to bring stability to
     Afghanistan nearly a year after its intervention.

                                      Original text in English



The wedding bombing *

J.D.

                              Translated by Wendy Kristianasen



THE DYNAMICS OF WORLD DISORDER

Westward the course of Empire

by PHILIP S GOLUB

     The aftermath of the terrorist attacks has revived
     imperialist ideology in the United States, rather than
     caused it to query its world role. Writers do not
     hesitate to draw parallels between their nation and
     ancient Rome, which they hold to be a model for world
     domination in the 21st century.

                                   Translated by Harry Forster

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/09/03westward>


The hawk doctrine *

by PAUL-MARIE DE LA GORCE

     US military strategy was already changing before 11
     September, but the attacks reinforced the new approach.
     As threats against the American homeland are seen as
     intolerable, a strategy for the pre-emptive use of force
     is being established, besides traditional deterrence and
     containment.

                                   Translated by Harry Forster



Which God is on whose side? *

by IBRAHIM WARDE

                                      Translated by the author



Don't go it alone

I.W.

                                      Translated by the author

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/09/05walone>


Islamists divided *

by our special correspondent WENDY KRISTIANASEN

     Since last September the gap between Islamic militants
     and peaceful movements has widened. But in Egypt there
     has been a quiet revolution as the largest radical group
     has renounced violence and denounced Osama bin Laden and
     al-Qaida.

                                      Original text in English



Hail to the (fictional) chief *

by MARTIN WINCKLER

                                   Translated by Luke Sandford



TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE MASSACRES AT SABRA AND SHATILA

The past is always present

by our special correspondent PIERRE PÉAN

     The massacres in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila
     in Lebanon in 1982, when hundreds of civilians were
     butchered by rightwing militia, remain crucial events in
     the history of the Palestinian people.

                                    Translated by Julie Stoker

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/09/08sabra>


'LEDERHOSEN AND LAPTOPS'

Germany: the Bavarian model *

by CHRISTIAN SEMLER

     Germany is recovering after floods in August, claiming
     dozens of lives. Perhaps with the September legislative
     elections in mind, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder postponed
     scheduled tax cuts and released 7bn euros ($6.8bn). This
     welcome move has left Edmund Stoiber, his Christian
     Democrat rival, in an awkward position.

                                   Translated by Luke Sandford



FOUR DECADES OF FIGHTING TO RETAIN IDENTITY

West Papua: undefeated *

by our special correspondent DAMIEN FAURE

     For 40 years the Indonesian government has had harsh
     colonial policy vis-à-vis the people of West Papua
     (formerly Irian Jaya). Whereas East Timor became a cause
     célèbre, West Papua has been passed over. The United
     Nations is not interested. Yet the forgotten people fight
     on for their cultural and political identity.

                                  Translated by Barbara Wilson



THE DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURE

India: free markets, empty bellies *

by our special correspondent ROLAND-PIERRE PARINGAUX

     The outgoing World Trade Organisation director-general,
     Mike Moore, said the WTO's greatest motivation was the
     people it served. India's small farmers do not see it
     that way. The nation's agricultural policy has long been
     geared to meeting its own needs and being self-sufficient
     in food. But the WTO is pressing India to open its
     markets, and so agriculture is being destroyed as big
     foreign producers flood in. And people stay hungry.

                               Translated by Malcolm Greenwood



When even too much is not enough *

R.P.P.

                               Translated by Malcolm Greenwood



BARTER, DEMOS, THEATRE AND A DICTIONARY OF CRISIS

Argentina: life after bankruptcy

by our special correspondent CLARA AUGÉ

     The Argentine government has acknowledged that it does
     not have the funds to do anything about a ruling of the
     country's supreme court that a 13% cut in state pensions
     and civil servants' salaries was unconstitutional. The
     people, angry and energised, are ready to continue
     fighting.

                                   Translated by Luke Sandford

       <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/09/13argentina>


WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE GUARANTEES OF PROSPERITY?

Irregular deregulation *

by SERGE HALIMI

     Telecommunications liberalisation, launched by Western
     governments to media enthusiasm, was supposed to create
     brilliant new industries. IMF loans were to guarantee
     prosperity in Latin America. These hopes have been dashed
     by stock exchange crashes and by the financial crisis
     engulfing Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.

                                  Translated by Barbara Wilson




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