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> Subject: November 1997 English Edition.
> Date: Samstag, 15. November 1997 13:12
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> Le Monde diplomatique
>
> { english edition }
>
> November, 1997
>
>
>
> (edited by Wendy Kristianasen)
>
> LEADER
>
> Taking care of the planet
> by Ignacio Ramonet *
>
> A hundred and fifty countries are meeting in Kyoto in December to
> discuss what to do about global warming. It is an appropriate venue
> given the series of disasters, both financial and ecological, that
> have recently been shaking Asia and the Far East. These disasters
> are linked. For, when it comes to the environment, we are
> witnessing reckless policies that are leaving the planet
> dangerously depleted.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1997/11/leader.html
>
>
> HOW TO AVOID RUSSIAN-STYLE CHAOS
>
> Cautious privatisation in China
> by Roland Lew
>
> China's increasingly prominent role in international affairs has
> given special significance to the 15th Congress of the Chinese
> Communist Party which was held this September shortly after the
> death of Deng Xiaoping. In striking contrast to its reluctance to
> implement political change, the party took the decision to
> "restructure" the entire state-owned industrial sector. But the
> pace of industrial reform is provoking intense debate within the
> party. And workers are facing wage cuts or unemployment - to which
> they have been reacting with some violence. (See also "Two
> decades of reform".)
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1997/11/china.html
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1997/11/china2.html
>
>
>
> TAMING THE UNIONS
>
> The mirage of a social Europe
> by Corinne Gobin *
>
> France and Italy have undertaken to introduce a 35-hour working
> week. But this step forward has been greeted with serious
> reservations by most European Union governments, and with downright
> hostility by employers and heads of finance. The key word is now
> flexibility. But it remains to be seen at this month's European
> Council summit what hope there really is for a "social Europe".
> What is sure is that European trades unions have been hopelessly
> slow off the mark.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1997/11/europe.html
>
>
>
> EIGHTY YEARS ON FROM THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
>
> The world's fascination with the Soviet Union
> by Moshé Lewin
>
> The USSR may have disappeared but its interest has not waned. In
> fact, a number of historians have been calling for a
> Nuremberg-style trial of communism, equating Stalin with Hitler.
> But their two countries had quite different historical
> trajectories. To assess the role of the USSR and its impact on the
> world, we need to look back to Tsarist Russia. One of the many
> things we may deduce is that Soviet Russia, much like its Tsarist
> predecessor, was trying to resolve problems that were specifically
> Russian: such things as an all-powerful central authority out of
> step with a backward society, and a catastrophic lack of
> planning... (See also The USSR in 15 key dates.)
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1997/11/ussr.html
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1997/11/ussr3.html
>
>
>
> "ROGUE STATES" AND "PEER COMPETITORS"
>
> A new military strategy for Washington?
> By Michael Klare
>
> To justify their huge annual credits, Pentagon officials are in
> need of "visible enemies" which could threaten American security.
> For some years, this has been the "rogue regimes" of the third
> world like Iran, Iraq, Libya and North Korea. Now some top advisors
> think it is the turn of the United States' "peer competitors" -
> Russia and China - to take on the role of potential adversaries.
> But this new school of thought has as yet to change official
> policy.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1997/11/usmil.html
>
>
>
> BANKRUPT SERBIAN NATIONALISM IS STILL VIRULENT
>
> Rude awakening for the orphans of "Greater Serbia"
> by Jean Arnault Dérens
>
> "Kosovo is Serbia's Jerusalem" says a former Communist Party
> official in Pristina, capital of Kosovo. We are at the historical
> heart of Serbian nationalism and here - as elsewhere - it is
> evident that the Serbs see their problems as far from resolved. In
> particular, the problem of Serb communities outside Serbia itself.
> Inside Serbia, presidential elections scheduled for 7 December
> threaten a contest between hardliners of one sort or another.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1997/11/serbia.html
>
> Renewed conflict in Kosovo
> by Christophe Chiclet
>
> A brief history of the Kosovo region of Serbia from 1389 to the
> present, with the acute difficulty of its 90% Albanian community
> and growing signs of irredentism.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1997/11/kosovo.html
>
>
>
> GROWING PAINS IN AFRICAN DEMOCRATISATION
>
> Electing dictators
> by Martine-Renée Galloy and Marc-Éric Gruénais
>
> Democratisation, which began in Africa at the start of the 1990s,
> has so far been more a matter of restructuring (and keeping control
> of) existing systems than a radical overhaul of the one-party
> state. And international observers are not much help, since they
> oversee only the actual voting rather than the whole electoral
> process. There is a pressing need for Africa's elites to
> disentangle themselves from the power game, and give a lead to
> civil society in demanding the same range of democratic freedoms in
> the South as exists in the North.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1997/11/africa.html
>
> Fighting for power in the Congo
> by Martine-Renée Galloy and Marc-Éric Gruénais
>
> Congo-Brazzaville provides a bleak example of the absence of
> democratic reform, with years of in-fighting between Pascal
> Lissouba and Denis Sassou Nguesso.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1997/11/africa2.html
>
>
>
> A CENTURY OF ZIONISM
>
> The changing pattern of Israeli immigration
> by Amnon Kapeliouk
>
> The immigration of Jews to the "promised land" has always been the
> cornerstone of Zionism. Now the ultra-orthodox religious parties
> that are helping keep Benyamin Netanyahu in power are demanding
> sole control over conversions to Judaism. But two-thirds of the
> diaspora are not orthodox. And in powerful Jewish community of the
> United States, the figure rises to 90%. This makes life difficult
> for Mr Netanyahu. It also raises the question of the changing
> nature of immigration into Israel, and of its diverse origins and
> separate communities.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1997/11/israel.html
>
>
>
> CAUGHT IN THE TRAP OF SOCIAL CONTROL
>
> Taming the addict
> by Claude Olievenstein
>
> Modern society has found a cheap way of dealing with drug addicts,
> using substitutes like methadone, giving them suppressants or
> regarding them as chronically ill, rather than as the messengers of
> an inadequate society. Denying the complexity of the problem may
> provide a quick fix, but it is folly in the longer term.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1997/11/drugs.html
>
>
>
> THE BOUNDS OF FREEDOM
>
> French immigration policy on trial
> by Christian de Brie *
>
> The Jospin government has been faced with the problem of illegal
> immigrant workers. It has dealt with this by commissioning a new
> report which aims to remove the most disputed provisions of
> immigration law, without provoking a national debate which would
> serve the interests of the extreme right. France has much the same
> proportion of foreigners as the rest of the European Union and the
> pressure of immigration is more myth than reality.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1997/11/imm1.html
>
> Good foreigners, bad illegals
> by Danièle Lochak
>
> Almost 25 years ago France called a halt to immigrant labour. Since
> then, increasingly tight controls have been applied to stem the
> flood of foreigners. Visas were reintroduced, penalties increased,
> expulsions and holding periods permitted. Underlying this policy is
> a false distinction between legal immigrants whom the politicians
> want to see integrated at all costs and the "illegals" whom they
> aim to get rid of - unjustly.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1997/11/imm2.html
>
> Making them legal
> by Emmanuel Vaillant
>
> France, like many other countries who have curtailed immigration,
> has been engaged in "regularising", that is legalising, the
> position of its long-standing immigrant population, the vast
> majority of whom entered the country legally at the outset. In
> France, as elsewhere, the authorities have relaxed the rules and,
> since 1996, have recognised new categories of "unofficial"
> immigrants who play a full part in French society, despite the
> absence of proper administrative formalities.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1997/11/imm3.html
>
>
>
> A PLAYGROUND FOR THE ADVERTISING INDUSTRY
>
> Marketing on the Net
> by Dan Schiller *
>
> Commercial firms are following the latest developments in
> information techology, in particular the Internet, where huge
> profits are to be had. Advertisers are devoting a great deal of
> thought to means of luring people to particular Websites. Marketing
> techniques are growing increasingly sophisticated and now aim to
> target defined interest groups. It will come as no surprise to
> learn that these selected groups come from the richest end of the
> social spectrum...
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1997/11/internet.html
>
> What to do about Microsoft?
> By Ralph Nader and James Love *
>
> Microsoft's dominance of the computer industry has created a new
> economic reality where competition dares not tread. The company's
> strengthening monopoly is raising concern in both the United States
and
> Europe regarding the future of digital communications.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1997/11/nader.html
>
>
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