even at the risk of your receiving this thing twice let me post this
important issue of Le Monde around the wsn network.
Kind regards from Warsaw. Don't miss to read the latest issue of Business
Central Europe, February 1998, on the possible East European melt-down
ahead of us.
Arno Tausch
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> From: Le Monde diplomatique <dispatch@monde-diplomatique.fr>
> To: English edition <dispatch@london.monde-diplomatique.fr>
> Subject: February 1998.
> Date: Donnerstag, 12. Februar 1998 16:27
>
> LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> Le Monde diplomatique
>
> english edition
>
> February 1998
>
> edited by Wendy Kristianasen
>
>
>
> LEADER
>
> France divided
> by Ignacio Ramonet *
>
> The recent protests in France come as no surprise. For the Jospin
> government has focused on the convergence criteria for the euro and
> neglected the needs of the three million unemployed and millions
> more struggling to get by on the bare minimum.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/02/01leader.html
>
>
>
> IN THE DARK SHADOW OF TERROR
>
> The Algerian army holds the levers of power
> by Lahouari Addi
>
> The month of Ramadan was marked by a further escalation of violence
> in Algeria, with serial massacres ravaging villages in the west of
> the country in the Islamist heartland. To try to understand what
> lies behind these dreadful events, we need first to examine the
> country's power structure. In this article, Lahouari Addi analyses
> the role of the army and its dominant role in the Algerian state.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/02/02algeria.html
>
> Translated by Francisca Garvie
>
>
>
> GLOBAL ECONOMY IN TURMOIL
> Heading for deflation?
>
> From overproduction to financial crisis and into recession
> by François Chesnais
>
> It is more than seven months since the financial meltdown that
> began in Thailand with the collapse of the baht. Despite
> intervention by the IMF, the situation remains unstable. The
> much-vaunted Asian tiger economies, South Korea in particular, will
> be subject to structural adjustments which will almost certainly
> entail massive job losses, company closures and increased poverty.
>
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/02/03deflation.html
>
> Translated by Julie Stoker
>
>
>
> Muddled measures by the IMF
> by Ibrahim Warde *
>
> The problems of Southeast Asia's economies were seen as glitches
> along the road -- that is, until last November when South Korea, on
> the verge of default, applied to the IMF for help. The IMF has
> responded by transposing the remedies it knows and has already used
> in Latin America to the vastly different Asian context. A
> heavy-handed reshaping of Southeast Asia is under way.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/02/04imf.html
>
> Translated by Sally Blaxland
>
>
>
> On the web *
>
> Internet addresses and information on world economic organisations.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/02/05websites.html
>
>
>
> Time for a change in the Indonesian leadership?
> by Françoise Cayrac-Blanchard
>
> The rice harvest has failed and, at the start of the year, the
> rupiah collapsed. This has led to a social and political crisis.
> General Suharto, standing for a seventh term as president, has had
> to agree to IMF reforms, but there have been riots in Java and the
> opposition is calling for him to go.
>
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/02/06indonesia.html
>
> Translated by Barbara Wilson
>
>
>
> A dangerous new manifesto for global capitalism
> by Lori M. Wallach *
>
> The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) proposes to grant
> inalienable rights to multinational corporations at the expense of
> national governments, which would find themselves forced to defend
> their own laws in court and pay compensation for any infringement
> of the proposed treaty. Those negotiating it in the OECD have kept
> very quiet. But late in the day, the public and their
> representatives may be beginning to wake up to a new threat.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/02/07mai.html
>
> Original text in English
>
>
>
> POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND DEMOCRACY IN SPAIN
>
> Basque nationalism undermined by ETA
> by Barbara Loyer
>
> On 12 January a fourth Basque local councillor was murdered by ETA.
> After hundreds of killings, ETA now seems to be targeting members
> of the People's Party, which is part of the Madrid government, as
> well as waging a campaign of violence against the governing party
> in the Basque Autonomous Community. Barbara Loyer explains the
> meaning of this, giving a rare insight into the little-known
> origins of Basque nationalism.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/02/08basque.html
>
> Translated by Barry Smerin
>
>
>
> PUTTING AN END TO ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM
>
> Americans fight for ecological justice
> by Eric Klinenberg
>
> Wherever industry buys up land as dumps for its waste, it is
> putting the most vulnerable at risk. In the United States, this has
> provoked an unexpected response. Different groups - Blacks,
> Indians, environmentalists and others - have got together in the
> name of "environmental justice" to fight for their right to live
> free of pollution.
>
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/02/09ecojustice.html
>
> Original text in English
>
>
>
> CONFOUNDING THE CRITICS
>
> Uganda, nearly a miracle
> by Gérard Prunier
>
> Uganda is often cited as one of Africa's rare success stories.
> Yoweri Museveni may have seized power in 1986 in the traditional
> manner, but he has guided Uganda to an unusual degree of economic
> progress and political stability. The country also has a key role
> in the continent's new geopolitics, but the unrest that surrounds
> it does not make for domestic tranquillity.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/02/10uganda.html
>
> Read also: Facts and figures *
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/02/11ugandaf.html
>
> Translated by Lorna Dale
>
>
>
> HARD, BUT NECESSARY
>
> Conflict resolution, the new challenge
> by Virginie Raisson
>
> The West is constantly torn between the need to intervene in
> fratricidal conflicts, like those in Algeria, Burundi or
> Afghanistan, and the real risks for its own soldiers. One of the
> new approaches being looked at is "conflict prevention". But
> serious questions have first to be addressed. How can we identify
> wars in the making? What are the criteria for intervention: likely
> success, numbers of victims or just visibility on the evening news?
> And should we try to stop "just" wars?
>
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/02/12conflicts.html
>
> Translated by Barry Smerin
>
>
>
> PEACE-KEEPING OR HIGH-TECH WARFARE
>
> Developing the weapons of the 21st century
> by Maurice Najman
>
> Space platforms, drones, hypersonic attack aircraft, cruise
> missiles, space-based action. This is not science fiction, but part
> of the United States' arms programme. The aim is to remain the sole
> superpower and to be capable of winning two conflicts - on a par
> with the Gulf war - simultaneously and without losses.
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/02/13warfare.html
>
> From space platforms to electronic warfare (M. N.) *
>
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/02/14weapons.html
>
> Translated by Malcolm Greenwood
>
>
>
> ISRAEL AT THE MERCY OF THE RELIGIOUS PARTIES
>
> The irresistible rise of the Orthodox establishment
> by Joseph Algazy
>
> As a result of his intransigence, Israel's prime minister, Binyamin
> Netanyahu is having to rely more closely than ever on his coalition
> partners of the religious right, who are trying hard to increase
> their hold on the state. This is causing resentment among Israelis
> at large, most of whom fiercely resent the power of the Orthodox
> establishment and its control over their daily lives -- to the
> point where the divide between the secular majority and the
> religious minority is assuming the proportions of a "war of
> cultures".
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/inside/1998/02/15israel.html
>
> Who is who (J. A.) *
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/02/17israelwho.html
>
> Glossary *
> http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/en/1998/02/16israelglo.html
>
> Translated by Wendy Kristianasen
>
>
>
> (*) Star-marked articles are available to every reader. Other
> articles ar available to paid subscribers only.
>
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