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Le Monde diplomatique, July 2008 |
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 Selection of general accessible articles from the French monthly
European style: nobody loves it
by Serge Halimi
ENERGY SELF-SUFFICIENCY NOT MILITARY ESCORTS FOR OIL
The US gas garrison
by Michael T. Klare
The Carter Doctrine, established 28 years ago, put the US military in service of assuring the nation's regular supplies of imported oil. This has near-bankrupted the US and corrupted the military, yet left the US insecure in energy sources and globally loathed. The time has come to demote petroleum and stand down the troops.
THE PEOPLE DONT LOVE BRUSSELS, THE EXPERTS DO
Europe's union of disenchantment
by Christopher Bickerton
The Irish have overwhelmingly rejected the Lisbon Treaty. Why isn't the EU popular with Europeans? And what can the EU do about it? Perhaps popular discontent tells us something more profound about the nature of the Union.
Ireland votes no
by Christopher Bickerton
Fiddling with the files ?
HOW TO SECURE THE ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE OF EXILE
Lebanon's Palestinian ghetto redesigned
by Don Duncan
Lebanon proposes to rebuild Nahr al-Bared, the Palestinian city-camp near Tripoli pulverised in a long siege last year in an attempt to kill Sunni militants holed up there. The new, as yet only imagined, town is intended to preserve the memories of the old, yet return the area to the control of Lebanon.
LEBANONS PALESTINIAN GHETTO REDESIGNED
`This is our own nakba '
by Don Duncan
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