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Some subsistence farmers in Zimbabwe are down to one meal a day due to lack of rainfall, followed by the disappearance of regular food supplements on account of Trump's freezing of US aid programmes. - 2025/05 / article
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Eighty years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, the legacy of the war is still vitally important to both Ukraine and Russia. But Kyiv's de-Russification policies are having troubling consequences. - 2025/05 / article
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A new Chinese-backed port on Peru's Pacific coast is set to revolutionise intercontinental trade routes – but its deepwater capacity has fuelled US concerns over possible military use by Beijing. - 2025/05 / article
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Three years into the Ukraine war and months into Trump's second term, a new world order is emerging. If superpower confrontation is to be avoided, the ‘global South' must help shape the terms of peace. - 2025/05 / article
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Seen from China, Donald Trump's punitive tariffs are misguided and self-defeating, proof that liberal democracy is an ailing system. But it's not enough for Beijing to just wait for the storm to pass. - 2025/05 / article
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The belief that ideas drive change cuts across left and right. And in some of history's pivotal epochs, ideas have helped redefine the dominant order. - 2025/05
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Few EU countries have been more supportive of the Palestinians – or more critical of Israel's actions – than Ireland. But its sympathies, shaped by its own painful history, conflict with other loyalties. - 2025/05 / article
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The Trump administration's campaign to silence pro-Palestinian voices has targeted Harvard and Columbia, and US universities more broadly, under the banner of fighting antisemitism. - 2025/05 / article
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If this is the dawning of the age of end-times fascism, what should the left's response be? Not making common cause with the centrists nostalgically seeking to revive a lost liberal paradise. - 2025/05 / article
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Though longstanding allies, Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has grown increasingly critical of Israel's actions towards the Palestinians, but without renouncing Ankara's broader strategic interests. - 2025/05 / article
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In 1999 a broad anti-WTO coalition protested in Seattle against the evils of globalisation. Today just the nationalist, isolationist right is waging that same fight. - 2025/05 / article
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The month's archives. - 2025/04 / article, perspective
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The World Bank and other international agencies compile annual data on the aggregated value of international trade in goods and services as a proportion of GDP around the world. They use these data to calculate what is often called the trade openness index, giving users a rough sense of the relative importance of trade to any given country. - Outside in / article, Comment
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On this month's podcast we're joined by Le Monde diplomatique's new Asia head, Renaud Lambert, who writes in the current edition of the paper about China's global ambitions (‘China: the invention of the roadmap to global power'). The dominant western narrative maintains China is pursuing a master plan to remake the world in its own image, steered by a solitary autocrat, Xi Jinping. Rather than a grand strategy for world domination, Lambert finds a messier reality of devolved power and (…) - 2024/03 / Podcast, 2024/03 China

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In December 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbour, the United States declared war on Japan. The war went on for three years and 8 months; the American occupation of Japan lasted twice as long. Over this period, Washington transformed Japan's institutions, political system and — for a while at least — its social structure. Japan had already undergone an initial process of change, inspired by the West, at the end of the 19th century; its surrender in 1945 led to a further change, this time (…) - Ebooks / ebook, Dossier
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Spain's leftwing government has been robust in its support for Palestine and Palestinians, in stark contrast to many other European nations. The reasons lie in its shared history with the Arab world. - 2025/04 / article
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Canada has been officially bilingual for over half a century, but the country's French speakers are worried their language is gradually losing its status in all aspects of life. Some see the ‘Francisation' of new immigrants as the answer. - 2025/04 / article, 2025/04 canada
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There is one form of domination that Nepalis rarely discuss and the Maoists have completely ignored: the supremacy of the Bahuns (or Brahmins, the clerical caste) – and to a lesser extent, the Chhetris (or Kshatriyas, the warrior caste) – in all sectors of society. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (‘Prachanda'), former supreme commander of the Maoist forces, is a Bahun, as are Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, the irremovable leader of the UML, and his counterpart in the NC. So too is Thabang (…) - 2025/04 / article, 2025/04 nepal

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