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Ireland’s difficult choices over Gaza

2 weeks ago | mondediplo.com | Clara Menais

Since the 1950s, each March, the White House has been decked out in the colours of Ireland. Under Bill Clinton it even began hosting the Irish prime minister for St Patrick’s Day. But when Joe Biden, his breast pocket full of shamrocks, welcomed Leo Varadkar in 2024, the taoiseach brought up the heavy subject of the Gaza war. ‘The Irish people are deeply troubled about the catastrophe that’s unfolding before our eyes in Gaza,’ he said.
Speech crimes in Trump’s America

2 weeks ago | mondediplo.com | Eric Alterman

With Donald Trump’s second term, the United States has entered a new era of censorship; on the pretext of fighting antisemitism, federal agents can arrest even legal residents and detain them incommunicado for an article in a student newspaper.
It’s time for the Teamsters and turtles to reunite

2 weeks ago | mondediplo.com | Benoît Bréville

Seattle was chosen as the venue for the World Trade Organisation’s 1999 ministerial conference: modern, dynamic and open to the world, and symbolised by its huge port facing towards Asia. The city is the birthplace of Microsoft, Boeing and Starbucks, but perhaps the conference organisers overlooked the fact that it also has strong trade union tradition: it was the scene of one of the largest general strikes in US history, in 1919.
Bank raid in the Indian Ocean

1 month ago | mondediplo.com | Ian Urbina

Almost no one’s heard of the Saya de Malha bank, yet it’s one of the most vital places on earth. Among the world’s largest seagrass fields, this patch of ocean the size of Switzerland is more than 300km from land in the Indian Ocean, between Mauritius and Seychelles. It has been called the world’s largest invisible island, formed by a massive plateau, in some spots barely hidden under 10 metres of water.
Censors of the world, unite!

1 month ago | mondediplo.com | Benoît Bréville

A strange new axis is taking shape. Not the ‘axis of evil’ that purportedly united the West’s enemies, nor the one that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin appear to be forming. But a broader, lesser-known alliance: an international confederacy of censors that brings together autocrats, democrats and bureaucrats.
Do Canadians still need French?

1 month ago | mondediplo.com | Philippe Descamps

On 6 January, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau announced that he would resign in March, saying ‘It’s time for a reset; it’s time for the temperature to come down … to have a fresh start in parliament to be able to navigate through these complex times.’ He spoke without notes from outside his Ottawa residence, repeating each English paragraph in French. His answers to press questions also balanced the two official languages of this country of 40 million.
The global gold rush is now officially on

2 months ago | mondediplo.com | Tristan Coloma

In mid-February, the global gold market was on tenterhooks. The price of an ounce had been hovering around an all-time high of $2,800. Was it about to go into freefall or would it finally pass the symbolic $3,000 threshold? For speculators and savers, the answer would, as always, be based on the same factors. Had the geopolitical situation deteriorated since Donald Trump returned to the White House? (If it had, that would be a bullish factor.) Had the dollar gone up in value (bearish)?
Smuggled gold fuels Sudan war

2 months ago | mondediplo.com | Tristan Coloma

Far from media spotlight, Sudan’s descent into chaos continues. The civil war that broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), commanded by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (‘Hemedti’), has claimed more than 30,000 lives and displaced 11 million people. According to the UN, 25 million – half of the country’s population – urgently need food aid to avert famine.
France’s far-right voters: ‘We all think the same thing here’

2 months ago | mondediplo.com | Benoît Bréville

Who votes for the far right and why? This question has been the subject of so many books, conferences and articles that you might imagine it had been settled. Since its first electoral successes 40 years ago, the Front National (FN) – renamed Rassemblement National (RN) in 2018 – has been, according to political scientist Alexandre Dezé, ‘incontestably the most extensively studied French political party of recent decades’, with at least 210 books published about it between the 1980s and 2017.
Emptying Gaza is an old Zionist dream

2 months ago | mondediplo.com | Alain Gresh

‘I would like Gaza to sink into the sea.’ It was September 1992, and the Soviet Union was a thing of the past. One after another, the international crises that had punctuated the cold war, from southern Africa to Central America, were being resolved. In Washington, Israel held talks not only with the Arab states but also with a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation on the future of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.