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Halimi: France Says No

Znet Article, October, 30 2010 Serge Halimi
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France hasn’t seen demonstrations like this for 40 years....

Halimi: Look. Then think

Znet Article, September, 22 2010 Serge Halimi
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Bibi Aisha was on the cover of Time magazine last month, a young Afghan woman with no ears or nose; it is claimed that she was deliberately mutilated because of the Taliban.

Halimi: US Healthcare Sham

Znet Article, September, 03 2009 Serge Halimi
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A Republican Congress and President Bill Clinton abolished a welfare programme in 1996 under the (largely fallacious) pretext that it bred fraud, waste and abuse. Thirteen years on, the reforms that Barack Obama is proposing will not fundamentally...

Halimi: A People Abandoned

Znet Article, February, 03 2009 Serge Halimi
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Israel is free to do as it likes. Its army had already destroyed most of the Palestinian infrastructure funded by the EU and there had been little or no reaction, no legal action, no call for reparations.

Halimi: What's the G20 for?

Znet Article, December, 11 2008 Serge Halimi
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The rich men's club, founded 34 years ago, was beginning to show its age. It had become too exclusive, too western, too cosy. Initially, Asia was only represented by Japan, which generally had nothing to say, and Latin America and Africa were not ...

Halimi: US seen to decline... even back in 1952

Znet Article, November, 05 2008 Serge Halimi
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In 1952, when the US was at the very height of its power, General Douglas MacArthur warned fellow Americans of "our own relative decline, our inability to conserve resources, the rising burden of our fiscal commitments, an astronomically rising pu...

Halimi: Us Presidential Election Special Dossier

Znet Article, October, 05 2008 Serge Halimi
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How could the Republicans boast about their liberal values and their record in government when public funds are currently being used to fill the black hole created by US banks? Most Americans are in sour mood, as rising energy prices reduce their ...

Halimi: Russia gets its act together

Znet Article, September, 02 2008 Serge Halimi
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The question of responsibility for the hostilities in the Caucasus shouldn't worry us too much. Less than a week after Georgia's invasion, two well-known French commentators said it was old stuff. An influential neo-conservative from the United St...

Halimi: Obama

Znet Article, August, 14 2008 Serge Halimi
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Barack Obama is a lucky man: young, of mixed race, thought likely to make it to the White House, to succeed one of the most unpopular presidents in US history. He appears better equipped than anyone else to "renew American leadership in the world"...

Halimi: European Style: Nobody Loves It

Znet Article, July, 08 2008 Serge Halimi
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Imagine a man on trial for his life. The jury brings in a verdict of not guilty, so the judge immediately invites counsel for the prosecution to complete his closing speech, and then the accused is found guilty and sentenced to death. The Irish re...

Halimi: Less Isn't More

Znet Article, June, 03 2008 Serge Halimi
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Life is getting harder for most people...

Halimi: Speculate to Accumulate

Znet Article, May, 08 2008 Serge Halimi
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The International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organisation promised that more trade would help to eradicate poverty and hunger. Foodcrops? Self-sufficiency in food? They had a better idea. Local farms would be closed down or encouraged to co...