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Znet Article Halimi: Sacking Sarkozy Won’t be Enough

Znet Article, April, 01 2012 Serge Halimi
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The new French president will have to make a decision about a European treaty that would demand still greater austerity

Znet Article Halimi: Saudi Arabia’s Free Pass

Znet Article, March, 04 2012 Serge Halimi
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Saudi Arabia’s record is no better than Iran’s when it comes to respect for human rights. Yet the international community always manages to overlook the Wahhabi monarchy

Znet Article Halimi: Tobin Isn’t Enough Now

Znet Article, February, 04 2012 Serge Halimi
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From now on, we must insist that the banks cease to be in the hands of private interests

Znet Article Halimi: Where Did the Left Go?

Znet Article, November, 05 2011 Serge Halimi
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As capitalism faces the worst economic crisis since the1930s, the parties of the left are silent or embarrassed

Znet Article Halimi: Europe’s Wakeup Call

Znet Article, July, 05 2011 Serge Halimi
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This is not a technical and financial debate but a political and social battle

Znet Article Halimi: There are Now No Middle Eastern Certainties

Znet Article, May, 04 2011 Serge Halimi
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The democratic Arab revolts are redrawing political, diplomatic and ideological boundaries in the Middle East

Znet Article Halimi: Not Quite The Whole Truth

Znet Article, January, 02 2011 Serge Halimi
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The world narrowly escaped nuclear war in October 1962...

Znet Article Halimi: Neither Fair Nor Equitable

Znet Article, December, 04 2010 Serge Halimi
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Neo-liberals are worrying about the poor nowadays. Britain’s Conservative prime minister David Cameron proposes a massive increase in university tuition fees, already raised by his Labour predecessor, Tony Blair.

Znet Article 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....

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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"...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Halimi: Less Isn't More

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

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Halimi: To Serve and Protect

Znet Article, April, 09 2008 Serge Halimi
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In theory, the United States is all for free trade and is the leading advocate of the system. But, faced with a recession and a colossal trade deficit, it is reconsidering, as everyone knew it would. The US military contract for 79 refuelling tank...

Znet Article Halimi: Leader

Znet Article, March, 06 2008 Serge Halimi
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Some of the 27 member states of the European Union may soon find themselves subject to institutions their people have rejected: 1 January 2009 is the final date for ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, signed by the heads of state and government in ...

Znet Article Halimi: Bernard-Henri Lévy's Plan For The French Left

Znet Article, February, 07 2008 Serge Halimi
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Writer Bernard-Henri Lévy has published what he calls a "manifesto to save the left" and stepped into the limelight...

Znet Article Halimi: As the Democrats take Congress

Znet Article, November, 16 2006 Serge Halimi
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The Democrats made full use of the situation in Iraq in their successful campaign for Senate and House seats in the mid-term ele...

Znet Article Halimi: The America Not Made For You And Me

Znet Article, March, 15 2006 Serge Halimi
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Robert Greenwald's documentary, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (1), opens in a huge room packed with shareholders attending the company's annual meeting. They greet the CEO, H Lee Scott, with an ovation as he takes the podium. He tells them...

Znet Article Halimi: The United States: Bush's Record

Znet Article, October, 30 2004 Serge Halimi
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Despite the usual voter apathy of Americans, the turnout on 2 November is expected to exceed European levels (1). Will that be because of 9/11 and George Bush's response to it - the provocative policies coming out...

Znet Article Halimi: Bush's Appeal To America's Underclass

Znet Article, October, 12 2004 Serge Halimi
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SOME of the most down-at-heel homes in the remotest villages of West Virginia sport posters for George Bush and Dick Cheney, although their occupants ...

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