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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: July 2002 From: Le Monde diplomatique <dispatch@monde-diplomatique.fr> Date: Wed, July 10, 2002 3:10 pm To: Le Monde diplomatique <dispatch@monde-diplomatique.fr> Le Monde diplomatique ----------------------------------------------------- July 2002 In this issue: ... Algeria 40 years on, a special dossier; Egypt half a century on, remembering Nasser; what really happened at Camp David; Africa, preparing for union; France's troubled estates; world disorder, security and chemical weapons; deference at the WHO; why are scientists meddling with the weather? ... and why do we like those foreign films? A small number of these articles and our editorial are available to non-subscribers To read the rest of this month's articles go to http://MondeDiplo.com and click on Subscribe. It couldn't be easier... Rights for the children by IGNACIO RAMONET Translated by Ed Emery <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/07/01edito> COLONIAL ATTITUDES IN ISRAEL Camp David's thwarted peace * by ALAIN GRESH President Bush has urged the Palestinians to replace Yasser Arafat as a condition of US support for their statehood. This call underscores the failure of the Oslo accords. As Israel tightens its hold on the West Bank and Gaza, peace has never seemed more distant. Yet two years ago Israelis and Palestinians seemed close to agreement: the Camp David summit in July 2000 could have been considered as one further step in the long negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians. Instead it was dismissed as a total failure, with Arafat responsible for that failure. Translated by Harry Forster US BALANCES ASIAN NUCLEAR RIVALS India's unethical foreign policy * by KURT JACOBSEN and SAYEED HASAN KHAN The Bush administration sent senior officials to India and Pakistan recently to reduce tensions between the nuclear rivals. Pakistan's government announced that it would end commando operations by Kashmiri militants and India seemed to move towards military de-escalation. But how can the United States accede to India's demands for a strategic relationship while keeping Pakistan as an ally? Original text in English THREATS TO DISARMAMENT AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY The new world disorder * by PIERRE CONESA and OLIVIER LEPICK United States threats to withdraw from peacekeeping in Bosnia if denied exemption from prosecution in the new International Criminal Court shows how far international security has been dismantled. The US now realises what it means to be a superpower and its strategists are formulating a doctrine to match, undermining all the agreements that governed world security and underpinned disarmament in the 1990s. Translated by Malcolm Greenwood Treaties and agreements: a check list * Translated by Malcolm Greenwood US FORCES RESIGNATIONS AT AGENCIES A chemical coup * by ANY BOURRIER Translated by Luke Sandford The Chemical Weapons Convention * Translated by Luke Sandford IMMIGRANT VOICES IN EUROPEAN POLITICS France's estate of fear * by RABAH AIT-HAMADOUCHE During the presidential election in France, politicians pushing law and order picked on people from poor housing estates as troublemakers, prompting protest votes and abstentions. But Le Pen's brief success galvanised immigrant voters and began their new drive for political representation. Translated by Harry Forster FORTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE, VIOLENCE AND IMPOVERISHMENT US and Algeria: just flirting by WILLIAM B QUANDT Original text in English <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/07/08algeria> Algeria's wasted achievements * by MOHAMMED HARBI Algeria has been independent for 40 years this month, but wracked by a civil war: 700 Algerians have been killed this year by Islamists or the army. A privileged elite has abused what was gained in the revolution and spent Algeria's wealth. The violence continues the griefs of French colonisation, the war of independence and the seizure of power by military leaders. Translated by Julie Stoker Slow Thursday in Annaba * by KRIM MOKHTAR Translated by Luke Sandford 50 YEARS SINCE THE JULY REVOLUTION Egypt's squandered hopes * by KAMEL LABIDI The Middle East and the Maghreb no longer resound to the speeches of Nasser as they did when Cairo fascinated the Arab world, promising unity and revolution. A half-century after the Free Officers seized power in July 1952, there is bitter debate over Nasser's legacy in an Egypt made nostalgic by decline and despair. Translated by Luke Sandford The night Nasser nationalised the Suez canal * by SIMONE and JEAN LACOUTURE Translated by Luke Sandford >From Nasser to Mubarak * Translated by Luke Sandford THE FUTURE OF A MARGINALISED CONTINENT Can Africa really unify? * by MWAYILA TSHIYEMBE The Organisation of African Unity finally established the African Union in 2001, and, although there had been vociferous demands for union ever since the OAU was founded in 1963, there was in fact complete indifference to the actual setting up of the union. This month the union will hold its own first summit, in South Africa. Will it prove to be the answer to globalisation, as its advocates once hoped? Translated by Barbara Wilson The African Union * by MWAYILA TSHIYEMBE Translated by Barbara Wilson Universities challenged by AGHALI ABDELKADER* Translated by Malcolm Greenwood <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/07/15universities> Nigeria: music of the North and South * by JEAN-CHRISTOPHE SERVANT Translated by Ed Emery HEALTH FOR ALL OR RICHES FOR SOME WHO's responsible? by JEAN-LOUP MOTCHANE Can we still rely on the World Health Organisation? It has not openly opposed the greed of the major global pharmaceutical companies and its director-general, Gro Harlem Brundtland, has deferred to them. Translated by Luke Sandford <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/07/17who> THE POLLUTER PAYS BUT WHO PROFITS? Clean futures market by PHILIPPE BOVET and FRANÇOIS PLOYE Scientists and researchers are experimenting with the atmosphere and climate, intending to profit hugely from selling carbon dioxide absorption to polluters in the fast-developing futures market. Do they know what they are doing, or are their ideas potentially dangerous cons? Translated by Malcolm Greenwood <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/07/18weather> APPEAL OF THE OTHER Coming to a screen near you * by PHILIPPE LAFOSSE Translated by Luke Sandford ________________________________________________________________ _ (*) Star-marked articles are available to paid subscribers only. 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