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   Le Monde diplomatique 
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                            November 2003
                            In this issue:
     ... Israel: murky secrets, apartheid rule, raising martyrs;
      Europe united against the war; democracy California-style;
   Nepal's Maoist rebels; French immigrants want to be equal; 'big
    pharma', a tale of corruption; is Google any good? ... plus JM
   Coetzee gets his Nobel prize and Mahmoud Darwish says goodbye to
                      Edward Said... and more...
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Bolivia: when is a democracy not a democracy?
By IGNACIO RAMONET
Translated by Gulliver Cragg
<http://MondeDiplo.com/2003/11/01bolivia>
AN OCCUPATION THAT CREATES CHILDREN WILLING TO DIE
Facility 1391: Israel's Guantanamo *
By JONATHAN COOK
     Representatives of the Israeli left and Palestinian political
     forces signed a peace agreement in Geneva last month,
     promising a Palestinian state in the territories occupied in
     1967, apart from 2.5% of the West Bank ceded to Israel for
     settlements. Its capital will be East Jerusalem and it will
     control all the Old Town except the Jewish quarter and the
     Western Wall. This shows peace is possible and the Israelis
     have partners in building it. Ariel Sharon's virulent
     denunciation of the agreement proves that it has embarrassed
     his government: refusing it would mean continuing violence.
Original text in english
Israel: beyond hope *
By LEAH TSEMEL
     During the past three years 382 Palestinian and 79 Israeli
     children have died in the violence between the communities.
     And all the children of the country live in daily fear.
Original text in english
Israel: a racist apartheid state?
By LEILA FARSAKH
Original text in english
<http://MondeDiplo.com/2003/11/04apartheid>
Mahmoud Darwish's farewell to Edward Said
Translated by Gulliver Cragg
<http://MondeDiplo.com/2003/11/05said>
DIVORCE BETWEEN SOCIETY AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
Old and new Europe against war *
By CATHERINE SAMARY
     The Iraq war showed there was a convergence between eastern
     and western Europe and that people were far more vocal and
     active against the war than they have been for accession to
     the European Union.
Translated by Barry Smerin
DEMOCRACY THAT DISMISSES THE ELECTORATE
Government without the people *
By ANNE-CÉCILE ROBERT
     Rather than blaming 'populism' for the lazy and ignorant
     election of unacceptable rulers, we need to revivify real and
     active democracy nationally and internationally.
Translated by Barbara Wilson
THE OLD VESTED INTERESTS FUND ELECTION CAMPAIGNS
United States: politics without the policies *
By SERGE HALIMI AND LOÏC WACQUANT
     It is usually the refusal of rulers to listen to the people
     that gives demagogues a chance to gain power, sometimes
     helped by the size of their personal fortune. Now California
     has acquired a new governor through a media coup.
Translated by Harry Forster
CHANGED LANDSCAPE OF THE CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
Another world is possible *
By FRANÇOIS HOUTART
     Social forums form a federation of resistance to neoliberal
     policies, and the Second European Social Forum in Paris this
     month may help to build a Europe not governed wholly by
     finance.
Translated by Gulliver Cragg
SOCIAL INEQUITY, GRINDING POVERTY, STATE NEGLIGENCE
Nepal: old-style Maoist revolution *
By CÉDRIC GOUVERNEUR
     Poor, corrupt Nepal has been in chaos in the year since King
     Gyanendra dismissed the prime minister and dissolved
     parliament. Political parties want the electoral process
     reinstated. Maoist rebels want an end to the monarchy.
     Fighting broke out again after a ceasefire failed in August.
     Since 1996 some 8,200 people have been killed.
Translated by Jeremiah Cullinane
THE NORTH AFRICAN COMMUNITY WANTS EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES NOT INTEGRATION
Franco-Arabs turn to the right
By KARIM BOURTEL
     The French integration model is not working, and the
     country's North African community suffers from
     discrimination, poor schooling, unemployment and political
     disenfranchisement. The left has failed to give its
     representatives political power: can the right do better?
Translated by Harry Forster
<http://MondeDiplo.com/2003/11/11leftright>
Unwelcome strangers of the past
By EMMANUELLE FLEURY
Translated by Harry Forster
<http://MondeDiplo.com/2003/11/12unwelcome>
'All they want is a job and a salary. They feel entitled to that'
<http://MondeDiplo.com/2003/11/13emancipation>
HOW BIG PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES CONTROL MEDICINE
Case notes on corruption
By PHILIPPE RIVIERE
     Doctors rely on information supplied, and research done, by
     major drugs companies: so 'Big Pharma' directly or indirectly
     influences the choice of prescriptions for patients.
Translated by Gulliver Cragg
<http://MondeDiplo.com/2003/11/14pharma>
HOW AN ONLINE SEARCH ENGINE INFLUENCES ACCESS TO INFORMATION
Telling Google what to think *
By PIERRE LAZULY
     Google seemed a brilliant idea - an internet search engine
     based on an algorithm that quickly chose and displayed the
     most relevant and popular websites. But the web-savvy can
     easily manipulate it for the purposes of propaganda or
     advertising.
Translated by Gulliver Cragg
For sale - to whom? *
By PIERRE LAZULY
'I MERELY WRITE DOWN THE WORDS AND TEST THEM'
South Africa's voice of freedom *
By MARIE LUISE KNOTT
     JM Coetzee, the South African novelist who defines himself as
     a 'secretary of the invisible', receives the Nobel prize for
     literature next month.
Translated by Jeremiah Cullinane
We have art so that we shall not die of the truth' *
     This is what JM Coetzee said when he accepted Israel's top
     literary award, the Jerusalem Prize, in 1987. The prize is
     awarded every two years at the Jerusalem book fair to a
     writer whose work explores the freedom of the individual in
     society.
JM Coetzee on novels and history *
A NEED FOR THE BEST OF EUROPE
Continental drift *
By CARLOS FUENTES
Translated by Gulliver Cragg
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