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“How the West Sees the World”: I examine this question in “The Garden and the Jungle”, which is published this week in the United States by Other Press, one year after its original publication in French. Here I present my introduction to this American edition, written at the beginning of Trump’s second term, in the shadow of the genocide in Gaza.
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A mass extermination is taking place before our eyes in the Gaza Strip. Through its inaction, Europe is complicit in crimes against humanity. A petition is calling on our European parliamentarians to take strong and immediate action. In addition to signing the petition, you can also email it to your representative.
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Microsoft announced that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had exploited vulnerabilities in its popular SharePoint software but didn’t mention that it has long used China-based engineers to maintain the product. ProPublica reports.
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While Elon Musk took Washington, D.C., by storm, his company representatives and lobbyists were also notching up big political wins in the heart of his vast business empire: Texas. Report from ProPublica and The Texas Newsroom.
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Many Democrats continue to believe that the racism of average Americans — many of whom voted for Barack Obama twice — explains why Donald Trump won. This moralism suits party elites who would rather demonize the public than address growing inequality, argues history professor Touré F. Reed in Jacobin.
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Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws. Story from ProPublica.
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If you’re reading Mediapart, chances are you care about journalism that doesn’t answer to political or corporate pressure. Here at the Kyiv Independent, we’re the same. We're a Ukrainian newsroom without paywalls, owners, or outside influence — supported by its community.
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The hyperelitist world of prerevolutionary France fostered resentment among writers excluded from salons and high society. This bitterness proved a fertile breeding ground for revolution led by writers who targeted their anger at the old order, writes Bartolomeo Sala in this review of The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton.
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The Energy Information Administration has long provided reliable data on everything from oil and gas to alternative energy. Now one of its signature reports has been slashed and a second one canceled entirely amid sweeping job reductions and turmoil. ProPublica's Peter Elkind reports.
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Reporting from Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe, the AFP reveals the concern caused in the French Antilles by budget cuts in the USA's tsunami early warning networks, which meteorological services and local authorities in the Caribbean rely on to prepare for the natural disasters that are becoming increasingly frequent due to climate change.
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Waldemar de Laage, of Radio 1 Tahiti, reports on the work of a marine biologist based in French Polynesia – Éric Clua, the so-called "Shark Profiler" – who has developed a method of identifying specific sharks who attack humans; he wants authorities to employ his methods and thereby avoid the indiscriminate culling of sharks.
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The tech billionaire and Trump adviser “donated” Starlink service to the White House. The move resembles a previous maneuver by Microsoft, which used “free” trials to lock in costly upgrades across the federal government. ProPublica's Renee Dudley reports.
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Writing in local paper, Le Dauphiné libéré, Cyrielle Thevenin explains the concept of Préjudice d'anxiété in French law, and how it pertains to the case of over 1200 inhabitants of the French Antilles who are suing the French government for emotional distress caused by prolonged exposure to the dangerous pesticide chlordecone, previously used in the islands' banana plantations.
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Third Way Democrats are right to obsess over the Democrats’ increasing troubles with working-class voters. But their solution is more of the Clintonian economic centrism that drove away working-class voters in the first place, writes Jared Abbott in Jacobin.
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Two reporters for Réunion la 1ere, the local branch of France Info, suggest that the sharp rise in narcotics seizures in Réunion over the past year is the result of a worrying increase of drug use on the island, which is richer than neighbouring countries but still has significant inequalities and social problems.
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In this blog about the French overseas territories, a group of Lille University master's students present a range of reports from the French media concerning the issues facing people in some of the country's former colonies. English versions of the articles, complete with glossaries and notes, provide an insight into how the French media are treating a range of sometimes controversial topics.
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Trump’s policy choices are triggering consequences, especially in Democratic-led states, as unrest grows. The most concrete sign comes from California, where citizen Marcus Evans received approval from Secretary of State Shirley Weber to gather signatures for a referendum that could eventually lead to secession . the question arises: What are the prospects?
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Neo-Barbarians are forming a global line. As our Zeitgeist lends itself to gloomy predictions, we may soon need democratic coalitions across the social spectrum, with native Europeans and migrant communities uniting to defend the enduring values of humanism. The specter of a “genetically modified fascism” is viciously haunting Europe -- and the other parts of the world.
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The decline of physical media and the death of analog formats is consolidating corporate control over digital content, writes political commentator David Moscrop, who argues that this shift raises serious concerns about access, ownership, and consumer rights.
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The Syrian crisis enters a new, volatile phase marked by deepening political divides, economic devastation, and intensified regional rivalries. With Turkey, Israel, and the U.S. shaping a precarious new power dynamic, prospects for stability remain bleak. As key actors maneuver, Syria faces an uncertain and perilous future.
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The editor-in-chief of OCCRP, the world's biggest network of investigative media, asked Mediapart to make “corrections and apologies” within 48 hours regarding our investigative article about OCCRP. Mediapart refused this request, fully stands by its reporting, and publishes its full answers to the seven points raised by OCCRP.
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If Trump is a fascist, and he is. If he exercises absolute control over the Republican Party totally devoted to him, and he does. If he has full power, holding all the levers of power, and he does. So, his second presidency will make the United States look very much like a one-party country! And will also make Trump a quasi-dictator.
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Until Democrats can find a way to win back some large chunk of working-class voters, Donald Trump’s successors will be favoured in the next presidential election too, writes Jacobin contributing editor Matt Karp, an associate professor of history at Princeton University.
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As a graduate student at the College of Charleston, Lauren Davila found an ad for the auction of 600 enslaved people. A ProPublica story last year revealed her discovery and unearthed the identity of the family responsible for the sale.
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Eric Adams, Mayor of New York City, is indicted on a series of criminal acts - related to bribery and illegal donations. In the background loom actors from Turkey: diplomats, business figures, an airline executive, a university president. If the charges are proven, we will have a prime example of how the culture of corruption in a country infects another. Here is a long read on what it is about.
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The Trump administration has begun a purge into federal initiatives to promote equity, diversity and inclusion, with shocking effect, reports ProPublica.
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Devin Nunes, the former congressman who runs the company behind Truth Social, traveled to North Macedonia as former President Trump vies to once again shape US foreign policy. Report by the US investigative newsroom ProPublica.
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The Mediapart website is now available via an Onion service on the Tor network - a global, decentralized network designed to protect the privacy of Internet users and fight against online censorship and surveillance.
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Rounding up migrants. Lists of “friendly” sheriffs. Debating political assassinations. Internal messages reveal militia AP3's journey from January 6th through the tumultuous lead-up to the 2024 election. One member predicts: “It’ll be decided at the ammo box.” Report from the US investigative newsroom ProPublica.
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In her book Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic, journalist Nabila Ramdani cuts through the self-congratulatory myths of French politics to deliver a damning picture of France under Emmanuel Macron, writes Olly Haynes in this review published by Jacobin. But, he argues, she doesn’t give enough credit to the leftwing forces working to transform this broken system.
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"If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.” Decades ago, philosopher Karl Popper suggested, with these words, that an existential battle was inevitable. And here we are, facing the dragons.
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Not all French business elites look favorably on the rise of Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National. But tech bosses, fossil fuel magnates, and “alternative finance” chiefs see plenty to like in its program — and they’re putting their support behind it, writes Théo Bourgeron in Jacobin.
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According to polls for France’s snap election, the far-right’s main opponent isn’t Emmanuel Macron but the leftwing New Popular Front. It has to rally working-class voters and show that the social damage of Macron’s rule can be undone, writes Pablo Castaño on Jacobin.
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The New Popular Front is de facto the hope and alternative for the workers and oppressed of the whole of Europe, both Western and Eastern, over which the spectre of racism, fascism and war hovers ever more menacingly. No doubt that his struggle is our struggle too.
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Witnesses in the various criminal cases against the former president have gotten pay raises, new jobs and more. If any benefits were intended to influence testimony, that could be a crime, report Robert Faturechi, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski for ProPublica.
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In the world of commotion, Greek-Turkish tensions are one of those that will not go away. Although both Athens and Ankara radiate some optimism, the reality is different. On the eve of Mitsotakis’ visit to Ankara on May 13, Erdoğan reopened magnificent ancient church of Chora in Istanbul as a mosque. Pendulum swings between confidence-building and arms wrestling.
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The website of national broadcaster Radio France reports on the accusations made by the mayor of Orléans of a covert strategy to relocate Parisian homeless people to his city in the runup to the Olympics, which he says has not included any material support for the social challenges created by the sudden influx.
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Manon Mella reports for public radio station France Inter on the concerns of a large number of students at universities in the greater Paris region who are to be forcably relocated, sometimes almost as soon as the semester has finished, so that their halls of residence can be used as Olympic accommodation.
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By all accounts, Turkey’s ill-fated journey into the EU seems to have hit a wall. Once a process filled with promises and deeds, a series of choices by the EU and the ruling AKP party, a blend of erratic decisions and clash of cultures, placed the relations on life support. What remains is the entrenchment in languages — and growing transactionalism.
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Last weekend, Greek economist, politician and former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis was due to address a “Palestine Congress” in Berlin, organised by his MeRA25 party and the German association Jewish Voice for Peace. At the last minute he was banned from entering Germany, and even prevented from giving his speech by video link. Varoufakis subsequently published the speech he was to give, which Mediapart republishes here.
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Guillaume Dussourt and Ameline Lavechin, writing for the website of radio station RMC, report on the dismay of representatives of Parisian hoteliers and restaurateurs at the proliferation of negative messaging about the social impact of the Olympics, which they warn could have an adverse effect on their businesses.
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After French fencer, Ysoara Thibus received a positive drug test, Romain Donneux, writing in sports daily l'Equipe, provides some background information about the controlled substance Enobosarm, the increasingly widespread use of which presents a threat to the integrity of the Paris 2024 games.
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This month marks Mediapart’s 16th anniversary and, just as it does every March, it is publishing all its latest financial and operational results, in a demonstration of transparency that is unique among the French press. On the occasion of this year’s anniversary, Carine Fouteau has been appointed as Mediapart’s publishing editor and president, marking the final transfer of responsibilities from the co-founders to the team.
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Today, walking on my American campus, being exposed to dead fetuses’ pictures from anti-abortion groups on my way to class, I felt proud of my home country which became the first to enshrine abortion as a constitutional right. I saluted the political elite that made this historical decision but realized that it does not erase the controversial presidency and represents a major political strategy.
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Mediapart will celebrate its 16th anniversary in March, the month of its launch in 2008. Like every year, there will be events to which you are invited and which this year will notably be marked by the announcement of a successor to Mediapart co-founder Edwy Plenel as chairperson and publishing editor.
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Sports daily L'Equipe reveals a report by the French broadcast communications regulator suggesting that audiences in the country for women's sports and parasports are bigger than assumed, and likely to be improved even further by the upcoming Olympics and Paralympics.
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As the municipal elections approach, Turkey’s often disappointed and disarrayed “anti-Erdoğan” voter base may come to fear the worst. Opposition alliances vanished and now, parties acrimoniously nominate their own candidates, instead of challenging Erdoğan in a united format. The key battlefield will be Istanbul - hub of Turkey’s economy, which Erdoğan seems determined to “reconquer”.
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In this blog about the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, a group of Lille University master's students present a range of reports from the French media concerning the debates surrounding the organisation of the summer games. English versions of the articles, complete with glossaries and notes, provide an insight into how the French media are treating a range of sometimes controversial topics.
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Since the start of this war in Gaza, the gap between continents and geographical areas, and the tensions and divisions within several countries, have widened as never before. It is sadly and seriously to be feared that we live in a world that is witnessing a flagrant decline in the universal values and legal conventions common to humanity.
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Scammers have duped consumers out of more than $1 billion by exploiting Walmart’s lax security. The company has resisted taking responsibility while breaking promises to regulators and skimping on training, reports the US investigative newsroom ProPublica.
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We, academics, researchers and teachers affiliated with European academic institutions and beyond, have learned with concern and dismay of the letter made public you, the president and the rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, have sent to Professor Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian following the publication of the petition entitled "Childhood researchers and students call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza." By demanding Prof. Shalhoub Kevorkian's resignation, you are contravening the spirit of tolerance and commitment to academic freedom that is supposed to prevail in academic institutions.
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The question is no longer if but when the United States will support a ceasefire in the Gaza war.
While the need for a ceasefire to halt Gaza’s human carnage is self-evident, some drivers of the Biden administration’s debate about the timing of a ceasefire raise questions about the moral underpinnings of Western democracies.
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Following the publication of a pamphlet urging us to 'forget' Albert Camus, Jason Herbeck, Faris Lounis, Marylin Maeso, Christian Phéline and Anne Prouteau come to the defence of the celebrated French writer.
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States in the US have passed hundreds of laws to protect people from wrongful insurance denials. Yet, details US investigative newsroom ProPublica, from emergency services to fertility preservation insurers still say no.
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Testimony (given to me by a friend) of a woman and a mother recounting her daily life thinking of the past, the present and her feelings about the future.
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With the official launch of the General Information Conference ("Etats généraux de l'information") on October 3rd in France, we, more than 180 current and former foreign reporters and correspondents based abroad, are asking the French authorities to address the deterioration in our working conditions. On Monday October 16th, a seminar was held at the France's Senate to assess the situation and look at the legislative solutions that could improve our daily lives, particularly in terms of social protection. President Emmanuel Macron, give us the means to continue doing our job!
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Following a vote of approval by editorial staff, Lénaïg Bredoux and Valentine Oberti have taken up their positions as joint editors-in-chief of Mediapart. This online journal reaffirms its pledge of providing readers with independent reporting, in contrast to agendas saturated by communications campaigns and the views of the far-right. The latter will be the focus of particular attention in our coverage, along with issues surrounding climate collapse and the media.
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We, Israel-based academics, thought leaders and progressive activists committed to peace, equality, justice,and human rights, are deeply pained and shocked by the recent events in our region. We are also deeplyconcerned by the inadequate response from certain American and European progressives regarding thetargeting of Israeli civilians by Hamas, a response which reflects a disturbing trend in the global left'spolitical culture.
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The “lung float” test claims to help determine if a baby was born alive or dead, but many medical examiners say it’s too unreliable. Yet the test is still being used to bring murder charges — and get convictions, reports ProPublica's Duaa Eldeib.
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Mediapart has launched an appeal for Julian Assange, in the form of an address to US president Joe Biden. It has already been joined by three other European media: Der Spiegel (Germany), Il Fatto Quotidiano (Italy) and InfoLibre (Spain).
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Tribune - The fight of Iranians is the fight of feminists and all those in struggle around the world © Mediapart
An initiative of the Transnational Feminist Assembly and signed by a multitude of associations and individuals from around the world, this statement of solidarity with the Woman*, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran explains that, despite near exhaustion, it is still possible to organise our forces to change the future, and against all odds. “The Iranian revolution is not satisfied with just opposing the deadly policies of the Islamic Republic, it’s mapping out a project for a post-capitalist society, one of solidarity and emancipation.”
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After a summer marked by the dramatic changes at French weekly Le JDD, this month sees the launching of Les états généraux de l’information, a consultation process examining the state and future of news reporting in France. It is an occasion for Mediapart to present the fundamental importance for our democracy of a free and independent press. This fight is also yours.
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Academics have written to the rector of La Sapienza University to request the revocation of the honorary doctorate conferred upon the Tunisian president, citing his involvement in human rights abuses against black migrants. To date, no response has been given to their request. A quick investigation indicates that he is not the only Arab despot who has been bestowed with honors by La Sapienza.
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The impact of junk science in criminal cases is well known, but family courts have allowed a disputed psychological theory to persist with little scrutiny, reports ProPublica's Hannah Dreyfus.
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The rise of organised crime in Europe highlights its ties to the Chinese state, national security officials say. ProPublica reports on how recent cases show the suspected role of mobsters in Beijing’s campaign to repress diaspora communities and amass influence.
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On October 1st, Lénaïg Bredoux and Valentine Oberti will take over the reins from Carine Fouteau and Stéphane Alliès as Mediapart's editorial co-directors. In accordance with our statutes, their nomination, proposed by me as Mediapart’s director, was put to a vote of the editorial team, 88.5% of whom approved it on a turnout of 91%.
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The year 2020 marked parity between the total GDP of the G7 (the US plus allies) and the total GDP of the BRICS group (China plus allies). Since then, the BRICS economies grew faster than the G7 economies. Beyond the obvious symbolism, this difference entails real political, cultural, and economic consequences, writes Richard Wolff, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a founder of the Democracy at Work project.
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Ryan Busse once worked for a major gun-maker. He now warns about the danger of growing radicalization in the industry. Here he speaks to ProPublica.
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A Florida pharmacist serves as an expert witness on behalf of states defending lethal injection protocols, often speaking about a drug that he has no authority to prescribe. His testimony has helped pave the way for executions across the country, reveals ProPublica.
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The crackdown of Emmanuel Macron's government on popular protest is an unacceptable attack on the democratic freedoms and human rights of French citizens. We stand with the French people and support the victory of the movements against Macron’s pension cuts and against his privatisation of water.
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Rashida Tlaib is leading a group in Congress calling on Joe Biden to halt extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. The prosecution of Assange should worry anyone who believes in freedom of the press, writes Jacobin columnist Ben Burgis.
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The Russian authorities have opened a criminal case against Oleg Orlov, one of the leading members of the Moscow-based human rights NGO Memorial. He is accused of “discrediting” the Russian army in an opinion piece that was first published in the Club section of Mediapart. We stand in solidarity with him and what he wrote.
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This month marks Mediapart’s 15th anniversary and, like every year in March, it is publishing all its latest financial and operational results. This year, the Mediapart team will hold a series of meetings to exchange with the public in 15 towns and cities, beginning in Paris on March 25th and ending in Brussels in December. Our anniversary this year is also marked by the appointment of Cécile Sourd as our new general manager, succeeding Mediapart co-founder Marie-Hélène Smiéjan who has occupied the post since our creation.
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Some 20 years ago a biography on one of my favorite theoreticians, Jacques Ellul, appeared with the title L'homme qui avait presque tout prévu which translates as 'The man who had foreseen almost everything'. (Porquet, 2003) Reflecting on the work of Arif Dirlik 1940-2017), the title at once sprang to mind.
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Italy's Senate president, the republic's second most important figure, made the crassest of comments against gays on national TV and then tried to make a joke of it – the latest episode in a horrific series, writes Alessio Colonnelli, translator and commentator on European political and social affairs.
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Writing in Le Parisien, Christine Mateus outlines some of the major conflicts surrounding questions of transactivism and the role of trans women in feminist movements in France and beyond. Will the issue cause a major schism, or will feminists on either side of this vexed debate come to an understanding?
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On both sides of the Atlantic, Rupert Murdoch’s news empire is built on a hate-for-profit business model — engaging in migrant bashing, election denial, and anti-LGBTQ hysteria to drive ratings and make him and his hosts rich, writes Liam Barrett in Jacobin.
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As global economic-ecological crises aggravate, the spread of racist nationalism accelerates. The reinforced divisions of the working class into white and non-white workers pose a great challenge to all of us, as scholar-activist Harsha Walia argues in her contribution to the BG’s “Allied Grounds” text series.
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In this blog about women's rights, a group of Lille University master's students present a range of reports from the French media concerning the debates surrounding women's rights in France, the French-speaking world, and beyond. English versions of the articles, complete with glossaries and notes, provide an insight into how the French media are treating a range of sometimes controversial topics.
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In an interview with ProPublica's Sebastian Rotella, journalist Sam Cooper describes how he unearthed scandals that have shaken the Canadian political system.
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Moscow-based socialist Mikhail Lobanov is a leading left-wing critic of Vladimir Putin. His jailing this Thursday reflects authorities’ determination to silence critics of the war, the disastrous effects of which are playing havoc on Russian society.
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After Hurricane Katrina devastated St. Bernard Parish in Louisiana, many residents didn’t receive enough money from the state to rebuild. Nearly half made the difficult decision to start over somewhere else. ProPublica reports in partnership with The Times-Picayune | The Advocate and WWL-TV.
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The mineral found in Serbia’s Jadar region is key to electric car batteries. The advocates of green capitalism, however, don’t have an easy time of it: they’re confronted by local farmers who claim they don’t need a green transition because they’re already green. After all, they say, the future is agriculture, as Mihajlo Vujasin notes in his contribution to the BG text series “After Extractivism.”
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Indian philosophers Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan are currently being targeted by Hindu nationalists. They are paying for "their extraordinary commitment to justice, equality and political freedom for people around the world", write a group of 45 intellectuals, including Étienne Balibar, Slavoj Žižek, Georges Didi-Huberman and Barbara Cassin, in this petition of support for the pair who are targeted by a "suffocating atmosphere of intimidation and physical threats".
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For decades, the US government has failed to test for chemicals and metals in fish. So, ProPublica, in partnership with Oregan Public Broadcasting, did, and what they found in the Columbia River Basin is alarming for native American tribes.
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Time and again, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is being called a “fossil war.” But what does that actually mean? Oxana Timofeeva shows in her contribution to the BG text series “After Extractivism” how the extractivist ecosystem of the oil industry is not only being maintained during the war, but also literally fuels it.
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The Coal Creek War was one of the largest insurrections in American labour history, with thousands of miners batting state troops to end the convict leasing system designed to extend slavery and undermine organized labour.
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The French billionaire Vincent Bolloré, the Bolloré company and its subsidiary Bolloré Africa Logistics have lost the final appeal in their case against Mediapart concerning a story about their business practices in Cameroon. In a judgement given on October 11th France's top appeal court, the Cour de Cassation, rejected their appeal and pointed to the “sufficiently factual basis” of the article written by Fanny Pigeaud.
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While the international scene is fascinated by the crisis of globalization, 33 millions Pakistanis farmers are fleeing their submerged villages. Will the efforts needed to overcome the climate catastrophe announced since 1992 come from the Non-aligned countries ? And what can I do ? These are the questions we are launching with our friend Pena-Vega.
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Why are so many people now embracing demagogues? Barbara Walter, political scientist and author of “How Civil Wars Start” tells ProPublica that the vitals signs of healthy democracy are in decline around the world.
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Mediapart contributor Hussam Hammoud, 30, who currently lives in Turkey, applied for what is called a “humanitarian” visa in order to travel to France and, once on French soil, to apply for asylum in the country along with his wife and two young children. But on September 5th he received a cold and impersonal email rejecting his request. Outrageous.
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According to Aristotle, we cannot understand something unless we understand what causes it. In the case of the present war between Ukraine and Russia, Aristotle would have described Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the efficient cause – the immediate precipitant – but would have argued that a fuller understanding must include the material history of Europe. I want to focus here on the form given to the conflict by America’s preponderant role in European politics. By Eli Zaretsky.
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Housing costs in Lisbon are so high that it’s ranked even more unviable for renters than New York. Attempts to solve the issue through “market efficiency” have made the problem worse.
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English version of 11 August 2022 interview in Cantonese for Hong Kong platform Mei Pai 微批 between Enoch Tam and author Gregory B Lee on the occasion of the publication of the dual-language (Cantonese-English) The Eighth Chinese Merchant and the Disappeared Seamen
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Former intelligence officer and data scientist Welton Chang explains how conspiracy theorists and violent racists fled to smaller platforms. Once there, their remarks festered and spread he explains in this Q&A with A.C. Thompson from US online newsroom ProPublica.
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Pablo Iglesias, cofounder of Spain’s leftist party Podemos, tells Jacobin that antidemocratic forces in the Spanish police and secret services plotted to stop his party from taking power.
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Extreme debt is getting out of hand, especially in Africa and the Global South at large, where economic and climate crises are intertwined, fueling each other and making it clear that the inner and outer limits of capital have been reached, as Tomasz Konicz argues in his contribution to the BG text series “After Extractivism.”
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A year after the US barred Mexicans from crossing the border to sell their blood, pharmaceutical companies have acknowledged that those donations provided as much as 10% of the plasma collected nationwide as they seek to have the ban overturned. US investigative non-profit online newsroom ProPublica reports.
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The COVID-19 pandemic-related crisis surge, along with rising rents on the real estate market, has led to a rapid increase in the number of homeless people facing extreme weather conditions such as heat waves. It’s high time to reflect on the land and housing issue, as Ela Kagel argues in her contribution to the BG text series “After Extractivism,” focusing on the case of Berlin.
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Boris Johnson handed Britain’s ruling class just about everything they could have wanted. Savour his fall from grace, but only for a moment: his Tory replacement won’t be any better, writes Labour Party MP Zarah Sultana in this opinion article for Jacobin.
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The tech giant has long boasted that it doesn’t accept ads for firearms, but an analysis by US investigative non-profit online newsroom ProPublica shows that Google’s ad systems served up more than 100 million ads from gun makers.
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Genetics and cybernetics are irremediably linked. They have historically fed each other to promote a mechanistic, informational, deterministic and molecularized ontology associated to a mode of government based on prediction and individually assumed control of oneself, particularly apparent in our neoliberal era.
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The showdown between carbon capitalists and post-carbon capitalists is also a struggle over the collective perception of the climate crisis, aimed at brushing us off with quick answers and preventing us from questioning capitalism, as media researcher Paul Schütze argues in his contribution to the BG text series “After Extractivism” by focusing on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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It doesn’t matter how many people are slaughtered. It doesn’t even matter if they’re children, as they were in Texas on May 24th. In America, the response to gun violence is nothing, writes David Sirota.
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As was the case with the British Empire, today’s global form of extractive capitalism is a system of human sacrifice hidden in plain sight. A critical look at the palm oil industry reveals both the violence of this trajectory in an exemplary way and the challenges for a transition into a just world, social thinker Max Haiven argues in his contribution to the BG’s “After Extractivism” text series.
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Mississippi is the state that spawned the law that will likely lead to the Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade, and Mississippians on Medicaid lose coverage a mere 60 days after childbirth. "When women don't have that coverage, what happens is they die," comments one expert in this analysis by US investigative non-profit online newsroom ProPublica.
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Présidentielle 2022 : et maintenant ? © Mediapart
Mediapart, Jacobin and the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation are joining forces to analyze the results of the first round of the presidential election. With Mediapart journalists Fabien Escalona and Ellen Salvi, freelance journalist and contributor to Jacobin, Harrison Stetler, and historian Mathilde Larrère. What can we learn from the initial results, what can we expect in the second round, and what does it all mean for the French Left and society at large?
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The calculus of imperial expansion often contradicts conventional cost-benefit analysis. Using the example of Belarus and Russia, Mark Cinkevich and Anna Engelhardt in their contribution to the BG text series “After Extractivism” show: Apparently irrational economic activity, for which no price is too high and no ecological damage too severe, nevertheless follows a politico-economic rationality.
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Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is about erasing a culture, erasing something Dante believed in and fought for. What can we do to actively celebrate Dante and draw inspiration from his writings so we can shape a better world? Alessio Colonnelli, translator and commentator on European political and social affairs, gives his take on current events.
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Some on the left still have trouble counting to two. Having two enemies and not just one, fighting on two fronts and not just one, is obviously not comfortable. It is so much less difficult for the mind to be able to rely only on the good, the only, the unique Enemy.
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This month Mediapart celebrates its 14th anniversary, and like every year on the date marking its creation it publishes all its latest financial and operational figures, an exercise in transparency that is unique in the French media landscape. The year 2021 demonstrates the sustainable and structurally viable character of Mediapart, whose existence and activities are entirely dependent upon the support of its subscribers.
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At the start of the current academic year, a report on TF1 News, the main independent terrestrial TV news bulletin in France, revealed some of the serious financial difficulties faced by students.
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In the midst of panic in energy markets – caused by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and the West’s sanctions policy – all climate goals and demands for environmental, let alone transition, justice are thrown out the window, warns us anthropologist, activist, and author Florin Poenaru in his fearless contribution to the BG’s “After Extractivism” text series.
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President Trump’s former campaign chairman and former lawyer worked with, between them, a deposed authoritarian president, a bevy of oligarchs, Russia-oriented politicians and alleged Russian spies. Ilya Marritz reports for US non-profit newsroom ProPublica.
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STOP THE WAR - in support of the Ukrainian people and against all forms of barbarism © Stéphane de Gérando
« STOP THE WAR »
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The decaying post-Soviet mining cities are vivid illustrations of the on-going realignment of power relations after the end of the Cold War. As such they are both manifestations of new capitalism forms and platforms for the emergence of collective survival strategies, as urban anthropologist Maria Gunko argues in her contribution to the BG’s “After Extractivism” text series.
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In this blog about university life in France, a group of Lille University master's students present a range of reports from the French media concerning the debates surrounding higher education in the country. English versions of the articles, complete with glossaries and notes, provide an insight into how the French media are treating a range of controversial topics.
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On 10th February , Total Energies, the French oil giant, will present its results for 2021. Commentators point out that it is bound for record profits. But how dystopian is it to celebrate, when the company is on its way to pursue the world’s most scandalous, neocolonial investment of East African Crude Oil Pipeline ?
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Paths left unsecured by US military sped the evacuation of American citizens and Afghan allies. The attack killed 13 US service members and scores of civilians. This joint investigation by ProPublica and Alive in Afghanistan news agency reveals some of the background to the bombing.
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Forged in the best traditions of American radicalism, historian Tyler Stovall, who died in December, remained loyal to the struggle for a better world throughout an illustrious academic career.
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The filing, submitted by New York Attorney General Letitia James, comes several years after a ProPublica investigation revealed conflicting financial details the Trump Organization filed for its downtown Manhattan skyscraper at 40 Wall Street.
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A female head of state would send a strong message about the role of women in the world to large swathes of traditional society, writes Alessio Colonnelli, translator and commentator on European political and social affairs.
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At the end of November Mediapart filed an official report with the state prosecutor in Paris flagging threats, violence, incitement, intimidation and defamation that target members of its editorial team, writes publishing editor Edwy Plenel. These attacks are contained in videos made by the far right and which are still accessible online.
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Since the Balkan wars – serving as both a catalyst for the design of the EU and of Bosnia and Herzegovina – complicated notions of borders and boundaries have multiplied. Today, they not only define territories at the outer edges of Non-EU-Eastern Europe but also its citizens and refugees. The activist and feminist thinker hvale tries to excavate strategies of resistance and emanicaption.
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Despite government intervention and new owners, GN Bank is fighting for survival while customers worry about losing their homes, details US non-profit newsroom ProPublica in an investigation into the fate of a historic institution serving Chicago's black comunity.
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At the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 284 parliamentary assistants, group advisors, contract agents or trainees of the European Parliament call all Members to vote in favour of an up-coming resolution about harassment prevention. In particular, they support a mandatory training and an independent audit.
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French president Emmanuel Macron’s bodyguard Alexandre Benalla has been handed a suspended sentence for violently beating protesters while posing as a cop, representing a slap on the wrist in a country where elite impunity reigns, writes Harrison Stetler in US online review Jacobin.
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Irish author Sally Rooney has refused to allow her latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, to be translated into Hebrew in Israel, a state she intends to boycott for contravening international law in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Alessio Colonnelli, a translator and European affairs commentator, gives his view on Rooney's stand.
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Warming will bring enormous economic costs but cutting emissions now will save money later, reports US investigative newsroom ProPublica in this analysis of the debate in America over tackling the climate crisis.
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A new kind of « Africa-France summit » is being held in Montpellier. Instead of gathering his counterparts from the continent around him, the French head of state has chosen this time to debate publicly with the actors of African civil society. This text is taken from a book edited by Koulsy Lamko, Amy Niang, Ndongo Samba Sylla and Lionel Zevounou : « De Brazzaville à Montpellier, regards critiques sur le néocolonialisme français ».
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In his long career as a news cameraman, Lucien Botras, who has died at the aged of 88, captured thousands of images shot around the world, from everyday events to the horrors of warzones. Throughout, Lucien remained a modest, unsung hero of broadcast journalism, who I had the pleasure of working with as a colleague, and the privilege to know as a friend.
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In post-industrial eastern France, the neoliberal era has been a long class war waged from above. In his book 'Of Fangs and Talons', reviewed here by Conrad Landin, award-winning novelist Nicolas Mathieu portrays how the destruction of working-class communities has fed cynicism and despair.
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The vaccination rate against Covid is around 70 % in the European Union while it is 3 % in Africa. In the face of this unfairness, a large number of personalities from the cultural worlds of Africa and Europe are speaking out against the "forces of selfishness and fragmentation". They are calling on the European Union, in conjunction with international organizations (WHO, AVAT, COVAX), to engage in a policy of free export of vaccines to the most deprived countries.
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Offshore wind energy is not the enemy of marine biodiversity. However, the requirements of environmental law must be respected. At a time when the EU is announcing a major renewable energy program with the European Green Deal, a French case gives us an example of what not to do.
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This September 11 is a tragic anniversary : marking both twenty years since the terrorist act against the US, the world’s greatest imperialist power, which killed more than 3,000 people, and twenty years since the launch of the ‘War on Terror’. Twenty years after, it's time to take stock.
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WhatsApp assures users that no-one can see their messages – but, reports US investigative newsroom ProPublica, the company has an extensive monitoring operation and regularly shares personal information with prosecutors.
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During the next Plenary session, MEPs will vote on an important text for non-animal testing. 3 EU-funded project coordinators welcome this initiative: animal testing is too long to enable the safety assessment of the growing number of chemicals whose toxicity is still unknown.
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We need to re-evaluate the environmental practices and policies of state socialism, last but least because they had more environmentally beneficial than destructive effects. Hence, rather than dismissing state socialism’s heritage out of hand, we should reclaim it for contemporary eco-socialist ends, as critical geographer and author Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro argues.
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A lacerating report this week was the 11th in a clear-eyed series that revealed the US failure to reconstruct Afghanistan over two decades. Why didn’t anyone heed the inspector general’s warnings?
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On July 29th, Mediapart journalists were questioned as part of the preliminary investigation opened by the Paris public prosecution services following our formal complaint against “persons unknown” over the use of the Pegasus spyware to infect and retrieve information from their mobile phones. Technical analyses of the phones carried out during the interviews by police have confirmed the evidence first revealed by the Forbidden Stories’ journalistic consortium and the Amnesty International Security Lab.
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The monument to the French singer Johnny Hallyday that is be inaugurated mid-September in Paris may well be just a stutter after Koons' tulips. This poisoned "gift" from the artist to the City of Paris has highlighted the cynicism of some international artists and their dealers, as well as the weakness of elected officials in the face of these practices.
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China sends covert teams abroad to bring back people accused — justifiably or not — of financial crimes. One New Jersey family was stalked as part of a global campaign that takes families hostage and pressures immigrants to serve as spies.
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Controversial statements and decisions made by the national-conservative government regarding women’s and LGBTQ rights have led in recent months to even greater divisions in Polish society. More and more people are taking to the streets and demonstrating. Literary scholar Karolina Golimowska reports about the struggles on the ground.
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Negotiators, international mediators and researchers look back at the conduct and issues of the first trial, for the period 2011-2013, of Josu Urrutikoetxea, a key player in the resolution of the conflict in the Basque Country, which took place on June 15 and 16 before the 16th Correctional Chamber of the Judicial Court of Paris.
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Since the West is trying to teach democracy to the former Eastern bloc, media and journalism NGOs funded with Western money have become a job generator for white men from the Global North. Meanwhile, the precarious or unpaid jobs are reserved for Eastern Europeans. Stefan Candea, a reporter from Romania, was part of this machine – until he dared to criticize the power relations.
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Non-profit online newsroom ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of information from the US federal Internal Revenue Service showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffet pay little in income tax in proportion to their massive wealth - and sometimes, even nothing.
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Perpetrated upon whole generations of children,
sexual mutilation of both sexes is the greatest crime against humanity.
Committed without the intention of harming and within collective madness,
it is not reprehensible.
But it is, first, rape aggravated by the use of a sharp instrument,
then, discriminatory mutilation, and, finally, barbarous torture.
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Some human beings touched by the wings of genius altogether creator and destructor,, imprint on history their lasting mark and assume a mythical dimension, Thus the small Corsican corporal Buonaparte, who became Napoleon through the strength of his spirit and of his powerful hold on men and events, left behind the recently ennobled provincial Napoleone to become Emperor of the French people.
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“As musicians, we cannot be silent. Today it is essential that we stand with Palestine.” More than 600 internationally-renowned music artists - including Roger Waters, Patti Smith, Cypress Hill, Keny Arkana, Asian dub foundation, Titi Robin, Serj Tonkian, Mouss and Hakim – are calling for support for the “Palestinian people and their human right to sovereignty and freedom.”
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The G7 is prolonging the pandemic. The Summit for Vaccine Internationalism is organizing to end it.
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“Frontex cannot be reformed, it must be abolished”. In this open letter, a large number of international organisations, which have joined together in a campaign #AbolishFrontex, demand that the European border and coast guard agency be disbanded, and for an end to the violence of which Frontex is the spearhead. “We don't want to see more lives lost at sea or in the desert; lives wasted in detention or in inhumane refugee camps. We oppose a world increasingly divided by fortified borders to protect the wealth of the rich from the desperation and righteous anger of the poor and oppressed,” they write.
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Just after 6pm French time on Wednesday May 26th there was a technical incident on the Mediapart website and app that made it impossible to access content, and which caused problems for subscribers trying to log in. Here is an update on the situation today.
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Two relatively recent shows available on Netflix express the general way in which Romania and its citizens are often portrayed in Western media : an Orientalizing construction that mirrors and justifies the internal hierarchies and unequal relations on which the EU construction necessarily rests. By Florin Poenaru, anthropologist, who works on issues of class and post-communism.
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Under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, science in Brazil is under attack with multiple budget cuts that threaten research and the instrumentalization of science for electoral purposes, say more than 200 researchers and academics from around the world in this open letter of support for their Brazilian colleagues. By attacking science, they write, Bolsonaro not only hurts the scientific community, but all of Brazilian society.
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The DRC is ready with Fautin Luanga for the post of Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Botswana plays the trouble maker with Elias Magosi. Former Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Presidency of Botswana, the "highest paid civil servant", revealed Botswana Guardian. Bombarded as Itinerant Ambassador, will Elias Magosi master diplomacy?
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Most sex workers are trying to feed their families and avoid homelessness. New York city’s preferred solution, counselling sessions, didn’t help them, and New York Police Department’s “crackdown” conveniently resulted in very few white people being arrested, writes Stephen Engelberg, editor-in-chief of US investigative website ProPublica.
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After ignoring signs that shelters were filling quickly, agencies are scrambling to get thousands of kids out of Border Patrol jails. But new “emergency” facilities skirt safety standards, while facilities accused of abuse are still getting grants. US investigative newsroom ProPublica reports.
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Our coalition, representing people from diverse cultures, unanimously opposes this policy whose foundations are Islamophobia, racism, and colonial mindset steered by Far-right groups & politicians, and xenophobic French media.
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Since the military coup on Feb 1st, hundreds of thousands of people have taken the streets to express their anger at the electoral steal and their wish of a federal democracy governed by civilians. These pictures are the fieldwork of recent graduates in journalism who are now covering the protests from all around the country. In the twelfth series, the battle of Yangon & tears in Lashio.
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Opening of the multilingual version - Understand. Reflect. To act - #Lobbies should not buy science - Unity is strength - Join us to request access to contracts with #BigPharma
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As it does in the month of March of every year, Mediapart has now published all its latest annual accounts. This exercise in transparency, unique among French media, is also an opportunity to present how our online journal operates, in the service of public interest.
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Since the military coup on Feb 1st, hundreds of thousands of people have taken the streets to express their anger at the electoral steal and their wish of a federal democracy governed by civilians. These pictures are the fieldwork of recent graduates in journalism who are now covering the protests from all around the country. In the eleventh series, back to Yangon & Monywa.
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Border policing in the EU is a high-tech affair where people count much less than numbers. In the course of this, the political economy of mobility, especially along the so-called “Balkan route,” has become a veritable black box. In this BLACK BOX EAST interview with Magdalena Taube and Krystian Woznicki, the criminologist and human rights lawyer Sanja Milivojevic tries to shed light on this.
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Often associated with the middle class, psychoanalysis is a means of reflecting on human suffering that should be accessible to all, writes Jess Cotton in a review of two recently published books that explore the subject.
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In this blog about animal rights issues and biodiversity, a group of Lille University master's students present a range of reports from the French media concerning the debates surrounding animal welfare and conservation. English versions of the articles, complete with glossaries and notes, provide an insight into how the French media are treating a range of controversial topics.
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Our colleague, comrade and friend Manuel Jardinaud died on Tuesday March 9th following a heart attack at the age of 49. He had joined Mediapart four years ago, in April 2017, and he became an indispensable member of our editorial team.
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Our organizations, some of which bring together a large number of people of Muslim faith and culture, make the bitter observation that once again Islamophobia is mobilized at the highest level of the State with the bill "against separatism", a law which in fact is precisely a separatist and racist law. Let's demonstrate everywhere in France on Sunday, March 21, 2021!
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Vincent Bolloré, his group Bolloré and its subsidiary SA Bolloré Africa Logistics have finally lost the legal action for defamation they had launched against Mediapart. In a ruling on Wednesday, the Versailles appeal court found in favour of Mediapart and journalist Fanny Pigeaud whose report was the target of the complaint, underlining that her investigation was conducted in ‘good faith’, notably because of its solid factual base.
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British diplomat Jonathan Powell, an international expert in conflict resolution, speaks out about the case of Josu Urrutikoetxea, a major contributor to the end of the conflict in the Basque Country, just a few days before his trial.
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Since the military coup on Feb 1st, hundreds of thousands of people have taken the streets to express their anger at the electoral steal and their wish of a federal democracy governed by civilians. These pictures are the fieldwork of recent graduates in journalism who are now covering the protests from all around the country. In the fourth series, Monywa region & back to Yangon.
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A key House subcommittee cited reports by US investigative newsroom ProPublica and other news outlets in launching an investigation into how the country’s meatpacking companies handled the pandemic, which has killed hundreds of workers to date.
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Attention-seeking Spanish media attack musician Leiva over an interview that took place months ago, as he claimed he didn’t want to be a coronavirus vaccine “guinea pig”, writes Alessio Colonnelli, translator and commentator on European political and social affairs.
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We’ll have to wait to find out whether Joe Biden’s domestic agenda will actually reflect the surprisingly progressive noises he’s been making since his swearing in. But the exultant days and weeks surrounding Barack Obama’s inauguration offer a cautionary tale, writes Luke Savage in US online and print magazine Jacobin.
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Almost a year into the pandemic, supply shortages remain so severe that nurse Kristen Cline reuses her mask for several shifts while her hospital buckles, patients suffer and folks nearby socialize maskless as if the pandemic were already over, reports US investigative newsroom ProPublica.
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I want to be respected by the mainstream media who do not raise awareness about our marches nor our fraternal approaches.
I want to be respected by all these institutions trying to divide us.
I want to be respected by the cartoonists who tirelessly kick the same people when they are already down. By Saïd EL Boundati.
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The process that began on October 15th 2019 with the placing of Mediapart’s capital within the Fonds pour une presse libre (the ‘Fund for a Free Press’) was completed on December 17th 2020 with the adoption of our new statutes and the appointment of a new supervisory board.
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Designed to accelerate capitalism, logistics is key to maintaining the Western phantasm that ‘capitalism is an intelligent computer’ and to concealing the labor of those whose hands sustain its ‘operating system.’ In this SILENT WORKS interview Magdalena Taube and Krystian Woznicki talk to scholar-activist Evelina Gambino about how logistical landscapes are becoming the sites of labor struggles.
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US states with fewer restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus are attracting shoppers and students from stricter neighbours — and sending back Covid-19 cases. The imbalance underscores the lack of a national policy, reports US investigative newsroom ProPublica.
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Which side are you on boys?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on boys?
Which side are you on?
Song recorded by American folk singer and activist Peter Seeger.
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Parasitising universities and institutions, the Confucius Institute (CI) is a threat to academic freedom, not to mention its role as a propaganda machine. It is not just an innocent place for learning Chinese, but an attempt to establish itself as the sole authority on Chinese studies.
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About the Sword of Old Le Pen, the "Strange Cocktail of Dad's Big Girl", the Young Marion "Maréchal Pétain, Here we Are" and finally the Abominable Islamic Boomerang!
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The president of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has appointed two of his cronies as vice-presidents. One of them allegedly being a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member, they will undermine academic freedom in Hong Kong.
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This month, Mediapart English celebrates its tenth anniversary. It is an opportune occasion to remind our readers of how we work and how to navigate our pages and their rich archives containing more than 2,000 feature articles spanning a decade of reporting and landmark investigations.
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In order to renew its subscriptions to Mediapart, the United States of America’s embassy in France has asked us to certify that we use no equipment provided by Chinese companies. In response, we have sent the embassy a firm and detailed refusal of their request.
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Given their subtle bonds to their ancestral country and their struggles in their "host" country, overseas Chinese are vulnerable targets and can easily fall victims to the CCP nationalist propaganda machine.
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Nobel Peace or Literature Prize winners, experts in conflict resolution, stateswomen and statesmen, parliamentarians, magistrates, intellectuals and artists from all over the world are uniting to call on France for the protection and security of Josu Urrutikoetxea and all peace negotiators.
File photo © AFP 
A police officer patrolling Gosier beach on Guadalupe, March 20th 2020 © Cedrick Isham CALVADOS / AFP