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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A fairy tale in the most Biblical sense.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
In Herat, north-west Afghanistan, several refugees were injured as they implored the Taliban for humanitarian aid.. © Rachida El Azzouzi/Mediapart 
The Bataclan theatre, November 13th 2021, where flowers were laid in tribute to the victims the terrorist attacks. © Aurore Thibault / Hans Lucas via AFP 
Far-right presidential candidate Éric Zemmour. © Samuel Boivin / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP 
Paolo Vineis. © Chaine YouTube The Climate group 
Christiane Taubira announcing her election bid in Lyon, January 15th 2022. © Jean-Philippe Ksiazek / AFP 
A primary school class in Vouillé, close to Poitiers, north-west France, January 5th 2022. © Photo Jean-Francois Fort/Hans Lucas via AFP 
One association in south-east France offers equine therapy to women victims of violence. © DR / Femmes répit 
A sticker on a lamppost saying no to the Covid-19 vaccine, at Montreuil in the Paris suburbs. © NB. 
Patrol by French soldiers in the streets of Gao, in Mali, December 4th 2021. © Thomas Coex/AFP 
Emmanuel Macron at a meeting of the Defence Council to discuss the pandemic, December 27th 2021. © Nicolas Tucat/Pool/AFP 
On the ferry across the Rhine, between France and Germany. © Pascal Bastien pour Mediapart 
Emmanuel Macron during his televised New Year's message on December 31st 2021, the last of his presidency. © Martin Bureau/AFP 
Jean-Luc Godard, November 30th 2010 in Zurich. © Photo Fabrice Coffrini / AFP 
A patient with breathing difficulties in intensive care at the Hôpital Nord in Marseille, February 2021. © Nicolas Tucat/AFP 
Inside Tricastin’s N°1 reactor building (June 27th 2019). © Philippe Desmazes/AFP