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Nancy Pelosi’s war of words with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't about clashing personalities. It's about Democratic elites trying to undercut AOC's bold, left agenda, Miles Kampf-Lassin writes.
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Natural gas companies have cut down forests and paved over farms on West Virginia private lands, calling it “reasonably necessary” to access subsurface gas they own the rights to. A new documentary by US investigative news site ProPublica chronicles the legal battles.
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The idea of appealing to the European Parliament not to bow down before the European Council came about after the spontaneous and similar reaction of friends from several Member States on the morning of July 3. The top candidates were discarded and the person being considered for the presidency of the Commission was not even one of them. This ‘coup’ tells voters: you voted for nothing.
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Among the mainstream French press, Mediapart is now the only news site that offers a participative role to its readers. All our subscribers can freely comment on articles and contribute to content via their blogs, which is not the case elsewhere.
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A United Airlines flight heading from New York to Houston made an emergency landing and blew out two tires at New Jersey's Airport on Saturday. Inflatable slides were used to deplane passengers on the runway. No major injuries were reported.
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Interesting events are taking place now in Georgia, one of those countries where, along with Ukraine and Moldova, the interests of the West and Russia collide.
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Some California county jails saw their rate of inmate-on-inmate homicides triple or quadruple, and statewide the number rose 46% after 2011 prison reforms shifted responsibility from state prisons to county lockups, and as sheriffs and jail staff strain, some inmate crimes go undetected for hours, reports a joint investigation by US site ProPublica and Californian daily The Sacramento Bee.
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During a briefing on 31st May, French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian expressed support for Ukraine’s initiatives on the way to ending the armed conflict and restoring peace in the Donbass.
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A new law is scheduled to take away the independence of the Hungarian Academy of scientists. The aim is to get further EU money into the government's and its friends' hands.
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A statement co-written by colleagues of Arnaud Dubus from the Thai branch of the "Union de la presse francophone". Our small community has lost one of its pillars, undermined by the precariousness of the profession. All of his colleagues and friends share his family's sorrow and hope that his invaluable contribution to journalism in Southeast Asia will not be forgotten.
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As voters elect a new European Parliament, the Left is split between multiple "unity projects", and none of them have a clear idea how to transform the EU, writes Loren Balhorn.
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An interview with human geographer Anja Kanngieser about her research on the populations and environments of Pacific islands such as Nauru that will be wiped out by sea-level rise resulting from climate change.
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The armed conflict in the Donbass is approaching the duration of the Second World War. The stalled confrontation has exhausted the economy of Ukraine, being one of the factors of the crisis.
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From being the largest country in Europe, all that will remain of Ukraine will be its central regions, argues Kate Matberg. Within five years, that remaining part could well become a fully-fledged member of NATO.
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For Palestinians, it’s vital that governments and companies that support Israel’s settlements, theft of our land and attacks on us end their complicity. On April 24th AXA will hold its Annual General Assembly meeting in Paris. If I could attend, I would ask AXA a very simple question: Does AXA consider Palestinians human beings? asks Manal Tamimi, Palestinian activist and human rights defender.
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2018 might have been the year that convinced US workers that the strike holds the power needed to move today’s corporate giants and austerity-obsessed governments.
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What happens to Muslims is not the business of only Muslims. Just as many non-Muslims oppose atrocities committed against Muslims in Palestine, Myanmar and China, we oppose the threat of brutality against Muslims in Brunei. Should we care about Muslims only when they are wronged by non-Muslims?
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Chicago socialists cleaned house in municipal elections, winning as many as six socialist city council members. The city's left has a historic opportunity to push back years of gentrification, police brutality, and austerity.
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A photo of Australian football player Tayla Harris taking a powerful kick, published by Channel Seven on Facebook, contained everything to define beauty with her mesmerising athleticism, writes Alessio Colonnelli, but the first degrading comments were posted almost immediately, soon followed by thousands of cowards of the net.
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As the devastating and continuing civil war in Yemen reaches its fourth anniversary this month, wreaking a huge humanitarian crisis of famine, disease and widespread destruction that has forced the displacement of several million people, a group of more than 100 organisations launch this appeal to the international community to immediately halt arms sales to the belligerents, and for the latter to end their military engagement and to strive for a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
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After months of frenzied speculation and breathless commentary, Robert Mueller has turned in his report. But the political landscape some said it would upend is basically unchanged, Corey Robin writes.
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Every year in March, Mediapart presents its accounts in public. In 2018, your online journal continued to register strong growth, with subscriber numbers now totalling more than 150,000. Meanwhile, its operating income represented more than 18% of turnover, and net profits were almost 2 million euros. All of which is detailed here.
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A blog post by a Mediapart subscriber has been used by Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro in an attempt to discredit investigations by the Brazilian press into allegations of corruption within his entourage. Amid the growing controversy, and to clearly explain our position, Mediapart’s editorial team detail here why we entirely support those investigations by Brazilian journalists, and why we disassociate ourselves from a blog post which was full of falsehoods.
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The worrying thing about the Eurozone is not the possibility of a new financial crisis, but the prolonged stagnation in all the dynamic indicators of the economy, writes Dimitris Papadimoulis, vice-president of the European Parliament.
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The outbreaks of infectious disease epidemics started to occur in the country after American biolaboratories got a green light to operate on the territory of Ukraine.
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The Trump administration has continued pursuing a proposed nuclear power deal with Saudi Arabia despite warnings from ethics lawyers and security experts, according to a congressional oversight committee, confirming previous reports by US investigative website ProPublica.
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Digital journalism has sparked controversy between progressive and traditional media and journalists. The debate on whether digital journalism is a danger to traditional media is complex and never-ending. Digital journalism reminds us of two main principles of journalism: empowerment and completeness/verification. This new media presents positive and negative consequences for traditional media.
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On the eve of the Holocaust Remembrance Day, it must be recalled that the extreme nationalist sentiments of post-Maidan Ukraine go down in history during the World War II.
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Amid the deep political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, a group of 120 people including academics, writers, lawyers, and journalists from Latin America, North America and Europe denounce here the ‘authoritarianism and repression of the Maduro Government’, reject the 'self-proclamation of Juan Guaidó and the creation of a parallel State’ and also “US interventionism”. In this international appeal, they launch a petition in support of a process of dialogue by which the Venezuelan people may decide ‘democratically and from below’ their sovereign future.
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Join Berliner Gazette’s 20th anniversary initiative on communal tools for planetary challenges! #climate change #migration #digitalization
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Many state schools in the United Kingdom are faith schools. These openly select their pupils based on the religious practice of the pupils and their parents. It is a system where a detailed account of how many times you attend a religious service, or the exact age at which your child was baptised determines whether you will manage to get a place in the school of your choice.
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Ironically, it is the Democratic Party in Moldova that is engaged in the destruction of democracy.
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In December 2018, the uprising against Omar Al Bashir's islamist military dictatorship started again; a number of collective organizations are calling for everyone to join in solidarity with the Sudanese people and for mobilisation against the suppression of the demonstrators, against the dictatorial regime and for a genuine national liberation.
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Claas Relotius was a prize-winning journalist for German magazine Der Spiegel, described by colleagues as amazingly talented, and on December 3rd he won, yet again, Germany’s Journalist of the Year award. By Monday December 17th, just a fortnight later, Relotius had to kiss goodbye to his career for fake reporting. Italian translator and European affairs commentator Alessio Colonnelli argues here why the debacle has nevertheless not dented his faith in Der Spiegel.
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Krystian Woznicki, a critic and the co-founder of Berliner Gazette, questions The Politics of Artificial Artificial Intelligence: « There is a lot about AI in general and there is also a lot about logistics in general, but there is hardly any literature about the intersection that I am proposing to call Logistical AI. So, out of urgent necessity, we need to be sort of inventing a critical discourse on Logistical AI. »
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This is a transcript of a conversation between artist Heecheon Kim and curator and director of the Han Nefkens Foundation, Hilde Teerlinck, during their visit to the Gwangju Biennale. The Han Nefkens Foundation produced the video Every Smooth Thing Through Mesher which was shown at the Gwangju Biennale 2018.
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A former employee of Moldova's Foreign Ministry, expert and political scientist, Andrei Burachev, examines the current situation in Moldova.
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The leaders of the Dignity and Truth Party (DA) and the Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) Andrei Nastase and Maia Sandu can be held criminally responsible for cooperating with the Open Dialogue Foundation if it turns out that they “knew they were acting against Moldova’s interests".
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For the past few weeks, a caravan of about 4,000 immigrants, mostly Hondurans, fleeing their country have been making their way up Central America until they reach the United States. The goal is to leave the countries in which they do not feel safe anymore, where they see no sign of future or hope, to join the country of freedom that has been known as a "melting pot".
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By Marcos Colón, Teaching Assistant (TA) at Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Graduate Associate at Center for Culture, History and Environment (CHE) of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; he is also the director and producer of Beyond Fordlândia: An Environmental Account of Henry Ford’s Adventure in the Amazon.
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When in 2016 Michael Caine said he was all for Britain coming out of the EU, I hoped he was just joking. The 85-year-old actor from Camberwell with a penchant for European directors could rebalance the scales with great Euro-stories – but alas no, writes Italian translator and European affairs commentator Alessio Colonnelli.
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A massive majority of those who voted in the referendum in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia backed the Prespa Agreement. This paves the way for the country to change its name to the Republic of North Macedonia and for membership of NATO and, eventually, the EU.
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On Friday September 14th, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz went just across the Italian border for an official trip that was hardly tracked by the media outside Vienna. On the same day, Italy’s interior minister travelled to Vienna, and you just could not escape the news: Matteo Salvini and his Austrian ideological ally, far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) chairman Heinz-Christian Strache drowned themselves in selfies, all duly posted, writes European affairs commentator Alessio Colonnelli.
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Internal documents reveal despair and tedium in one of the United States’s largest shelter networks for unaccompanied minors. Melissa Sanchez, Duaa Eldeib and Jodi S. Cohen report for ProPublica.
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The Chagossians are a people who were forcibly removed by Britain from their Indian Ocean homes in the Chagos Islands between 1968 and 1973 in order to provide the United States with an airbase on the island of Diego Garcia. Five decades on, they continue to fight for their right to return to their homeland, and their case will be heard by the International Court of Justice of the United Nations beginning on Monday, September 3rd. This is a solemn appeal to to eight American film directors to help the Chagossians find justice at last.
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A year on, ProPublica's reporter A.C. Thompson says the violence at the white nationalist rally in Virginia in August 2017 did not shock him - but the inaction in the face of it did.
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US investigative website ProPublica obtained police reports and call logs from more than two-thirds of the US shelters housing immigrant children. Here’s what they show.
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Al Jazeera English's chief political analyst, Marwan Bishara, tells here the story of a group of young Palestinians who came to Paris to attend the football World Cup in 1998. "I think about these young men and those glorious days whenever there’s a World Cup," he writes, "and I bet, like me, they wish Croatia luck but are rooting for Les Bleus on Sunday."
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The truth needs help and that's why Mediapart needs you. Now, more than ever, lies are all around us, serving the vested interests of political and economic powers. Over ten years there have been countless issues of public interest that would never have emerged without our investigative work. For this work to continue, in total independence, we've just one means of support: your subscription.
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Earlier this year Mediapart presented its turnover, accounts and financial results at a press conference. This springtime exercise in transparency, which is something of an exception in the media, was also an opportunity to take stock of Mediapart's first decade - before going on to invent the next one.
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West Africa researcher for Amnesty International, Gaëtan Mootoo committed suicide on May 25th. His death is a huge loss for the cause of the defence of human rights. Without his extensive work, numerous state crimes, abuses and injustices would never have been revealed. This is a homage to a man of rare elegance who was one of the just, who was a friend and whose funeral will be held at 1.30pm on Monday at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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In September 2014, 43 Ayotzinapa students were kidnapped in Iguala. Up to now investigations led by local police haven't been able to find out where the students were taken and what happened to them. Investigating Guerrero Unidos drug trafficking in Chicago, US officials wiretapped conversations about this plot. They appear to shed new light on the killings.
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“Israel must withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council and persuade the United States to adopt a similar move,” according to the Defense Minister Avigdor Libermann
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Drug trade organizations operate fairly openly and with freedom of movement and operations, with tactics that include roadblocks, the takeover of towns, and bottling up local military units and security forces. In many cases they operate with near total impunity in the face of compromised local security forces.
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In a special article for US investigative website ProPublica, Kiera Feldman of Voice of America tells the story of how an immigrant from Guinea met a terrible end in the Bronx in New York.
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A candidate in a special election campaign in Arizona targeted ads at people across the country who “liked” the pages of liberal icons. Jeremy B. Merrill of US investigative website ProPublica reports.
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Canadian-Armenian actress Arsinee Khanjian has written an open letter to current Prime Minister of Armenia, Serzh Sarkisian, published by MassisPost...
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The Trump administration encouraged prosecutors to seek felony charges against those who re-enter the US after being deported. US investigative website ProPublica recounts the case of a Bucks County gardener, who government employees felt half-hearted about turning from an immigrant into a criminal.
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While the EU finds itself embroiled in one scandal after another involving collusion with some of the most harmful lobbies from glyphosate to neonicotinoids, the Canard Enchaîné exposes a new example of collusion between the Commission and the tobacco industry in its March 28, 2018 issue.
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Relying primarily on the word of a Christian union representative, the traditionally Catholic newspaper La Croix reports on the unity of the major Abrahamic religions in France with regard to the ethics of end of life issues, and how this show of thoughtful solidarity has apparently impressed the French government's social advisory body.
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The top US federal law enforcement agency, the FBI, is overwhelmingly made up of white staff, a fact which one of its top officials told US investigative website ProPublica is “a huge operational risk”, and which in the words of a former director had created a “crisis”.
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Writing in France Soir, Parisian barrister Thierry Vallat explains the current state of play regarding France's "opt out" organ donation law.
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There will be debates, films, shows, a chance to meet people, exhibitions, a thousand surprises and a public dance open to all; Mediapart's entire team invite you to come and celebrate our tenth anniversary over two days, March 16th and 17th, at the Centquatre arts and cultural centre in Paris. By Mediapart's publishing editor Edwy Plenel.
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In this blog about bioethics in France, a group of Lille University master's students present a range of reports from the French media concerning the debates surrounding the ongoing national consultation process on the subject. Their English versions of the articles, complete with glossaries and notes, provide an insight into how the French press is treating a variety of controversial topics.
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A senior official with the Red Cross in America harassed a subordinate and was accused of raping another, yet the charity’s now-general counsel praised him on his way to a new for his “leadership” and “dedication”, recounts US investigative site ProPublica in a report illustrating the unsettling way many employers dealt with such allegations against ranking male executives.
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If you have a thyroid problem, better not to live in France. Last year angry patients hauled the French health authorities over the coals after enduring months of sickness from a new version of their sole treatment. So the government promised a choice of drugs. Yet three months later, those drugs are very hard to find. Not fun if your health depends on taking the right pill every day.
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Call for solidarity with the children of the Rif after the abuses they suffered at the hands of the Moroccan police. Roughly a hundred children were victim of arrests, threats, insults and beatings because of their participation in peaceful marches asking for the release of the political prisoners of the Rif.
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Caucus spaces have often been critiqued in France, but when used by marginalised people in society and groups, they can be crucial tools for political change - addressing issues that the mainstream world is not dealing with - by and for the people most impacted by those very issues. A chosen space of exclusivity over a de-facto exclusivity that oppresses people.
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Producer of the investigative work on wartime sexual violence 'Zero Impunity', I was the guest of the production company Zentropa created by Lars Van Trier and Peter Aalbaek Jensen. I witnessed a corporate culture glorifying sexual harassment and the denial of free speech for the victims. I called out those responsible for this and shared my indignation with them. I and ten other producers have decided to write an account in support of the victims of harassment at Zentropa but also victims across the entire cinema industry.
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False reporting of rape is a crime, one that some police would like to make a priority, but history shows the police can’t always tell the truth from a lie, finds US investigative site ProPublica in this report on the ordeal of some victims and the campaigns to change the approach of police.
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More than 185 academics, politicians, intellectuals and members of the European Parliament have signed an open letter to EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk expressing concern about the manner in which the Spanish government has behaved in relation to Catalonia and the EU's reaction to it.
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Hurricanes Irma and Maria slammed the Virgin Islands within days of each other, leaving almost everyone without power, internet or phones. Still, The Virgin Islands Daily News pressed on. ProPublica's Jessica Huseman reports.
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The changes follow the launch of a crowdsourcing effort earlier this month by US news and investigative website ProPublica to collect political advertising from Facebook. ProPublica's Julia Angwin reports.
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The recent devastating monster storms that were Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma also whipped up a number of falsehoods. US news and investigative website ProPublica talked with Jane Lytvynenko, a reporter with weathered experience of trying to hold on to the facts.
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In the spring of this year Mediapart was the subject of a case study by one of the departments at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. This is the background to an unexpected tribute which comes at a time when the model of 'free' news publishing is more than ever shown to be a dead end for the independence of journalism.
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French journalist Loup Bureau was arrested on the Turkey-Iraq border on July 26th and then arbitrarily detained and placed under investigation for “participating in a terrorist group”. In this joint statement by the Société des Journalistes (journalist ethics watchdog committees) from 13 French media organizations, including Mediapart, we demand his immediate release.
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The first results in a US-wide effort to better measure the levels of contaminants released through the burning of munitions and their waste show elevated levels of lead, arsenic and other toxins. Abrahm Lustgarten of US investigative website ProPublica reports.
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Internal talking points from Donald Trump’s spy chief reveal tensions between Trump and the intelligence community, reports US investigative website ProPublica.
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Since its inception, three years ago, Festival Ciné-Palestine (FCP) has lived up to its ambition of being a hub for promoting and disseminating Palestinian cinema in its richness and diversity. Breaking down barriers, FCP has turned itself into a true rallying point for an increasing number of artists, allowing Palestinian artists from all around the world to meet in Paris.FCP2017
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Jonathan Buchsbaum has published "Exception Taken: How France Has Defied Hollywood's New World Order", a book on the French cultural exception which shows that one can resist the steam-roller of the American industry. It is particularly timely when the Trans Atlantic Free Trade Pact is still a threat.
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A new federal survey on hate crimes in the United States offers cause for both alarm and confusion, reports US investigative website ProPublica.
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Donald Trump’s supporters crowed when leaked pages of his 2005 return showed he paid a hefty amount of taxes. But the returns for the following years, which remain secret, likely include some hefty refunds of that payment, reports US website ProPublica in this investigation co-published with The Washington Post.
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In early June of 1967, at the onset of the Six Day War, the Pentagon sent the USS Liberty from Spain into international waters off the coast of Gaza to monitor the progress of Israel’s attack on the Arab states. The Liberty was a lightly armed surveillance ship.
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Texas is scheduled to release Genene Jones, a former nurse and suspected serial killer of children, early next year. Now, prosecutors in San Antonio have moved to prevent her release, bringing a new murder charge against Jones in connection with the death of a child 35 years ago. US investigative website ProPublica reports on the chilling and disturbing tale of the woman dubbed 'the Angel of Death'.
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Cloudflare, a prominent San Francisco outfit, provides services to neo-Nazi sites like The Daily Stormer, including giving them personal information on people who complain about their content, reveals US investigative website ProPublica.
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My name is Lya and I’m a 21 year-old student from French Guiana (currently living in Toulouse, France). You’re probably not aware of the current situation in French Guiana and you might not care at all but whatever. It needs to be said.
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A US government investigation found that Jim Renne, appointed to the Trump “landing team” at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, now hired in a senior role at the Department of Agriculture, was a key player in a scandal in which staff were targeted on the basis of sexual orientation, details US investigative website, ProPublica.
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Amnesty International France and Human Rights Watch have launched a call for the defence and protection of human rights and freedoms which are currently under attack in France, but also around the world, from political propositions based on fear, intolerance, and stigmatization.
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Mediapart was launched on March 16th 2008, and on the occasion of each yearly anniversary it makes public all the details of its finances, in the form of a press conference and a presentation to its readers. In 2016, the total number of subscribers to your online journal exceeded 130,000, when its turnover rose by almost 10% and net earnings represented more than 16% of turnover, while the number of permanent staff climbed to 74.
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A new group of so called "border-hunters" have taken their oaths this week. Meanwhile several articles in the international media have recently dealt with a complaint confirmed by several human rights organisations about the Hungarian border-guards and police resorting to violence when dealing with refugees at the border.
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Being free to talk about mental health. I’ve hummed and hawed about making this post but finally I made the decision to write it.
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Writing in Le Monde just before Christmas, French constitutional law expert, Didier Maus, explained the controversial ruling of the country’s top administrative court permitting the installation of Christian nativity scenes on the premises of ‘secular’ public institutions.
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In this blog on the theme of French secularism, or laïcité, a group of Lille University masters students present a range of reports from the French media about issues related to the Republic's separation of religion from the state. Their English versions of the articles, complete with glossaries and notes, provide an insight into how the French press is treating this controversial subject.
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Hungarian opposition party (Együtt) organised a "whistle concert" to express their dislike of Orban's government's close friendship (comradery, really) with the Russian president. A demonstration was organised but the police fenced off nearly half of the downtown 5th district where the Houses of Parliament and many government buildings are located. Photos to follow this evening.
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The top science panel in the United States has just sketched a clearer way to set a fair price today for cutting tomorrow’s climate risks. But as Andrew Revkin of US investigative website ProPublica says, some of Donald Trump’s advisers say the price should be zero.
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As Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr. and Surya Mattu report for US investigative website ProPublica, the social media site shows users how it categorizes them. But Facebook doesn’t reveal the data it is buying about their offline lives.
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Donald Trump’s election win is bad news for the Paris Agreement and very bad news for the climate. Here's a piece by Maxime Combes & Edouard Morena initially published in Jacobin.
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US investigative website ProPublica talks to Chip Berlet, who has spent the past four decades studying right-wing political movements as a writer, activist and scholar, about the forces behind President-elect Donald Trump’s ascendance.
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Veteran US civil rights activist, feminist, academic and writer Angela Davis, a prominent communist militant in the 1960s associated with the Black Panther movement, talks here to Mediapart about the election of Donald Trump, the presidency of Barack Obama, and why she believes France’s secular principles have become “a weapon against Muslims”.
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Journalist Masha Gessen, who has spent years reporting on Vladimir Putin’s rule in Russia, talks to US investigative website ProPublica about how her colleagues in the industry should be covering President-elect Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump’s victory marks the end of an era when a self-confident Establishment preached the end of history, the end of passion and the supremacy of a technocracy working on behalf of the 1%, writes former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. But the era it ushers in, he argues, is not new but a variant of the 1930s, featuring deflationary economics, xenophobia and divide-and-rule politics.
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Wow! What a powerful film 'I Daniel Blake' is. Sitting in the cinema and climbing into Daniel’s world for 100 minutes is painful. Somehow Ken Loach is able to transport you into the shoes of principal characters Daniel and Katie and as a result, with each passing scene your anger and empathy rise to great heights. It’s exhausting!
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“In black America, the Obama presidency and the backlash it provoked have rekindled a spirit of resistance not seen since the era of Black Power, both in politics, with the rise of Black Lives Matter, and in culture,” writes Adam Shatz, a New York-based contributing editor of the London Review of Books and a scholar in residence at the New York Institute for the Humanities.
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American officials say the investigation of the assaults on Paris and Brussels has led them to a shadowy Moroccan militant who was raised in Southern France and now lives in Syria. Sebastian Rotella reports for US investigative website ProPublica.
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Passport control in US airports used to be a no man’s land politically. No longer so. I recently noticed small changes put into place, changes I wouldn’t have picked up on had Fox News not been staring me right in the face.
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UK government minister's statement casts doubt on EU immigration promises made during referendum.
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The recent series of terror attacks in France and Belgium lay bare an array of security shortcomings, most of which remain unaddressed. In a forthcoming documentary, investigative news site ProPublica and investigative TV documentary makers Frontline examine what went wrong and why it is so hard for Europe to protect itself from the growing threat.
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The former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis lays out plans by DiEM25 – the Democracy in Europe Movement - for resisting from within the European Union.
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Amazon bills itself as “Earth’s most customer-centric company”, but this report by US investigative website ProPublica found that its algorithm is hiding the best deal from many customers.
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British volunteer Lena Anayi has spent time teaching French to migrants at the so-called 'Jungle' in Calais. Here she recounts her experiences and explains why she wants the plight of the migrants to stay high on the news agenda.
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Just when you think you are getting to grips with the language something as basic as the difference between 'to be' and 'to have' knocks you off your perch.
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Several mayors of French seaside towns have slapped a ban on the wearing of burkinis, the Islamic full-body swimsuit, on local beaches, citing a supposed threat to public order and even hygiene. Mediapart editor-in-chief Edwy Plenel argues here that the ban is an outrageous stigmatisation of French Muslims in a society that is losing sight of the fundamental rights of citizens.
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Dear 48%,
I was delighted to see you take to the streets on Saturday, but puzzled by some things you said.
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If elected president, Donald Trump has promised to “open up” libel laws so he can sue news organizations like they’ve “never got sued before.” While the First Amendment is still intact, US investigative website ProPublica compiled a list of some articles he might have his eye on.
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Clinton has been in the public eye for four decades - and there have been investigative stories about her for nearly as long. US investigative website ProPublica presents a chronological guide to them.
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After Britain voted for Brexit European political leaders have been saying that they regret but respect the decision. I don't. That is, I accept the democratic verdict of the British people, of whom I am part, but I don't find anything to respect in there. Particularly as people like me were excluded from voting.
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The UK really is divided in two for this landmark vote and it looks as though the outcome will be a nail biting finish as it is ridiculously too close to call. Around 3 weeks ago I’d have said that the vote lay slightly in favour of staying with the EU but now it appears that slightly more people want Brexit...
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Mediapart English, the English-language section of Mediapart, invites your blog contributions about whatever topic stirs you, concerning France or elsewhere in the world, which can be published here on our homepage Club column in a spirit of debate and exchange.
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Nowadays we believe that democracy is one person, one vote. But does nationality or place of residence confer the right to vote? Britain has got those criteria all mixed up in its referendum on membership of the European Union. Up to two million Britons living abroad are disenfranchised, but some non-Brits living in the UK are able to vote. It doesn't make sense.
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Published in French in 2014, my book about islamophobia in France is now avalaible in English, at Verso Books. Added to this English edition is a previously unpublished foreword and articles written after the Paris attacks of 2015.
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Lena Groeger of US investigative website ProPublica asks: What answers can we find by looking at data that appears in the real world as a byproduct of what has been “used up” or “worn down”? What can we tell from what’s left over?
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Ginger Thompson of US investigative website ProPublica writes: On the eve of the release of a report investigating a student massacre in 2014, its authors and other human rights advocates feared an attempt to pre-empt the findings and discredit the work.
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Firm helps CIA operatives and other characters — real or fanciful — from the world of espionage set up offshore companies to obscure their dealings
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Eric Umansky of US investigative website ProPublica writes: As the Panama Papers continue to embarrass leaders across continents, one thought has kept occurring to me: how the hell did the organizers pull it off? How did they make sense of so many documents? And, most importantly, how did they stay sane during it all? So I spoke with Marina Walker Guevara, who helped shepherd the project.
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Mediapart was launched eight years ago, on March 16th 2008. Here we present a few facts and figures about our development, beginning with an introduction from editor-in-chief Edwy Plenel on the construction of Mediapart’s independence.
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Coordinated bombings in Brussels may have been in the works for a long time, aided by an underworld where crime and extremism blur together, reports US investigative website ProPublica.
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Editor of technological news website Next INpact, Marc Rees, reports that France has requested a derogation from the UN's International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Having already temporarily opted out of the European Convention on Human Rights, Rees shows that the French state is therefore currently contravening all of the international human rights agreements it has helped to draft.
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The morning after the State of Emergency was imposed, French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve outlined its key aspects. This article from the website of national radio station France Info was one of the first to reveal details of the new security measures.
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Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who last September stepped down from his post in the radical-left Syriza government, has launched his Democracy in Europe movement, DiEM25. Its ambitious aim is a radical overhaul of Europe’s institutions and the introduction of absolute transparency in decision-making, to be completed by 2025. Mediapart publishes here the manifesto Varoufakis presented in Berlin on February 9th, a plan to “regain control over our Europe from unaccountable ‘technocrats’ and shadowy institutions”.
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In this blog on the theme of the French State of Emergency, a group of Lille University masters students present a range of reports from the French media about the security measures introduced in the wake of last year's terrorist attacks. Their English versions of the articles, complete with glossaries and notes, provide an insight into how the French press is treating this controversial subject.
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Gail McGovern, a former AT&T executive who had taught marketing at Harvard Business School, was hired as CEO of the American Red Cross in 2008 to revitalize the charity. Seven years on, it has cut hundreds of chapters and shed thousands of employees, reports US investigative website ProPublica.
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Some people make dieting resolutions in the New Year. I make security and privacy resolutions, because those are the things that keep me up at night, writes ProPublica reporter Julia Angwin in this account of how she upped her defences against hackers and spies.
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Last Friday, a solemn tribute was given to the 130 victims of the Paris attacks. French flags outside of windows and tweet #ProudofFrance. A national unity cleverly orchestrated from which it was difficult to escape without feeling vaguely guilty. But martial ripost instead of a global response and COP 21 hypocrisy - this is the system that needs to change.
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At Wembley Stadium, on Tuesday, 71,000 fans gathered to watch a France-England friendly and pay homage to the victims of last week’s attacks in Paris. The audience put on a brave face, chanting and jumping and waving their flags, but just four days on from an act of terror that claimed 130 lives, there was little joy to be had.
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After the Paris attacks of November 13th, a battle cry similar to that of Charlie Hebdo's pen has been relayed on internet quite widely. This letter is a proposition to go beyond the mere symbol and to question ourselves on our society.
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I was caught in a kind of crossfire after the Friday attacks in Paris: soothed by all the messages of compassion, solidarity and love for Paris, and disturbed by those who understood these messages as indicative of a partial attitude towards tragedies that unfold around the world.
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Three weeks ahead of the opening of COP21, French foreign minister Laurent Fabius hosts a Pre-COP meeting in Paris between November 8-10, a penultimate gathering of ministers from around one hundred countries. A meeting with civil society organisations was held on Sunday morning. Here is the statement delivered on behalf of Attac France, as a member of the international coalition Climate Justice Now.
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Clive Hamilton, Australian thinker and economist, is Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, a member of the Australian government's Climate Change Authority and the author of "Requiem for a species" and "Earthmasters: Playing God with the climate". Three weeks before the opening of the COP 21 climate conference in Paris, he raises here two major questions: "What will be the magnitude of the global carbon budget?" and "What is the proportion of total carbon budget allocated to each nation?"
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Yanis Varoufakis was a guest on Friday's special live and open access broadcast from Mediapart. The broadcast came five days after Greece's Parliamentary elections and Alexis Tsipras's former finance minister gave his verdict and observations on the outcome. Yanis Varoufakis also set out his vision of Europe and the profound reforms that need to be carried out in the eurozone to ensure that the single currency is no longer the instrument of a generalised policy of austerity in Europe. Listen to the broadcast (Varoufakis spoke in English with simultaneous French translation).
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For the Palestinian students demonstrating at the Beth El checkpoint at the entrance to Ramallah, the English writer John Berger proposes renaming Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 5, The Intifada. « They too are inspired by a vision of happiness they cannot know in their lives. I send the Concerto as an arm to be used in their struggle against the Israelis who occupy and colonize their homeland. »
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In the United States, debt collection lawsuits are far more common among black communities than white ones reveals this report by investigative website ProPublica in a first-of-its-kind analysis of the issue.
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Why we are convening an international summit on a plan B for Europe, open to willing citizens, organisations and intellectuals, by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Member of the European Parliament, co-founder of the Parti de Gauche (France), Stefano Fassina, Member of the Italian Parliament, former Italian deputy minister of economy and finance (Italy), Zoe Konstantopoulou, President of the Hellenic parliament (Greece), Oskar Lafontaine, former German minister of finance, founder of Die Linke (Germany) and Yanis Varoufakis, Member of the Greek Parliament, former Greek minister of finance (Greece).
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This morning it seems from media reports that the Hungarian police has given up trying to register the crowds of refugees coming through the broder with Serbia: "Have something to eat and drink, then go where you like " is what migrants arriving in Hungary are told now.
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This blog is both a cry of outrage and a plea: this is not the first time Europe has seen a tide of refugees, so let’s take the lessons from our recent past and stop greeting the terrible tragedy of today’s refugees with political and bureaucratic injustice.
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A hundred well-known figures have launched an appeal for a climate uprising, in the spirit of the social movements that put an end to the crimes of slavery, totalitarianism, colonialism and apartheid. Fossil fuels must be left in the ground, they should no longer be extracted and they should no longer be subsidised, say campaigners.
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More than 1.8 million Syrian refugees are now living in Turkey. Despite a long tradition of welcoming refugees, the infrastructure put in place at the start of the Syrian civil war can no longer cope with such a high number of refugees. Here, three Syrian families who settled in Istanbul recount their experiences, the precariousness of their situations, and their plans to reach Europe.
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Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis was the guest speaker at the yearly socialist ‘fête de la Rose’ gathering in Frangy-en-Bresse in Burgundy on August 23rd, invited by former French economy minister and anti-austerity campaigner Arnaud Montebourg. This is the text in full of Varoufakis’ revealing and insightful speech.
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The state’s cities need water, and its farmers have it. Could leasing rights to it solve the crisis responsibly, asks US investigative website ProPublica in this analysis article by Abrahm Lustgarten.
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Get involved, tell us your stories, pass on the news! Mediapart this year launched operation #OpenEurope in partnership with seven European and Tunisia media outlets plus a number of associations, collectives and NGOs. The aim: to make people more aware of the migrant tragedy and pass on details of how people all over Europe are doing something about it. For that, your participation is vital.
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New data on payments from drug and device companies to US doctors show that many of the latter received payments on 100 or more days last year. Some even received payments on more days than they didn’t, reports US investigative website ProPublica, in a series of investigations tracking the financial ties between doctors and medical companies.
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Researchers have raised alarms about unknown health risks of GE Healthcare’s Omniscan and Bayer’s Magnevist, drugs injected to get better MRI pictures that contain the heavy metal gadolinium. US investigative website ProPublica reports on the disturbing evidence.
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Inspired by a talk I had with two statisticians in the National Statistical Institute of Portugal, and against the background of the repeated critique by the US Department of the Treasury Office of International Affairs on German economic policy, I analysed the foreign trade between Germany and Portugal. The result clearly supports the argument of the US Treasury – and shows what European politics lacks most, writes Thorsten Hild, editor of the German online journal Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft – Analyse & Meinung.
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While Turkey gets ready for a crucial general election on June 7th, more than 40% of voters say they would not trust the results and are afraid of major electoral fraud. In this context, the recent vote by the Turkish parliament on 'internal security' legislation is not reassuring. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s plan allows for the legalisation of certain human rights violations. Here academic Ibrahim Kaboğlu, a prominent figure in Turkish society, reacts against this security policy that started in the wake of the Gezi Park demonstrations.
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A little-remembered incident helped establish the notion that news organizations could and should preserve their independence from advertisers, reports US investigative website ProPublica. As Wall Street Journal publisher Barney Kilgore told Time magazine: "For years almost everything in Detroit has been 'off the record.' We just decided not to play it that way. It isn't journalism."
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The latest flap over Hillary Clinton's private emails when secretary of state is far from the first time she’s been accused of lacking transparency.
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We the undersigned call on the governments of Europe, the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF to respect the decision of the Greek people to choose a new course and to engage the new government of Greece in good faith negotiations to resolve the Greek debt.
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Whether the death of crusading Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman is found to be a suicide or homicide, many Argentines probably won’t believe it. The past has taught them to always look for the sinister explanation.
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The Kurdish capital of Turkey, which has two millions inhabitants, faces a perilous time but is also full of hope. Since the start of the 20th century, the Kurds have been split between Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey, but today this population without a state is at the heart of the reconstruction of the Middle East.
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Dear friends, A horrid assault was perpetrated against the French weekly Charlie Hebdo, who had published caricatures of Mohamed, by men who screamed that they had “avenged the prophet”. A wave of compassion followed but apparently died shortly afterward and all sorts of criticism started pouring down the web against Charlie Hebdo, who was described as islamophobic, racist and even sexist. Countless other comments stated that Muslims were being ostracized and finger-pointed.
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After the army, the judges, the police and the Turkish press, the conservative Turkish government keeps on finding new internal enemies. It is now the turn of international journalists to be the target of this government through attacks via the news or social media and even legal action.
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The New York Police Department has a secretive programme that uses unmarked vans with X-ray machines designed to detect bombs. US investigative website ProPublica tried to find out more about it, but the NYPD refused to answer for three years. Now a state judge has ordered the New York City Police Department to release records on the programme.
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Those who attacked France last week forgot that this is the country of resistance. On Sunday 11th January, 2015, a sea of people – no, an ocean – demonstrated against the killers of Charlie Hebdo, the assassins of ordinary police officers and the gunning down of Jews. It was a staggering sight to see, and was followed around the world.
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The attack on Charlie Hebdo was an abominable tragedy. It struck the heart of one of our capitals and symbols of our democracies as terrorists attacked our freedom of the press.
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Set in a remote village in the north of Russia, Leviathan tells with tragic beauty the story of Kolya, a car mechanic, in his struggle to prevent the local mayor from expropriating and redeveloping his land.
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Paris, 7th January 2015.The day they tried to kill freedom.They don't know this song:“You can’t kill the spirit*She is like a mountainOld and strongShe goes on and on”...
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Late in the night, 194 countries of the UN framework convention on climate change finally found an agreement. Far from satisfactory, this agreement jeopardizes any "historic agreement" in Paris. The climate justice NGOs and movements, including Attac France and the Friends of the Earth France, have released this first analysis.
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The Association of European Journalists in Catalonia and the Barcelona daily newspaper La Vanguardia have named Mediapart as the recipient of the inaugural Jaime Arias award for journalistic excellence, a prize that was created this year in memory of one of the leading figures in Catalan journalism.
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The year 2015 approaches and with it a series of commemorations to mark the centenary of the Armenian genocide. On November 22nd and 23rd, 2014, the Hrant Dink Foundation organised various lectures at the University of Ankara where participants discussed the closed border between the young Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Turkey.
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In this blog project on the theme of French responses to the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, a group of Lille University masters degree students in English-French translation present a wide range of reports published in the French media in the aftermath of January’s shocking events. Their English versions of the articles, complete with glossaries and information notes, provide an insight into the personalities, groups and issues influencing debate and how these topics are reported in France.
Alexandre Benalla and, just behind him, Vincent Crase in Paris on May 1st 2018 . © Reuters 
President Emmanuel Macron and prime minister Édouard Philippe in Paris in March 2018. © Reuters 
Lawyers who oppsoe the bill:left to right, Henri Leclerc, Jean-Pierre Mignard and Patrice Spinosi. © Reuters 
Emmanuel Macron and Alexandre Benalla. © Reuters 
Left to right: the French president's chief aide Claude Guéant, Muammar Gaddafi and Nicolas Sarkozy inTripoli in 2007. © Reuters 
Alexandre Benalla and President Emmanuel Macron during a visit to Normandy April 12th 2018. © Reuters 
The former CEO of Gucci, Patrizio Di Marco, with his wife Frida Giannini. © Reuters 
Yellow vest protestors on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris, November 2018. © Reuters 
Paris-based lawyer William Bourdon. © Reuters 
A photomontage sent to François Hollande: "Here lies my salary, born at the beginning of the month and already dead on the 10th." © DR 
Cristiano Ronaldo arriving at court in Madrid, January22nd, with his fiancee Georgina Rodriguez. © Reuters 
CRS riot police with HKG36 assault rifles in central Paris on January 12th. © DR 
A 'yellow vest' protestor lies injured in Paris, January 12th 2019. © Reuters