IV524 - September 2018

IVP524 September 2018 PDF magazine

Even small DFIs that trickle into Pakistan come at exorbitantly high costs for the oppressed masses of this country

The current situation is visibly unstable, fragile, uncertain. Any analysis runs the risk of getting old quickly. There are several factors provoking social and political instability: the worsening economic crisis, increasing social conflict and the (now slightly obscured) “Centeno affair” with increasing political and judicial consequences.

A broad coalition of women has come together to protest the Presidential candidacy of far-right politician, Jair Bolsonaro. Organized by the parties of the left, women’s organizations, and some members of liberal parties, this coalition will march in cities across Brazil on 29 September.

The so-called Islamic leaders play on the anti-imperialist sentiments of the masses to expand their social, political and financial base

“European elections: France Insoumise shifts a bit": this is the title of an article published in L’Humanité following the “Amfis” of France Insoumise , organized in Marseille from 23 to 26 August. “Shifts” which confirm that the Mélenchon version of “insubmission” is increasingly directed towards the quest for “respectability” and the claim to being “responsible". A tendency that is unfortunately confirmed, among other things, on the question of migrants.

Illegal logging and land seizures are driving this ominous yet overlooked scientific trend.

As from May 2010 the question of the debt became a central concern for Greece and for the rest of the Eurozone. The first programme imposed by the Troika provoked a brutal increase in Greek public debt. This was also the case in various forms in Ireland (2010), Portugal (2011), Spain (2012) and Cyprus (2013).

25 years after the Oslo Accords, the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians is at a standstill. Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government – the most right-wing in the history of the Zionist state – does not want to hear about peace negotiations. The Palestinian leadership seems incapable of digesting the failure of this dynamic launched by Yasser Arafat. The main mediator, the United States, has – with the arrival of Donald Trump – broken with its traditional diplomacy of not taking a decision that would stop the peace process. How can one explain this development, which increases the imbalance of power between Israelis and Palestinians and removes any prospect of peace? Gilbert Achcar in an interview with L’Orient-Le Jour gave some clues to understanding the turn of events since the Oslo agreements.

Local Bangladeshis in host communities near Rohingya camps complain of rise in cost of living but others see benefits.