The disconcerting rise of Europe’s far right- Le Monde Diplomatique- La Voz de TODOS Nicaragua linked al MUNDO- wwwkrappaccioli-tunnermann.blogspot.com –Retransmitted

Spain and Italy: friends and allies * — Laurent Bonelli and Raffaele Laudani

Both countries had decades under far-right dictators, and in both the far right has revived, survives and even thrives, through a mix of social conservatism and political pragmatism

Translated by Tom Genrich

·  Against the new neoliberal order — Michael Minkenberg

The radical right in the new democracies and semi-democracies of eastern Europe harks back to the apparent security of the old style nation-state. In doing so, it gives public voice to a fairly widely felt desire

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• Free, independent – and equal

  Women fight on * — Camille Sarret

  Anti-colonial, inter-tribal and even religious struggles around the world have strengthened the women who took part in them, and made them more able to demand their own rights
  Translated by Charles Goulden
• ‘A volunteer army, the national football league with guns’

  America’s last super thing — Robert Lipsyte

  Super Bowl Sunday, this February featuring the Pittsburgh Steelers vs the Green Bay Packers, comes second only to Thanksgiving and Christmas for Americans
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• A heritage to be revered, not eaten

  France’s intangible cuisine * — Sébastien Lapaque

  Unesco’s recognition of French culinary arts comes at a time when contaminated fast food, malnutrition and trophy eating are the more likely plats du jour in France
  Translated by Robert Waterhouse

2011/02 - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition