THE TEXT IN ENGLISH MAY BE FOUND BELOW. ************************************************************** Le Monde Diplomatique é um dos principais jornais contemporâneos e de tendências progressistas, leitura obrigatória para quem quer conhecer o mundo de hoje. Enquanto não sai a edição em português, os que entendem inglês mas não lêem francês podem agora tê-lo naquela língua (ver anúncio abaixo).
Por falar em francês: vocês sabem que um certo presidente da remota e exótica América do Sul decretou o fim do reconhecimento de currículos obtidos em cursos universitários da França e eliminou o francês do curso de formação de diplomatas de seu País. que também atende aos de vários outros países? O ato é tipicamente neoliberal e mesmo colonial, ao tentar uniformizar o pensamento em torno ao mundo de língua inglesa.
Ah, esse presidente tem forte influência da cultura francesa em sua formação e é amigo de intelectuais da social-democracia francesa como Alain Tourraine. E daí? Ele não mandou que esquecessem tudo que já escreveu, inclusive a teoria da dependência, de que foi um dos formuladores?
Saudações de Roberto
1848 / 1998: Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch !
Paix entre nous, guerre aux tyrans (....) Ouvriers, paysans, nous sommes Le grand Parti des Travailleurs. (L' Internationale)
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Le Monde diplomatique
et The Guardian Weekly
Le Monde diplomatique
en anglais
Le 20 septembre, The Guardian Weekly a publié
le premier numéro du Monde diplomatique en anglais,
dans un supplément de seize pages.
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PROCHAINES PARUTIONS
25 OCTOBRE ET 22 NOVEMBRE
Pour toute demande d'information, écrire à Patrick Ensor,
The Guardian Weekly, 75, Farrington road, London EC1M 3HQ
<mailto: patrick.ensor at guardian.co.uk>
Le Monde diplomatique en anglais est également disponible
sur Internet : http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/
Comme celles de nos éditions en allemand (Berlin et Zürich),
italien (Rome), espagnol (Madrid et Mexico), grec (Athènes)
et arabe (Beyrouth), la réussite de cette édition en langue
anglaise est d'une première importance à nos yeux et pour la
diffusion de nos idées.
Merci de bien vouloir nous aider à la
faire connaître, par exemple en adressant
à vos correspondants anglophones le texte
ci-dessous.
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This week (20 September) will see the first of three
supplements of Le Monde diplomatique which are being printed
and distributed by The Guardian Weekly (GW) on a free trial
basis (September, October, November).
The GW is part of Guardian Publications Ltd., UK, and it is
distributed worldwide, sold mainly by subscription.
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In this first issue, Ignacio Ramonet writes:
Le Monde diplomatique
Taking a stand
We are delighted to welcome readers of The Guardian Weekly
into the family of people who are regular readers of Le
Monde diplomatique...
Our desire to broaden the readership of Le Monde
diplomatique beyond the confines of France is not a recent
thing. Already one third of total sales of our
French-language edition are to readers overseas. From the
start, we have been not a French newspaper that happens to
sell abroad, but an international paper that happens to be
based in France. Not only does our newspaper offer broad
coverage of major world developments, but we also open our
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Le Monde diplomatique is in excellent health. Over the past
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under 34. We were the first paper in France to have its own
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Newspapers today are going through a bad patch. So what we
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This is the logic underlying our efforts in the past few
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IGNACIO RAMONET
Director of Le Monde diplomatique