‘Destiny’, a newly proposed special economic zone on the island of Nevis, seems to be related to a previous venture known as ‘Free Society’, which involved ‘purchasing sovereign land from a government to create the world’s first libertarian country’.
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In business, Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince figures as a little patron saint, a lucky charm, a brand of ethereal meekness, a guarantee of selflessness – and a driver of feel-good sales.
China aims to have 70,000km of high-speed rail by 2035 as regions compete for their own line, yet with capacity already exceeding demand, this huge state-run project could yet prove a risky gamble.
The DRC’s mineral wealth, long monopolised by China, is drawing renewed interest from the Trump administration. But strategic competition won’t bring security or prosperity for its people.
Sri Lanka’s 2024 election delivered a historic victory for a party with a radical leftwing pedigree. In power, its emphasis has been on continuity with the past, and keeping foreign investors happy.
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California’s leaders take pride in some of the US’s toughest workplace safety laws. Yet thousands of underage workers, often the children of undocumented immigrants, help power its $60bn agricultural industry.
When Nord Stream 2’s pipeline was sabotaged, few thought it would ever carry gas to Europe again. Yet quietly, this ‘toxic asset’ is on its way back.
Souss-Massa is Morocco’s largest fruit- and vegetable-growing region, producing mainly for export to Europe. But the workers behind its success see little benefit, fuelling protests over harsh conditions.
President Nayib Bukele achieved his ‘miracle’ defeat of El Salvador’s gangs by suspending rights and the rule of law, and industrial-scale incarceration.
A decade ago, Obama-era détente based on dollar inflows failed to deliver for Cuba’s people. Now the US has choked off Venezuelan oil, revealing the true scale of Cuba’s external dependence.
On 28 February the US and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran that decapitated the regime. With the country in crisis, we examine the political forces at play.
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To findings of grave violations of the law by Israel, the response has been denial and fierce retaliation.
Francesca Albanese answers her critics, in our March 2026 edition.
In Japan, ‘young voters have tended to classify the communist party [JCP] as conservative and see rightwing parties as progressive.’ The Sanseito, with its xenophobic, slick videos, is contrasted with a dull JCP stuck on ‘archaic’ social justice issues.
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According to a new book, ‘the 2025 American-Israel unprovoked war was the outcome of years of misrepresentation and demonisation of the Iranian republic’.
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What motivated De Gaulle to withdraw France from Nato’s military command in 1966 was the defence of French sovereignty and self-determination against anything which might undermine them, including the US.
(From the archive.)
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Taking Sides is a series of ebooks published by Le Monde diplomatique. In each ebook, we are releasing the most significant articles from our English-language archive since 1996, on a topic that merits your attention. This time: Gaza.
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In Portugal, the Socialist candidate António José Seguro has triumphed in the second round of the presidential election, taking 66.8% of the vote.
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A court in Hong Kong has sentenced businessman Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison under the 2020 national security law. A prominent critic of Beijing, Lai was, among other roles, chairman of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper.
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Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi has won a landslide victory in a snap election called in an attempt to regain the Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition’s parliamentary majority.
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The senator from South Carolina has spent three decades advocating aggressive intervention as the solution to international problems. No wonder Trump’s rhetoric is music to his ears.
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Seizing Palestinian land, planting vines and mislabelling their wines as ‘Product of Israel’ has become common among Israeli settler winemakers. International buyers continue to turn a blind eye.
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For decades, the LDP delivered enough prosperity and stability for the Japanese to accept a one-party state. Now, the ideological malleability that long sustained it is turning into something harder.
Asserting that the Ottoman empire perpetrated a genocide of its Armenian citizens in 1915 remains prohibited under Turkey’s penal code. Denial prevents the state’s founding myth from unravelling.
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World leaders are keen to move on from Gaza, to call it a solved problem. But this is not an exception: shelving suffering and erasing ‘awkward’ peoples, has become a defining logic of our time.
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Japan’s postwar constitution renounces war ‘forever’. But with fears that US actions in Venezuela could embolden China to seize Taiwan, Sanae Takaichi could be tempted into a risky game.
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By prolonging a war that cannot be fought without the US, Europe has placed itself squarely in Washington’s hands. At what price?
The United States has grown wary of longterm occupations. Abandoning the pretence of exporting democracy, the Trump administration has chosen to force existing powers to comply with its rule.
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