European leaders have dropped their talk of peace dividends. Now political credibility is in direct proportion to how much of your GDP you’re willing to spend on defence. But who will pick up the bill? mondediplo.com/2025/03/08euro…

If opportunities existed in the past three years for a negotiated peace in Ukraine, they were not taken. The US volte-face has left Europe scrambling to work out what it means for the continent’s security. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2025/03/06russ…

The human cost of the war in Ukraine has been immense, but some Ukrainians are paying a higher price than others. Soldiers fighting for fair pay, and veterans are struggling to get medical care. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2023/11/10ukra…

Daily life is conducted to a soundtrack of shelling in the devastated cities of the Donbass. After years of fighting, how do people view their future? (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2022/09/09donb…

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Overpriced student loans unlikely to be repaid may follow subprime mortgages as a financial disaster, as the US dismantles its successful postwar higher education system. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2012/11/09stud…

The US GI bill gave a whole generation free tertiary education – and the generation after that also benefited from cheap admission to colleges that stood in opposition to the system. That world has gone. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2007/09/08univ…

It’s a peculiar US custom — inheriting an extra chance to get into a good university because your father, or your mother, studied there before you. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2018/08/08harv…

It has long been known that when a population of bacteria is subjected to a strong dose of antibiotics, some of them will have genetic characteristics that are resistant and will be capable of passing that resistance on. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2015/01/13anti…

Those who glibly think of war as the shortest path to peace should consider the non-zero risk of nuclear conflict, shortages and inflation caused by disrupted trade routes, and the threat of war in space. mondediplo.com/2024/06/02fran…

According to Trump, the Iranian nuclear program is ‘obliterated’. Iran denies this and has warned that the US strikes will have ‘everlasting consequences’. mondediplo.com/2024/05/02gaza

As NATO leaders meet in the Hague this week, they must reaffirm their commitments to human rights and international humanitarian law, writes Agnes Callamard in Le Monde diplomatique in English amn.st/60174wxOd

“As NATO leaders meet in the Hague this week, they must reaffirm their commitments to human rights and international humanitarian law” Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard will be at the #NATOsummit this week Read her article in Le Monde diplomatique in English amn.st/60174wxOd

If opportunities existed in the past three years for a negotiated peace in Ukraine, they were not taken. The US volte-face has left Europe scrambling to work out what it means for the continent’s security. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2025/03/06russ…

Holland’s huge horticultural industry knows that plants must look good to sell. That means heavy use of pesticides, creating perfect conditions for the emergence of resistant strains of fungal infections. mondediplo.com/2025/06/08tuli…

Favouring industrialised poultry rearing and stock raising, including pigs, through internationally prescribed rules doesn’t prevent epidemics. It just puts small, local organic producers out of business, and it helps big agribiz. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2020/11/11bios…

Inequalities contour the path of epidemics. Sars first appeared in China, where, under Deng Xiaoping, 80 million migrants were forced to take to the roads and the health system was abruptly privatised — a clear symptom of sickness. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2003/07/12rivi…

Journalists found in Twitter a narcissistic, quick-to-judge and groupthink world that resembled their own. (June in the archive.) mondediplo.com/2021/03/08subs…