Le Monde diplomatique
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Template:Dablink The monthly publication Le Monde diplomatique (nicknamed "Le Diplo" by its French readers) offers well-documented analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. Its articles are long, well-researched, scholarly, and opinionated. In particular, the newspaper takes a critical view on the effects of economic neoliberalism on the world and its population, and is generally considered to be decidedly left-wing. Through the last fifty years during the cold war, it had also a neutralist viewpoint, often critical of US foreign policy.
The original French edition has a circulation of about 350,000; sixteen editions in other languages bring the total to about 1.4 million readers worldwide. Le Monde diplomatique's readers own 49% of the company through L'association des Amis du Monde diplomatique; the remaining 51% is owned by the French daily newspaper Le Monde. The newspaper maintains its independence by limiting its dependence advertising and through its reader-owned capital - "minorité de blocage" (control stock).
Like the French weekly Télérama, Le Diplo is criticized for the quantity and nature of the published advertisements. In November and December 2003 2-page advertisements by IBM and a car manufacturer were placed. The issues of February and March 2004 contained advertisements by Microsoft in a 'social' atmosphere with a picture of children, which led to irritation with Free software activists.
One editorial written in 1997 by Ignacio Ramonet, its editor-in-chief, led to the creation of the ATTAC NGO, which originally founded for advocacy of the Tobin tax. It is now supporting a variety of left-wing causes.
External links
- French edition (http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/)
- Arabic edition (http://www.mondiploar.com/)
- Catalan edition (http://www.mondiplomatic.com/)
- Chinese edition (http://cn.mondediplo.com/)
- English edition (http://www.mondediplo.com/)
- Esperanto edition (http://eo.mondediplo.com/)
- Farsi edition (http://ir.mondediplo.com/)
- German edition (http://www.monde-diplomatique.de)
- Japanese edition (http://www.diplo.jp/)
- Nordic edition (http://www.lemonde.no/)
- Portuguese edition (http://www.diplo.com.br/)
- Russian edition (http://ru.mondediplo.com/)
- Spanish edition (http://www.monde-diplomatique.es)
- Les Amis du Monde diplomatique (http://www.amis.monde-diplomatique.fr/)
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