Une étude montre une baisse de 21 % de la biodiversité en moyenne dans les parcelles de banane fréquemment traitées avec du glyphosate. Le glyphosate perturbe également davantage les espèces natives.
C'est l'herbicide le plus utilisé au monde. C'est aussi un mot qui génère, dès qu'il est prononcé, d'intenses passions. Le glyphosate est utilisé en agriculture pour tuer les « mauvaises herbes », et ainsi limiter leurs effets négatifs sur les cultures. Ses effets sur l'homme et (...)

La Nouvelle-Calédonie en crise se trouve au centre d'une région longtemps dominée par les États-Unis et ses alliés de façon incontestable, mais où l'influence chinoise se développe rapidement.
La crise en Nouvelle-Calédonie s'inscrit dans un contexte régional marqué par l'intensification, depuis quelques années, de la rivalité sino-étasunienne. Pékin et Washington rivalisent d'influence dans le Pacifique pour avoir le contrôle de cet espace stratégique, mais aussi pour maîtriser (...)

Modi's vision for the country is driven by a new assessment of India's civilisation and, consequently, what is represented by the existing National Museum in Delhi is deemed insufficient in showcasing the “new” ancient India, that is Bharat
Museums in former colonial powers face challenges in calls for decolonising their collections, but the issue acquires a different hue in India.
When India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced the building of the “largest museum in the world” (...)

En l'espace de quelques jours, des dizaines de campements de solidarité avec Gaza ont vu le jour sur plus d'une centaine de campus universitaires à travers les États-Unis. Il s'agit du plus grand mouvement étudiant depuis les manifestations anti-guerre qui ont envahi les universités américaines dans les années 1960.
Au fur et à mesure que les campements s'érigent dans tout le pays, les étudiant·es appellent pacifiquement à se désinvestir de l'oppression exercée par Israël sur les (...)

Elias Khoury's new book encapsulates the symbiotic relationship between literature and the Nakba, exploring its nature as a continuum of calamities.
“The Continuous Nakba,” by Elias Khoury, Dar Al Adab, 2023.
Palestinians march during a rally marking the anniversary of the Nakba in the West Bank city of Nablus, May 15, 2024. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
In 2013, Elias Khoury, the renowned Lebanese novelist and public intellectual, delivered a speech from Beirut via Skype to a group of (...)

Thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel joined the annual March of Return, with many making connections to the violent displacement in Gaza.
In the shadow of what many Palestinians are describing as a second Nakba in Gaza, around 15,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel participated in the 27^th annual March of Return on Tuesday. After gathering in the northern city of Shefa-Amr, participants marched to the site of Hawsha and Al-Kasair, Palestinian villages that were forcibly depopulated (...)

China's leftist intellectuals, once regime critics in the 1990s, have shifted from their socialist origins to support statism and the China model. Where does that leave their thinking now?
ILLUSTRATION: XINMEI LIU
Last May, in a Beijing coffee shop, a well-known Chinese intellectual complained to me: “There is no left wing in China anymore. Instead, we have people who call themselves ‘leftists' who in fact are extreme rightists and even flirt with fascism.”
This intellectual (whose (...)

In his public speeches, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev often refers to Armenia's sovereign territories as “Western Azerbaijan.” After Azerbaijan's victory in the 2020 war in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), the blockade that left 120,000 Armenians cut off from the world, and the fighting in September 2023 that led to Azerbaijan's full control over the region and the eviction of the Armenian population, Aliyev continues to make new territorial claims against Armenia.
We talked to (...)

Thai authorities are helping neighboring governments to take unlawful actions against refugees and dissidents from abroad, making Thailand increasingly unsafe for those fleeing persecution. These targets of transnational repression have gotten caught up in a “swap mart” in which foreign dissidents are effectively traded for critics of the Thai government living abroad. The Thai government should investigate alleged harassment, threats, surveillance, and forced returns against migrants, (...)

Under the government's strict control, independent unions have been devastated, labor protests are prohibited, and opposition to the government's labor policies has become rare.
It's been five years since Hong Kong has held 5.1 marches on International Labor Day. Since the implementation of the draconian Hong Kong National Security Law (NSL), which the government has weaponized to crack down on the city's independent trade union movement, numerous trade unionists have been arrested, (...)

The German charity “Bridge of Peace - Assistance to War Victims,” which claims to be against fascism, is providing supplies to the Russian military disguised as humanitarian aid. This effort involves collaboration with SERB, a group associated with the Russian Interior Ministry, known for attacking Russian opposition activists and politicians. And not just “Bridge of Peace,” other German organizations have also been found to support the occupiers in Ukraine.
Lament for a Stasi officer (...)

Les habitants d'origine européenne ont formé des groupes peu expérimentés militairement, parfois fortement armés. Le haut-commissaire de la République les tient pour responsables de la mort de trois Kanaks, mais soutient leur existence.
Nouméa (Nouvelle-Calédonie).– La sueur au front, Jason* arpente le parking de sa résidence. Dans ses mains, un fusil d'airsoft, chargé de balles en caoutchouc. Dans la rue, quelques dizaines de mètres plus loin, les affrontements entre les forces de (...)

Les émeutes en Nouvelle-Calédonie font suite à l'adoption d'une réforme constitutionnelle visant à élargir le corps électoral. Une organisation de femmes kanak remet en perspective la situation.
Pour la troisième nuit consécutive, la Nouvelle-Calédonie a été le théâtre de violentes émeutes. Quatre personnes, dont un gendarme, sont décédées lors d'« affrontements très graves ». Un deuxième agent a trouvé la mort lors d'un tir accidentel jeudi 16 mai. Des milices, parfois armées, (...)