Le Monde diplomatique (the Diplo or LMD to its readers) is published in French and English (distributed in digital form by Exact Editions) and in 24 other languages. The magazine carries in-depth analysis and opinion on international politics and current affairs. According to Wikipedia, “Its articles are long, thoughtful, scholarly, and opinionated, usually from an uncompromising leftist position.” You are invited to examine the trial issue to see whether that is a reasonable opinion or a wiki-aberration.

Included in this trial issue are features by Alexander Cockburn on 9/11 ‘ US: the conspiracy that wasn't’, ‘Iran's new Power Balance’, ‘Spain and the Basques: only a promise of peace’, Florence Mardirossian on ‘Russia's Georgian griefs’, the ‘Secret hidden behind Ikea's wardrobes’ and David Keen's ‘Intensify the witch-hunt’.