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'''{{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}}''' ({{IPA-fr|lə mɔ̃d diplɔmatik}}; meaning "The Diplomatic World",<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-12-01 |title=Plus de cent vingt mille abonnés |url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2021/12/A/64120 |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=Le Monde diplomatique |language=fr}}</ref> and shortened as '''Le Diplo''' in [[French language|French]]) is a French monthly [[newspaper]] founded in 1954 offering analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. {{
The publication is 51% owned by Le Monde diplomatique [[S.A. (corporation)|SA]], a [[subsidiary company]] of {{Lang|fr|[[Le Monde]]}} which grants it complete editorial autonomy. Politically it is part of the left that is critical of [[neoliberalism]]<ref name="LeMonde">{{cite news |author1=Raphaëlle Besse Desmoulières |author2=Alexis Delcambre |title=Le lustre retrouvé du " Monde diplo " |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2017/02/14/le-lustre-retrouve-du-monde-diplo_5079218_3236.html |access-date=30 January 2023 |work=Le Monde |date=14 February 2017 |language=fr}}</ref> and has favoured [[alter-globalization]] since 1973.<ref name=IPSA>{{cite web|last1=Harvey|first1=Nicolas|title=Alternative Mass Media and Worldwide Mobilization: The Difficult Crusade of Le Monde Diplomatique against Neoliberalism|url=http://paperroom.ipsa.org/papers/view/509|website=International Political Science Association|publisher=Université Rennes|access-date=8 February 2015}}</ref>
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==History==
===1954–1989===
{{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}} was founded in 1954 by [[Hubert Beuve-Méry]], founder and director of {{Lang|fr|[[Le Monde]]}}, the French [[newspaper of record]]. Subtitled the "organ of diplomatic circles and of large international organisations,<ref>''" organe des cercles diplomatiques et des grandes organisations internationales "''</ref>" 5,000 copies were distributed, comprising eight pages, dedicated to [[foreign policy]] and [[geopolitics]]. Its first [[editor
[[Claude Julien (journalist)|Claude Julien]] became the newspaper's second editor in January 1973. At that time, the circulation of {{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}} had jumped from 5,000 to 50,000 copies, and would reach, with Micheline Paulet, 120,000 in under 20 years.<ref name="Amis">Numbers given in [http://www.amis.monde-diplomatique.fr/article1342.html "Le Monde diplomatique depuis 1954..."], ''Les Amis du Monde diplomatique'', [[Voluntary association|1901 law association]], 26 September 2006 {{in lang|fr}}</ref> Without renouncing its "[[Third-worldism]]" position, it extended the treatment of its subjects, concentrating on international [[economic]] and [[monetary]] problems, strategic relations, the [[Middle-East conflict]], etc. One of the contributors was [[Samir Frangieh]], a leftist Lebanese journalist.<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's Who in Lebanon
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===1989–present===
After the November 1989 Fall of the [[Berlin Wall]] following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the 1990-1991 [[Gulf War]], the newspaper began to criticise what it described as an "American crusade".<ref name="Amis"/> [[Ignacio Ramonet]] was elected director or editor-in-chief in January 1991, serving until 2008.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
Under his leadership, {{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}} analysed the post-[[Cold War]] world, paying specific attention to "ethnic" conflicts that arose in this period: the [[
Ramonet has also published books about the media and their relationship to national societies. As noted by François Cusset, French universities have not developed an interdisciplinary approach to media studies. He says that leftist journals including {{Lang|fr|Le Monde Diplomatique}} have had an editorial approach that is committed to "critique of dominant media", both in terms of their roles in setting agendas and in enjoying status perks.<ref name="cusset">[https://journals.openedition.org/inmedia/135 François Cusset, "Media Studies: A French Blind Spot"], ''InMedia'', 1/2012; accessed 01 October 2018</ref> Both Ramonet and his successor, Serge Halimi, published books that critiqued the media from outside academic circles.<ref name="larrazet">[https://journals.openedition.org/inmedia/500?lang=en Serge Halimi and Christine Larrazet, "At the Crossroads of Media, Media Critique, and the Critique of Media critics – An Interview with Serge Halimi, Editor-in-Chief of 'Le Monde Diplomatique' "], ''InMedia'', 2/2012 (Interview 25 July 2012); accessed 01 October 2018 {{in lang|en}}</ref>
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|url=https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/fellows/venezuela0803/5.html|access-date=19 February 2015|work=PBS|date=August 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Clark|first=A.C.|title=The Revolutionary Has No Clothes /Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Farce|date=2009|publisher=Encounter Books|location=New York|isbn=978-1594034459|page=126}}</ref>
Ramonet was succeeded by [[Serge Halimi]] who had a PhD in political science from the [[University of California Berkeley]].<ref name="larrazet"/> In 2018, LMD
The August 2017 issue of the monthly was not marketed in [[Algeria]]. According to sources close to the distributor, the newspaper did not get permission to do so. [[Government of Algeria|Algerian authorities]]
==''Le Monde diplomatique'' SA==
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===Advertising===
Although {{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}} publishes few [[Advertising|advertisements]] in order to retain its editorial independence, it has sometimes been criticised for the quantity and nature of the published advertisements<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2002/03/A/8481|title=A propos de la publicité|date=2002-03-01|work=Le Monde diplomatique|access-date=2018-01-29|language=fr}}</ref> In November and December 2003, two-page advertisements by [[IBM]] and a car manufacturer were placed. The issues of February and March 2004 contained [[Advertising|advertisements]] by [[Microsoft]] in a "social" atmosphere with a picture of children, which led to agitation.<ref>* {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.acrimed.org/article1464.html " Le Monde Diplomatique, publicitaire des multinationales ? "]</ref>
== Communication ==
On February 2, 1995, the newspaper became the first in France to have a presence on the internet.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le Monde Diplomatique "ouvre le sur la toile" |url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/images_reseaux/Le_Monde_Diplomatique-premier-site-de-presse-en-ligne-en-1995.jpg}}</ref>
{{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}} has a social media platform dedicated to Friends of {{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}}.
The newspaper has the particularity of having very early on digitized on a single DVD-ROM, accessible for purchase, all the articles published in its edition in French since its foundation in 1954, [[German language|German]] (same since 1995), [[English language|English]] (same since 1996), [[Spanish language|Spanish]] (same since 1997), [[Italian language|Italian]] (same since 1997) and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] (same since 1999). Since then this voluminous archive has been converted into online access.
The monthly maintains an RSS feed and publishes on the [[Social network|social networks]] [[Facebook]] and [[Instagram]].
==Meat Atlas==
[[File:Meat_Atlas_2014_%E2%80%93_Cover.jpg|125px|thumb|alt=Report on meat consumption and meat production|{{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}} co-publishes the ''[[Meat Atlas]]''.]]
{{Lang|fr|Le Monde diplomatique}} co-publishes the ''[[Meat Atlas]]'', which is an annual report on meat production and consumption.<ref>[http://www.boell.de/en/2014/01/07/meat-atlas Heinrich Böll Foundation, Meat Altas], download [https://www.foeeurope.org/sites/default/files/publications/foee_hbf_meatatlas_jan2014.pdf Meat Atlas] as pdf</ref>
==Overseas==
The ''Friends of Le Monde diplomatique'' are a [[London]]-based society that promotes the
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