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Twelve states from across the Global South made history this week by announcing unprecedented measures to stop Israel’s ...
Subi Shah speaks to DJ Ritu about the ‘Asian Underground’, women’s rights and the British honours system.
Guilt complex We feel guilty about what we do (flying, driving a car) and about what we don’t do (not making that demo, not recycling enough). *Adam Ma’anit* traces the roots of these feelings and ...
Company slogans and mantras claim it is getting closer to pair profit with sustainability, but facts and figures tell a very different story. Investigation by investigative journalism platform ...
What next? The future for the world can look bleak, dominated by technological and corporate power. But what if resistance to it won through? *Pat Mooney* tells a story illustrating how things might ...
Dhondy’s work has shaped my own life. I grew up watching the TV shows that the now 81-year-old commissioned – shows which ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo has perhaps the richest concentration of precious metals and minerals on earth. Colette Braeckman describes how their exploitation by warring factions has fuelled the ...
Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’.
But the source of Felix’s seemingly progressive beliefs about women’s sexual pleasure pre-dates Kagame by hundreds of years. Our conversation is not about policy or the post-genocide recovery but ...
John Pilger has clear views about the duty of journalists. True to form, his latest film pulls no punches. He talks to Vanessa Baird on the eve of its release.
An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Ben Jacob traces the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s sugar factory to Exxon’s oil fields. Georgetown, the capital city of ...
I an Curtis and Joy Division stand out. Not least because their music portrayed emotions, sorrows and terrors in a way that most popular music never comes within a country mile of and because Ian ...