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As the genocide on Gaza has continued unabated, student groups have exhausted the democratic processes available to them: ...
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. John Pilger issues a statement to the ...
As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. Time to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy, suggests Rob Wallace.
‘Together we have the chance to save the planet’ goes a Rio Tinto ad on Serbian TV. But saving the planet in this instance ...
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’. The slide on the screen ...
Carmen Herrera traces the history of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, from socialist liberators to ‘institutional dictators’, under the increasingly brutal rule of Daniel Ortega A mural of ...
As COP28 winds down, Hamza Hamouchene sounds the alarm about the dark side of climate capitalism. It now has another claim to fame however, as just six miles away from the town is one of the biggest ...
As the cost of living crisis becomes entrenched, Nick Dowson examines the scene of the crime, tracks down the culprits and proposes a route to resolution. We’ve got cold extremities, you’ve got a cold ...
Last week in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, I walked past a gold BMW parked casually on a side-street. That is to say, last week I walked past a BMW 5 Series, which had been covered in $1,000 ...
Could a Kenyan court case point the way towards a more just tax system? Amy Hall investigates. ‘I’m looking forward to resilient and self-reliant African countries that are using the revenue that they ...
Potosí is one of Bolivia’s most indigenous regions. Over a third of its population only speak native languages. Almost every mining family is indigenous with Quechua, or sometimes Aymara, as their ...