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A meltdown primer
Radical insight and explanation from Waldon Bello.
Timor, Cuba - and the making of a medical superpower
Every year Cuba, a Majority World country of only 10 million people, sends more than 30,000 volunteer medical workers to 93 countries around the world. Surgeon Katherine Edyvane recounts the little-told story from first-hand experience.
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Things to do before I retire
Things to do before I retire… humble thoughts from the diary of GW Bush, as revealed by Stefan Simanowitz
FOK-U: the Façade Of Kindness & Understanding
A seminar in effective leadership (PR & spin) by Peter Greenwall
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Global warming and the King’s Arms pub
Horatio Morpurgo supplies an environmental missing link.
Homeless in Delhi
Jeremy Seabrook ventures inside a night shelter in India’s capital city.
The triumph of triviality
Our culture’s tolerance for seriousness has never been lower, argues John F Schumaker.
Sir and Madam
Barry Langridge asks why India still depends on charities to rescue its children.
Bling, Iranian-style
Nasrin Alavi returns to a Tehran under threat from the West.
Kabul lives
A photographic tribute to a city that has plumbed the depths.
Israel, Palestine and the hypocrisy of power
Noam Chomsky anatomizes the current US-Israel ‘project’.
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Much ado about oil
Hugo Chávez’s new foreign policy makes sense, according to Alex Sánchez Nieto
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Will Obama bring 1990s food policy to an end?
‘If the transition to Obama is to become the end of an era as well as the end of an error,’ says food and agriculture activist and author Wayne Roberts, then ‘the legacy of Bill Clinton as well as George Bush will need to be overcome.’
Nominees for Most Artful Tax Dodger
New Internationalist’s list of nominees for Most Artful Tax Dodger.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
City of whispers
Among Rangoon’s six million souls, a few have secret conversations with Dinyar Godrej.
Homeless in Delhi
Jeremy Seabrook ventures inside a night shelter in India’s capital city.
I will return...and I will be millions
Are things beginning to look up for the world’s indigenous peoples? Vanessa Baird begins a series of three reports from Bolivia, where the signs look most hopeful – and most precarious.
Lust, caution - hijab
Adventures in the ‘terror’ zone – and how the hijab does not keep you hidden
Israel, Palestine and the Hypocrisies of Power – an interview with Noam Chomsky
Celebrated American intellectual and activist Noam Chomsky provides a devastating insight into what lies behind the Israel-Palestine conflict and some of the obstacles to the viability of a Palestinian state.
The scramble for Africa
Katharine Ainger traces the connections between the Western World’s prosperity and Africa’s misery.
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