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ON THE NI SITE

Dear Barack Obama
Uri Avnery tells the US President Elect that he needs to act from Day One for Israeli-Arab peace - and suggests what needs to be done.

Route 42 to Dystopia
Anna Chen reckons we're all being driven towards a dystopian future, and that the next stop could be terminal...

The Baader Meinhof Complex
A stirring film, from the first graphic action scenes, showing police attacking demonstrators, and it never flags, never seems staged.

The War on Terror Boardgame
More than just a boardgame, according to its makers, Andy Sheerin and Andy Tompkins, the War on Terror challenges the terrorism taboo.

Profits in hungry times
Agribusiness and industrial farming: 10; farmers and the famished: nil. A report from the campaign group GRAIN.

The Silence of Lorna
Lorna, an Albanian working in a Belgian laundry, needs money to open a snack bar. The first step is citizenship, so she marries a very sick heroin addict who no-one expects to live very long.

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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.