Currents



Votes for women
For the first time ever women will outnumber men in a national parliament.




Pull down St. Paul’s!
British aid agency ActionAid recently put in an application to demolish London’s famed St Paul’s Cathedral.

Funding cuts threaten lives in Kenya
Human skulls and decomposing bodies dug up in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province show signs of torture.

In tents activity
Campaigners take to the canvas to show solidarity

Princess and President
Despite the country being hit by Typhoon Fengshen, Filipino President Arroyo arranged a 10-day trip to the US for herself and at least 59 of her loyal congress members, at a reported cost of 66 million pesos ($1.42 million)!


Gort and Klaatu
Marc Roberts’ intergalactic health & safety inspectors Gort and Klaatu make their début.
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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.
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