Articles by New Internationalist

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The Coming War on China
John Pilger – New Internationalist Magazine, 5 Dec 2016

A major US military build-up – including nuclear weapons – is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting China. John Pilger raises the alarm on an under-reported and dangerous provocation.

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We Are Going Backwards; COP21 Is the Opposite of Progress
Frank Barat interviews Naomi Klein – New Internationalist Magazine, 14 Dec 2015

10 Dec 2015 – Naomi Klein speaks with Frank Barat about the limits of the Paris climate talks and how climate change is an accelerator that makes pre-existing problems worse.

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The Anarchist Impulse
Richard Swift – New Internationalist Magazine, 24 Aug 2015

The other great historic alternative to capitalism has been anarchism. Often dismissed as a dirty word, its influence ebbs and flows but its libertarian principles remain profoundly influential.

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Britain Is All Talk and No Action on Human Rights
Andrew Smith, New Internationalist – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Nov 2014

Prince Andrew’s visit to Saudi Arabia to ‘reinforce ties’ is only the most recent expression of the extremely close relationship between the British establishment and the Saudi autocrats and a reminder that Britain may talk tough on human rights and democracy, but is all too happy to work closely with one of the most despotic regimes in the world.

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How Anonymous Got Political
Quinn Norton – New Internationalist Magazine, 31 Dec 2012

A look behind the mask of the hacker network, charting its evolution into a global activist force. Anonymous’ swagger grew with outrageous hacks of companies, governments, and law enforcement. ‘Anonymous was born out of a need to exact retribution,’ said a Chanology anon. ‘Scientology tried to fuck with our internet, attempting to shut down the Cruise video. It was punished, hard, and continues to be punished nearly four years later.’

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Pharma vs India: A Case of Life or Death for the World’s Poor
Nick Harvey - New Internationalist Magazine, 29 Oct 2012

Cases being heard in Indian courts could ‘open the floodgates’ for pharmaceutical companies to challenge generic drug production and keep prices ridiculously high.

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Robert Fisk: We Preach Democracy Yet Befriend Dictators
New Internationalist – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2010

‘Spreading democracy’ was the rationale for invading Iraq and Afghanistan. Middle East expert Robert Fisk describes how it now looks from his home in Beirut.

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Nature’s Bottom Line: The Folly of Endless Growth
Wayne Ellwood – New Internationalist magazine, 6 Sep 2010

We’ve been captured by a myth far more alluring than the one that Charles Darwin confronted 150 years ago: the dream of perpetual economic growth. In the North we have been living beyond our ecological means for decades, consuming too much and producing more waste than the environment can absorb, while inequality grows.

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BLOOD DIAMONDS IN ZIMBABWE: CORRUPTION IS FOREVER
Dikson M. – The New Internationalist, 14 Jan 2010

The last time I was in Zimbabwe I had an encounter with a local arts and crafts vendor who has a stall in one of Harare’s bustling flea markets. On this occasion he seemed disinterested in flaunting his archetypal Zimbabwean sculptures of mothers cradling their young or the clichéd soapstone wildlife roaming his rickety tabletop. […]

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