Threatened by Chinese scientific and technological advances, the US has dragooned European countries through the North ...

London Climate Action Week won’t be the launchpad for these mobilisations—but it can be a moment to regroup, refocus, and strengthen our resolve. As the week ends, the priority must be looking ahead: ...

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My suggestions to ask his relatives (which included several siblings) were rejected – they were all busy with their careers and families. Would he be willing to take the ‘Steve Jobs option’, ...

There’s more than enough to go round – if food is distributed evenly. A data visualization by David McCandless undoes the scarcity myth. Graphic conceptualized by Hazel Healy and Christina Hicks for ...

It’s three months since the start of the civil society protests against the regime of Daniel Ortega – the once respected leader of the Sandinistas who overthrew the Somoza dynasty dictatorship that ...

G eorgetown, the capital city of Guyana, sits at the meeting-point of the Demerara River and the Atlantic Ocean. At dusk, men fish from a narrow concrete embankment that juts out beyond the land, ...

Fish have outsized importance in Senegal, a nation of 16 million where as many as 1 in 6 people work in or around the industry. Fish is valued, culturally embedded and popular – star of the national ...

W hen I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat ...

New Internationalist 347 July 2002 Corporate influence / A HISTORY What is a corporation? Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary defines it as 'an ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual ...

See the full-sized fact spread. Follow the money But rightwing politicians and corporate bigwigs prefer to pin it on the workers. Government stimulus spending during the early stages of the pandemic ...