On 29 September, after a Houthi missile aimed at Tel Aviv was intercepted by Israeli air defence, Israeli fighter jets ...

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 ...

But the source of Felix’s seemingly progressive beliefs about women’s sexual pleasure pre-dates Kagame by hundreds of years. Our conversation is not about policy or the post-genocide recovery but ...

July-August 2023 Palestine: From occupation to uprising As Israel lurches towards fascism, Palestinians continue to struggle and innocent people are killed on a weekly basis by occupying forces.

T he Bengal famine stands as one of the single most horrific atrocities to have occurred under British colonial rule. From 1943 to 1944, more than three million Indians died of starvation and ...

The aim, Clinton argued, was ‘to achieve a national welfare reform bill that will make work and responsibility the law of the land’. Clinton’s goal was not to merely encourage personal responsibility ...

Throughout history, many of the world’s deadliest conflicts, particularly those in Africa, have been frozen out of the mainstream media. Perhaps the ultimate illustration of this is the war in and ...

In economically unequal countries the pressure to buy items to keep up with your peers, with ‘people who count’, is enormous, especially when it comes to clothes, fashion, new cars and other status ...

January-February 2023 The cost of greed crisis Prices of everyday essentials are spiralling around the world, increasing poverty as they leave wages behind. But misery for many – from fuel poverty to ...

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Mutual aid Thanks to curfews and a heavy-handed military presence, pobladores have begun to organize against the social isolation and hunger that has taken over the country, where hunger has grown as ...

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 ...