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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forty per cent of Earth’s ice-free surface is now dedicated to agriculture and represents the planet’s largest biome. Many millions more hectares are to be brought into production by 2050, especially ...

Only military employees are allowed to set foot there and no journalist has been allowed to visit Diego Garcia since the establishment of the base. The UK announced in November that it is planning to ...

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 ...

In this episode, Taxcast host Naomi Fowler looks at the ‘Desai Papers’, a leak that exposes a system to divert tax revenue from poor nations back to Western corporations and African oligarchs. She ...

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 ...

Robots like these are unlikely to be deployed in Japan – at least not until the population crisis bites harder. High levels of government employment and strong state subsidies for key industries like ...