New Internationalist

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for the New Internationalist Co-operative newint.org Just days after Hamas’s 7 October attacks, as Israel’s devastation of Gaza was getting into full swing, I received an odd email. It pitched a potential article from the CEO of the Israeli governmen

A few years ago I was traveling in remote Uttar Pradesh, in the north of India. I stayed the night in a village at the border with Madhya Pradesh and I was introduced to a man who gave me a tour and answered all my queries. Everyone in the village re

Following Israel’s invasion of Gaza, it’s open season in the West Bank too. Wadi al-Siq, a small Bedouin village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, now lies empty. Community leader Abdulrahman Kaabneh describes the violent assault that led to their 1

When 20 armed police officers stormed Yoav Haifawi’s home in Haifa, Israel, the veteran anti-Zionist activist was unsurprised. The 29 October raid was his second arrest in a week for protesting Israel’s war on Gaza. This time, police detained the 68-

Goatherd Ajang was born a year before the 1962 Sino-Indian war redrew the cold desert border separating the two powers in Ladakh. Ever since the violent border dispute driven by Cold War tensions, Ladakh’s Changpa nomads have struggled to rear the pa

Politicians are not known for being gracious losers but few have thrown their toys out the pram quite like Uganda minister Evelyn Anite. In a move that would make the sorest of sore losers blush, Anite took back an ambulance she’d donated to her cons

Manitoba residents have elected the province’s first ever First Nations premier. But, as newly elected Wab Kinew has been quick to observe, the western Canadian province has had other premiers with Indigenous roots, including Louis Riel, who was hang

Murders and kidnappings are the ‘daily lot’ of Haitians, according to UN-appointed Haitian human rights expert William O’Neill. As gangs fight for control of the Caribbean nation, life has become unbearable. Almost 200,000 Haitians have been forced f

Wildcats could be brought back from the brink of extinction in the UK, after a Scottish project introduced 19 young wildcats into a secret pine forest location in the Cairngorm mountains. The destruction of native woodland, interbreeding with domesti

War on Want UK-based group with a campaign for a Global Green New Deal. waronwant.org Grassroots Global Justice US-based alliance ggjalliance.org Transnational Institute Research and advocacy for a just, democratic and sustainable planet. TNI.org Glo

15,000Mt (megatonne = billion kg/million tonnes) Fossil fuels extracted each year – the majority of it coal.1 27.5Mt Total expected mineral demand for clean energy technologies by 2040, according to one analysis.2 This is 4x the current 7Mt needed an

One of the weak spots in what is being framed as the ‘green transition’ is the access to raw materials needed to transform the power-base of industrial economies from fossil fuels to ‘clean’ technologies. This is especially true for the European Unio

Wedged between two regional giants, Uruguay has had little choice but to assert itself through the beautiful game. After hosting the inaugural football World Cup in 1930 and beating its western neighbour Argentina in the final, ‘La Celeste’ repeated

LEADER: President Luis Lacalle Pou. ECONOMY: GNI per capita: $18,030 (Argentina $11,620; UK $48,890). Monetary unit: Uruguayan Peso: (1 UY Peso: $0.025). Main exports: soybeans, milk, rice, maize, wheat, barley, beef, sugar cane, sorghum, oranges. PO

Uruguay stands out in Latin America for its relatively egalitarian society and high income per capita. Extreme poverty is almost non-existent. Its middle class is the largest on the continent and represents more than 60% of its population. The Covid-

In October, I saw Angela Davis, lifelong freedom fighter, feminist philosopher and author from the US, speak at an online event called ‘Black Feminist Writers and Palestine’, organized by the Black Women Radicals advocacy organization.1 Davis led wit

Lakes become mud puddles, river courses look like dirt roads. Images of drought in northern Brazil’s Amazon, alongside floods in the southern states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, provide a glimpse of the country’s future with the worsening

Radicals and Rogues The Women Who Made New York Modern by Lottie Whalen (Reaktion, ISBN 9781789147865) reaktionbooks.co.uk In 1917, a reporter for the New York Evening Sun declared that ‘women were the cause of modernism, whatever that is’. The socia

by Vincent Bevins (Wildfire, ISBN 9781035412273) headline.co.uk Amid the protests of the last decade, much of the reporting was breathless and boosterish. Technology was presented as inherently liberating, and the possibilities for the new world were

by Gregor Gall (Manchester University Press, ISBN 9781526173096) manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk ‘You’ve gone off into the world of the surreal,’ Mick Lynch told Kay Burley live on Sky News. ‘Your questions are verging into nonsense.’ Since the start

by Alexis Wright (And Other Stories, ISBN 9781913505929) andotherstories.org Aboriginal Sovereignty, 17 years old, walks into the sea to end it all. His father, Cause Man Steel, is too busy planning his fortune as the proprietor of a sustainable donk

by A. J. Liebling (Penguin Modern Classics, ISBN 9780241637975) penguin.co.uk The US journalist AJ Liebling was an Olympian eater. He could have had a successful career as an ASMR-style videoblogger: his performative gourmandise smacks of that made p

I’m standing at a particularly unglamorous bus stop in Glasgow’s city centre. It’s the second time I’ve been found feeling rather sorry for myself here, at this mid-evening hour, in the past month. In both cases it’s been after getting a train to my