Current Affairs And Politics

1. 

   Trigger Issues: T-shirt

   An exploration of cotton and fashion through this most ubiquitous item of everyday wear.

   Troth Wells

   September 18, 2007
2. 

   Inside Israel-Palestine

   An ideal guide, in question and answer format, to this most complex of conflicts.

   Phyllis Bennis

   May 10, 2007
3. 

   Raging Against the Machine

   Influential articles from 30 years of hard-hitting, independent journalism from New Internationalist.

   edited by Chris Brazier

   May 10, 2007
4. 

   Consuming Cultures

   A wide-ranging and sensitive exploration of local versus global, underlining the economic roots of cultural identity.

   Jeremy Seabrook

   April 5, 2007
5. 

   Trigger Issues: Kalashnikov AK-47

   An everyday item (in many countries) with iconic status and strange cultural symbolism.

   Gideon Burrows

   February 23, 2007
6. 

   Trigger Issues: Mosquito

   The constant battle against the tiny foe and its deadly disease, and its cultural impact through history

   Richard Swift

   February 23, 2007
7. 

   Trigger Issues: Diamonds

   The ultimate ‘rocks’: desired, possessed, traded, stolen, smuggled and - literally for many - to die for.

   Nikki van der Gaag

   February 23, 2007
8. 

   Don’t Shoot the Clowns

   The Iraqi people’s story of dealing with invasion and occupation, told through an activist turned clown.

   Jo Wilding

   October 7, 2006

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