Articles by New Internationalist Editorial

As delegates gather at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, two videos expose what happens when community land is taken over by private interests.

… and lots more in the latest Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network.

New Internationalist comments on a recent post.

How has the corporate press reacted to the fighting in Syria?

Why haven’t our leaders, itching to get the UN security council to act on Syria, learnt the lessons of UN intervention in Libya?

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto on her latest film, Pink Saris.

The time has come for Britain’s biggest companies to pay living wages, says Matthew Butcher of FairPensions.

Burma’s much-touted ‘roadmap to democracy’ is anything but, say Jody Williams and Tin Tin Nyo. 

Three personal stories of the battles being fought for workers’ rights.

The best music, books and films from 2008

The democratic credentials of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili are in tatters.

Eat in or get taken away

Business is booming for sinister seamstress

Take off your shoes to George Dubya?

Millions of African lives lost from shortfall in doctors.

New law gives animal rights campaigners reason to celebrate.

New Internationalist’s list of nominees for Most Artful Tax Dodger.

Hear the harrowing story of a Canadian torture victim.

Virtual reality for global events

Here, in numbers, is the story of the four years since US and British troops ‘liberated’ Iraq

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President of the Philippines, has been called ‘the fourth most powerful woman in the world’. But she needs the iron hands of her generals.

Including Building the ban with Belgian activists and DU and the law.

Hillary Clinton, frontrunner in the race for the White House, is a woman. Unfortunately, that’s where the good news ends.

China permits reincarnation

Take a deep breath and jump in to Planet Ocean
Come and join us for the UK book launch, 18th October, 6:30pm at Waterstones, Piccadilly, London. (see map below)

Estranged brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens, opinionated columnists, have completed ideological journeys from far Left to far Right.

US health-product giant shoots itself in the foot

Code cracker gets four years in jail and loses rights to residency.

Pakistan’s Intelligence Agency, the ISI, finds out what it is like to be in the firing line.

The land of wheat and maple syrup

Corporate watchdog sees red at Bono’s branded goodies.

Day of action across the US demanding carbon cuts

Thousands gather in Guatemala for the Third Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala

Demand grows for mega-cruiseships holding 10,000 tourists

Ten day festival of African cinema in Burkina Faso.

Logging company director charged with incitement to commit murder

True tales of a mixed-up world

What people are doing to the ocean – the facts

Dalit women speak out against human rights abuses and discrimination at an international conference in The Hague, Netherlands.

Armenian leader Robert Kocharian could give lessons in how to flirt with dictatorship but pull back just enough to maintain European good will – despite listing one of his hobbies as ‘War’.

Book ban for bad language

Fair trade business is booming across the Western world, which can only be good news for the millions of poor farmers struggling to survive in the face of collapsing commodity prices and ruthless multinationals, right? Maybe, but as fair trade goes mainstream, formerly-clear distinctions about who really benefits are getting blurry.

The Story of My Life and The Silver Throat of the Moon by refugee writers

Nestlé Fairtrade mockery.

tChorba by Les Yeux Noirs.

A Letter to the Prime Minister directed by Julia Guest.

Brothers directed by Susanne Blier

A few questions for bingos that appeal to you.

Rwanda after the genocide, in our Country Profile series

Egrets and tree frogs; migrant families and cityscapes: why the sixth and greatest extinction in the planet’s history is happening now.

The chilling message of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, conducted by more than 1,360 experts worldwide at the behest of the UN.

From desert storms to plane travel and smokestacks, how the air we breathe may prove to be our downfall.

Recommendations for governments – and addresses of action groups that will keep them honest.

From monoculture in Montana to the spreading Gobi desert in China, how our assault on the earth has eroded its thin skin of soil.

Bleached coral and beached ships; lost wetlands and sinking islands: the power of water over our health, our weather and our wars.

NI editorial comment - United Nations of America?

Here’s how!

The aftermath and implications of the Asian tsunami. Includes: the Burmese migrant workers who were forgotten victims; caste discrimination in India even amid the tsunami trauma; an NI reader on helping to identify bodies in Thailand.

A guide to resisting the forces of occupation.

– a survey of how and where.

It never was the UN’s job to make heaven on earth. Shashi Tharoor defends the organization against misguided missiles.

Yale boy in Babylon: the US Viceroy in Iraq, L Paul Bremer III.

Political music pioneers Dmitri Shostakovich, Remitti, Víctor Jara, Cui Jian, Bob Marley, Fela Kuti, Mercedes Sosa and Miriam Makeba.

A tribute to Nina Simone/strong.