September 2005's Issue

Kashmiri poet Murtaza Shibli works on the London Underground, where he thought he was safe from bombings and destruction – until 7/7.

No nukes is good nukes; find out how.

Alex Kelly and Carla Deane find Aboriginal Australians leading the fight against the nuclear industry.

Proponents of new fusion technology promise it will deliver clean and limitless power to the masses. Peter Montague is having a case of déjà-vu.

Recent scientific research suggests that higher cancer rates near nuclear power stations are a direct result of higher radiation exposure.

Paul-E Comeau looks back at some of the cultural impacts of the ‘Atomic Age’.

Wild Grass - China’s Revolution from Below by Ian Johnson

You’ve Stolen My Heart by The Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle.

Arakimentari directed by Travis Klose.

Sullen, unresponsive and boring he may be, but Than Shwe is Burma’s Number One, leader of one of the world’s most brutal regimes. The banality of evil has rarely been more apparent.

Women accused of witchcraft seek sanctuary.

As the media focus on crises in the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Nauru, a political earthquake elsewhere in the Pacific islands has passed largely unnoticed.

Desperation over abortion in Colombia.

When Ukrainians celebrated New Year 2005 in Kiev in a delirious sea of orange and anthems of the revolution, the future looked bright. But divisions remain.

Trade unionist Hassan Juma’a Awad stood up against Saddam and now he’s standing up for oil workers against the occupation of Iraq and the privatization of its oil.

The relationship between English aristocrats and impoverished Indian farmers is all too evident to Rahul Rao.