These are tough times for farmers in Argentina as Jaime Jacques discovers.
May 2008's Issue
Burma should be celebrating 60 years of independence, but instead the country is colonized from within. The military dictatorship that’s got its jackboot on the nation’s neck now goes by the name of the State Peace and Development Council. But peace and development are just two things among many it has not managed to deliver – large sections of the country are riven by civil war as armed groups fight military rule and, often, each other. The NI speaks with Burmese people, both inside and outside the country. With great fear and courage they are trying to keep the flame of freedom alight.
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Why We Fight
Why We Fight: It is nowhere written that the American empire goes on forever.
- Malcolm Lewis
- 1 May 2008
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City of whispers
Among Rangoon’s six million souls, a few have secret conversations with Dinyar Godrej.
- Dinyar Godrej
- 1 May 2008
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Burma - the facts
Burma is a country with very poor reporting on most basic indicators. International agencies have limited access.
- 1 May 2008
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Uruguay
It was the meddling British who used their cartographic skills to delineate the country that would become Uruguay in the early 19th century, as a buffer zone between the two regional giants, Argentina and Brazil. The result was a country stuck in the shado
- Ana Caistor-Arendar
- 1 May 2008
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Homeless in Delhi
Jeremy Seabrook ventures inside a night shelter in India’s capital city.
- Jeremy Seabrook
- 1 May 2008
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"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French writer and philosopher
- 1 May 2008
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African Scream Contest
African Scream Contest: A cornucopia of Afro-trance music.
- Louise Gray
- 1 May 2008
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Dow cowed
Protesters have had a dramatic victory at the site of Dow Chemical’s proposed new chemical plant at Pune, 150 kilometres southeast of Mumbai in India.
- 1 May 2008
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Mothers' misery
A contraceptive ban imposed in Manila eight years ago has badly affected the city’s poor.
- 1 May 2008
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The Transition Handbook
The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience
- Phil England
- 1 May 2008
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Journey to Justice
A long way travelled but still far to go on debt relief
- Jonathan Stevenson
- 1 May 2008
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Final Silence
Final Silence is a finely modulated meditation on guilt and forgiveness.
- Peter Whittaker
- 1 May 2008
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Was Jesus Christ a revolutionary?
Jesus kept some shady political company. And his lifestyle has obvious radical resonance. But was he out to overthrow the state? Terry Eagleton examines the Gospels for evidence.
- Terry Eagleton
- 1 May 2008
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Action on Burma
Give your active support to organizations that lobby on behalf of the issues that matter to Burma’s people.
- 1 May 2008
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Corporate hogwash
Investors in Burma have blood on their hands, according to Maung Maung.
- 1 May 2008
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Caucus of terrorists
Dinyar Godrej concludes his report: meeting enemies of the State – and looking to the future.
- Dinyar Godrej
- 1 May 2008
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Plan B 3.0 - Mobilizing to Save Civilization
‘We are in a race between tipping points in the earth’s natural systems and those in the world’s political systems. Which will tip first?’
- Phil England
- 1 May 2008
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The Bairns
Out of Britain’s blustery Northumbria comes Rachel Unthank and her Winterset trio.
- Louise Gray
- 1 May 2008
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