June 2009's Issue

This April, Barack Obama broke campaign promise #511, namely to explicitly acknowledge the Armenian genocide as US President. Mickey Z gets writer-activist David Boyajian’s take on the new President’s approach.

Legitimate indigenous protests against Peru’s latest free trade agreements have led to bloodshed following the Government’s decision to send in the military. Ben Powless reports.

Shopping causes all sorts of moral dilemmas when goods are labelled ‘West Bank’, bemoans Anna Chen.

Directed by Jamie J Johnson, yes, it is about Eurovision, and many of the songs are appalling, but what comes over is the solidarity between the contestants, and how un-egotistical they are.

Lezak Shallat discovers why Latin Americans are learning Chinese.

Resource wars? Climate armageddon? What business-as-usual in China will mean for the rest of the world.

Egyptian economist Gouda Abdel-Khalek talks with Rowenna Davis about China’s political plays in the Middle East.

Concern over the Canadian Government’s handling of Canada’s tar sands

Transnational food company found modifying all its rice to evade price controls

Saudi judge upholds the arranged marriage between an eight-year-old girl and a 47-year-old man.

Facts, figures and statistics of Trinidad & Tobago

Drug prohibition doesn’t work. Time to legalize instead, argues Rachel Godfrey Wood.

A guide to who’s running the show in China.

Police surveillance and intimidation of political activists is hitting new heights. Olly Zanetti dodges the long lenses to expose Big Brother’s latest attack on the right to protest.

Khaled Hasan captures life working in Bangladesh’s brickfields.

Accompanied by a wide range of sound for this latest outing – jazzy horns, strings and the kamele ngoni (harp) played by trusty sidekick Benego Diakite – Seya is an album that simply flows.

Chinese investors may bring manufacturing back to the West, discovers Libby Tucker.