Why are we all being criminalized? From media reports you’d think we were the most educationally-backward, pissed, pregnant, clap-ridden nation of crooks and delinquents in Europe.
July 2009's Issue
Who owns the Arctic? A few years ago most people, if they thought about this question at all, would probably have answered ‘no-one’, or possibly ‘Santa Claus’, and been content to leave it at that. But the question of who has the power to make decisions about what happens in the Arctic, and who has the right to its land, seas and resources, is increasingly starting to burn - within the Arctic nations, and beyond. Thanks to climate change, the rest of the world has never been so aware of what’s going on in the snowy north. Suddenly, we all have a stake in it. But who gets to determine its destiny?
The NI takes a look beyond the images of melting ice-caps and stressed-out polar bears that are sadly becoming commonplace, and focuses on the human consequences of the slow earthquake rocking the top of the world, and the struggles over its future that are currently being played out.
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Dark Days for Burma
Teashop gossip and the ‘generous’ Generals: Burma is again in the international spotlight following the extension of Aung San Suu Kyi’s home detention. Alex Lewis reports.
- Alex Lewis
- 13 Aug 2009
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‘It’s not who’s voting, it’s who’s counting’
Malalai Joya was one of the first women to be elected to Afghanistan’s parliament. In the run-up to the 20 August elections, Joya speaks openly to journalist Lucinda Dunn.
- Lucinda Dunn
- 11 Aug 2009
- 0
Kashmir’s Kan-i-jung: Cry for Freedom
In the strife-torn valley of India-controlled Kashmir, the decades-long conflict continues to take its toll, especially on its young. Dilnaz Boga has met some of them.
- Dilnaz Boga
- 6 Aug 2009
- 0
Are Colombians really that happy?
Yes, according to the latest Happy Planet Index. Rachel Godfrey Wood considers the evidence.
- Rachel Godfrey Wood
- 5 Aug 2009
- 0
Less talk, more wind!
Wind power workers are blowing up a storm, discovers Danny Chivers.
- Danny Chivers
- 4 Aug 2009
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Right to return
Leah Williams recently visited a refugee camp in Lebanon, where she met Palestinians still waiting to return to a homeland many of them have never seen.
- Leah Williams
- 30 Jul 2009
- 0
Out of the barracks
A military coup in Honduras puts Latin America’s fragile democracy in peril, reports Richard Swift.
- Richard Swift
- 23 Jul 2009
- 0
Murder In The Name Of Honour
A grim but compelling reading – a fitting testament to all the women killed who had sex outside marriage.
- Peter Whittaker
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
A slow earthquake
The Arctic is changing dramatically. Jess Worth finds out what it means for the people who live there.
- Jess Worth
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Within My Walls
An odd title, given the political geography of Israel/Palestine, this album projects a vision of multicultural music that seems to have little space for Palestinian musicians.
- Louise Gray
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
The Arctic: a history
A mythical place – land of the frozen ocean, the aurora borealis and the midnight sun.
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Climate radio
Jess Worth talks about the NI magazine on the Arctic with Climate Radio.
- Jess Worth
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
House of Hunger
An album that is very much the sound of a modern-day freedom fighter.
- Louise Gray
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Burma VJ – reporting from a closed country
This is the story of ‘Joshua’, an underground video journalist. By Anders Ostergaard
- Richard Swift
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Unpopular poplars
Environmentalists oppose the genetically engineered poplar trees for the production of cellulosic ethanol or industrial biofuel.
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Black Wave – the legacy of the Exxon Valdez
This film documents the corporate chicanery and disinformation that has followed since the Exxon tanker dumped millions of gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s pristine Prince William Sound.
- Richard Swift
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Slick operators
Jess Worth meets two indigenous activists battling Big Oil’s dirty tricks.
- Jess Worth
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Qatar
Nowhere near as religious as its neighbour, Saudi Arabia, nor as bling-obsessed as nearby United Arab Emirates, Qatar has astutely observed the paths other Gulf states have chosen, and then cherry-picked what seems to work best.
- Jill Goldberg
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Obama's Cuba challenge
Previous US policy towards Cuba failed. Leonardo Padura Fuentes considers what needs to happen next.
- Leonardo Padura Fuentes
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Orgasm Inc
US documentary-maker Liz Canner takes on Big Pharma over the creation and marketing of a disease called ‘female sexual dysfunction’.
- Richard Swift
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Pardon the disturbance
In an upside-down world, there are many questions to be asked, writes Eduardo Galeano.
- Eduardo Galeano
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Life without the car
Chris Richards goes cold turkey in her umpteenth attempt to do without her car – and fumes about the structure of modern life that makes the task so hard.
- Chris Richards
- 1 Jul 2009
- 1
Bernie Madoff
If you’ve heard of Ponzi Schemes, it could be thanks to Bernie Madoff. About time he got his comeuppance…
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Arctic - Links and Resources
Organizations, campaign groups, news, books & films on the Arctic.
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Episode 3 - 'Enjoy Poverty'
A gritty, uncomfortable offering from Renzo Martens that brought outraged responses from some of the NGO and media people in the audience.
- Richard Swift
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Defamation
Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir challenges the idea that there is a ‘new anti-Semitism’.
- Richard Swift
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
When the ice melts
What does the future hold? Jess Worth learns from five leading figures.
- Jess Worth
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Who owns the Arctic?
Could countries come to blows over the North’s resources? Professor Michael Byers explains.
- Jess Worth
- 1 Jul 2009
- 1
Cutting for Stone
An excellent first novel, teeming with memorable characters and dealing with momentous events; the sort of old-fashioned yarn in which the patient reader can become immersed.
- Peter Whittaker
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
Hossam Bahgat
Hossam Bahgat is one of Egypt’s most prominent and effective human rights campaigners. He explains why things are getting worse in his country.
- Alasdair Soussi
- 1 Jul 2009
- 0
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