Banker Dan Mobley goes head to head with tax justice campaigner John Christensen.
November 2010's Issue
Our natural world is being increasingly denatured. There go the animals: extinctions are now up to a thousand times the natural background rate, and between 150 and 200 species become extinct every 24 hours. Watch out, plants: a fifth of your sort, up to 100,000 species, could also soon be extinct. Some 80,000 acres of rainforest vanish off the face of the earth – each day.
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Rebuilding Haiti (one vacation at a time)
Candidates in the upcoming presidential elections are touting tourism as Haiti’s ticket to prosperity. Yet the island is still reeling from January’s earthquake – so what sort of bizarre idea is this? wonders Elizabeth Lazar.
- Elizabeth Lazar
- 12 Nov 2010
- 1
Tensions build in Western Sahara endgame
Demonstrators evicted as Moroccan security forces move in to ‘protest city’.
- Stefan Simanowitz
- 10 Nov 2010
- 0
Are public service cuts justified?
Banker Dan Mobley goes head to head with tax justice campaigner John Christensen.
- John Christensen
- 1 Nov 2010
- 10
Margaret Atwood
The legendary Canadian author talks to Rowenna Davis about activism, women and breaking the male stronghold over ‘serious’ literature.
- Rowenna Davis
- 1 Nov 2010
- 0
Stopping the Juggernaut
Put environmental villains in the dock, says campaigner Polly Higgins.
- Polly Higgins
- 1 Nov 2010
- 0
A sea returns to life, a sea slowly dies
Paul Lauener’s stirring report from the Aral Sea, scene of both environmental miracle and disaster.
- Paul Lauener
- 1 Nov 2010
- 1
Why are we dancing round reality?
If the Age of Enlightenment was about proving certainties, we’re entering the time of unravelment, when everything falls apart.
That petrol emotion: BP's 'cleanup' of the Gulf of Mexico
Adam Ma’anit peers beyond the smoke and mirrors at BP’s ‘clean up’ of the Gulf of Mexico.
- Adam Ma'anit
- 1 Nov 2010
- 0
Cognac and horse sweat
In the name of research, Maria Golia meets a man with an unusual mission.
- Maria Golia
- 1 Nov 2010
- 1
Vedanta undermined!
Victory for the hill tribes of India in a David and Goliath battle.
- Mari Marcel Thekaekara
- 1 Nov 2010
- 0
We need to bust the pendulum, not see how it swings!
Our new columnist Mark Engler considers the impact of the US midterm elections.
- Mark Engler
- 1 Nov 2010
- 0
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