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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement goes one step further than just internet censorship, it can be used to restrict access to medicines for the poor, says Charlie Harvey.…

As he prepares to headline the Glastonbury festival this Friday, U2's Bono finds himself accused once again of tax dodging.…

The reality of indefinite detention in England.…

Louise Gray is a music columnist for New Internationalist and the author of the No-Nonsense Guide to World Music…

Hoe-down fiddles, the rhythmic rattle of spoons and kazoos with some banjos marking time, and you could be – where? A fictive Appalachian town? Some 1930s travelling music show?…

Folk music, as Empire and Love shows so well, is a music that has a grounding in both past and present, both populist and political.…

Low whistle, hornpipes, kaval (this is a traditional Balkan flute) and practice chanter (and this a part of the Scots bagpiping set-up) are just a few of the instruments employed by Fraser Fifield on Stereocanto.…

People in rural Sierra Leone still don’t understand what constitutes domestic violence or why it’s a crime.…

An album loaded with the instrumentation - fiddle, steel guitar, banjo and mandolin - of American roots music.…

It’s time to ask some very basic questions, like: What are banks for? What are houses for? What’s credit for? What’s the economy for? Or, for that matter, what’s the environment for? Vanessa Baird suggests a 10-point economic detox programme.…