Issue 418 of New Internationalist

December 2008

Included in this issue

A stirring film, from the first graphic action scenes, showing police attacking demonstrators, and it never flags, never seems...

More than just a boardgame, according to its makers, *Andy Sheerin* and *Andy Tompkins*, the *War on Terror* challenges the...

Agribusiness and industrial farming: 10; farmers and the famished: nil. A report from the campaign group *GRAIN*.

Lorna, an Albanian working in a Belgian laundry, needs money to open a snack bar. The first step is citizenship, so she marries...

*David R Montgomery* on the one thing we can’t afford to run out of.

*Chris Brazier* makes the case for a green and fair diet.

*Polyp* on female beauty and male laughter.

The increase in global food prices may have temporarily stalled but food is expected to remain at record price levels for the...

The *NI* gives big agribusiness its say.

There is a company which manufactures and distributes concentrated sugary syrup and the way it conducts its affairs is the...

*Richard Swift* on the hard edge of hunger in a year of perpetual crisis. *Action* – a new diet for the world food system.

*John le Carré*'s latest novel could hardly be more topical or timely, dealing as it does with the seamier reaches of...