Issue 436 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
October 2010
October 2010
The Western model of democracy – with its emphasis on parties and elections – is looking tired, thin and increasingly authoritarian. But alternatives are emerging from below... With the help of Arundhati Roy, Robert Fisk, Caroline Lucas and Raúl Zibechi we take an international look at the state of democracy today.
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Interview with Robert Fisk: we preach democracy yet befriend dictators
We only have ourselves to blame for the Middle East's cynicism, says Robert Fisk.
Chicks on speed
Naked art-piles, wireless guitar shoes, and jackets that turn into tents... Also: a controversial comedy about farmer suicides (...
I put a spell on you...
Zuhra Bahman gives the inside story on how male sorcerers are keeping women down in Afghanistan.
We don't really have a democracy
Tony Benn, Caroline Lucas MP and Agent Bristly Pioneer reflect on this year's UK election
Is it ever right to buy or sell human organs?
Join the debate as US psychiatrist Sally Satel goes head-to-head with Jeremy Chapman, President of the Transplantation Society.
The beauty of Big Democracy
Vanessa Baird celebrates the joys of disenchantment and the birth of hope.
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