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Issue 459 of New Internationalist

Reader-owned global journalism

January-February 2013

The Feral Rich

The feral rich… are always with us, but ever richer and more savage. What can we do to stop the feckless rich, as they ravage economies to feather their nests? Jan/Feb 2013's New Internationalist magazine.

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Azerbaijan's pompous kleptocrat

Worldbeater dishes the dirt on Ilham Aliyev, master of autocratic self-enrichment.

The feral rich

How do they get away with it? Vanessa Baird investigates.
The feral rich - how can we help them?

The feral rich - how can we help them?

A 10-point action plan for policymakers, illustrated by Kate Charlesworth.

Laying into the poor

From the US to China, Owen Jones documents how the demonization of the have-nots is going global.

India's elites have a ferocious sense of entitlement

A revealing set of US studies has got Urvashi Butalia thinking about how the rich behave in Delhi.

Greece: what the potato movement did next

From direct deals with farmers to guerrilla parks and suicide prevention, Alexandra Saliba documents grassroots solutions to the...
How migrant demographics are reshaping US politics

How migrant demographics are reshaping US politics

With 7 out of 10 Latinos voting to re-elect Barack Obama, Republicans are debating whether to alter their hardline immigration...

Jon Snow - 'Twitter is a sensational medium'

The veteran journalist talks to Libby Powell about the dearth of tweeting Tuaregs, reporting war crimes and the scourge of guinea...
Indigenous organizations to sue Peru over Amazon gas project

Indigenous organizations to sue Peru over Amazon gas project

David Hill reports on the legal move to protect isolated indigenous peoples at risk of ‘extermination’ by the country’s biggest...

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