Issue 464 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
July-August 2013
Debt – a global scam
After decades of debt traps being sprung on the Majority World through no fault of their own, debt now riddles and corrodes the entire world’s financial system.
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Debt, austerity, devastation: it’s Europe’s turn
As the creditors get fatter, the innocent are punished. Susan George laments a leadership subservient to big business.
Migrant suffering on the rise in Greece
Syrian refugees find scant refuge in Europe, reports Naomi Westland.
Eritrean disapora dials freedom with 'robocall'
Rizwan Syed reports on how the mass automated calls that marketeers use to torment us are put to good use - sending messages of...
Debt – The Facts
At any given time countries both owe debts and have them owing to them. Who owes what and what's the bigger crisis – foreign or...
Orthodox Church goes on the rampage in Georgia
Why were nettle-wielding women and stool-throwing priests allowed to attack LGTBI activists? asks Onnik Krikorian.
Bats: not just pests
As the British parliament debates the damage bats cause in churches, Dawn Starin argues that it’s time to revise the ‘creepy’...
Argument: Are exams bad for children?
Teachers Stephanie Schneider and Matt Christison go head-to-head.
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