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Issue 470 of New Internationalist

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March 2014

Commodities

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Country Profile: Iran

There is much more to Iran than the Western world's image of it as a progenitor of terrorist outrages, says Mischa Kally.

Can porn be ethical?

Porn performer and lecturer Kitty Stryker and feminist writer and activist Louise Pennington go head to head.

Money-making and morality are seldom bed-fellows

Chris Coltrane explains why investing in bombing children to feed other children is not OK.

Hooked on commodities

Natural resource wealth isn't always a blessing. As Wayne Ellwood discovers, sometimes it can be just the opposite.

Meet the protest profiteers

There’s money to be made in crowd ‘control’, as Anna Feigenbaum discovers.

Let's talk about sex in... the Arab world

Shereen El Feki hopes to reclaim the spirit of her ancestors who lived when sex was a pleasure - for both men and women.

Madagascar tar sands threat

Kara Moses reports on plans to dig bitumen in a 'biological treasure trove'.

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