Issue 477 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
November 2014
Big Oil RIP?
Ending the oil age
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Spied on by BP
Why did an oil company go to such lengths to monitor Jess Worth’s activism? Perhaps we are more powerful than we think.
The spirit of Saro-Wiwa rises
Twenty years after the execution of their leader, the Ogoni people are rebelling once more. Patrick Naagbanton reports from the...
A place to feel free
A group of young Chechens is battling to save their social club, reports Alice Lagnado.
A deeper pain
The daily reality of life in Gaza creates unseen psychological scars, writes psychiatrist Samah Jabr.
Ending the oil age
Change is coming. Jess Worth examines whether growing pressure for divestment and disruption can knock Big Oil off its perch.
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