Issue 494 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
July-August 2016
Smiley-faced monopolists
For Facebook, Amazon and Google, we have traded our privacy for something we find useful and put on hold our support for ethical shopping in exchange for the ease of low (or no) price and almost-instant gratification. This month's magazine looks at just how far down the line we are and asks how deeply exploitative and anti-democratic is this new ‘surveillance capitalism’ under which we now live. This month’s contributors include security expert Bruce Schneier, psychologist Robert Epstein and engineer and software activist Prabir Purkayastha.
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'I will never give up my land'
Roxana Olivera talks to Goldman Environment Prize winner Máxima Acuña.
What's not for sale in branded America?
Mark Engler bemoans the corporate colonization of public space.
Malaysia’s slide from pseudo-democracy toward authoritarianism
The story is a complex web of deceit, connecting the ruling elite, royalty, investment banks and offshore tax havens. Nithin Coca...
Franco's ghosts
The dictator’s victims are still waiting to see their torturers on trial – and time is running out. By Mira Galanova.
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