Issue 525 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
April 2020
The fight for clean air
If humans have nothing else in common, it’s that we all need to breathe. But, over 90 per cent of us have to live with polluted air. This edition of New Internationalist takes up the fight for clean air.
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Spotlight: Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste talks to Subi Shah about the women who fought Mussolini in Ethiopia.
Why won’t croatia face its past?
The country’s political class is letting fascists off the hook and allowing history to be distorted. Jelena Prtorić asks: Whose...
Temperature check
Danny Chivers is buoyed up by three decisive victories led by indigenous groups against fossil fuel interests in Australia,...
Agony uncle: Is it unethical to hire a cleaner?
Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter...
Hall of infamy: Amit Shah
Is Amit Shah, the scandal-ridden Indian home minister, too cunning for his own good?
For a different hebron
In Palestine, Futura D’Aprile meets the peaceful change-makers who want to create hope for their divided city’s future.
The self-help myth
Political theorist Neil Vallelly on why the state keeps passing the buck to the individual.
‘Drums have the power to make people listen’
Lazinho and Lucas di Fiori of Brazil's famous Banda Olodum talk to Alessio Perrone about 40 years of drumming up change.
Greece: breaking point
As the EU continues to praise Greece as its ‘shield’ against migration, Zoe Holman reports on how refugees are coping in the...
Can the world handle another Rohingya crisis?
India is looking at the world’s largest statelessness crisis. Nilanjana Bhowmick asks, have we learned nothing from the ongoing...
Black women in the vanguard
In Brazil, misogynoir – misogyny directed at black women – has been used to fire up President Jair Bolsonaro’s machismo base,...
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