In this issue
The big story
Spies, damned spies
How far are states willing to go to spy on dissent? Bethany Rielly explores Catalonia’s murky world of police infiltrators and spyware to find out.
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360° Repression
Myanmar’s military junta is expanding its sinister systems of surveillance, but anti-coup activists are adapting to the shrinking space for dissent. Preeti Jha reports.
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Spy games
Antony Loewenstein looks at Israel’s role in the insidious spread of dangerous spyware tools across the world.
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Under Amazon’s eyes
Taj Ali explores how the retail titan’s dystopian systems of surveillance watch workers on the assembly and picket lines.
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Q&A: Overwatched and underserved
Bethany Rielly speaks to Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition on how they’re taking on police surveillance of their neighbourhoods.
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Protest spy-tech
Police have an eye-watering arsenal of high-tech tools to spy on protests. We spoke to privacy campaigners to gather some top tips on how you can protect your devices and anonymity. A visualization by David Senior.
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Towards a post-capitalist internet
Big Tech’s model of surveillance is baked into today’s internet. Juan Ortiz Freuler makes the case for a new world wide web beyond capitalism.
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Currents
Democracy in the ‘coup belt’
To understand why Africans welcome coup plotters with open arms, we must look at Senegal.
Introducing… Guatemala’s Bernardo Arévalo
Against all odds, the anti-corruption crusader won the election and gave the country at least some hope.
UK spreads digital censorship
The Online Safety Bill could create a ‘blueprint for repression around the world’.
Outcry over old growth logging in Tasmania
Environmentalists’ anger spills over as logging jeopardizes the island’s ability to serve as a carbon sink.
The emissions of prohibition
The ‘war on drugs’ is a major contributor to climate change and rainforest degradation, campaigners say.
Mega-development imperils uncontacted tribe in India
Like all uncontacted tribe, the Shompen are among the most vulnerable societies on Earth.
Argentina’s own Donald Trump
Another deranged politician is just what the world needs… Right?
Regulars
Letter from La Muyuna
Stephanie Boyd searches for the spirit world beneath the Amazon river
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Country profile: Bermuda
Can the country’s success be separated from the enslavement of people ripped from Africa?
Cartoon History: The Algerian War of Indepenendence
ILYA charts the long ‘dirty war’ that left Algeria finally free of French rule – but at what cost?
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Temperature Check
Danny Chivers reports on how the people of Ecuador took down the oil giants.
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Southern Exposure
Asmaa Waguih gets an enchanting shot of a whirling dervish in Old Cairo.
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Hall of Infamy: Ren Zhengfei
Who needs workers’ rights when you can bask in the genius of Huawei’s multi-millionaire CEO?
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Agony Uncle
I’m a trans woman: Should I go to Jordan for a year? NI’s in-house ethics adviser chips in.
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What if… We answered Isis with restorative justice?
Matt Broomfield looks at the possibilities.
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Comment
View from India
Nilanjana Bhowmick demands that policymakers give women a more active role in building peace.
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View from Africa
Rosebell Kagumire argues that a more just approach to climate change is needed.
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View from Brazil
Lula is attempting to make Brazil’s tax system more progressive – but faces a tough struggle, says Leonardo Sakamoto.
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Climate coups
Gambian MP Abdoulie Ceesay argues that the climate crisis is behind the Sahel’s political instability – and asks the West to put its money where its mouth is to tackle it.
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Features
A holiday in Kashmir
Pranay Somayajula explores how the nationalist Indian government is trying to make Kashmir a ‘tourist hotspot’.
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‘Leave us alone’
Natasha Ion reports from Tunisia on how one city’s residents are taking on the country’s phosphate industry.
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The Long Read: Paris isn’t dead yet
Author Cole Stangler speaks to the residents of the banlieues as the Olympics draws closer.
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From the archive: Life sentence
Debbie Taylor argues that women are imprisoned by domestic work.
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Mixed media
The long review
Jack Dunleavy examines Motion Sickness by Lynne Tillman and finds a republished classic a little too earnest for its own good.
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Book reviews
Lean on Me: The politics of Radical Care by Lynne Segal; Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health by Nick Dearden; Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie; Scammer by Caroline Calloway.
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Film reviews
Fallen leaves directed and written by Aki Kaurismäki; Tish directed by Paul Sng.
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Music reviews
Some Mississippi Sunday Morning by Parchman Prison Prayer; One Drop of Kindness by Yungchen Lhamo.
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Spotlight: Cian Dayrit
The Filipino artist chats to Conrad Landin about chronicling oppression and resistance.
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