Currents

Water shortage: the real thing
Coca-Cola's water use in drought ravaged Kala Dera

Sweeping the streets
Poor South Africans fall foul of soccer tournament preparations

Miracle or mirage?
Solar-powered development has huge potential if problems can be overcome

Balibo Five case reopened
Thirty-four years on, the notorious case of the ‘Balibo Five’ is to be reopened.

Bloody oil
Canadian First Nations internationalize their struggle against the most destructive project on earth

Best of the NI web
Favourites from the New Internationalist blog

Last frontier
Local communities fight mineral exploration and eviction in the Andes

Regime thumbs its nose at the world
The largest forced relocation since 1996-98

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

Naked Emperors
It’s time to ask some very basic questions, like: What are banks for? What are houses for? What’s credit for? What’s the economy for? Or, for that matter, what’s the environment for? Vanessa Baird suggests a 10-point economic detox programme.

A brief history of Afghanistan
The fighting, the pain and the hunger for change

Plastic plants
As oil supplies dwindle, the plastic industry is pinning its hopes on biomass. Not a great idea, reasons Jim Thomas.

Too late for Martha
Denied treatment while pregnant, she died in agony after her child was born. Jens Erik Gould tells a tragic story that changed the law on abortion in Colombia.

The banks are made of marble
The true owners of the silver in the vaults.

The fourth generation
Iran is young, vibrant and diverse, despite the repression, as Nasrin Alavi explains.