People are not dying of HIV and TB because there is no cure but because medicine can be stubbornly inflexible, explains Anna Hughes.
Occupy Wukan: A call for solidarity action
We are the 99 per cent – but so are the residents of a Chinese village who are protesting against land-grabbing. So let’s show our support to them, too, says Beth Tichborne.
- Bethan Tichborne
- December 15, 2011
- New Internationalist Blogs
- 1
Video: Scrap the carbon credits scheme!
EU ministers must follow the UN and abolish this flawed initiative.
- Lloyd Abbott
- December 15, 2011
- New Internationalist Blogs
- 1
Obama must act before the US implicates itself in a war crime at Camp Ashraf
Iraq is planning to close the camp at the end of 2011 – but the fate of its inhabitants is far from secure.
- Saeid Zabeti
- December 15, 2011
- New Internationalist Blogs
- 4
Rare victory for Western Sahara
Chris Brazier reports on the European Parliament’s decision to cancel its fishing deal with Morocco.
- Chris Brazier
- December 14, 2011
- The Editors’ Blog
- 1
Occupy the north
The shock of budget cuts has inspired folk across Britain to take to the streets. Tim Gee meets some of them.
- Tim Gee
- December 14, 2011
- New Internationalist Blogs
- 0
Video: Banking on hunger
New Internationalist editor Hazel Healy talks to OccupyLSX about food speculation and how the banks are causing millions to go hungry.
- Hazel Healy
- December 13, 2011
- New Internationalist Blogs
- 0
We messed up, but you can still save the planet
A message to the younger generation, in the wake of COP17 in Durban, from Paul Downton, who has been monitoring climate change for more than 30 years.
- Paul Downton
- December 13, 2011
- New Internationalist Blogs
- 4
Durban became a procrastinators’ paradise
In his final missive from COP17 climate talks, Nnimmo Bassey lays into a polluters’ deal that spells catastrophe for the world’s poorest.
- Nnimmo Bassey
- December 12, 2011
- New Internationalist Blogs
- 1
Education is a right, not a privilege! say Filipino protesters
Student attempts to occupy Manila may have been thwarted – but the protests will continue, says Iris Gonzales.
- Iris Gonzales
- December 12, 2011
- The Majority World Blog
- 1
Video: A Minority Pastime
Denise Ward discovers that the symbolic imagery of foxhunting veils a dark reality of traumatized victims, masked gangs, coercion and deception.
- Xanna Ward-Dixon
- December 12, 2011
- New Internationalist Blogs
- 4
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