Denise Ward discovers that the symbolic imagery of foxhunting veils a dark reality of traumatized victims, masked gangs, coercion and deception.
Denise Ward discovers that the symbolic imagery of foxhunting veils a dark reality of traumatized victims, masked gangs, coercion and deception.
We generally assume music is used for the good – but occasionally this is not so… Plus win a free copy of the No-Nonsense Guide to World Music.
The Bhopal disaster cost tens of thousands of lives, and blighted half a million. Alan Hughes asks why the company now liable is sponsoring the Olympics rather than paying compensation.
The recent violence against protesters at the Yanacocha mine has been caught on film. Now campaigners are calling on President Humala to act.
Danny Dorling asks whether the millions earnt by the top 1% are justified when there are one million unemployed young people in the UK.
Nigeria’s new legislation is just another way of legitimizing all kinds of sexual prejudice and violence, says Sokari Ekine.
Hope for a binding treaty starts to evaporate in Durban as politicians look to a deal that will cook the continent, says Nnimmo Bassey.
On Wednesday, Britain saw its biggest strikes for 85 years, sounding a note of challenge to the government’s austerity drive, reports Michael Pooler.
The New Internationalist co-editor speaks about the growth of military spending in an age of austerity.
It’s not a court; it has no legal status. Yet, argues Frank Barat, the Russell Tribunal is a powerful tool for recognition and to internationalize the Palestinian struggle.
New Internationalist editor Vanessa Baird dissects the financial crisis at Occupy London’s Tent City University.
Two young Indian children have been taken into care in Norway because their mother fed them with her fingers. Mari Marcel Thekaekara is appalled.
India's plans to buy up land in Africa are shameful, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
By cutting the fuel subsidy the Nigerian government has snatched away the main benefit to the people from the country's oil wealth, says Sokari Ekine.
With a ring of prayer planned to protest the eviction of the Occupy camp at St Paul’s, the Christian Left is coming of age, says Symon Hill.
Add your name to those urging the UK government to support Ecuador's initiative to keep the oil in the ground.
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