Currents
Caught in the net
Brazil has no specific law to deal with internet content.
Victory looms
Transatlantic student boycott forces clothing company to reopen factory
Minor offences
India's brutal treatment of Kashmiri youths is fuelling conflict
Watching the weather
Weather patterns across the West African country have become increasingly hard to predict as a result of climate change.
The eye sees, but the hand can't reach
Palestinian proverb reflects bitter truth for olive farmers
Droning on
President Obama has carried out more drone attacks than George W Bush.
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
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ON THE NI SITE
Longing to heal
Haitians must be allowed to rebuild their own futures on their own terms, argues Scott Weinstein, a nurse from Montreal who went to the island after the earthquake to help treat the injured.
China’s neo-colonialism
Beijing is trumpeting a new free trade deal with its neighbours, but Walden Bello argues that the benefits are all likely to flow in one direction.
A rural revolution
Brazil is one of the most unequal societies in the world. But, as Alex Kawakami tells Rowenna Davis, there is a movement for change – and it’s getting bigger.
How (not) to survive the apocalypse
Anna Chen emerges from winter and wonders what happened to her backbone.
The vultures have landed
Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Haiti. Felicity Arbuthnot argues that the US’s so-called humanitarian intervention on the devastated Caribbean island is anything but.
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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.
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