Essay
Toxic planet
Our profligate use of deadly chemicals is coming back to haunt us, writes Zoe Cormier.
Why children work
Jeremy Seabrook visits Bangladesh to better understand the roots of child labour.
Obama's Cuba challenge
Previous US policy towards Cuba failed. Leonardo Padura Fuentes considers what needs to happen next.
A remarkable failure
Drug prohibition doesn’t work. Time to legalize instead, argues Rachel Godfrey Wood.
Timor-Leste - Don’t Forget
Catherine Scott and Jo Barrett call on the international community to honour its obligations.
A Savage Environmentalism
Jeremy Seabrook on how bogus environmentalism is threatening some of India’s best friends of the environment.
Facing history in Cambodia
Why Cambodians need the Khmer Rouge on trial, by Tom Fawthrop.
Concrete dreams
India's middle class is becoming more antagonistic to the urban poor, says Jeremy Seabrook.
A meltdown primer
Radical insight and explanation from Waldon Bello.
Timor, Cuba - and the making of a medical superpower
Every year Cuba, a Majority World country of only 10 million people, sends more than 30,000 volunteer medical workers to 93 countries around the world. Surgeon Katherine Edyvane recounts the little-told story from first-hand experience.
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Things to do before I retire
Things to do before I retire… humble thoughts from the diary of GW Bush, as revealed by Stefan Simanowitz
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ON THE NI SITE
The Berlin Wall of the Desert
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Stefan Simanowitz reports from Western Sahara on the wall that has separated a nation for 29 years.
Hillywood dreams
In the hills of Rwanda, Tom Cropper finds the world’s most unique film festival.
President Blair: The great escape
Anna Chen heaves a sigh of relief as Tony's plans to conquer Europe are halted.
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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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