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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
FOK-U: the Façade Of Kindness & Understanding
A seminar in effective leadership (PR & spin) by Peter Greenwall
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Global warming and the King’s Arms pub
Horatio Morpurgo supplies an environmental missing link.
Homeless in Delhi
Jeremy Seabrook ventures inside a night shelter in India’s capital city.
The triumph of triviality
Our culture’s tolerance for seriousness has never been lower, argues John F Schumaker.
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ON THE NI SITE
Obama and the denial of genocide
This April, Barack Obama broke campaign promise #511, namely to explicitly acknowledge the Armenian genocide as US President. Mickey Z gets writer-activist David Boyajian’s take on the new President's approach.
The fading roar
Without the Tigers, can the Tamils ever obtain equality?
Battle lines drawn over the Amazon
Legitimate indigenous protests against Peru’s latest free trade agreements have led to bloodshed following the Government’s decision to send in the military. Ben Powless reports.
Absolute friends
The largest solidarity movement between two peoples offers hope in Western Sahara, writes Paul Rigg.
Boycott meets girl
Shopping causes all sorts of moral dilemmas when goods are labelled 'West Bank', bemoans Anna Chen.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
The road to meltdown
How did we get here? David Ransom takes a global – and historical – look.
City of whispers
Among Rangoon’s six million souls, a few have secret conversations with Dinyar Godrej.
Homeless in Delhi
Jeremy Seabrook ventures inside a night shelter in India’s capital city.
I will return...and I will be millions
Are things beginning to look up for the world’s indigenous peoples? Vanessa Baird begins a series of three reports from Bolivia, where the signs look most hopeful – and most precarious.
Israel, Palestine and the Hypocrisies of Power – an interview with Noam Chomsky
Celebrated American intellectual and activist Noam Chomsky provides a devastating insight into what lies behind the Israel-Palestine conflict and some of the obstacles to the viability of a Palestinian state.
The scramble for Africa
Katharine Ainger traces the connections between the Western World’s prosperity and Africa’s misery.
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