Worldbeaters
Taking aim at the rich and powerful
Hosni Mubarak
Egypt’s President Mubarak may have survived six assassination attempts but does not escape the NI treatment.
Mikheil Saakashvili
The democratic credentials of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili are in tatters.
Alan Greenspan
Looking for someone to blame for the collapse of capitalism as we have known and hated it? Alan Greenspan is as good a target as any.
Gazprom
Russia’s massive energy company Gazprom plans to be the biggest corporation in the world by 2014 – and who would bet against it?
Devlet Bahçeli
In Turkey the political story is unusual: a liberal Islamic government is holding the line against the fascist-tinged nationalism of Devlet Bahçeli and his Grey Wolves youth movement.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President of the Philippines, has been called ‘the fourth most powerful woman in the world’. But she needs the iron hands of her generals.
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton, frontrunner in the race for the White House, is a woman. Unfortunately, that’s where the good news ends.
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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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