new internationalist
issue 320 - January-February 2000
...AS SEEN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE MAJORITY WORLD
Our media feed us news dominated by rich-world events and preoccupations.
Here the NI redresses the balance with an alternative view of the year's key events.
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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.
Book Reviews
An interview with Jane D'Arista on her idea for an International Clearing Bank.
Ellen Frank wants to remove the control of money from the hands of the rich.
If you would like to know something about what's actually going on, rather than what people would like you to think was going on, then read the New Internationalist.
– Emma Thompson –
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