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THE NI BLOG
Gaza blog: The boat people who came… and couldn’t leave
Posted by Louisa Waugh
Stop the international arms fair - Poster!
Posted by Simon Loffler
Gaza blog: So now it’s OK to shell journalists in Palestine
Posted by Louisa Waugh
Latest on the Yasuní campaign
Posted by Jess Worth
Gaza blog: An elephant in the garden
Posted by Louisa Waugh
Morales wins – and so do his enemies!
Posted by Vanessa Baird
A 10-car pile-up and scars to be proud of
Posted by Zuhra Bahman
Climate camp 2008: power politics, police brutality and pirates
Posted by Jess Worth
Laughter in Kabul
Posted by Zuhra Bahman
Hatred at first sight – my relationship with 'the perfect politician'
Posted by Zuhra Bahman
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Breathless in Beijing
Sam Geall reports on broken promises at the Olympics.
The triumph of triviality
Our culture’s tolerance for seriousness has never been lower, argues John F Schumaker.
Kabul lives
A photographic tribute to a city that has plumbed the depths.
Edible Earth
In search of bright ideas, David Ransom begins by learning some very basic lessons about how to design a more sustainable, permanent culture.
The privatization of Patagonia
Rich foreign investors are buying up huge areas of Argentina’s southern wilderness. Tomás Bril Mascarenhas exposes the new conservation conquistadores.
Now available online
August 2008 - Issue 414
Currents
Eau de victory
Water privatization heads back to public management around the world
The drugs don't work
Why young rural Indians end up addicted to pills
Tortured for 'refusing to kill'
A conscientious objector from Istanbul was beaten with sticks until he passed out
Getting fair treatment
Brazil’s AIDS fight against Big Pharma continues
Rights for albinos
Tanzanian authorities launch a crackdown on anti-albino witch doctors
Jail babies
Children imprisoned with their mothers worldwide
Court in the act
Apartheid accomplices Coca-Cola, Barclays, BP et al are heading for court
A kick in the balls
New Zealand intelligence gathering or US & NATO spy satellite?
Inside China’s prisons
It’s difficult to know for sure how many political prisoners there currently are in China, but it’s safe to say that there are thousands of them.
Starved by the system
The companies making a killing from the food crisis
Planktos wiped out
Planktos – RIP
Cyclone survival
Women in Orissa, India, have ways of dealing with calamity
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