Rat race

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4 September 2008

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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.


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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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