In Kashmir, civilians are being pushed to the brink of disaster amidst protests, curfews and killings. Anger is hurt turned inside out, as Dilnaz Boga explains.
July 2010's Issue
Economic growth is the main objective of governments around the world. Growth leads to prosperity, happiness, employment and progress. Or does it? We’ve already exceeded the biophysical limits of the earth and growth is making things worse. We’re fouling the globe with our wastes and threatening the natural systems on which humanity and other species depend. Even on its own terms, growth isn’t working. Wealth doesn’t translate into happiness. Poverty and unemployment are rife. And yet when the system slows down things really fall apart. Consumption drops, bankruptcies pile up, factories close, unemployment soars and social pathologies multiply. It’s a vicious circle. It used to be that we needed more people to work because we needed the goods and services they produce. Now we need to keep increasing production to keep people employed, to keep capital investment profitable and to keep the endless cycle of production and consumption spinning. There’s got to be a better way.
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'Equal rights is not a reality'
Sian Griffiths talks to Sima Samar, once Afghanistan’s most powerful female politician and now a fervent women’s rights campaigner.
- Sian Griffiths
- 11 Aug 2010
- 3
The realm of magic
Anything can happen in football, they say. Eduardo Galeano looks back on the World Cup and agrees.
- Eduardo Galeano
- 11 Aug 2010
- 0
Heads I win, tails you lose
Tabitha Nderitu considers the implications of Kenya’s new constitution.
- Tabitha Nderitu
- 11 Aug 2010
- 0
Tony Blair - a bright shining lie*
Behind the smiles and peace awards stands a war-profiteer with a lot of answering to do, reckons Felicity Arbuthnot.
- Felicity Arbuthnot
- 21 Jul 2010
- 0
Somos pacifico!
Esme McAvoy meets Choc Quib Town, a rap trio putting Colombia’s Pacific on the (music) map.
- Esme McAvoy
- 21 Jul 2010
- 0
Half truths and lies
There’s more to Colombia than the dark descriptions beloved of the international media. Benjamin Ball meets a man determined that his country should get the credit it deserves.
- Benjamin Ball
- 9 Jul 2010
- 0
Against all odds
Somaliland voters recently braved terrorist threats against ‘the Devil’s practice’ and flocked to the polling booths. Stefan Simanowitz reports on elections in Somaliland, a country that ‘does not exist’.
- Stefan Simanowitz
- 7 Jul 2010
- 0
The G20 fiasco
Heavy-handed doesn’t even begin to describe it. Jeff Carolin, a legal aid worker caught in the police dragnet, recounts his experiences.
- Jeff Carolin
- 7 Jul 2010
- 0
Vive la décroissance
Julio Godoy talks to French de-growth guru Serge Latouche.
- Julio Godoy
- 1 Jul 2010
- 0
Workers of the world, relax
Slowing growth could help us work less, live better and save the planet. So what’s not to like about that, wonders Zoe Cormier.
- Zoe Cormier
- 1 Jul 2010
- 0
Oops, no brakes!
Without growth the economy collapses. What’s the solution? Rowenna Davis asked Oxfam’s Duncan Green and researcher Tim Jackson for their opinions.
- Rowenna Davis
- 1 Jul 2010
- 3
Coffee in the clouds
Roxana Olivera looks at local opposition to foreign mining companies in Ecuador.
- Roxana Olivera
- 1 Jul 2010
- 1
Nature's bottom line
Economic growth is an idea whose time has passed, argues Wayne Ellwood.
- Wayne Ellwood
- 1 Jul 2010
- 0
System change, not climate change
Jess Worth looks at how activists in Britain are broadening the climate change debate.
- Jess Worth
- 1 Jul 2010
- 0
Brutish Petroleum
While the world focuses on its catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is also coming under fire from Colombian workers
- Claire Hall
- 1 Jul 2010
- 0
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