Let us hope
Hope was a key word in the campaign of newly elected US President Barack Obama. Eduardo Galeano shares that optimism. Continue reading »
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Women in Zimbabwe
Sokari Ekine: ‘Three weeks after their arrest, two women's rights activists, have finally been released from prison.’ Continue reading »
WOZA
Bretton Woods II: Free, foul or fair?
David Ransom: ‘When the people who got us into this mess gather in Washington to get themselves out of it, beware!’ Continue reading »
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Orphans in Mozambique
A photo submitted for Blog Action Day caught the eye of Simon Loffler writing on the photo blog. Continue reading »
Jake LeBoeuf
Gaza Blog: Zift
‘Gaza is not facing a humanitarian crisis: this is a human rights crisis,’ argues Louisa Waugh. Continue reading »
BanksyCurrents
Pull down St. Paul’s!
British aid agency ActionAid recently put in an application to demolish London’s famed St Paul’s Cathedral.
Funding cuts threaten lives in Kenya
Human skulls and decomposing bodies dug up in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province show signs of torture.
In tents activity
Campaigners take to the canvas to show solidarity
Princess and President
Despite the country being hit by Typhoon Fengshen, Filipino President Arroyo arranged a 10-day trip to the US for herself and at least 59 of her loyal congress members, at a reported cost of 66 million pesos ($1.42 million)!
Breathing again
Aboriginal sea rights a landmark victory
Gort and Klaatu
Marc Roberts’ intergalactic health & safety inspectors Gort and Klaatu make their début.
Their guns will not conquer
The Karen fight ethnic cleansing in Burma with economic development
'Clean coal' con
Desperate industry’s ludicrous claims exposed
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
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.
Lust, caution - hijab
Adventures in the ‘terror’ zone – and how the hijab does not keep you hidden
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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