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Deadly trade

People across the world are standing up to the power of the arms trade. Amy Hall explores its threat to life and democracy.

It’s a cold, bright morning on a narrow street in Brighton, on the south coast of England. Neighbours are peering through windows, or coming out onto the pavement, t...

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Arms of power

A young boy, Zein Yousef, sleeps on the grave of his mother who died in an Israeli air strike in Gaza. A mother cries as she speaks to journalists, cradling her listless and starving daughter in Sudan. Two-year old Ali Khalifeh, found alive after 14 hours under the rubble in Lebanon, lies on a hospital ward – his paren...

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A selection of feature articles from each of the latest New Internationalist magazines.

Making sense of the world in an age of doubt: people are reflected in mirrors on the 91st floor of The Summit near Grand Central Terminal, New York City. Photo: Gordon Donovan/Alamy

Entering the Matrix

Although far from a modern phenomenon, the potency and complexity of misinformation has increased in the digital age. To tackle it, we need a systemic response that goes further than debunking one lie at a time, argues Nanjala Nyabola.

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Drop the Debt: Protesters call for debt cancellation, wearing face masks of Yoshiro Mori, the then prime minister of Japan. They gathered outside Downing Street, London, during Mori’s meeting with Britain’s leader Tony Blair on 3 May 2000. Photo: Jonathan Evans/Reuters

Who owes whom?

Rising costs, Covid-19 and austerity have pushed too many countries – and households – into unmanageable debt. Amy Hall asks how we got here, and finds a movement shaking off the stigma of debt and getting organized.

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Seth Mazibuko, left, served time in Robben Island for his role in leading the 1976 Soweto uprising. He says South Africa’s current president Cyril Ramaphosa, right, and much of the ANC leadership has been ‘found wanting’. Photo: Jacob Mawela

Africa’s pandora’s box

Can South Africa ever fully shake off the shackles of apartheid? Conrad Landin asks whether the country’s historic genocide case against Israel could lead to a reckoning at home.

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An oil and gas drilling rig is towed past Teesside Offshore Wind farm off Redcar, North East England. The windfarm is operated by French state-owned energy company EDF. Photo: Alan Dawson/Alamy

Green face, old tricks

How can we prevent an unjust transition? As the clean economy gets into gear, Nick Dowson asks whether a market-focused, subsidies-led approach will just mean more of the same.

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A study of 10,000 young people across 10 countries found 45 per cent said climate change ‘negatively affected their daily life and functioning’. The impact was significantly higher in the four Global South countries surveyed: Brazil, Nigeria, the Philippines and India. Photo: Media Lens King/shutterstock

A world to win

We don’t just need solutions – we need the courage to imagine they will succeed. Conrad Landin makes the case for collective action to secure a just future.

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A group of women tend to vegetables in Koyli Alpha, Senegal, in March 2019. They were taking part in the Great Green Wall project which has the ambition of restoring 100 million hectares of degraded land across the African continent by 2030. Photo: Simon Townsley/Panos Pictures

The land is ours

We depend on it for food, shelter and work, it’s a cultural marker and a source of identity – but also a site of violence and anguish. It’s time for a reckoning, writes Amy Hall.

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From the archives

A selection of articles from the New Internationalist magazine archives.

Frida revisionism

Frida revisionism

Report from The Americas by Alessio Perrone.

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Indonesian flight-path farmers pushed out

After five years of resistance, Indonesia began the construction of an international airport set to destroy the sand-dune ecosystem and houses of residents already forced out of the area, writes Pramilla Deva

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Opposition to President Hernández spills onto the streets in January 2018.  Photo: Gustavo Amador/EFE/Alamy Live News

Election results defied

The Hondurans who took to the streets following the election were met by a hailstorm of teargas and sometimes live gunfire, writes Richard Swift.

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Hot Docs

Hot Docs

Highlights from the 2024 Toronto Festival, reviewed by Richard Swift.

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Books Essay: How we got here

A new history of pro-Zionist pressure is strongest in its simplicity, writes Rob Norman.

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Mixed Media: Music

Mixed Media: Music

Women in Revolt; Last Night a Woman Saved My Life.

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 Illustration: Sarah John

A journey through time

Stephanie Boyd experiences new life amid grief on a night voyage in the Peruvian Amazon.

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Making Waves: Sakena Yacoobi

Veronique Mistiaen meets Afghanistan’s ‘mother of education’, who for more than two decades has been transforming lives through community-based learning.

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Worldbeaters: Donald Trump

Ego? Tick. Money? Tick. Power-hungry? Tick. A disaster for the world? Tick.

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The arms trade - The Facts

The arms trade - The Facts

State of the industry; Deadly business; At the border; Who’s supplying whom?

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Country Profile: Haiti

Country Profile: Haiti

The photos, facts, and politics of Haiti.

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 Illustration: Kate Evans

Thoughts from a Broad

Empower yourself! Use your vote! Illustration by Kate Evans.

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