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Worldbeater: Yahya Jammeh

Paranoid, arrogant, moralistic and intolerant: step forward, Yahya Jammeh.

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NI 472 - Organ trafficking - May, 2014
472 - May, 2014
Filip Horvat/AP Photo

Who is Olli Rehn?

Tough love, harsh truths, austerity cuts – it’s all in a day’s work for the European Commission's ‘archangel of fiscal sobriety’.

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NI 468 - Fracking - the gathering storm - December, 2013
468 - December, 2013
Be very afraid: G4S CEO Nick Buckles (centre) with two of the company’s security officers.Luke MacGregor / Reuters

Worldbeater - G4S

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NI 461 - Demolition job - April, 2013
461 - April, 2013
Election-rigging, torture of opponents, widespread corruption... have marked his rule.Markus Schreiber / AP Photo

Azerbijan's pompous kleptocrat

Worldbeater dishes the dirt on Ilham Aliyev, master of autocratic self-enrichment.

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NI 459 - The feral rich - January, 2013
459 - January, 2013
A clear message from anti-Koch protesters in California.Chris Chatham / Associated Press

The Koch brothers

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NI 457 - Bad medicine - November, 2012
457 - November, 2012
The dirt on Teodoro Obiang James Akena/Reuters

The dirt on Teodoro Obiang

Time to take aim at the tyrannical President of Equatorial Guinea in this month's 'Worldbeater'.

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NI 451 - Adapt or die - April, 2012
451 - April, 2012
Family ties: Bashar and Maher al-Assad.Str Old/Reuters

The al-Assad family

Syria’s ruling al-Assad family.

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NI 443 - The far right gets respectable - June, 2011
443 - June, 2011
Ramzan Kadyrov AP Photo / Musa Sadulayev

Ramzan Kadyrov

A profile of the President of Chechnya.

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NI 442 - Climate change denial - May, 2011
442 - May, 2011
In the 1980s and 1990s Blankenship used scab labour and armed guards, the closure of union mines and a plethora of intimidation tactics to break the labour movement in the coal fieldsCAROLYN KASTER / AP / PRESS ASSOCIATION IMAGES

Don Blankenship

Big coal equals big profits, so Don Blankenship doesn’t worry too much about pollution.

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NI 435 - Seed savers - September, 2010
435 - September, 2010
Lakshmi Mittal Charles Caratini / REUTERS

Lakshmi Mittal

‘Son of the desert’ turned son of steel, Lakshmi Mittal is laughing all the way to the bank

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NI 433 - Deported! What happened next? - June, 2010
433 - June, 2010
Sebastián Piñera STRINGER CHILE / REUTERS

Sebastián Piñera

Chilean President Sebastián Piñera under the spotlight.

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NI 432 - Iraq - seven years later - May, 2010
432 - May, 2010
Be very afraid: Taser International co-founder Tom Smith has you in his sights.Mary Godleski / AP / Press Association Images

Taser International Inc.

Trigger-happy Taser International under the spotlight.

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NI 430 - Globalization on the rocks - March, 2010
430 - March, 2010
Geert Wilders Photo by Jacco de Boer

Geert Wilders

Geert Wilders, the lying Dutchman.

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NI 429 - Too many of us? The population panic. - January, 2010
429 - January, 2010
Daniel Ortega Photo by Presidencia de la República del Ecuador

Daniel Ortega

Daniel Ortega, revolutionary hero turned renegade President.

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NI 428 - Welcome to Copenhagen! - December, 2009
428 - December, 2009
Self-proclaimed ‘man of the masses’.Photo by Downing Street.

Mahinda Rajapaksa

President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka’s slick reputation comes unstuck.

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NI 427 - Terror takeover - November, 2009
427 - November, 2009
Photo: Brendan McDermid / REUTERS

Bernie Madoff

If you’ve heard of Ponzi Schemes, it could be thanks to Bernie Madoff. About time he got his comeuppance...

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NI 424 - Surviving change in the Arctic - July, 2009
424 - July, 2009
Nato Photo by ifijay

Nato

NATO is shrouded in military secrecy, but what we do know is bad enough.

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NI 422 - Multiculturalism - May, 2009
422 - May, 2009
Hosni Mubarak Photo by World Economic Forum

Hosni Mubarak

Egypt’s President Mubarak may have survived six assassination attempts but does not escape the NI treatment.

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NI 421 - Put people first - April, 2009
421 - April, 2009

Mikheil Saakashvili

The democratic credentials of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili are in tatters.

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NI 419 - Climate justice - January, 2009
419 - January, 2009
Photo: Larry Downing / Reuters

Alan Greenspan

Looking for someone to blame for the collapse of capitalism as we have known and hated it? Alan Greenspan is as good a target as any.

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NI 417 - Through Afghan eyes - November, 2008
417 - November, 2008

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Organ trafficking May, 2014
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Demolition job April, 2013
The feral rich January, 2013
Bad medicine November, 2012
Adapt or die April, 2012
The far right gets respectable June, 2011
Climate change denial May, 2011
Seed savers September, 2010
Deported! What happened next? June, 2010
Iraq - seven years later May, 2010
Globalization on the rocks March, 2010
Too many of us? The population panic. January, 2010
Welcome to Copenhagen! December, 2009
Terror takeover November, 2009
Surviving change in the Arctic July, 2009
Multiculturalism May, 2009
Put people first April, 2009
Climate justice January, 2009
Through Afghan eyes November, 2008
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