Fantasy fanatic Peter Thiel recreates the all seeing eye of Mordor.Illustration: Mari Fouz

Hall of Infamy: Peter Thiel

Venture capitalist and Palantir co-founder.

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NI 556 - United Nations at 80 - July, 2025
A protester accuses Trump of authoritarian overreach over the arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly blocking ICE agents from detaining a Mexican man. She appeared in court on 15 May 2025.Photo: Reuters/Jim Vondruska

Sign of the Times

Endangered monarch; Dangerous monarch wanna be.

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NI 556 - United Nations at 80 - July, 2025
Illustration: Emma Peer

Seriously?

Rhyme and Punishment, by Paula Lacey.

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NI 556 - United Nations at 80 - July, 2025
Lethal exports

Lethal exports

US gun pipeline fuels Haiti’s gangs while Washington looks away, by Steve Shaw.

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NI 556 - United Nations at 80 - July, 2025
Protesters rally against Donald Trump’s USAID freeze outside the US Capitol on 5 February 2025.Photo: Gent Shkullaku/Zuma Press Wire

Abandoned

As US aid vanishes overnight, Ecuador’s migrant communities are left stranded—caught between political posturing abroad and collapsing support at home, by Cameron Baillie.

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NI 555 - Critical minerals - May, 2025
Democrats including Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Barbara Lee, demanding a ceasefire after a vote in the House of Representatives, 8 November 2023.Photo: Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/Alamy

No resistance without Palestine

Without a reckoning over their support for Israeli genocide, the US Democrats are doomed to fail, argues Decca Muldowney.

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NI 554 - Indigenous sovereignty in Australia - March, 2025
View from Brazil

View from Brazil

What Lula can learn from Trump, by Leonardo Sakamoto.

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NI 554 - Indigenous sovereignty in Australia - March, 2025
Health up for grabs

Health up for grabs

Framed by a deadly act of retribution against corporate greed, Nick Dowson examines how a Trump presidency and fringe healthcare policies could upend both US and global health systems.

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NI 554 - Indigenous sovereignty in Australia - March, 2025
Illustration: Andy Carter

What if...

The United States was disbanded? Could a break-up proffer the end of the empire? Conrad Landin weighs up the arguments.

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NI 553 - Guns and power - January, 2025
Illustration: Emma Peer

Seriously?

Beware the Chinese vaccine.

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024
Spectators observe a F-15E Strike Eagle warplane at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, which has hosted US forces since 1949.Photo: Jetphotos/Alamy

The empire never died

So-called RAF bases filled with US military personnel are a tell-tale sign of Britain’s key role in US imperialism – not simply as a willing agent, but as a compliant subject. By Matt Kennard.

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024
A woman walks past the smoking, empty National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on 14 March 2024.Photo: Odelyn Joseph/AP/Alamy

In the US’ shadow

Report on the multi-prong crisis sweeping Haiti, by Harold Isaac.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
An African American midwife carries her medical kit down a dirt road in Georgia, US, in 1941. In the mid-1800s, white physicians campaigned to ban abortion as a means to demonize and restrict their competitors, namely midwives.Photo: Jack Delano/Shutterstock

Racist roots

Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina Mahone trace the secret history of abortion bans in the US and link the legacies of reproductive oppression and racial injustice.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
Illustration: Yasmín Flores Montañez

Cartoon History: Federico Fernández Cavada

The story of a Cuban-born US Civil War commander who returned to his homeland to fight Spanish imperialism. By Julio Anta and illustrated by Yasmín Flores Montañez.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Opposite Page: A visualization of the Skid Row neighbourhood in downtown Los Angeles, one of the most heavily policed areas in the US.

Overwatched and underserved

In Los Angeles, a group of activists are standing up against police surveillance of their neighbourhoods. Bethany Rielly speaks to Hamid Khan and Matyos Kidane of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition about what it means to take on one of the US’s most powerful forces.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
A demonstration in New York City, US, in support of Amazon workers at the Bessemer Warehouse in Alabama, in February 2021. Staff alleged the retail giant was employing union busting tactics including surveilling and interfering with the election process during a union drive by workers.Photo: Ben Von Klemperer/Shutterstock

Under Amazon’s eyes

Taj Ali explores how the retail titan has turned its dystopian systems of surveillance onto striking workers.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
First abortion...

First abortion...

Report from the US by James Greig.

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NI 544 - Palestine - July, 2023

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United Nations at 80 July, 2025
United Nations at 80 July, 2025
United Nations at 80 July, 2025
United Nations at 80 July, 2025
United Nations at 80 July, 2025
Critical minerals May, 2025
Critical minerals May, 2025
Indigenous sovereignty in Australia March, 2025
Indigenous sovereignty in Australia March, 2025
Indigenous sovereignty in Australia March, 2025
Indigenous sovereignty in Australia March, 2025
Guns and power January, 2025
Election year September, 2024
Election year September, 2024
Abortion July, 2024
Abortion July, 2024
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
Spying on dissent November, 2023
Spying on dissent November, 2023
Palestine July, 2023
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