Features

Through ports, militias and business deals, the United Arab Emirates has built an architecture of control stretching across the Red Sea, writes Eiad Husham.

While Caribbean governments have been quiet about US intervention in Venezuela, and the build-up of military activity in the region, activists have been taking a stand, writes Colin Bogle.

Would a separate state improve the lives of Indigenous communities in India? Fabio Lovati reports on the movement that thinks it would.

Kojo Koram places the abduction of Venezuela’s leader within the long history of US drug policy being used against Latin American governments that resist its geopolitical or economic interests.

Is the artistic process in danger? Novelist Rémy Ngamije considers the role of human creativity in a world embracing generative AI.

AI is making warfare even more deadly. Decca Muldowney speaks to Chris Cole of Drone Wars about the risks of weapons that make their own decisions.

Adio-Adet Dinika explores the hidden stories of the workers who prop up artificial ‘intelligence’, and their efforts at organized resistance.

Tech companies are building enormous data centres and reconfiguring energy infrastructure across the US, all to power the burgeoning AI industry. On a road trip, Maia Woluchem and Livia Garofalo trace the impacts of – and resistance to – this development push.

Is AI really an unstoppable force? Paula Lacey unpicks the complex web of companies, investments, and ideologies behind the ‘bubble’.

The bubble; Thirst for data; Ghost workers in the machine.

Imagery generated by artificial intelligence has become the beloved aesthetic of today’s dictators, argues Decca Muldowney. A robust media is needed to combat misinformation and its miseries.

Palestinian futures are being decided for them yet again as they are dispossessed by the new Trump Plan, argues Yara Hawari. When will Palestinians be free of repackaged colonialism?

Can giving people money with no conditions really help solve the climate crisis and even reduce violence? Graeme Green speaks to those who think it can.

As the world rushes towards ‘green’ technology, Indonesia’s nickel-rich Halmahera island is being torn apart. Neelanjana Rai explores the impacts on Indigenous communities and the land.

As the US clutches on to world dominance, common security for all nations is the only solution to the threat of nuclear war, argues Dae-Han Song.

South Africa is the only country to develop its own nuclear weapons – and then dismantle them. Robin E Möser explores what can be learned from apartheid’s atomic secret.

At the height of the Cold War the British state launched a sprawling surveillance campaign against the peace movement. Bethany Rielly tells the extraordinary story.

There are some serious social and environmental justice concerns associated with the production, testing and maintenance of nuclear weapons – and communities who pay the price.

The legacy of French nuclear weapons testing still blights lives in the Algerian Sahara. Tenere Majhoul reports on the fight for justice.

Nuclear weapons and nuclear energy share a common ancestry. Here’s how the nuclear story goes, from mining to meltdowns and everything in between.