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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
Commodities and dependency - The Facts

Commodities and dependency - The Facts

The facts and figures of commodities and our dependence on them.

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NI 470 - Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth - March, 2014
Demonstrators jostle in the streets of Rangoon, Burma, to protest the expansion of the Chinese-backed Latpadaung copper mine in the country’s northwest province. Thousands of hectares of farmland have been expropriated by the company and hundreds of villagers forced from their homes.Photo: EPA/Alamy

The pitfalls of resource wealth

Natural resource wealth isn't always a blessing. As Wayne Ellwood discovers, sometimes it can be just the opposite.

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NI 470 - Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth - March, 2014
Will fracking realign the world?

Will fracking realign the world?

Pundits foresee an altered world order brought on by fracked gas and oil. Dinyar Godrej thinks the changes could play out quite differently to the most common predictions.

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NI 468 - Fracking - the gathering storm - December, 2013
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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
YES: Phil Leech lectures in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Liverpool. He is the founder and editor of globalisationcafe.com and a contributing editor for thinkir.co.uk

Is it time to junk the UN Security Council?

Lecturer and writer Phil Leech and researcher Richard Gowan go head to head.

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NI 468 - Fracking - the gathering storm - December, 2013

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The politics of language loss June, 2014
Organ trafficking May, 2014
Organ trafficking May, 2014
Organ trafficking May, 2014
Organ trafficking May, 2014
The war on whistleblowers April, 2014
The war on whistleblowers April, 2014
The war on whistleblowers April, 2014
Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth March, 2014
Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth March, 2014
Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth March, 2014
Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth March, 2014
Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth March, 2014
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
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