Kiruna church and town, Sweden, in 2016. The town is currently being relocated wholesale due to mining.Photo: Ragnar Th Sigurdsson/Alamy

‘Some things are priceless’

European authorities are trying to make sure they don’t get left empty handed in the new ‘green’ mineral rush. But are these policies simply ways to export harms to the Global South? Juliet Ferguson of Investigate Europe takes a look.

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The abandoned mining town of Ivittuut in the South West of Greenland.Photo: Carolyn Jenkins/Alamy

Held to ransom

A mining company wants to extract billions of dollars from Greenland’s government as compensation for a defeated rare earth mining project. Sebastian Skov Andersen reports on the case that’s divided the region.

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The Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm and Red Sands Maunsell Fort are seen in the mouth of the Thames Estuary, UK, behind walkers enjoying the evening sun.Photo: Avpics/Alamy

Tilting at windmills

Offshore wind will be vital to weaning our economies off fossil fuels. Nick Dowson explores its potential and warns of the circling sharks looking for profit.

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Green colonialism - The Facts

Green colonialism - The Facts

Green hydrogen and electricity access; Carbon Credits.

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Action & info

Action & info

Action, and further reading on climate capitalism.

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NI 547 - Climate capitalism - January, 2024
The Ouarzazate Solar Power Station in Morocco is one of the world’s largest solar power projects.Photo: Teresa Dapp/DPA/Alamy Live News

The El Dorado of energy

Amid the buzz surrounding green energy from the Arab world, Hamza Hamouchene sounds an alarm.

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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 resident walks past photos from French photographer JR displayed on a wall in Clichy-Sous-Bois, outside Paris. The photos were an attempt at presenting a more positive image of the inhabitants of the banlieues in the wake of 2005 riots.Photo: Associated Press /Christophe Ena/Alamy

Paris isn’t dead yet

The urban areas surrounding Paris are often considered a symptom – or cause – of the failure of France’s social policies. Cole Stangler speaks to residents of the banlieues, and finds exploitation and division – but a spirit of resistance too.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
Mahammoud Traore, 75, supports a family of 21 people through farming in Dougouninkoro, Mali, but new weather patterns mean they can no longer harvest enough for their food stores to last the whole year.Photo: Jake Lyell/Alamy

Climate coups

Abdoulie Ceesay, Gambian representative to the COP28 climate summit, argues if the West wants to address the wave of coups in Africa, it must take real climate action – rather than pursuing further failed militarization.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
Protesters sit in a tent near the entrance of the phosphate mine in Umm al-arais, Tunisia, on 15 February 2018.Photo: Zoubeir Souissi/Reuters

‘Leave us alone’

Natasha Ion reports on how Gabès residents are taking on Tunisia’s phosphate industry, despite the odds stacked against them.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
Workers pull tourists through the meadows of Gulmarg, a popular skiing destination in Jammu and Kashmir on 7 February 2021.Photo: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy

A holiday in Kashmir

The Indian state’s determination to promote Kashmir as a tourist destination is part of a larger strategy to legitimize its continued military occupation, writes Pranay Somayajula.

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Life sentence

Life sentence

In the last of our series celebrating NI at 50, Debbie Taylor argues that women are imprisoned by domestic work.

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Illustration: Andy K using Shutterstock

Towards a post-capitalist internet

Pervasive surveillance is Big Tech’s bread and butter. To break free, we must build a new World Wide Web beyond capitalism, argues Juan Ortiz Freuler.

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Protest spy tech

Protest spy tech

Your counter-surveillance guide.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
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
Palestinian men scroll on their smartphones outside a store in Gaza City. The captive population is a ‘testing ground’ for Israel to develop surveillance tools it then exports to repressive regimes around the world.Photo: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Spy games

Israel is at the forefront of the booming spyware industry that threatens human rights, press freedom and democracy worldwide. Antony Loewenstein examines spyware’s role in Israel’s occupation of Palestine, and why governments are failing to reign in its insidious spread.

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Anti-coup protesters confront police in Yangon, Myanmar, after the junta took over the country in February 2021.Photo: Xiao Long/Alamy

360° repression

Since seizing power in 2021, Myanmar’s military junta has expanded its use of surveillance to hunt down and jail its critics. Preeti Jha reports on the methods it employs and how anti-coup activists are adapting to the shrinking space for dissent.

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Action & info

Action & info

Action, and further reading on surveillance.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
A protester faces off with riot police at an attempted eviction of an occupied building in the Poble Sec neighbourhood of Barcelona. In recent years it’s been revealed that undercover officers in the Spanish National Corps infiltrated several activist groups in the city, including housing rights. One took part in at least four anti-eviction protests during his deployment.Photo: Pau de la Calle/NurPhoto/Alamy

Spies, damned spies

Bethany Rielly explores the chilling impact of the Spanish state’s intrusive surveillance tactics against Catalan civil society. Is there a chance of justice?

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