Oil or life? Ecuador’s stark choice Mauro Burzio / Gobierno Municipal de Francisco de Orellana

Oil or life? Ecuador’s stark choice

Esme McAvoy is in the Amazon to find out what’s happening to the Yasuní proposal.

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NI 441 - China - makers of the miracle - April, 2011
Illustrations by David Dees, a conspiracy theory artist, including one of his explicit Holocaust denial pieces. His work, which also covers corporate power, 9/11, 'chemtrails' and GMO foods, regularly appears on conspiracy websites and videos. The majority of these users promote him without being aware of his 'Holohoax' and climate change denial views.

Challenging the politics of paranoia

Cartoonist Polyp explores conspiracy theories and finds them not just dotty but dangerous.

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NI 440 - Up in arms - March, 2011
'Masses everywhere' celebrate a strike against low wages at the Chinese-owned Pine Great Cambodia Garment Company in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, September 2010.Chor Sokunthea / Reuters

The Great Rebellion

The Great Recession may have stunned the Minority World, but the Majority World has survived more or less unscathed. David Ransom investigates why, and traces the outlines of a future that might just be worth having.

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NI 440 - Up in arms - March, 2011
Ratnamala Tekam, a widow with her two children in Mangi village, in the cotton producing belt of Vidarbha. Her husband killed himself in March 2009 amid mounting debts, hunger and crop losses.Jaideep Hardikar

Bomb drops on Indian countryside

India may be one of the world’s current economic ‘winners’ but inequality is its fastest-growing sector, reveals Jaideep Hardikar.

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NI 440 - Up in arms - March, 2011
The best influence money can buy - the 10 Worst Corporate Lobbyists

The best influence money can buy - the 10 Worst Corporate Lobbyists

Dirty cash and dirty tricks – our rogues’ gallery of lobbyists who get governments to dance to their tune.

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NI 439 - Who's pushing politicians' buttons? - January, 2011
In the halls of shame Mohamed Azakir / Reuters

In the halls of shame

Who shapes the policies and laws that govern us? If you think the answer is ‘our elected politicians’, read on. Vanessa Baird examines the secretive but expanding power of corporate lobbying.

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NI 439 - Who's pushing politicians' buttons? - January, 2011

Corporate Influence - The Facts

The facts and figures of party funding, lobbying and the big names involved.

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NI 439 - Who's pushing politicians' buttons? - January, 2011
Interview with John Pilger Mikhaela Reid

Interview with John Pilger

Why do so many journalists beat the drums of war and peddle propaganda?

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NI 438 - Zero carbon world - December, 2010
Flag of Christiania, the ‘Freetown’ where everyone is different.Isabelle Fremeaux and John Jordan

In search of Utopia

Communities across Europe are already living the alternatives, discover Isabelle Fremeaux and John Jordan

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NI 438 - Zero carbon world - December, 2010
Happy days: George Marshall in the kitchen garden, Forest of Dean, early 1970s.

Back to the future

What will it be like to live in a zero carbon world? George Marshall encourages us to look to the past to find out.

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NI 438 - Zero carbon world - December, 2010
20-year-old Meenakshi Diwan does maintenance work on her village’s solar panel. A member of the Orissa Tribal Women’s Barefoot Solar Engineers Association, she is helping local communities in India move away from dependence on fossil fuels.

Powering up to zero

Can we make the transition to a fossil-free future? Jess Worth meets the people who say we can.

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NI 438 - Zero carbon world - December, 2010

The need for zero – The Facts

The facts and figures of energy emission, consumption and reduction.

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NI 438 - Zero carbon world - December, 2010
Readycash: everyone carries around cash in Burma as there are no ATMs and cards are only accepted by a few swank hotels.

A day in the life – with interest

As Burma’s people go to the polls this month in an election which is unlikely to change decades of military rule, Becky Palmstrom looks at how the urban poor survive in a country without working banks.

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NI 437 - Humans vs. Nature - November, 2010
Stopping the Juggernaut Photo by: Mr Bill under a CC Licence

Stopping the Juggernaut

Put environmental villains in the dock, says campaigner Polly Higgins.

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NI 437 - Humans vs. Nature - November, 2010
The map indicates the location and original extent of the Aral Sea (circled). The satellite image immediately below shows what remains in 2010.

A sea returns to life, a sea slowly dies

Paul Lauener’s stirring report from the Aral Sea, scene of both environmental miracle and disaster.

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NI 437 - Humans vs. Nature - November, 2010
A syrup-covered globe sends a message to the White House and BP. Larry Downing / Reuters

That petrol emotion: BP's 'cleanup' of the Gulf of Mexico

Adam Ma’anit peers beyond the smoke and mirrors at BP’s ‘clean up’ of the Gulf of Mexico.

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NI 437 - Humans vs. Nature - November, 2010
John Giles / Press Association Images

Humans vs. Nature

Dinyar Godrej on the need for reconnection.

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NI 437 - Humans vs. Nature - November, 2010
Gunsa and fungal gold. These nomads from central Tibet sell the yarsagumba fungus, prized for its aphrodisiac properties, to Chinese traders in Lhasa.

Fungus to die for

A brutal murder in the high Himalayas is covered up by a whole village. Jamie James sets out on a quest for the precious aphrodisiac at the heart of the crime – and to meet the men responsible. Photographs by Thomas Kelly.

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NI 437 - Humans vs. Nature - November, 2010
Interview with Robert Fisk: we preach democracy yet befriend dictators Robert Fisk

Interview with Robert Fisk: we preach democracy yet befriend dictators

We only have ourselves to blame for the Middle East's cynicism, says Robert Fisk.

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NI 436 - A wake-up call for democracy - October, 2010
Chicks on speed

Chicks on speed

Naked art-piles, wireless guitar shoes, and jackets that turn into tents...
Also: a controversial comedy about farmer suicides (yes, that's right) from Indian filmmaker Anusha Rizvi, and a special focus on a new generation of exciting and talented

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NI 436 - A wake-up call for democracy - October, 2010

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
China - makers of the miracle April, 2011
Up in arms March, 2011
Up in arms March, 2011
Up in arms March, 2011
Who's pushing politicians' buttons? January, 2011
Who's pushing politicians' buttons? January, 2011
Who's pushing politicians' buttons? January, 2011
Zero carbon world December, 2010
Zero carbon world December, 2010
Zero carbon world December, 2010
Zero carbon world December, 2010
Zero carbon world December, 2010
Humans vs. Nature November, 2010
Humans vs. Nature November, 2010
Humans vs. Nature November, 2010
Humans vs. Nature November, 2010
Humans vs. Nature November, 2010
Humans vs. Nature November, 2010
A wake-up call for democracy October, 2010
A wake-up call for democracy October, 2010
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