Features

Includes a murky past.

The average age of the population is increasing – people are living longer. Also, women are having fewer children. But is this greying of nations really a ‘crisis’?

Why tiny Timor Leste is undergoing a baby boom.

Vanessa Baird wonders why the demographers aren’t panicking.

The NI guide to how you can take action for climate justice, whether you’re in Copenhagen, in a major city or online.

Corporations have taken over the climate agenda. Oscar Reyes reveals who, how and why.

Copenhagen is not the only game in town. There are other ideas for how to keep fossil fuels in the ground. The NI catches up with one of the boldest: Ecuador's Yasuní initiative.

Will the Copenhagen conference deliver effective action on climate change? Not a chance, argues Jess Worth. So what's the alternative?

A snapshot of the continuing spread of counterterrorist measures – real and unreal.

A poem by Hubert Moore + ACTION directory.

Ajit Sahi’s account of the scandalous record of the Indian State.

Peru’s rash of unlikely terrorists. Stephanie Boyd reports.

The lunatic fringe of planet terror.

Sixty years on from the publication of 1984, the neoliberals in Chile are still spouting Newspeak, reveals Lezak Shallat.

Expert Bruce Schneier argues for security measures that actually work instead of theatrics.

Dinyar Godrej on the damage done.

Syed Tajammul Hussain’s artful approach to Qur’anic verses.

A gay Iraqi, a Jewish Iranian and a Saudi feminist tell their stories

Books and websites for further reading on Islam.

Where did the controversial idea of the ‘Islamic state’ come from? Ziauddin Sardar traces its origins.