Illustration: Emma Peer

Agony Uncle

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. This month: Secondhand books.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Illustration: Emma Peer

Can I criticize fast fashion without sounding ‘out of touch’?

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

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NI 527 - Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic - September, 2020
The lives behind the label

The lives behind the label

Bangladesh is home to almost five million garment workers, making it the second largest manufacturer of garments in the world. Its factory workers make the clothes we wear every day. Meet the humans behind the big clothing brand labels.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017

The rich, the poor and the earth

While it is clear that equality matters in terms of health and happiness, surprising new data reveals that it is also better for the environment – in the more equal rich countries, people on average consume less, produce less waste and emit less carbon.

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NI 504 - The Equality Effect - July, 2017
Action on Starbucks: Consumer power or homemade protest?Anthony Collins/Alamy

Argument: Can shopping be a form of activism?

Neal Lawson and Ruth Potts, both campaigners and writers, go head-to-head.

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NI 463 - Argentina's challenge - June, 2013
Activists outside a London
store award Nike the title
of ‘biggest cheat’ for using
exploited women workers
in its factories abroad.UK Feminista

Feminists target Nike ahead of the Olympics

Nick Harvey reports on a campaign to expose sportswear firms who exploit women workers while boasting Olympic values.

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NI 453 - Protection racket - June, 2012
Dying for the things we love shtig.net

Dying for the things we love

Consumer culture is collective insanity and driving us to destruction, says clinical psychologist John F Schumaker.

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NI 452 - Mental health - May, 2012
 Essay: Deindustrializing humanity

Essay: Deindustrializing humanity

Neither humanity nor nature are commodities. It’s time the old ideology was dissolved, writes Jeremy Seabrook.

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NI 451 - Adapt or die - April, 2012

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Article title From magazine Publication date
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic September, 2020
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
The Equality Effect July, 2017
Argentina's challenge June, 2013
Protection racket June, 2012
Mental health May, 2012
Adapt or die April, 2012
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