Spying on dissent

Action, and further reading on surveillance.

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.

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.

Taj Ali explores how the retail titan has turned its dystopian systems of surveillance onto striking workers.

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.

Your counter-surveillance guide.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Beyond outrage, by Nilanjana Bhowmick.

A right to pollute? By Rosebell Kagumire.

Brazil’s struggle to tax the super-rich. By Leonardo Sakamoto.

Report from Senegal by Obiora Ikoku.

The winner of Guatemala’s presidential race.

Report on the UK’s ‘Online Safety’ Bill by Nick Dowson.

Report on the decimation of Tasmania’s old growth forest by Nick Dowson.

Efforts to halt climate catastrophe will fail if drugs aren’t on the agenda, a new reform campaign is warning. Report by Clemmie James.

India's Indigenous Shompen tribe at risk, writes Callum Russell.

Harriet Barber reports on ‘Argentina’s Trump’, Javier Milei.

Good Foundations; Gig Workers’ Victory; Eu Targets Investor Courts.

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Stephanie Boyd goes on a mission up the Amazon River to find the gateway of the Kukama peoples’ spirit world.

Big-name players transfer to the Saudi Pro League, writes Matt Broomfield.

AI Tubman by Matt Broomfield.

Income vs Covid-19 vaccination.

Protest outside the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya.

Short term by Kíke (Puerto Rico).

The photos, facts, and politics of Bermuda.

ILYA charts the long ‘dirty war’ that left Algeria finally free of French rule, but at what cost?

‘A victory for life over capitalism’. How the people of Ecuador beat the oil giants and saved Yasuní National Park, by Danny Chivers.

Minstream media by Marc Roberts.

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

Trump in jail, by P J Polyp.

Founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies.

Crossword Puzzle, Association Words and Wordsearch.

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. This month: Travel.

We answered isis with restorative justice? Matt Broomfield spells out some better ways of dealing with captive extremists.

Motion Sickness; Lean on Me; Pharmanomics; Nightbloom; Scammer.

Fallen leaves directed and written by Aki Kaurismäki; Tish directed by Paul Sng;

Some Mississippi Sunday; One Drop of Kindness.

Words by Conrad Landin.