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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg  (centre) and friends play with virtual reality gear at a high-level gathering earlier this year.Photo: Kay Nietfield/Reuters

Smiley-faced monopolists

494 - July, 2016
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Does it matter that Google, Facebook and Amazon are so successful? Vanessa Baird examines what their domination means for all of us.

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Whether it's done by secret police or computer algorithms, being stripped of privacy is fundamentally dehumanizing.Photo: Newarpp/Thinkstock

I spy with my little algorithm

494 - July, 2016
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Everybody wants your private data. Bruce Schneier on how surveillance has become the business model of the internet.

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Portent of doom: a penguin covered in oil following a spill off the coast of South Africa.Photo: Martin Harvey/Alamy Stock Photo

The duty to care for our common home

492 - May, 2016
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Femke Wijdekop makes the case for Ecocide to become a crime under international law.

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Expressing a gender spectrum on their face – a trans person takes part in the 2015 Korea Queer Festival, held in Seoul.Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters

The trans revolution

486 - October, 2015
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It’s in the air – and calling for a mindset reset. Vanessa Baird tracks the course of transgender rights and their liberating potential for us all.

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Illustration: Carol Del Angel/Alamy Stock Photo

Blinded by 'technology'

497 - November, 2016
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For all the fancy packaging, many of our gadgets have nothing to do with capitalist success stories. Bob Hughes explains.

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A resistance gathering in the West Papuan highlands.Photo: Dominic Brown

Morning star rising

502 - May, 2017
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After 54 years of struggle under Indonesian rule, is freedom finally in sight for West Papua? Danny Chivers investigates.

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The river of Aikwa, once a local water source, now turned thick and silver by tailings from Freeport’s Grasberg mine.Photo: Susan Schulman

Sacrifice Zone: BP, Freeport and the West Papuan independence struggle

502 - May, 2017
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Connor Woodman reveals the ties that bind transnational mining companies to the Indonesian occupation.

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Just too dear: sometimes despite energy being available it can be unaffordable. This mother in  Soweto, South Africa, protests against the prices of state utility Eskom.Photo: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

The energy fix

492 - May, 2016
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What will it take to get electricity to Africa’s rural poor? Ruth Nyambura explores.

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Journey's End

499 - January, 2017
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Chris Brazier returns to the village in Burkina Faso that he has visited every 10 years since helping to make a film there in 1985.

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The Equality Effect

504 - July, 2017
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The political landscape may seem particularly bleak at present. But, if we stand back and look at the bigger picture, the dominance of rightwing populists and neoliberal policies is likely to be a temporary blip. The evidence is mounting that greater economic equality benefits all people in all societies, whether you are rich, poor or in-between. Once this is widely understood, politicians and policymakers will be forced to take note, as Danny Dorling explains.

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Photo: Brian D. Bumby/Alamy Stock Photo

Trump can be beaten because he is the Establishment

499 - January, 2017
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We must respond with a genuine vision for ending the corrupt politics of privilege, writes Mark Engler.

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Outrage at a Melbourne protest, July 2017, after the man who ran down 14-year-old Elijah Doughty was found not guilty of manslaughter.Photo: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images

Our lives, our lands

510 - March, 2018
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Amy McQuire on why life and death are inseparable from land for Aboriginal people in Australia.

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