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A protester faces off with riot police at an attempted eviction of an occupied building in the Poble Sec neighbourhood of Barcelona. In recent years it’s been revealed that undercover officers in the Spanish National Corps infiltrated several activist groups in the city, including housing rights. One took part in at least four anti-eviction protests during his deployment.Photo: Pau de la Calle/NurPhoto/Alamy

Spies, damned spies

546 - November, 2023
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Bethany Rielly explores the chilling impact of the Spanish state’s intrusive surveillance tactics against Catalan civil society. Is there a chance of justice?

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Illustration: Andy K using Shutterstock

Quantitative easing and its aftermath

547 - January, 2024
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Richard Murphy takes down the financial shenanigans and mythmaking that rich governments have used to hide their powers to spend for good.

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View from Brazil

View from Brazil

551 - September, 2024
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Racists 0, Vinícius Júnior 1, by Leonardo Sakamoto.

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Democrats including Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Barbara Lee, demanding a ceasefire after a vote in the House of Representatives, 8 November 2023.Photo: Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/Alamy

No resistance without Palestine

554 - March, 2025
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Without a reckoning over their support for Israeli genocide, the US Democrats are doomed to fail, argues Decca Muldowney.

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Green colonialism - The Facts

Green colonialism - The Facts

547 - January, 2024
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Green hydrogen and electricity access; Carbon Credits.

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Fossar Dabo, a physics teacher and environmental activist, after the discovery of a rosewood tree that had just been illegally cut down. Dabo and other volunteers founded the Green Sedhiou, an organization that denounces illegal timber trafficking at the Gambian border.Photo: Marco Simoncelli

Wood-fired war

547 - January, 2024
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The lush Casamance region of Senegal is home to a long running conflict between the state and an armed separatist movement. Tilda Kämmlein reports on how the illegal trade in timber is fuelling the strife and devastating the local environment.

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An oil and gas drilling rig is towed past Teesside Offshore Wind farm off Redcar, North East England. The windfarm is operated by French state-owned energy company EDF.Photo: Alan Dawson/Alamy

Green face, old tricks

547 - January, 2024
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How can we prevent an unjust transition? As the clean economy gets into gear, Nick Dowson asks whether a market-focused, subsidies-led approach will just mean more of the same.

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Photo: Lorenzo Rossi/Alamy Stock Photo

The problem is capitalism

549 - May, 2024
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Yanis Varoufakis explores how we can transform debt from ball and chain to an enabler of shared prosperity.

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Photo: UN Women/Sayed Habib Bidell

‘Strong beyond the world’s imagination’

548 - March, 2024
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In spite of the overwhelming odds against them, a spirit of feminist resistance exists among Afghanistan’s girls and women. Jen Ross reports.

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The Algerian War of Independence

The Algerian War of Independence

546 - November, 2023
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ILYA charts the long ‘dirty war’ that left Algeria finally free of French rule, but at what cost?

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As part of the campaign against Raytheon, signs like this were created – a play on ‘Free Derry Corner’ which can be seen in the background.Photo: DAWC

Victory in defiance

553 - January, 2025
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Amy Hall explains how a group of determined activists ran one of the world’s biggest arms companies out of town.

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The 2016 Filipino presidential race, and Rodrigo Duterte’s winning campaign, was widely considered to be won on social media. The centrality of these platforms, however, allowed for rampant mis- and disinformation.Photo: Aaron Favila/AP/Alamy

The Philippines disinformation machine

552 - November, 2024
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Don Kevin Hapal unmasks the hidden workforce driving the Philippines’ flourishing disinformation ecosystem – and they are not who you might think.

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New slaves

New slaves

550 - July, 2024
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Report on cyberscam compounds in Myanmar, by Kayleigh Long.

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Making sense of the world in an age of doubt: people are reflected in mirrors on the 91st floor of The Summit near Grand Central Terminal, New York City.Photo: Gordon Donovan/Alamy

Entering the Matrix

552 - November, 2024
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Although far from a modern phenomenon, the potency and complexity of misinformation has increased in the digital age. To tackle it, we need a systemic response that goes further than debunking one lie at a time, argues Nanjala Nyabola.

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All welcome

All welcome

550 - July, 2024
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Report from Bangladesh by Piyas Biswas.

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Disinformation - The Facts

Disinformation - The Facts

552 - November, 2024
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The industry; distrust in the news; laws and regulations; key terms; term usage over time.

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Children at Ara primary school in the South East Zone of Tigray wait in line to wash their hands before lunch in May 2024. The building behind them was damaged in the war when a shell landed in the school playground.Photo: Mary’s Meals International

Brides to be

551 - September, 2024
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Report from Ethiopia by Gabriella Jozwiak.

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The arms trade - The Facts

The arms trade - The Facts

553 - January, 2025
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State of the industry; Deadly business; At the border; Who’s supplying whom?

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Palestinian men scroll on their smartphones outside a store in Gaza City. The captive population is a ‘testing ground’ for Israel to develop surveillance tools it then exports to repressive regimes around the world.Photo: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Spy games

546 - November, 2023
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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.

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An official stands at the door of an Israeli airliner after it landed in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on 31 August 2020. A few months later the first commercial passenger flight to Israel by a carrier from the UAE landed near Tel Aviv, cementing the normalization deal between the two regimes.Photo: Nir Elias/Associated Press/Alamy

The betrayal

548 - March, 2024
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From arms deals to surveillance tech exchanges, Yara Hawari explains how alliances have been – and continue to be – fostered between Israel and various Arab governments.

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Atacama's famous flamingos have been hit by declining water and shrimp levels, affecting their numbers and colour.Photo: Vanessa Baird

White flamingos and lithium frenzy

555 - May, 2025
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Oasis of life – or zone of sacrifice? The fate of Chile’s culturally and environmentally rich salt flats may be decided by a lithium rush to double output. Vanessa Baird reports from the Salar de Atacama.

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A 21-year-old Gary Foley.Photo: Bettmann

A History of Black Power

554 - March, 2025
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Veteran activist, academic and actor Gary Foley talks to Zoe Holman about the past and future of Aboriginal resistance.

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Mining galore: southern Congo already produces 70 per cent of the world’s cobalt. Production is predicted to double between 2021 and 2028.Photo: Pascal Maitre/Panos

Congo’s cobalt curse

555 - May, 2025
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Corruption, pollution and child labour have long blighted the DRC’s cobalt industry. But is there any way of turning the country’s critical mineral wealth into a blessing rather than a burden? Cat Rainsford investigates.

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Trade colonialism, again

Trade colonialism, again

547 - January, 2024
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Luciana Ghiotto, Bettina Müller and Lucía Barcena examine how Europe’s attempts to secure the raw materials for green technologies are following a tried and tested path across the Global South.

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