Today's quick reads

Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.

Banks and robbers

Banks and robbers

New Internationalist columnist Anna Chen asks whether we should care about a few smashed (but fully insured) plate-glass windows.

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NI 443 - The far right gets respectable - June, 2011
443 - June, 2011
Thanks at Thanksgiving

Thanks at Thanksgiving

We’re doing something right!

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NI 428 - Welcome to Copenhagen! - December, 2009
428 - December, 2009
Arctic explorer Artur Chilingarov shows a photograph of the Russian national flag that he planted on the seabed under the North Pole in August 2007. The provocative act, intended to stake a symbolic claim to the Arctic’s mineral riches, didn’t go down too well with Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay. ‘This isn’t the 15th century,’ he spluttered. ‘You can’t go around the world and just plant flags and say “We’re claiming this territory”.’Photo: Alexander Natruskin / Reuters

Who owns the Arctic?

424 - July, 2009
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Could countries come to blows over the North's resources? Professor Michael Byers explains.

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