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Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.

Illustration: P J Polyp

Big Bad World

531 - May, 2021
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Cartoon by P J Polyp.

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Leave the oil in the soil! Indigenous representatives from communities resisting oil extraction all over the world marched together at the front of the recent 400,000-strong New York climate march.Photo: Jenna Pope / Bold Nebraska

Ending the oil age

477 - November, 2014
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Change is coming. Jess Worth examines whether growing pressure for divestment and disruption can knock Big Oil off its perch.

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Stacking up the yuan: At the end of September 2008, the savings of Chinese people ($2.92 trillion) outstripped their loans almost 6 to 1.Reuters / Stringer in China

The yuan plays the dollar

423 - June, 2009
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Egyptian economist Gouda Abdel-Khalek talks with Rowenna Davis about China’s political plays in the Middle East.

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