Today's quick reads
Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.
Global leadership vetoed
556 - July, 2025
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The modern failures of the United Nations are not an aberration – but a product of its imperial roots, argues Conrad Landin. So how can we create a functioning system for global co-operation?
Chicks on speed
Naked art-piles, wireless guitar shoes, and jackets that turn into tents...
Also: a controversial comedy about farmer suicides (yes, that's right) from Indian filmmaker Anusha Rizvi, and a special focus on a new generation of exciting and talented
Profits in hungry times
Agribusiness and industrial farming: 10; farmers and the famished: nil. A report from the campaign group GRAIN.
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