Today's quick reads

Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.

The first passenger train on the new railway line linking New Delhi to the Kashmir Valley is waved off at an inaugeration ceremony on 6 June 2025.Photo: Basit Zargar/ Zuma Press Wire via Reuters

Wheels of repression

Kashmir’s new rail link raises fears of deeper occupation, resource exploitation and political disenfranchisement. By Mubashir Naik & Irshad Hussain.

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NI 557 - The global far right - September, 2025
557 - September, 2025
Big Bad World

Big Bad World

521 - September, 2019
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Cartoon by P J Polyp.

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Clockwise from top left: A queue at a food market in Caracas where prices are subsidized and regulated by the government; an armed guard in front of storage tanks at the world’s largest oil refinery in Punto Fijo; a fishing boat steers through the Anacystis algal blooms on Lake Maracaibo; a Cuban doctor measuring blood pressure in Caracas – one of thousands of Cubans employed out of oil revenues to improve healthcare for the poor; a family reads while awaiting relocation from a house in Ciudad Ojeda damaged by subsidence following oil exploration.Photos: Piet den Blanken / Panos Pictures

Country Profile: Venezuela

497 - November, 2016
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The national government’s prioritizing of the poor and working majority over business elites remains consistent, if less effective – lately with more talk than action.

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