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How we are gulled

We must be able to see the secret, algorithmic methods of Google, Facebook and other digital titans if we are to tackle disinformation and toxic polarization, says propaganda expert Peter Pomerantsev.

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Opposite page: Activists in New York City protest against the influence of ‘dark money’ from the billionaire Koch brothers on many areas of political decision-making, including healthcare. Photo: Erik McGregor/Sipa USA/PA Images

Dark money

Funds from hidden sources are warping democracy with increasing and devastating effect. Peter Geoghegan follows the money.

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The space invaders

Our privacy and freedom of thought is routinely and pervasively breached by the masters of surveillance capitalism. What is this doing to us as humans and to our democratic choices in life? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips talks to Vanessa Baird.

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Hadiya, in the red dress, appears at the Supreme Court in New Delhi to defend her marriage to her Muslim husband Shafin in one of India’s alleged ‘love jihad’ cases. Photo: Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times Via Getty

Love and other conspiracies

India is not short of divisive and harmful conspiracy theories. Now one, called ‘love jihad’, has been given legal teeth. Laxmi Murthy reports.

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Information and democracy - The Facts

We make our political judgements based on the information we get – and the internet is brimming with it. That can be part of the problem...

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A mural featuring a pro-Trump protester, self-styled QAnon ‘shaman’ Jacob Chansley, appeared in Tunbridge Wells, UK, a few days after the storming of the US Congress in Washington on 6 January. Photo: Karwai Tang/Wireimage/Getty

Democracy on the edge

More fragile than we thought, liberal democracy seems to be under attack from many sides. Are these death throes – or growing pains? Vanessa Baird explores.

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Spotlight: Tse Tse Fly Middle East

Louise Gray turns her attention to the anti-slavery musical activism of Tse Tse Fly Middle East.

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Mixed Media: Music

Mixed Media: Music

Freedom by Yvette Janine Jackson; Kologo by Alostmen.

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Mixed Media: Film

Mixed Media: Film

The Mole Agent (El agente topo)  directed and written by Maite Alberdi; African Apocalypse directed and co-written by Rob Lemkin.

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Mixed Media: Books

Mixed Media: Books

Theatre of War by Andrea Jeftanovic;  Untraceable  by Sergei Lebedev; How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm; Imagining Orwell by Julio Etchart.

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Only Planet

Trickle down, by Marc Roberts.

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The Puzzler

Crossword Puzzle, Association Words and Wordsearch

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What if…

What if we got real about sustainability? It might reverse the UN’s order of holiness, Vanessa Baird finds.

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When alcohol causes so much damage is it unethical to set up a brewery?

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

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How we are gulled

We must be able to see the secret, algorithmic methods of Google, Facebook and other digital titans if we are to tackle disinformation and toxic polarization, says propaganda expert Peter Pomerantsev.

Peter Pomerantsev March, 2021 530 Buy
Dark money

Funds from hidden sources are warping democracy with increasing and devastating effect. Peter Geoghegan follows the money.

Peter Geoghegan March, 2021 530 Buy
The space invaders

Our privacy and freedom of thought is routinely and pervasively breached by the masters of surveillance capitalism. What is this doing to us as humans and to our democratic choices in life? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips talks to Vanessa Baird.

Vanessa Baird March, 2021 530 Buy
Love and other conspiracies

India is not short of divisive and harmful conspiracy theories. Now one, called ‘love jihad’, has been given legal teeth. Laxmi Murthy reports.

Laxmi Murthy March, 2021 530 Buy
Information and democracy - The Facts

We make our political judgements based on the information we get – and the internet is brimming with it. That can be part of the problem...

March, 2021 530 Buy
Democracy on the edge

More fragile than we thought, liberal democracy seems to be under attack from many sides. Are these death throes – or growing pains? Vanessa Baird explores.

Vanessa Baird March, 2021 530 Buy
Spotlight: Tse Tse Fly Middle East

Louise Gray turns her attention to the anti-slavery musical activism of Tse Tse Fly Middle East.

Louise Gray January, 2021 529 Read
Mixed Media: Music

Freedom by Yvette Janine Jackson; Kologo by Alostmen.

January, 2021 529 Read
Mixed Media: Film

The Mole Agent (El agente topo)  directed and written by Maite Alberdi; African Apocalypse directed and co-written by Rob Lemkin.

January, 2021 529 Buy
Mixed Media: Books

Theatre of War by Andrea Jeftanovic;  Untraceable  by Sergei Lebedev; How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm; Imagining Orwell by Julio Etchart.

January, 2021 529 Buy
Only Planet

Trickle down, by Marc Roberts.

Marc Roberts January, 2021 529 Buy
The Puzzler

Crossword Puzzle, Association Words and Wordsearch

January, 2021 529 Buy
What if…

What if we got real about sustainability? It might reverse the UN’s order of holiness, Vanessa Baird finds.

January, 2021 529 Buy
When alcohol causes so much damage is it unethical to set up a brewery?

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

Agony Uncle January, 2021 529 Buy
Big Bad World

Conspiracy - by P J Polyp.

January, 2021 529 Buy