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Threatened by Chinese scientific and technological advances, the US has dragooned European countries through the North ...

Ouarzazate is a beautiful town in south-central Morocco, where ruddy orange earthen Kasbahs stand tall, as they have for centuries, on a high plateau between the snow-topped Atlas mountains that form ...

From the perspective of these mid-century ambitions, Guyana’s independence was a chronicle of defeat. Just 133 days after his election as chief minister, Jagan was deposed by a British military coup, ...

F or years, Green New Deal frameworks have been debated across the world. How can climate change and economic inequality be addressed at the same time? The Covid-19 pandemic has further revealed the ...

The ICJ ruling shook the global establishment. In Cape Town and Johannesburg, Conrad Landin asks if it could pave the way for justice for Indigenous peoples. South Africa is losing its status as an ...

New Internationalist 347 July 2002. Corporate influence / A HISTORY What is a corporation? Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary defines it as 'an ingenious device for obtaining profit without ...

3 Colonial extraction. Another, much bigger, captive market had been created in the colonies. The model was simple. Take the example of India: local enterprise and industry were crushed; large ...

I was born in 1965, the year the plastic bag was invented. During my childhood, in a boom city in central India, I remember plastic bags were still relatively rare. Only the more expensive shops gave ...

Putin’s gas tap. This vast human disaster begs the obvious, trillion-dollar question: why? For some the culprit for higher prices is clear. As former UK prime minister Boris Johnson put it: ‘We’re ...

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'Punish' China. In Washington, I met Amitai Etzioni, distinguished professor of international affairs at George Washington University. The US, he writes, ‘is preparing for a war with China, a ...