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

London Climate Action Week won’t be the launchpad for these mobilisations—but it can be a moment to regroup, refocus, and strengthen our resolve. As the week ends, the priority must be looking ahead: ...

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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 ...

Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’. The slide on the screen ...

‘It hurts to breathe, please don’t let me fall asleep. If I sleep I won’t be able to wake up again.’ These were the last words of 15-year old Álvaro Conrado, the first victim of a bullet in ...

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, ...

Fish have outsized importance in Senegal, a nation of 16 million where as many as 1 in 6 people work in or around the industry. Fish is valued, culturally embedded and popular – star of the national ...

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 ...

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 ...