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Bushmen struggle to return to Central Kalahari
Clive Dennis
1st March, 2007
Botswanan police are refusing to allow Kalahari Bushmen to return to their ancestral homelands, despite their having won a landmark high court case allowing them to do so, writes Clive Dennis more...'Build on the green-belt' says think-tank
News
23rd January, 2007
A new report by the Policy Exchange think-tank has advocated scrapping the green-belt and simplifying the planning system. more...
Milton Friedman: Architect of Neoliberalism RIP
Paul Kingsnorth
1st December, 2006
Death is rarely something to be celebrated, but I can’t say I shed a tear last week when I heard that Milton Friedman, the father of neoliberal economics, had gone to the great free market in the sky. more...
Nairobi: where did it all go wrong?
Mark Anslow
24th November, 2006
Having enjoyed brief media coverage, world attention towards climate change during the last few weeks did not end with a bang. Instead, it fizzled out, bogged down in international policy and technicalities at the UN Climate Change Conference in Nairobi last week. Why? more...
Bush didn't bungle Iraq you fools
Greg Palast
1st May, 2006
... the mission was indeed accomplished more...
Economic growth - the elephant in the room?
Aidan Rankin
1st December, 2005
‘Religion is the opium of the people’ is one of Marx’s best-known aphorisms. It is memorable because it tells us so much about the manipulation of faith in the industrial era more...
The End of Cheap Oil - The Consequences
Dan Box, Tully Wakeman and Jeremy Smith
1st October, 2005
Our lives are now so dependent on oil that it is impossible to conceive of a world without it. Before long, however, we will have no choice. The sooner we start planning for that reality, and changing the way we live, the better our chance of survival. more...
Red Road Rising
Yves Engler
1st March, 2005
Can the world survive China’s burgeoning love affair with the automobile? more...
Boycott Coca-Cola
Max Keiser
1st February, 2005
Boycott Coca-Cola and make money for the victims of Coca-Cola. How much can we make?more...
Backing the Bad Guys
Noreena Hertz
1st December, 2004
As the world’s poorest countries sink further and further into debt, Western corporations grow fat from government-backed projects that fuel conflicts, harm the environment and have built-in kickbacks.more...
A thirst for power: China in Tibet
Lynne O’Donnell
1st June, 2004
Since colonising Tibet in 1959, China has ripped out virgin forests, dug up minerals and metals, and dumped nuclear waste with little regard for the fragile ecology of the Tibetan plateau.more...
A denial of beautiful dreams
Yves Engler
1st May, 2004
Haiti is a failed state: one of those places that just can’t seem to get its act together, despite the best efforts of benevolent Western powers. Or so the mainstream media would have you believe. Yet history tells us a more complicated story. more...
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Amazon Crime
Greg Nasmyth
1st May, 2004
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, renegade logging firms are stealing the land of impoverished communities and stripping it of the trees on which the whole world depends. Greg Nasmyth boards a 700-tonne icebreaker to join a group of Greenpeace activists in their bid to stop them. more...
Killa Cola
Keith Hyams
1st April, 2004
I’m sitting opposite the large Coca-Cola bottling plant next to the village of Plachimada in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Plachimada is a farming village of about 800 families, many of them tribal. The ugly factory looks rather out of place in such a beautiful setting, the Western Ghats mountains clearly visible in the distance. more...
Submerging Freedom
Keith Hyams
1st March, 2004
Some 245 Indian villages are in the middle of being destroyed by a $7 billion dam project that will consume more energy than it provides and has even been condemned by its World Bank sponsors. more...
Saving Malibu from the stars
Arnie Cooper
1st February, 2004
Barbara Streisand prides herself on being a movie star with an environmental conscience. So why did she take one man to court over his efforts to protect the California coastline? more...
Seeds of Hope
Nicola Graydon
1st December, 2003
Ladakh is framed by the Karakoram mountains to the north and the Himalayas to the south. Yet even in this remote environment the forces of global consumerism are intruding. Nicola Graydon reports on the locals' inspiring defence of their culture more...
Masters of Illusion
Janine Roberts
1st September, 2003
Janine Roberts describes how De Beers cons the world into paying so much for its cheap, plentiful diamonds and turns a blind eye to the eradication of the oldest culture on the planet. more...
Some GM questions answered
The Ecologist
1st July, 2003
Why are GM crops being grown, how are plants genetically modified, where is it being cultivated, who’s in control and what is being researched and developed? more...More Than Honey
Kate Atkins
1st May, 2003
They build masterfully constructed homes, have a brilliantly regulated social order, are essential to sustaining the environment and are playing a vital role in sustainable development projects. more...
Terrorism and globalisation
Fritjof Capra
1st May, 2003
For all its obsession with international terrorism, Washington fails to see how the phenomenon is driven by its own model of globalisation – a model that is itself uniquely vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Fritjof Capra on security and sustainability more...Cooking-pot Revolution
Ben Backwell
1st May, 2003
When the Argentinian economy collapsed the country’s fat cats and bankrupt politicians melted into the woodwork, leaving the workers of Argentina to sort out the mess. Ben Backwell reports from Buenos Aires on their astonishing rise from the economic rubble.more...
Like Flowers Breaking through the Cement
Holly Wren
1st April, 2003
Many people dismiss environmentalism as a middle-class luxury that few can afford. But in Mexico City a group of impoverished street punks are pioneering radical social alternatives because their survival depends on it. Holly Wren reports. more...
Soya Republic
Ben Backwell
1st February, 2003
As the people of Argentina are driven by economic collapse to the point of starvation, a new solution is being imposed upon them. Ben Backwell reports on a country being force fed genetically modified soya designed not for humans, but for cattlemore...
Blood is Thicker...
Ros Coward
1st February, 2003
Ros Coward reports from Murcia in southern Spain, the driest place in Europe, where tourism and intensive agriculture is draining its meagre water supplies and causing a growing environmental crisis. more...Members
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