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BETHANY RIELLY for the New Internationalist Co-operative newint.org COVER ARTWORK: PETE REYNOLDS As I hopped onto the metro at Barcelona’s Diagonal station last week, I couldn’t shake the uneasy feeling of being followed. While I’m sure my fears were

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Preeti Jha is a freelance journalist living in London who writes about politics, human rights and gender. She was previously a Southeast Asia-based correspondent for AFP. Juan Ortiz Freuler is an Argentinean lawyer and tech researcher affiliated with

newint.org Is it time more activists broke the law? Activist and presenter Chris Packham talks to Graeme Green about activism, the ‘radical flank’ effect and spaceships. How Rhodes Must Fall amplified calls to decolonize Musawenkosi Cabe looks back o

Thank you for the focus on Palestine (NI 544). In 1996, four Israeli border guards were found guilty of killing an unarmed Palestinian teenager. In a clear message, they were handed a one-hour – suspended – jail sentence, and a one agora (less than a

As their jets soared toward Riyadh, football superstars Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Neymar will have given Saudi Arabia’s border with conflict-torn Yemen a wide berth. This summer, dozens of big-name players transferred to the Saudi Pro Leag

No-one expected Bernado Arévalo to emerge as the winner of Guatemala’s presidential race – not even his own party. Facing down the country’s all-powerful oligarchy, the 64-year-old anti-corruption crusader surprised the nation on 20 August by defeati

Following a German magazine’s controversial AI ‘interview’ with stricken Formula 1 icon Michael Schumacher, the Washington Post has contrived to lower the tone even further by having Chat GPT crudely re-animate abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The result

Filters that scan your messages against government-approved ban lists; a legal requirement for users to upload passport photos before accessing websites; suppression of ‘illegal content’ online including videos of protests and photos of asylum seeker

Environmentalists’ ongoing anger over the decimation of Tasmania’s old growth forest bubbled over into outrage this August, thanks to viral footage of a logging truck carrying a giant tree – usually protected by law. Tasmania is rare as a region with

ONLY 28% OF PEOPLE IN LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN FULLY VACCINATED AGAINST COVID-19 COMPARED TO 74% IN HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES SOURCE: Our World in Data ■

Javier Milei – a libertarian dubbed ‘Argentina’s Trump’ and ‘The Crazy One’ – created shockwaves after gaining the largest vote share in August primaries for October’s presidential election. Though the election will likely go to a run-off, Milei’s ou

A particularly devastating north India monsoon season has caused widespread destruction and raised water levels in the Yamuna River, which runs past the Taj Mahal. Flood water will likely soak into the marble monument’s ancient wooden foundations, bu

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When I ring Hamid Khan, Los Angeles has just been hit by a hurricane. Fortunately, the onslaught of natural disasters hadn’t inflicted too much damage to his neighbourhood. ‘It’s all good, allll good…’ he tells me, in a rolling LA accent. Khan is use

The right to peaceful protest has never been more important. With the climate crisis posing an existential threat to humankind, the ability of citizens to pressure those in power to act could be crucial to our survival. Yet our right to take to the s

Seven hundred kilometres off the US coast lies Bermuda, one of the last remaining jewels in the crown of the British Empire. With sparkling crystal clear waters, it’s a sub-tropical paradise where life is slow-paced, just like the 35km/h speed limit.

Robert Stubbs, the ex-head of research at the Bank of Bermuda, dubbed the situation ‘appalling’ after the 2016 Population and Housing Census Report showed that median income among the Black population dropped 13 per cent from 2010 to 2016, a situatio

Earlier this year a shocking video of two young women being paraded naked by a mob in India’s northeast state of Manipur surfaced online. One of them was still a teenager. At the end of the video the two are pushed into a field by the group of men. T

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With another round of the UN climate talks due to start in Dubai on 30 November, the actions of those benefiting most from fossil fuels must stay under scrutiny. Climate negotiations remain a space where established power is replicated. The commitmen

by Lynne Tillman (Peninsula Press, ISBN 9781913512347) peninsulapress.co.uk Lynne Tillman is a bohemian writer of the old school. She knew New York when it was scary, London when it was all squats and punks. Motion Sickness, republished this Autumn i

by Lynne Segal (Verso, ISBN: 9781804292945) versobooks.com On a recent visit to a 96-year-old relative who still lived alone, it became clear that he had heard the phrase ‘living independently’ one too many times. ‘I don’t live independently – none o

Solutions here are alluded to by ‘association’ words or phrases, eg ICE as a solution could have association words like ‘melting (ICE)’ or ‘(ICE) skating’, so the association words in each clue could appear in a phrase before or after the solution wo

Find the 22 Mediterranean islands hidden here. The 15 New York boroughs and neighborhoods were: Astoria, Bronx, Corona, El Barrio, Flatiron, Forest Hills, Gramercy, Harlem, Inwood, Manhattan, Midtown, Queens, Soho, The Bowery, Tribeca. ■

The progressive, Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) used to boast a lower incarceration rate than any state bar San Marino, due to its stated principles of restorative, community-led justice. But following the unrec