Nick Harvey considers the role – and the agenda – of the global media in making the news.
Magazine
Argentina’s challenge
Stormy times ahead in the world’s eighth largest country. Are there lessons to be learned? asks Vanessa Baird.
- Vanessa Baird
- Issue 463
- 6 Jun 2013
- 2
Syrian war spills into Lebanon
Stefan Simanowitz reports from Baalbek and Tripoli on fears that life for locals and refugees will become less secure.
- Stefan Simanowitz
- Web
- 3 Jun 2013
- 1
Sup with the devil
Mozambican smallholders thought they could do a deal with agribusiness. Hazel Healy reports on how transnational OLAM treated its so-called partners.
- Hazel Healy
- Web
- 3 Jun 2013
- 0
Facing the vultures
Argentina is not in the habit of being cowed by international pressure and financial big-hitters – or by proponents of austerity. Vanessa Baird reports.
- Vanessa Baird
- Issue 463
- 3 Jun 2013
- 0
Country Profile: Indonesia
Another decade of living dangerously, despite a smart, engaged middle class and increasingly empowered poor.
- Irfan Kortschak
- Issue 462
- 30 May 2013
- 2
Rob Newman: 'The Age of Austerity is a sham'
The comedian, author and activist talks to K Biswas.
Blogs
Fracking futures: a taste of what’s to come
Politics and art will collide at a new exhibition, as artist Helen Evans explains.
- Helen Evans
- 11 Jun 2013
- 0
Spies and the prism of lies
PRISM’s nothing new,
it’s just the latest reveal of spy agencies’ ability –
which they take to be a right – to monitor us all, says Robin Tudge.
- Robin Tudge
- 11 Jun 2013
- 0
G8 hunger summit provokes protest and praise
Amy Hall joins the London climax of the IF campaign and finds herself musing the age old question – can you change the system from within?
Indonesians refuse to stop fighting extractive industry
Radical action is needed to help the victims of the fossil fuel rush win justice, writes Alex Scrivener.
- Alex Scrivener
- 10 Jun 2013
- 0
No Dash For Gas back in action as West Burton activists sentenced
‘Guerilla’ protesters crash the Cheltenham Science Fair and demand that EDF ‘stop silencing science.’ Tara Clarke reports.
- Tara Clarke
- 7 Jun 2013
- 0
When will the world’s financial powers learn?
Conditions imposed by the IMF and World Bank increase inequality and show little regard for marginalized people, writes Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
- Mari Marcel Thekaekara
- 7 Jun 2013
- 3