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Interview with Susan Abulhawa

Interview with Susan Abulhawa

The author and human rights activist on trauma, nonviolent resistance and false narratives in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Freedom and football

Freedom and football

In a letter to a friend, Antoine Cassar relives a visit to a detention centre in Luxembourg.
#ShellNo: the triumph of the Kayaktivists

#ShellNo: the triumph of the Kayaktivists

We do not always win - but sometimes we prevail. Mark Engler celebrates a daring victory.
Country Profile: El Salvador

Country Profile: El Salvador

The current relative calm is misleading, writes Louisa Reynolds.
Keystrokes in the West, death in Saudi Arabia

Keystrokes in the West, death in Saudi Arabia

Chris Spannos on the dangers of going online in the land of Al Saud.
Myth 7: Financial regulation destroys profitable banking

Myth 7: Financial regulation destroys profitable banking

Why should financial markets be accountable only to themselves? asks David Ransom.
For their eyes only

For their eyes only

Michaela Whitton reveals how private surveillance companies export technology to authoritarian regimes.

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And finally... Susan Abulhawa

Graeme Green talks to the Palestinian American author and human rights activist.

'I predict...'

Economists don’t always get it right…

Myth 9: Everyone has to pay their debts

We need debt management not reduction, says Dinyar Godrej.

Myth 8: Organized labour is regressive

David Ransom argues that the opposite is actually true.

#ShellNo: the triumph of the Kayaktivists

We do not always win - but sometimes we prevail. Mark Engler celebrates a daring victory.

Country profile: El Salvador

Louisa Reynolds on a country of great inequality still struggling with a legacy of civil war.

Cry me a river

A poetic and heartfelt plea to restore a wounded planet. By Suprabha Seshan.

Blogs

Freedom and football

In a letter to a friend, Antoine Cassar relives a visit to a detention centre in Luxembourg.

Serving the super-rich

The December podcast from the Tax Justice Network provides insights into the closed world of wealth managers.

Keystrokes in the West may mean a death sentence in Saudi Arabia

Chris Spannos on the dangers of going online in the land of Al Saud.

Are we going to sit back and wait for the next mine waste disaster?

Following a recent tragedy in Brazil, Jennifer Krill wonders when environmental laws are going to be enforced.

G7’s ‘New Alliance’ deal is failing farmers in Africa

Aisha Dodwell argues that such schemes only line transnationals’ pockets.

Freer than the wind – the art of Ai Weiwei

Hannah Garrard visits the Chinese dissident artist’s exhibition at London’s Royal Academy.

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