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What the Saudi leaks tell us

What the Saudi leaks tell us

Documents from within the Saudi Foreign Office, Julian Assange explains what’s inside them.
Calculating the environmental benefits of peace in Colombia

Calculating the environmental benefits of peace in Colombia

The costs of the 50-year conflict add up to ecocide. Doug Weir reports.
Saudi activists – who are they and what do they want?

Saudi activists – who are they and what do they want?

Madawi Al-Rasheed examines the prospects and limits of activism in the absolute monarchy.
If Google and Facebook flip elections does code rule the world?

If Google and Facebook flip elections does code rule the world?

Internet users used to be worried about government control of the web, writes Chris Spannos.
What might a Plan B for Europe look like?

What might a Plan B for Europe look like?

Leftwing politicians and social movements strike a claim for a new Europe. Claire Fauset reports.
Oil on the skids

Oil on the skids

The quiet power of oil and money has for decades enabled Saudi Arabia to buy silence and influence, writes Nafeez Ahmed.

Top stories

Poverty in the land of black gold

Paul Aarts and Carolien Roelants on the plight of poor Saudis.

A new beginning for economic transformation in Africa?

Chris Matthews hears arguments for African-led growth at a forum in Rwanda.

Worldbeaters: Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey’s president is one of the political class’s more humourless and intolerant specimens.

What the Saudi leaks tell us: An interview with Julian Assange

Since June 2015 WikiLeaks has been releasing details of leaked cables and other documents from within the Saudi Foreign Office. Julian Assange explains what’s inside.

Golden goal for child miners in Burkina Faso

Child miners are finding an unlikely escape from goldmines, through football, writes Rebecca Cooke.

Mixed Media: Films

This month’s film reviews.

Innocents detained in Nigeria

Ayuba Ijai was held hostage for months by Boko Haram terrorists before government soldiers detained him on suspicion of being a Boko Haram member. Samuel Malik explains.

Blogs

Calculating the environmental benefits of peace in Colombia

The costs of the 50-year conflict add up to ecocide. Doug Weir reports.

Five years of Syrian crisis hits women hard

Tabitha Ross describes how the conflict is affecting women exposed to gender-based violence.

If Google and Facebook can flip elections does code now rule the real world?

Internet users used to be worried about government control of the web but the opposite may be true, writes Chris Spannos

Hail Caesar! The personal whim of not so fair trade

The struggle for real Fairtrade is reminiscent of gladiator battles, writes Ben O’Hanlon.

Worse than fiction: discrimination against women

Too often our legal system privileges the status quo instead of protecting the vulnerable, writes Brian Loffler.

The EU-Turkey summit exposes our inhumanity to refugees

Open and democratic societies cannot be built on fear and hatred, writes Nick Dearden.

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    The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change

    A completely revised edition on the politics of climate in a post-Copenhagen world.

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    People First Economics

    Toxic debt, rising job losses, collapsing commodity prices and expanding poverty. How can we rein in these beasts unleashed by the free market economy?

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    The World Atlas of Sport

    This beautifully designed and fully illustrated atlas profiles the world’s major competitive sports, their political uses and abuses, and the profits that flow from their commercial development.

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