Articles by New Internationalist Editorial

Over £80k in in just the first two days: the first update on the state of our Community Share Offer.

We turn the focus inwards to mark our 500th edition.

We are reviewing our ownership model to become a community-owned cooperative, and are launching a £500k share offer today – the largest of its kind by a media organization globally.

It won’t last, the young founders of New Internationalist were told 500 issues ago. Read the letter from this month’s Editors.

Inside a transgender ‘birthday’ party in Pakistan, a rare chance for the community to celebrate a friend’s life.

Our pick of new and recent releases.

The outstanding films, music and books of the year.

Ego? Tick. Money? Tick. Power-hungry? Tick. A disaster for the world? Tick.

New Internationalist dissects the language of high finance with low motives.

As 2016 finally came to a close, the New Internationalist staff wrapped up the year’s top articles. Have you missed any?

Latest releases, including fiction by Vamba Sherif.

Feedback from our readers.

Tax avoidance is a worldwide system involving many destinations and layers of financial manipulation. We chart a few of the strands to show who wins and who loses.

It hasn’t rained since May in Paraguay’s General Diaz area, and wildlife is struggling to survive as rivers dry up.

The Story of a Brief Marriage, Talking To My Country The History Thieves and others reviewed in this month’s New Internationalist magazine.

Hologram Ĭmparatorluğu (Hologram Empire) by Gaye Su Akyol and Radio International by Kefaya.

I, Daniel Blake, directed by Ken Loach; The Innocents, directed and co-written by Anne Fontaine.

A halloween display featuring a border wall, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders popped up in Connecticut.

The hurricane killed over 1,000 people, and after it, a cholera outbreak is exacerbating livelihoods in Haiti, photographs show.

The Caliphate, Red Ellen, Eve out of Her Ruins, and ‘Migrant, refugee, smuggler, saviour’ reviewed in this month’s New Internationalist magazine.

Amerli by Refugees for Refugees and Anda by Melingo.

The Clan, directed and co-written by Pablo Trapero; Urban Hymn, directed by Michael Caton-Jones.

The president of the Philippines he may be, but his reputation is as a Dirty Harry of vigilante politics.

New Internationalist’s world fiction titles.

US bombs still kill in Laos – even decades years after being dropped.

From the changing workplace to zero-hours contracts, precarious working and outsourcing: workers are open to extreme exploitation. Here are the facts.

Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy by Ece Temelkuran; The Seamstress and the Wind by César Aira; Remembering Akbar by Behrooz Ghamari; Irregular War by Paul Rogers.

NYN by Kristi Stassinopoulou and Stathis Kalyviotis; ‘They Will Kill You, If You Cry’ by Khmer Rouge Survivors.

Around the world, trade unions are facing fierce repression. But workers are still uniting to stand up for their rights and, in some cases, winning, from this month’s New Internationalist magazine.

The Lovers and the Despot, directed and written by Ross Adam and Robert Cannan; The Confession, directed by Ashish Ghadiali.

Israel’s defence minister is a political chameleon and lightning rod for controversy, among other things.

You can take action at a practical and technological level – and a political one.

This month’s fact spread presents details about the internet and the corporate giants who monopolize it.

Our pick of the recent releases.

A gunman killed at least 49 people and wounded 53 others at Florida nightclub on Sunday.

This month’s book reviews.

This photo and video gallery surveys just some of the civil disobedience that recently took place in Germany.

Kelvin Hopkins and Caroline Lucas go head to head on the question that will be put to British voters in a referendum in June.

A victim-led exhibition of those who have suffered nearly 40 years of uninterrupted conflict, by AHRDO.

Hawkish Hillary is a friend of bankers and warmongers, despite her Democratic credentials.

This month’s book reviews, from Angry White People to a Girl in Exile.

Independent journalism is an endangered species — together we can protect and defend it. Helen Wallis explains why it is important to support New Internationalist.

This month’s book reviews.

The key facts you need to know about the country’s people, environment, oil economy, human rights and more.

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

The former NI co-editor, who died this week, was a much-loved colleague, friend and mentor.

French officials have vowed to bulldoze the Calais migrant camp known as ‘The Jungle’. This gallery presents images from inside the migrant camp.

A rundown of New Internationalist’s most popular web articles from 2015.

Where people come from, where they flee to – and why they keep moving. New Internationalist gives a worldwide context for refugee flows with this zoomable infograph from our Jan/Feb magazine.

The films, music and books that made the grade this year.

This month’s book reviews.

An open letter from the Wretched of the Earth bloc to the organizers of the People’s Climate March of Justice and Jobs.

New Internationalist followed the Paris ‘D12’ and ‘red lines’ actions as people amplified their voices for climate justice.

This New Internationalist photo gallery presents events from frontline struggles against climate change during the Paris climate talks.

This month’s book reviews.

The Mexican president may look like butter wouldn’t melt… but looks can be deceiving.

People marching in France, Germany, South Africa and elsewhere on 29 November 2015, part of New Internationalist’s live coverage of the Paris climate talks.

With your support New Internationalist has reached its goal.

An East German spy thriller with a difference - just one of the books reviewed this month.

Meredith L Patterson and Deanna Zandt go head to head.

Help New Internationalist provide a platform for grassroots voices at the COP21 talks.

A collection of pro trans organizations, websites, support groups, books, movies and more, from New Internationalist’s October magazine.

Eight people from across the world share their transgender experience.

This New Internationalist editorial takes a look at Germany’s finance minister.

Book reviews from our October magazine include The Underground by Hamid Ismailov; The New Threat by Jason Burke; The Wikileaks Files by Wikileaks; and America’s Dreyfus by Joan Brady.

This New Internationalist fact spread looks at the violence and discrimination that trans people face.

Music reviews from the September issue of New Internationalist magazine.

New Internationalist offers film reviews from its October magazine.

Syria’s civil war has inflicted a humanitarian crisis, expansive exodus of the population and a severe death toll. New Internationalist presents the facts in this zoomable infograph.

Despite a fig leaf of respectability, scandals are stacking up for the Honduran president.

Simon Fairlie and James McWilliams go head to head.

A new literary project shines a light on Haiti’s storytelling tradition.

Dave Wybrow explains the lessons to be learnt from a long-ago terrorist act. 

Mathew Lawrence and Uri Gordon go head to head.

The Islamist organization’s wanton annihilation of Iraq’s history is a shock ploy.

The CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year competition has opened its gates again. Take a look at last year’s entries here.

The self-aggrandizing Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.

Professor Anne Hendrixson and journalist Erica Gies go head to head.

Why haven’t we solved climate change yet? Watch our latest video on the issue to hear what’s really been going on.

What’s it like to live next door to the fracking rigs? Six photographers spent two years in gas-rich Pennsylvania trying to find out. 

Cartoonists must continue using humour to push boundaries.

Further information, campaign groups and websites.

The facts and figures that matter in our infographic.

A series of images taken by Tim Hetherington a year after the disaster are now part of a multimedia exhibition.

An introduction to some of those fighting for girls’ rights and education in a short documentary from Girls Not Brides.

The fossil fuel divestment movement is taking the world by storm – and has had some major victories.

David Hoile and Angela Mudukuti go head to head.

How Padmini Prakash makes history in India, by Krishna.

A new album celebrates the legacy of South-African artist-turned-political activist Julian Bahula.

Insights into power structure by the best-selling author.

Doctors Nayna Patel and Mohan Rao go head to head.

We’ve been working hard to produce a beautiful new iOS app, and it’s finally ready for use. Read all about it, and sign up to get one month’s free access to the magazine.

Ilan Pappé and Norman Finkelstein analyze the pros and cons of the BDS movement.

Read what writer and activist Adam Ramsay and professor and author Jim Gallagher think - then join the debate.

Do you support our focus on human rights, social justice and the environment? Here’s one easy way you can help!

As chosen by our readers…

Feminist blogger Danielle Leigh and filmmaker and former model Susan Hess Logeais go head to head.

A graphic guide to the world’s many tongues.

Professor and author Stephen D’Arcy and historian and journalist Vijay Prashad go head to head.

Viva! campaigner Tony Wardle and social commentator Mohammed Ansar go head to head.

Three Ukrainians living in Britain respond to recent events in their homeland.

One Western aid worker is frustrated and sickened by what’s going on in Burma.

Sub-Saharan migrants write an open letter to organizations and citizens around the world to protest their treatment by Moroccan authorities.

Basic Income UK co-ordinator Barb Jacobson and author and sociologist Francine Mestrum go head to head.

Porn performer and lecturer Kitty Stryker and feminist writer and activist Louise Pennington go head to head.

Introducing the EU’s austerity czar, a Finnish Eurocrat and self-styled archangel of fiscal sobriety.

Lecturer and writer Phil Leech and researcher Richard Gowan go head to head.

Writer and academic Myriam Francois-Cerrah and journalist Noreen Sadik go head-to-head.

Politics academic Andrew Mycock and UK Youth Parliament member Chanté Joseph go head-to-head.

At any given time countries both owe debts and have them owing to them. Who owes what and what’s the bigger crisis – foreign or domestic debt.

Teachers Stephanie Schneider and Matt Christison go head-to-head.

Oxford takes a lead from communities in the US by rejecting oil from Canada’s destructive tar sands project.

Neal Lawson and Ruth Potts, both campaigners and writers, go head-to-head.

An infographic guide to investors, target lands and crops grown.

Economist and author Dan O’Neill and journalist and author Daniel Ben-Ami go head-to-head.

The independent journalism connoisseurs have recognized us for our international coverage.

Prices through the roof, a gaping deficit, homelessness, one billion in slums and an urban takeover.

Human rights lawyer Dianne Post and writer and filmmaker Bishakha Datta go head-to-head.

Palestinian Mohammad Saba’aneh is being held without charge by the Israel Defense Forces.

Richard Wamai and Ronald Goldman go head to head.

Aminatou Haidar, from Western Sahara; Rigoberta Menchú, from Guatemala; Mari Marcel Thekaekara, from India; and Domitila Barrios de Chungara, from Bolivia.

Steps forward, steps back - what effect have 40 years of development had?

Campaigners have welcomed the move to pull out of speculative deals with hedge funds which made the company up to £278 million in 2012.

Worldbeater dishes the dirt on Ilham Aliyev, master of autocratic self-enrichment.

A new free resource for English learners and teachers.

Who’s online where, who has your data and how much are they spending to get it?

Britain’s biggest commodities player admits that betting on food prices bad for image, as campaigners push for regulation.

Anne Paq’s photograph of a Palestinian boy killed in an Israeli air-strike brings home the horror of an escalating conflict.

A matter of life and death: the contrasting rates of mortality, access to medicine and care across the globe.

Author and journalist Mark Lynas and researcher and writer Claire Robinson go head-to-head.

This infographic takes a closer look at the contrasting lives of the 1.2 billion young people aged 15-24 worldwide.

Writer and activist Firoze Manji and professor Stephen Chan go head-to-head.

Switzerland, Bangladesh and the Big Four accountancy firms are featured in the latest Tax Justice Network podcast.

The high-profile Chilean student leader says the one per cent’s monopoly of power must be fought. 

Professors Mark Wheeler and Ilan Kapoor go head-to-head.

August’s Taxcast looks at capital flight, the taxes of Usain Bolt and inequality with the authors of The Spirit Level.

A young documentary maker explores how community anger at the police helped spark the unrest that swept through England last August.

NGOs and campaign groups lament a disappointing conference but draw hope from beyond the conference walls. 

On World Refugee Day, a report argues that refugee organizations around the world are not doing enough to help and protect LGBT migrants.

In the latest Taxcast, the co-founder of Facebook ‘unfriends’ the US and Europe considers a Financial Transaction Tax.

A selection of articles from the October 2011 issue ‘Nature’s Defenders: can indigenous people save the planet?’ are up for the award.

A group of merry players perform an anti-BP soliloquy to an unsuspecting audience at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

As delegates gather at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, two videos expose what happens when community land is taken over by private interests.

Time to take aim at the tyrannical President of Equatorial Guinea in this month’s ‘Worldbeater’.

… and lots more in the latest Taxcast from the Tax Justice Network.

New Internationalist comments on a recent post.

How has the corporate press reacted to the fighting in Syria?

Why haven’t our leaders, itching to get the UN security council to act on Syria, learnt the lessons of UN intervention in Libya?

An estimated 73 million sharks are slaughtered every year for their fins, with 110 species now facing extinction, reports Claire C.

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto on her latest film, Pink Saris.

The time has come for Britain’s biggest companies to pay living wages, says Matthew Butcher of FairPensions.

Burma’s much-touted ‘roadmap to democracy’ is anything but, say Jody Williams and Tin Tin Nyo. 

Three personal stories of the battles being fought for workers’ rights.

The best music, books and films from 2008

The democratic credentials of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili are in tatters.

Eat in or get taken away

Business is booming for sinister seamstress

Take off your shoes to George Dubya?

Millions of African lives lost from shortfall in doctors.

New law gives animal rights campaigners reason to celebrate.

New Internationalist’s list of nominees for Most Artful Tax Dodger.

From the Manhattan Project and Hiroshima, to the Cold War, North Korea and beyond, nuclear fission has changed everything.

Hear the harrowing story of a Canadian torture victim.

Virtual reality for global events

Here, in numbers, is the story of the four years since US and British troops ‘liberated’ Iraq

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President of the Philippines, has been called ‘the fourth most powerful woman in the world’. But she needs the iron hands of her generals.

Including Building the ban with Belgian activists and DU and the law.

Hillary Clinton, frontrunner in the race for the White House, is a woman. Unfortunately, that’s where the good news ends.

China permits reincarnation

Take a deep breath and jump in to Planet Ocean
Come and join us for the UK book launch, 18th October, 6:30pm at Waterstones, Piccadilly, London. (see map below)

Estranged brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens, opinionated columnists, have completed ideological journeys from far Left to far Right.

US health-product giant shoots itself in the foot

Code cracker gets four years in jail and loses rights to residency.

Pakistan’s Intelligence Agency, the ISI, finds out what it is like to be in the firing line.

The land of wheat and maple syrup

Corporate watchdog sees red at Bono’s branded goodies.

Day of action across the US demanding carbon cuts

Thousands gather in Guatemala for the Third Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala

Demand grows for mega-cruiseships holding 10,000 tourists

Ten day festival of African cinema in Burkina Faso.

Logging company director charged with incitement to commit murder

True tales of a mixed-up world

What people are doing to the ocean – the facts

Dalit women speak out against human rights abuses and discrimination at an international conference in The Hague, Netherlands.

Armenian leader Robert Kocharian could give lessons in how to flirt with dictatorship but pull back just enough to maintain European good will – despite listing one of his hobbies as ‘War’.

Book ban for bad language

Fair trade business is booming across the Western world, which can only be good news for the millions of poor farmers struggling to survive in the face of collapsing commodity prices and ruthless multinationals, right? Maybe, but as fair trade goes mainstream, formerly-clear distinctions about who really benefits are getting blurry.

We asked the CEO of a major London ad agency to give us pointers on how to decode adverts.

The Story of My Life and The Silver Throat of the Moon by refugee writers

Nestlé Fairtrade mockery.

tChorba by Les Yeux Noirs.

A Letter to the Prime Minister directed by Julia Guest.

Brothers directed by Susanne Blier

A few questions for bingos that appeal to you.

Rwanda after the genocide, in our Country Profile series

Egrets and tree frogs; migrant families and cityscapes: why the sixth and greatest extinction in the planet’s history is happening now.

The chilling message of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, conducted by more than 1,360 experts worldwide at the behest of the UN.

From desert storms to plane travel and smokestacks, how the air we breathe may prove to be our downfall.

Recommendations for governments – and addresses of action groups that will keep them honest.

From monoculture in Montana to the spreading Gobi desert in China, how our assault on the earth has eroded its thin skin of soil.

Bleached coral and beached ships; lost wetlands and sinking islands: the power of water over our health, our weather and our wars.

NI editorial comment - United Nations of America?

Here’s how!

The aftermath and implications of the Asian tsunami. Includes: the Burmese migrant workers who were forgotten victims; caste discrimination in India even amid the tsunami trauma; an NI reader on helping to identify bodies in Thailand.

A guide to resisting the forces of occupation.

– a survey of how and where.

It never was the UN’s job to make heaven on earth. Shashi Tharoor defends the organization against misguided missiles.

Yale boy in Babylon: the US Viceroy in Iraq, L Paul Bremer III.

Political music pioneers Dmitri Shostakovich, Remitti, Víctor Jara, Cui Jian, Bob Marley, Fela Kuti, Mercedes Sosa and Miriam Makeba.

A tribute to Nina Simone/strong.