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Choking season in India | New Internationalist
Dec 12, 2024 · Here in Delhi, while the air is toxic year-round, winter brings an apocalyptic level of smog. From October onwards, a thick gray haze settles over the city – a toxic mix of vehicular and construction-related pollution, compounded by the smoke from burning fields in …
Spotlight: Evelyn Hollow | New Internationalist
Dec 9, 2024 · W hen Evelyn Hollow made the transition from radio to television, she knew she would face greater scrutiny – but there was one reaction she didn’t foresee. ‘They always say “oh you don’t look like what I thought you would look like”,’ she explains. ‘I’ve had some interesting responses to that – people thought I’d be blonde, people thought I’d be 50.
Women's agency in the DRC war | New Internationalist
Nov 4, 2024 · Mothers and daughters. In a sprawling displacement camp, not far from where the fighters drink, Jaqueline Uwimana, 35, is seething with anger. Last year, her 15-year-old daughter announced that she would join the Wazalendo.
Country Profile: Haiti | New Internationalist
A s dawn breaks over the mountainous terrain of Haiti, the smell of roasting coffee mixes with the morning mist, and the soft chatter of early risers fills the air. Peasants tend to their crops in the cool light, while children in crisp uniforms head to school, their footsteps stomping this rich historical ground.
New Internationalist: The World Unspun podcast
How Haiti became the 'poster child' for reparations. As Haiti once again makes global news headlines for all the wrong reasons, we sat down with independent journalist Harold Isaac to better understand how the country’s complex history contributed to today's crisis.
Our most-read articles from 2024 | New Internationalist
It is no surprise that our coverage of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, be it the repression of international solidarity movements or the complicity of foreign governments, continued to dominate our most-read charts this year.The call for justice in Palestine has spread throughout society, and pockets of resistance are popping up across sectors and institutions – for more on this, make sure to ...
The Philippines disinformation machine | New Internationalist
Exposés into Twinmark’s cash flows eventually revealed that the ‘trending news agency’ had earned millions of pesos through programmatic ads and by offering their advertising channels, including their social media assets, to any paying client. An investigation by Filipino online news site Rappler, published in February 2021, also showed …
10 steps to world peace - New Internationalist
According to a World Bank survey, 40 per cent of those who join rebel groups do so because of a lack of economic opportunities.Relative poverty is just as important, with more equal societies marked by high levels of trust and low levels of violence. Economic fairness when it comes to public resources, taxation and tax evasion is also key. The systematic transfer of …
Searching for truth in a world of disinformation
November-December 2024. Searching for truth in a world of disinformation. The more we know the less likely we are to tolerate tyranny. Yet it’s only now that the world seems to have woken up to the damage being done to democracy by the way our information ecosystems are increasingly shaped by a desire to make money instead of the desire to connect.