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How British colonizers caused the Bengal famine
Jan 21, 2022 · T he Bengal famine stands as one of the single most horrific atrocities to have occurred under British colonial rule. From 1943 to 1944, more than three million Indians died of starvation and malnutrition, and millions more fell into crushing poverty. For many years, the British blamed the famine on weather conditions and food shortfalls, as if it were an unavoidable natural disaster.
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.
The US empire is hidden in plain sight | New Internationalist
Declassified files from the CIA show how concerned the intelligence agency then was by the left turn in Labour. The BBC noted ‘the deep level of concern inside the CIA about the strength of the Left within Labour in the early 1980s, a political force which the agency regarded as anti-American’. The CIA was particularly concerned about Foot winning the 1983 general election, with an ...
New Internationalist: The World Unspun podcast
Dec 10, 2024 · For this week’s The World Unspun, we met with Samar Alkhdour, a Palestinian activist in Montreal whose campaign against the obstructive and discriminatory Canadian immigration system has been met with nothi As Haiti once again makes global news headlines for all the wrong reasons, we sat down with ...
Debt: Which way out? | New Internationalist
Nov 27, 2024 · May-June 2024. Debt: Which way out? As more households – and countries – are pushed into unmanageable debt, this magazine explores how we got here, how debt connects us across borders and how debtors can build collective power.
Climate Capitalism - New Internationalist
January-February 2024. Climate Capitalism. The energy transition has arrived – or at least, the material impacts of green technologies have, along with fantastic amounts of hot air from corporations keen to big up their contributions.
In Sudan, women's bodies have long been the battleground
Mar 21, 2024 · During the first nine months of the war in Sudan, reports of rampant sexual abuse as a weapon war were rife. In a widely circulated social media post, an RSF member boasted that women, property and wealth in captured areas are considered war booty and, as per the law of combat, the militia’s exclusive and indisputable right.. Contrary to public belief, conscription in Sudan is not the ...
Do zoos cause more harm than good? | New Internationalist
Dec 9, 2021 · LINDA: I agree that human interventions seem to cause more harm than good to wildlife in their natural habitat, but to imagine that humans who have failed at protecting wildlife in-situ can do better within the confining conditions of zoos is an irony.Manipulating the conditions of the zoos to mimic the natural environment for every species is far more costly and demanding.