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'Every person who says they advocate for a fair future, a livable climate, should be talking about P@lestine'

Climate justice activist and author Tori Tsui joins us for a special #EarthDay episode of The World Unspun – out this week wherever you get your podcasts.

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The hijab debate India won’t let go Hijab bans are emblematic of India’s increased anti-Muslim hostility, writes Tarushi Aswani.

'While restrictions on Muslim women today may be less loud or visible than a few years ago, they still exist,' writes Tarushi Aswani. 'The BJP and its ideological allies continue to mark Muslim women’s bodies as open to scrutiny in ways others are not.'

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‘I was inhaling the art and creativity since birth, something that made me put aside other dreams and join my brothers 20 years ago to create the first trio of ouds.'

Read our latest Spotlight, featuring Palestinian band Le Trio Jourban, in our latest issue.

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Anger and fears of being drawn into a wider conflict have reignited local calls for Britain to withdraw its bases from the Mediterranean nation.

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A claim for the future Would a separate state improve the lives of Indigenous communities in India? Fabio Lovati reports on the movement that thinks it would.

‘This is no longer about flags or parties. What really matters is something else: who determines over our land, our rights and the future of our children?’

Preview the story about the movement for a separate state for India's Indigenous communities, by Fabio Lovati.

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Subhran Karmakar captured this remarkable shot in his native Kolkota, India.

It was taken in the city’s Chinatown, where Karmarkar’s interest was piqued by seeing a boy repeatedly diving into the water. The photographer has been documenting the streets of his city since 2018, as well as working as

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'Real life has become increasingly hostile to young people wanting to spend time together. Whatever the causes, there is no solution to the youth mental health crisis which doesn’t involve a concerted effort to make real life interesting again.'

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1926. Nine days that changed British labour history. 100 years on, the fight looks familiar. Our General Strike centenary edition is available in discounted wholesale bundles for unions and organisations — swipe to find out more. 👉 a.nin.tl/WholesaleStrikeMag

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For the long read in our latest issue, Eiad Husham traces the UAE’s long game for access to the Red Sea – a strategy built through ports, airports and infrastructure projects, and driven by ambitions to secure maritime power and regional influence.

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'When we come together and make our voices heard, then we are really powerful'

Speaking at the recent Democracy in Europe Movement (@diem25.org) event in London, economist and author Grace Blakeley tells New Internationalist why resistance is no longer a slogan: it is a condition for survival.

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We love this cover! Thank you so much @jamesclapham.bsky.social

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Argentina: A past denied To confront the atrocities of its military dictatorship, Argentina introduced a range of lauded ‘memory and justice’ policies. Now the Javier Milei government is stoking denial of the past and undermining families’ fights for justice. Ali Qassim reports.

Today marks 50 years since the military coup in #Argentina initiated a brutal dictatorship that swept up tens of thousands of people, mostly in their 20s, and disappeared them without trace.

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‘I see Pennsylvania being ready and willing to continue to be the state of extraction,’ she says, as her smile turns to a sigh.

Read the full report from Maia Woluchem and Livia Garofalo in our latest issue: newint.org/science-and-...

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'Today Ramallah’s coffee boom reflects the dangerous and embattled public spaces Palestinians are forced to navigate.'

Read a preview of the first installment of Mariam Barghouti's Letter From series in our latest issue, and subscribe for full access to the magazine.

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'In the absence of institutional support, many women are self-organizing to protect domestic workers from harm.'

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Leonardo is one of the world’s biggest weapons producers and plays an important role in producing components for F-35 planes, used by Israel in the Gaza genocide, as well as working alongside Israeli arms companies like Elbit Systems.

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‘Cruelty is the central tenet of right-wing ideology,’ Gareth Watkins writes. ‘It is at the heart of everything they do... and AI is a part of this – a mad rush to make a machine god that will liberate capital from labour for good.’

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'Access to research capital rests not on a desire to create socially responsible products that deliver services people need, but rather to build technology that appeals to the priorities of the powerful.'

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'Delivery' by Thiago Lucas, as featured in our current issue.

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'every rollout of information becomes even more chaotic until you get a population that’s just too tired to be mad and they just disengage’

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'The whole thing is built on a house of cards'

In our recent webinar on How the US is fuelling the nuclear arms race, Ivana Hughes of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation discusses the hypocrisy of US foreign policy around nuclear weapons.

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'The idea for autonomous systems is that the weapon system itself will make the decision without a human operator ... Now many people would argue that's unlawful with the laws of war that we currently have, but we're heading towards that very quickly.'

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'Pennsylvania is perfect' Tech companies are building enormous data centres and reconfiguring energy infrastructure across the US, all to power the burgeoning AI industry. On a road trip, Maia Woluchem and Livia Garofalo trace...

In @newint.bsky.social, D&S's @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @livgar.bsky.social write about their work tracing the impacts of, and resistance to, the AI industry's development push in Pennsylvania — and introduce us to some of the people living in the thick of it. newint.org/science-and-...

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The kill chain AI is making warfare even more deadly. Decca Muldowney speaks to Chris Cole of Drone Wars about the risks of weapons that make their own decisions.

Spoke to @newint.bsky.social about the development of autonomous weapons, the serious threat from these systems and the need for global action now. newint.org/arms/2026/ki...

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Thank you to @newint.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social for letting us write about Pennsylvania, its planned AI futures, and how people are pushing back. Read online and find in print! The entire March issue is about the humans behind the AI empire machine.

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Get the Facts on AI in our latest issue 👉newint.org/issues/2026/02/19/ai-peo...

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🚨 NEW ISSUE 🚨

AI is everywhere. It’s being pushed into every corner of our societies. Boosters of the technology say it can save the world. Doomers say it has the potential to destroy us. But what’s beyond the hype?

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📢 Speaker update!

Ivana Nikolic Hughes, president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation will now join Thursday's event, in place of Helen Jaccard.

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