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The feral rich (どん欲な金持ちの世界)


【Agenda】
Stories making the news this month
6 Civil society crackdown
6 Govt aid for mines
7 Sierra Leone: election by SMS
7 Introducing Chinese leader Xi Jinping
7 Peru: Amazon lawsuit
8 Land rights clash in Honduras
8 Turkey’s delinquent justice
9 Y ou are not a loan
9 Penis surcharge in New Zealand
PLUS: 20 years ago in the New Internationalist, Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone, and Reasons to be cheerful.



【Mixed Media】
27 The best music, books and films of 2012.

28 Film reviews
No, directed by Pablo Larrain; Midnight’s Children, directed by Deepa Mehta; and West of Memphis, directed by Amy Berg.

29 Music reviews
Get up! by Ben Harper; and Annelies by James Whitbourne.

30 Book reviews
Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra; Ten Days in Jamaica by Ifeona Fulani; After the Sheikhs by Christopher M Davidson; and Cruel Britannia by Ian Cobain.

31 Also out there - including Big Boys Gone Bananas!; Radi-Aid: Africa for Norway; and Palestinian film Five Broken Cameras.



【Analysis】
The Big Story - The feral rich

10 The feral rich
How do they get away with it? Vanessa Baird investigates.

15 Help the rich, hate the poor
The war against the have-nots is going global, says Owen Jones.

18 The feral rich – how can we help them?
A 10-point action plan for policymakers, illustrated by Kate Charlesworth.

20 A ferocious sense of entitlement
Urvashi Butalia writes from India on what wealth does to our minds.

22 That’s rich - The FACTS

25 Falling in love with tax
Some rich people are all for it. Nick Harvey reports on the growing desire for tax justice.



【Regular Features】
4 Letters
Cyber-bullying and internet safety; and why Israel chooses occupation over peace.

5 Letter from Botswana
Customary law needs to catch up with women’s rights, says Wame Molefhe.

32 Country Profile: Swaziland

38 Steve Parry
Forty and still fighting.
PLUS: Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoon.



【Feature】
34 Stitched up
Cambodia, a ’sweatshop-free nation’? Try telling that to its exploited workers, writes Heather Stilwell.

36 Showdown in the Amazon
Why are indigenous leaders at odds with their communities in the struggle to conserve their forest homes? Jane Monahan travels to Ecuador to find out.