New Internationalist（ニューインターナショナリスト）英語版 発売日・バックナンバー

※日本版の休刊に伴い、2012年1/2月合併号より英語版のみ発行しております。


Pirates! - The arrgh-ther side of the story (アフリカの海賊の真実)

【Agenda】
Stories making the news this month
06 Unsporting evictions in Brazil
06 Deported without your kids
07 Women vs the army in Kashmir
07 Introducing Hassan Rouhani
07 Austerity angst in Britain
8 Working like a horse
8 Constitutional concerns in Japan
9 Chile’s 9/11
9 Bullies beware
PLUS: Scratchy Lines by
Simon Kneebone, and Reasons to be Cheerful.


【Mixed Media】
32 Music reviews
Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me by Danny Michel with the Garifuna Collective; and Dalmak by Esmerine.

33 Film reviews
Call Girl, directed by Mikael Marcimain; and Foxfire, directed by Laurent Cantet.

34 Book reviews
Another America by James Ciment; Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb; An Uncertain Glory by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen; Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo; and A Crack in the Wall by Claudia Pineiro.
PLUS: Also out there...


【Analysis】
The Big Story - Pirates!

10 Empire strikes back
Hazel Healy looks at where counter-piracy is going wrong.

14 Piracy - THE FACTS

15 A pirate’s life for me
Jatin Dua investigates the ever-blurry line between protector and pirate in coastal Somalia.

18 Falling out with the locals
Pirates in Somalia hastened their own demise by alienating communities with their anti-social behaviour, journalist Jamal Osman tells Hazel Healy.

19 In the firing line
Piracy is just one in a long list of problems facing seafarers in a cutthroat shipping industry, reports Olivia Swift.

22 Pirate Primer
An illustrated guide to buccaneers, corsairs and privateers through the ages, from Peter Willis.

24 Outgunned
Dayo Aiyetan and Theophilus Abbah offer a West African take on piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.


【Regular Features】
4 Letters
The debt juggernaut; maximum wages; and stop being mean to vultures.

5 Letter from Botswana
Dining by candlelight is not always a matter of choice, as Wame Molefhe discovers.

26 Country Profile: China

38 And Finally Afghan MP Fawzia Koofi wants women to get out of their traditional closet.


【Features】
28 Europe points the finger of blame
Migrants have become the scapegoats in financially straitened times, reports Amy Hall.

30 Worth their salt
Matthew Newsome meets a social entrepreneur helping India’s salt-workers out of the poverty trap.

36 A toilet makes the difference
Girls in Somalia now have a better chance of completing their education. Katharina Wecker explains.


【Opinion】
37 Steve Parry Comedians take on the clowns.
PLUS: Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoon.

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At the service of debt（社会における債務という問題）


【Agenda】
Stories making the news this month
6 Church on the rampage in Georgia
6 Eritrea’s robo-liberators
7 Guilt-free cellphone
7 Introducing Nicolas Maduro
7 Condom wars in Kenya
8 Thailand: We need bats
8 Out of the frying pan in Greece
9 Sexism’s a drag in Iran
9 My hot chilli peppers
PLUS: Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone, and Reasons to be Cheerful.


【Mixed Media】
32 Film reviews:
Hot Docs special Narco Cultura, Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer; Fatal Assistance; American Commune; and The Kill Team.

34 Music reviews: Droit dans la Gueule du Loup by Melissmell; and Stand Up,
People: Gypsy Pop Songs from Tito’s Yugoslavia by Various Artists.

35 Book reviews: Meet Me in Gaza by Louisa B Waugh; A Village Awaits Doomsday by Jaideep Hardikar; Johnson’s Dictionary by David Dabydeen; and The Devil’s Workshop by Jachym Topol.


【Analysis】
The Big Story - Debt

10 Debt - a global scam
The actions of creditors are key to debt crises, argues Dinyar Godrej.

15 Let us prey
The funds that feast on countries in trouble.

16 DEBT - THE FACTS

18 It’s Europe’s turn
The scourge that hobbled development in the Majority World now infects Europe. By Susan George.

22 All together now!
North and South must unite, says campaigner Nick Dearden, now that the debt landscape has widened.

25 Rise up! Action and Resources.


【Regular Features】
4 Letters

5 Letter from Botswana
Wame Molefhe finds hope in the country’s traditional community meetings.

26 Country Profile: Equatorial Guinea

36 Making Waves
Rin Simpson meets eco-village pioneer Paul Wimbush.

38 And Finally
Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano on dreams, justice, football - and his first teacher’s legs.


【Feature】
28 In the valley of conflict
Sofi Lundin on the seldomreported plight of the Pandit minority in Kashmir.


【Opinion】
37 Chris Coltrane Forget One Direction - we need a new direction.
PLUS: Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoon.

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Argentina’s challenge - doing it differently （アルゼンチンの挑戦）


【Agenda】
Stories making the news this month
6 Colombia: Justice knocks at general’s door
6 G8 comes to town
7 Adidas pays up
7 Reintroducing Serzh Sargsyan
7 Trouble every day in Central African Republic
8 LGBT boldly go
8 Free the Eritrean captives
9 Britain’s secret courts
9 Frackademics
PLUS: Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone, and Reasons to be cheerful.



【Mixed Media】
32 Music reviews
South Sudan Survivors by General Paolino featuring Mama Celina; and Quercus by Quercus.

33 Film reviews
Stories We Tell, directed by Sarah Polley; Night of Silence, directed by Reis Celik; and The Stoker, directed by Aleksei Baladanov.

34 Book reviews
Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Delijani; Brothers at War: the unending conflict in Korea by Sheila Miyoshi Jager; What the River Washed Away by Muriel Mharie Macleod; and Paralysed with Fear by Gareth Williams.

35 Also out there...



【Analysis】
The Big Story - Argentina

10 Argentina’s challenge
Stormy times in the world’s eight largest country. Are there lessons to be learned? asks Vanessa Baird.

13 Since 1946...a short history of coups, crises and Peronism.

14 Who needs a boss?
A timely remedy for bankruptcy.

16 Speak truth
Argentina’s love affair with co-operatives has its ambiguities.

18 Facing the vultures
Unorthodox economics is put to the test.

21 Not one step backwards
Impunity in the dock as progress is made on human rights.

23 Trans revolutionary
Activist Lohana Berkins explains how Argentina is pioneering transgender rights.

25 A clash of dreams
A bad place to be indigenous. But Argentina’s ’original peoples’ are gathering momentum.



【Regular Features】
4 Letters

5 Letter from Botswana
Scratch the surface of the country’s alturism and you will find intolerance, says Wame Molefhe.

28 Country profile: Malawi

36 Making Waves
Veronique Mistiaen talks to Iraqi environmentalist Azzam Alwash.



【Feature】
30 Ghosts on our own land
Ollie Milman reports from Indonesia on how palm oil plantations are threatening the lives and livelihoods of local farmers and workers.



【Opinion】
37 Mark Engler Provoking an American climate crisis.

38 Steve Parry It’s party time.
Plus: Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoon

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Land grabs (土地収奪)

【Agenda】
Stories making the news this month
6 Mass agitation in Bulgaria
6 Baby milk battles
7 Energy for all
7 Introducing Beppe Grillo
7 Chadian dictator in court
8 Life after Chavez
8 Activist victory in Britain
9 Indonesian forests first
9 Bouncier babies
PLUS: Scratchy Lines by
Simon Kneebone, and Reasons to be cheerful.


【Mixed Media】
32 Music reviews
Alter by Nynke; and Albala by Samba Toure.

33 Film reviews
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, directed by Mira Nair; The Gatekeepers, directed by Dror Moreh; and Fuck for Forest, directed by Michal Marczak.

34 Book reviews
Children of the Days by Eduardo Galeano; The Poorer Nations by Vijay Prashad; A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel by Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang; and The Enigma of the Return by Dany Laferriere.

35 Also out there...


【Analysis】
The Big Story - Land grabs

10 The smallholders’ last stand
Investors are snapping up land in the Global South at an alarming rate. Hazel Healy goes to Mozambique to meet the farmers who are losing their homes and livelihoods.

14 Land Grabs - The Facts

16 Invest in small farmers
Time to turn back the clock on decades of neglect of peasant agriculture.

17 Cazizi village holds its ground
Communities are working to get forestry companies to clean up their act, with mixed results.

21 Securing the global commons
The land grab has not gone unchallenged. Find out more about how to stop it.

22 Hotspots
A global tour of controversial land deals.

24 The eye of the farmer fattens the beast
Zimbabwe proves small producers can compete with big farms.


【Regular Features】
4 Letters

5 Letter from Botswana
Wame Molefhe gets to grips with the importance of cows.

26 Country Profile: Indonesia

38 And Finally
Comedian, author and activist Rob Newman on austerity, welfare - and how the triangle could save Greece.


【Feature】
28 This is Africa
David Fedele relates a true and uncomfortable tale of a tardy Good Samaritan.

36 Coming back from the brink?
Can India’s dwindling vulture population be saved? Graeme Green investigates.


【Opinion】
31 Mark Engler The case for a maximum wage.

37 Chris Coltrane Democracy only works when we know the truth.
PLUS: Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoon.

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Why is housing in such a state? (みんなの住まいは大丈夫なのか)

【Agenda】
Stories making the news this month
6 Chris Hani remembered
6 Israeli drone crimes
7 Bikes for guns in Uruguay
7 Introducing John Mahama
7 FGM rates cut
8 Ill winds in Mexico
8 Extreme trade threat in Egypt
9 Indian copyright clash
9 Fair freight ahoy!
PLUS: Scratchy Lines by Simon
Kneebone, and Reasons to be cheerful.


【Mixed Media】
32 Film reviews
Good Vibrations, directed by Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn; 7 Stones, directed by Conor McCormack; and Spirit of ’45, directed by Ken Loach.

33 Music reviews
Mala by Devendra Banhart; and Mo7it Al-Mo7it by Jerusalem in My Heart.

34 Book reviews
Telling the Bees by Peggy Hesketh; The General by Ahmed Errachidi with Gillian Slovo; The People of Forever are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu; and The Second Arab Awakening by Adeed Dawisha.

35 Also out there...


【Analysis】
The Big Story - Housing

10 Safe as houses?
Beyond the scandal and delusion of property bubbles, Dinyar Godrej looks at ways to turn houses into homes.

14 Sparks from the Spanish crucible
The movement for housing justice gathers pace. Melissa García Lamarca reports.

16 Housing - The Facts

18 Dreams deferred
China’s property boom leaves workers out in the cold, finds Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore.

20 Beyond the barricade
Unity is survival in Manila’s slums. Iris C Gonzales meets some survivors.

22 Joining hands
Housing models to beat the tyranny of the marketplace explored by Samir Jeraj.


【Regular Features】
4 Letters

5 Letter from Botswana
Wame Molefhe considers the rituals of death - and of life, as she bids farewell to a friend.

36 Southern Exposure
Miguel Araoz Cartagena looks to the stars.

38 And Finally
Film director Ken Loach on drawing inspiration from those who fight back against oppression.


【Feature】
26 The real story behind the terrorist attack on the Algerian gas plant
There is strong evidence of Algerian secret service complicity in the attack, says Jeremy Keenan.


【Opinion】
37 Steve Parry Why can’t the one per cent play nicely?
PLUS: Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoon.

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What has development done for me? - Four decades in the life of the world
(開発とは何だったのか―世界の過去40年を振り返る)

【Agenda】
Stories making the news this month
6 Kenya: highly charged election
6 Syria’s diaspora doctors
7 Idle No More in Canada
7 Introducing Park Geun-hye
7 Joining the dots in Oz
8 India: enough is enough
8 Iraq: shields 10 years on
9 Chile’s Erin Brockovista
9 Britain: what IF?
PLUS: 40 years ago New Internationalist is born, Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone, and Reasons to be cheerful.


【Mixed Media】
28 Film reviews
Shell, directed by Scott Graham;
Lore, directed by Cate Shortland;
and Compliance directed by Craig Zobel.

29 Music reviews
Eu Preciso de um Liquidificador by Graveola; and Celebrating Subversion by The Anti-Capitalist Roadshow.

30 Book reviews
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki;
China’s Urban Billion by Tom Miller;
Politics of Origin in Africa by Morten Boas and Kevin Dunn;
and The Sound of One Hand Killing by Teresa Solana.

31 Also out there - including Nick Cave;
the latest novel from Barbara Kingsolver; and stirring documentary Fire in the Blood.


【Analysis】
The Big Story - Development

10 A measure of progress
The founding editor of the New Internationalist, Peter Adamson, looks at how the world has changed since the magazine started ? and argues for a new push against inequality.

14 World Progress 1970-2010 - The Facts

16 Where are they now?
Revisiting some of the individuals who have featured in the magazine’s pages over the years:
Aminatou Haidar, from Western Sahara; Rigoberta Menchu, from Guatemala
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, from Iran; Mari Marcel Thekaekara, from India;
and Domitila Barrios de Chungara, from Bolivia.

20 Liberating the world from development
The idea of ’development’ was given a new lease of life by globalization but Wolfgang Sachs argues that it damages both people and the planet.

26 Millennium Development Goals
Eight thematic maps showing how the world is matching up to its 2015 targets.


【Regular Features】
4 Letters
Wealth is an attitude of mind; more on Monsanto; and I am a New Internationalist ? meet subscriber Sheila Tucker.

5 Letter from Botswana
Laughter and tolerance run dry in a land where HIV is still a swear word, says Wame Molefhe.

32 Country Profile: Egypt

38 And Finally
A civil rights activist since the 1960s, Angela Davis has no intention of slowing down now.
She tells Frank Barat what keeps her going.


【Feature】
34 Waiting for Chinggis
Tina Burrett and Christopher Simons travel to Mongolia, where the memory of a warrior-hero is inspiring a nomadic people to fight for their past and their future.

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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.

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Keep the internet free! (インターネットの自由を守れ)


【Agenda】
Stories making the news this month

6 Dying for oil in Pakistan

6 Our land, our lives

7 Birth of Sollywood

7 Introducing Bidzina Ivanishvili

7 Act against hunger

8 Allahu Akbar misunderstood

8 People power in India

9 Botswana: sisters’ victory

9 Biofuels rush
PLUS: 15 years ago in the New Internationalist, Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone, and Reasons to be cheerful.


【Mixed Media】
32 Film reviews
The Hunt directed by Thomas Vinterberg; and The Pool directed by Chris Smith.

33 Music reviews
Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! by Godspeed You! Black Emperor; and DESH by Jocelyn Pook.

34 Book reviews
The Black Lake by Hella S Haasse; Where I Left My Soul by Jérôme Ferrari; The Oil Road by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello; and Classroom portraits 2004-2012 by Julian Germain.

35 Also out there - other music, film and book highlights this month, including the rumbustious Bellowhead, Victor Gama and Fidel Castro’s Childhood - the Untold Story.


【Analysis】
The Big Story - Digital freedom

10 Don’t get mad, get open
Hazel Healy meets the tech pioneers fighting for civil liberties in a digital world.

15 How to be free
Charlie Harvey outlines 10 steps to software liberation.

16 Don’t worry, we’re from the internet Quinn Norton looks behind the mask of Anonymous, charting its evolution into a global activist force.

18 Privacy shouldn’t scare you
Nadim Kobeissi tells us about ways to protect our communication from prying eyes.

20 This is for everyone
Chris Thorpe gives his take on the impact of open-source tech on governance and manufacturing.

22 Digital freedoms - an INFOGRAPHIC
Facts and figures on privacy, censorship, piracy and access.


【Regular Features】
4 Letters
Taking responsibility for inequality; why youth must adapt to a new reality;
Australia’s depleted uranium shame; and an unimpressed reader takes a catnap.

5 Letter from Botswana
When it comes to weddings, it’s important to do things right, says Wame Molefhe.

30 Country Profile: Peru
Peru is said to be booming but the poor would never know it. Stephanie Boyd reports.

36 Making Waves
Iraqi campaigner Khanim Latif on her lifelong fight for feminism.

37 Anna Chen
Here comes the end of the Enlightenment.
PLUS: Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoon.

38 And Finally...
Soul and the city - graffiti artist Mohammed Ali on his inspirations, his fears and being drawn to Birmingham.


【Feature】
24 How the US has been sponsoring terrorism in the Sahara
Jeremy Keenan uncovers the shocking, murky background to the current conflict in Mali.

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Healthcare for all? (万人のための保健医療？)

【Agenda】
6 Colombia: will peace prevail?

6 Food safety flaw

7 Introducing Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

7 Trafigura: toxic mess

7 The heat is on in Doha

8 Fair trade dust-up

8 Australia: gas hub threat

9 India: Trumped-up charges

9 Azerbaijan: Extradition incites
PLUS: Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone, and Reasons to be cheerful.


【Mixed Media】
28 Music reviews
Songs for Desert Refugees by Various Artists, and Songs for Kommeno by
Gunter ’Baby Sommer’et al.

29 Film reviews
Ginger and Rosa, directed by Sally Potter; Elena, directed by Andrey Zvyaginstev; and Amour, directed by Michael Haneke.

30 Book reviews
Superman is an Arab by Joumana Haddad; Slavery Inc by Lydia Cacho;
Night Dancer by Chika Unigwe; and The Revenge of History by Seumas Milne.
31 Also out there - other music, film and book highlights this month, including Discordia by Laurie Penny and Molly Crabapple.


【Analysis】
The Big Story - Healthcare

10 The vision thing
Inequality squeezes both how healthy we are and the healthcare we get.
Time to get past it, believes Dinyar Godrej.

14 The cost of living
Industry practices that milk profits from drugs are killing the poor, says Nick Harvey.

17 Russian roulette for Greeks
Attacks on public health services have left Katerina Kitidi’s compatriots in a hard place.

18 Healthcare, health and inequality: THE FACTS

20 Child survival - but at what cost?
We need to go beyond ’saving lives’ and demand a right to health, according to Claudio Schuftan.

22 Moral medicine: the Cuban way
A revolutionary example of efficient and affordable healthcare, by John M Kirk and Chris Walker.


【Regular Features】
4 Letters
Hope and despair for today’s youth; why the legalization of drugs could be a slippery slope; and student debt – a choice, not a privilege.

5 Letter from Botswana
The arrival of the first rains is a moment of joy for Wame Molefhe.

26 Country Profile: Grenada

32 Making Waves
Zoya Rouhana is fighting for women’s rights in Lebanon.

33 Steve Parry
Heroes, frauds and Trojan Tories.
PLUS: Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoon.

34 Southern Exposure Saving the tiger, photographed by Fauzan Ijazah from Indonesia.
35 Mark Engler
How not to make every vote count.

38 And Finally...
Shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, Indian novelist Jeet Thayil is not afraid to court controversy.


【Essay】
36 To everything there is a season
How can Egyptians make sure last year’s uprisings have a lasting legacy? Maria Golia looks forward.

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The Youth Issue (怒れる世界の若者たちは今)

【Agenda】
6-9 Stories making the news this month, including:
Before and after Belo Monte; playing finance at its own game; Shell’s dirty work; bullying and intimidation before Ukraine’s elections; and British lawyers on the hunt for clients in Kenya.
PLUS: Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone and Reasons to be cheerful.


【Mixed Media】
28 Film, book and music reviews including:
An unsettling drama set in communist East Germany unfolds in the film Barbara, while Snows of Kilimanjaro is a French tour-de-force; poetic imagery - and a dig at Donald Trump - in Karine Polwart’s new album; and a very personal memoir of the Biafran War from acclaimed Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.


【Analysis】
The Big Story ? Youth
10 Voice of the future
Young people are playing a vital role in a sweeping wave of dissent, says Jody McIntyre.

14 Why selling out is no longer an option
Capitalism’s betrayals will cost youth dear. Laurie Penny’s call to arms.

16 Revolutionary women
The feminists who don’t get air time, by Farah Jassat.

17 Youth - The FACTS

18 Planned fury
Seun Kuti tells Akala why hope is overrated.

20 Shaking up the occupiers
The frustrations of Palestinian youth, voiced by Linah Alsaafin.

22 Youth power
Snapshots from around the world.

24 How to grow a student movement, Chilean style
Revolutionary student leaders Camila Vallejo and Giorgio Jackson speak with Jody McIntyre.


【Features】
32 And the birds dropped dead from the sky
Indigenous groups in Guatemala are fighting back against an environmental catastrophe wreaked by a Canadian mining company, as Stephanie Boyd discovers.

36 Australia’s disgrace
Holding child asylum-seekers in detention is a controversy largely playing out to media silence. Ollie Milman asks why.


【Regular Features】
4 Letters

5 Letter from Botswana
Wame Molefhe is proud that Gaborone is her home - despite the reaction of others.

26 Country Profile: South Africa

35 Mark Engler
Can Occupy live to see another birthday?

38 And finally...
Providing a voice for young people - emcee Logic on the importance of hip hop, and of loving what you do.

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Time to make drugs legit?（麻薬合法化で麻薬がらみの暴力は減らせるのか）


【Agenda】
6-9 Stories making the news this month, including:
Pursuing justice for rape crimes in DRC; the gloves are off in Russia; fighting impunity in Colombia; and an exercise in elbow-licking in Sudan.
PLUS: Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone and Reasons to be cheerful.


【Mixed Media】
28 Election special
Ry Cooder gets ready for action with the ’Mutt Romney Blues’. PLUS: A five-star musical intifada from Ramzi Aburedwan; the Revolt in Syria deeply understood by author Stephen Starr; and the deadly power of three words - It’s a Girl - in a shocking new doc on gendercide.


【Analysis】
The Big Story - illegal drugs

10 Legalize drugs - all of them!
An exploration of just what would be at stake if we did, by Vanessa Baird.

16 What’s your poison?
Science and law at odds over drugs.

17 My body, shot, left lying
A dispatch from the drug-war frontline by Mexican journalist Sandra Rodriguez Nieto.

19 Africa’s first narco state
How Guinea-Bissau got hooked.

20 What would legalization look like?
Your questions answered by medic Max Rendall.

22 Illegal drugs - The FACTS

24 Fair trade drugs
Not such a crazy idea. Tom Feiling thinks ahead.


【Features】
34 Why do some conflicts get more media coverage than others?
Nick Harvey considers the role - and the agenda - of the global media in
making the news.


【Regular Features】
4 Letters

5 Letter from Botswana
Wame Molefhe delights in the old civility.

26 Country Profile: Yemen

32 Making Waves: Kushal Chakrabarti, the self-confessed geek supporting students through microfinance in the Majority World.

33 Mark Engler
Obama: a better adversary.

38 And finally...
From earliest memories to the joy of old age, author Alice Walker reveals who and what inspires her.

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How co-operatives can save the planet (共同組合が世界を救う)

【Agenda】
6 Oz puts a price on carbon

7 The legacy of forest defender Chut Wutty

8 Quebec’s maple spring

9 Londoners muse Olympic legacy

10 News in brief this month
PLUS ? Open Window guest cartoonist Omar Abdallat from Jordan.


【Mixed Media】
11 ’We call it life’
’Riots have been nearly happening all my life,’ poet-rapper Speech Debelle tells Louise Gray.
PLUS: Hot Docs 2012 - a roundup of the best offerings at Toronto’s annual film-fest; a new CD from Billy Bragg and Wilco commemorates Woody Guthrie; and a memorable debut novel from filmmaker Elaine Proctor.


【Analysis】
The Big Story- Co-operatives
17 We’ re all in this together
Time to celebrate the International Year of Co-operatives. Wayne Ellwood raises a glass to their long history and argues that co-ops are democratic, community focused - and a challenge to the dominant free-market model.

21 How co-ops are building a better world - THE FACTS

22 The unselfish gene
Zoe Cormier explores our natural ability to co-operate.

24 Big thinkers on co-operation

26 Beyond solidarity
The rituals that reinforce co-operation are under threat, says Richard Sennett.
Interview by Horatio Morpurgo.

27 Cooking for peace
Sometimes simple things can build understanding. Noreen Sadik reports from Israel.
28 What would Che say?
Can co-operatives save Cuba? John Restakis travels to Havana to find out.

31 They told us we couldn’t count
In Indonesia, self-help is transforming the lives of rural women. Irfan Kortschak talks to one co-op member.

32 Your guide for all things co-operative.



【Features】
36 Heroism or desperation?
Self-immolation by Tibetan protesters is becoming an all-too-familiar sight.
Dibyesh Anand considers the reasons why.


【Regular Features】
4 Letters
PLUS: Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone.

16 Letter from Botswana
What is self-evident for one is a mystery to others, discovers Lauri Kubuitsile.

33 Puzzle Page

34 Country Profile: Azerbaijan

38 Mark Engler
Wall Street wants your gratitude.

【Agenda】
6 US denies safe haven to Mexico’s drug war refugees

7 Torture recompense comes to Kenyans

8 Feminists target Nike ahead of the Olympics

9 Hungary’s cultural purge gathers pace

10 News in brief this month
PLUS - Open Window guest cartoonist Fadi Abou Hassan from Palestine



【Mixed Media】
11 Neither Allah nor Master
Brave, atheist, female and exiled, Tunisia’s Nadia El Fani takes on the establishment.
PLUS: Sex, secrets and Asian British comedy in All in Good Time; wending grooves from Mali’s Sidi Toure; Callum Robert’s crystal-clear Ocean of Life; and Radio Congo by Ben Rawlence.


【Analysis】
The Big Story - Earth Summit 2012
16 Sustainability for sale?
A battle is brewing over the future of global action. Danny Chivers presents the unofficial guide to Rio+20.

20 Tools that might help us - some of the more progressive ideas.

22 Eight Great Greenwashers
Exposing the canny, the crafty and the plain deceitful. Danny Chivers examines the green claims of Shell, Monsanto, Vale and others.

27 The good life is the realistic solution
Indigenous activist Ruth Buendia’s take on ’sustainable development’.


【Opinion】
32 Letter from Botswana
A new birth offers a sign of hope for Lauri Kubuitsile.

33 Mark Engler
’Tired of burying black boys.’


【Features】
28 Falling out of love with Israel
Norman Finkelstein believes American Jews are no longer prepared to offer blanket support to Israel. He explains why.

36 A world on workfare
Governments and big business may benefit - but workfare is undermining the labour market, argues Warren Clark.


【Regular Features】
4 Letters
PLUS: Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone.

31 Puzzle Page

34 Country Profile: Cook Islands

38 Making Waves
Bunker Roy on harnessing granny power.

【Agenda】
6 Eurovision re-opens old wounds in the Caucasus
7 Eritrea is a cynic’s paradise
8 Happy Meals? for victims of stop and search
9 Tuaregs hard hit by Mali conflict
10 News in brief this month
PLUS Open Window guest cartoonist Mohamed Sabra from Egypt.


【Mixed Media】
11 Indian skin, Albion voice
With Britain approaching Jubilee June, a reinterpretation of ’Englishness’ from musician Bishi is timely, says Louise Gray.
PLUS: Solomon Islands band Narasirato introduce us to the thong-o-phone; a quiet revolution in the making in Money as Debt III; and Escape from Camp 14 - a remarkable insight into life in a North Korean labour


【Analysis】
The Big Story - Mental Health

16 A healthy mind in a healthy society
Mental health shouldn’t just be about individuals;
we need strong communities too. Dinyar Godrej makes the case.

20 Mental Health - THE FACTS

22 Tears are good medicine
Young First Nations people in Manitoba tackle their number one problem - suicide among their peers. Janet Nicol reports.

26 Our trauma is not your trauma
The past is always present for Burmese refugees in Thailand. Nick Harvey witnesses health workers adapt their approach to this reality.

28 Unbound
Liberating communities from prejudice in Ghana, by Peter Yaro.

30 Utopia or bust
Consumer culture is collective insanity, says John F Schumaker.


【Regular Features】
4 Letters
PLUS: Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone.

33 Letter from Botswana Football fever gives Lauri Kubuitsile reason to hope.

34 Country profile: Guatemala

36 Making Waves
Tom Kocherry, fisher for justice.

37 Puzzle Page

38 And finally...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on being, rather than making, the news.

【Agenda】
Making the news this month

6 Putting the ’I’ in ecocide
7 Act against ACTA
8 Kimberley Process ’whitewashes’ blood diamonds
9 Lax law could kill human guinea pigs
10 News in brief this month
PLUS Open Window guest cartoonist Crazy Crab from China.


【Arts】
11 Home will never look the same again
Horatio Morpurgo discovers filmmaker Patrick Keiller’s unusual way of seeing the world.
PLUS: Vocal magic from Hyperpotamus, Le Havre’s modernday fairy story, and the personal and
political melded in Naomi Benaron’s debut novel set in Rwanda.


【Analysis】
Special feature: Adapt or die

16 Ready or not
Melting glaciers to the north, rising seas to the south.
Can Bangladesh adapt to a warming world? Hazel Healy travelled there to find out.

19 Why climate change poses a major threat for Bangladesh
THE FACTS

25 Adaptable by nature
The most vulnerable, the best prepared. Portraits of the inhabitants of the Jamuna river islands of northwest Bangladesh.

28 Moves to climate-proof the planet
From air-conditioned bus stops in Dubai to Meat Safety Net programmes in Kenya: what the rest of the world is doing to defend against global warming.

30 The great climate exodus
Bangladeshis are melting away from the coast as habitats degrade.
Hazel Healy finds new arrivals struggling to adjust to life in Dhaka, the world’s fastest-growing megacity.


【Regular Features】
4 Letters
The challenge of uncomfortable facts; Australia’s role in PNG’s independence; and buying a new suit for the sake of it.
PLUS: Scratchy Lines by Simon Kneebone.

33 Letter from Botswana
Beauty contests are now big business, but have lost their appeal for Lauri Kubuitsile.

34 Country profile: Zambia

36 Puzzle Page

37 Mark Engler
The unpalatable reality of working in the iPad empire.

38 Josie Long
Being nice and doing good- what’s offensive in that?
PLUS: Marc Roberts’ Only Planet cartoon.