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Praise, blame and all points in between? Your feedback published in the March 2018 magazine.
A year ago, Trump announced he had reached a deal with manufacturer Carrier to keep jobs from moving to Mexico – with $7 million in incentives. Yet hundreds of workers were still laid off, the last of them this January. Trump’s policy should be called ‘Corporate America First’, argues Mark Engler.
The whataboutery being directed towards the #MeToo movement is nothing new – feminists have experienced backlashes before, writes Kate Smurthwaite.
Norwegian activists are challenging ‘white-saviour’ attitudes that over-simplify poverty writes Tom Lawson.
A record number of people lost their lives in UK immigration detention centres in 2017, writes Felix Bazalgette.
The struggle to define Russia’s future is under way but those hoping for a more progressive post-Putin Russia shouldn’t hold their breath, writes Tina Burrett.
In Koh Kong province, Cambodia a band of Mother Nature activists have scored a victory in the battle against environmentally destructive sand dredging writes Fran Lambrick.
Iceland's charismatic new Left-Green prime minister has big plans, but will the Left-Green's radical programme survive political wrangling with other coalition partners asks Richard Swift.
Latin American countries are seeing unprecedented growth in clean, cheap solar power writes Emily Earnshaw.
Two years since the murder of an Italian student in Cairo, the Egyptian regime has yet to acknowledge the nature of its involvement writes Yohann Koshy.
Eritrean refugees who try to escape into neighbouring Sudan are caught up in a deadly stand-off between East Africa’s big powers – as European Union (EU) money aimed at keeping them there continues to roll in all the while writes Sally Hayden.
In 2013, New Internationalist travelled to Mozambique to meet communities pushing back against expanding forestry plantations. Five years on, Nils Adler finds foreign companies have yet to deliver on promises to local farmers.
Noam Chomsky is a renowned linguist, the author of an abundance of books and arguably the most famous dissident intellectual in the United States. He talks to Andy Heintz about US exceptionalism, the best way to approach North Korea and the truth about ‘free trade agreements’.
| Article title | Description | Author | Published | Magazine | Link |
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| Letters | Praise, blame and all points in between? Your feedback published in the March 2018 magazine. |
March, 2018 | 510 | Read | |
| When ‘America First’ is a corporate scam | A year ago, Trump announced he had reached a deal with manufacturer Carrier to keep jobs from moving to Mexico – with $7 million in incentives. Yet hundreds of workers were still laid off, the last of them this January. Trump’s policy should be called ‘Corporate America First’, argues Mark Engler. |
Mark Engler | March, 2018 | 510 | Buy |
| Whatever the #MeToo backlash, we’ve heard it all before | The whataboutery being directed towards the #MeToo movement is nothing new – feminists have experienced backlashes before, writes Kate Smurthwaite. |
Kate Smurthwaite | March, 2018 | 510 | Buy |
| Reasons to be cheerful | A highland welcome; Rhino forensics; Good sex in Rwanda. |
March, 2018 | 510 | Buy | |
| White saviours | Norwegian activists are challenging ‘white-saviour’ attitudes that over-simplify poverty writes Tom Lawson. |
Tom Lawson | March, 2018 | 510 | Buy |
| Detention deaths | A record number of people lost their lives in UK immigration detention centres in 2017, writes Felix Bazalgette. |
Felix Bazalgette | March, 2018 | 510 | Buy |
| Life after Putin | The struggle to define Russia’s future is under way but those hoping for a more progressive post-Putin Russia shouldn’t hold their breath, writes Tina Burrett. |
Tina Burrett | March, 2018 | 510 | Buy |
| Sand dredgers defeated | In Koh Kong province, Cambodia a band of Mother Nature activists have scored a victory in the battle against environmentally destructive sand dredging writes Fran Lambrick. |
Fran Lambrick | March, 2018 | 510 | Buy |
| Introducing... Katrín Jakobsdóttir | Iceland's charismatic new Left-Green prime minister has big plans, but will the Left-Green's radical programme survive political wrangling with other coalition partners asks Richard Swift. |
Richard Swift | March, 2018 | 510 | Buy |
| Here comes the sun | Latin American countries are seeing unprecedented growth in clean, cheap solar power writes Emily Earnshaw. |
Emily Earnshaw | March, 2018 | 510 | Buy |
| Justice for Giulio | Two years since the murder of an Italian student in Cairo, the Egyptian regime has yet to acknowledge the nature of its involvement writes Yohann Koshy. |
Yohann Koshy | March, 2018 | 510 | Buy |
| HIV epidemic looms | Report from the Ukraine. |
Madeline Roache | March, 2018 | 510 | Buy |
| Between Sudan and a hard place | Eritrean refugees who try to escape into neighbouring Sudan are caught up in a deadly stand-off between East Africa’s big powers – as European Union (EU) money aimed at keeping them there continues to roll in all the while writes Sally Hayden. |
Sally Hayden | March, 2018 | 510 | Buy |
| What the land grabbers did next | In 2013, New Internationalist travelled to Mozambique to meet communities pushing back against expanding forestry plantations. Five years on, Nils Adler finds foreign companies have yet to deliver on promises to local farmers. |
Nils Adler | March, 2018 | 510 | Buy |
| 'The goal should be to encourage people to think for themselves' | Noam Chomsky is a renowned linguist, the author of an abundance of books and arguably the most famous dissident intellectual in the United States. He talks to Andy Heintz about US exceptionalism, the best way to approach North Korea and the truth about ‘free trade agreements’. |
Andy Heintz | March, 2018 | 510 | Buy |