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Anyone who offers a diagnosis of the current economic malaise and prescribes a cure, but has not read this book, doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

There are tar sands deposits all over the world. Mika Minio-Paluello visits two of them.

This is a haunting and sometimes upsetting film – with little dialogue but great authenticity and power.

Hoe-down fiddles, the rhythmic rattle of spoons and kazoos with some banjos marking time, and you could be – where? A fictive Appalachian town? Some 1930s travelling music show?

Part memoir, part social commentary, part philosophical inquiry, US writer Nick Flynn’s book builds on his earlier autobiography, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.

Conspiracy theories in Polyp’s cartoon.

Folk music, as Empire and Love shows so well, is a music that has a grounding in both past and present, both populist and political.

European vessels fishing in Western Sahara’s rich waters are in violation of international law, according to the European Parliament’s own legal service.

Ugandans fight repressive anti-homosexuality bill

Public campaign prevents release of GM eggplant

Cluster munitions – long condemned by human rights groups for the devastating impact they have on civilians caught up in conflict – will be banned in most countries as of 1 August.

Resistance continues despite US recognition of post-coup regime

Gopal Mitra experienced the violence and tragedy of Kashmir firsthand, but is hopeful of a peaceful future, as Jeremy Seabrook discovers.

Simple things you can do NOW, and a directory of films, books and organizations.

Zoe Cormier meets two indigenous people for whom this fight couldn’t be more personal.