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Why the West picks guns over diplomacy, with Vijay Prashad
As the West’s power wanes in other areas, Vijay Prashad explains how it's using the arms industry to assert itself.
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How the aid industry is sanitizing the Gaza genocide
Disaster appeals that airbrush Israel’s role in the Gaza genocide are not just offensive – they’re dangerous,
Sudan's warring generals are armed to the brink
Eiad Husham reports on how the flow of weapons into Sudan is fuelling violence and the devastation of war.
How to dismantle the deadly arms trade
People across the world are standing up to the power of the arms trade. Amy Hall explores its threat to life and democracy.
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The Arms Trade
While war means devastation for most, for the arms industry it means big profits. The trade in weaponry, military equipment and private security can seem like a vast, faceless, secretive foe. And in many ways it is.
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From India to Sudan to Ireland, this magazine reports on the shadowy networks fuelling conflict and how people are taking on some of the world’s most powerful companies and governments – and winning.
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Guyana's Forever Oil
An oil boom is reshaping Guyana’s future. Ben Jacob traces the country’s long history of colonial exploitation from Britain’s sugar factory to Exxon’s oil fields.
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Where the Mauritian economy was once precariously reliant on the 90 per cent of its sugar cane exported to Europe and the United States, the relatively new t
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Sierra Leone's vanishing history
Built by formerly enslaved people, Freetown’s historic ‘bod oses’ now face an existential threat as foreign embassies move in. Jody Ray reports.
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