The World Unspun

New Internationalist co-owner Kiran Gupta presents The Long Read from NI554: Treaty: Indigenous Sovereignty in Australia

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Revolutionary Aid in Sudan (Eiad Hisham in Ne…

In this episode we speak to Adele Zeynep Walton, a journalist, digital safety campaigner and author of the new book ‘Logging Off: The Human Cost of our Digital World’, about online harms, Big Tech ac…

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Considered persona non-grata by Israel, Francesca Albanese is perhaps one of the most hated – and admired – figures in the United Nations today.

Unlik…

Corruption, pollution and child labour have long blighted the Democratic Republic of the Congo's cobalt industry. But is there any way of turning the country’s critical mineral wealth into a blessing…

New Internationalist co-owner Kiran Gupta presents The Long Read from NI552: Disinformation

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Women’s agency in the DRC war (Sophie Neiman in New Internationalist)

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'Why do we care about the climate crisis unless it is to save natural spaces that are exactly like the Jadar Valley?'

The second episode in this mini series takes you to Serbia, where the Anglo-Austra…

While war and genocide means devastation for most, for the arms industry it means big business. While the arms trade is vast and secretive, there is a groundswell of people across the world taking ac…

Eighty percent of the world is still powered by fossil fuels, but critical minerals are on the up.

What exactly are critical minerals - and why all the hype?

To mark the launch of our latest magazine, …

For nearly half a century, the British police embedded agents within progressive political and protest movements; officers deceived activists into intimate relationships, sometimes fathering children…

2025 marks 50 years since Morocco invaded Western Sahara, forcibly displacing the Sahrawi people into neighbouring Algeria. Women’s rights and climate activist Najla Mohamed-Lamin joins us from the S…

Following the defeat of a 2023 referendum on an Indigenous advisory body to Australia's parliament, our latest issue scrutinizes the ongoing denial of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignt…

In the years since Syria’s civil war began in 2011, the country has been slowly drifting away from the mainstream media spotlight. But on 8 December, everything changed.

Turkish-backed opposition forc…

The West may be losing control over the world’s resources but it still dominates weapons systems and information. Vijay Prashad explains why some world leaders are effectively arms dealers and how th…

For this week’s #TheWorldUnspun, we met with Samar Alkhdour, a Palestinian activist in Montreal whose campaign against the obstructive and discriminatory Canadian immigration system has been met with…

Haiti, the land of the only successful slave uprising in history, was also an experiment in neocolonialism. As the country once again makes global news headlines for all the wrong reasons, we spoke t…

Fascism is a popular term in political discourse today. For the Turkish journalist and writer Ece Temelkuran, that’s a good thing — except that it comes too late. So how can we recognize a country's …

There's a lot of money to be made in the internet. People with good intentions and bad intentions are being driven by profit. So how does this shape our information ecosystem and where does the scope…