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Tim Black
The birth of democracy in Burma? Sadly not
Aung San Suu Kyi’s electoral victory is less the product of people power than of deal-making between the US and the military junta.
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| Thursday 19 January 2012 |
Sadhvi Sharma
India’s inspiring war on polio
The massive human effort that helped make India polio-free shows that greater wealth brings greater health.
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| Monday 16 January 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Putting tribespeople in a human zoo
In demanding the utter isolation of Third World tribes, Survival International turns communities into freakshows.
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| Monday 14 March 2011 |
Frank Furedi
Japan: a catastrophe, not a disaster movie
Forget the Hollywood-style finger-pointing about human ‘arrogance’ and ‘powerlessness’ – we can overcome and learn from the worst disasters.
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| Monday 14 March 2011 |
Ben Pile
Making mountains out of meltdowns
Despite the scaremongering of the media and green groups, the real lesson of Fukushima is that nuclear power is safe.
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| Monday 13 December 2010 |
Tim Black
There is little noble about this Nobel award
What a fate Liu Xiaobo has suffered: outrageously imprisoned by the Chinese and cynically exploited by Westerners keen to bash Beijing.
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| Wednesday 17 November 2010 |
Mick Hume
Burma: power to which people?
Aung San Suu Kyi has finally been released, but the Burmese people will not be freed by her international fan-club of statesmen and celebs.
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| Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
How NGOs are adopting a missionary position in Asia
A sex-worker rights activist in Thailand tells Nathalie Rothschild about the reality of the prudish, neo-colonial anti-trafficking industry.
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| Monday 18 October 2010 |
Mick Hume
India: making history or living in the past?
A trip to Bangalore gives spiked’s editor-at-large a glimpse of the capitalist law of uneven development at work.
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| Wednesday 29 September 2010 |
Mick Hume
Dirty tricks at the Commonwealth Games
These days it seems the Empire can only strike back at its uppity former colonial subjects in India with health-and-safety lectures.
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| Wednesday 1 September 2010 |
Mick Hume
Cheating? To be fair, it is cricket
There is nothing new nor alien about cricketing scandals; the sport of Empire has always been torn between high morals and low tactics.
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| Thursday 26 August 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Après le deluge, the ghoulish opportunists
Everyone from anti-terror crusaders to end-of-the-world greens is exploiting the Pakistani floods to revive their own flagging careers.
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| Thursday 19 August 2010 |
Tim Black
Pakistan’s floods and ‘disaster narcissism’
How the deluge in Asia was turned into an opportunity for Western preening and political oneupmanship.
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| Thursday 6 May 2010 |
Bill Durodié
On Thailand, what would Trotsky say?
If the Thai Red Shirts want real change, they could do with reading History of the Russian Revolution.
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| Monday 12 April 2010 |
Bill Durodié
The battle for Thailand’s soul
Far from being a ‘stage army’, the Red Shirts could potentially refresh and reinvent democracy in Thailand.
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| Monday 8 February 2010 |
Tim Black
Is the world really poorer without Bo?
The death of tribal languages is sometimes a good thing, revealing the itchy dynamism of human society.
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| Thursday 22 October 2009 |
Sarnath Banerjee
A tragi-comic censorship campaign
Cartoonist Sarnath Banerjee illustrates how a website about a sexy Indian sister-in-law got the censors hot under the collar.
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| Wednesday 23 September 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
Has China had a green ‘Damascene conversion’?
The sight of President Hu almost apologising to the West for his country’s vast economic growth was a revealing snapshot of our times.
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| Monday 18 May 2009 |
Sadhvi Sharma
Give us something worth voting for
Sadhvi Sharma reports from Bombay on the gimmicks and threats that were used to get people voting in the elections.
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| Wednesday 15 April 2009 |
Rothschild & O’Neill
Tamils and the limits of liberal outrage
A photo-essay by Nathalie Rothschild and Brendan O’Neill on the most under-reported demo of the decade.
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