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Wednesday 16 July 2008
Uncovered: the elite’s view of white America
Many writers fear that the masses are too dumb to ‘get’ the New Yorker’s satirical front page picture. Trouble is, Obama agrees with them.

Thursday 10 July 2008
Jesse Helms and the crisis of the GOP
The death of the racist former Republican Senator on the Fourth of July shed some light on the deeper crisis afflicting the Grand Old Party.

Wednesday 2 July 2008
Obama: wind of change or feeble breeze?
Kirk Leech reports from Miami and Washington DC on how the Democrats are parasitical on Republican disarray.

Thursday 19 June 2008
The way to save tigers is to farm tigers
Conservationists seem happier to restrict the lives of poor people in India than find a solution that benefits both animals and humans.

Monday 12 May 2008
Burma: a deluge of moral posturing
Western governments seem more concerned with lecturing the Rangoon regime than offering assistance to those hit by Cyclone Nargis.

Monday 6 November 2006
Mine your own business
A new film on the 'dark side of environmentalism' exposes some of the myths used to block the building of mines and hold back development.

Monday 2 October 2006
‘If the gold mine doesn’t happen, our village will die’
Kirk Leech reports from Rosia Montana in Romania, where green NGOs are trying to halt the building of a mine that locals desperately want.

Tuesday 7 March 2006
Toxic China?
Western critics cite China's environmental record as an excuse for attacking economic growth.

Thursday 30 August 2001
Extinct arguments
Will another species be extinct by the time you finish reading this article - or are extinction rates blown up out of proportion?

Tuesday 7 August 2001
TB: what to do?
Without a local healthcare system, tuberculosis will continue to ravage rural India. Kirk Leech reports on his time in Gujarat.

Thursday 29 March 2001
On training in India
Cows, eggs and 'no spitting zones'.

Thursday 8 March 2001
Dam campaigns
The Narmada dam in India has met with opposition from campaign groups. But as Kirk Leech reports from Gujarat, many of the locals welcome it.

Wednesday 7 February 2001
'This sanctuary is a prison'
Tribals living in the Shoolpaneshwar sanctuary in Gujarat, India, find they are treated worse than animals.

 


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