The World Unspun

New Internationalist is at risk! Donate today and help save global, independent journalism. This episode is brought to you by Coops UK . New Internationalist co-owner Kiran Gupta presents The Long Read from NI560: AI: The People Behind the Machine Further reading from this episode: Sudan's warring generals are armed to the brink (Eiad Husham in New Internationalist) Support independent media by be...

After more than 50 years of award-winning global justice journalism, New Internationalist could be forced to shut down. We need your help to survive. Donate today at newint.org/give This episode was brought to you by Big Solar Coop . ** The threat of nuclear weapons being used is the highest it’s been since the Cold War. Nuclear-armed states have been ploughing money into modernizing their arsenal...

This episode was brought to you by Big Solar Coop . Subscribe to New Internationalist and use the code THEWORLDUNSPUN for 20% off your first year of a print and/or digital subscription. The Beirut-based journalist provides his analysis on why Israel is able to impose a one-way 'ceasefire', its broader war aims in South Lebanon, and the people caught in the middle. Further reading from this episode...

Subscribe to New Internationalist today to get our next issue on the centenary of the 1926 British General Strike! Use the code THEWORLDUNSPUN for 20% off your first year of a print and/or digital subscription. This episode was brought to you by Big Solar Coop . Tori Tsui is an environmental campaigner, author and advisor from Hong Kong. She is a senior advisor for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferatio...

Subscribe to New Internationalist today to get our next issue on the centenary of the 1926 British General Strike! Use the code THEWORLDUNSPUN for 20% off your first year of a print and/or digital subscription. This episode was brought to you by Big Solar Coop . Molly Crabapple is an award-winning artist, writer and author whose work has appeared in past issues of New Internationalist including th...

This episode is brought to you by Shared Interest . Despite its documented dangers, algorithmic biases and dire environmental consequences, AI is being pushed into every corner of our lives. But who benefits from framing it this way – and at what cost? For our latest issue, co-editor Decca Muldowney takes an in-depth look at the people behind the AI hype machine. Further reading from our issue AI:...

This episode is brought to you by Shared Interest . Addis is a city at a crossroads. A massive redevelopment project is reshaping Ethiopia’s capital into what Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has called the ‘Dubai of East Africa’. His vision of a glistening metropolis of skyscrapers, wide roads and bike lanes aims to draw in investors and tourists alike. So what does this transformation feel like from th...

This episode is brought to you by Shared Interest . New Internationalist co-owner Kiran Gupta presents The Long Read from NI559: The New Nuclear Arms Race Further reading from this episode: Necolonialism in Gaza (Yara Hawari in New Internationalist) The Long War for Meaning (Ramzy Baroud in New Internationalist) Support independent media by becoming a New Internationalist co-owner. No billionaires...

This episode is sponsored by Path Financial . Share your thoughts on this series by filling out our listener survey. You may not have heard of it, but West Papua is an extraordinary place. It is home to one of the world’s most important rainforests – third only to the Amazon and Congo basins – teeming with species found nowhere else on the planet. Civilizations here stretch back tens of thousands...

Share your thoughts on this series by filling out our listener survey . Join us in Glasgow for our December News Club with Rosie and our editorial assistant Paula Lacey. Tickets are FREE but limited – register here . New Internationalist co-owner Kiran Gupta presents The Long Read from NI558: Gaza: Genocide and Resistance Further reading from this episode: Where is the Left? (Rosie Hampton in New...

This episode is sponsored by Path Financial . Share your thoughts on this series by filling out our listener survey. Despite the latest ‘ceasefire’, Israel’s genocide and engineered famine continues to devastate Gaza. The latest issue of New Internationalist confronts the history of Israeli violence and the Palestinian resistance to war, displacement and annihilation, giving space to voices that a...

This episode is brought to you by Shared Interest . New Internationalist co-owner Kiran Gupta presents The Long Read from NI557: The Global Far Right. Further reading from this episode: You've got issues, mate: Kneecap and the war on the Irish language (Decca Muldowney in New Internationalist) Gaza: Genocide and Resistance Support independent media by becoming a New Internationalist co-owner. No b...

This episode is brought to you by Shared Interest . Share your thoughts on this series by filling out our listener survey. Fascism in 2025 isn't just swastikas and flags. Joe Mulhall, the research director at the anti-fascist organization Hope Not Hate says we should be more worried about the erosion of liberal democracy and universal human rights. In this episode, co-editor Bethany Rielly speaks...

This episode is brought to you by New Internationalist's very own Ethical Shop. Use the code ETHICAL for 10% off online orders on a range of ethical and fairtrade goods. Share your thoughts on this series by filling out our listener survey. We are at a critical crossroads. A global wave of far-right authoritarianism is threatening human rights, climate action and democracy – steering the world tow...

Share your thoughts on this series by filling out our listener survey. The French activist, author and film producer joins us to talk about the Together for Palestine concert in London as well as his other major projects in support of Palestinian liberation. Host: Maxine Betteridge-Moes Credits: Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Digital Editor, Producer), Amy Hall, Bethany Rielly, Conrad Landin, Nick Dowson...

Share your thoughts on this series by filling out our listener survey. New Internationalist co-owner Kiran Gupta presents The Long Read from NI554: Treaty: Indigenous Sovereignty in Australia Further reading from this episode: Revolutionary Aid in Sudan (Eiad Hisham in New Internationalist) Support independent media by becoming a New Internationalist co-owner No billionaires. No media moguls. No c...

This episode is brought to you by Shared Interest . Share your thoughts on this series by filling out our listener survey. 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 accountability, and how to make the digital world safer. To send a GDPR objecti...

This episode is brought to you by Shared Interest . Share your thoughts on this series by filling out our listener survey. Considered persona non-grata by Israel, Francesca Albanese is perhaps one of the most hated – and admired – figures in the United Nations today. Unlike many Western diplomats, the Italian human rights lawyer and UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories has...

Share your thoughts on this series by filling out our listener survey. 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 rather than a burden? In the final episode of our mini series, Dig, Baby, Dig! we spoke to Alaka Lugonzo a senior civil society a...

Share your thoughts on this series by filling out our listener survey. New Internationalist co-owner Kiran Gupta presents The Long Read from NI552: Disinformation Further reading from this episode: Women’s agency in the DRC war (Sophie Neiman in New Internationalist) Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Neiman was awarded the prestigious Gaby Rado Award from the Amnesty I...

Share your thoughts on this series by filling out our listener survey. '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-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is trying to dig for lithium in the Jadar Valley in spite of widespread public protests. We speak to...

Share your thoughts on this series by filling out our listener survey. 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 action to challenge its power, from the gates of arms factories to our highest courts. In late April, at Palestine House in London,...

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Share your thoughts on this series by filling out our listener survey. 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, we’re digging deep. The first episode in this mini series takes you to Peru, where the government is determined to inflict an un...

Share your thoughts on this series by filling out our listener survey. 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, before vanishing from their lives forever. As the Undercover Policing Inquiry continues to unearth new abuses, New International...