Pop culture has become the basis for a participatory approach to world activism – Harry Potter fans for gay rights in the US, defiant Palestinians protesting about Israeli occupation with their traditional keffiyahs over skins painted blue after Avatar’s Na’vi people.

08.09.2010 As a new World Bank report names biofuels as one of the driving forces of land grabs in Africa and acknowledges its detrimental impact on local livelihoods, an international environmental group renews its call on rich countries to drop their biofuel targets and invest in planet-friendly farming.

08.09.2010 A coalition of NGOs, political organis ations and trade unions has called on European Union ministers to recognise the merits of a Financial Transaction Tax, particularly as austerity measures begin to be felt throughout the regional grouping.

08.09.2010 A dispute about whether climate change will cause more wars in Africa heated up last week with the publication of a study that pours cold water on the link.

07.09.2010 The north and the south have different rulers in Ivory Coast, but both the southern president and the northern military government 
exploit people and resources for their own profit, says Tom Rowe.

08.09.2010 Plomo o plata. Lead or silver. It’s a phrase that’s all too familiar to Mexican journalists. It means, simply, we own you. Take our plata (slang for money) and publish what we tell you. Or we kill you.
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Visitors to the Imperial War Museum may be shocked by the display of a charred and mangled car that was last driven on a suicide mission in Baghdad.

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