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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 of years.

But it’s a region that is increasingly under threat from Indonesia’s military occupation. Rapid deforestation, resource extraction and deadly human rights crackdowns are on the rise.

So who's behind the violent plunder – and who's profiting?

Read all New Internationalist's coverage of West Papua and Indonesia

Britain's complicity in the tragedy of West Papua (David Whyte, Samira Saunders, New Internationalist)

West Papua: A Green State Vision (Danny Chivers, New Internationalist)

'Every signature was an act of courage' (Danny Chivers, New Internationalist)

The world's largest deforestation project (Douglas Gerrard, London Review of Books)

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New Internationalist co-owner Kiran Gupta presents The Long Read from NI558: Gaza: Genocide and Resistance

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Where is the Left? (Rosie Hampton in New Internationalist)

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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 are too often sidelined and allowing Palestinians to define their own struggle.

The magazine was guest edited by Gaza-born historian and writer Ramzy Baroud, editor of the Palestine Chronicle. For Ramzy, compiling this issue was highly personal, having lost over 110 family members in Gaza, including his sister. For The World Unspun, Ramzy sits down with New Internationalist co-editor Decca Muldowney to discuss the process of creating the magazine and the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in the face of genocide.

Read NI558: Gaza and Resistance

Host: Decca Muldowney

Credits: Decca Muldowney (Host) Paula Lacey (Editorial Assistant), Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Digital Editor & Producer), Amy Hall, Bethany Rielly, Conrad Landin, Nick Dowson (Co-Editors), Samuel Rafanell-Williams (Sound Design), Nazik Hamza (Audio Editor), Mari Fouz (Logo Design)

Guest: Ramzy Baroud

Further Reading from this Episode:

The Long War for Meaning (Ramzy Baround, New Internationalist)

Palestine: From Accord to Apartheid (Zoe Homan, New Internationalist)

Fiddling While Gaza Burns (Hamza Yusuf, New Internationalist)

Singing in Dark Times: Cultural Resistance in Palestine (Decca Muldowney, New Internationalist)

The Interview: Leila Khaled (Marta Vidal, New Internationalist)

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New Internationalist co-owner Kiran Gupta presents The Long Read from NI557: The Global Far Right.

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You've got issues, mate: Kneecap and the war on the Irish language (Decca Muldowney in New Internationalist)

Gaza: Genocide and Resistance

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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 to Mulhall about why the far right is gaining ground around the world, where resistance can take root and what communities are doing to resist the UK’s own far right party, Reform.

Host: Bethany Rielly

Credits: Bethany Rielly (Co-Editor, Host), Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Digital Editor, Producer), Amy Hall, Conrad Landin, Nick Dowson (Co-Editors), Paula Lacey (Editorial Assistant), Samuel Rafanell-Williams (Sound Design), Nazik Hamza (Audio Editor), Mari Fouz (Logo Design)

Guest: Joe Mulhall

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Read NI557: The Global Far Right

A time of monsters (Bethany Rielly, New Internationalist)

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We are at a critical crossroads. A global wave of far-right authoritarianism is threatening human rights, climate action and democracy – steering the world toward disaster. From Donald Trump in the White House to Javier Milei in Argentina, ideologies that were once confined to the fringes are now dictating the agenda from inside the halls of power. What are the roots of the right’s rise? What networks enable it? What are social movements around the world doing to offer real alternatives to the politics of hate and division?

In September, we hosted a special Ask Us Anything event with contributors to our magazine to answer these questions and many more. This episode is an edited version of that discussion.

Host: Maxine Betteridge-Moes

Credits: Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Digital Editor, Producer), Amy Hall, Bethany Rielly, Conrad Landin, Nick Dowson (Co-Editors), Paula Lacey (Editorial Assistant), Samuel Rafanell-Williams (Sound Design), Nazik Hamza (Audio Editor), Mari Fouz (Logo Design)

Guests: Kim Kelly, Josefina Salomon, Balasz Turcsan

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A time of monsters (Bethany Rielly, New Internationalist)

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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 (Co-Editors), Paula Lacey (Editorial Assistant), Samuel Rafanell-Williams (Sound Design), Nazik Hamza (Audio Editor), Mari Fouz (Logo Design)

Guest: Frank Barat

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Italian dockworkers threaten to shut down Europe in solidarity with Global Sumud Flotilla (Tommaso Gori, New Internationalist)

I oppose genocide. Is that ok? (Vanessa Baird, New Internationalist)

Poll: Nearly 80% of Israeli Jews 'not troubled' by Gaza starvation (The New Arab)

South Africa: 30 Years Later (New Internationalist)

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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 New Internationalist)

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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.

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Read NI552: Disinformation

Host: Paula Lacey

Credits: Paula Lacey (Editorial Assistant, Producer), Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Digital Editor), Amy Hall, Bethany Rielly, Conrad Landin, Nick Dowson (Co-Editors), Samuel Rafanell-Williams (Sound Design), Nazik Hamza (Audio Editor), Mari Fouz (Logo Design), Thomas Barlow, Impress (Media Consultant)

Guest: Adele Walton

Further Reading from this Episode:

Entering the matrix of misinformation with Nanjala Nyabola (The World Unspun Podcast)

The issue with social media blocking apps? They’re now just as addictive (Adele Zeynep Walton, The Observer)

‘Meta must be held liable for Facebook abuse that killed my father’ (Mukanzi Musanga, Open Democracy)

How to Fix the Online Safety Act: A Rights First Approach (Open Rights Group)

Disinformation and disorder: the limits of the Online Safety Act (Alexandros Antoniou, Lorna Woods and Maeve Walsh, Online Safety Act Network)

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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.

Unlike many Western diplomats, the Italian human rights lawyer and UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories has called Israel ’s assault on Gaza a genocide, and she has urged Israel ’s suspension from the UN. This stance has made her a target of smear campaigns, with the US mission to the UN accusing Albanese of ‘antisemitic hatred and impartiality’ when her term was renewed in April.

For our latest issue on the UN at 80 co-editor Bethany Rielly interviewed Albanese, who appears to place more faith in grassroots power than in the UN’s headquarters.

Hosts: Maxine Betteridge-Moes, Bethany Rielly

Guest: Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories

Credits: Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Producer, Digital Editor), Amy Hall, Bethany Rielly, Conrad Landin, Nick Dowson (Co-Editors), Paula Lacey (Editorial Assistant), Samuel Rafanell-Williams (Sound Design), Nazik Hamza (Audio Editor), Mari Fouz (Logo Design)

Read NI556: Disunited Nations

Further reading from this episode:

To end the Gaza genocide, the Global South takes justice into its own hands (Kate McMahon, New Internationalist)

Fiddling while Gaza burns (Hamza Yusuf, New Internationalist - subscribe to read)

Global leadership vetoed (Conrad Landin, New Internationalist)

Criminalized on campus: The UK students taking action for Gaza (Paula Lacey, New Internationalist)

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