Raging Against the Machine

by Brazier, Chris

• ISBN13: 9781904456025
• ISBN10: 1904456022
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-03
• Publisher: New Internationalist Pubns Inc

Summary

Published to celebrate thirty years of the New Internationalist magazine. With a broad, international circulation, the magazine is as popular as ever with readers who value its independent coverage of world affairs, evocative first-person essays, and hard-hitting exposes.   This collection of the most influential pieces of writing is more than a retrospective. It shows how ideas once considered marginal have become self-evident, and it reflects the evolution of the tide of resistance to corporate-led globalization.   It comprises sixty articles, including "The Baby Food Tragedy," "Lethal Lies-The Arms Trade," "Please do not Sponsor this Child," and "Iraq: The Pride and the Pain."   Chris Brazier has been co-editor at New Internationalist magazine since 1984.

Table of Contents

Contents	iii
Introduction	1	(8)
Chris Brazier
Rich world, poor world, beggar, thief	9	(40)
The second front: the first NI editorial	10	(1)
Peter Adamson
Come hell and high water	11	(2)
Lamin Sennah
The ultimate experts	13	(4)
Peter Stalker
The rains	17	(4)
Peter Adamson
The madness of hunger	21	(4)
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
The other wall	25	(4)
Eduardo Galeano
The new robber barons	29	(5)
David Ransom
Across the great divide	34	(5)
Chris Brazier
The city our stepmother	39	(4)
Jeremy Seabrook
Calvin Klein and the teapickers	43	(6)
Mari Marcel Thekaekara
Join the resistance: key campaigns	49	(32)
The baby food tragedy	50	(2)
Peter Adamson
Please do not sponsor this child	52	(4)
Peter Stalker
East Timor: a land of crosses	56	(7)
John Pilger
Squeezing the South: 50 years is enough	63	(6)
Richard Swift
Lethal lies: the arms trade	69	(6)
Vanessa Baird
Iraq: the pride and the pain	75	(6)
Nikki van der Gaag
Pushing the boat out: the idea frontier	81	(38)
Towers of the new gods	82	(5)
Jeremiah Creedon
Columbus on the couch	87	(5)
Kirkpatrick Sale
Sleepwaves and dream tides	92	(4)
Sharon Doubiago
Can memory survive?	96	(5)
David Watson
Cephu's choice	101	(5)
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
The haunted house	106	(4)
Zygmunt Bauman
The drowning child and the expanding circle	110	(4)
Peter Singer
Betrayal and promise	114	(5)
Eduardo Galeano
Bringing it all back home: women and men	119	(32)
Waking up to women	120	(5)
Maggie Black
A new man	125	(3)
Bob Connell
Women in Africa: until death us do part	128	(4)
Debbie Taylor
Cheap thrills	132	(3)
Debbie Taylor
Power and pleasure	135	(3)
Emmanuel Reynaud
Childless by choice	138	(3)
Kathleen Muldoon
The real woman	141	(4)
Nina Silver
Domestic murder and the golden sea	145	(6)
Urvashi Butalia
The cosmic ark: earth resistance	151	(30)
A tale of two crises	152	(1)
Peter Adamson
The cosmic ark	153	(4)
Jeremiah Creedon
The denial syndrome	157	(4)
Anuradha Vittachi
Scars of umlungu	161	(4)
Sindiwe Magona
Inheritance of absence	165	(3)
Susan Griffin
Building a green economy	168	(6)
Wayne Ellwood
Rush to nowhere	174	(7)
Richard Swift
Stories from life: the personal world	181	(32)
Doctoring	182	(3)
Gerry Dawson
Connectedness	185	(2)
Wayne Ellwood
I was a teenage Red Guard	187	(4)
Mo Bo
The absent father comes home	191	(3)
Dexter Tiranti
White flowers and a grizzly bear	194	(5)
Dian Marino
On the terrace	199	(4)
Dinyar Godrej
How shall we live?	203	(4)
Amanda Hazelton
Traitor!	207	(6)
Alan Hughes
Guide to the ruins: whatever happened to `development'?	213	(30)
The art of development	214	(4)
Peter Adamson
Where has all the conscience gone?	218	(4)
Mari Marcel Thekaekara
Meditation on a bucket of lugworms	222	(4)
Tony Vaux
Development: a guide to the ruins	226	(5)
Wolfgang Sachs
Development ended in Kuwait	231	(3)
Wolfgang Sachs
Mea culpa run riot	234	(4)
Maggie Black
Development as forced labour	238	(5)
C Douglas Lummis
Adventures on the edge: travellers' tales	243	(19)
Sandino sunrise	244	(5)
Peter Stalker
The river, the forest and the people	249	(5)
David Ransom
Field of dreams	254	(2)
Nikki van der Gaag
State of fear, Chris Brazier in occupied	256	(6)
Western Sahara
Return to Ayacucho	262
Vanessa Baird