For the long read in our latest issue, Eiad Husham traces the UAE’s long game for access to the Red Sea – a strategy built through ports, airports and infrastructure projects, and driven by ambitions to secure maritime power and regional influence. newint.org/military/202...

'When we come together and make our voices heard, then we are really powerful' Speaking at the recent Democracy in Europe Movement (@diem25.org) event in London, economist and author Grace Blakeley tells New Internationalist why resistance is no longer a slogan: it is a condition for survival. 👉 F

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Today marks 50 years since the military coup in #Argentina initiated a brutal dictatorship that swept up tens of thousands of people, mostly in their 20s, and disappeared them without trace. Read more from Ali Qassim: newint.org/nationalism/...

‘I see Pennsylvania being ready and willing to continue to be the state of extraction,’ she says, as her smile turns to a sigh. Read the full report from Maia Woluchem and Livia Garofalo in our latest issue: newint.org/science-and-...

'Today Ramallah’s coffee boom reflects the dangerous and embattled public spaces Palestinians are forced to navigate.' Read a preview of the first installment of Mariam Barghouti's Letter From series in our latest issue, and subscribe for full access to the magazine. newint.org/indigenous-p...

'In the absence of institutional support, many women are self-organizing to protect domestic workers from harm.' Read more: newint.org/work/2026/hi...

Leonardo is one of the world’s biggest weapons producers and plays an important role in producing components for F-35 planes, used by Israel in the Gaza genocide, as well as working alongside Israeli arms companies like Elbit Systems. Read more from Futura D'Aprile: newint.org/arms/2026/it...

‘Cruelty is the central tenet of right-wing ideology,’ Gareth Watkins writes. ‘It is at the heart of everything they do... and AI is a part of this – a mad rush to make a machine god that will liberate capital from labour for good.’ newint.org/science-and-...

'Access to research capital rests not on a desire to create socially responsible products that deliver services people need, but rather to build technology that appeals to the priorities of the powerful.' Read more: newint.org/science-and-...

'Delivery' by Thiago Lucas, as featured in our current issue. Read more at newint.org

'every rollout of information becomes even more chaotic until you get a population that’s just too tired to be mad and they just disengage’ Read the full feature: newint.org/military/202...

'The whole thing is built on a house of cards' In our recent webinar on How the US is fuelling the nuclear arms race, Ivana Hughes of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation discusses the hypocrisy of US foreign policy around nuclear weapons.

'The idea for autonomous systems is that the weapon system itself will make the decision without a human operator ... Now many people would argue that's unlawful with the laws of war that we currently have, but we're heading towards that very quickly.' Read more: newint.org/arms/2026/ki...

In @newint.bsky.social, D&S's @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @livgar.bsky.social write about their work tracing the impacts of, and resistance to, the AI industry's development push in Pennsylvania — and introduce us to some of the people living in the thick of it. newint.org/science-and-...

Spoke to @newint.bsky.social about the development of autonomous weapons, the serious threat from these systems and the need for global action now. newint.org/arms/2026/ki...

Thank you to @newint.bsky.social and @deccamuldowney.bsky.social for letting us write about Pennsylvania, its planned AI futures, and how people are pushing back. Read online and find in print! The entire March issue is about the humans behind the AI empire machine.

Get the Facts on AI in our latest issue 👉https://newint.org/issues/2026/02/19/ai-people-behind-machine

🚨 NEW ISSUE 🚨 AI is everywhere. It’s being pushed into every corner of our societies. Boosters of the technology say it can save the world. Doomers say it has the potential to destroy us. But what’s beyond the hype? Preview the issue and subscribe for full access 👉 newint.org/issues/2026/...

📢 Speaker update! Ivana Nikolic Hughes, president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation will now join Thursday's event, in place of Helen Jaccard. Register now: www.tickettailor.com/events/newin...

THIS THURSDAY! How the US is fuelling the nuclear arms race. Join CND and @newint.bsky.social to discuss the pivotal role the US plays in the escalation of nuclear tensions worldwide. 📆 19 February ⏲️ 6:00pm (UK) Register: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/newinternationalist/2035147

"...the mountain on which the mine is located is a sacred place. But every day an estimated 300,000 tons of toxic tailings, largely untreated, are deposited straight into the Ajkwa River." @newint.bsky.social explore ecological and cultural devastation in West Papua:

‘People from Barcelona, Catalonia, from the Spanish state, from all over the world have made it clear that they stand with Palestine.’ Read all of our Palestine coverage at newint.org

The UK Home Office’s decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist group last year was unlawful, the High Court ruled today. Non-violent direct action is NOT terrorism. Learn more in our ongoing series 'How to stop the arms trade' at newint.org

🤖 Last day to pre-order our forthcoming issue AI: The People Behind the Machine. 🤖 Subscribe by MIDNIGHT TONIGHT to receive your copy in print – susbcribe.newint.org

There is a supply chain of trauma, silence and invisible labour behind every AI interaction. Read more in our forthcoming issue, AI: The People Behind the Machine. Coming soon – pre-order by TOMORROW 13 February to receive your copy in print. subscribe.newint.org

Who are the workers that prop up artificial 'intelligence'? Meet them in our forthcoming issue, AI: The People Behind the Machine. Coming soon – pre-order by 13 February to receive your copy in print. subscribe.newint.org

Is AI really the unstoppable force it's made out to be? Read more in our forthcoming issue, AI: The People Behind the Machine. Coming soon – pre-order by 13 February to receive your copy in print. subscribe.newint.org

AI is making warfare even more deadly. Learn how we can control them in our forthcoming issue, AI: The People Behind the Machine. Coming soon – pre-order by 13 February to receive your copy in print. subscribe.newint.org

Is the artistic process in danger from AI? Get an artist's take in our forthcoming issue, AI: The People Behind the Machine. Coming soon – pre-order by 13 February to receive your copy in print. subscribe.newint.org

Content moderators say they are 'the janitors of the internet' Hear from them directly in our forthcoming issue, AI: The People Behind the Machine. Coming soon – pre-order by 13 February to receive your copy in print. subscribe.newint.org

Why are communities in #Pennsylvania saying 'NO TO DATA CENTERS'? Find out in our forthcoming issue, AI: The People Behind the Machine. Coming soon – pre-order by 13 February to receive your copy in print. subscribe.newint.org

AI: The People Behind the Machine. Coming soon – pre-order by 13 February to receive your copy in print. subscribe.newint.org

'Over the last five years, $1.6 billion worth of oil and gas projects in South Africa have been halted by legal challenges from campaigners, according to government figures.' newint.org/mining/2026/...

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'Today ... African customs are continually painted as ‘backward’ and colonial-implanted culture as inherently ‘progressive’. Opposition to this is often negatively labelled ‘radical’ and ‘countercultural’ but it is simply the retracing of norms that existed before.' newint.org/colonialism/...

'The hard power Carney now condemns has long been wielded against the South. Outrage in the Global North, indeed, comes from the fact that the chickens are now coming home to roost.' Read the full editorial in our forthcoming issue, AI: The People Behind the Machine. subscribe.newint.org

Huge thanks to the team @declassifieduk.orgUK for having us at their summit, Challenging the War Machine on Saturday. It was an inspiring day of action – hundreds of people unified over the need to dismantle the deadly arms industry, and the UK's role in it.

'I suspect the cats are here to stay. So for me, the question is one of balancing our overlapping and sometimes contradictory duties to this complex natural world we’ve inherited.' Read the full answer from our Agony Uncle at newint.org

The new nuclear arms race is on. But just how destructive is this deadly industry? Take our quiz and be entered into a draw to win a free one-year digital subscription to the magazine! a.nin.tl/ArmsQuiz

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#Rojava is a blueprint for society that progressives around the world have been campaigning for. It’s known for its unique ideology based on principles of feminism, ecology, cultural pluralism, participatory politics and a co-operative sharing economy. Listen now: newint.org/democracy/20...

At a time when global conflict is increasing, nuclear-armed states are adding fuel to the fire by reaffirming their commitments to nuclear weapons and abandoning arms control agreements. Join us to discuss the pivotal role the US plays in the escalation of nuclear tensions worldwide. a.nint.tl/nuke

For decades, many on the European left have treated drug policy reform as a niche concern: a matter of personal liberty, public health or countercultural taste, rather than a central question of global power. Read more from @kojokoram.bsky.social newint.org/drugs/2026/m...

NEXT FRIDAY! Join us for our January News Club with contributor Kojo Koram to discuss his latest piece on why Maduro's capture is the latest example of the failure of the 'war on drugs'. FREE to register: app.tickettailor.com/event/ev_747...

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The latest episode of #TheWorldUnspun podcast features voices of West Papuans fighting to be free from Indonesia's military occupation. Subscribe and listen wherever you get your podcasts. newint.org/forests/2026...

'Workers literally build our society; they produce all the value and wealth that we collectively enjoy. And this is particularly true for public services.' @jasonhickel.bsky.social newint.org/equality/202...

Read the full Spotlight of Argentinian visual and performance artist Mercedes Azpilicueta in our latest issue – newint.org/art/2026/spo...

Refugee return has often been implemented elsewhere, with international support – take Bosnia, Kuwait and Rwanda – and in some cases military enforcement. But for Palestinians, the Global North has opposed return. What if this right was realized? Read more newint.org/refugees/202...