TOM PIERSCIONEK recommends a remarkable series of interviews with those few and brave Israeli citizens who refuse to do military service
In the Company of Men: The Ebola Tales
Stark warning of how destructive human impact on the planet is a breeding ground for pandemics
SELFLESS: Cuba sent more than 200 medics to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in 2014 during the Ebola crisis
The bard rests on his laurels, and swipes left and right
MARIA DUARTE cherishes the flashes of absurd humour and theme of community healing in a documentary set in a Soviet-era Black Sea sanatorium
ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review The Courageous, The Cut, Christy, and On Swift Horses
TOM STONE sings the praises of one of the oldest open-air festivals in Britain
Chris Searle speaks to accordionist KAREN STREET
IN THE second year of the Covid-19 pandemic this book by Veronique Tadjo, translated in collaboration with John Cullen, has extraordinary resonance and some of its descriptive sequences epitomise the impact of neoliberal globalisation on new pathogens.
Uncontrolled, and with no regard for the environment and nature, they have emerged due to relentless expansion of capitalist production and industrialisation in all parts of the globe.
Fossil fuel mining, mineral exploration and timber logging, along with industrial plantation farming and sprawling urbanisation have brought pathogens, which for thousands of years have existed in wildlife such as bats and other remotely domiciled animals, into contact with farm animals and then with humans through wildlife food markets and farming.
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