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The World Unspun

New Internationalist

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Frequency: 1 episode/27d. Total Eps: 33

New Internationalist's award-winning, in-depth journalism, now in a podcast!

Nominated for the Publisher Podcast Hero of the Year 2025.

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Entering the matrix of misinformation with Nanjala Nyabola

Season 1 · Episode 1

Monday, November 4, 2024 • Duration 35:43

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There's a lot of money to be made in the internet. People with good intentions and bad intentions are being driven by profit. So how does this shape our information ecosystem and where does the scope for action lie?

Read #NI552: Disinformation

Host: Maxine Betteridge-Moes

Credits: Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Producer), Nazik Hamza (Audio Editor), Mari Fouz (Logo Design), Amy Hall, Bethany Rielly, Conrad Landin, Nick Dowson (Co-editors), Paula Lacey (Editorial assistant), Samuel Raffnell-Williams (Sound design), Thomas Barlow, Impress (Media consultant)

Guest: Nanjala Nyabola

0:18 Issue highlights

2:30 Telling a global story

7:26 Why does misinformation spread?

12:49 Who are the architects of misinformation?

19:29 How much of a role does language have in our collective fight against misinformation?

23:18 What is your experience with community health workers?

29:39 What are the paths to digital inclusivity?

34:11 Thank you for listening

Further reading from this episode:

Strange and Difficult Times: Notes on a Global Pandemic by Nanjala Nyabola

Entering the Matrix of Misinformation

Red Letter Day (Conrad Landin in New Internationalist. Subscribe to read)

The Philippines Disinformation Machine (Don Kevin Hapal in New Internationalist. Subscribe to read)

Fact-checkers to the rescue? (Samira Sawlani in New Internationalist. Subscribe to read)

How Kiswahili tech terms are pushing for digital rights in East Africa (Maxine Betteridge-Moes in Quartz Africa)

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Further reading from this episode:

#NI551 Political Parties

How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism by Ece Temelkuran

Together: A Manifesto Against the Heartless World by Ece Temelkuran

How Haiti became the 'poster child' for reparations, with Harold Isaac

Season 1 · Episode 3

Thursday, November 28, 2024 • Duration 38:20

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Haiti, the land of the only successful slave uprising in history, was also an experiment in neocolonialism. As the country once again makes global news headlines for all the wrong reasons, we spoke to independent journalist Harold Isaac to better understand how Haiti's complex history of colonization, slavery and its crippling ‘independence debt’ to France contributed to the crisis we’re seeing play out on our screens today.

Host: Maxine Betteridge-Moes

Guest: Harold Isaac (@haroldisaac)

0:41 Meeting Harold Isaac

1:03 Haiti's airport shut down

3:40 Staying safe in Haiti

5:12 Being in Haiti is an act of resistance

6:05 Understanding Haiti's history

7:41 Haiti's revolution

8:50 US occupation

13:39 Fleeing Haiti

15:27 The danger for journalists

16:31 Trump revokes protected legal status for Haitians

18:13 The damage of reparations

24:50 Haiti’s cultural importance

26:35 Structural adjustment programmes shifting Haiti's economic climate

30:51 Do Haitians feel alone?

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Why the West picks guns over diplomacy, with Vijay Prashad

Season 1 · Episode 5

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 • Duration 33:52

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The West may be losing control over the world’s resources but it still dominates weapons systems and information. Vijay Prashad explains why some world leaders are effectively arms dealers and how this influences diplomacy.

Read NI553: The Arms Trade

Host: Maxine Betteridge-Moes

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), Thomas Barlow, Impress (Media Consultant)

Guest: Vijay Prashad

2:44 Introducing Vijay

7:58 Fear fuels war - are we further away from negotiating peace than ever before?

11:21 Trump, NATO, and their impact on the arms trade

15:47 The role of Imperialism

21:12 How does the role of internationalism affect the geopolitical shift?

23: 21 Global movements against the arms trade

28:14 Maintaining faith in humanity

31:07 The good and bad sides of history

Further reading from this episode:

With all eyes on Gaza, Morocco strengthens its hold on Western Sahara (Maxine Betteridge-Moes, New Internationalist)

Love Locked Up (Maxine Betteridge-Moes, )

Spycops: Britain's political policing scandal

Season 1 · Episode 9

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 • Duration 38:37

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For nearly half a century, the British police embedded agents within progressive political and protest movements; officers deceived activists into intimate relationships, sometimes fathering children, before vanishing from their lives forever. As the Undercover Policing Inquiry continues to unearth new abuses, New Internationalist co-editor Bethany Rielly speaks to two spycops campaigners about their search for justice.

In this episode we also hear evidence given to the ongoing Undercover Policing Inquiry by ex-undercover officer Andy Coles, who is accused of having an intimate relationship with an animal rights activist known as ‘Jessica’ when she was 19 years old. Coles publicly denied the claims in the Peterborough Telegraph after he was unmasked in 2017, dismissing them as ‘lurid’. Despite this, in 2020, the Metropolitan Police upheld a complaint by Jessica, after launching an internal investigation which found ‘credible evidence’ about the alleged relationship. It said Coles would have faced a disciplinary hearing on a charge of gross misconduct if he had not already retired from the Metropolitan Police in 2013. On 18 and 19 December 2024, the ex-officer again refuted the allegations in oral evidence to the inquiry. Other female activists have also accused Coles of making sexual advances on them, which he also denied.

Dig, Baby, Dig! Part 1: Peru, with Vanessa Baird

Season 1 · Episode 10

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 • Duration 24:17

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Eighty percent of the world is still powered by fossil fuels, but critical minerals are on the up.

What exactly are critical minerals - and why all the hype?

To mark the launch of our latest magazine, we’re digging deep.

The first episode in this mini series takes you to Peru, where the government is determined to inflict an unpopular copper mine on the people of the Tambo Valley. Contributing editor Vanessa Baird shares what she learned from campaigners and activists about their growing resistance.

Host: Maxine Betteridge-Moes

Guest: Vanessa Baird

Read NI555: Dig, Baby, Dig! Can Critical Minerals Save the World?

Further reading from this episode:

Can mining save the world? (Vanessa Baird, New Internationalist)

Hall of Infamy: Dina Boluarte (New Internationalist)

Killing of protesters sparks early elections in Peru (Vaness Baird, New Internationalist)