Latest editorial
Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Mission: save the world
MARIA DUARTE recommends documentary How to Change the World on Greenpeace’s environmental activism
ANGUS REID considers the power of the podcast as a vehicle for consensus building in opposition to mainstream media narratives
GLENN FOSBRAEY recommends a biography worth reading for both existing George Michael fans and those yet to be converted
FRANCIS DEVINE introduces a new collection of essays that draws on Pease McKenna’s example to indicate future paths for the movement
KEVIN DONNELLY and MARIA DUARTE review Shoot the People, The Last One For The Road, Rosebush Pruning, and Moana
JAMES WALSH recommends an exceptional documentary about the experience of Western doctors in Gaza
How to Change the World (15), directed by Jerry Rothwell
4/5
FOR many it may be incredible fathoming how a group of young hippy activists in an old fishing boat in 1971 gave birth to a global environmental movement and its poster child Greenpeace.
Their mission, as they set sail from Vancouver, was to stop the US’s atomic bomb tests in Amchitka, a small island off the west coast of Alaska.
Similar stories
RITA DI SANTO talks to Scottish-Irish filmmaker MARK COUSINS about his new panorama of world cinema The Story of Documentary Film
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
ED RAMPELL is disappointed by the confusing results of embedding cameras amid a Ukranian platoon