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Articles in May, 2004 issue of New Internationalist

• From this month's editor
  by Katharine Ainger
• Southern exposure: highlighting the work of photographers from the majority world
• The arms smugglers: gold, gems and other war loot are smuggled out of conflict zones and swapped for guns and cash. Wairagala Wakabi exposes the networks of arms dealers, smugglers, merchants, warlords and governments in the Great Lakes region
  by Wairagala Wakabi
• The Naked Pioneer Girl
  by Vanessa Baird
• The way back: Reem Haddad on the return from Israel of Lebanese detainees
  by Reem Haddad
• Disinvest
• Good to talk?
• Rainbow warriors
  by Eduardo Galeano
• Fuelling the fire: the flow of Liberian lumber has played a key role in fuelling conflict. Alice Blondel explains
  by Alice Blondel
• Pre-Emptive Empire A Guide to Bush's Kingdom
  by Vanessa Baird
• Caressing the cortex
• Control the small arms trade
• Free for all
  by Barbara A. Jackson
• Calmer waters: Nile Basin countries co-operate in water-sharing treaty
  by Joyce Mulama
• Interview with Daud Sharifa Khanam
  by Vanessa Baird
• The scramble for Africa: Africa is endowed with an overwhelming abundance of gems, metals, minerals and other natural resources—but Katharine Ainger asks whether this wealth is a blessing or a curse
  by Katharine Ainger
• Stop the use of child soldiers
• Treatment and abuse
  by Caroline Glass
• Migrants demand equality in South Korea
  by Robin Maddock
• The looting of the Congo: the Democratic Republic of Congo has perhaps the richest concentration of precious metals and minerals on earth. Colette Braeckman describes how their exploitation by warring factions has fuelled the worst conflict anywhere since
  by Colette Braeckman
• Make corporations responsible
• Cruellest cut
  by Michael Glass
• Pint-size visionary: a farewell to activist and NI contributor Tooker Gomberg
  by Wayne Ellwood
• Create
  by Agostinho Neto
• War crimes: medic Helen Clarkson reports from Baraka by Lake Tanganyika where sexual violence is a weapon of war
  by Helen Clarkson
• Hold the warmongers to account
• Hands on
  by Dorothy Sauber
• Nepal is South Asia's worst trouble spot
  by Suman Pradhan
• Songs for a Raggy Boy
  by Vanessa Baird
• Resource wars the facts
• Use national laws
• Right Libertarianism
  by Kirsty Seidel
• Speechmarks
  by George Bush, Sr.
• Mirrors
  by Vanessa Baird
• Making a killing: private military firms say they are the future of humanitarian intervention in Africa. The mercenary behaviour of some suggests otherwise. Andre Verloy investigates
  by Andre Verloy
• The trots
• Oh, do grow up!
  by M. Rodriguez
• Vaccine/inoculate
  by Susan Watkin
• Liberation
  by Vanessa Baird
• Diamonds in the rough: the world now recognizes the need to control 'conflict' diamonds. Janine Roberts welcomes the progress but argues that the poor are still paying the price
  by Janine Roberts
• Decolonization and us: the continuing military dictatorship in Pakistan raises profound questions about the nature of law and legitimacy. Aasim Sajjad Akhtar argues that the answers can't be found in the legacy of colonial institutions and the elites who
  by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
• Howard's army
  by Stephen Langford
• Banish sweat
• The Bleeding of the Stone
  by Vanessa Baird
• Clean up trade
• Bolivia
• Just desserts
  by Spencer Herbert
• Dollar diplomacy: US undermines initiative to provide poor countries with access to AIDS antiretrovirals
  by Sanjay Basu
• From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers
  by Vanessa Baird
• Pledge