Argument 34 The Euro debt crisis: bailout or default? Stergios Skaperdas and David Olive debate the best strategy for Greece and beyond. What do you think? Join the debate by visiting newint.org/argument/448 Plus: your feedback on last month’s debate, ‘Are religious schools bad for society?’

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Regular Features 6 Letters Cargill’s role in food price spikes;

population woes; and the plight of Iraq’s Christian minority ignored. Plus: Scratchy Lines by Simon

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Federated States of Micronesia 50 Letter from Cairo Maria Golia experiences beautiful music and blunt talk at an impromptu gathering.

53 Mark Engler Why America’s 99 per cent have rebelled.

Arts 39 ‘I’ve not got a nice one for fracking...’ Poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey on mobilizing

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resistance through the arts. PLUS: Bosnian love songs from Amira; an inspiring documentary recalling the AIDS epidemic in 1980s San Francisco; and, 50 years after his death, Susan Williams asks Who Killed Hammarskjöld?

Alternatives 56 Gardening in the margins Plus: Get a warm glow with an eco-friendly log fire.

Action 57 Don’t just sit there! Events to tempt you off the sofa this month. PLUS: a round-up of the anti-cuts protests.

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Polyp’s Big Bad World, Marc Roberts’ Only Planet and guest cartoonist Farhad Foroutanian, an Iranian living in the Netherlands.

55 Puzzle Page 61 Anna Chen Big business turns TV toxic.

62 And finally… Sculptor Antony Gormley’s works pose as many questions as answers about the human condition, discovers Libby Powell.

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