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FEATURES

Global poverty and the UN:Natural disasters
The UN wants to halve global poverty by 2016 and lift 500 million out of
misery. It wouldn't even cost much.So will it happen?Here

The Real Class Division
We’re supposed to be moving towards a more equitable society.
Well how come class division is worse than ever, asks Paul Bennett. Here

Meat, Money and Malnutrition
A Vegan society claims that meat is a cause of famine. So could vegetarianism really help feed the world, or is it all more complicated?Here

Changing the System
If you have no freedom to change your life you may as well be in prison. Workers in capitalism get more porridge than empowerment. Here

Kyoto: Fiddling while Rome Burns
America’s not in it. China’s not in it. As Kyoto goes live one wonders if there’s any point in it either. John Bissett looks at the pollution trade. Here

Brown Reorganises Poverty
£6.2 billion was returned to the Treasury in 2002-3 in unclaimed benefits. Does that mean claimants didn’t need the money? Here

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