Claire Provost

Canada, Italy, United Kingdom

Investigative Journalist and Editor at Freelance

Investigative journalist, editor, feminist! Prev @cijournalism @Guardian. Book 'Silent Coup' out now. Founder of #trackingthebacklash @openDemocracy

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The mothers left behind: Fight for survival as US aid cuts demand urgent lifesaving action

1 week ago | nation.africa | Allan Olingo |Claire Provost |Jodi Enda

Mwaka Chimera sits on a worn-out leather couch outside her two-roomed house in Vyongwani village, in south-eastern Kenya, cradling her new-born daughter. “I dropped out of primary school, and for my first five pregnancies, I never attended a single antenatal clinic. I would just show up at the hospital when it was time to give birth,” Chimera, 31, says in Swahili.
The U.S. Aid Freeze: Counting the Global Cost of Chaos

1 week ago | msmagazine.com | Jodi Enda |Claire Provost |Allan Olingo

This piece was published in partnership with The Fuller Project and Ms. magazine. Published in partnership with The Fuller Project, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to the coverage of women’s issues around the world. Sign up for The Fuller Project’s newsletter. GOLINI, KENYA—Saumu Mwavugadi gazed from her veranda past mud-walled chicken coops and umbrella-like acacia trees to a vast horizon of hills. The heat was unrelenting on this March day, and Mwavugadi cradled her 2-week-old daughter in her arms.
Mexico’s Anti-Globalisation Rebellion

Oct 4, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Matt Kennard |Claire Provost

The stories we tell in Silent Coup are unfinished. They also began long before the period of time that the book covers. Stepping back, we seem to be in the final act of an epic saga that stretches back centuries, throughout which corporations have amassed new powers and sought, not only to free themselves from the control of states but also to reshape the world in their interests. Around the world, however, people and communities have also resisted this power grab.
Under the radar, Ireland is helping illegal Israeli settlements do business - Claire Provost

Aug 23, 2024 | qoshe.com | Claire Provost

Ireland has been called the most pro-Palestinian country in Europe. So this might surprise you: at the same time – largely under the radar – it has been playing a pivotal role in connecting businesses in illegal Israeli settlements with consumers around the world. Take the case of Etsy, the popular platform for more “ethical” artisanal and vintage shopping online. The company’s business outside the Americas is handled by its Irish subsidiary.
Under the radar, Ireland is helping illegal Israeli settlements do business

Aug 23, 2024 | msn.com | Claire Provost

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Under the radar, Ireland is helping illegal Israeli settlements do business

Aug 23, 2024 | flipboard.com | Claire Provost

The leading Israeli tech entrepreneur on a mission to topple NetanyahuA recurring theme in Jerusalem since the Oct. 7 attack has been what will come next for Israeli politics when the war in Gaza ends. Though Israeli …
Under the radar, Ireland is helping illegal Israeli settlements do business

Aug 22, 2024 | aljazeera.com | Claire Provost

Ireland has been called the most pro-Palestinian country in Europe. So this might surprise you: at the same time – largely under the radar – it has been playing a pivotal role in connecting businesses in illegal Israeli settlements with consumers around the world. Take the case of Etsy, the popular platform for more “ethical” artisanal and vintage shopping online. The company’s business outside the Americas is handled by its Irish subsidiary.
SILENT COUP

Jun 7, 2024 | observerbd.com | Claire Provost |Matt Kennard

The authors argue that the worlds democracies have been overrun by corporate power, which creates its own institutions, including courts, on a global scale to protect corporate capitalism from almost all opposition…Claire Provost and Matt Kennard display all the qualities investigative journalists need - passion, determination, courage, and a flair for compressing detail into a compelling narrative.
Los amos del mundo

May 10, 2024 | ctxt.es | Claire Provost

Una llamada inesperada Gavin nos cedió una habitación del edificio de medios de comunicación de la Universidad Goldsmiths, en New Cross, al sur de Londres, para usarla como oficina. No tenía ventanas y se venía utilizando como almacén, pero nunca habíamos tenido una oficina para nosotros solos. Ilusionados, tratamos de traer orden al caos, apilando cajas de material periodístico en un lado de la habitación para tener espacio donde sentarnos.
Isla Mauricio: su cuento de hadas es en realidad el del nacimiento de un paraíso fiscal

Dec 4, 2023 | elpais.com | Claire Provost |Matt Kennard

En su día se predijo que Mauricio, la diminuta isla en medio del océano Índico, siempre sería pobre. Carente de recursos naturales, como petróleo o minerales, el economista James Meade, que más tarde ganaría el Premio Nobel, concluyó que sus perspectivas de desarrollo eran básicamente nulas antes de su independencia del Reino Unido en 1968.