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James Galbraith talks about Paul Krugman's NYT article, "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?",  the academic discipline after the crash, the forgotten traditions in economics, the economics and law of fraud and much else over breakfast at the Goodenough Club

Listen to a podcast of the openDemocracy Russia evening on 2 July 2009 in London. The editor of openDemocracy's Russia Section, Susan Richards discusses her new book Lost and Found in Russia with the scholar Anatol Lieven.

The evening was also part celebration of the first anniversary of openDemocracy's Russia site and openDemocracy's editor-in-chief Tony Curzon Price introduces the event with a reference to that...

In part two, Blumenthal dissects the Iraq project - an "ideological dreamland" characterised by incompetence. "green zone of the mind" then on to torture and detention policy, the emergence of John McCain, unique challenge for the next president, and the end of an era

Sidney Blumenthal, author of The Strange Death of Republican America, talks to openDemocracy. Listen to parts one and two

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Jane Gabriel meets the actors and writers of the Cairo-based Women and Memory forum. Listen now

Meeting women's rights activists in Salvador, Brazil, Jane Gabriel finds there can be no talk of empowerment without first tackling endemic violence. Listen now

UN Special Rapporteur Dr Yakin Ertürk calls for action now to end violence against women. Listen now

Hussaina Abdullah spoke to Jane Gabriel about rebuilding civil society in Sierra Leone in the aftermath of civil war. Listen now

The basic rights of women in the developing world are being ignored in the battle against poverty

What has happened to the argument for women's human rights in international policy? Rosalind Eyben of IDS, Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay of the Royal Tropical Insititute in the Netherlands and Helen O'Connell of One World Action spoke to Jane Gabriel. Listen now

Hibaaq Osman on dignity and violence in the middle east. Plus: blogging 16 days

Afaf Jabiri talks about taking on the Jordanian government over women's rights. Plus: blogging 16 days

The UN's John Holmes on confronting sexual violence worldwide
Plus: blogging 16 days

Listen now to Takyiwaa Manuh on her work to empower women in Ghana
plus: tackling domestic violence in Africa

Faustina Fynn Nyame talks about returning to her native Ghana to campaign for womens' right to safe abortion.  Plus: blogging 16 days

openDemocracy speaks to those on the frontline of the fight to end a global scandal. Listen now