On World Aids Day, a campaign to get development guru and Columbia University professor Jeffey Sachs to run for the US presidency in 2008. I think his chances are probably slimmer than even Hillary or Barak Obama. Or even Bono. But ain't it true? The world would be a different place.
If Scotland really does become an independent republic, I think openDemocracy's editor Isabel Hilton would make a great president.
openAwakening in conjunction with the University of East London is organizing a three-part event series on ‘The Tahrir Square Meme’ to be held at UEL's Dockland Campus.
Our first event is Rap and the Arab Spring.
Read Anthony Barnett's lecture for the Raymond Williams Society and his foreword to the new edition of The Long Revolution:
The Long Revolution Raymond Williams
Jim Gabour Sunday Comics
James Warner Standing Perpendicular, as books do
Markha Valenta Inter Alia: religion, politics, culture
Paul Rogers on Global security
Li Datong on China from the inside
Mary Kaldor on Human security
Daniele Archibugi on Cosmopolitan democracy
