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LYNDSEY STONEBRIDGE
NATHAN AKEHURST
STEVE TOMBS AND DAVID WHYTE
REBECCA OMONIRA-OYEKANMI AND IZZY KOKSAL
ANTHONY BARNETT
ADAM RAMSAY
NAWA latest
Net neutrality
Net Neutrality gives equal access to the whole web.
It is now at risk.
Pablo Picasso has words for Colin Powell from the other side of death
That global emotion
The stories people tell about the world shape its future. With military escalation imminent in the Middle East, Globolog tries to distinguish deception from truth in the narratives of globalisation.
Between camps: the story of D.T.
Business is the victim
UN-Nato-EU: Do we have a clue?
The imminence of war is forcing decision and division across the continent. Writing updates almost daily, our Europe editor, looking out from central Europe to its southern and eastern frontiers, finds a shared panorama of concern: Iraq, the US, the uncertain future. The ground beneath Paul Hilders feet seems everywhere to rumble: what is Europe for?
5. Are there alternatives?
The growing power of big business
Witnessing the Truth
Marching to hell
The London march against war of 15 February was impressive but confused, and desperately naïve. It filled the roads with good intentions and we all know where they lead.
One image keeps cropping up in my mind. It is perhaps the only happy image I have of Saturday 15 February. At the mass mud-caked rally in Hyde Park a single rather unhappy-looking Brit with his misted glasses askew was holding a sign Well keep off the grass, Tony, if you keep off the sand. It was perhaps the only witty comment of the day.
The BBC's plans for digital democracy
Being counted
Cherry-picking as the future of the transatlantic alliance
Hairiness sounds like this: an Arts & Cultures exclusive
openDemocracy presents an exclusive advance audio preview of Lycanthropy, Patrick Wolfs debut album. Click below to listen.
Time Passing Through My Hair
In the original Chinese, and also translated especially for openDemocracy by Ho Chee Lick, a poem by one of Chinas finest women poets, Lew Poo Chan.
Growing my hair
Specially commissioned for openDemocracys hair theme, the second of two new poems - the first on shaving; now, long hair.
What would Jed Bartlet do?
War by timetable
Transatlantic meltdown over Iraq: is France villain or hero?
Another world for Gaia and her people
Of the two visions that dominate the World Social Forum, our collective survival depends on the minority view.
Mmmmmm, Oilicious!
Honour, not hubris: speaking out for peace
The Turk in English Renaissance literature
Europes relationship with Turkey a country whose historical legacy is at once imperial, martial, Islamic, Asiatic, and European - has always been problematic, and frequently refracted through culture as well as politics. A Turkish scholar traces the fascinating evolution of an alien but also intimate and surprising figure in the English literary imagination.
From a young Iraqi: an open letter to the peace movement
The huge campaign against war in Iraq offers no comfort to this young Iraqi woman. She has no illusions about US power. But in the face of a people longing for liberation from Saddam's terrible rule, how can the peace movement turn its back?
Afghanistan still burns
A game of shadow boxing: Iraq between past and future
New safety or old danger? UN 'protection areas' for refugees
In place of war, open up Iraq
Can you be against war on Iraq without giving succour to Saddam? This is a new version of an old dilemma, says one of the leading voices of the 1980s Helsinki Citizens Assembly and European Nuclear Disarmament. Activists who opposed the nuclear arms race while supporting democratisation of the Soviet bloc helped carve a space where freedom could grow. Could the same happen in Iraq?
How to Rule the World
Farewell Agnelli - Figure of Another Age
When Giovanni Agnelli died this year he was still Honorary Chairman of the Fiat group. His extraordinary influence marked the growth of post-war Italy, and is essential to understanding the country now. But is his life achievement a model for future businessmen or a glorious memory of an unviable past?