President Bush has lost. I dont mean the election that will be up to the American voters on Tuesday 2 November.
What I mean is that the 43rd United
The war in Iraq and how to fight terror on a global scale are playing a defining role in the United States presidential election. It is exceptional that foreign policy
Reinhard Hesse, who was born in 1956, died in Berlin on 11 October 2004 of a brain tumour. A speechwriter for the German Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, he was an important
Anthony Barnett: What were your first reactions on listening to the British prime minister Tony Blairs speech on 28 September at the Labour Party conference in Brighton?
David Marquand:
Three years ago the world changed. The meaning and nature of the change starts with the carnage wrought by fundamentalist terrorism in the heartland of America.
But what happened afterwards
One of the questions of the contemporary world is how should two vastly unequal social groups relate: its wealthy minority, concerned to prevent attacks upon it, and its poor majority,
Paul Hirst died a year ago. He was a tremendously important friend for me: personally, politically and intellectually. For good reasons he didn't use the word comrade. But
openDemocracy sends a free weekly newsletter to all our members. On 3 June it led with a roundtable discussion where six Iraqis debated the future of their country. Our email
Most of you will find the Iraq roundtable published in this edition of openDemocracy difficult to read. Im asking you to give it time. Try and absorb its serious,
So the invasion of Iraq was a set-up.
The Pentagon thought it ran Ahmad Chalabis Iraqi National Congress. In fact, we are now being told (by whom is a
Can the greatest power on earth appreciate what it is like for other people?
The pictures of Iraqis being tortured by Americans could, finally, teach those who run America the
A week after the terrorist bombings on Madrid openDemocracy hosted an intense, international discussion in London. Caspar Henderson wrote a report on it for us. At one point a commentator
