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Periódicos racistas, noticias falsas - ¿ya has tenido suficiente? openDemocracy se enfrenta a los déspotas del mundo, da voz a los más débiles y promueve un debate sensible e inteligente. Únete a nosotros hoy.

por Peter Oborne, openDemocracy Opendemocracy, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Yanis Varoufakis, Brian Eno, Ellie Mae O'Hagan, Caroline Lucas, Paul Mason y Olesya Khromeychuk

/ 24 Jan 2017

Let's take back our media

Racist newspapers, fake news – had enough? openDemocracy takes on the world’s bullies, gives voice to the powerless and hosts sensitive, intelligent debate. Join us today.

By Peter Oborne, openDemocracy Opendemocracy, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Yanis Varoufakis, Brian Eno, Ellie Mae O'Hagan, Caroline Lucas, Paul Mason and Olesya Khromeychuk

/ 20 Jan 2017

In Trump’s America, you can’t lecture China any more

We won't be hearing too many lectures from American intellectuals about China being on the “wrong side of history", as former president Bill Clinton put it.

By openDemocracy Opendemocracy and Daniel A. Bell

/ 9 Nov 2016

What do mayors do when they get together? A look at the 2016 Global Mayoral Forum

Mayors from over 20 different countries met in the Philippines to discuss the challenges of running a city in the twenty-first century. Here is a rare taste of what mayors talk about when they meet.

By openDemocracy Opendemocracy and Joint Migration and Development Initiative

/ 3 Oct 2016

El capitalismo, motor de la guerra contra las drogas

En las Américas, con la excusa de la lucha anti-drogas, las políticas gubernamentales llevan al terror y al desplazamiento. Esta violencia terrorífica favorece al capital transnacional de una manera abrumadora. English

por openDemocracy Opendemocracy y Dawn Paley

/ 17 Mar 2016

Is capitalism fuelling the war on drugs?

In the Americas, state policies, under cover of an anti-narcotics struggle, lead to terror and displacement. And this terrifying violence overwhelmingly favours transnational capital. Español

By openDemocracy Opendemocracy and Dawn Paley

/ 16 Mar 2016

Violence comes home: an interview with Arun Kundnani

ISIS’s recruits are not corrupted by ideology but by the end of ideology. More radicalisation, in the genuine sense of the word, is the solution, not the problem.

By openDemocracy Opendemocracy and Arun Kundnani

/ 22 Nov 2015

Once I Entered a Garden: a foretaste of the 2014 Open City Docs documentary film festival, with Israeli filmmaker, Avi Mograbi

openDemocracy welcomes a new cooperation with Open City Docs Fest, which is showing Avi Mograbi's latest film, Once I Entered a Garden (Nichnasti pa’am lagam) next Monday, in London's Clapham Picturehouse, where he will be in conversation with Seth Anziska. Here, watch two clips, as Avi Mograbi te

By openDemocracy Opendemocracy and Avi Mograbi

/ 27 Mar 2014

China bloggers debate Taiwan

The presidential election in Taiwan on 22 March 2008 was a major event on the island, but it also had an unexpected impact on mainland China, stirring the minds of

By openDemocracy Opendemocracy and Bob Chen

/ 8 Apr 2008

Hrant Dink: an openDemocracy tribute

In his first article for openDemocracy Hrant Dink observed that "the relationship between Turkey and the EU is governed less by reciprocal desire than by fear". His conclusion:

By Anthony Barnett, openDemocracy Opendemocracy and Isabel Hilton

/ 19 Jan 2007

Losing hope in Iraq: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

Introduced by Jon Bright On a first impression, you might never know where he had been. Tallish, bearded, wearing a plain scarf and jacket despite the hot weather, he seemed

By openDemocracy Opendemocracy and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

/ 31 Jul 2006

Ramin Jahanbegloo: an open letter to Iran's president

Open Letter to President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad CC: Chief Justice, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Mr President Ahmadinejad: We the undersigned appeal for the immediate,

By openDemocracy Opendemocracy and Danny Postel

/ 23 May 2006