By Jessica Reed
Ingrid Betancourt, once the anti-corruption Green-party candidate for Colombia's presidential elections, has been held hostage by the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Columbia ( the Revolutionnary Armed
By Tan Copsey
A little update from the front. You’ll like this really. Apparently retiring Senate Majority leader, Bill Frist, has hit upon a brilliant idea to solve the
By Alexis Hood
Yesterday the New York Times took on oil giant, Trafigura. The paper reports that Trafigura used Abidjan in the Ivory Coast as a dumping ground for highly
By Kanishk Tharoor
Astor Place: once the gateway into New York punk, crack and the bubbling East Village; now home to $12,000,000 "living units".
In cities,
By Jessica Reed
We blogged about him cycling. We blogged about him wanting to make a difference for the environment. Let us introduce you to WebCameron, David Cameron's
By Jessica Reed
Linda Grant, a writer who has been previously published by openDemocracy, just won the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage.
The British journalist and writer
By Tan Copsey
George Monbiot’s new book Heat poses a number of challenging questions. Among targets are the usual suspects, including representatives of major emitters. However after reading a
By Jessica Reed
Think-tanks used to be a very rare breed in France, but for the last decade they have starting to appear in the political and academic landscape, slowly
by Kanishk Tharoor
For Basque separatists, who earlier this week vowed to persist with their armed struggle for full independence from Spain and the creation of a Basque socialist state,
By Josh Gregory
At college I used to boil eggs in my kettle, not because I wanted to save energy, but because I was lazy. This site takes the concept
By Jessica Reed
Another 'Terror law' was voted by the US Congress yesterday. Its vagueness and lack of precise definitions makes room for the 'tough questionning'
By Josh Gregory
In the context of environmental problems, we have grown accustomed to expect bad news, so I was surprised to read in the newspapers this morning that the
