The southern suburbs are utterly destroyed; comprehensively; devastatingly. A face-mask for half my visit given to me by a roving Hizbollah member didn’t protect me from the dust;
By Malcolm Siret
Governing bodies appear to be abusing anti-terror laws in order to control civic freedoms, allowing for the suppression of opinion or alternative view (should these views
A rare event slipped past most of the western media this week: a member of South Africa's political elite dared to acknowledge the elephant in the corner (that
By Jessica Reed
In her recent column 'Anonymity on the net' Becky Hogge describes Darknets as private file-sharing networks which makes online dealings very difficult to trace
The one thing that people on both sides of the current Middle-Eastern conflict can agree on is that media coverage of the war is hopelessly biased in favour of
By Jessica Reed
Just as 200 Holocaust cartoons are currently displayed at a Iranian museum in Tehran, voices and opinions about the event are diverse and eclectic.
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As Patrice de Beer wrote last week, France has received a boost to its diplomatic image through its work in securing UN resolution 1701, which brought a halt to fighting
By Jessica Reed
Remember this oD today blog entry about Josh Wolf, the blogger/freelance reporter who was thrown in jail after he refused to hand out some video footage
By Malcolm Siret
After supplying Israel with £9bn worth of 'high tech weapons' in its war against Hizbollah - preceded by the Lebanese organisation capturing two Israeli soldiers on
By Becky Hogge
Late last week, the UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs was the first UK government department to put its policies out to the people
By Maryann Bird
In the wake of the purported terrorist plot to bring down a number of transatlantic airliners (in which 11 British Muslims have been charged so far), fear
By Jessica Reed
A few days after openDemocracy's Patrice De Beer pointed out that the War in Lebanon could be an opportunity for the French diplomacy, the Elysee
