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
Times are a-changing in China. From Shanghaiist:
In Bejing, a gay website has recently been started by the Chinese government. The site promotes HIV/AIDS awareness and has a chatroom
By Jessica Reed
Tonight the American channel HBO will air the first part of film director Spike Lee's documentary on Katrina's aftermath titled 'When the
by Jessica Reed
This blog entry was recently tracked down in the abyssal blogosphere made our day at openDemocracy - we love well-constructed and intelligent criticism, but also take into
The alleged bomb plot uncovered by British police last week has revealed a sharp divergence of opinion between different groups of the British body politic, and some interesting polls have
By Jessica Reed
As a young French citizen and a voter, I am very excited.
You see, the 2007 presidential elections are slowly getting closer: they always mean a dramatic
By Jessica Reed
When back in 2002 Hossein Derakhshan (also known as 'Hoder') started to blog and regularly update his webpage titled 'Editor: myself' in Farsi,
In the media biz it's often considered a mark of success to get criticism from both left and right - as if that in itself were an expression
Ricken Patel is a fellow of ResPublica and an organiser of the CeasefireCampaign. Anthony Barnett, editor-in-chief of openDemocracy, talks to him.
Anthony Barnett: How successful has the “ceasefire campaign” been
By Anthony Barnett
There is now an agreed UN Security Resolution calling for a ceasefire in Lebanon.
And over quarter of a million people from nearly 150 countries have signed
As you can now see, 'oD today' has just updated its blogroll. Some of the blogs we picked are funny and provocative, some are promoting healthy political debates
