By Jessica Reed
His readers were surprised. Last tuesday Josh Wolf's blog, 'The revolution will be televised' was not updated by the young independent journalist-blogger, but
By Malcolm Siret
Following the British government's decision to take legal action against Craig Murray for publicising information obtained using the Freedom of Information Act (the documents disclosed
As of August 1st, the Government of Lebanon’s Higher Relief Council reported 828 people killed, 3240 injured and more than 913,760 (a quarter of the population) displaced or
By Jessica Reed
Last Tuesday Britain discovered the tragic story of Gina Satvir Singh, a young ex-bride caught in an arranged marriage for months in 2004. She had been routinely
Last wednesday a somewhat inapt room in north London was crammed full of members of civil rights groups, gathered to discuss one fundamental mutual aim: the launch of a campaign
Last night, openDemocracy won the New Statesman New Media Award for independent information. Isabel and Anthony are away this week, so I went along to collect it.Here's
The transcripts (pdf) of the latest meeting of the International Council (the overarching body of the WSF) in March include an interesting discussion between IC members on the learnings from
By Malcolm Siret
The BBC headline reads: 'War crimes could have been committed in Lebanon, Israel and Gaza, a senior UN official has said'.
There is no question
About 100 student journalists will be attending a summit on international news this weekend organised by Americans for Informed Democracy and supported by openDemocracy. It's not too late
Preparations for the 2007 WSF in Kenya are underway. The Nairobi team have their website up and running (!) and have just initiated an "online consultation" of the "
When the president of the People’s Democratic Republic of Congo wants to make sure he is reelected, he does two things. First, he takes control of the state media
By Jennifer Trak
Downloading music from the internet has become second nature for most people. But now you can't swing a cat on the web anymore without hitting
