What? Again? Get ready for the third and final leg of the 2006 World Social Forum in Karachi, Pakistan. Their website is open for registrations until the 28th, and the
There is a nice article on the World Social Forum in Caracas by Daniel Aldana today in Maisonneuve. He essentially comes to the same conclusion I did in my article
Now's the time to sign up for the third stage of the polycentric World Social Forum in Karachi, Pakistan. The deadline is February 28th, and the Forum will
Apparently there is not much difference between a 78 year old lawyer and a quail, as Dick Cheney found while hunting on Saturday in Texas. It would seem that he
The cartoon row rages on, increasingly generating more heat than light. As Neal Ascherson wrote in openDemocracy facts have been in shorter supply than emotion and grandstanding rhetoric in this
Via Doug Ireland (author of a recent oD article on the cartoons): The editor of the New York Press arts and entertainment newspaper has resigned because the owners of his
The ‘will they/ won’t they strike Iran’ debate is necessarily taking into account the Iraq debacle. Norman Solomon addresses the main arguments against the likelihood of military action in
Oh dear. Take a look at Jyllands-Posten's cultural editor Flemming Rose on CNN (scroll down for link) saying he doesn't regret publishing the cartoons (note
'The Third International Forum on Free Knowledge' is currently being held in Venezuela. Most interesting is the proposition that the Venezuelan Revolution "is perhaps the first revolution
In this week's Spectator (web pages are closed to subscribers only) their political editor Peter Oborne comments on David Cameron's Demos speech. Oborne has welcomed the
What should the world make of the new Tory leader, the first for ten years who might really win a general election? I wrote an assessment after hearing him talk,
It's ironic that it would be cartoons about Mohammed that got the world's blood boiling, when the tone of the public debate in Denmark for years
