Over 2,000 protesters blockaded Faslane nuclear base today, demanding Britain adhere to its commitments to decommission its nuclear arsenal. While police clashed with a handful of anarchists in central
The Prime Minister is not famous for reading policy papers. It is not that he is a potato, it is just that he prefers meeting on the couch and doing
Akbar Ganji has been on hunger strike for 19 days and he has written a powerful Letter from the prison just in case if he dies there, he wants the
Over 225,000 people are wending their ways from the Meadows in Edinburgh, and the air is filled with the detritus of international financial demands. Billy Bragg has just sung
Frankly, I am terrified. Nuggets of wisdom offered by my fellow passengers on the Globalise Resistance train to Edinburgh today watered seeds of discontent that were planted in my head
On Monday at midnight I begin a ten hour journey from London Victoria to Edinburgh with the intention of spending the next three days learning more about what the G8
Africa will be high on the agenda at the G8 summit, but who's perspective will we all be getting on it? Panos London will be darned if we
Panos London announced yesterday a G8 blog by 8 African journalists from Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Sierra Leone and Tanzania. Hoping to show the "human perspective" of G8,
The Live8 concert series starts tomorrow (July 2) and the media frenzy is in full swing. The concert is represented publicly by Sir Bob Geldof, the rock star who brought
Iranian pro-reform movement never managed to communicate directly with the outside world. Most of the content produced in Iran in English language was done by conservatives. Almost none of
Morning all – or, if not all, Steven. I am one of Open Democracy's team of crack reporters (the one in the tent, by the way) heading for Gleneagles
Hello everyone,
Unless I'm looking at this wrong, it seems no-one else has yet found it in their hearts to try and bore you to death on
