Throughout the last week, Iranian media have been reporting about Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's "odd" campaign style. What I find interesting, and I have never seen
Looks are playing a big role in this years election and it's something easily missed by the foreign journalists who are not familiar with the culture.
For example,
BBC World Affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds has a useful summary of the opening positions on Africa and climate change for Tony Blair's upcoming meeting with George W Bush
At the start of the debate, openDemocracy asked Bill McKibben to write on art, imagination and climate change. In his piece, co-published with our partner Grist.org, McKibben asked
What would the U.S. look like after climate change? Today Tom Englehart publishes a meditation on this by Chip Ward. See Helter skelter in the lower 48.
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For World Environment Day, which this year focusses on cities, BBC online carries readers' images of climate change here.
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Fred Pearce has a first rate piece on the real options under international negotiation. He outlines two main schools of thought:
1. "Equal rights for all"
The formula:
Iran's upcoming presidential election has divided the reformists into two sides: one group believes they should ban the election, another believes in voting to Moeen, the candidate for
Also today on openDemocracy, Nick Robins of Henderson Global Investors asks whether the old financial drivers of fear and greed can be moulded so that they work with the grain
Today on openDemocracy, Climateprediction.net's chief scientist Dave Stainforth outlines some of the basics on what state-of-the art climate modelling can and cannot do, and what
A press release just through from some business leaders at the Green Week in Brussels:
"The Respect Business Leaders Initiative on Climate Change (BLICC)...presented their fourth annual climate
Is the UK government's stance on climate change all wind and no substance? Sometimes it helps to step back a little to appreciate just where one stands.
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