Official Chinese media were not allowed to report on recent anti-Japan protests in Shanghai, and the word 'march' has even been censored on popular Chinese instant messaging software.
On the contents page of the edition of The New Yorker containing the first of Elizabeth Kolbert's articles on climate change (see previous post, The art of good
Elizabeth Kolbert has the first of three articles on climate change in the 25 April The New Yorker.
A shorty, pithy interview with Kolbert is available online. Her article for
The 22 April Daily Grist notes the launch of Bill McKibben's call to imagine. For the next six weeks, openDemocracy will publish work by poets, artists, musicians and
The May edition of Mother Jones, As The World Burns, includes this fascinating chart of think tanks that receive funding from ExxonMobil.
Bill McKibben says more writers and artists should get to grips with climate change.
What will he think of Art Not Oil, which wants to encourage artists to "create
At 8am London time on 22 April, which in the US is 'Earth Day', the European Climate Exchange opened for business. The first trade was reported a few
“Interesting, but not satisfying, I want to know your view”. This was Solana Larsen on my blog before last. Quite right: blogs are about attitude not just reporting. But to
openDemocracy launches what we hope will be the world’s first truly global debate on the politics of climate change. Why? To find out more, read the new openDemocracy blog
I won't say the BS word anymore. But for those who wish they knew the 'facts' behind UK political rhetoric, Channel 4 has started a new
“I tried desperately hard to reach a second UN resolution”. When this failed, “I decided to remove him”. It is preposterous for Tony Blair to claim that he removed Saddam.
openDemocracy's editor, Isabel Hilton is going to be on BBC Radio 4's programme, Thinking Allowed at 4pm (GMT). You can listen online wherever you are, live
