If you want to pay your respects, but can't make it to Rome, you should light a virtual candle on Beliefnet's website. Exceptionally cute technology.
Just when he thought it was safe to pass go and collect another two million dollars, Michael Crichton is the target of big wet raspberries from the science and activism
Ahead of openDemocracy's debate on the politics of climate change, which starts on 21 April, we're creating a new dedicated space for the climate blog, tentatively
For the world’s one billion Catholics and for the non-Catholics who watch, the passing of Pope John Paul 11 will be an historic moment. Few Popes have been more
Gamersloot.com employs a room full of young Romanian men £70 a month to play games 10 hours a day. Video games like Everquest or World of Warcraft are virtual
This came through the grapevine (email) from Danny Postel:
New Progressive Foreign Policy Blog
The Security and Peace Institute (SPI), a joint initiative of the Center for American Progress and
The United States has 17% of the share capital and 100% of the power when it comes to appointing the new head of the World Bank. Not everyone is wild
Channel 4 are setting up a site that allows you to check the facts behind the statements made by politicians, chaotic_mind notes in our forums. C4 claims that the
Here's an interesting innovation in online activism:
A whole bunch of American organisations (most of them faith-based) are getting their members together 30 March to write a "
There's a webcast up of the debate on privatisation of social security that openDemocracy co-sponsored at the New York Society for Ethical Culture with Paul Krugman, Mike Tanner,
A vivid and exciting eye-witness account of the revolution in Kyrgyzstan on March 24th by Elnura Osmonalieva from Thinking-East. Protestors stormed the White House in Bishkek and ousted the president.
From American Prospect Online:
"Sudan's central government may be orchestrating bloody attacks on humanitarian workers in Darfur...
"According to Eric Reeves... the central government in Khartoum