The web blog community is calling for bloggers worldwide to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian web diarists, on Free Mojtaba and Arash Day.
See the Committee to Protect Bloggers
In America, billionaire Donald Trump stars in the reality television programme “The Apprentice”. Attractive and devilishly ambitious business rookies compete in tasks that help Donald distinguish the winners from the
When John Berger wrote his 'ten dispatches' about endurance in the face of the walls that surround poverty (around two billion of us live on $2 a day)
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us…that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish
If you do a Google search on "fashionable", Dominic Hilton is up at the top, ahead of the shoes and walking sticks.
His article on fashionable anti-Americanism has
For the past year or so, openDemocracy's New York office has be co-sponsoring events with the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
If you happen to be in
FT's the Observer was proud to announce yesterday that it was their idea to put Paul Krugman and Michael Tanner (Cato) together for the NYSEC/openDemocracy event on
Today the Kyoto Protocol comes into force, and new political battles start.
The Protocol is intended to be a first step in limiting man made emissions of greenhouse gases contributing
Here's a pretty interesting critique of the World Social Forum from Alex Callinicos and Chris Nineham in the UK on ZNet. They mention how Lula's grand
Moving on from Davos, what real hope is there for Africa in 2005? The UK's Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have had some success already bringing the issue
Previous posts in this blog speak of the Porto Alegre Consensus Manifesto. Basically, this is a World Social Forum document that was drafted and signed by 19 high profile thinkers.
Could the torch of progress have passed from Porto Alegre to Davos? Davos! Four years ago, Davos was the gathering of a neo-liberal elite who apparently believed that their networking
