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# oD's open structure releases energy: April 2 - 8 on openDemocracy
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ods-open-structure-releases-energy-april-2-8-on-opendemocracy/
- Published: 2012-04-16T09:04:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T00:57:14.000Z
- Description: The Arab Awakening brings out the energy in oD’s open structure, as a dedicated debate space is supported by ongoing sections: from 50:50 Lindsey Hilsum and Nadia Taher, reporting on women in Libya and Egypt; from openSecurity with Sylvaine Bulle’s analysis of Israel’s extraordinary tent movement
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- Tags: The Week in 1 Minute, #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 17:19, #appended-excerpt

We have a weakness for practical ideas. [Hendrik Tiesinga](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/bcb241fdb1&ref=opendemocracy.net)’s is a big one, a sensible political economy, with a basic wage! [Angela Phillips](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/adee8de6c5&ref=opendemocracy.net) tackles journalism, its survival and how to pay for it as citizens become producers as well as consumers. Her message finds a warm echo in openDemocracy's own new era. As someone who gets this summary you are already a supporter, so forward it on to someone new and [ask them to join us](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/a095069f07&ref=opendemocracy.net).

  
The use of existing economic power to dissolve social bonds and entrench inequality alarms OurKingdom: with [Stuart Weir](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/ca00fc25cc&ref=opendemocracy.net) (on privatisation-as-enclosure), and [Colin Leys and Barbara Harriss-White](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/10966dacf2&ref=opendemocracy.net) (on the commodification of everything), while [Melissa Benn](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/312d4c8109&ref=opendemocracy.net)(on education-as-business) joins in from 50:50.

  
OK also looks at the Falklands/Malvinas 30 years after the war between Britain and Argentina: [Anthony Barnett](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/5cc9c79702&ref=opendemocracy.net) calls for peace,[Gerry Hassan](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/8cfbcbff06&ref=opendemocracy.net) says the war shows what kind of country Britain remains, [Peter Presland](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/1c673a2a2e&ref=opendemocracy.net) sets out clearly London’s despicable and infuriating treatment of the Chagos islanders to illuminate British hypocrisy and Jeremy Fox offers a sweeping history of [how Argentina came to be](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/24ece56a4b&ref=opendemocracy.net). Another symposium on the Falklands and the birth of Thatcherism is promised.

  
Elsewhere there are signs of political unfreezing: in Russia, where in oDR [Alexei Levinson](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/fbb9964692&ref=opendemocracy.net), [Grigorii Golorov](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/4c59ac987c&ref=opendemocracy.net), and [Dmitri Travin](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/5b44fab56d&ref=opendemocracy.net) assess the protest upsurge and a returning Putin’s options; in Burma, [Joakim Kreutz](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/2867e925a9&ref=opendemocracy.net) advises caution over Aung San Suu Kyi’s victory; and in France, [Nicolas Lebourg](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/e5e9e919aa&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [Patrice de Beer](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/d0924d7ffc&ref=opendemocracy.net) (who surveys the Presidential campaign) peer through the atmosphere after the Toulouse tragedy.

  
[Paul Rogers’](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/fe366a87ed&ref=opendemocracy.net) column returns to the prospect of an Israeli attack on Iran, and coolly charts the likely scale of a war of ‘targeting’.

  
The personal dimension is with us in tributes to figures from the cultural and academic worlds: the Palestinian-Israeli theatre director [Juliano Mer Khamis](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/55c2a6cb00&ref=opendemocracy.net) and the Bangladeshi scholar [Jalal Almagir](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/83a6de68d0&ref=opendemocracy.net), and [Ali Gohar](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/ee249d1213&ref=opendemocracy.net) finds in an Afghan custom a resource for the future.

  
**Three links not to miss:**  
  
Gregory Shaya on the [Myth of the Fourth Estate](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/fc2cb199a2&ref=opendemocracy.net)

Evan Osnos on [the lunar eclipse of election year, 2012](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/ea6edbeaf2&ref=opendemocracy.net)

Robert Haddick on [Syria as prologue](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/80d1ec10e5&ref=opendemocracy.net)

The Arab Awakening brings out the energy in oD’s open structure, as a [dedicated debate space](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/3df56a40a9&ref=opendemocracy.net) is supported by ongoing sections: from 50:50 [Lindsey Hilsum](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/ec7a40022a&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [Nadia Taher](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/f55376fb08&ref=opendemocracy.net), reporting on women in Libya and Egypt; from openSecurity with Sylvaine Bulle’s analysis of Israel’s [extraordinary tent movement](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/ade1a0e6ef&ref=opendemocracy.net) as it seeks to end their ‘state of exception’, and Mariano Aguirre’s [wise words on Syria](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/d4e508e10f&ref=opendemocracy.net); [Bushra Saaed](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/603bebd53c&ref=opendemocracy.net) senses the dread in Damascus as he puts China’s diplomatic stance in context, and the weight of the past is explored by [Hazem Saghieh](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/070d1d78a2/7262321cfa/be01462dd0&ref=opendemocracy.net).