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The politics of poppy day

Published on: 25 January 2010

Written by: Lucy Noakes All articles by Lucy Noakes

Following the threatened demonstration of Islam4UK in Wootton Bassett, Lucy Noakes explores the fraught history of...

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Dolphins as Persons?

Published on: 22 January 2010

Written by: Margi Prideaux All articles by Margi Prideaux

The bedrock of our assumptions about human preeminence is shifting as scientists and philosophers explore the social...

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Kenya: combatting radical Islam

Published on: 20 January 2010

Written by: John Onyando All articles by John Onyando

Before Kenya can succeed in stemming the radicalisation of its Muslim minority, the US will have to change its Somali policy

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In praise of hybridity

Published on: 18 January 2010

Written by: Ales Debeljak All articles by Ales Debeljak

Ever since Ricardo, the defense of international trade has been about productive efficiency. But much more important...

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Belarus: love and paranoia

Published on: 15 January 2010

Written by: Natalia Leshchenko All articles by Natalia Leshchenko

A Belarusian novel encourages citizens to question their own role in perpetuating the regime that governs them. The...

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A Manchester of the mind

Published on: 13 January 2010

Written by: Christopher Harvie All articles by Christopher Harvie

The Guardian newspaper has its intellectual and moral roots in the northern English city of Manchester. The distance...

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Is shopping all bad?

Published on: 10 January 2010

Written by: Neal Lawson All articles by Neal Lawson

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Does environmentalism destroy the world?

Published on: 7 January 2010

Written by: Tony Curzon Price All articles by Tony Curzon Price

openDemocracy and Resurgence launch the Dictionary of Ethical Politics to explore how our political concepts can...

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The Kindle era

Published on: 5 January 2010

Written by: John Jackson All articles by John Jackson

The author looks forward to the 'Kindle Era', predicting that the Kindle will facilitate self publishing online, and...

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The imaginary enemy

Published on: 5 January 2010

Written by: Sarah Haaij All articles by Sarah Haaij

Hoxha's bunkers remind Albanian's of the destructive paranoia of their recent past. But they are being re-used and...

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France: identity in question

Published on: 11 December 2009

Written by: Patrice de Beer All articles by Patrice de Beer

A "great debate" over French national identity is compromised by its politicised character and exclusionary...

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Moscow calling! St Petersburg loses its TV

Published on: 3 December 2009

Written by: Dmitri Travin All articles by Dmitri Travin

Control of St.Petersburg’s television station, once free-thinking and vibrant, has been handed to producers from...

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WIN A TOM PAINE T-SHIRT

Published on: 3 December 2009

Written by: ourKingdom editors All articles by ourKingdom editors

Philosophy Football's T-shirt design features these superb words of Tom Paine ' the construction of government ought...

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HIV: both the cause and the consequence of violence against women

Published on: 1 December 2009

Written by: Silvia Petretti All articles by Silvia Petretti

In the UK the number of women living with HIV has been steadily growing since the beginning of the epidemic. Newly...

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The challenges for women of HIV and gender violence

Published on: 1 December 2009

Written by: Marion Bowman All articles by Marion Bowman

The hinterland of acknowledging and dealing with the links between gender violence and HIV/AIDS is mostly unexplored...

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Ukraine: on the bumpy road to democracy

Published on: 29 November 2009

Written by: Andreas Umland All articles by Andreas Umland

Through the Orange Revolution in 2004 Ukraine turned its back on authoritarian politics and started on the bumpy...

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Why do Americans love Sarah Palin?

Published on: 23 November 2009

Written by: Ruth Rosen All articles by Ruth Rosen

Why does America take Palin seriously? The answer lies in gender politics, and in the history of right-wing...

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The openDemocracy walk

Published on: 11 May 2006

Written by: David Hayes All articles by David Hayes

The Clerkenwell area of London, a place rich in history - religious, architectural, literary, political - was...

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Back to the future: the Danish cartoons, liberalism and global Islam

Published on: 12 April 2006

Written by: Faisal Devji All articles by Faisal Devji

Muslim protests over the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed marked the arrival of a force challenging liberal...

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