The Robin Hoods of the net challenge the culture of secrecy that has major states in its grip - and thus perform a...

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We should not mourn the passing of the newspaper or the decline of public service broadcasting, but ask instead what...

Is a student movement starting in England in opposition to the Government's cuts and marketisation of higher...

The Egyptian blogosphere has gained real influence in the political process

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As with Italy, it is not just the failure to maintain public standards that damages the nation. A foreign media...

Given continued strikes in Iran and the freeing of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, neither the Burmese nor Iranian...

With peaceful but forceful civic mobilization in 2004, Ukrainians managed to reverse a rigged presidential election....

The principles behind Clare Sambrook's double prize winning reports and why openDemocracy is happy to publish them.

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The eternal campus of the global middle class; the solution to the injunction to love ones fellow; a riskless...

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Why does TechCrunch decide to join the chorus of insinuations about the sexual habits of Wikileaks' Julian Assange?

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Fahad Shah reports on the rising tide of e-protest in Kashmir.

While debate on Assam's future rages in the Assamese media, the issue continues to be ignored by the Indian national press.