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Published in: openSecurityIsraeli settlement announcement stalls peace drive in middle eastIsraeli settlement announcement creates further tension. Thai protests as PM refuses ultimatum. Public frustration...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCameron and the end of politics: not so much grilled as marinated
Nina Simone must have been spinning in her grave. Her magnificent, impassioned voice is now but a soundtrack to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe future of the left and neo-liberalism's appeal as a liberation movement
Can Scotland chart a path apart from neo-liberal Britain? And are parts of the left still stuck in their comfort...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe age of weThe Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society launches its report calling for a radical devolution of power and...
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Published in: HomeBarack Obama and America
An inspiring candidate has become a failing president. But a comparison with Lyndon B Johnson shows that the reasons...
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Published in: openSecurityPalestinian-Israeli talks in the balance as IDF locks down West Bank
The IDF locks down parts of the occupied West Bank as uncertainty looms over talks between the Palestinian Authority...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTen reasons to feel uneasy
The launch of a new book brings together the reasons to fear for the future of liberty in Britain
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Published in: HomeClimate science: a peace-studies lesson
The doubters of global warming are emboldened by their new ability - as in the “climategate” affair - to put climate...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCan lobbying colour our whole UK democracy?
One of the really insistent questions raised throughout the Convention of Modern Liberty one year ago was the one...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDon't sleep through the dawn of a new era in politics
Let the Battle for Politics commence.
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Published in: 50.50Putting money where our mouths areLyric Thompson, in her last report from New York, writes that as we close the 54th UN Commission on the Status of...
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Published in: 50.50Haven't we said so already?If the actions recommended by the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action on Equality, Development and Peace were honoured,...
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Published in: HomeSpain's politics of memory
The Madrid train-bombings on 11 March 2004 provoked a dignified outpouring of collective grief. But the moment was...
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Published in: HomeTurkey and Ergenekon: from farce to tragedy
An epic military, political, and security scandal continues to absorb Turkey. The affair's latest bizarre sub-plots...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe long war on stop and searchTomas Mowlam reports on a six-year court battle surrounding Britain's flawed stop and search legislation
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Published in: openSecurityEfforts to revive middle east peace talks overshadowed by Israeli settlement construction in east Jerusalem
Efforts to revive middle east peace talks overshadowed by Israeli settlement construction in east Jerusalem. Tibet...
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Published in: HomePeacekeepers still needed in Central African Republic
Photographs from a forgotten conflict… Anna Husarska argues that more attention to the Central African Republic is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMPs WANTED: FOR CRIMES AGAINST DEMOCRACY
Power2010's campaign to bring change to UK politics is stepping up a gear.
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Published in: HomeHizbollah vs Israel: the coming clash
A shifting balance of calculation in the middle east makes Lebanon’s Hizbollah movement more confident in its...
