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Published in: openSecurityObama to announce Afghan troop increase within daysPresident Obama to make crucial decision on Afghan war soon. Israel, Hamas close to prisoner exchange deal....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPublic service guarantees
Discussion of Britain's public service guarantees involved predictable fretting about "opening the floodgates to the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhere is Scotland going? Foreign lands and forgotten places
The future of Britain is at stake as the country heads towards an election year: a recent Scottish by-election gave...
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Published in: openSecurityBorder zones and insecurity in the Americas
Border zones are potential incubators of conflict. Criminal gangs exploit weak state presence to forge a parallel...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGraham Allen says it as it is
The long time Labour MP for Nottingham North issues a bitter, swinging assessment of the pernicious collusion of...
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Published in: oDRRussia's Muslim Strategy - foreign policy
The Kremlin holds that Muslim countries are Russia’s natural allies against the West. Yet this policy is riven with...
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Published in: openSecurityLinks between the Taliban and al Qaeda have grown stronger
Rahimullah Yousufzai, the well-known Peshawar editor of The News International, has been covering Afghanistan and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAlien invasion!
I have just seen this and it seems all the more relevant today. No doubt if they try it again, it will be tasered first!
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe E.U. as a surveillance society
The EU is developing a full spectrum dominance system of surveillance combing domestic and military, according to a...
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Published in: 50.50Violence against women in the UK: a map of gaps
The shift of funding from central to local authorities has led to the loss of essential services and...
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Published in: openSecurityRwanda’s human rights failings exposed in Commonwealth bid
Rwanda’s Commonwealth bid meets opposition on human rights grounds. Iran’s opposition resolute in the face of...
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Published in: 50.50Why do Americans love Sarah Palin?
Why does America take Palin seriously? The answer lies in gender politics, and in the history of right-wing...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDemarchy – can the people rule?
In a small nation on the Western margin of the British Isles, amidst sheep and rocks and old mines, the world’s...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Afghan anvil: breaking the Indo-Pakistani deadlock?
Can India and Pakistan resolve their differences and follow a course of enlightened self-interest in Afghanistan?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe future of England
David Wildgoose's address to the Campaign for an English Parliament
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Published in: oDRKremlin spin on the Orange Revolution
On the fifth anniversary of the Orange Revolution, with presidential elections in Ukraine imminent, Andreas Umland...
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Published in: openSecurityBeijing implicated in US cyber espionage report
A report to the US Congress accuses Beijing of increasing online espionage, the Prime Minister of Belgium has been...
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Published in: HomeIs aid working? Is this the right question to be asking?“Is it working?” is the question most commonly asked of aid. In response, aid agencies feed the public a diet of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKShocking new threat to web freedom
The UK government wants to give itself dangerous new powers to protect copyright
