A new world order
The global power-balance is shifting. The G20 is just a phase. It's time for a Global Strategic Council ====
Will British libel law kill net free speech?
How UK libel threatens global web free speech
Are street journalists an answer to ailing journalists?
Are new journalism sites - like award-winning Demotix - publications, agencies or political actors?
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Street journalists as an answer to ailing journalism?
Tamara Witschge
Are new journalism sites - like award-winning Demotix - publications, agencies or political actors?
Will British libel law kill net free speech
How UK libel threatens global web free speech
Fit to be ended
Edward Davey
A sex-tourism case in Cartagena, Colombia, points to a serious regional and global problem
The curse of commodities
Oil-fuelled growth with child prostitution in Timor L'Este
Mon 2 March 2009
Iran’s tide, global sea
The epic moment of 1979 writes a unique - and unfinished - chapter in the story of revolution
Tuesday 3 March - Thu 5 March
We are a better people
Virtue and joy at the Convention on Modern Liberty
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The CCTV fire: a voice without restraint
A young writer's bold response to a Beijing blaze embodies the spirit the new China needs
5-6 March
The US, Iraq, and oil: a choice of futures
A fusion of energy strategy and military policy in Washington could yet end the long war
Women's rights in an economic crisis
At CSW 2009, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women has much to tell 50.50
6-9 March
The US, Iraq, and oil: a choice of futures
A fusion of energy strategy and military policy in Washington could yet end the long war
Democracy and the Muslim world
An old argument over the compatibility of Islam and democracy is being transformed
Why Hamas is no ‘extremist'
The Western dichotomy between Islamic 'moderates' and 'extremists' is misconceived
The Left and Hamas
Misreading resistance in the Middle East, the European Left risks consigning itself to irrelevancy 12th Mar
America’s politics of defence
The fate of the US's huge defence budget is a domestic drama with global resonance 13th Mar
Brazil global, Brazil local
President Lula visits Washington at a moment of contest over his domestic political legacy Mon 16 March 2009
Russia's undefended migrant workers
Russia's vast migrant workforce faces mounting abuse, reveals a new report from Human Rights Watch
Diary of an Uzbek Gastarbeiter
Once a physics teacher in Uzbekistan, Shukhrat has to work as a builder in Russia to keep his family alive
Abused and undefended
Russia's vast migrant workforce faces mounting abuse, reveals a new report from Human Rights Watch
Diary of an Uzbek Gastarbeiter
Once a physics teacher in Uzbekistan, Shukhrat has to work as a builder in Russia to keep his family alive
There is no zombie free lunch
The Obama-Bernanke financial plans will drain life and energy from the rest of the planet 23 Mar 2009
The Kremlin's virtual squad
In recent years Russian political internet forums have become prey to the attentions of the Kremlin's "G Team" Mar 24
Madagascar: roots of turmoil
The coup that ousted an elected president reflects tensions rooted in colonial history
Ethiopia's famine: deny and delay
Millions of Ethiopians once again face misery and famine. Addis Ababa's desire to project an image of a new dynamic country has led to callous denial of the reality
Drugs: What Harm?
The UN drug summit should recognise that harm to society from organised crime is different from the harm to the person from drug use
29-03
Gaza's underground economy
At the first signs of a cessation of the conflict in Gaza, tunnel building recommenced. They are goldmines, graves and shapers of society
