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Authentic journalism: weapon of the people

The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big media claimed but failed to do: Honest, coherent storytelling.

By Al Giordano

/ 19 Nov 2010

Red lenses on a rainbow of revolutions

Given continued strikes in Iran and the freeing of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, neither the Burmese nor Iranian struggle for democracy is a story that should be characterized as an example of a failed movement and successful repression. But it is up to us - the global audience - to understand our re

By Cynthia Boaz

/ 17 Nov 2010

The struggle after people power wins

With peaceful but forceful civic mobilization in 2004, Ukrainians managed to reverse a rigged presidential election. Later, disappointed in politicians who failed to deliver on promises of political and economic change, many Ukrainians distanced themselves from politics, thereby helping Victor Yan

By Olena Tregub and Oksana Shulyar

/ 17 Nov 2010

Civil Resistance and the New Global Ferment: read on

Jack DuVall, writer and international civil society leader based in Washington, D.C., is presently President of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, a private nonprofit educational foundation. He describes

By openDemocracy Supporters

/ 15 Nov 2010

Clare wins again! 'Investigative Comment' and the future of journalism on the web

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

By Anthony Barnett

/ 9 Nov 2010

The Media, the crisis, and the crisis in media

The financial crisis and a series of aggressive wars have demonstrated beyond doubt how prevailing forms of media ownership in the west serve to buttress the power of elites and marginalise alternatives to the status quo. A system of public commissioning, which gives citizens the power to decide w

By Dan Hind

/ 25 Oct 2010

20, 2000 and 2: the three shadows of Facebook

The eternal campus of the global middle class; the solution to the injunction to love ones fellow; a riskless replacement to reality. You could not have designed Facebook better to opiate 21st Century occidentals

By Luis de Miranda

/ 11 Oct 2010

Dissing Assange

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

By Tony Curzon Price

/ 7 Sep 2010

Kashmir's e-protest

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

By Fahad Shah

/ 6 Aug 2010

Italy: Internet press freedom under threat

Giulia Bongiorno, president of the parliamentary judiciary committee, decided on 21 July that amendments to paragraph 29 of article 1 of the so-called Wiretapping Bill were "unacceptable". The amendments targeted the article's extension of the print press rectification obligation to the web. By el

By Arianna Ciccone

/ 27 Jul 2010

If code is law, then programmers rule

Impressions of the Open Rights Group conference, Orgcon 2010

By Tony Curzon Price

/ 26 Jul 2010

Mao Zedong in video-history's gaze

A schoolteacher’s witty online lectures on Chinese history have earned both adulation and scorn. But when Yuan Tengfei breaks the taboo on Chairman Mao, his irreverence becomes political provocation. Temtsel Hao reports.

By Temtsel Hao

/ 12 Jul 2010