This week the ongoing crisis in Greece, the #Occupy protests in London and the US, the future of Europe and discrimination in the UK were themes that came to the fore. Fintan O’Toole’s tour de horizon of the twists and turns of Ireland’s relationship with the EU revealed some of the historic chall
The Tunisians started the Arab Awakening. Now, after a human nine months we can all celebrate the birth of free elections in their country - and it is indeed their achievement writes Ayman Ayoub. But will a consensus between Islamist and secular parties be enough to ensure Tunisian women share ful
The first ever use of bombing was in Libya 100 years ago, in 1911. Gaddafi’s gruesome end is arguably one legacy of that attack. We mark it with a sweeping survey of aerial destruction and its effect on our souls, announcing a three-day international conference in London supported by openDemocracy
Ten years ago the prescient Paul Rogers began his weekly column. As the US scored a success in Afghanistan in 2001, Paul wrote “Put bluntly, an apparent US victory achieved before the end of this year may, in reality, be just a further stage in a longer-term civil war in Afghanistan”. How right he
Do we live in killing times? From the Hague guest editor Ivan Briscoe puts together chilling reports on the everyday slaughter of gangs, drugs and religion in parts of the world that get little media coverage: Karachi, Medellín, Freetown, Central Asia, Somalia, Mexico, Guatemala, and Burundi while
openDemocracy editors are concerned at the lack of public debate around the week’s revelations of a new phase in the surveillance state. Magnus Nome shows his editors and readers how ‘not to leave your own front door open’, while Rosemary Bechler returns for inspiration to the Convention on Modern
We have spent the week, poised between Europe and the Middle East, putting Gezi Park into perspective, with Nathalie Tocci concerned for Turkey’s democracy, Neophytos Loizides identifying a crisis of majoritarianism, and Ali Gokpinar, shining a spotlight on relations between by safesaver" href="ht
