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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:07:32 -0000

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Kanishk Tharoor: Britain is good at dealing with diversity - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:13:50 -0000

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Turn and Face the Strain » the billblog

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:53:00 -0000

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Barack Obama, Iran, and the nuclear danger | Transnational Institute

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:49:59 -0000

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BBC - Mark Easton's UK: The picket and the postage stamp

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:00:09 -0000

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On the Open Democracy website earlier this month, the philosopher and Scottish nationalist Tom Nairn posted an essay on the English postman as symbol of decline.

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Counting Every Dead Body in War - Idea of the Day Blog - NYTimes.com

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:12:37 -0000

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War | After the attacks of 9/11, Americans “rightly demanded, and obtained, a firm and verifiable number” of the victims, says John Sloboda, head of the Oxford Research Group of Britain, writing on the human rights site Open Democracy.

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The Road Not Taken : OpenLeft

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:09:20 -0000

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Excellent piece by Rosemary - first mention of Rotating Editorial team? - Anthony Barnett

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A very foreign policy | Tristram Hunt | Comment is free | The Guardian

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:00:02 -0000

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Even now, much of that group-think remains evident in Washington. The latest issue of Foreign Policy magazine asserts that "the US projection of power into Afghanistan and Iraq, and today's tensions with Russia over the political fate of central Asia and the Caucasus, have only bolstered Mackinder's thesis". In a new essay for opendemocracy.net, Prince Hassan of Jordan has similarly spoken of how "the struggle for control of the 'energy ellipse' from Eurasia to the Straits of Hormuz" has revealed the resonance of Mackinder's thinking "for the political power plays of today".

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Curran dissects perspectives on future of journalism « Reportr.net

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:09:57 -0000

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Curran talks about how this group is optimistic about the power of “citizen journalists”, arguing that the power to communicate and disseminate has been transferred to the people thanks to the internet.

As examples, Curran cites Voice of San Diego and OpenDemocracy.

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Making news more searchable and identifiable with hNews: could it even lead to a new business model for journalism? - Editors Weblog

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:34:16 -0000

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HNews is in a useable form, and all that is really needed now to give it a chance at success and to potentially help develop new business models for news is that content producers choose to implement it. The problem, Moore clarified, is that to truly demonstrate its usefulness requires a lot of content to be marked up in this way and therefore it is difficult to show its full potential until many organisations have signed on. Value Added News is creating its own search engine to help clarify the ways in which it can be used. OpenDemocracy has integrated the format to the majority of their articles and the AP will start having its English-language text processed in mid-November, with a goal of moving on to other forms of assets later.

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US disappointment for the Rose and Orange revolutionaries in Georgia and Ukraine - Telegraph

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:28:16 -0000

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“Abandoning the programme entirely or involving Russia too deeply in it without consulting Poland or the Czech Republic can undermine the credibility of the United States across the whole region,” read the former leaders’ letter, which was republished on the Open Democracy human rights website.

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Chávez's assault on journalism | Denis MacShane | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:30:31 -0000

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Unless you read the Spanish press, you are unlikely to have picked up his words of support to the Belarus strongman Lukashenko or his endorsement of Robert Mugabe. The Open Democracy website has a long piece by the Mexican leftist Enrique Krauze on Chávez's links to antisemitic ideologues in Venezuela.

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Cook’s Collaborative Edge » Blog Archive » New papers by Carlota Perez

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:59:00 -0000

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New papers by Carlota Perez

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The Americas re-elect: George Washington's ghost (Americas quarterly)

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:57:16 -0000

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The Americas re-elect: George Washington's ghost

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Women in the Arab Region are heard / News / Promoting Pluralism / Themes / Hivos Knowledge Programme / Home - Hivos Online, Humanistisch Instituut voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:55:38 -0000

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Women in the Arab Region are heard

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Losing and Finding Russia : Sean’s Russia Blog

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:57:06 -0000

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Losing and Finding Russia

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News Innovation conference discusses future of news | Media | guardian.co.uk

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:50:02 -0000

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They have launched a developmental search engine that takes advantage of the new microformat. Currently, the search engine only indexes content from OpenDemocracy.org.

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Joe "Loose Lips" Biden Strikes Again | TPMCafe

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:58:38 -0000

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For a much richer, more nuanced report on what is actually happening inside Iran now and on how and how not to respond to these developments, read Mahmood Delkasteh in OpenDemocracy.

I can't vouch for Delkasteh's claim to have participated in the 1979 revolution, but his stunning piece also links an Open Democracy symposium and other commentaries published there on Iran that are among the very best I've found. Here is a website that has earned its distinction because its contributors believe in democracy intelligently, not ideologically, opportunistically, or in terms of Wilsonian power-wielding that so often asphyxiates the democratic power it claims to promote.

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Iranian Elections 2009: A New Spring? / Issues and Analysis / Issues and Analysis / Home - AWID

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:35:48 -0000

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Issues and Analysis

Iranian Elections 2009: A New Spring?

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Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:10:06 -0000

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Open Democracy. Leading global news site with in-depth articles and debates on subjects ranging from the creation and purpose of a united Europe to motorway culture and the world climate after September 11th. Includes excellent list of web resources about the current situation in the Middle East.

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