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Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:15:12 -0000

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E-Democracy vs. Open Democracy - Fondation pour l'innovation politique

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:11:38 -0000

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Magazine Roundup - signandsight

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:20:08 -0000

OpenDemocracy 13.11.2009 (UK)

An exasperated Moscow poet, Tatiana Shcherbina, describes the obsession with Stalin in Putin's Russia. Russia is isolating itself, she writes: "There's no oxygen today, no sense of the future, just a disconnected nation which feels it has been deceived, humiliated, is helpless and futile. This is why it can only rummage around in the past - a past which was also deprived of oxygen… The humane way doesn't work, so let it be bloody and cruel, but we have to get out of our current psychological quagmire somehow. And then, of course, there's the conspiracy theory: we are encircled by enemies, no one loves us and we'll show 'em."

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OpenDemocracy 13.11.2009 (UK)

An exasperated Moscow poet, Tatiana Shcherbina, describes the obsession with Stalin in Putin's Russia. Russia is isolating itself, she writes: "There's no oxygen today, no sense of the future, just a disconnected nation which feels it has been deceived, humiliated, is helpless and futile. This is why it can only rummage around in the past - a past which was also deprived of oxygen… The humane way doesn't work, so let it be bloody and cruel, but we have to get out of our current psychological quagmire somehow. And then, of course, there's the conspiracy theory: we are encircled by enemies, no one loves us and we'll show 'em." - tony curzon price

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Magazine Roundup - signandsight

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:06:38 -0000

Neal Ascherson describes beautifully how long it took the West to catch on to what was happening in Eastern Europe. "Even then, none of us understood that the whole imperium from the Bug to the Rhine was no more than an old wasps' nest hanging from a roof - dried-out, abandoned by the stinging hordes, ready to fly to dust at a blow. But the people did get it. They had lost something - not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable to go on accepting these systems, these portly little idiots in their blue suits, for another year, and then for another day, another hour. That special sort of impatience is the power-surge of revolution. ... It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that 'We have done it once, and if the new lot let us down, we can do it again!' It was that proud, menacing confidence which made the French revolution special. But it's not around in 21st-century Europe. After 1989, the people handed over liberty to the experts. Will they ever want it back?"

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Neal Ascherson describes beautifully how long it took the West to catch on to what was happening in Eastern Europe. "Even then, none of us understood that the whole imperium from the Bug to the Rhine was no more than an old wasps' nest hanging from a roof - dried-out, abandoned by the stinging hordes, ready to fly to dust at a blow. But the people did get it. They had lost something - not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable to go on accepting these systems, these portly little idiots in their blue suits, for another year, and then for another day, another hour. That special sort of impatience is the power-surge of revolution. ... It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that 'We have done it once, and if the new lot let us down, we can do it again!' It was that proud, menacing confidence which made the French revolution special. But it's not around in 21st-century Europe. After 1989, the people handed over liberty to the experts. Will they ever want it back?" - tony curzon price

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Magazine Roundup - signandsight

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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by: Anthony Barnett

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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