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U.S. Marines find Iraq tactics don't work in Afghanistan

U.S. Marines find Iraq tactics don't work in Afghanistan

Qatar: Building the nation Posted on 12 January 2009 From Opendemocracy.net: Qatar propped up by a sovereign wealth fund in excess of $50bn worth of assets, a predominant gas-exporting over oil-exporting industry, and forecasts that show the break-even oil price per barrel that will balance its budget at $38, looks reasonably likely to weather the storm and sustain its inflow of working migrants.

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La nouvelle écologie politique

Open democracy – 09/01 The politics of ME, ME, ME, Keith Kahn-Harris David Hayes

Make your placards now. OK - I've borrowed my title from Mike Butcher's article on Techcrunch. He is proposing a public rally against web censorship and snooping. I plan to be there. I've also booked my place at The Convention on Modern Liberty. The site says it plainly...

Saturday, January 10, 2009 Avi Shlaim, "Israel and Gaza: rhetoric and reality," openDemocracy, January 7, 2009.

Sunday, January 11, 2009 bokhim ve-yorim - Israeli 'crying and shooting'

Three regular guys Written by Jim Gabour    Where will the Republican Party go in the age of Barack Obama? The political swamps of Louisiana offer a clue, says Jim Gabour.

Ensaios Imperfeitos

Salmond and the elusive Euro Previously Alex Salmond has said that an "independent" Scotland would not only keep the Queen, but also the pound as its currency. He appears to have now changed his opinion:

3. "Gaza: outlines of an endgame", Ghassan Khatib (6 January 2009):http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/gaza-outlines-of-an-endgame

Minstrel Boy "The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone In the ranks of death you will find him; His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him; "Land of Song!" said the warrior bard, "Tho' all the world betrays thee, One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, One faithful harp shall praise thee!" -- Verse from the Minstrel Boy

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This may be the case with both Indi and Dinidu and their respective blogs. But the comments to Indi’s post at the time of writing and Dinidu’s analysis strengthens the argument made by Evgeny Morozov on openDemocracy.net, Many less radical institutions - governments, NGOs, think tanks - are struggling to address the same challenge, unable to respond to the rapidly shifting balance of power between the individual and the institution radically disrupted by the Internet. In today’s ultra-networked world, an unaffiliated individual with a laptop and an Internet connection is often more influential and resourceful than an organization with a staff of twenty and a fax machine was only twenty years ago.

Indi and Dinidu

As Mary Kaldor has argued we need to think of problems in human terms. This is a necessary step in moving from the progressive ideals of RTP and the millennium development goals, towards the protection of individuals in the most dangerous situation human beings create. Such a change can be dismissed as idealism as against the realism of the status quo. But we should be clear that the status quo is that we accept mass murder as the price of protecting our current definition of sovereignty.

If these reforms were passed there is also a danger that minority groups would attack governments in the hope of provoking a disproportionate response that can then be used to claim status as victims of genocide

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