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Today marks the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

openDemocracy has a primer on why the current climate-change conference in Poznan matters.

In the wake of the attacks on Mumbai, former Indian army officials have called for a shift in strategy and training to enable the army to better combat urban terrorists. Saskia Sassen is a professor of sociology at Columbia University working on a project about cities and war. She writes at OpenDemocracy about the growing phenomenon of urban warfare, which puts cities and their residents on the front lines.

From Open Democracy If You Had A World Without Doctors And Only Drug Companies - That Is How The Rich Feel When Their Financial Advisers Also Sell Them The Products - The Subprime Packaged Derivatives. Why Would One Wonder About The Present Malaise? Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on November 28th, 2008 by Pincas Jawetz (PJ@SustainabiliTank.com) Shiller’s ‘no shill’ solution, Tony Curzon Price Robert Shiller was at London’s ippr talking about the subprime crisis and another prescient book of his:

Dan Sperber: Claude Lévi-Strauss at 100: echo of the future (Lévi-Strauss was the pioneer of a true “cognitive anthropology” - OpenDemocracy, 28.11.08)

Will ID cards keep the Iraq switchers with the LDs?

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Transnationalism http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization/umma_2904.jsp"Transnational Umma: Reality or Myth?By: Fred HallidayWritten: June 10, 2005

One year after re-introducing the Tridentine Mass and two years after the Regensburg address, Benedict XVI's popular new traditionalism has re-ignited the Catholic culture wars. By John Casey for openDemocracy.net

G20's world: join a group read , Tony Curzon Price $(".sort").hide();                     opendemocracy.net 21 hrs ago 62 related          The G20 communique from their November 15th Washington meeting isreproduced below. Join me in doing a group read/comment of the text. Isit what we need from our leaders? Are the principles right? What ismissing? What does it mean? To join in, follow these steps: 1) get a diigo account 2) join the oD-G20-communique group 3) start using diigo to add notes and comments to any part of the text below. I recommend you do this either through the diigolet functionality, or, my preferred option, through installing the diigo toolbar. When viewing the communique, select "View Comments" from the diigolet button or the toolbar to see what is being said or asked about the document. When viewing the communique, select "View Comments" from the diigolet button or the toolbar to see what is being said or asked about the document. ======== 1.... [read full story]                     Add Comment There are also 62 related articles View all news articles about*:

[These summary articles nearly always leave out something major. In this case, climate change is mentioned briefly under the section on the global economic recession, not as a causal factor, certainly not as a bigger market failure than the Great Depression (a view put forward several years ago by Nicholas Stern, former Chief Economist of the World Bank), but as one of a list of factors including unsustainable inequality, social tensions, dysfunctional or absent governance that have to be "factored in" to a solution.

Nicolas Sarkozy: world leader, local problem Written by Patrice de Beer    Wednesday, 12 November 2008 17:22 The ambitions of France's president extend to a dominant role in Europe and a powerful position on the global stage. But he is bound to discover that all politics is local, says Patrice de Beer.

Armistice Day

Economy and Society WORLD-WIDE ASIAN-EURASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS FORUM

Could the Soviet economy be re-established in Russia? Written by Dmitri Travin    Saturday, 08 November 2008 19:03 Vladimir Putin remains the most important person in Russia even though he has moved from the post of president to prime minister.  On 29 October he announced that no nationalisation should be expected. Why make such statements 17 years after Russia moved to a market economy?

Yes, he can! openDemocracy - The victory of Barack Obama is a decisive rejection of the conservative ascendancy in United States politics. The test now is to make the promise of change a reality, says Godfrey Hodgson

The result was that, when I was asked to write a piece about the commemoration of the war for the website OpenDemocracy, I was rather pessimistic.