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Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, maybe learning from Egypt and Turkey, compromises...
Once again, the people have a chance to prove that the Arab Spring was not a fluke, that non-violence is the only constructive path for social change, that Islam is compatible with representative...
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Corruption in Bahrain
The Crown Prince’s renewed anti-corruption effort faces serious threats, particularly from powerful elites with a deep vested interest in maintaining the fig leaf of impunity.Bahrain’s Crown Prince has...
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The many parliaments of our archipelago
There are ten, or maybe eleven, legislatures in the island chain known to the British as the British Isles - and three, or maybe four, armies. We see ourselves as relatively uniform, but the...
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Art as politics - honours and republicanism
The current Daumier exhibition shines an uncomfortable light on today's art and our honours system. Questioning our political establishment may not win gongs but it is sorely needed.Honoré Daumier's...
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There have been some technical changes to the site. Let us know via technical@opendemocracy.net if you experience any navigation problems or see any display issues. Today openDemocracy moved to a new...
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The fourth destruction: stolen land and childhood
A visit to the Jordan Valley to see the actual conditions and latest developments on the ground, places the initiative of John Kerry’s team in context. What kind of negotiations are these?Northeast of...
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From a rolling stone to moving mountains: the process of democratic change in...
If there is a message that I can pass along after spending almost a month in Bulgaria, it is a message of unity.The wall around parliament branded with caricatures of PM Oresharski. Photo by Vassil...
View ArticleDoreen Lawrence, police spies and institutional racism
Allegations of police spying on anti-racism groups shed new light on the meaning and operation of 'institutional racism'. Here, Adam Elliott-Cooper reflects on the Stephen Lawrence Campaign and the...
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Race, class and the price of policing
Metropolitan Police officers assaulted two protesters, then claimed they had been attacked. Video footage exposed their lie. One of the victims, this week awarded a £20,000 settlement, writes about...
View ArticleAriel Sharon’s legacy
Sharon was the unilateralist par excellence. His main aim when he came to power in 2001 was to eliminate the two-state solution and to determine unilaterally the borders of Greater Israel. Five years...
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Managing democracy, managing dissent
Mike Schwarz discusses Corporate Watch's new book, Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent – Capitalism, Democracy and the Organisation of Consent, edited by Rebecca Fisher. What’s the point of reading...
View ArticleUyghur rights and China
The situation of the Uyghur minority in north-west China became even more precarious in 2013, says Henryk Szadziewski.In the first few days of the new year, I had a conversation with a refugee from the...
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Can Brazil help roll back US surveillance?
Brazil has become a staunch and vocal critic of US espionage, asking Google and Facebook to install local servers. But will this really work? A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on emerging...
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Prisoner X and the British Guantanamo Bay
Working as a writer in residence at prisons, I have been advised not to "fight" if an inmate takes me hostage and starts to rape me. At first I loathed wife-murdering "Prisoner X". But if he can teach...
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Political crisis and the question of rule of law in Turkey
Turkey’s rule of law is under severe strain and its judiciary is no longer independent. Halil Gurhanli explores why fears of a return to military command should not be underestimated amid corruption,...
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Man, 84, dies handcuffed in hospital: UK border control by the GEO Group
A shocking report on Harmondsworth, the British immigration lock-up run by GEO, America's second biggest prisons contractor. Who are the GEO Group and what do they stand for?Harmondsworth Immigration...
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A reflection on Czech Euroscepticism before the EU elections
Euroscepticism seems to be a constant in the Czech political landscape. How will this reluctance toward the EU affect the upcoming European elections? Euro elections landscape, 2014.Shutterstock/Juraj...
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Germany: sleepwalking into Europe?
The much needed debate on Europe is unlikely to happen in the German run-up to the European elections. But instead, a controversy pro or against the Euro might well take place, should the new...
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Greece and the European elections: a preview
What is to happen in Greece in the forthcoming European elections, which, not without a certain irony of history, will take place while this country holds the EU presidency? Euro elections landscape,...
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Undocumented migrants: time to change the European discourse
Most undocumented migrants in Europe are not products of irregular entry and humanitarian crises such as that at Lampedusa are not unavoidable tragedies. As the EU starts work on a new programme on...
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