Tuesday 6 October 2009

Londongrad: capitals of decline, Tatiana Shcherbina

Moscow's knocked me out:  all I want to do is sleep (I find I need 3 days to adapt to local conditions when I come back from anywhere). The news is far from brilliant.  It stretches out like a chain along a village road which just gets...

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'Go ahead George, change it all' , George Papandreou openDemocracy

In his Editor’s Note, Anthony Barnett introduces George Papandreou’s ‘new way’ towards open politics.

openDemocracy: This year you became the leader of your party. Could you start by saying something about how this happened?

George...

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New Labour in a new Britain, Jeremy Gilbert

On this subject, see also Jeremy's debate with Rosemary Bechler: 'Which Plurality?'

Mark Perryman has written a typically astute analysis of the current predicament of the Labour Party for Compass (We’re All in this Together:...

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Pressure on Obama mounts after deadly day in Afghanistan, Carly Nyst

In the deadliest day for the US military in over a year, eight American soldiers were killed in attacks on US outposts in Afghanistan on Saturday.  The daytime attacks, which were carried out by insurgents in the east of the country, immediately...

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PLO supports deferral of UN Gaza resolution , Oliver Scanlan

On Friday, the four national sponsors of the United Nations Human Rights Council's controversial official report into the Gaza War decided to defer a vote to adopt its conclusions until March 2010. The Palestinian deputy permanent observer at...

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