Thursday, 25 February 2010

Netanyahu and the sanctioning of Iran, openDemocracy -


Netanyahu and the sanctioning of Iran,

Author:
Thomas S Evans
Summary:
Israel’s attempt to rally support for energy sanctions against Iran look like failing, for good reason. They would be likely to work to the detriment of the West’s and Israel’s goals.
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Reimagining democracy - India more than counts,

Author:
Anthony Barnett
Summary:
The founder of openDemocracy on a mind-changing trip to India.

There is talk these days of the eclipse of America and Europe and the rise of the East, the coming commanding influence of...

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Drug crisis on Russia’s borders,

Author:
Elena Strelnikova
Summary:
Russia’s drugs problem has reached crisis point in Orenburg Region. It borders on Central Asia and is used as a transit point. Government measures against trafficking and addiction are...

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A 'dishonesty of the conscientious': Gordon Brown’s tragedy,

Author:
Christopher Harvie
Summary:
The literature of human fall and frailty illuminates the political fate of Britain’s prime minister.   

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In the dark days of 1940, Winston Churchill was...

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Holding up half the sky: not for ourselves alone,

Author:
Kavita Ramdas
Summary:
As the UN Commission on the Status of Women meets to review the implementation of the radical Beijing Platform for Action ’95, Kavita Ramdas reflects on the excitement felt by women then – and...

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What’s wrong with a democratic world with justice, equality, development and peace? ,

Author:
Cora Weiss
Summary:
As Cora Weiss reflects on the Beijing ’95 conference on women her dream is that we do not make war safe for women, but that we make women safe by ending the scourge of war.

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