Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Turkey and Ergenekon: from farce to tragedy , openDemocracy -


Turkey and Ergenekon: from farce to tragedy ,

Author:
Bill Park
Summary:
An epic military, political, and security scandal continues to absorb Turkey. The affair's latest bizarre sub-plots make the tensions between the country's “deep state” and its...

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Grozny: Rebuilt, Fearful and (Almost) Forgotten by the West,

Author:
Tanya Lokshina
Summary:
Downtown Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, is ablaze with lights and full of chic shops now. But the paralysing fear remains. Human Rights Watch’s Tanya Lokshina and her Memorial colleagues tell a...

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Burma publishes first of five new election laws,

Author:
Dries Belet
Summary:
Burmese military junta unveil laws for elections later this year. French navy captures 35 Somali pirate suspects. Bali bombing mastermind thought dead after shoot-out with Indonesian police. Iran...

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Virtual worlds: disappearance through pervasiveness,

Author:
Raph Koster
Summary:
Remember Second Life? There was a time when everyone was moving in. But where did those worlds go? Social games – indeed, much of the social web that is not a "game", like Facebook itself...

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The long war on stop and search,

Author:
Tomas Mowlam
Summary:
Tomas Mowlam reports on a six-year court battle surrounding Britain's flawed stop and search legislation

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