Friday, 7 May 2010

Armenia deadlocked, landlocked, Haroutiun Khachatrian openDemocracy -


Armenia deadlocked, landlocked, Haroutiun Khachatrian

At a press conference during a recent trip in Tavush, the north-eastern region of Armenia on 9 April, President Serzh Sargsyan surprised the journalists accompanying him by responding to their questions, even the topical ones. His reluctance to face...

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Waiting for the word in Armenia , Ara Iskanderian

On Saturday April 24th, Armenian communities around the world will gather to remember the one and a half million victims of the Ottoman Turkish government’s systematic policy of deportation and extermination – the Armenian Genocide. This...

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Barack Obama: a market report, Godfrey Hodgson

In an age where politics and business thinking have become ever more fused, an appropriate way of looking at the United States presidency might be to see the president as a trader in a political market. He enters the White House with a stock of...

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Civil society and the media: findings from the Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland., Erin van der Maas

A thriving civil society has always been dependent on free, strong and critical media. They enable us to know, to imagine and to organise to make the world better[1].

When asked at the recent Oxford Media Convention how much public sector...

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Election UK: Did we vote for this? Hell, no! , Anthony Barnett

I've a piece up on CiF. Here is the original draft. There is a brilliant call for action on similar lines by George Monbiot also on CiF here, building unity. Well done, George!

if you didn't know it already, there’s going to be a swiftly...

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The five squanderings of the UK's assets - the real losses behind the election everyone lost, Simon Zadek

And who lost…well, Mr Brown clearly lost, but at least succeeded not to be slaughtered at the polls, a win of sorts compared to what might have happened. Mr Clegg lost in failing to capitalize on the ‘TV Wow’ that he experienced, and Mr...

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African Union warns of bombing campaign in Somalia, Josephine Whitaker

AMISOM, the African Union peace keeping mission in Somalia, said yesterday it has received credible intelligence suggesting that Islamist militants are planning a wave of bomb attacks across the Somali capital.

According to an AMISOM statement,...

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