Britannia Radio

www.opendemocracy.net
Latest articles from openDemocracy...
Israel vs Iran: the risk of war, Paul Rogers Iran in darkness and light, Nasrin Alavi Israeli post-democracy: origins and prospects, Joel Schalit and Keith Kahn-Harris US ‘disappointed’ with Turkey on Iran sanctions, Oliver Scanlan Burma's authoritarian upgrade: 1990-2010, David Scott Mathieson Albania and Enver Hoxha's legacy, Bernd Fischer Public Service Broadcasting, The Forum so far - a synopsis, Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal Diviner's Sage and Hawaiian Rose: Sakhalin's drug problems, Ksenya Semenova Turkmenbashi is dead! Long live Turkmenbashi?, Maria Yanovskaya
Israel vs Iran: the risk of war, Paul Rogers Iran has returned to the centre of international diplomacy, and with a vengeance. A week after the crisis over Israel’s assault on an aid-flotilla bound for Gaza, the United Nations Security Council on 9 June 2010 adopted a resolution imposing... Read more » Iran in darkness and light, Nasrin Alavi “My throat smells of hot lead, father / The Ba’athist hit you with two bullets / They… every day / Shoot me in the mouth”. These are the words of Fatemeh who like hundreds of thousands of Iranians lost a family member in the epic... Read more » Israeli post-democracy: origins and prospects, Joel Schalit and Keith Kahn-Harris “The middle east’s only democracy”. Anyone who follows the politics of the region - and even many who don’t - will undoubtedly be familiar with the term. There’s only one country it refers to and that country is Israel. The claim has been... Read more » US ‘disappointed’ with Turkey on Iran sanctions, Oliver Scanlan On Friday, US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates said that the US was ‘disappointed’ with Turkey’s decision on Wednesday to vote against further sanctions on Iran. Gates went on to emphasise that US-Turkey military ties would not be affected,... Read more » Burma's authoritarian upgrade: 1990-2010, David Scott Mathieson The twentieth anniversary of Burma’s last elections on 27 May 1990 was recalled by many Burmese inside and outside the country as a defining date in the country’s political history. It is also an opportunity to measure the prospects for the... Read more » Albania and Enver Hoxha's legacy, Bernd Fischer When Enver Hoxha, Albania's long-term Stalinist dictator, was buried with honour under the socialist-realist statue of Mother Albania in the martyrs' cemetery in Tirana, the date of his death - 11 April 1985 - was omitted from his... Read more » Public Service Broadcasting, The Forum so far - a synopsis, Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal The publications of the Public Service Broadcasting Forum have been diverse in form and perspective. The Forum has ranged from the most searing of attacks on Sky - with Justin Lewis setting out the case for greater scrutiny and constraint of the... Read more » Diviner's Sage and Hawaiian Rose: Sakhalin's drug problems, Ksenya Semenova There were 830 drug trafficking cases on Sakhalin in 2009. The situation remains difficult, but under control. 173 criminal cases involving the trafficking, transportation and sale of drugs were prosecuted, and 23 charges of keeping drug houses... Read more » Turkmenbashi is dead! Long live Turkmenbashi?, Maria Yanovskaya Book cover The grandson fulfills his grandfather’s dream I haven’t read a book like this for many years. "What is undeniably true is that all today’s reforms and achievements are a credit to the particular managerial and organizational... Read more »