Friday, 18 June 2010

www.opendemocracy.net
openDemocracy Banner

Latest articles from openDemocracy...
Charles de Gaulle remembered , Neal Ascherson

It’s seventy years since a reedy, strained voice came from the BBC in London, telling the French to fight on. Almost nobody in France heard it. Almost nobody in France had heard of General Charles de Gaulle, either. It was not even a great speech,...

Read more »

Thailand's road to reconciliation, Javier Delgado Rivera

Weeks after the Thai army ended a bitter nine-week protest by the red shirts in Bangkok, Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is campaigning for reconciliation – a move already burdened with a heavy load of polemic.

With the state of...

Read more »

Iceland's economic downturn is a ”freedom of speech” upturn, Kim Andersen

During recent years, Iceland has suffered from a recession incomparable to that experienced in any other country in Europe. Today, however, the situation is about to change. Not on the financial stage but on the political rights stage. On 16 June,...

Read more »