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Georgia at a crossroads: after the post-war , Jonathan Wheatley When Russian troops gradually withdrew from Georgia's towns and villages in September 2008 following the short war between Georgia and Russia the previous month over the enclave of South Ossetia, attention turned to the potential consequences... Read more » Chile, the nation underground, Malcolm Coad There's no doubt of the strength of feeling that swept Chile with the rescue of the thirty-three trapped workers from the San José mine after sixty-nine days. The catharsis - or something like it - was palpable in the country as a whole, and... Read more » South Africa’s media: the Zimbabwe precedent , Roger Southall The echoes of Zimbabwe are too close to ignore, says Roger Southall. Repressive media laws; wide-ranging censorship of the print media; sweeping definitions of “national security”; tame reporting by intimidated newspapers; tight government... Read more » Pope Benedict: the faith of authority, Michael Walsh When Pope John Paul II returned to Rome from his visit to Britain in May-June 1982, it was widely reported that the Vatican regarded the trip as one of the pontiff’s most successful. After Benedict XVI’s journey to Scotland and England from... Read more » 'Jesus was a feminist', Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah ‘Jesus was a feminist!’ asserts Mercy Amba Oduyoye, a feminist theologian based at the Holy Trinity Seminary in Accra, Ghana and founder of the ‘Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians’. Simple words perhaps, but in the context of a... Read more » Transparency must extend to Britain's "public, private" state, Oliver Huitson The billions of pounds worth of commitments tied up in Britain's "public, private" state must be opened up to transparency and scrutiny, argues a new OurKingdom report. The spending review, announced this week, promises £81 billion worth of... Read more » The Death Knell for the Licence Fee?, David Elstein The coalition government announced on Wednesday that the television licence fee had been frozen in value for six years, to 2016. To eternal optimists, and to BBC spin doctors, this might have come as good news: at least the uncertainty over funding... Read more » Sochi: a city with no mosque, Sufian Zhemukhov In New York the problem of building a mosque has provoked a confrontationbetween the Western and the Muslim worlds. A similar problem could be developing in Russia. Sochi has no mosque, though the Muslim population there is 20,000. In 2014 the... Read more » More Recent Articles China blocks UN report on the use of Chinese arms in Darfur, Josephine Whitaker Britain's security: towards the dawn, Paul Rogers openDemocracy RECOMMENDS The Return of the Public Dan Hind openDemocracy NEWS London event: The Return of the Public - Journalism and Democracy in the 21st Century Dan Hind will be in conversation with Professor Natalie Fenton next Monday (London) about media and democracy in the 21st century, the subject of his new book. Tony Curzon Price, editor-in-chief of openDemocracy will be chairing the discussion and there will be a Q&A afterwards. Book tickets online. • View comments •
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