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Blackwater still in the dock, but for how long?, Luke Heighton Reports of the possible collapse of attempts to prosecute the notorious, North Carolina-based Blackwater Worldwide company come at a time of renewed focus on the role of contractors in territories administered or formerly administered by the US and... Read more » Outcasts — inmates of the Black Eagle, Ekaterina Loushnikova “Prison changes every idea you have about life. I became friends with a man who pickled his wife and children in a barrel” Emigre Writer Sergei Dovlatov Russia has observed a moratorium on executions for almost thirteen years now. Those... Read more » How we can cope with the climate crisis – an optimistic view, Dirk Messner Man-made climate change faces us with unprecedented challenges. A global warming of significantly more than 2°C might trigger irreversible tipping points in the Earth system and cause a transformation of global ecosystems with an uncertain outcome.... Read more » EU disaster response: too little, too late?, Erik Brattberg In the aftermath of two major recent international emergencies – the January earthquake hitting Haiti and the recent flooding catastrophe in Pakistan – criticism of the EU’s reaction has been ferocious. Ranging from national leaders to Members... Read more » Along the language frontier, Philip Ebels A CAR APPROACHES from afar on a muddy countryside road between the corn and the sugar beet, just south of the WWI battlefields of Ypres, Belgium, and comes to a standstill not two meters away from me. Two men emerge. They wear high, leather boots... Read more » The Chilean way: after the spotlight , Patricio Navia The Chilean way: after the spotlight The extraordinary rescue of thirty-three miners trapped underground for sixty-seven days has put Chile in the global spotlight. If you have good things to show, the spotlight is the best place to be. But when you... Read more » France’s pension reform: the bitter pill, Patrice de Beer The intense political struggle in France over reform of its pension system moved into a new phase on 26-27 October 2010 when the senate (the upper house of the French parliament) passed (by 177-151 votes) the controversial bill initiated by Read more » More Recent Articles Cities of migration: what works to integrate urban migrants?, Jessica Mai Sims openDemocracy RECOMMENDS The Return of the Public Dan Hind openDemocracy NEWS openDemocracy event London: oD author Charles Shaw asks 'Who's addicted to the War on Drugs?' You are invited to join Charles Shaw, openDemocracy author and activist and acclaimed documentary maker and criminologist, Roger Graef for an evening of discussion and testimony of drugs policy and criminal justice on: 7pm, Tuesday 16 November 2010 The Hub, 34b York Way, Kings Cross, London, N1 9AB Limited number of places: please email info@opendemocracy.net to reserve a place. What is it that maintains our mixed up and contradictory drugs policies – often in the face of expert consensus? What is the balance of damage being done to individuals by drugs and the system of punishing drug taking? What should our social and personal attitudes towards different drugs be if there were fuller decriminalisation?  And why are attitudes to alcohol and tobacco so different? Read more on Charles Shaw's projects  The openDemocracy Drug Policy Forum The Unheard Voices Project     • View comments •
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