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It’s not just the AKP, Daphne McCurdy This month, members of Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) convened at a holiday resort to review the party’s policies and future strategy after their stinging defeat in the September 12th referendum. Most media accounts of the... Read more » Sudan’s last chance for durable peace , Thomas N. Kimaru and Peter Kagwanja In less than 100 days, Sudan faces two watershed referenda. On 9 January 2011, South Sudan determines whether it remains part of Sudan or becomes a sovereign entity. The same day, the people of the oil-rich Abyei region will vote to decide on... Read more » Don’t be quick to judge the new Ukraine, Alexander Feldman MP Politics in Ukraine is a passionate affair; sometimes too passionate for its own good. Competition for power often assumes the character of a life or death struggle in which few limits are respected and truth is an all too frequent casualty.... Read more » War’s harvest: human cost, political gain, Paul Rogers The Iraq war has returned to public and media attention with the release on 22 October 2010 of another huge tranche of classified military communications by the WikiLeaks project. The documentary record of United States operations during the war -... Read more » The “Islam” drumbeat: an Orwellian story, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam A few metres from my office at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the heart of London’s Bloomsbury area is the Senate House of the University of London, a remarkable neo-classical colossus of a building which functioned as the... Read more » Daring to speak out in Belarus, Olga Birukova The list of my dead colleagues is growing too fast. Some I used to meet at press conferences. Others I used to read in the media outlets of my competitors and we often worked together on collaborative projects. There are not many journalists in... Read more » More Recent Articles Blackwater still in the dock, but for how long?, Luke Heighton Outcasts — inmates of the Black Eagle, Ekaterina Loushnikova How we can cope with the climate crisis – an optimistic view, Dirk Messner 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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