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The causes of the Greek crisis are in Greek politics, Takis S Pappas To most observers, the current Greek crisis has primarily been a fiscal one. There is by now an impressive number of accounts about the deficits and public debt accrued by successive Greek governments, the conditions of the bailout package offered... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Belarus election: probably no change at the top, Olga Birukova On 19 December Belarusians go to the polls to elect a new president. Or perhaps not. After the 2004 rigged referendum allowing him to run as many time as he likes in perpetuity, Lukashenka has stood (and won) in 1994, 2001 and 2006 (though the... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Brazilian paramilitary launch favela offensive, Daniel C Giacopelli The largest security operation in Brazilian history unfolded over the weekend, during which almost 2,700 paramilitary troops pushed into Complexo do Alemao, an ‘impenetrable labyrinth’ of shantytowns, or favelas, in northern Rio de Janeiro. The... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of November 29th 2010, Charles Shaw and Mark Weiss Abuse in the Name of Treatment According to estimations, there are hundreds of thousands of people kept in compulsory drug detention centers in Vietnam, China, Thailand and Laos. It is easy to get in to one of these centers. Some people enter... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Gender and the perils of identity politics in India, Zoya Hasan India’s democratic politics has witnessed significant shifts that can be traced to the defining period from 1989 -91 when the neo-liberal restructuring of the economy and the rapid rise of political organizations that espouse Hindutva (Hinduness)... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • openDemocracy comments moving to Disqus, Tony Curzon Price One of the first technical changes I made to the oD publishing system when I came on board in 2006 was to add commenting under articles. Since then, we've attracted a really good comment culture, I think – at their best, they are real... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • More Recent Articles A pass for tree-seekers and free people in Italy , Tiziano Fratus Student Power: 1968... 2010, Anthony Barnett "I'm no hero, but it's time to call a spade a spade" — Parfyonov , Leonid Parfyonov Britain's 'Squeezed Middle' defined: 11 million facing a triple crunch, Brian Landers Haiti: election without hope, Valentina Pasquali Korean peninsula on ‘the brink of war’, Oliver Scanlan Egypt’s election: power, actors, and...“change”, Tarek Osman The politics of climate finance, Simon Maxwell Telling the story of how women become asylum seekers, Natasha Walter Fairness and the cost of life for the poor in Britain, Brian Landers

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