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People power and the new global ferment, Stellan Vinthagen The Anishinabe and an unsung nonviolent victory in late twentieth-century Wisconsin , Tom H.Hastings Time for the human approach , Javier Solana and Mary Kaldor Fridman: How I became an oligarch, Mikhail Fridman Berlusconi bedraggled, Valentina Pasquali oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of November 15th 2010, Mark Weiss and Charles Shaw Learning how to hug a Tory and the folklore of anti-Toryism , Gerry Hassan On the fifth day Britain's Coalition was Created and..., Nick Pearce Thank you for our bonuses, Larry Elford Leading in underdevelopment, Jeremy Fox Search openDemocracy
People power and the new global ferment, Stellan Vinthagen We live in a time of historic social change, a time of ‘people power’. As expected, conventional news media have not understood this. More surprisingly, most alternative media as well as authors and academics also don’t see it. Still, it is... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • The Anishinabe and an unsung nonviolent victory in late twentieth-century Wisconsin , Tom H.Hastings In spring of 1986 I got a call from Walter Bresette, a Red Cliff Anishinabe (aka Anishinabeg, Ojibwa, Ojibwe, Chippewa) native American. Walter was a treaty rights leader for the 13 bands of Lake Superior Ojibwa and he said to me: “Get a... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Time for the human approach , Javier Solana and Mary Kaldor Recently, there has been much talk of a ‘reset’ in the West’s relations with Russia. It was started by President Obama but has been taken up by President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel and, in the last week, by the Secretary General of NATO.... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Fridman: How I became an oligarch, Mikhail Fridman Good afternoon, good people of Lvov, dear colleagues! I am starting this lecture in Ukrainian because I can still remember it, although I haven’t spoken Ukrainian for almost 30 years. I’m very grateful that you have taken the time on... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Berlusconi bedraggled, Valentina Pasquali It’s raining in Italy. Literally and figuratively pouring cats and dogs on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Highly productive regions in the northeast are flooding, archeological treasures in the south are collapsing, trash is once again piling... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of November 15th 2010, Mark Weiss and Charles Shaw European blueprint signals way for America to end the war on drugs As America's drug war spirals out of control, Europe's reformist organisations offer a view that policymakers must heed Forty years. One trillion dollars. Half... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Learning how to hug a Tory and the folklore of anti-Toryism , Gerry Hassan It has been a strange old week. Controversial Tory-Lib Dem welfare reforms have been announced. Angry students have protested, some rioted and some taken direct action. The hoary old battle cries of ‘Tory cuts’ and ‘Tory scum’ have again... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • On the fifth day Britain's Coalition was Created and..., Nick Pearce I was interested, if a little bemused, to read David Laws' account of the coalition negotiations, serialised from his forthcoming book 22 Days in May. His account makes abundantly clear what everyone now knows: that forming a coalition... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Thank you for our bonuses, Larry Elford A holiday season thank you to all North Americans. From investment bankers, brokers, regulators and all the related friends in the financial services industry. As the year comes to a close, we must take the time to reflect on the past twelve... Read more » • Email to a friend • Article Search • Leading in underdevelopment, Jeremy Fox Every year since 1990, the United Nations has published its Human Development Report, a comparative survey of the world’s nations and peoples measured not just by income, but also by education, health, life expectancy, literacy and so on. The...