Three years ago the world changed. The meaning and nature of the change starts with the carnage wrought by fundamentalist terrorism in the heartland of America.
But what happened afterwards
One of the questions of the contemporary world is how should two vastly unequal social groups relate: its wealthy minority, concerned to prevent attacks upon it, and its poor majority,
Paul Hirst died a year ago. He was a tremendously important friend for me: personally, politically and intellectually. For good reasons he didn't use the word comrade. But
openDemocracy sends a free weekly newsletter to all our members. On 3 June it led with a roundtable discussion where six Iraqis debated the future of their country. Our email
Most of you will find the Iraq roundtable published in this edition of openDemocracy difficult to read. Im asking you to give it time. Try and absorb its serious,
So the invasion of Iraq was a set-up.
The Pentagon thought it ran Ahmad Chalabis Iraqi National Congress. In fact, we are now being told (by whom is a
Can the greatest power on earth appreciate what it is like for other people?
The pictures of Iraqis being tortured by Americans could, finally, teach those who run America the
A week after the terrorist bombings on Madrid openDemocracy hosted an intense, international discussion in London. Caspar Henderson wrote a report on it for us. At one point a commentator
In late March 2003, as Coalition troops moved towards Baghdad and before the US overthrow of Saddam Hussein was complete, Neal Ascherson warned:
Liberation hurts. In Iraq, it comes with
America looms large for all of us, and never more than when its people are deciding their own future, their own direction. Our coverage of the United States elections has,
Can one make sense of something as apparently senseless and inhuman as the terrorist attacks in Madrid?
The first step is to share the experience and our responses to it,
On 23 February, I received an email from Eli Pariser at www.MoveOn.org called Help Katharine Gun. It asked me to write to Tony Blair and demand that he
