The discussion hosted by openDemocracy on 19 March was recorded, on the basis that no speakers words would be quoted on our site without their first seeing a transcript.
“Iraq is in the most crucial few months of its history since its formation as a modern state in the 1920s”, the Iraqi activist Isam al-Khafaji told Globolog this week.
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Is it really true? The Pentagon, no less, is saying that climate change could be a really big
If we let things slip, the Millennium Goals will become just another dream we once had, and we will
be switching on our TVs and
watching people die on our
If Martians invaded Earth whose side would [Africans] be on? Many say they would join the Martians against Americans and Europeans.
So writes Victor Youmbi, a community activist in Cameroon,
They tied me and laid me down. They told me not to cry. Not to make any noise. Then one man
picked up an axe. First he chopped [off] my
St Thomass Anglican Cathedral in central Mumbai (former Bombay), India, is a cool, airy retreat from the hubbub of the modern city. Founded in 1676, it bears witness to
Friday 16 January, afternoon
Global India
After a chaotic 48 hours with very little sleep and a close encounter with an overturned rickshaw I’ve made it to the World
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Doom is all around. Or so you might think if you read the British newspapers. Last month George
On Sunday 14 December 2003, a typical first reaction to the capture of Saddam Hussein in East Oxford, England the tiny patch of earth where I live was: Everything the
In the long winter darkness we experience in Britain right now (the years midnight as John Donne put it), the world can seem particularly murky. Even more than at
In 2003 there were around 713 million internet users worldwide. In 2004 there will be about 840m, and in 2005 about 965m.
The average oil price in 2002 was $25.
