It’s been a week of protests, verging on revolution in Ukraine, and oD Russia shows us Yanukovych’s Face of a tyrant and helps the confused with a guide to the players. One of these, a nation about to arrange the Olympics, should perhaps pay more attention to its region of Siberia. But why did Put
This week, we launch our series on the EU elections, kicking off by introducing our bloggers responding to the question, What does it mean to be young and European in 2014? There are perspectives on the European Greens from the leader in England and Wales, on apathy in France, and we ask why Germa
openDemocracy kicks off the week with a revealing and moving interview with Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, talking frankly to En Liang Khong about China's exploitative development, and an artist’s duty.
The week is full of strong stories. Bruce Fireman discovers that the purchaser of radio stations in the UK has ties through its parent company to Nazi sympathizers. Peter Oborne and David Morrison ask why a BBC programme on Iranian nuclear capabilities and the potential for conflict is intent on i
This week's theme is nonviolent transformation, led by Yotam Marom on climate denial and the “armaggedon complex”. Erica Chenoweth asks what civil resistance campaigns can learn from by safesaver" href="http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/1041587/986758806a/520502395/7262321cfa/#">military defectio
openDemocracy’s theme of the week is Neoliberalism, Crisis and the World System. Chris Renwick and Michael Gardiner challenge received wisdom, while Stephen Shapiro sees neoliberalism as the reappearance of tactics dormant but never forgotten since Marx’ Capital. William Davies tells us in ‘Neolib
Egypt is once again in uproar, and Vivienne Matthies-Boon and Brecht de Smet were quick to ask is this the real revolution? More readers still flock to Arab Awakening columnist Hicham Yezza’s measured musing on ‘What Algeria 1992 can and cannot teach us about Egypt 2013?’ with Andrea Teti and Genn
This week sees the launch of openDemocracy's new section Transformation. Dealing with love, equality and social justice, it tells the stories of people who are combining personal and social change. Editor Mike Edwards writes: “All great stories are love stories in one form or another, but the stor
Taksim, Tahrir, Sol, Wall Street, Bulgaria, even divided Bosnia – the streets and squares, and openDemocracy, have come to life with popular protest across the globe.
openDemocracy editors are concerned at the lack of public debate around the week’s revelations of a new phase in the surveillance state. Magnus Nome shows his editors and readers how ‘not to leave your own front door open’, while Rosemary Bechler returns for inspiration to the Convention on Modern
This week, Anthony Barnett brings back a passionate account of a ‘new way of living’ in Taksim Square, Istanbul, echoed by Nilufer Gole
We have spent the week, poised between Europe and the Middle East, putting Gezi Park into perspective, with Nathalie Tocci concerned for Turkey’s democracy, Neophytos Loizides identifying a crisis of majoritarianism, and Ali Gokpinar, shining a spotlight on relations between business, media and go
