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Pakistan: women's quest for entitlement

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Open Democracy - By Pippa Virdee - Aug. 04 (News Analysis) - The emancipation of women is often linked to the progress of a society in transformation from a feudal society to a modern state. The story of women in the country that became Pakistan can indeed be told in such terms: as part of a struggle for advancement with education at its centre, and linked at critical moments to wider goals of national emancipation and social reform.

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One, two or many Chinas?

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Open Democracy - Feb. 17 (Special Report) - China is continually part of the global news agenda, a tendency that is certain to accelerate in 2008 as its supercharged economy develops and as Beijing hosts the Olympic games on 8-24 August. In such times, it is important if not always easy to avoid the tendency to oversimplify contemporary China. But how can outside observers escape this trap?

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The Iraq project

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Open Democracy - By Paul Rogers - Feb. 11 (News Analysis) - the overall strategic environment in Iraq suggests that a massive and sustained US military presence will be required in any circumstances. This is the view of independent observers such as retired US general Barry McCaffrey, whose firsthand experience of the country helps underpin a deserved reputation for accuracy in his assessment of the progress of the Iraq war. In his view "an active counter-insurgency campaign in Iraq could probably succeed in the coming decade with 25 US Combat Brigade Teams" (this would represent more than half the army's available combat troops). Such a commitment, which would require large numbers of soldiers in supporting roles, would imply a long-term occupation of Iraq by over 150,000 US soldiers

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Science finds god

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:37:37 -0700

Open Democracy - By Yves Gingras - Aug. 20 (News Analysis) - Scientists who indulge mystical and religious fantasies in the interest of popularisation are betraying their professional calling, says Yves Gingras.

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Washington's double vision

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:09:44 -0700

Open Democracy - By Paul Rogers - Aug. 16 (News Analysis) - There's no escaping Iraq. Two incidents in recent days bear heavily on the unending conflict in that country. More broadly, they reveal how the United States administration's definition of its "war on terror" (or "long war") reflects entrapment in a way of thinking that requires it constantly to press the real world into the service of a partisan, dangerous, and self-defeating ideology.

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Colin Powell's responsability

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:54:56 -0700

Open Democracy - By Sidney Blumenthal - Aug. 15 (News Analysis) - He played a key role in the Iraq war. Will he now speak out against neocon manipulation?

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Lady Bird Johnson: a political journey

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:41:29 -0700

Open Democracy - By Sydney Blumenthal - Jul. 17 (Opinion) - The wife of Lyndon B Johnson made her own contribution to her husband's pioneering civil-rights agenda, says Sidney Blumenthal.

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A not so quiet American

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:32:34 -0700

Open Democracy - By Patrice de Beer - Jul. 16 (Opinion) - John Gunther Dean is a former United States ambassador with a lifetime's diplomatic experience whose trenchant views on American foreign policy, Israel and Lebanon won him enmity in high places. Patrice de Beer talks to him.

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What is terrorism?

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:50:31 -0700

Open Democracy - By Charles Townshend - Jul. 04 (News Analysis) - The absence of a shared international definition of one of the most toxic words in the political lexicon handicaps efforts to understand the reality behind the term, says Charles Townshend.

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London, Glasgow... and Helmand

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:39:59 -0700

Open Democracy - By Paul Rogers - Jul. 03 (News Report) - The response to the abortive attacks on Britain indicates that space is opening for fresh debate about the "war on terror".

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Palestinians under siege in the West Bank

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:23:42 -0700

Open Democracy - By Rosemary Bechler - Jun. 06 (News Report) - For the fortieth anniversary of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories as a result of the six-day war of June 1967, the international secretariat of Amnesty International has compiled a hauntingly illustrated and scrupulously documented audit of the human-rights violations arising from the hundreds of checkpoints, closures and blockades, the 700-kilometre wall and the burgeoning settlements or "Israeli colonies" that now pervade the West Bank.

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