The vista from among the shacks, hubbub and agonies of Alexandra says it all. Towering beyond the crumbling hostels built for the township's migrant mineworkers are two skyscrapers
If there is one offence that makes Singapore's prime minister Lee Hsien Loong a worthy Worst Democrat of 2006, it is the lone, corrosive idea he has peddled
In 1966 the justices of the Massachusetts supreme court were asked to deliver a judgment in the United States's last great censorship trial. A year earlier, a Boston
On Monday 23 October 2006, hours before a mixture of protest and remembrance marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Hungarian uprising against Soviet rule, a sophisticated assault on openDemocracy'
Like a trim, tanned Saint Nicholas, Keith Rupert Murdoch has given us everything we always wanted: round-the-clock sport on our televisions; topless women on our breakfast tables; courageous newspapers that
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Targeted killings
Defined as "the purposeful killing of a
Guy Taylor has devoted a significant portion of his adult life to making a nuisance of himself at the annual summits of the Group of Eight industrialised nations – the club
Poring over the numbers of servicemen, servicewomen and reservists that comprise the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) which can now count victory in July's Bad Democracy Award among its
Kim Jong-il is not a big bedtime reader. His evenings are spent, we learn from North Korean defectors, guzzling sushi, swilling fine French wine and cavorting with scores of hand-picked
Michelle Bachelet's honeymoon would seem to be over. One hundred days after becoming the first woman to lead Chile, the new president's approval rating has taken
