1. Beyond the triple crisis: a green new deal
(News/World News)

...ence-points to convey its scale. The "most wrenching [financial crisis] since the end of the second world war", said former chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, in ...

2. Competition for Main Street
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...erve and Treasury have executed to date have failed utterly to reverse the flight of investors and banks worldwide from lending or buying in doubtful times. There is no obvious reason to assume this b...

3. Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
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... set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capi...

4. Brazilian Navy burning money
(News/Democracy in Middle East)

...ame time, some Brazilian high officers from the local Navy get aboard in a costly sea travel to show the world the magnificence of the Brazilian Navy. This case just demonstrate us that you can't ...

5. America’s financial meltdown: lessons and prospects
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...lised by the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the forced sale of Merrill Lynch exposes the failure of the world's financial architecture. Ann Pettifor, whose openDemocracy article predicted the cri...

6. Heroes of Human Rights and Democracy in China
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... of the US Congress’ most stalwart supporters of human rights in China and every other part of the world, the late Tom Lantos (D-CA) with the presentation of its Democracy Service Medal.   ...

7. Saakashvili?s Statement on Russia? Action
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...d its support for Georgia’s territorial integrity. The Government of Georgia is grateful for the world’s support. The regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are recognized by in...

8. Climate Camp Besieges Power Station in UK
(News/World News)

...h the security fences at Kingsnorth Power Station, despite a huge police presence, activists across the world are setting up similar camps and convergences to build resistance to the ever demanding...

9. Debtonation: how globalisation dies
(News/World News)

...long predicted, most notably in an article for openDemocracy written in 2003 (see "The coming first world debt crisis" [1 September 2003], and my book of the same title [Palgrave, 2006]). Th...

10. The politics of protection: Bush Strategy?
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... "that al-Qaida terrorists killed Americans on 9/11, they're fighting us in Iraq and across the world, and they are plotting to kill Americans here at home again." But how did it happe...

11. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
(News/World News)

...e wealth distribution during his farewell speech in late July. Small wonder that the president tours the world buying new weapons for his generals. If the threat of a military coup is an immediat...

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