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Wednesday 10th March

MPs WANTED: FOR CRIMES AGAINST DEMOCRACY

Pam Giddy, 10 March 2010
Power2010's campaign to bring change to UK politics is stepping up a gear.

Comment moderation - technical glitch

OurKingdom, 10 March 2010
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Tuesday 9th March

Keeping hope alive in New York

Muadi Mukenge, 9 March 2010
Will the government representatives at the CSW remember their commitments when they are back in their home countries? After all, any gains for women and girls translate into gains and advancement for the entire population and by extension, the planet.

Build Internet communitarian memory

Jonathan Zittrain, 9 March 2010
Video: the politics of making sure that the Web's memory will persist

Burma publishes first of five new election laws

Dries Belet, 9 March 2010
Burmese military junta unveil laws for elections later this year. French navy captures 35 Somali pirate suspects. Bali bombing mastermind thought dead after shoot-out with Indonesian police. Iran calls for China to withstand sanctions pressure. All this and much more, in today's security briefing.

We cannot protect freedom by law alone

Keith Ewing, 9 March 2010
In the second review of the book on the rule of law by Lord Bingham, the former lord chief justice, Keith Ewing argues that far from being crusaders for the rule of law, our judges regularly fail to protect human rights

Fiction as truth, not myth

Ollie Brock, 9 March 2010
openDemocracy author Heather McRobie speaks with Ollie Brock about her upcoming novel where she looks at both Radovan Karadzic – who is standing trial for war crimes during the Serbian genocide of 1994 – and 19th-century philologist Vuk Karadzic

Hizbollah vs Israel: the coming clash

Robert G Rabil, 9 March 2010
A shifting balance of calculation in the middle east makes Lebanon’s Hizbollah movement more confident in its strategy of “deterrence-by-terror” vis-à-vis Israel, says Robert G Rabil

Dedovshchina: bullying in the Russian Army

Rodric Braithwaite, 9 March 2010
While bullying (see our Soldier’s Tales) is common to all armies, the aberration that is dedovshchina in Russia’s army has a specific history and causes, argues Rodric Braithwaite. Military reform is needed to root it out.

Hattersley the prodigal

Stuart Weir, 9 March 2010