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The film director Theo Angelopoulos talks about turmoil in Greece, a generational failure and about his new film ‘The Dust of
Time'
The conflict in Gaza can be seen in the light of a decade of "war on terror"
Failures of accountability have been so egregious that there is now hope for creating the right long-termism in finance
Two elected governments are at war in Gaza. What does this do to the faith that vox populi vox dei?
An outcome to Gaza's war in which both sides claim victory is becoming visible
The world's economic foundations lost their moorings in 2008. What can restore them?
Do events in Gaza show the "responsibility to protect" to be nothing but pious buzz-words?
As Iraq takes control of the Green Zone, Big Think videos Michael Walzer on Unjust War in Iraq.
Controversial and polemic, a book review by Harvard scholar presents Hamas as a complex and evolving organisation.
The "Alternative media" has not made of the web the transformative tool of protest that it had hoped for. The Greek riots demonstrate the chaotic hyper-individualism of networked protest.What role now for the altermedia-ists?
Watch the arc of tension that stretches from Somalia to Pakistan test the new administration
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman returns to Big Think with bad news.
How will Russia's regime handle the economic crisis? Will its citizens withdraw, protest or prove loyal? Distinguished political scientist Vladimir Gelman considers the options
Harold Pinter died on Christmas day. oD's founder reflects briefly on his own encounter with him and on his heartfelt Nobel speech.
Is BBC's World Service doomed to be the puppet of British and Russian
governments?
A man of high wires and sharp edges, Conor Cruise O'Brien, recalled by Neal Ascherson
Plus: John Horgan on a great Irish internationalist
A generation of civilian rule is an achievement, but rooted flaws in Argentina's polity remain
The Somali conflict is entering a new phase. After two locust years, three possible outcomes
A festive mediation by an Irish dad on how today's international protocols might have applied to the birth of Jesus.
France's political "elephants" have blocked an effort to reinvent the left. But not for ever
Despite saber-rattling rhetoric in some quarters of public opinion, New Delhi can ill afford military confrontation with Pakistan.
The crisis of 2008 is a consequence of the pervasive impact of
market-driven policy. A new idea of the state is needed
How the fears of Ireland's voters could shape the European Union's destiny
Why is Russia romanticising the memory of Stalinism, enquires Memorial's founder Arseny Roginsky, when its defining feature was the use of terror?
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