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Edition 82.5
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openDemocracy in 2005

A seasonal message from our editor Isabel Hilton introduces a compendium of the most-read articles on openDemocracy this year

Plus: Are you an openDemocrat? Try our end of year quiz!

George Bush

The king of America

The Bushites' notion of absolute executive power is a violation of the United States's own history, says Sidney Blumenthal

Kashmiri lives: a photo-diary

Amid ruins and earthquake survivors, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's diary of a Balakot medical-relief camp is a vivid record of human struggle

WTO logo seen through magnifying glass

The World Triad Organisation

WTO talks are a me-first, G-number maze, but away from the red carpets and flashlights Alex MacGillivray encounters some fresh thinking

Plus: After talking in Hong Kong to suits and scruffs alike, Tom Burgis senses a changing dynamic between protest and power

Photo Indunil/Save the Children/ PhotoVoice

The tsunami test

The Indian Ocean tsunami should teach western NGOs painful lessons, says Jan McGirk

Plus: Tim Hetherington and PhotoVoice portray survivors, while Annie Dare is turned inside out by Sri Lankan children

Osama bin Laden

Osama's hidden truth

Osama bin Laden's speeches are a case study not in violence or Islam but in the "new currency of global equality", says Faisal Devji

Wind turbines

Loving capitalism to death

Our debate on greens, capitalism and Jonathon Porritt concludes: Andrew Simms rejects warmed-up environmentalism, while John Ashton seeks a new ethics of change

Plus: Camilla Toulmin sees hope in Montreal's climate change convention

Dubai International Film Festival logo

Dubai's dark side

Saeed Taji Farouky glimpses two kinds of self-censorship at Dubai's International Film Festival

Siva statue and blurry London street

Neither "here" nor "there"

Returning to Britain from India, Kirsty Hughes reflects on east, west, men, women, no-news media and her own dislocation

Chinese flag casting a shadow over Africa

China goes global

Chinese business is forging close ties with African states - from dams to oil, Angola to Zimbabwe. What is its impact, and who benefits? Ben Schiller reports

 

 






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