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- Subject: Electric ghosts
From: "openDemocracy"
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:55:15 -0000
ELECTRIC GHOSTS
This week http://www.openDemocracy.net is haunted by the spectres of past
and future wars, and the rise of African and European fundamentalisms.
Our columnists Todd Gitlin and Paul Rogers assess the low politics and
high rhetoric of the United States' election year, in the long shadow of
Iraq and Vietnam.
Plus: Alessandra Buonfino dissects Italians against migration, Chris
McWatters dislikes Cold Mountain, and David Hayes digests Britain's
nervous breakdown
Tomorrow: Sami Zubaida on religious or secular law in Iraq, and Globolog
asks: what is the World Bank for?
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THE WEEK'S TOP FIVE
POWER AND THE MEDIA: TALL TALES AND HOME TRUTHS
The bitterness of Britain's public culture is rooted in the clashing
stories of its great institutions. This damages democracy. It must change,
says TOM BENTLEY
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3400/Bentley_1723.jsp
THE PILLARS OF GEORGIA'S POLITICAL TRANSITION
After the "rose revolution", Mikhail Saakashvili's real work begins.
SABINE FREIZER, recently in Tbilisi, assesses the new Georgian
president's political project
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3400/Freizer_1732.jsp
BAD SEEDS
Africa already has messy borders, repressive leaders, and poor citizens.
It doesn't need religious zealotry as well, says VICTOR YOUMBI
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3400/Youmbi_1726.jsp
MY MOTHER'S CITY
For CEM ÖZDEMIR, a child of Istanbul and German-Turkish politician,
recent terrorist bombs assail but can't destroy the city's precious,
multicultural heritage
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3400/Ozdemir_1724.jsp
THE BEAT GOES ON
CANDIDA CLARK celebrates MICHAEL HOROVITZ, one of the last great Beat
poets, who then presents two poems for St Valentine's day, beside David
Hockney's portrait
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3400/Horovitz_1725.jsp
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COLUMNS
FROM HIPPY TO ZIPPY
"If The Beatles were alive today, they'd be a speed garage act." DOMINIC
HILTON on a world with no time to lose
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3400/Hilton_1728.jsp
OUR ELECTION YEAR: BUSH OFF BALANCE
>From primetime to blogworld, a Vietnam-era scandal returns to haunt the
president, reports TODD GITLIN
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3400/Gitlin_1730.jsp
GLOBAL SECURITY: GREATER MIDDLE EAST - VISION OR MIRAGE?
The words are velvet, but where is the cloth? The Bush administration's
grand ambitions leave many in the Middle East wary. PAUL ROGERS explains
why
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3400/Rogers_1731.jsp
WORLD DIARY: MADMEN AND NUKES
George Bush, Colonel Gaddafi, Prince Charles et al. DOMINIC HILTON takes
cover
http://www.opendemocracy.net/email/ed3400/Hilton_1733.jsp
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