[Peace] THE MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS

Fri Mar 7 11:24:06 CST 2003

In www.openDemocracy.net, an exclusive insight from international security editor Paul Rogers on US plans to pulverise Iraq with a devastating new weapon. 

As international public debate about Iraq deepens, two personal accounts of the tensions between head and heart that war creates: journalist Sorious Samura on reasons to love and hate America, and historian Dejan Djokic's moving reflection on the difference between Iraq 2003 and Serbia 1999. 

Plus, in Kurdistan with the Iraqi opposition, Helton & Loescher's continuing humanitarian monitor, and satirist Dominic Hilton down but not out in Paris.

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THE MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS: PULVERISING IRAQ 
An awesomely powerful new weapon will be part of the US's massive assault on Iraq. Paul Rogers explains its background, impact, and why it will kill thousands.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-88-1028.jsp

MY AMERICAN DREAM
SORIOUS SAMURA is grateful to the Americans for freeing him from a Liberian jail. But he now worries about the deadly impact of their good intentions. 
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=8&debateId=92&articleId=1023

CONFLICT OF LOYALTY - IRAQ IN THE LIGHT OF YUGOSLAVIA
When his homeland was assaulted in 1999, DEJAN DJOKIC affirmed his inner freedom by refusing to protest. Why now does he oppose war in Iraq?
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=88&articleId=1022

WITH THE IRAQI OPPOSITION: IF, HOW, AND THEN WHAT?
As the war comes closer, the fragile unity of the Iraqi opposition is riven by inner disunity, and distrust of US and Turkish intentions. WENDELL STEAVENSON reports from its conference in Free Kurdistan.    
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article.jsp?articleId=1015&id=10

LIBERATE IRAQ - ON THE WORLD'S TERMS
'Against war and Saddam' is a good slogan but bad politics. Could Javier Solana, Europe's foreign policy supreme, chart a clearer path. PAUL HILDER writes his script.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=88&articleId=1021

PLANNING THE HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE IN IRAQ
To win the Iraqi war, the US will have to win the peace. Can military needs give way to the repair of lives? ARTHUR HELTON and GIL LOESCHER report.  
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=46&articleId=1020

BUSH: HOME ALONE
Our new German columnist MICHAEL NAUMANN on the US's futile attempt to woo its insulted allies.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=3&debateId=93&articleId=1026

WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS!
DOMINIC HILTON, swapping flak-jacket for shit-detector, lands in France, takes the measure of Americanophobia, and scoops the Foreign Legion. Exotic, compelling, inimitable - and France is pretty interesting too. 
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article.jsp?articleId=1017&id=1

CIVIC HACKING: A NEW PROPOSAL FOR EDEMOCRACY
If governments want to fund edemocracy, they should fund ordinary citizens to use the internet to help themselves, argues JAMES CRABTREE 
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=8&debateId=85&articleId=1025

THE INTERNET AS GLOBAL LIBRARY
How to put the 'e' before democracy? Spread the net wide, set it free, let it fly. BETH PORTER believes in the future. 
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=8&debateId=85&articleId=1018

THROUGH OTHER PEOPLE'S EYES
The photographer ELLY CLARKE finds conviviality in the sightlines of her East London neighbours. Another Arts & Cultures exclusive. 
http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article.jsp?id=1&articleId=1016

DECODING BROKEN PROMISES
The discovery of DNA is fifty years old. A unique genetic experiment in Iceland used this breakthrough to compile a database of 75% of the population. The problem? Financial gain ruined its social purpose. SKULI SIGURDSSON laments. 
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=9&debateId=79&articleId=1024

FT: FORKED TONGUE?
The Financial Times's coverage of antiwar protest differed greatly between its German and English editions. MICHAEL REBEHN reaches for the skewer. 
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=8&debateId=92&articleId=1014

THE TURK IN ENGLAND'S IMAGINARY
As despot, infidel or libertine, the Turk has for centuries been an object of fascination to the English literary mind. GONUL BAKAY, a modern Turk, takes the measure of the men who portrayed her ancestors.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=5&debateId=57&articleId=982

WORLD DIARY - WITCH-HUNTS AND WAR JITTERS
Hollywood protest, human shields, and Swiss utopia. DOMINIC HILTON is back in the saddle! 
http://www.opendemocracy.net/other_content/article.jsp?id=1027&type=worlddiary

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