[Fwd: After the fall]

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>  Hussein has fallen. This historic moment is marked in www.openDemocracy.net 
> with a panorama of articles and discussion - its impact on the Middle East, the 
> post-war transition, the Kurdish dimension, the displaced thousands, and the 
> question of an American apology. 
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> Plus, Ariel Dorfman's poetic meditation on language and power, a moving memoir 
> of Baghdad from Raeid Jewad, and a high-powered roundtable on corporations.
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> Celebration, apology, danger
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> ATONEMENT
> An apology for America's past role in Iraq would match its overthrow of a 
> merciless dictatorship, say DAVID HAYES AND CASPAR HENDERSON
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1140.jsp
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> LIFE, AFTER SADDAM
> He's gone, but will Iraq be free? RAEID JEWAD is exiled from his country, but 
> not from hope.
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1147.jsp
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> AMERICAN OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS
> The UN and Nato should share responsibility for post-war transition in Iraq, 
> argues KARIN VON HIPPEL
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1145.jsp
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> AFTERMATH; AFGHAN LESSONS IRAQI FUTURES
> Does the corrosive violence in Afghanistan seventeen months  after 'regime 
> change' there represent a glimpse into Iraq's future? PAUL ROGERS maps the 
> Baghdad endgame.
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> Ricochets of war
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> SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM: PRISONER OF CIRCUMSTANCE
> The imprisonment and release of an Egyptian human rights champion is a murky 
> story of distorted politics, writes DANIEL SWIFT
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1146.jsp
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> INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN IRAQ
> After war, many thousands of Iraqis are on the road, homeless and desperate.  
> ARTHUR HELTON AND GIL LOESCHER examine UN and NGO dissension. 
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-2-1144.jsp
> IN DEFENCE OF BRITISH PATRIOTISM
> In war and peace, Britain is our land. We should be proud of its history and 
> those who defend it, says DOUGLAS MURRAY
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-33-1139.jsp
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> CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS TALKS TO CAPTAIN JOHN WHYTE
> The renaming of Baghdad's main airport by its US occupier inspires ARIEL 
> DORFMAN to an act of poetic retrieval 
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1148.jsp
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> NO PLACE FOR JIHAD IN KURDISTAN
> Is history on the Kurds' side at last? If so, they need to keep domestic and 
> invading Islamic fundamentalists at bay, says AYUB NURI. 
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-2-95-1130.jsp
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> ANOTHER CASUALTY OF WAR: CONTROL OVER WMD
> MICHAEL REBEHN looks at the fissures and failures of arms proliferation and 
> verification.
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-9-86-1128.jsp
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> Beyond Protest: Flags, Poetry and Stone 
> Meditations on the art of protest from SARAH LINDON, PATRICK WRIGHT and REVA 
> RASMUSSEN
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/issue-2-33.jsp
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> Features
> STYLE AND FASHION: FROM THE WEST INDIAN FRINGE
> Sheffield - the British city of steel, looks and smiles, women of roses, and 
> memories of childhood in a hairdressing salon. ALIX JAMES looks back in love.
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-1-78-1134.jsp
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> MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE? CORPORATIONS ROUNDTABLE 
> They inhabit our imaginations, but do they dominate our lives? TOM BURKE, 
> MALINI MEHRA, MARTIN WOLF, and SOPHIA TICKELL debate the power and future of 
> corporations. 
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-7-29-1142.jsp
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> Regular Columns
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> O EUROPE, HUNGARY IS COMING
> From the vast Hungarian plain, PAUL HILDER maps the vista of Europe in a rich 
> panorama. 
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-3-1150.jsp
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> BEFORE THE FALL
> As Baghdad collapses, three strangers present themselves in Kurdistan as Iraq's 
> future. WENDELL STEAVENSON has a premonition of a new, odd, Iraqi politics.  
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-2-1136.jsp
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> GLOBOLOG - A NEW, NEW WORLD ORDER?
> It is springtime in Washington and Baghdad. CASPAR HENDERSON talks 'progressive 
> globalisation' at the IMF-World Bank conference, and suggests a creative 
> solution to the tasks of post-war reconstruction in Iraq. 
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-6-1149.jsp
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