Open Dialogue Research Journal
Hashim Thaçi went from commanding an armed independence movement to serving as Kosovo’s president, and that same trajectory has recently concluded with a 25-year prison sentence for war crimes committed during the very conflict that made his political career possible. The verdict from the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague […]
Let’s be done with the pretence of decency and soggy references to just resolution in the face of extreme circumstances. Be done with the hilarious stage acts of referring to legal doctrines that either do not exist or cannot exist in the bloodied context they are being forced to refer […]
There is a straightforward way to gauge what European rhetoric on human rights is really worth. It is enough to compare how the EU treats linguistic minorities at home with how it treats them on its eastern frontiers. The contrast is so glaring that only those who are determined not […]
They are an easy bunch to demonise, and to a certain extent, they should be. The God Chef, the collector of Michelin stars; the veteran of the kitchen, with all the cuts, bruises and wounds to show for it; the brute who terrorises the staff, mocking their lack of adeptness, […]
Immigration policy in the United States has, in recent years, ceased to be a matter of administrative regulation and instead become a field of open social confrontation. At the center of this conflict stands Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a federal agency increasingly perceived not as a bureaucratic institution, but […]
Depending on which historical sources you care to consult, the Pope has been a figure of obloquy, ridicule and abomination. This mediator between the terrestrial and the divine was always set for the battering. Martin Luther’s violent Protestant split from the body of the Catholic Church was merely one aspect […]
On April 15, 1998, Pol Pot died. On the anniversary of his death, it is fitting to recall not only the horrors he inflicted on his own people, but also this forgotten chapter of the Cold War. In the history of U.S. foreign policy after World War II, few episodes […]
For more than two years, one of the most bitterly contested aspects of Israel’s war on Gaza has been the question of numbers: how many people have actually died. Israel’s government, its military, and a wide network of allies and advocates repeatedly cast doubt on the figures published by Gaza’s […]
A stark warning from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has placed the United States at the center of a growing international human rights controversy. What the Committee describes is not a set of isolated excesses, but a systemic pattern: aggressive enforcement, racial profiling, political incitement, and […]
On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 at 22:20, Gordon Duff <gpduf@aol.com> wrote: To those who have walked the spiral with me, to those now entering it for the first time: I write this not from a comfortable distance, but from the scarred ground of a life spent in the shadow of […]
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