Open Dialogue Research Journal
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, […]
The administration figures Cuba will be an easier nut to crack than Iran. The Trump administration has declared a two-week deadline on Cuba to release two “high-profile” prisoners, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maykel Castillo Pérez (aka Maykel Osorbo), described as dissident artists from the San Isidro movement (Movimiento San Isidro, MSI). Alcántara […]
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 […]
The case of Jeffrey Epstein was once framed as a shocking anomaly – a grotesque example of individual depravity hidden behind wealth and influence. But years after his death and decades after the first allegations surfaced, it has become increasingly difficult to sustain that narrative. What emerged from the documents, […]
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 […]
Global crisis and human suffering can sometimes be susceptible to the cheap loop of sloganeering and mawkish publicity, often associated with a phrase, usually annexed to the image of a suffering child with hollow eyes and distended belly. Those viewing it are exhorted to make good their wounded conscience 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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