Issue 82 ~ February-March 2006 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>back to archive

Editorial

The Nuclear Non-Option
CHRISTOPHER SCANLON

From Precarity to Precarious
MATTHEW RYAN

LEAD GRAPHIC Heinrich Hinze

Against the Current

Civilisational Culture
The Pentagon’s talk of a ‘Long War’ signals a new stage in the war on civilians
GUY RUNDLE

Stolen Harvest
How Australia is helping to privatise Iraqi farmers’ crops and seeds
CHRISTOPHER DORAN

Inconvenient Facts
Denigrating Aboriginal outstations ignores reality
JON ALTMAN

Zimbabwe’s Curse
Zimbabwe’s future hope
JOHN McFARLANE

The Long Battle Against Neo-Liberalism
The G-20 is just another elitist trade group
DAMIAN GRENFELL

A Perfect Storm of Dots
Animal organ donation moves beyond science fiction
TOSHI KNELL

Bites

JOE SIRACUSA History According to the New Left * ANDREW VANDENBURG Surf Shops and Cult Wars*

Market Failure

Faith and Credit
Finance sector deregulation has us drowning in debt
EVAN JONES

Comment

Clive Hamilton

Essay

The Sum of All Fears
John Howard has capitalised on the distance society.
JOHN HINKSON

Features

The Resistable Rise of Postmodern Neo-Fascism
The Left has failed to respond to a new species of fascism
GEOFF BOUCHER

Cargo Cult
Displacing economic anxieties into the realm of culture
MATTHEW SHARPE

Being Abnormal in Normal
A reconsideration of pacifism in the age of global terror
MANFRED B. STEGER

Everybody Hates Television
How and why we project our anxieties onto the small screen
CATHARINE LUMBY

The Emotional Climates of Globalisation
The new individualism and its contradictions
ANTHONY ELLIOTT and CHARLES LEMERT

Regulars

Places to Be (New!)
Cooper’s Last Playing the Dane
Magwatch
And Hast Thou Slain the Jabberwock? Peter Jull
Notable Publications
Red Herrick Come Gel with Me

Reviews

Passion and Politics in Documentary Film
BELINDA SMAILL

Throwing Out the Baby With the Bathwater
ANDY SCERRI

Re-Imagining Melbourne
JEFF SPARROW

Graphics

DARBY HUDSON

Poetry

Drum Roll
ANNA BUCK

Knowing Your Place
SHEN