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Category Archives: Arena Magazine
Salt Responds
May 2, 2013 – 3:54 pm
Much of what Firas Massouh, Yoni Molad and Steve Pascoe write in response to my article is based on assumptions about how I think and how I frame events which have no relationship to how I do think or frame events.
Code Red: US Gun Culture by Joanne Knight
April 22, 2013 – 3:41 pm
Militarisation of a civilian population
Putting Syria Back Together Again by Firas Massouh, Yoni Molad and Stephen Pascoe
April 22, 2013 – 3:36 pm
A response to Jeremy Salt
Tearing Syria Apart by Jeremy Salt
April 22, 2013 – 2:37 pm
A war is being waged in and on Syria. Protecting the people from the dictator is no more than the usual pretext for attacks on Middle Eastern countries.
Thatcher’s ‘Miracles’ Live On
April 22, 2013 – 2:26 pm
With the death of Margaret Thatcher we might reflect that we certainly need political leadership in a new key after the debacles unleashed by the leaders of the 1980s.
Enlightened Barbarism: On Zero Dark Thirty and the Torture Debate
February 21, 2013 – 3:17 pm
Whenever anyone declares that what they are doing is neutral or free of ideology we ought to be suspicious. This is even more so in relation to contemporary terrorism. How would it be possible to take a neutral stance on post 9/11 events and even have anything to say? And yet this is precisely what [...]
Shifting Ground by Alison Caddick
February 17, 2013 – 12:03 pm
Julia Gillard has announced the date of the next election. As she dons spectacles for the first time in public, perhaps hoping for the well-known ‘halo effect’ of glasses suggesting intelligence, here perhaps rationality, the message is all about purpose, planning and technical competence. What we’re getting is a PM and a party serious about [...]
Four Larks’ Temptation of St Antony by Tom Rigby
February 17, 2013 – 11:52 am
Four Larks, the young theatre collective based in Brunswick, Melbourne, have a well-earned reputation for ambitious adaptations. Having tackled Peer Gynt, Alice in Wonderland, The Master and Margarita and the Orpheus myth in the past, the collective has become highly adept at transforming its former auto repair shop into all manner of complex literary spaces. [...]
