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.
Category Archives: arena essay
Microserfs, by Justin Clemens
February 17, 2013 – 11:26 am
November 2012 was yet another decisive month for digital revelations. The new CIA Director David Petraeus, a self-professed ‘scholar-monk’ and Obama’s Iraq hero, was caught out in an adultery scandal with—surprise!—his ‘embedded’ biographer Paula Broadwell. Alex Hern was right onto it in The New Statesman with the raunchy header ‘Two Generals, Agent Shirtless and 30,000 [...]
Australia-US Relations in the ‘Asian Century’
November 1, 2012 – 2:57 pm
Australia has been captured by the US policy of containing China
By Malcolm Fraser
Topographies of an Australian Soul?
June 21, 2012 – 9:35 pm
Peter Sculthorpe’s music and the myth of the myth of Australian ‘identity’
By Neil Maizels
Overcoming the Arab Malaise
November 22, 2011 – 12:59 pm
Reflections on history, modernity and revolution
Global Challenges
September 2, 2011 – 3:09 pm
Can cities take us beyond asymmetric war and environmental violence?
Ways to Claim a Country
November 14, 2010 – 10:11 am
Gillian Cowlishaw reflecting on the settler consciousness of place and origin
