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Being Abnormal in Normal

April 2, 2006 – 8:52 am

Meeting the novel challenge of global terrorism requires reconsideration of long-standing views, including our knee-jerk dismissal of pacifism, argues Manfred B. Steger

Posted in features | Also tagged Bush Administration, globalism, Militarism, military, Pacifism, September 11, terror, war on terror | Comments (0)

Freedom’s War

April 2, 2005 – 6:41 pm

Matthew Ryan and Christopher Scanlon

Posted in editorial | Also tagged freedom, Iraq, Liberal intervention, Middle East, war | Comments (0)

From Third Way to Plan B — Reconstructing the ALP

December 2, 2001 – 8:07 pm

Christopher Scanlon: Where will the ALP go from here?

Posted in Arena Magazine Editorial, editorial | Also tagged aspirationals, Australian Labor Party (ALP), Britain, Christopher Scanlon, deregulation, Edward Gough Whitlam, government services, Greens, Jack Straw, John Howard, Liberals, Lindsay Tanner, Mark Latham, New Labour, poll tax, privatisation, protest, Robert Menzies, Tony Blair, unions, voter apathy | Comments (0)

The State and Terror in the New Era

December 2, 2001 – 8:05 pm

Jenny Hocking: Imprecision over the language of ‘terrorism’ and its application, leads to concerns that counter-terrorist security measures will be broadly targetted in ways that are neither appropriate nor efficient, ways that may impinge upon legitimate political agitation and dissent

Posted in against the current, arena magazine features | Also tagged anti-globalisation, apartheid, ASIO, authoritarianism, Ben Chifley, Charles Spry, Christopher Hitchens, civil liberties, Cold War, constitutional rights, Daryl Williams, democracy, equality, executive power, George Williams, Islam, Jenny Hocking, John Howard, journalism, justice, language, law enforcement, Lionel Murphy, Luigi Bonanate, media, Michael Kirby, modernity, Osama bin Laden, protest, racial violence, religious violence, rhetoric, Robert Menzies, rule of law, security, surveillance, terror, terrorism, The State, totalitarianism, union, United States | Comments (0)

Black Pluto’s Door

October 2, 2001 – 8:02 pm

Tom Nairn: The beginnings of a new and undisguised american unilateralism has led many to suggest global forms of justice. But peace may only be achieved by overcoming the impasse of nationalisms in the region

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged anti-Americanism, authoritarianism, Brendan O’Leary, capitalism, Christian conservatism, Christianity, Colin Powell, democracy, ethnic cleansing, free trade, fundamentalism, globalisation, hierarchy, imperialism, information technology, Islam, justice, nationalism, OpenDemocracy, oppression, Osama bin Laden, Palestine, propaganda, rationality, recession, religious toleration, secularism, sharia law, technology, terrorism, theocracy, Tom Nairn, unilateralism, United States, war | Comments (0)

Them’s Fighting Words

October 2, 2001 – 8:00 pm

Douglas McQueen-Thomson: Language of War and War Through Language.

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged Afghanistan, Alexander Downer, anti-Muslim feeling, anti-totalitarianism, Bill Clinton, Christians, civil liberties, Colin Powell, diplomacy, Douglas McQueen-Thomson, egalitarian principles, freedom, George W Bush, high tech, Jihad, language, media, Muslims, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Infinite Justice, Osama bin Laden, political dissent, rhetoric, Sikhs, surveillance, Taliban, terror, terrorism, Tony Blair, United States, war | Comments (0)

High Towers, High Stakes, High Risks

October 2, 2001 – 7:59 pm

John Hinkson: The financial fallout of the attack has laid bare the risky and crisis-ridden nature of a hi-tech society. The aftershocks will echo through every sector of the economy.

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged adical mobility, bio-technology, consumption, e-commerce, economic crisis, futures, hedge funds, high tech, hijaking, insurance, John Hinkson, oil, recession, risk, security, terrorism, tourism, war | Comments (0)

In Terror and Hope

October 2, 2001 – 7:57 pm

Guy Rundle

Posted in Arena Magazine Editorial, editorial | Also tagged Afghanistan, Albanian terrorists, Andy Butfoy, Angela Mitropoulos, anti-globalisation, anti-semitism, biological weapons, chemical weapons, civil liberties, civil society, colonialism, Damien Lawson, development, Douglas McQueen-Thomson, ethnic cleansing, executive power, foreign policy, free trade, GATT, Geoff Sharp, George W Bush, global justice, globalisation, Gulf War, Guy Rundle, heroin, holocaust, International Monetary Fund (IMF), IRA, Iraq, Jimmy Carter, John Hinkson, John Howard, Kashmiri terrorists, Kimberley Serca, Kosovo, labour rights, malnutrition, market, militant Islam, Mullah Omar, Nauru, Nehal Bhuta, neo-liberalism, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine, peace movement, Pentagon, preventable disease, propaganda, protectionism, reconciliation, refugee action movement, security, shar’ia, solidarity, sovereignty, Taliban, terror organisations, terrorism, UN Security Council, United Nations (UN), United States, violence, war, Winston Churchill, World Bank, World Trade Centre (WTC), World Trade Organization (WTO), Zapatista uprising | Comments (0)

What Hope for Years to Come?

October 2, 2001 – 7:53 pm

Geoff Sharp: In the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States, the tension between religious piety and imperial power reveals the urgent need for re-examination of the new social forms

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged civilisation, colonialism, community, conscience, consumption, democracy, elites, gender, Geoff Sharp, George W Bush, globalisation, government, high tech, humanism, individualism, inequality, international markets, market, market fundamentalism, materialism, mediation, modernity, mortality, oppression, peace movement, reconciliation, religion, self-gratification, state terrorism, technology, technosciences, terrorism, United Nations (UN), United States, war, World Trade Centre (WTC) | Comments (0)

The Terrorist Syndrome

October 2, 2001 – 7:49 pm

Paul James: Mainstream Western responses to global violence involve disturbing reassertions of nationalistic parochialism.

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged Afghanistan, American exceptionalism, civilisation, doubt, expansionism, Flight 93, freedom, George W Bush, global justice, hijacking, infrastructure, international law, isolationism, mainstream media, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Infinite Justice, Osama bin Laden, patriotism, Paul James, peace-keeping forces, Pentagon, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, security, surveillance, terrorism, United Nations (UN), United States, US government, Vietnam Syndrome, war, weakness, World Trade Centre (WTC) | Comments (0)

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