Free speech and doublespeak at The Australian by Justin Clemens
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Tag Archives: democracy
Surrogate Democracy
“We live in a liberal democratic society in which democracy has come to mean openness to individuals’ personal rights and needs, with virtually no examination of what they might mean” writes Alison Caddick
Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?
It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson
Papua’s Fallen Leaders
Anyone who emerges as a leader of the West Papuan people is setting out on a dangerous path
The ‘Devil’ in Haiti
Victims of colonialist exploitation for centuries, Haitians need more than temporary aid. Aurélien Mondon on Haiti.
Democracy Evacuated
An understanding of politics without culture is empty writes Alison Caddick
The State and Terror in the New Era
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
Black Pluto’s Door
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
What Hope for Years to Come?
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
Will Democracy Come to the USA?
Simon Cooper: Political dissent, so-called un-Americanism and the erosion of civil liberties in the US


