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Killer Drones, Dieback and Democracy

December 15, 2011 – 12:13 pm

Free speech and doublespeak at The Australian by Justin Clemens

Posted in arts and culture | Also tagged drones, Free speech, media, New Media, Newspapers, Robert Manne, The Australian | Comments (0)

Surrogate Democracy

March 11, 2011 – 10:18 am

“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

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Alison Caddick, Arena Magazine February-March 2011, post-humanist, psychology, social democracy, Surrogacy, Surrogate democrary | Comments (2)

Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?

November 14, 2010 – 9:10 am

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

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Adam Smith, Arab, capitalism, China, colonialism, global markets, Greens, Greg Sheridan, intifada, Iraq, Israel, John Hinkson, Julia Gillard, market, media, Middle East, Muslim, Pakistan, technology, terrorism, Tony Abbott, United Sates, universities, war, Western culture | Comments (0)

Papua’s Fallen Leaders

October 14, 2010 – 10:39 am

Anyone who emerges as a leader of the West Papuan people is setting out on a dangerous path

Posted in features | Also tagged activism, annexation, Anthropology, Arnold Ap, assassination, Dr Thomas Wainggai, hostages, Indonesia, Kelly Kwalik, local radio, mining, protest, security forces, strike, subversion, Suharto, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Theys Hijo Eluay, United States, West Papua | Comments (0)

The ‘Devil’ in Haiti

March 2, 2010 – 5:09 pm

Victims of colonialist exploitation for centuries, Haitians need more than temporary aid. Aurélien Mondon on Haiti.

Posted in against the current | Also tagged against the current, Arena Magazine February-March 2010, Aurélien Mondon, colonialism, Haiti, human rights, International Monetary Fund, slavery, United Nations | Comments (0)

Democracy Evacuated

September 10, 2009 – 12:52 pm

An understanding of politics without culture is empty writes Alison Caddick

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Alison Caddick, ALP, Arena Magazine issue 101 August-September 2009, neo-liberalism, Peter Garrett, Race Matthews, uranium mining | Comments (1)

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 9/11, anti-globalisation, apartheid, ASIO, authoritarianism, Ben Chifley, Charles Spry, Christopher Hitchens, civil liberties, Cold War, constitutional rights, Daryl Williams, 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 9/11, anti-Americanism, authoritarianism, Brendan O’Leary, capitalism, Christian conservatism, Christianity, Colin Powell, 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)

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 9/11, civilisation, colonialism, community, conscience, consumption, 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)

Will Democracy Come to the USA?

October 2, 2001 – 7:48 pm

Simon Cooper: Political dissent, so-called un-Americanism and the erosion of civil liberties in the US

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, anti-globalisation, anti-government groups, arrest powers, big government, civil liberties, Dan Rather, depoliticisation, Dick Cheney, doubt, foreign policy, George W Bush, infrastructure, intelligence agencies, mainstream media, militia, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Infinite Justice, patriotism, political correctness, political dissent, privacy, security, Simon Cooper, sports, surveillance, terrorism, United States, war, wiretapping, World Trade Centre (WTC) | Comments (0)

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