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Tag Archives: democracy

Insult and Identity by Alison Caddick

By Alison Caddick

Killer Drones, Dieback and Democracy

Free speech and doublespeak at The Australian by Justin Clemens

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

Hidden Money

Lack of transparency in political donations erodes the democracy that parties are elected to protect argue lee rhiannon and Norman Thompson

Military Non-Humanitarianism

Guy Rundle

Deep in the Troubled Heart of Texas

John Jirik How the military and the media join forces to promote war in American public life


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