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The March of Unfreedom

June 2, 2002 – 7:44 am

Guy Rundle

Posted in editorial | Also tagged 9/11, freedom, Guy Rundle, September 11 | Comments (0)

In the Name of Freedom

February 2, 2002 – 8:17 am

John Hinkson Is the legacy of September 11 a global anti-liberal ascendancy?

Posted in features | Also tagged 9/11, Afghanistan war, freedom, Iraq War, John Hinkson, September 11, WTC attacks | 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 | 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 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 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 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)

I’m Branded

August 2, 2001 – 7:46 pm

Jeannie Rea: No Logo, Naomi Klein, Flamingo/Harper Collins, London, 2001.

Posted in against the current | Also tagged activism, advertising, anarchist theory, anti-corporate movement, appropriation, branding, capitalism, consumer protest, culture jammers, environmental destruction, exploitation, free trade, human rights, Jeannie Rea, media, Naomi Klein, product placement, public relations, solidarity, sponsorship, sweat shops, working conditions | Comments (0)

Consuming Social Justice

February 2, 2001 – 9:07 am

This article attempts to move beyond totalising cynicism, as well as unbridled optimism, towards a more nuanced understanding of fair trade. I explore the contradictions and paradoxes of using consumer practices to build bridges of socio-economic solidarity across core and periphery. More specifically, I want to determine how fair-trade discourse constructs understandings of development, consumerism, and global justice.

Posted in features | Also tagged alternative consumption, alternative trade organisations (ATOs), capitalism, collective action, Commerce Clause of the US Constitution, commodity fetishism, consumerism, corporate power, de-linking from the global economy, debt crisis, development, economic exploitation, environmentally friendly, ethical consumption, ethical mutual funds, fair trade, Fair Trade Federation, First World, Fourth World, global economy, global inequality, global justice, globalisation, identity construction, imperialism, indigenous right, individuality, International Federation for Alternative Trade (IFAT), Joseé Johnston, lifestyle politics, living wage, local self-sufficiency, Margaret Thatcher, market theory, marketing, micro-lifestyle politics, Multilateral Agreement on Investment, natural resources, neo-colonialism, neo-imperialism, North American Free Trade Agreement, over-consumption, public sphere, rational consumer, Ronald Reagan, San Francisco resolution, social inequality, sustainability, sustainable development, sustainable environmental practices, sweatshop labour, Third World, trade advantages, underdevelopment, workers’ co-operatives | Comments (0)

Dislocations – Salman Rushdie and Fiji

August 2, 2000 – 6:36 am

John Hinkson

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Aboriginal people, Asia, autonomy, China, colonialism, domination, England, ethnic cleansing, Europe, Fiji, globalisation, Han, Idi Amin, immigrants, imperialism, Indians, indigenous cultures, Indonesia, media, Melanesians, migrants, migration, multiculturalism, Salman Rushdie, sustainability, Turkic Ulghurs, United States, West Papua, Zimbabwe | Comments (0)

Capital’s First International?

June 2, 2000 – 4:41 pm

James Goodman The World Economic Forum is Coming to Town

Posted in against the current | Also tagged academia, Al Gore, Asia, Bill Clinton, capitalism, Chief Executives, class, commodification, corporate responsibility, economic research, environmentalism, executive salaries, George Soros, global inequality, globalisation, International Monetary Fund (IMF), James Goodman, Kofi Annan, market fundamentalism, media, neo-liberalism, non-government organisations (NGO), Russia, social dislocation, sustainability, Switzerland, Ted Turner, Tony Blair, trade unions, transnational corporations, United Nations (UN), United States, World Economic Forum (WEF) | Comments (0)

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