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Empires of Consumption

August 2, 2008 – 1:26 pm

With empires on the move again, Alison Caddick looks at our prospects for the future.

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Alison Caddick, Arena Magazine issue 96 August-September 2008, colonialism, empires, Georgia, Germaine Greer, Iran, Tibet, Uighur, Vladimir Putin | 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 9/11, Afghanistan, Alexander Downer, anti-Muslim feeling, anti-totalitarianism, Bill Clinton, Christians, civil liberties, Colin Powell, diplomacy, Douglas McQueen-Thomson, egalitarian principles, freedom, 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)

In Terror and Hope

October 2, 2001 – 7:57 pm

Guy Rundle

Posted in Arena Magazine Editorial, editorial | Also tagged 9/11, 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, 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 9/11, civilisation, colonialism, community, conscience, consumption, democracy, elites, gender, Geoff Sharp, 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 9/11, Afghanistan, American exceptionalism, civilisation, doubt, expansionism, Flight 93, freedom, 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)

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, democracy, depoliticisation, Dick Cheney, doubt, foreign policy, 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)

AIDS in Africa

April 2, 2001 – 9:26 am

Guy Rundle on Big Pharma’s response to the AIDS epidemic in Africa

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Africa, AIDS, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, biotechnology, chemical compounds, commodification, free trade, generic drugs, genes, Guy Rundle, intellectual property, molecular biology, patent applications, pharmaceutical companies, political lobbying, postmodern economy, private property, public funding, public relations, trade legislation | Comments (0)

Addicted to War

February 2, 2001 – 9:03 am

Jospeh Raso The New US Aid Package Fuels Colombia’s Counter-Insurgency War

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Andrés Pastrana, atrocities, Bill Clinton, biological warfare, Carlos Castano, Colombian military, Colombian security forces, counter-Insurgency, Edward Herman, Egypt, El Salvador, George Bush, Guatemala, Gulf War, human rights monitors, Human Rights Watch, Indonesian armed forces, inequality, International Monetary Fund (IMF), international relations, Israel, José Napoleon Duarte, Joseph Raso, labour unions, Latin American militias, National Liberation Army (ELN), new world order, paramilitary groups, poverty, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), School of the Americas, state terrorism, transnational corporations, United States, US aid, US corporations, Vietnam Syndrome, Vinicio Cerezo, World Bank | Comments (0)

A Band of Robbers

June 2, 2000 – 4:36 pm

Erin McKenna Blood and Money in the US Presidential Elections

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Al Gore, American revolution, Bill Clinton, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Charles Keating, democracy, Democrats, education, electoral cycle, equality, Erin McKenna, Ethics Committee, foreign policy, fundraising, Garry Wills, Gordon Wood, Gore Vidal, gun control, impeachment, independence, John McCain, Medicare, monarchy, National Rifle Association (NRA), Newt Gingrich, Pat Buchanan, Political Action Committees, Reform Party, Republicans, Senate Finance Committee, Social Security, soft money, tax cuts, Tom Paine, United States, US presidential elections | Comments (0)

George W. Bush

April 2, 2000 – 4:24 pm

Matthew Ryan Linking God, Death and Votes

Posted in against the current | Also tagged abortion, Antichrist, bible, Bob Jones University, capital punishment, Catholicism, Chicago School of Economics, Christian Coalition, Christian Right, compassionate conservative, Conservatism, Conservative, death, death penalty, death row, deconstructionists, drugs, economy, education, election, European Parliament, faith, God, inter-racial dating, Jesus, John McCain, Karla Faye Tucker, Left, Margaret Thatcher, Matthew Ryan, mercy killing, Newt Gingrich, Papacy, Pat Robertson, Pope, Pope John Paul II, prostitution, Protestants, rationalised economy, Reformation, religion, religious Right, students, techno-futurists, United States, universities, university education, voting | Comments (0)

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