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New Empires, New Anti-Empires

October 2, 2008 – 1:33 pm

Tom Nairn argues the case for multilateralism

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Arena Magazine issue 97 October-November 2008, Arthur Stein, Basque, C. Fred Bergsten, David McKnight, East Timor, empire, Foreign Affairs, George Soros, J. K. Galbraith, Jerry Muller, John McCain, Kevin Rudd, Richard Rosecrance, Sarah Palin, Tibet, Tom Nairn, Umberto Eco | 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, democracy, ethnic cleansing, free trade, fundamentalism, 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)

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, George W Bush, global justice, 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, George W Bush, 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)

Habeas Corpus

October 2, 2001 – 7:51 pm

Angela Mitropoulos: Citizens are commodities, dialogue is dead and civilisation is barbaric in the new global order. Against capital and state, open borders represent hope.

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged activism, Angela Mitropoulos, anti-globalisation, Bhuta, border policing, citizenship, civil society, civilisation, colonisation, commodification, corporatism, Costello, G8, global protest movement, hierarchy, J18, lobbyists, Maksimovic, mediation, migration policy, Patrick Buchanan, protesters, public relations (PR), Ralph Nader, rule of law, S11, second world, sovereignty, state, state violence, sweatshops, Third World, Third World debt, wage labour, World Economic Forum (WEF) | Comments (0)

Crossing the Border

April 2, 2001 – 9:13 am

Andrea Maksimovic: When Going Global Means Freedom of Movement for Everything but People

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Andrea Maksimovic, asylum seekers, border policies, borders, capital, citizenship rights, coastal guards, defence budget, detention centres, exploitation, free trade, free-trade zones, freedom of movement, global justice, humanitarianism, Naomi Klein, nation-state, Paul Keating, political oppression, refugees, slave wages, transit camps, United Nations (UN), wages | 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 Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, 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, democracy, 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, 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)

Federation and All That

February 2, 2001 – 9:05 am

Guy Rundle Nation-Building In A Post-National Culture

Posted in Arena Magazine Editorial, editorial | Also tagged British Empire, Don Watson, Federation, free trade, Guy Rundle, Indigenous Australians, multiculturalism, neoliberalism, One Nation, Paul Keating, post-modern nationalism, protection, republic, Sydney Olympics, symbolic nationalism, tourism industry | Comments (0)

Now, S11

November 2, 2000 – 6:55 am

Guy Rundle on Victory of a New Kind

Posted in Arena Magazine Editorial, editorial | Also tagged affinity groups, civil disobedience, Crown Casino, free-market, Guy Rundle, IMF, J18, labour rights, N30, neo-liberal economics, neoliberalism, non-violent resistance, police violence, S11, S11 protests, S26, social movements, trade unions, WTO | Comments (0)

Media Violence

November 2, 2000 – 6:50 am

Anita Lacey and Damian Grenfell

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Abbie Hoffman, active non-violent protest, activism, Anita Lacey, child labour, corporate media, Crown Casino, Damian Grenfell, decentralisation, Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civilian Authorities) Bill 2000, exploitation by capital, IMF, Indigenous Australians, Media Violence, neo-liberal economics, Olympics, police violence, protest movement, protests, S11, Seattle protests, state violence, state-owned media, state-sanctioned violence, terrorism, The World Economic Forum (WEF), theatrical protest, Third World debt, violence, World Bank | Comments (0)

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