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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, democracy, equality, executive power, George Williams, 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 Off

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, democracy, ethnic cleansing, free trade, fundamentalism, globalisation, hierarchy, imperialism, information technology, 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 Off

Uncanny Reflection – The Destruction of Chechnya

December 2, 1999 – 6:54 am

NATO’s bombing of Serbian forces and Russia’s action in Chechnya have some chilling similarities writes Simon Cooper

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Al Gore, Asia, Balkans, Bill Clinton, bomb attacks, Boris Yeltsin, Britain, capitalism, Caucasus, Chechen republic, Chechnya, economic sanctions, Europe, financial crisis, fundamentalist Islam, gas, global economy, Grozny, humanitarian aid, Indonesia, information war, international markets, International Monetary Fund (IMF), kidnapping, Kosovo, loan defaults, Madeline Allbright, media, money-laundering, Muslim, natural resources, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), oil, oil & gas reserves, Patrick Cockburn, Red Cross, retaliation, Rupert Cornwall, Russia, Serbia, Simon Cooper, terrorism, Tony Blair, United States, USSR, Vladimir Putin, Zygmunt Bauman | Comments Off

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The State and Terror in the New Era

Black Pluto’s Door

Uncanny Reflection – The Destruction of Chechnya