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Ways to Claim a Country

November 14, 2010 – 10:11 am

Gillian Cowlishaw reflecting on the settler consciousness of place and origin

Posted in arena essay | Also tagged Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal history, Anglo-Australians, Arab, archaeology, Captain Cook, colonisation, cultural hegemony, egalitarianism, equal rights, genocide, Gillian Cowlishaw, human rights, identity, immigrants, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous dispossession, Indigenous writers & artists, Jerusalem, Jewish history, Jewish state, Judaisation, legitimacy, nation building, nationalism, Native Title, oppression, Palestine, resistance, sovereignty claims, West Bank, white supremacy, Zionism | Comments (0)

Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?

November 14, 2010 – 9:10 am

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

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Adam Smith, Arab, capitalism, China, colonialism, democracy, global markets, Greens, Greg Sheridan, intifada, Iraq, John Hinkson, Julia Gillard, market, media, Middle East, Muslim, Pakistan, technology, terrorism, Tony Abbott, United Sates, universities, war, Western culture | Comments (0)

Now for Iran

August 3, 2008 – 6:28 am

Jeremy Salt exposes the interests that lie behind calls for a strike against Iran.

Posted in features | Also tagged Arena Magazine issue 96 August-September 2008, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Jeremy Salt, Middle East politics, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty | Comments (0)

Call for Australian Boycott of Research and Cultural Links with Israel

June 2, 2002 – 7:45 am

Despite widespread international condemnation for its policy of violent repression against the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories, the Israeli government appears impervious to moral appeals from world leaders.

Posted in Comment & Debate, Uncategorized | Also tagged academics, anti-violence, Australian boycott of research and cultural links with Israel, civil war, Gaza, non-violence, Palestine, war crimes, West Bank | 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, George W Bush, Guatemala, Gulf War, human rights monitors, Human Rights Watch, Indonesian armed forces, inequality, International Monetary Fund (IMF), international relations, 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)

Camp Humour or Sublime Horror?

December 2, 2000 – 7:04 am

Simon Cooper How Many Holocaust Comedies Do We Really Need?

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Anne Frank, Daniel Libeskind, holocaust, Holocaust comedies, Holocaust films, Holocaust industry, Holocaust trivialisation, Jakob the Liar, Jerry Lewis, Jewish culture, Life is Beautiful, mediated representations, Nazi Germany, Norman Finkelstein, Palestine, poststructuralist ethics, Rwanda, Simon Cooper, Stephen Lipman, Timor, Train of Life | Comments (0)

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