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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 features | Also tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, American exceptionalism, civilisation, doubt, expansionism, Flight 93, freedom, George W Bush, global justice, hijacking, infrastructure, international law, isolationism, 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 Off

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, democracy, depoliticisation, Dick Cheney, doubt, foreign policy, George W Bush, infrastructure, intelligence agencies, 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 Off

Become the Media

November 2, 2000 – 6:57 am

Alex Kelly and Jason Gibson

Posted in against the current | Also tagged activism, affinity groups, Alex Kelly, civil disobedience, community media, corporate media, Crown Casino, decentralised organisation, hactivism, independent media, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Jason Gibson, Melbourne IndyMedia, Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), open-publishing model, protest, public sphere, radicalism, S11, S26, Seattle IndyMedia Centre, World Economic Forum (WEF), World Trade Organisation (WTO), Zapatistas | Comments Off

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