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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, Israel, John Hinkson, Julia Gillard, media, Middle East, Muslim, Pakistan, technology, terrorism, Tony Abbott, United Sates, universities, war, Western culture | Comments Off

In Terror and Hope

October 2, 2001 – 7:57 pm

Guy Rundle

Posted in 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, 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, 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 Off

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 features | Also tagged 9/11, civilisation, colonialism, community, conscience, consumption, democracy, elites, gender, Geoff Sharp, George W Bush, globalisation, government, high tech, humanism, individualism, inequality, international markets, 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 Off

Towards Global Diversity

April 2, 2000 – 4:32 pm

The combination of high technology and the market has produced new kind of economy and culture, writes John Hinkson

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Adam Smith, Anthony Giddens, culture, Davos, economy, European Union, Gerard Henderson, global culture, global economy, global protest movement, globalisation, history, industrial revolution, Jeff Kennett, John Hinkson, Karl Marx, media, mediation, modernity, One Nation, reciprocal exchange, social policy, socialism, socialist utopia, technology, the third way, Tony Blair, United States, World Economic Forum (WEF), World Trade Organization (WTO) | Comments (1)

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Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?

In Terror and Hope

What Hope for Years to Come?

Towards Global Diversity