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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, market, media, Middle East, Pakistan, technology, terrorism, Tony Abbott, United Sates, universities, war, Western culture | 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), Islam, kidnapping, Kosovo, loan defaults, Madeline Allbright, media, money-laundering, 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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