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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, Islam, 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, security, surveillance, terror, terrorism, The State, totalitarianism, union, United States | Comments Off

Habeas Corpus

October 2, 2001 – 7:51 pm

Angela Mitropoulos: Citizens are commodities, dialogue is dead and civilisation is barbaric in the new global order. Against capital and state, open borders represent hope.

Posted in features | Also tagged activism, Angela Mitropoulos, anti-globalisation, Bhuta, border policing, citizenship, civil society, civilisation, colonisation, commodification, corporatism, Costello, G8, global protest movement, globalisation, hierarchy, J18, lobbyists, Maksimovic, mediation, migration policy, Patrick Buchanan, protesters, public relations (PR), Ralph Nader, S11, second world, sovereignty, state, state violence, sweatshops, Third World, Third World debt, wage labour, World Economic Forum (WEF) | Comments (1)

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