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The Militarisation of Defence

March 11, 2011 – 10:25 am

The Defence White Paper assumes an aggressive posture and receives unprecedented funding

Posted in features | Also tagged Afghanistan, ANZAC, Arena Magazine February-March 2011, Australian Defence Forces, Australian Federal Police, Defence Department, Defence White Paper, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, East Timor, Iraq, John Langmore, military expenditure, peacekeeping, solomon islands, terrorism, The Australian Strategic Policy Institute | Comments (3)

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, rule of law, surveillance, terror, terrorism, The State, totalitarianism, union, United States | Comments (0)

High Towers, High Stakes, High Risks

October 2, 2001 – 7:59 pm

John Hinkson: The financial fallout of the attack has laid bare the risky and crisis-ridden nature of a hi-tech society. The aftershocks will echo through every sector of the economy.

Posted in features | Also tagged 9/11, adical mobility, bio-technology, consumption, e-commerce, economic crisis, futures, hedge funds, high tech, hijaking, insurance, John Hinkson, oil, recession, risk, terrorism, tourism, war | Comments (0)

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, market, 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, 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 (0)

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, mainstream media, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Infinite Justice, Osama bin Laden, patriotism, Paul James, peace-keeping forces, Pentagon, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, surveillance, terrorism, United Nations (UN), United States, US government, Vietnam Syndrome, war, weakness, World Trade Centre (WTC) | Comments (0)

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, mainstream media, militia, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Infinite Justice, patriotism, political correctness, political dissent, privacy, Simon Cooper, sports, surveillance, terrorism, United States, war, wiretapping, World Trade Centre (WTC) | Comments (0)

Mapping the Political Terrain

April 2, 2000 – 4:27 pm

George Aditjondro Post-Referendum Timor Loro Sa’e

Posted in features | Also tagged Africa, agrarian reform, alienation, Ana Pessoa Pinto, Australian Defence Forces, Australian Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), authoritarianism, autocratic rule, border dispute, Brazil, capitalism, Catholicism, civil disobedience, civilian military, co-operatives, coffee, coffee growers, coffee plantations, colonialism, colonisation, customary laws, democracy, democratic state, East Timor, East Timor independence, farms, feminist, food distribution, foreign aid agencies, foreign nationals, fund-raising, George Aditjondro, Ghana, guerilla warfare, Guinea-Konakry, human rights, human rights organisations, human rights violations, independence, Indonesia, Indonesian People’s Democratic Party (PRD), InterFET (International Forces for East Timor), international aid, international aid organisations, International Student Peace Prize, James Dunn, Java, Jose Alexandre Gusmao, Jose Ramos-Horta, Klaus Rohland, Left, liberal democracy, liberation movements, Major-General Peter Cosgrove, Manuel Pinto da Costa, Maria Olandina F.C. Alves-Cairo, Mario Carrascalao, Mario Viegas Carrascalao, Marxist-Leninist, massacre, Maubere, media, military, militia terror, minimum wage, Mozambique, Namibia, Nino Vieira, Norway, paramilitary, parliamentary elections, Philippines, political independence, Portugal, Protestants, reconstruction, referendum, refugees, relief, Richard Holbrooke, Sam Nujoma, sanitation, Sao Tome and Principe, Sergio Vieira de Mello, single-party states, Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, socialism, Socialist International, South Africa, student resistance, Suharto, Sukarno, sustainability, Sydney, Taur Matan Ruak, terror, Timor, UN Temporary Authority of East Timor (UNTAET), United Nations, United States, women's shelter, World Bank, World Vision, Xanana Gusmao | Comments (0)

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