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From Third Way to Plan B — Reconstructing the ALP

December 2, 2001 – 8:07 pm

Christopher Scanlon: Where will the ALP go from here?

Posted in Arena Magazine Editorial, editorial | Also tagged 9/11, aspirationals, Australian Labor Party (ALP), Britain, Christopher Scanlon, deregulation, Edward Gough Whitlam, government services, Greens, Jack Straw, John Howard, Liberals, Lindsay Tanner, Mark Latham, New Labour, poll tax, privatisation, protest, Robert Menzies, unions, voter apathy | Comments (0)

Them’s Fighting Words

October 2, 2001 – 8:00 pm

Douglas McQueen-Thomson: Language of War and War Through Language.

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Alexander Downer, anti-Muslim feeling, anti-totalitarianism, Bill Clinton, Christians, civil liberties, Colin Powell, diplomacy, Douglas McQueen-Thomson, egalitarian principles, freedom, George W Bush, high tech, Jihad, language, media, Muslims, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Infinite Justice, Osama bin Laden, political dissent, rhetoric, Sikhs, surveillance, Taliban, terror, terrorism, United States, war | Comments (0)

Dr Britain

August 2, 2001 – 7:40 pm

Tom Nairn: Blair,Tom Nairn The Man Without Qualities

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, features | Also tagged Bill Clinton, Gordon Brown, John Major, Margaret Thatcher, Millennium Dome, Neil Kinnock, postmodern economy, transformism | Comments (0)

This is the Night, Remembered if Outlived

April 2, 2001 – 9:23 am

Guy Rundle: Contemporary Society and the Depression ‘Epidemic’

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged Al Gore, alienation, anti-depressant medication, anxiety, authenticity, capitalism, cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy (CBT), depression, Guy Rundle, human capital management, hyperindividualism, instrumental rationality, mental health, pharmaceutical corporations, poverty, psychiatry, psychotherapy, R.D. Laing, schizophrenia, scientific world view, serotonin, side effects, social control, social exclusion, social isolation, social meaning, stress, suicide, withdrawal | Comments (0)

Scotland, the Blair Project and the Zombie Faction

August 2, 2000 – 6:41 am

Tom Nairn Assessing the Scottish Parliament, One Year On

Posted in arena magazine features, features | Also tagged Alun Michael, Andrew Cubie, Baroness Jay, Brian Souter, Donald Dewar, Francis Fukuyama, homosexuality, Hugh McBaffie, James Callaghan, Jim Sillars, Machiavelli, Margaret Thatcher, Scotland, Scottish Labour, Scottish Parliament, Section 28, Thatcherism, Tom Nairn, warrant sales | Comments (0)

Capital’s First International?

June 2, 2000 – 4:41 pm

James Goodman The World Economic Forum is Coming to Town

Posted in against the current | Also tagged academia, Al Gore, Asia, Bill Clinton, capitalism, Chief Executives, class, commodification, corporate responsibility, democracy, economic research, environmentalism, executive salaries, George Soros, global inequality, globalisation, International Monetary Fund (IMF), James Goodman, Kofi Annan, market fundamentalism, media, neo-liberalism, non-government organisations (NGO), Russia, social dislocation, sustainability, Switzerland, Ted Turner, trade unions, transnational corporations, United Nations (UN), United States, World Economic Forum (WEF) | Comments (0)

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 Arena Magazine Editorial, 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, market, media, mediation, modernity, One Nation, reciprocal exchange, social policy, socialism, socialist utopia, technology, the third way, United States, World Economic Forum (WEF), World Trade Organization (WTO) | Comments (1)

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, Muslim, natural resources, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), oil, oil & gas reserves, Patrick Cockburn, Red Cross, retaliation, Rupert Cornwall, Russia, Serbia, Simon Cooper, terrorism, United States, USSR, Vladimir Putin, Zygmunt Bauman | Comments (0)

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