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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, security, shar’ia, solidarity, sovereignty, Taliban, terror organisations, terrorism, UN Security Council, 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, market fundamentalism, materialism, mediation, modernity, mortality, oppression, peace movement, reconciliation, religion, self-gratification, state terrorism, technology, technosciences, terrorism, United States, war, World Trade Centre (WTC) | Comments Off

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, security, surveillance, terrorism, United States, US government, Vietnam Syndrome, war, weakness, World Trade Centre (WTC) | Comments Off

Crossing the Border

April 2, 2001 – 9:13 am

Andrea Maksimovic: When Going Global Means Freedom of Movement for Everything but People

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Andrea Maksimovic, asylum seekers, border policies, borders, capital, citizenship rights, coastal guards, defence budget, detention centres, exploitation, free trade, free-trade zones, freedom of movement, global justice, globalisation, humanitarianism, Naomi Klein, nation-state, Paul Keating, political oppression, refugees, slave wages, transit camps, wages | Comments Off

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, Tony Blair, trade unions, transnational corporations, United States, World Economic Forum (WEF) | Comments Off

From Colony to Global Prize

June 2, 2000 – 4:38 pm

George Aditjondro Timor Loro Sa’e Under a New Wave of Economic Transformation

Posted in features | Also tagged Africa, agrarian reform, agriculture, aid workers, annexation, Asia, Australian Defence Forces, banking, Cambodia, capitalism, cartel, Catholicism, coffee, coffee plantations, collaboration, colonialism, construction, corruption, deportation, East Timor, East Timor independence, economy, energy management, environmental policy, environmentalists, fertility control techniques, forced deportation, genocide, George Aditjondro, grants, guerillas, health workers, hotels, human rights violations, humanitarian aid, indigenous people, Indonesia, inequality, information technology, International Monetary Fund (IMF), investment, Japan, land appropriation, loans, Malaysia, militia, mining, monopoly, nationalism, NGO, Nobel Prize, North Korea, Northern Territory, oil, oligopoly, peacekeeping, political elite, political prisoners, Portugal, post-colonial states, prostitution, protesters, reconstruction, referendum, self-determination, Singapore, South Korea, squatters, state property, Suharto, Taiwan, teachers, telecommunication, Timor, tourism, trade unions, United States, uranium, West Papua, Western Australia, World Bank, Xanana Gusmao | Comments Off

Burma’s Hidden Heroes, Burma’s Shame

December 3, 1999 – 6:04 am

Joan Robinson documents the plight of Burma’s political prisoners

Posted in features | Also tagged Amnesty International, Aung San Suu Ky, Burma, democracy, human rights, human rights organisations, Insein Prison, Joan Robinson, Leo Nichols, military junta, National League for Democracy party (NLD), political prisoners, political repression, SLORC, U Hla Khi, United States | Comments Off

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