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Tag Archives: United States
Enlightened Barbarism: On Zero Dark Thirty and the Torture Debate
February 21, 2013 – 3:17 pm
Whenever anyone declares that what they are doing is neutral or free of ideology we ought to be suspicious. This is even more so in relation to contemporary terrorism. How would it be possible to take a neutral stance on post 9/11 events and even have anything to say? And yet this is precisely what [...]
Microserfs, by Justin Clemens
February 17, 2013 – 11:26 am
November 2012 was yet another decisive month for digital revelations. The new CIA Director David Petraeus, a self-professed ‘scholar-monk’ and Obama’s Iraq hero, was caught out in an adultery scandal with—surprise!—his ‘embedded’ biographer Paula Broadwell. Alex Hern was right onto it in The New Statesman with the raunchy header ‘Two Generals, Agent Shirtless and 30,000 [...]
Papua’s Fallen Leaders
October 14, 2010 – 10:39 am
Anyone who emerges as a leader of the West Papuan people is setting out on a dangerous path
Elemental Blindness
February 2, 2007 – 2:26 pm
John Hinkson argues the predictable failure of the new strategy in Iraq
The Cultural Contradictions of Christian Fundamentalism
June 2, 2006 – 9:11 am
Many have been caught unawares by the re-assertion of Christian fundamentalism. Guy Rundle looks at the rise of a religious form uniquely suited to contemporary cultural mores.
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
Black Pluto’s Door
October 2, 2001 – 8:02 pm
Tom Nairn: The beginnings of a new and undisguised american unilateralism has led many to suggest global forms of justice. But peace may only be achieved by overcoming the impasse of nationalisms in the region
Them’s Fighting Words
October 2, 2001 – 8:00 pm
Douglas McQueen-Thomson: Language of War and War Through Language.
