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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

Posted in features | Also tagged activism, annexation, Anthropology, Arnold Ap, assassination, democracy, Dr Thomas Wainggai, hostages, Indonesia, Kelly Kwalik, local radio, mining, protest, security forces, strike, subversion, Suharto, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Theys Hijo Eluay, West Papua | Comments (0)

Elemental Blindness

February 2, 2007 – 2:26 pm

John Hinkson argues the predictable failure of the new strategy in Iraq

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Foreign relations, George Bush, Iraq, USA, war | Comments (0)

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.

Posted in arena essay | Also tagged Christian fundamentalism, Cultural Contradiction, Guy Rundle, social change | Comments (0)

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, security, surveillance, terror, terrorism, The State, totalitarianism, union | Comments (0)

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

Posted in features | Also tagged 9/11, anti-Americanism, authoritarianism, Brendan O’Leary, capitalism, Christian conservatism, Christianity, Colin Powell, democracy, ethnic cleansing, free trade, fundamentalism, globalisation, hierarchy, imperialism, information technology, Islam, justice, nationalism, OpenDemocracy, oppression, Osama bin Laden, Palestine, propaganda, rationality, recession, religious toleration, secularism, sharia law, technology, terrorism, theocracy, Tom Nairn, unilateralism, war | Comments (0)

Them’s Fighting Words

October 2, 2001 – 8:00 pm

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

Posted in 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, Tony Blair, 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, security, shar’ia, solidarity, sovereignty, Taliban, terror organisations, terrorism, UN Security Council, United Nations (UN), violence, war, Winston Churchill, World Bank, World Trade Centre (WTC), World Trade Organization (WTO), Zapatista uprising | Comments (0)

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 Nations (UN), war, World Trade Centre (WTC) | 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, security, surveillance, terrorism, United Nations (UN), 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, security, Simon Cooper, sports, surveillance, terrorism, war, wiretapping, World Trade Centre (WTC) | Comments (0)

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