Recently added articles from Arena Magazine:
Empires of consumption.(Russia's and China's impact on international trends)(Editorial)
Aug 01, 2008; Caddick, Alison ... We sit in a pocket of blissful Western ignorance, in little Australia, grown even smaller in the Howard years. It's home, far from the consequences of war in Georgia, the fate of Iran, the oppression of the Muslim peoples of western China. We watch our plasma screens (made in China, as Ned ...
Global financial crisis: stage two.(AGAINST THE CURRENT)
Aug 01, 2008; Hinkson, John ... There was always going to be a second round to the financial crisis that has enveloped global markets over the last nine months. The first stage, which ended in March, was followed by a period of consolidation, often interpreted as a sign that the worst was over. The logic of the first ...
Social inequalities in China or crisis for Europe?(AGAINST THE CURRENT)
Aug 01, 2008; Rossiter, Ned ... Readers in the West have for some time now associated the economic ascendancy of China with a proliferation of social conflicts and ongoing abuse of human rights. For those on both the Left and Right, there is a logic of affirmation about such tensions: state-capitalism is at ...
Tyranny in the dock.(AGAINST THE CURRENT)
Aug 01, 2008; Norman, Ben ... After thirteen years of running from his crimes, the world's most wanted man has finally been captured. Serbian police made the arrest as this most famous of fugitives got off the number 83 bus in Belgrade. Radovan Karadzic has been wanted by the International War Crimes Tribunal for ...
False dawn, genetically modified future.(AGAINST THE CURRENT)
Aug 01, 2008; Siewert, Rachel ... The Australian community and state and federal governments are being seriously manipulated by the GM industry into rushing unthinkingly into the brave new world of GM food. Despite pumping millions of dollars into research on genetically manipulated crops, government has not properly ...
Moving on, going forward.(AGAINST THE CURRENT)
Aug 01, 2008; Furlong, Mark ... Everyday we hear the refrain: 'it's better to move on'. Business representatives, sportspeople, media figures--respectable figures who make up the informal, and often formal, commentariat--offer us many iterations of this familiar theme. Perhaps we have heard so many variations of it, with ...
Free market foreclosures.(AGAINST THE CURRENT)
Aug 01, 2008; Monkerud, Don ... The current US housing crisis grew out of politicised government policy and a shared commitment among business elites to support a laissez-fair, free market, anti-tax economy unhindered by regulations. As David M. Abromowitz, Senior Fellow for the Center for American Progress, has said: ...
Fattest nation in the world?(THE RAW AND THE COOKED)
Aug 01, 2008; O'Donnell, Anthony ... The long-running media panic around obesity in Australia seemed to reach a crescendo in June when The Age ran with the front page headline 'Nine million Australians are a ticking "fat bomb"'. Normally I'd blame sub-editorial hyperbole for the disturbing image this evoked, but the headline ...
A modest proposal to praise the university administration unconditionally.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2008; Roberts, Lois ... We, the undersigned, would like to take the opportunity to express our undying devotion to the University of Melbourne. In particular, we would like to attest to our unshakable faith in the Wisdom, Courage and Unfaltering Justice of the current University Administration. With ...
A response to Patrick Wolfe.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2008; Roberts, Lois ... I recently acquired my copy of the April-May 2008 issue of Arena Magazine and am interested to comment on Patrick Wolfe's article, 'Robert Manne on Genocide'. This is not in defence of Robert Manne though I am from the same generation--an ordinary Australian growing up in ...
