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Blogs and monsters
- Fatima Measham
- 10 June 2011
2 Comments
In declaring internet access a human right, the UN's special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression insisted that the internet must be maintained at all times 'including during times of political unrest'. He could have said 'especially'.
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AUSTRALIA

History continues in Egypt and Libya
- Ben Coleridge
- 13 March 2011
6 Comments
Political and social ideas are a means of conceptualising people's inner urgings and desires. Does the movement towards political change in the Middle East constitute an 'absolute moment' which forecasts the realisation of democratic governments across the Arab world?
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AUSTRALIA

Stealing Libya's revolution
- Michael Mullins
- 28 February 2011
3 Comments
The revolution in Libya is about the aspirations of the country's youth, not Gaddafi. Yet he has been front and centre of international media coverage. In this way, western media are complicit in keeping him in power and disenfranchising the Libyan people.
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AUSTRALIA

Keeping an eye on the newest nation
- 09 February 2011
There is ample reason to be concerned about what could follow the referendum result that led to the formation of New Sudan. To prevent the potentially devastating repercussions, the international community must prepare to intervene.
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The mingled yarn
- Bronwyn Lay
- 21 July 2010
2 Comments
My granddad was a fourth generation white Australian who worked with sheep. I used to tell the story that he was a small town racist who disliked Blacks, Catholics and Jews. The punch line was that his daughter married a Fijian, his son married a Jew and my dad married a Catholic.
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MEDIA

St Mary's a metaphor for blogger power
- John Cokley
- 22 May 2009
6 Comments
Bloggers are being hunted and jailed in countries such as Burma and Iran. In Western nations they are incurring the wrath of disgruntled mainstream journalists. The plight of St Mary's South Brisbane holds a useful metaphor for this crusade on free speech.
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MEDIA

Al-Jazeera suffers both US and Arab hostility
- Michael Mehr
- 13 December 2007
3 Comments
At al-Jazeera's Doha newsroom, employees are reminded that the channel must show 'the opinion and the opposite opinion'. Arab governments are not amused, and many have closed its bases in their territories. Yet Foxtel and other major providers in Australia and the US still decline to carry al-Jazeera.
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AUSTRALIA

Reviving the domino theory
- Daniel Baldino
- 18 May 2007
1 Comment
The notion of preventing Islamic influence has strong echoes of the simple Cold War ‘domino theory’. This powerful metaphor and enemy image, popular in the 1950s and 1960s and used to justify US military intervention in Southeast Asia, was later widely criticised for its undeveloped and unstructured generalisations about political systems that are quite different.
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INTERNATIONAL

The new anti-Semitism
- Anthony Ham
- 10 July 2006
We have to take racism seriously, says Anthony Ham.
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AUSTRALIA

Grim reaping
- Jack Waterford
- 03 July 2006
The United States will probably complete its war against Iraq with its military clout enhanced, its diplomatic clout reduced, and its place in the world less secure.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Morag Fraser, Allan James Thomas, Juliette Hughes, Gordon Lewis
- 26 June 2006
Reviews of the ﬁlms Naqoyqatsi; Open Hearts; The Matrix Reloaded and La vérité si je mens! 2.
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INTERNATIONAL

Idyll times
- Anthony Ham
- 13 June 2006
Anthony Ham visits Tunisia, Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters
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