Keywords: Central America
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Kirkwood
- 01 September 2010
28 Comments
On his return to Europe after many years absence, Raimon Panikkar said: ‘I left as a Christian, I found myself a Hindu, and I return a
Buddhist, without having ceased to be a Christian.' This statement of
his own multiple religious belonging is just one of many challenging
insights and ideas that he wrote about with passion and eloquence.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Visontay
- 11 June 2010
3 Comments
In the Olympics, the countries with the biggest
populations win the most medals. Not in the World Cup. The United States' underdog status is one of the unifying pleasures of football
fans around the world.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 09 April 2010
6 Comments
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Colm McNaughton
- 29 March 2010
10 Comments
It is becoming clear that we are probably not going to avert cataclysmic forms of climate change. The foundational Greek and Hebraic imaginaries, the mythical
narratives that frame western civilisation, can no longer contain,
inform and explain what
we experience. We need new stories.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 26 March 2010
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AUSTRALIA
- Antonio Castillo
- 09 December 2009
1 Comment
Four decades ago 'Pepe' Mujica was a ferocious Latin American guerrilla leader. His election as president of Uruguay shows that the Latin American people continue to reject the neoliberal experiment that has brought so much poverty and injustice.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jeremy Tarbox
- 11 November 2009
5 Comments
Twenty years ago, six Jesuits were assassinated for their promotion of social justice and human rights in El Salvador. This month, their deaths are being used to shine a light on El Salvador's first democratically elected FMLN socialist government.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 06 November 2009
3 Comments
Progressive Christian activist Jim Wallis is one of Barack Obama's key advisors on religious and ethical issues. He has been a key proponent of Obama's controversial health care reform legislation, which has raised the ire of some conservative Christians.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 04 November 2009
11 Comments
Tim Fischer, Australian Ambassador to the Vatican, has a vital role in a state he calls a hub of power and intelligence. One can't help but wonder if Cardinal George Pell thinks he, rather than Fischer, should be Rudd's man in the Vatican.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 06 May 2009
15 Comments
An American priest reportedly claimed that swine flu was God's punishment for sin. The idea that God might use natural disasters to punish people is repugnant. But at first glance the Scriptures do seem to represent God as doing just that.
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AUSTRALIA
- Rodrigo AcuÑa
- 24 March 2009
1 Comment
US Republicans lobbied President Obama to impose hardships on Salvadorians livingin the US should the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front win last week's election. When the left did triumph, he did the opposite and congratulated the new leader.
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ECONOMICS
- Cameron Durnsford
- 03 December 2008
4 Comments
After the 2001 Argentine economic disaster, workers' collectives organised to autonomously run their enterprises. The collapse of the ABC Learning empire should not be seen as a total calamity, despite the obvious potential for fallout.
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