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War on terror fosters US anti-immigrant hysteria
- David Rosen
- 13 December 2007
4 Comments
A recent series of raids by the US Department of Homeland Security signals a new era of anti-immigrant sentiment in the country. This is rationalised by a false association of undocumented immigrants with the 'war on terror'.
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CONTRIBUTORS

David Rosen
- David Rosen
- 29 November 2007
David Rosen is an author and commentator based in New York City.
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AUSTRALIA

Dorothy Day and the price of pacifism
- Andrew Hamilton
- 21 November 2007
5 Comments
There is more behind pacifism than intellectual conviction. For Dorothy Day, pacifism found a central place in a life of intellectual enquiry, hospitality to the poorest of people and protest against injustice. Her emphasis on pacifism remained constant and costly.
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE

Bettie Page, the tease from Tennessee
- Madeleine Hamilton
- 02 April 2007
Bettie Page experiences an equal, if not greater, level of popularity today than she did during the peak of her career as a pin-up model in the early to mid 1950s. But the exploitative, even dangerous, aspects of her work, should not be pushed out of sight and forgotten.
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INTERNATIONAL

New laws may force complicity in human rights abuse
- Brian Toohey
- 02 April 2007
4 Comments
While public attention has been focused on David Hicks, questions remain about Australia's other Guantanamo inmate. Was concern about exposure of Australia's rendering him to Egypt for torture the real reason behind his release in 2005?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Master mixer of politics and religion
- Frank Brennan
- 27 February 2007
5 Comments
One of Jesuit congressman Robert Drinan's political claims to fame was that he had moved the first motion of impeachment against Richard Nixon. He showed that the mix of politics and religion on Capitol Hill was difficult, especially concerning abortion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Nomads' perspective on destruction of the planet
- Robert Hefner
- 22 January 2007
After many thousands of years, modernity is sweeping away nomadic existence. Cosmologies such as Aboriginal Dreaming encode irreplaceable knowledge of the natural world, and nomadic cultures emphasise qualities of tolerance, adaptability and human interconnectedness.
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AUSTRALIA

Middle East nuclear abolition dreaming
- Bill Williams
- 30 October 2006
6 Comments
Western nations are tightening the noose around Iran’s neck for its nuclear recalcitrance. Meanwhile, Israel lashes out at guerrilla forces embedded in civilian populations in Lebanon, electing not to use its unacknowledged nuclear weaponry, on this occasion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Times Square's slice of life in the Big City
- Gary Pearce
- 24 July 2006
Despite overweening corporate visions, the exploding lights and multicultural crowds of New York's Times Square show that people will continue to claim their right to be part of the city spectacle.
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AUSTRALIA

News from everywhere
- Eureka Street editors
- 07 July 2006
Philip Berrigan, accountability, comic opera, and senior graffiti
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ARTS AND CULTURE

On your bus
- Grant Morgan, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert, Steven Columbus
- 07 July 2006
On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.
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