Arena Magazine 139

EDITORIAL: POWER GENERATION

On the Paris climate change talks, renewable energy and the social choices we need to make

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Arena Magazine issue no. 139, 2015

Contents

TitleAuthorPagePg.
EDITORIAL
Alison Caddick2
LEAD GRAPHIC
Michael Leunig4
AGAINST THE CURRENT
From the ruins of the furnished apartment
Maher Mughrabi5
THE WILLINGNESS TO HOPE
Paris, the environment and the West
Edgar Morin, with Coralie Schaub7
DAMMING MYANMAR
Australian involvement and the Shan's resistance
Melody Kemp9
TAX WARS
Malcolm Turnbull's positivity hides the prospect of the 80/20 society
John Hinkson12
A POST-NEOCON CANADA?
What might Australia learn from the Trudeau win?
Guy Rundle13
COMMENT
JEREMY CORBYN AND A POST-AUSTERITY BRITAIN
Steering the course of the future Left?
Harold Stone16
POST NEOLIBERALISM?
Shaping up to the challenge
Allan Patience18
COLONIAL 'DIPLOMACY'
On 'Syrian Fantasies'
Vera Butler20
FEATURES
MENDING MOGADISHU
Somali belonging in the twenty-first century
Vivian Gerrand22
STILL NO END IN SIGHT?
Legacies of the First World War, reading Frank Furedi
Matthew Sharpe26
ADDICTION TO ALLIANCE WAR
The wars we didn't know we were having, and their consequences
Richard Tanter30
SUFFICIENT PACIFICATION
An extract from 'Israel's Matrix of Control' in War Amongst the People
Jeff Halper35
HEPATITIS C AND THE PBS
A miracle cure just out of reach
Bella Anderson38
ESSAY
CONNECTIONS, COLLABORATIONS, KNOWLEDGES AND KIN
Retelling the story of Homo sapiens
David Turnbull42
ARTS AND CULTURE
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Objects, memory and two iconic British institutions
Valerie Krips45
REGULARS
COMMON TOUCH: TALKING UNDER WATER
Mark Furlong21
REVIEWS
WHAT AILS THE WEST?
Houellebecq's Submission, of East and West
Peter Eade50
TRUE LOVE?
Savage satire in The Lobster
Neil Maizels51
LIMITS OF THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION
The failures of Franzen's Purity
Simon Cooper54
POETRY
LINDA
Beth Z. Charles41
THE RAT SUMMONS
Kevin Hart49
SPRING WHEAT
Kevin Hart49
CAP AND BELLS
Robert DiNapoli51
HOMAGE TO THE ARTS OF EMPIRE
Peter Murphy53
CARTOONS
Matt Bissett-Johnson

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