Arena Magazine 139

EDITORIAL: POWER GENERATION

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

Arena Magazine issue no. 139, 2015

Title	Author	PagePg.
EDITORIAL
POWER GENERATION	Alison Caddick	2
LEAD GRAPHIC
	Michael Leunig	4
AGAINST THE CURRENT
PARIS, AND THE CALIPHATE From the ruins of the furnished apartment	Maher Mughrabi	5
THE WILLINGNESS TO HOPE Paris, the environment and the West	Edgar Morin, with Coralie Schaub	7
DAMMING MYANMAR Australian involvement and the Shan's resistance	Melody Kemp	9
TAX WARS Malcolm Turnbull's positivity hides the prospect of the 80/20 society	John Hinkson	12
A POST-NEOCON CANADA? What might Australia learn from the Trudeau win?	Guy Rundle	13
COMMENT
JEREMY CORBYN AND A POST-AUSTERITY BRITAIN Steering the course of the future Left?	Harold Stone	16
POST NEOLIBERALISM? Shaping up to the challenge	Allan Patience	18
COLONIAL 'DIPLOMACY' On 'Syrian Fantasies'	Vera Butler	20
FEATURES
MENDING MOGADISHU Somali belonging in the twenty-first century	Vivian Gerrand	22
STILL NO END IN SIGHT? Legacies of the First World War, reading Frank Furedi	Matthew Sharpe	26
ADDICTION TO ALLIANCE WAR The wars we didn't know we were having, and their consequences	Richard Tanter	30
SUFFICIENT PACIFICATION An extract from 'Israel's Matrix of Control' in War Amongst the People	Jeff Halper	35
HEPATITIS C AND THE PBS A miracle cure just out of reach	Bella Anderson	38
ESSAY
CONNECTIONS, COLLABORATIONS, KNOWLEDGES AND KIN Retelling the story of Homo sapiens	David Turnbull	42
ARTS AND CULTURE
BACK TO THE FUTURE Objects, memory and two iconic British institutions	Valerie Krips	45
REGULARS
COMMON TOUCH: TALKING UNDER WATER	Mark Furlong	21
REVIEWS
WHAT AILS THE WEST? Houellebecq's Submission, of East and West	Peter Eade	50
TRUE LOVE? Savage satire in The Lobster	Neil Maizels	51
LIMITS OF THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION The failures of Franzen's Purity	Simon Cooper	54
POETRY
LINDA	Beth Z. Charles	41
THE RAT SUMMONS	Kevin Hart	49
SPRING WHEAT	Kevin Hart	49
CAP AND BELLS	Robert DiNapoli	51
HOMAGE TO THE ARTS OF EMPIRE	Peter Murphy	53
CARTOONS
	Matt Bissett-Johnson

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Arena Magazine 139

EDITORIAL: POWER GENERATION

Arena Magazine issue no. 139, 2015

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