Tag: United States

Outsourced Sovereignty: The US Mandarins Take Over Australia

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Binoy Kampmark

4 May 2023

Is Australia becoming: a retirement village for servants of the US defence-security-intelligence complex?

Warmongering in the Australian Defence Establishment

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Binoy Kampmark

9 Mar 2023

The Red Alert exercise is yet another dangerous exercise in the manufacturing of consent for war, an amorally bankrupt exercise that will sideline peaceful approaches. Again, Australian personnel and citizens will find themselves perishing in conflicts at the behest of an insensible hegemon.

Preparing for the Next War: Subordination, escalation and the Battle for Ukraine

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Timothy Erik Ström

24 Feb 2023

The US and its allies are backing Ukraine to the hilt in order to further subordinate Europe to NATO in preparation for a possible war with China.

To Boldly Go: What’s in a Song?

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Robert DiNapoli

6 Oct 2022

The stunnng tone deafness of US foreign policy pronouncements across the past few decades shows no sign of slowing its descent into further depths of denial and sheer unmeaning.

Our Given Body: Roe v Wade

Arena Quarterly no.11

Alison Caddick

Sep 2022

In the American context, abortion has only increasingly become a ‘master category’, pointing to an ultimate value around ‘life’ but also condensing the meanings and anxieties that are fuelling the radical Right’s larger political struggle—offering ordinary folks a visceral connection to overcoming something ‘rotten’ in the established liberal system.

The President Decides Who Should Die: Another Assassination in the ‘Forever War’

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Paul James

5 Aug 2022

The United States has taken it upon itself the authority, without trial, to kill anyone it deems to be a threat anywhere in the world.

Collateral Warfare: The US proxy war in Ukraine

Arena Quarterly no.10

Alison Broinowski

Jun 2022

Putting themselves above international law, the American and Russian leaders have made Ukrainians into ants, trampled as the elephants fight.

Exposure: COVID and the long, cold winter of the American homeless

Arena Quarterly no. 9

Georgina Ramsay

Mar 2022

If biopolitics is power that is realised through the organisation of how people live, then necropolitical power is realised through dictating the limits of who gets to live and who dies.

What Lies Beneath: The Russia–Ukraine War

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John Hinkson

7 Apr 2022

Simplistic, black and white judgements are dominant right now, but there is good reason to think that this war may turn out to be much more than a struggle over a lily-white democratic versus autocratic principle.

The War in Ukraine and Imperial Decline

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Timothy Erik Ström

24 Mar 2022

This apparently old-fashioned land war seems to be exposing the extreme fragility of global capitalism, a system we have been told is the only possible future. This is a further rip to the fabric of these illusions, which have recently been cast asunder by an apparently old-fashioned plague, and some very cutting-edge climate catastrophes.  

Friends You Can’t Depend On

Arena Quarterly no. 9

Alison Broinowski

Mar 2022

If the United States, United Kingdom and Russia risk nuclear war over Ukraine and a gas pipeline, that is bad enough; for Australia to join this insanity is worse.

Australia’s Nuclear Future?

Arena Quarterly no. 8

John Hinkson

Dec 2021

…if Australia can’t renew itself within terms appropriate to its own region—that is, renew our relations with Indigenous Australians, as well as the peoples of the Pacific and of Indonesia and Asia generally—it will remain an outpost supported only by imperialist powers…