Tag: war

Outsourced Sovereignty: The US Mandarins Take Over Australia

Arena Online

Binoy Kampmark

4 May 2023

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

The Coming War: Speak up. Now.

Arena Online

John Pilger

2 May 2023

Within a few years, the cult of 'me-ism' had all but overwhelmed many people's sense of acting together, of social justice and internationalism.

Politicians Manipulate Anzac

Arena Online

Binoy Kampmark

26 Apr 2023

Anzac has become a militaristic prop, a promotions exercise for arms manufacturers and the publicity for war.

Defenestrating Democracy: The status of democracy in the lead-up to Joe Biden’s summit

Alison Broinowski

6 Apr 2023

Now, the defence of democracy is being cited as a pretext for another war.

Warmongering in the Australian Defence Establishment

Arena Online

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

Arena Online

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.

Neither Their War Nor Their Peace: After Ukraine, might a multipolar world emerge?

Arena Quarterly no.12

Clinton Fernandes

Dec 2022

Even before the invasion, extreme weather and the pandemic had resulted in higher shipping costs, energy price inflation, labour shortages, and rising food prices.

Report from Poland: Ukrainian Refugees and a Tangled History

Arena Online

Grazyna Zajdow

6 Oct 2022

The Polish government immediately granted temporary rights to the refugees, giving them employment, health and education support for eighteen months.

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

Arena Online

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.

What Lies Beneath: The Russia–Ukraine War

Arena Online

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

Arena Online

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.