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Imagining Peace in the Middle East. MJ Akbar in Conversation

. At this event, he discusses with Farid Farid the prospects for peace in various contested Middle ...

SlowTV - admin - 2012-04-03 14:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Iran's female ninjas: fighting for sexual equality

of women, the pictures seem to offer a more uplifting view of the situation in various parts of the Middle East than is offered in the traditional media narrative." ( Pictures ) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-02-20 14:35 - 0 comments

The 0.01 Per Cent: The Rising Influence of Vested Interests in Australia

presidential election processes now underway we’re hearing one term a lot: ‘middle-class society’. Americans still aspire to it even as it slips further from their grasp. ‘Middle-class society’ is a better label for Australia than for the United States, where the middle class is shrinking and economic mobility is under ...

The Monthly - Wayne Swan - 2012-03-02 06:58 - 89 comments - 0 attachments

Payback: The Bullying Tactics of the Murdoch Press

to be written by him following his research trip to Central Asia and the Middle East; and a public policy ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-07 15:28 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Elephant in the Room

Delhi. The Asia–Pacific region has been stretched to accommodate India, now a member of the East Asia ... convert. When Britain announced its decision to withdraw its forces east of Suez, it seemed only ... and American support for Pakistan. Australia’s self-designation as a middle power, able to mediate global ...

The Monthly - Michael Wesley - 2012-02-07 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In the Picture

this asphalt prophylactic can’t keep out the threat presented by recent events in the Middle East, where ...

The Monthly - Sebastian Strangio - 2012-02-07 16:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Reset: The Obama administration and the Middle East. Daniel Kurtzer

and interrelated set of problems in the Middle East - a prolonged war in Iraq, Iran's quest for a nuclear weapon capability and a moribund Middle East peace process. At this Lowy Lunch talk, titled 'After ... to Egypt. In 2006 he assumed a chair in Middle East policy studies at The Woodrow Wilson School of Public ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Obama administration and the Middle East (p2). Daniel Kurtzer

and interrelated set of problems in the Middle East - a prolonged war in Iraq, Iran's quest for a nuclear weapon capability and a moribund Middle East peace process. At this Lowy Lunch talk, 'After pushing ... In 2006 he assumed a chair in Middle East policy studies at The Woodrow Wilson School of Public ...

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The Search for the Least Bad Asylum Seeker Policy

that the kind of people smugglers involved in the contemporary movement of people from the Middle East ... followed closely the collapse of its hopes for an East Timor internment camp. The Government’s East Timor ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-12-21 10:14 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Cypherpunk Revolutionary

in Assange’s room, and says she would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night to find him still glued ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

The Lady Killers

on the United States on September 11, the Kanimbla was sent to the Middle East and became a platform ... Abortion, ADF, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Climate Change, Clive Hamilton, East Timor, Euthanasia , Gender, Middle ... Security Institute at the University of Canberra. “We saw in Rwanda, in Somalia and in East Timor ...

The Monthly - Anne Summers - 2011-12-01 17:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Baskerville Case

red junglefowl from South-East Asia and the Indian subcontinent – some of their genetic signatures are now ubiquitous throughout India, the Middle East, Europe, China and Africa, making it difficult ... Endangered species, Genetics, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Middle East, Norfolk island chickens, University ...

The Monthly - Ashley Hay - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Journalism: Misrespresenting the Middle East. Joris Luyendijk

Joris Luyendijk discusses his search for the truth as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East ... it is like being a foreign journalist in the Middle East and reveals the impossibility of discovering ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Journalism: Misrespresenting the Middle East. Joris Luyendijk (p2)

Luyendijk discusses his search for the truth as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East. Luyendijk ... a foreign journalist in the Middle East and reveals the impossibility of discovering and reporting ...

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Innocent abroad: An account of US peace diplomacy in the Middle East. Martin Indyk

Diplomacy in the Middle East'. Ambassador Indyk has a distinguished career in United States foreign policy and the Middle East. He is a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, and the Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Lowy Institute, May 2009 ...

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How Gillard Sees the World: Australia’s foreign policy

conglomeration of global issues that make up what is often termed ‘human security’ (in East Asia the term ... as a minor player in an American script? If Australia has ambitions to be a middle power it needs to assert ...

Blog - Dennis Altman - 2011-11-29 13:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

All About Cory

and parts of Africa and the Middle East, working as a labourer with a German construction company ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Book of Paul

motive in Great Britain. Is Gillard’s carbon tax, which gives back to lower- and middle-income households ... an interstate grid down the east coast of Australia for the very first time. Or the first standard gauge railway ... battlers. But Labor in opposition abandoned the deregulation cause in favour of the voter in the middle ...

The Monthly - George Megalogenis - 2011-12-01 15:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Thomas Friedman at the Melbourne Town Hall

Middle East and his latest book That Used to be Us: What Went Wrong with America? And How it Can Come Back. A long-standing and influential commentator on the Middle East and global affairs, Friedman ...

SlowTV - admin - 2011-08-04 12:58 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

The Bolt Factor

on the Murray River, 100 kilometres south-east of Adelaide. Between 1951 and 1970 about 160,000 Dutch ... image of Middle Eastern men trying to paw me. It’s inaccurate and frankly ridiculous,” she said. She ...

The Monthly - Anne Summers - 2011-10-11 16:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Pursuing Peace and Rights in Israel. Naomi Chazan

examines the issues facing the Middle East. Reflecting on this “extraordinary period” for the region, she ...

SlowTV - admin - 2011-07-21 15:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Tom Clark

Chomsky has a case. Are “fair-minded observers” of the Middle East really limited to those who call ...

Letters to the Editor - admin - 2011-08-04 11:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Magic of Exile

David Marr To those who fled the Nazis in the middle of the 1930s, ... to the territory of Stasiland (2003), Funder’s brilliantly successful account of the turncoat regime of East ... itself. Stasiland was a work of blazing simplicity: Funder went into the wreckage of East Germany, ...

The Monthly - David Marr - 2011-09-29 10:21 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Knight in Shining Armani

in a continuous line down Belmarsh Road. Woolwich Crown Court complex, in London’s south-east, is grim – a pale ... of the Middle Temple, recorder (a part-time judge), visiting professor at Queen Mary College, University ... creative hours to the morning. Made a Master of the Middle Temple in 1998, he is entitled ...

The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2011-09-07 10:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

After Spring

The Struggle for Liberation in the Middle East ... the dignity, honour and esteem of a people can be reclaimed. In the context of the Middle East, those thoughts ... in the Middle East has been in steady decline for years. Even so, the Arab Spring has dealt it a significant ...

The Monthly - Waleed Aly - 2011-06-30 15:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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