Arena Magazine articles

Recent articles from Arena Magazine

Empires of consumption.(Russia's and China's impact on international trends)(Editorial)
August 1, 2008... We sit in a pocket of blissful Western ignorance, in little Australia, grown even smaller in the Howard years. It's home, far from the consequences of war in Georgia, the fate of Iran, the oppression of the Muslim peoples of western China. We watch our plasma screens (made in China, as Ned...

Global financial crisis: stage two.(AGAINST THE CURRENT)
August 1, 2008... There was always going to be a second round to the financial crisis that has enveloped global markets over the last nine months. The first stage, which ended in March, was followed by a period of consolidation, often interpreted as a sign that the worst was over. The logic of the first stage...

Social inequalities in China or crisis for Europe?(AGAINST THE CURRENT)
August 1, 2008... Readers in the West have for some time now associated the economic ascendancy of China with a proliferation of social conflicts and ongoing abuse of human rights. For those on both the Left and Right, there is a logic of affirmation about such tensions: state-capitalism is at its...

Tyranny in the dock.(AGAINST THE CURRENT)
August 1, 2008... After thirteen years of running from his crimes, the world's most wanted man has finally been captured. Serbian police made the arrest as this most famous of fugitives got off the number 83 bus in Belgrade. Radovan Karadzic has been wanted by the International War Crimes Tribunal for...

False dawn, genetically modified future.(AGAINST THE CURRENT)
August 1, 2008... The Australian community and state and federal governments are being seriously manipulated by the GM industry into rushing unthinkingly into the brave new world of GM food. Despite pumping millions of dollars into research on genetically manipulated crops, government has not properly...