Behind the neo-con curtain
by Norman Madarasz | Jun 26, 2003
Plato, Leo Strauss & Allan BloomLe Monde. In these days of cowardly journalism, it would be far too normal to let credit not lie where it is due.The fact remains that the...
An international decent work strategy
by John Langmore | Jun 26, 2003
… the United Nations shall promote: (a) higher standards of living, full employment, and conditions of economic and social progress and development;- Charter of the United...
Against despairing detachment
by Martha Nussbaum | Jun 26, 2003
Rules for the world stageThere once was a noble vision of what the world of international relations can be. In recent weeks this vision, once nearly realised, has receded from...
Working in America
by Roy Green | May 7, 2003
Review articleWhile many books written on the US economy and labour market of the 1990s have been superseded by events, Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market...
Trading our quality of life away
by Patricia Ranald | May 7, 2003
The US Free Trade Agreement and the GATSUS FTA: trading Australia away?Negotiations for an Australia-US Free Trade Agreement started on March 17 in Canberra, two days before the...
Towards the precipice
by Robert Brenner | May 7, 2003
At 6 am on 12 June 2002, four FBI agents barged into the SoHo loft of Samuel Waksal, the former CEO of the biotech company ImClone Systems Inc, and led him away in handcuffs: he...
The Iraq war
by Noam Chomsky | May 7, 2003
This interview was originally published by ZNet and is reproduced with kind permission.1) Why did the U.S. invade Iraq, in your view?These are naturally speculations, and policy...
Out of the rubble
by Paul McGeough | May 7, 2003
I spoke to the silver-haired old man again today. Up and down, he's been my barometer on the mood in Baghdad. He was eager for the overthrow of the regime, but tearful when his...
Intellectuals, democracy and empire
by Robert Blecher | May 7, 2003
'Free people will set the course of history' As the Bush administration struggled to find a justification for launching an attack on Iraq, churning out sketchy intelligence...
Inserting a new dialectic
by Kevin Rudd | May 7, 2003
Governance'The question today is not whether or not we want to have globalisation,' observed the former Socialist Prime Minister of France, Lionel Jospin, during an official...