By Mark Bahnisch on January 5, 2010
There’s an interesting link in a recent post by John Quiggin; discussion among folks he terms market liberals about eschewing the term ‘capitalism’. I can well remember when it came back into fashion as a descriptor beloved of triumphalist neo-liberals, [...]
Posted in Economics, Language, Markets, Politics | Tagged Capitalism, GFC, global financial crisis, ideology, John Quiggin, market liberals, neo-liberalism, rebranding |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 5, 2010
I made a comment on my previous post that the result (or lack of result) from COP is likely to be both discouraging to many activists and to provoke rethinking about strategy and tactics. In order to stimulate discussion about [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Developing world, International | Tagged Activism, Climate change, climate change policy, Copenhagen, developing countries, localism, Open Democracy, Rupert Read |
By Robert Merkel on January 5, 2010
This Radio National Law Report story is not new, but it’s still compelling listening or reading. The report suggests that the Queensland Department of Child Safety is a) being proactive in removing children where they perceive a risk, without hard [...]
Posted in Parenting, Queensland |
By Robert Merkel on January 4, 2010
On the long trip home to see the extended family at Christmas time, having the ABC’s cricket commentary interrupted by the Country Hour for a retrospective of “the decade in dairying” was about as appealing as hosing out the dairy [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Trade |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 4, 2010
Possum has an invaluable table of Coalition seats at risk, based on the latest Newspoll quarterly polling (of which, more commentary here from The Poll Bludger). It’s interesting to observe that the great majority of the seats at most risk [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Polls | Tagged Coalition, Newspoll, polling, possum, quarterly Newspoll, Queensland, seats, Western Australia |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 4, 2010
One of the accusations frequently made by climate change deniers or ‘skeptics’ against those who would like to see concerted action taken to ameliorate the impacts of anthropogenic global warming is that of being somehow apocalyptic. A related charge is [...]
Posted in Activism, Apocalypse, Authoritarianism, Climate change, Disasters, Economics, Energy, Environment, History, International, Politics, Religion, Sociology, Technology | Tagged AGW, anthropogenic global warming, Apocalypse, Capitalism, Climate change, climate change denialism, collective action, conservatism, contingency, Culture, disavowal, ecology, end of history, Energy, History, ideology, necessity, neo-liberalism, non-renewable resources, peak oil, Politics, resources, Science, Slavoj Žižek, the imaginary, utopia, world politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 3, 2010
Open Democracy has asked a range of its contributors to answer the following questions: A volcanic decade in global politics ends amid deep unease about the world’s ability to rise to key 21st-century challenges. openDemocracy writers draw breath and look [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, Developing world, Economics, Environment, International, Markets, Politics, Security, Sociology, Terrorism, The Web, War | Tagged agriculture, Authoritarianism, barack obama, China, civil liberties, Climate change, conflict resolution, Copenhagen, decade, democratisation, Developing world, development, ecology, end of history, food security, GFC, global financial crisis, global politics, globalisation, human rights, humanitarianism, inequality, international law, Madagascar, Mark Lynas, millennium goals, neo-liberalism, Open Democracy, peacekeeping, retrospective, statism, Terrorism, torture, UN, USA, War, world economy |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 2, 2010
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Happy New Year, new year, Saturday Salon |
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