Kafka on Steroids: Summarising the Extradition Hearing of Julian Assange
[This is the second in a trilogy. The first, ‘‘Kafka on Acid’, covered the opening of Assange’s evidentiary hearing. The title of the third piece might be ‘Kafka on Amphetamines’ or maybe ‘Kafka Goes...
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Kafka Sunday Morning, Coming Down: Why Julian Assange is still caged
Friends and supporters of Julian Assange are tired, so very tired. We are tired of working on this campaign and also of bearing witness to the great suffering inflicted on one man. While it is often...
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Stand in Solidarity with Ken Loach: against the Israel lobby’s smear campaign
Ken Loach is one of Britain’s most revered and successful film-makers. His work Kes (1969), depicting the poetics and deprivation of northern English working-class life, was voted the seventh greatest...
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Editorial, Arena no. 5: Political Mutations
With the news cycle rushing on, with revelations about rape in high places, and racism still abounding in Australian football, against a COVID background more or less dire globally and the US election...
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The Palestinian Question: Celebrating the Liberal Media?
It’s so interesting to see the mainstream media in Australia begin to argue that reporting on Israel-Palestine is unbalanced. This is the theme of a small book by journalist John Lyons that has been...
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Controlling the Ukraine Narrative
When Elon Musk announced that he was going to attempt to ‘buy’ Twitter the response was predictably divided, but it still tells us something about the changed politics of much of the Left towards...
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