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Gore Book Criticizes “Politics of Fear”
“We live in an age when the thirty-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the US electorate’s thinking, and America is currently in the hands of an administration less interested than any previous government in sharing the truth with the citizenry.” So writes Al Gore in his harsh look at the state of America after almost eight years in which the values upon which the country was founded have been subverted or eroded “a politics of fear, secrecy and blind faith.” Continue reading
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Book Review – Not All Hope is Lost For Australia’s Modern Labor Party
This book review considers ‘Whitlam and Modern Labor – It’s Time Again’. The Whitlam Labor government of Australia – in the 1970s – was a watershed in Australian political history: with gains made in Indigenous rights, free education, socialised health – and more. The authors in this tome argue for a revivification of these values for the Australian Labor Party today. Continue reading
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Social Democracy – Not Dead Yet – A Response to Clive Hamilton
This critique of Clive Hamilton’s essay on the supposed ‘Death of Social Democracy’ contends that the issues of poverty, inequality, deprivation, social justice – have not disappeared – regardless of that author’s arguments for ‘post-materialism’. While post-materialism has much to say which is of value – social democracy is far from exhausted – and far from irrelevant. Continue reading
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