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Keywords: Apocalypse

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A brief history of the car bomb

    • Gary Pearce
    • 18 May 2007

    A new book shows how the history of a technology can be used for exploring some of the key forces and events of an age. The future could have us all living in red zones, and subject to surveillance, police checks and suspended civil liberties.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Climate change - it's the apocalypse, stupid

    • Mark Byrne
    • 27 February 2007
    1 Comment

    Like many other politicians and scientists, the man who "used to be the next President of the United States" thinks that "the most serious crisis ever confronting human civilisation is this climate crisis". At the same time, in An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary about his travelling climate change slide show, Al Gore laments his failure to have shifted US government policy on the issue.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Slow progress with North Korea is better than no progress

    • Joseph Camilleri
    • 30 October 2006
    8 Comments

    The North Korean regime is more likely to be loosened from its present grip on power by the slow but persistent attempts to change the economic and psychological landscape inside North Korea, than by the external application of brute force.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Worth a fatwa?

    • Peter Pierce & Catherine Pierce
    • 02 July 2006

    Has Michel Houellebecq earned the criticism that has come his way?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Ethics in a time of terror

    • Godfrey Moase
    • 08 May 2006

    Godfrey Moase reviews Peter Singer’s The president of good & evil and Patricia Marchak’s Reigns of Terror.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Jeb Bartlet for president

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 08 May 2006

    ‘We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president’, said Michael Moore at the 2003 Academy Awards. Nothing has happened yet.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Morag Fraser, Allan James Thomas , Zane Lovitt, Siobhan Jackson
    • 29 April 2006

    Reviews of the films Alexander, Closer, Sideways and Million Dollar Baby.

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