Articles by Michael Green

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How Peace Journalism Can Deescalate Conflict in the Age of Trump and North Korea
Michael Greenwell – The Conversation, 4 Dec 2017

29 Nov 2017 – Close analysis of events through the lens of Peace Journalism can help theorise when media coverage may have helped escalate or deescalate conflict. PJ aims to improve the conditions for peace through a considered editorial approach and practice. It is a means to peace. Johan Galtung first theorised the notion of Peace Journalism in contrast to the notion of “War Journalism”.

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Waiting for the Myanmar Miracle
Michael Green & Daniel Twining – Foreign Policy, 23 Nov 2015

12 Nov 2015 – Myanmar’s election is a good reminder that authoritarian elites underestimate their political opponents at their peril. The [Aung San Suu Kyi’s] National League for Democracy won nearly three-quarters of the votes cast in last Sunday’s elections.

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GEORGE BUSH’S GIFT TO THE WORLD: THE END OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
David Michael Green, 1 Feb 2009

George W. Bush was unquestionably the worst American president in the two and a quarter centuries of the country’s existence. After all, James Buchanan, the previous aspirant to the title, merely did nothing while the South seceded. Hah! You’ll have to do better than that, Jimmy, if you want to wear this crown! Bush did […]

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PAYBACK?S A BITCH
David Michael Green, 20 Oct 2008

With apologies to Churchill (who owed a few of his own):  Never have so many been so wrong about so much. There are few things you’d less rather be right now than a conservative/regressive, and that is why.  It’s like the old Firesign Theater bit:  Everything You Know Is Wrong.  “Dogs flew spaceships!  The Aztecs […]

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AMERICA’S ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
David Michael Green, 6 Oct 2008

The second most astonishing thing about American politics is that John McCain and Sarah Palin have a respectable chance of winning the White House in 2008. (Or, for that matter, that any Republican could have a shot at any office for which the Democratic candidate hasn’t suddenly died on the stump.) Yeah, yeah, I know. […]

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