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The cost of nuclear waste: infinity dollars
Subscribe to 91自拍论坛 now! You can also like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Adnyamathanha women ... the world's spent reactor fuel. Approval for the project is expected to be given on May 6 when ... report released on February 15 spoke glowingly of the waste storage scheme, claiming that the plan was ...
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Middle East: 'An incredible display of people power'
what's happening on the ground, and how politics and wars are affecting the poor and oppressed. That is ... weapons, controlling Palestinian civilians 鈥 old, young, men, women 鈥 and treating them as less than human. ... provide an accurate image of what's happening on the ground. He responded that because of the ...
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Action now to stop bad refugee policy
government's immigration policies. However, no sooner had the ink dried on the Palmer inquiry's ... resettlement in Australia even if their claims for refugee status are recognised. Men, women and children would ... Australia's immigration laws. Having won an election on the strength of its "border protection" ...
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Arabunna people: Stop Roxby mine!
Territory to perform a ceremony on Arabunna land in an attempt to prove traditional links to the land. This ... approval for pipeline work and a new bore-field and test bores on Arabunna land. In 1997, the Arabunna ... Nulla Kari-Ku Wanga Association was formed to fight polices and practices that infringe on Arabunna ...
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Marcel Cartier gets his rap lines from the frontline
position on Palestinian liberation by falling into the 鈥減roxy war鈥 trap that demonises all the forces who ... clarity of a clarion call- and the messages on his latest album are as loud and clear as ever. As he tells ... a degree of neutrality and at least quasi-objetivity in the way you not only report but behave yourself on ...
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Free movement around a free globe
Afghanistan condemns many women to beg on the street because they have been banned from working. Is this ... convention's enactment 鈥 the height of the Cold War 鈥 it was designed in part to make ideological mileage out ... "Free World". The post-war economic boom also created a generalised thirst for labour in the ...
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Why the Democrats split
forthright (for example, the Greens' stand on asylum seekers and opposition to war has won them ... plenty of proof. The "reporting" on the resignation of former Democrats leader Meg Lees and the ... Australia's corporate elite have been salivating over for some time, but on any issue that the ALP still feels ...
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World scientists' warning to humanity
world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the ... environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the ... endangers food production and other essential human systems. Heavy demands on the world's surface ...
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TURKEY: The death fast of Behic Asci
as a partner in the "war on terrorism". Only strong support and solidarity from human ... rights supporters around the world. Asci began the death fast on International Lawyer's Day, April ... of Asci's clients, both men and women, had been raped while in custody, often by prison guards ...
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UNITED STATES: Racism and the wealth gap
racism. Historical racism is racism woven into society on every level 鈥 the bedrock of US society rooted ... slave system was abolished with the crushing of the slave owners in the Civil War. Unfortunately, ... industries, blacks suffered tough discrimination until legal action was taken based on the new laws in the ...
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Zagreb's struggling antiwar newspaper
two abbreviations 鈥 ARK for Anti War Campaign and zin for fanzine) is the monthly newspaper of Antiwar ... women's initiatives, the Croatian Helsinki Committee and the civil initiative for freedom of public word); ... and banned people, and various marginal groups); reports on violations of human rights and freedom of ...
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'Bill of Rights needed'
a trial by jury, for the jury to decide on guilt and innocence and for the court to sentence. When that ... "feeling that they are the ones deciding someone's guilt or innocence. They put on the black hat and ... system." Critical for McNish is "a whole new rethink of our attitude to drugs. The majority of women ...
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Falling like rain
a life-altering revelation. A Bessie Smith record on ABC radio 20-odd years ago did it for me; some old Robert ... in the foreword, was the target of right-wing Cold War attacks (these days the 1994 re-issue would be ... lethal to prisoners. Of the 3100 men and two dozen women executed by electric chair during the '30s ...
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After the cyclone: rebuilding in Bangladesh
1971, during the Bangladesh-Pakistan war, and has long provided relief and medical aid to the poor, ... arrived in southern Bangladesh on May 2, and the first relief materials arrived the following day. After ... are some 300 such shelters built around the coastal belt of Bangladesh, raised on eight metre columns ...
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Supporting the poor against the rich
many Nicaraguans to survive 20 years of natural disaster, revolution, economic blockade and war ... unions, individual producers, women's organisations, community groups, local government and ... can lay hands on, as parrots, armadillos, monkeys and leopard cubs. The FACS consultations came up ...
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Can Australian nationalism be progressive?
sent troops to China and Malaysia, and the Korean, Vietnam and Gulf wars 鈥 always on the side of the ... paid less than the award rate. Aboriginal women working on stations as domestics were excluded from the ... Workplace Relations Bill in Canberra on August 19, 1996. Many people responded to One Nation by saying that ...
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Iran may be the greatest crisis of modern times
being prosecuted as war criminals, Blair as a private citizen may no longer be untouchable. On March 20, ... and some were dying", she says. "Then my mother saw these German women looking at the ... Bush-Cheney-Blair "long war" edges closer to Iran for no reason other than that nation's independence ...
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Sympathy for the devil: Film justifies Thatcher's crimes
a determined reformer, taking on the power of vested interests (whether the toffs of the Tory party or the ... from. The sinking of the Argentinean warship General Belgrano, during the brief but brutal British war ... focuses on the Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombing campaign within Britain- particularly the attack on the ...
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The politics of postmodernism
post-structuralism in philosophy or post-feminism in women's collectives, in the last analysis it all boils down ... which postmodernism is either a critique or a continuation depending on which postmodernist you read. ... Modernism Modernism is premised on the view that human beings have begun to seize control of history; that ...
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Basque Country: Left nationalists rising
inheritance tax and a war on tax evasion (already under way in Gipuskoa). Savings would be centred on wasteful ... have portrayed this as involving a war on Castilian (Spanish), spoken by a large majority in Euskadi. ... candidates 50% men and 50% women. Campaign dynamics To date, the highest vote for the broad Basque ...