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Remembering Berta Cáceres, assassinated Honduras indigenous and environmental leader
ROBERT REDFORD: Berta filed complaints with the Honduran government and organized peaceful protests in ... ROBERT REDFORD: For well over a year, the Lenca maintained the roadblock, with standing harassment and ... narrated by Robert Redford. In accepting the award, Cáceres vowed to continue standing up for the rights ...
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Who trusts the government?
Troubling the Trilateral Countries?, Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam analyse the results of surveys ... conducted in the rich industrially developed countries. They find a sharp decline in confidence in ... 18 out of 20 rich countries, the proportion of the electorate voting was lower than it was in the ...
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Summer reading: recommended books of 2013
pay-anything-or-nothing at stephaniemcmillan.org. Robert W McChesney Professor of Communication, author Reign of Error: ... citizens not just in Britain but against pretty much every other country in the world, rich and poor. ... of Robert Brenner and his followers — and also stakes out his own position on them. As he is ...
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Corporations and climate change
product development Robert A. Lutz told reporters in a closed-door meeting in January, is "a total ... doctoral thesis research by Guy Pearse, formerly an adviser to Liberal Environment Minister Robert Hill, ... climate disaster is to move swiftly to a zero-emissions world economy. In rich countries like Australia, ...
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Global warming: The world is skating on thin ice
extent to which their paymasters, and rich-country governments, are responsible for the crisis will be ... the May 27 release of The Day After Tomorrow, the corporate media has often turned to Robert Balling, ... we'd have aliens come down and invade us from space’, laughed Robert Balling, who argues against ...
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Why the New Right is divided
Quadrant editor Robert Manne, includes the present deep recession, the de-industrialisation of Australia ... business and the rich. There was never a break with the mentality that big business should get as much as ... business and the rich largely through tax cuts, real wage cuts and privatisation. With the recession ...
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NSW protesters: 'We will break these laws'
policing Ecofascism Gadigal Country/Sydney "This is a law to protect the rich. We will need to break ... president of Stop CSG Sydney, condemned mining and energy minister Anthony Roberts for saying the new law ...
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John Pilger: Suffering of Aboriginal people continues
historian Stephen Roberts, "since they were completely amoral and incapable of sincere and prolonged ... benefited Aboriginal communities, whose poverty is an enduring shock. In Roeburne, in the minerals-rich ...
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The book Tony Blair doesn’t want you to read
tried to prop up its interests in the resource-rich region by any means possible. Radical Islamists ... Ahmed Sukarno was also seen as a threat. Sir Robert Scott, Britain's commissioner-general in ...
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Emails reveal corporate plot to silence WikiLeaks
that there is in fact a class war going on, and it is the rich and powerful who are waging it. “Anyone ... that is something that really needs to come out. “[PM Julia] Gillard and [Attorney-General Robert ...
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Coal seam gas — dirtier than coal, worse than shale
surface waters, while taking rich farmland out of food production. But at least, its promoters argue, coal ... journal Climatic Change, was conducted by a team under Cornell University environmental biologist Robert ...
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Libya: West’s bombs no solution
Herald said Robert Cooper, one of the EU’s highest-ranking diplomats, had dismissed the Bahrain violence, ... countries in the oil-rich region to Western corporate interests. Of course, the rebels celebrated the ...
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After Canberra is nuked
conscription in World War I and the defeat of Robert Menzies' attempt to ban the Australian Communist ... justify the plunder of the impoverished Third World by the rich nations and multinational corporations. ...
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Killers for hire
a Blackwater deployment to Azerbaijan in the oil and gas-rich Caspian Sea region to patrol pipelines, train an ... Blackwater's Stallone and Scwharzenegger clones are petrol to the blaze in Iraq. Middle East reporter Robert ...
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Iraq: Five years on, Bush still promises 'victory'
Les Roberts, one of the authors of the Lancet study, noted that the " NEJM article found ... Terror", claiming — without any evidence — that the secular Baath Party government of oil-rich Iraq had ...
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John Pilger: Bringing down the new Berlin Walls
vast nuclear arsenal. Robert McNamara, the US defence secretary during the Cuban crisis, describes this ... in the economics departments of leading universities. This is neoliberalism — socialism for the rich ...
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In brief
births and deaths in the 17.8 months afterwards. The research was led by Les Roberts of the Johns Hopkins ... dwindled in the last decade, caused by the exhaustion of its rich phosphate deposits and the subsequent ...
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World Bank guru reveals crimes of the free market
Stanley Fischer, backed by then-US treasury secretary Robert Rubin and his deputy, Lawrence Summers, ... Stiglitz writes: “One could only ask, was Fischer being richly rewarded for having faithfully executed what ...
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UNITED STATES: Anti-war coalitions demand 'Bring the troops home now!'
Stripes report noted. "These are rich men in expensive suits conducting statecraft not to protect the ... a while, and the level of public protest naturally fell off", he told Robert Jensen, a journalism ...
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IRAQ: US still calls the shots
Bush's envoy to Iraq, Robert D. Blackwill, 'railroaded' the Governing Council into coalescing ... objective behind Washington's invasion and occupation of the oil-rich Middle East country. Using the US ...