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1. Behind the Confederate Flag controversy

   Day on January 19. January 19 is the birthday of rebel traitor General Robert E. Lee. Top officials ... give it up willingly. They are not supporters of genuine democracy. The rich and powerful white men who ...

2. WTO: Worldwide protests oppose corporate trade

   following allegations by Third World officials that they were being intimidated by representatives of rich ... complaints about the US's imperial behaviour in Doha, exemplified by US trade representative Robert ...

3. Sinking the WTO

   the problems and the rich, industrialised countries have gathered all the benefits. They therefore ... Moore, US trade representative Robert Zoellick and European trade commissioner Pascal Lamy were all ...

4. Juicy, velvety and lethal polemic

   Lapham is at his cutting best when penning portraits of the leading lights of the US state. Judge Robert ... adjectives. For lethal polemic with a literary flourish, this is rich, nutritious fare indeed. ...

5. Shellcove Marina: a test of ALP policy

   development, professional engineer and water quality expert Rudy Van Drie; underwater diving expert Robert ... rich? Or will he support his own coastal policy, which helped him to win the 1995 election? [Mairi ...

6. Rolling over the membership

   tax rates for the rich from 60 to 47% while the corporate rate dropped from 49 to 33%. Social ... Hand, followed by Nick Bolkus, to slash migration and family reunion, Robert Tickner and Frank Walker to ...

7. Artist and revolutionary

   beer drinkers and the unemployed?". Art critic Robert Hughes was still flailing away in 1970: ... rich in lessons on the successful uniting of art and politics. Best described as "social ...

8. Lone canoe, with waves

   unfortunately rich history of Trotskyist and other socialist intellectuals renouncing Marxism for the delights ... inconsistencies — supporting Israel, admiring secretary of defence Robert McNamara, disdaining black militancy ...

9. France: Melenchon shakes up presidential poll

   2002, Laguiller and Besancenot won more support than the PCF’s Robert Hue (3.4%). By 2007, the PCF vote ... neoliberalism and the call for a “citizen’s revolution” against the bankers and the ruling rich. Melenchon sees ... that an alternative policy to neoliberal austerity actually exists ― to make the rich and the bankers ...

10. Rise of the populationists greenwashes racism

    Rockefeller Trust and former US secretary of defense Robert McNamara, had failed to make a dent in population ... inequality. Talking about population serves to shift blame from the rich in the West onto those who are least ... shift blame from the rich in the West onto those who are least to blame. ...

11. Coal seam gas: rural NSW says no

    in-seam wells” (also know as “directional drilling” in the US.) Dart CEO Robert de Weijer said: “The way ... nutrient-rich earth is used for grazing beef cattle and sheep, as well as crops. Many farming families in the ... area at the forefront of the coal seam gas boom. The rolling green hills, forests rich in biodiversity ...

12. How the West exploits Africa

    destruction of the Zimbabwean economy, for instance, is not just a result of President Robert Mugabe's ... the most mineral-rich countries in the world. Less than a year later, the US and Belgium conspired to ... immensely rich from his cut from copper and gold exports and from pocketing "development aid", the ...

13. Carbon trading — privatising the world's forests

    faced widespread criticism for, in effect, privatising forests and allowing rich nations to evade ... across regions and the globe. Ellen Roberts, a member of the Friends of the Earth (FoE) climate justice ... demand a framework that really protects the world's intact native forests. Last year, the rich ...

14. Iraq: Corporate greed drives war and occupation

    Washington's domination of the oil-rich Middle East. At a White House meeting the day after the 9/11 terrorist ... administration, including Richard Armitage, Robert Zoellick and Zalmay Khalilzad (who is now US ambassador to ... of US soldiers for the bottom-lines of the corporate rich is nothing new. As US Major-General Smedley ...

15. WORLD ECONOMY: US outflanked in Eurasian energy politics

    total China oil imports, Beijing has become more active in the states bordering the oil-rich Gulf of ... a contender in a high-stakes game of potential regime change in neighbouring, oil-rich Chad. Earlier this ... Leading neo-conservative ideologue Robert Kagan wrote a prominent opinion piece on it in the April 30 ...

16. The secret war against the defenceless people of West Papua

    people. Indonesia's brutal occupation of West Papua, a vast, resource-rich province — stolen from its ... noted the "horrible irony" of hunger in such an "immensely rich" province. According ... minister, Senator Robert Hill, described Kopassus as having "the most effective capability to respond ...

17. UNITED STATES: Why AMFA represents future for mechanics at United Airlines

    448 May 16, 2001 BY MALIK MIAH & RICH LESNIK SAN FRANCISCO — Mechanics and utility workers at ... Tom Buffenbarger and transportation coordinator Robert Roach have denounced AMFA as ... Miah and Rich Lesnik are mechanics at United Airlines in San Francisco and members of the AMFA UAL ...

18. IRAQ: No blood for oil!

    exporter. Thomas Ferguson and Robert Johnson noted in the October 13 Los Angeles Times that a "glance ... Francaise des Petroles 23.75%; and Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (an extremely rich Armenian oil magnate) 5%. ... presence in the strategic, oil-rich Middle East and ensure that business gets back to "normal" ...

19. The bell tolls for us

    cents. Leading ethicists, such as Professor Robert Goodin and Pam Kinnear of the Australia Institute, ... secondly, if the rate of payment for unemployed people goes up, so too will minimum-wage rates. The rich ... economic fundamentalist solution of "cut taxes by abolishing welfare". Whether you are rich or ...

20. ZIMBABWE: Socialist MP survives challenge from MDC right

    the country's predominantly white rich commercial farmers, some of whom have influential ... Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to posture as the champion of land redistribution, even though he had done ... of the rich", he said. He added that there was no split between the MDC and ISO: "ZANU-PF ...

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