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1. Write on: Letters to the editor

   political body; i.e. an Australian Student Party. Robert Stephen Sydney Hanson I agree with Dave Riley (GLW ... Industry and the Coalition government are energetically for a GST so as to benefit the rich at the expense ... a lifelong Liberal voter, I am appalled. When is this government going to do something for the rich? Brent ...

2. Write on: Letters to the editor

   administrations, present students and rich dummies). Allow universities to sell degrees directly to whoever has the ... without overcrowding HECS-paying students, and the rich will save much valuable time. A similar system ... or want this? John Roberts Widjabul clan Bundjalung Nation Hong Kong hand-over I am apprehensive at ...

3. US airline workers debate ownership plan

   132 February 23, 1994 By Malik Miah and Rich Lesnik By mid-year the largest airline in the ... According to the Wall Street Journal, "Labor Secretary Robert Reich helped broker the buyout ... strike, and as we have done in the past. Malik Miah and Rich Lesnik are employed by United Airlines in San ...

4. Kenyans fight Western-backed dictator

   publicly exposed in 1990 when Moi assassinated his foreign minister, Dr Robert Ouko, who had approached the ... security for the people who have been displaced from their land. The poor are very poor, and the rich are ... very rich. President Moi is reputed to be one of the richest people in the world. There even used to be ...

5. Inquiry annoys big media, but could hurt alternative media

   concentrated nature of the media.” La Trobe Univeristy politics professor Robert Manne said on The Monthly ’s ...

6. Walls and death: Europe’s refugee crisis is a crisis of politics

   should take responsibility for the refugees in Calais continues, British immigration minister Robert ... neoliberal policies on living standards. This racist scapegoating is also used by politicians in other rich ... rich and poor,” Katja Maurer, spokesperson for the refugee advocacy organisation Medico, told Deutsche ...

7. BRITAIN: The great betrayal

   hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs and income inequality has grown while tax for the rich has ... fallen. For the first eight years of Thatcher, the rich paid 60% income tax. Under Blair, they pay 40%. If ... rich. Much of the promised billions will go on wasteful "private finance initiatives" that ...

8. AFGHANISTAN: Taliban: Made by the USA

   The oil-rich Saudi Arabian monarchy — which was also committed to spreading an extremely ... 1996. (According to Robert Fisk, writing in the September 26 British Independent, Saudi Arabia's ... Afghanistan by it and the ISI, especially those dedicated to overthrowing strategic oil-rich Arab and Central ...

9. Humphrey McQueen on WikiLeaks: Yes, Virginia, there are conspiracies

   to be found in dictionaries but through examining the operation of social power (see Robert Spicer, ... be considered in …. every case as a combination of the rich to oppress the poor, and preserve to ... town. Two contacts were crucial. The first was the chair of the National Union, (Sir) Robert Knox, which ...

10. Summer reading: Recommended books of the year

    A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng Yellow Jersey Press, 2011 Gary Speed hanged ... attempted suicide. Welcome to the world of professional sport. Robert Enke was set to become the long-term ... it is, globally. Governments work for the rich, assault the environment and crush their citizens. ...

11. Write on

    hear) the anticipation that riches and honours will fall out of the sky on us — when the only assured ... Wailing Wall? Robert Wood Surry Hills NSW Vietnam A recent news report stated that, "A US official ... Robert Hughes is right in his assessment that being "politically correct" has become a kind of ...

12. Write on

    rich, who can at least be called to account — that is, if they still exist independently of ... conglomerates. Claire Wagner Albion Qld United front David Roberts (Write on, GLW No. 32) is obviously aware that ... think it a good idea. It is quite wrong for David Roberts to label this, and the "laconic" ...

13. 'Zuma Must Fall' and South Africa's left: Lessons from Zimbabwe

    nationalism.  We saw this with Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe after 1997. Desperate after losing key towns in the ... failed] to make any serious efforts at controlling the country’s riches for itself. Zimbabwe is endowed ...

14. The secret oil agenda driving the Guyana-Venezuela dispute

    expand its borders into the area west of the Essequibo River that was known to be rich in gold, the ... the “Schomburgk Line”, named after the explorer Robert Hermann Schomburgk, acquired a large portion of ...

15. Gas has worse climate footprint than coal

    the rich oil and gas fields of the Uinta Basin in eastern Utah. During the winter of 2011-12 the ... University scientist Robert Howarth, this study put leakage from the shale gas industry in the US at ...

16. Arab Spring: Power not giving up without bloody fight

    autocratic, oil-rich monarchies of the Gulf are central to Western concerns in the region. This is why the ... Renowned journalist Robert Fisk said in the June 14 Independent: “These are the very same doctors and ...

17. Noam Chomsky: ‘The Occupy movement is unprecedented’

    historian Robert Brenner is the falling rate of profit. There are other factors that led to major changes in ... world is dividing into a plutonomy [an economy controlled by the very rich] and that’s where the action ...

18. Can Africa survive Obama's advisors?

    poorer and serves the rich to become richer". Volcker served Richard Nixon as under-secretary of the ... under Summers and Robert Rubin in Bill Clinton's Treasury Department during the 1990s. Summers ...

19. United States: Stimulus package falls short

    the super-rich, these tax cuts are largely aimed at helping working people. The problem, though, is ... Obama prepared to sign the legislation, press secretary Robert Gibbs chose … a measure inserted into the ...

20. The summit with no answers

    Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the club of rich industrialised countries, predicts the world ... Bank forecasts a milder contraction of 1.7%. But in a speech in London, World Bank president Robert ...

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