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The population bunk
Reviewed by Chase Madar In 1798, a dour young cleric named Thomas Robert Malthus invented overpopulation. ... still rules. So what rich Hong Kong has a higher population density than wretched Bangladesh? So what if ...
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Howard steps up environmental blackmail
minister for the environment Senator Robert Hill said that the government would ensure that the Senate was ... proposes recouping unpaid taxes from the "mega-rich". "There is $850 million in lost revenue ...
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Why Elvis had to be destroyed
Soul Music and Feel Like Going Home to name the essential — he paints a glorious picture of the rich ... him", reported Robert Henry, a Beale Street promoter. Nat Williams, MC at the Palace Theatre amateur ...
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The anatomy of PC
response to this phenomenon is no better. He quotes Robert Hughes, writing in Time magazine: "Since ... itself being an unanswerable form of ridicule." Wilson documents the PC bashers' rich ...
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Foreign investment in China picks up steam
such as Daimler-Benz, Volkswagen, Robert Bosch GMBH, Porsche, Citroen and Peugeot, and Suzuki, Toyota ... residential property, coming from China's new rich and those funded by overseas relatives. A recent ...
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Write on
do. Tom Flanagan Chippendale NSW [Edited for length.] Two laws Robert Wood received over payments of ... highlighted just how some of the rich high flyers have misused millions. Now to me this seems a fair bit more ...
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Write on
remains true that overpopulation causes poverty. However population growth also occurs amongst rich people ... in rich counties, so measures to relieve poverty whilst necessary in their own right, may be ... importantly — keep telling it like it is. Robert Graham Katanning WA Growth economy I thought the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ ...
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Why celebrate Eureka?
and rich, in previously exclusive and refined establishments of Sydney and Melbourne. But the ... Melbourne had already begun to talk of forging a new, independent nation from the newly found riches ... Commissioner Robert Rede ordered a brutal licence raid and his soldiers drew their swords and fixed their ...
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UNITED STATES: Airline workers face-off carriers and Bush
444 April 11, 2001 BY MALIK MIAH & RICH LESNIK SAN FRANCISCO — George W. Bush campaigned for ... Star-Tribune.) The IAM national leadership was less critical of Bush. Robert Roach, general vice-president of ... rank-and-file alternative. [Malik Miah and Rich Lesnik work as mechanics for United Airlines in San Francisco ...
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SOUTH AFRICA: Social movements march on Earth Summit
Sandton City skyscraper and shopping mall. What relationship do Alexandrans have with their rich ... movement intoned "Viva Robert Mugabe, Viva! — Viva ZANU-PF, Viva!", to strong applause from the ... formidable barriers into this country's rich leftist history and future. [Patrick Bond teaches at ...
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Under construction: the global empire
between the rich North (all the OECD countries) and the poor South (the rest of the world). Then ... rich countries, the elite is perhaps 5-10% of the population, and the middle class is really quite ... How did we get to such a situation? In the 18th century, the gap between the poor and the rich nations ...
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Civil rights: how free are we really?
conspiracy to murder NSW Nazi leader Robert Cameron. The crown's case was based on the concoctions of ... scarcer, this philosophy can be universally characterised as a war of the rich and powerful against the ... the alienated games of capitalism. And while each rich nation makes war on its own poor, collectively ...
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Essential guide to the US election
two years ago. Palast's fellow investigator, attorney Robert F Kennedy Jr- who Palast calls ... And Rove knows how to do it. "He became rich as owner of a direct mail company and was, in ...
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Revolutionary rappers aim to work like Chavez
with a rich, haunting, full-blooded vocal that instantly conjours up an image of Chavez. But the ... as Robert Mugabe and Muammar Gaddafi would ultimately limit his appeal, even on the international ...
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Defying the regime — Iran's people demand change
a hardline anti-Western stance. The US, which lost a major proxy in the oil-rich region when the Shah was ... between the contenders. In a June 20 Independent article, British journalist Robert Fisk argued that, ...
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David Spratt: Powerful working towards climate talks disaster
agreement that could be more posturing than progress". Grist.org columnist David Roberts sees the ... important meeting in the history of the human species" is "pie in the sky" because rich ...
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Climate change: the eco-socialist solution
territory, and we have no idea if we can live in it", said climate scientist Robert Corell in 2007. Even ... considering how unfair it is to expect mainly poor countries to offset the emissions of the rich, it's ...
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Spinning the news — Venezuela and the 'FARC files'
the first time and Washington is rich in talent to do it. Independent computer experts are also ... Venezuela. Commander of the National War College, General Robert Steel added that: \"The United ...
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Class struggle, not the market, to save the planet
still being deployed by US President George Bush, like World Bank head Robert Zoellick. There is ... bigger luxury consumption tax on the rich who can afford it, and probably won't even really notice ...
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UNITED STATES: What's behind Washington's new 'global military posture'
General Robert Pollman, the chief engineer for US base construction in Iraq as saying: "Is this ... corporate domination of the oil-rich region and shoring up shaky US client regimes. Even now that the ...