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ZIMBABWE: Letter from Harare
government of President Robert Mugabe has unleashed gangs of young people from the countryside to act as its ... the current crisis. Some have compared the MDC stayaways to the movement of the Venezuelan rich to ...
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Mugabe's Congo war unpopular
334 September 23, 1998 By Norm Dixon Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe's claim that his ... western powers, and that no compensation for the land would be paid to the rich farmers. In private, ...
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Letter from the US: Wealth inequality grows fives years on from Lehman collapse
so-called safety net 鈥 that of Megan Roberts. This story predates the crash. Roberts and her family had been ... hour, that ironically made things worse. In Roberts' own words: 鈥淭he dollar raise knocked us off ... If Richmond prevails, other cities might follow suit. When the laws of the market benefit the rich as ...
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ZIMBABWE: MDC, farm workers Mugabe's real target
rhetoric of President Robert Mugabe 鈥 seemingly bolstered by the criticisms and exaggerations of the ... Mugabe agreed, at London's insistence, that rich white farmers' land be acquired only on ... axed to death near Harare when he could not produce a ZANU-PF membership card. MDC organiser Robert ...
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TPP slammed: 'A wish list for giant corporations'
US-based progressive news show Democracy Now! spoke to Robert Weissman, president of the consumer advocacy ... countries, too, and we're seeing increasing levels of rationing in the rich countries. But in the poor ...
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ZIMBABWE: Labour movement debates response to poll fraud
mass mobilisations to block the return of the authoritarian capitalist regime of President Robert ... rewarded with assurances that rich farmers "willing to work with the government" will have their ...
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PNG: Carbon traders move in
Kamula Doso, told SBS he had refused to sign a deal with Australian carbon trader Kirk Roberts. "And ... cuts at home under the CPRS. The idea that rich countries should pay for preserving forests in the ... forests in the South to offset First World emissions would simply allow the rich countries to claim ...
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ZIMBABWE: Australian Democrats back white privilege, IMF austerity in Zimbabwe
commercial plantations by supporters of President Robert Mugabe. On April 10, Murray again pressed the ... the Senate Robert] Hill's statement that, whilst the issue of land ownership is sensitive, we ... redistribution only if the new government promised to obtain the rich white farmers' land on a "willing ...
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Trump's cabinet of horror starts to take shape
Evers Secretary of Energy: Venture Capitalist Robert Grady Businessman Harold Hamm Secretary of Health ... and Human Services: Former New Jersey state Sen. Rich Bagger Ben Carson Former US House Speaker Newt ... Venture Capitalist Robert Grady Businessman Harold Hamm Oil Executive Forrest Lucas Rep. Cynthia Lummis ...
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WTO: First World blackmail pays off in Qatar
After their miserable failure at Seattle two years ago, rich countries were desperate that the Qatar ... of the WTO and a subsequent weakening of their economic grasp, rich countries, led by the United ... trade representative Robert Zoellick and European Union trade commissioner Pascal Lamy have toured the ...
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Gaddafi tries to crush rising, West threatens attack
army, recaptured the oil-rich town of Brega, west of Benghazi. 鈥淭he army has also proved unable to ward ...
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Messages to congratulate 91自拍论坛's 1000th issue
agendas of the rich and powerful is a wonderful achievement. The paper鈥檚 longevity is testament to the ... Even though the capitalist media and many historians fail to acknowledge the existence and richness and ... /donate/details Robert Graham, Canada Just wanted to send congrats from Canada on your 1000th issue. I remember ...
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Why we're increasingly disaffected with capitalist 'democracy'
Cold War", Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam, in their editorial introduction to this book, ask ... three imperialist blocs. The Trilateral Commission was founded in 1973 by super-rich US financier David ...
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Ten propositions on the climate crisis
order and to ensure that increasingly scarce water, food and energy resources are preserved for the rich ... and to feed the material requirements of corporate enterprise. Robert Heilbroner predicted this ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
empowering thing. Wayne Roberts National coordinator, Australian Bisexual Network Jabiluka Congratulations on ... right wing to do? Broaden the tax base by taxing rich individuals and corporations? In fact, pushing an ... and its two-party system has managed to impose policies which steadily widen the gap between rich and ...
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Greetings from around Australia for 91自拍论坛's 20th anniversary
offering a voice to the refugee rights movement in Australia. 鈥 Marcus Roberts. Congratulations to Green ... excellent, very rich in up to date information as per usual. Boldly revolting Egyptian and Middle Eastern ...
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The left turn in US politics
listen." Last week, Clinton joined West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd in sponsoring legislation repealing ... way or the highway' style of leadership". Even neo-con Robert Kagan, cofounder of the ... in the percentage of Americans who agree with the statement that 'the rich get richer while the ...
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West Papua: 'They kill us to get our resources' &&
according to Australian defence minister Robert Ray, be improved by training in Australia. The Papuans see ... government. Dispossessed landowner Robert: "I say: this is my land, this is my mountain. But the ... What do you receive in exchange for the land? Robert: "Twenty-five years they have Freeport here, ...
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New Zealand: Left must be part of internet freedom fight
international human rights lawyer Robert Amsterdam and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Carolan said the ... also a member of Socialist Aotearoa, said: 鈥淭onight鈥檚 meeting comes from a rich tradition of protest ... candidate Laila Harre, Robert Amsterdam, Gl World ...
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Tarzan, a colonial symbol of bigotry
Robert W. Fenton McFarland & Co., 2010, 212 pages, $49.95 (pb) Edgar Rice Burroughs was in ... 1933, writes Robert Fenton in his biography of the US author. Burroughs, though not one-tenth the writer ... rich, for the poor have no tax to pay鈥. Not surprisingly, among Tarzan鈥檚 regular arch-enemies were ...