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  1. Population and the environment

    must go hand in hand with lower birth rates. Women burdened with 10 children do not have the energy to ... fight for social change. Literacy rates for women around the world are inversely proportional to birth ... nutrition. Better distribution of food and an end to war would do much to relieve this, but let us heed the ...

  2. EAST ASIA: Japan takes role as Washington's deputy

    tone on China. Stating that the US has "considerable differences about values" with China, ... a member of the World Trade Organisation. On February 7 in Tokyo, under-secretary of state John Bolton, ... as is Japan's". On February 16, CIA director Porter Goss told a Senate committee that ...

  3. The clash of ignorance

    War, Huntington's terms of argument seemed compellingly large, bold, even visionary. He very ... clearly had his eye on rivals in the policy-making ranks, theorists such as Francis Fukuyama and his ... "global politics is likely to be in the coming years". Unhesitatingly he pressed on: "It is my ...

  4. United States: What every Black man must learn

    Justice means dismantling the "war on drugs," which is the pretext for passing laws that target ... most relentless multiracial struggle against racism. Trayvon is the latest casualty in a war on Black ... America. It's time that we declare war on institutional racism. * * * Brian Jones: In his classic book ...

  5. Get to know your local ruling class

    book features a chapter on the sexist exclusion of women from boardrooms and on the role of think tanks ... added on! Georgina Murray, an academic at Griffith University, has performed a great service with ... to spill the truth, she exposes a ruling class based on economic domination. These people compete ...

  6. The CPSU and welfare reform

    unilaterally decided not to take a position on other proposals in the report, such as the extension of ... pressure on the federal government to back down would be more possible. What excuses have the CPSU ... economic and political framework of the report? Excuse 1: "We can't take a position on mutual ...

  7. Exposing Australia's role in East Timor

    on the abuse of East Timor's women. The essay on the Sanctuary Network for the East Timorese ... afflicting the Indonesian dictatorship. Protests on June 6 and 10, involving thousands of East Timorese in ... Xanana Gusmao, a Timorese referendum on independence, the return of the bodies of the victims killed at ...

  8. Grassroots organising in the Philippines

    a political federation of different grassroots organisations: trade unions (KMU), women (Gabriela), farmers ... Congress. We basically have two immediate demands on the foreign debt campaign. One is the repeal of the ... that after November the campaign will move on to a new phase: against the conditions for the structural ...

  9. US refugee deal is inhumane politicking

    and reeks of political expediency. Devil in the detail The deal announced on November 13 is to give ... resettlement. Turnbull has refused to answer questions on the number of people who will be resettled, saying it ... president and will be able to veto the deal. Trump’s position on the deal is unknown, although he said in ...

  10. John Lennon and the sixties

    of John Lennon in Lennon Park, Havana, Cuba on December 8. It was the 20th anniversary of ... WorldοΏ½ also awakened. In the United States, a century after the Civil War, black people fought for the ... and women, for workers and the poor, for the sick, the ignorant, and the marginalised. They believed ...

  11. Global problems need global solutions

    solve enormous environmental and social problems through population control measures. Women have been ... estimated that 45% of Brazilian women of child-bearing age have been sterilised, yet many would argue that ... impact on the environment because, "Even relatively poor people in Australia have homes, take ...

  12. SAUDI ARABIA: Saving oil monarchy is key US concern

    attacks. There is no doubt that the US "war on terror", particularly the invasion and occupation ... US military presence since the 1990-91 Gulf War, when it acted as a staging post for US attacks on ... BY ROHAN PEARCE At midnight on November 8, an explosion rocked the al Muhaya complex in Riyadh, ...

  13. African Americans and Occupy: Convergence of interests

    and civil disobedience pressure. The most energised and committed group in unions ready to take on the ... on postal service A case in point is the United States Postal Service (USPS) that the right wing has ... reliance on these jobs has provided African Americans a path upward,” said Robert H. Zieger, emeritus ...

  14. Nicaraguans' vote for Ortega shows identification with '79 revolution

    programmatically indistinguishable from the FSLN, except on the important question of women's right to ... devastation and hardship brought on by eight years of the US-orchestrated Contra war. But the new order ... of this tug-of-war depends not only on the will of the FSLN leadership or only on forces within ...

  15. What would it take to make poverty history?

    the World Bank will be represented by Paul Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the war on Iraq, which ... profit-driven insanity of poverty, war and environmental destruction globally. Opinion polls show that on ... Tony Iltis On November 18-19, the G20 meeting in Melbourne will bring together the finance ...

  16. How the rich invented racism

    be distinguished on the basis of social attributes. It would be clearly unreasonable to categorise ... could not readily be distinguished from free colonists or their masters. As production on the colonial ... crew on his first voyage across the Atlantic. However, serfdom, not chattel slavery, was the basis of ...

  17. Taking a stand for Palestine, Celtic fans prove sport and politics do mix

    'Palestine Alliance' handed out flags and leaflets on the Nakba, or Catastrophe, the 1948 war that led ... the game, John Wight discussed on his blog why Celtic fans connect so strongly to the Palestinian ... an establishment for whom political engagement on any level, apart from that which involves passively ...

  18. Community campaigns to defend civil liberties

    launch a broad community campaign to fight the Queensland Coalition government’s attack on civil ... liberties. The decision was made at a forum organised by ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly on November 12. Dr Mark Lauchs ... well-attended meeting. Lauchs said β€œbikie culture” arose after World War II when returned soldiers wanted to ...

  19. Dave Zirin: Protest Putin's gay bashing, but Olympics ban not the answer

    I do, however, feel that on principle I need to state that I strongly disagree with his central premise. ... with this demand, even though I oppose with every fibre President Vladimir Putin’s brutal crackdown on ... a country abysmal on human rights. Second is the critical question of who gets to initiate such a powerful ...

  20. Bob Brown interview: β€˜We’re Australia’s progressive party’

    debate. β€œThere was no way they were going to have a Green on there, raising issues like the war in ... could have more power in the Australian parliament than ever before, after the federal election on ... equal access to an income under our national laws, was not on”, he said. β€œBut both the big parties ...

  21. A new scramble for Africa

    Economy Mining Environment David T. Rowlands On June 19, six executives β€” the entire board of ... praise on the deceased. At the July 7 funeral of four of the executives in Perth, WA Premier Colin ... developing resources in a difficult land … It takes men and women of courage and enterprise, skill and ...

  22. 'When the President talks to God'

    on The Late Show with Jay Leno in May 2005. The song, available as a free download from iTunes, is an ... justify his crimes. You simply don't expect to see something so genuinely heartfelt and angry on ... rape our women's rights/And send poor farm kids off to die?/Does God suggest an oil hike/When the ...

  23. G20 protestor: 'We are not the dangerous ones'

    police raid on his home and his arrest in Sydney on March 14. His "crime" was to take part in ... went to court on March 19, and will face court again in Melbourne on May 11. On March 14 I was woken at ... 6am by eight armed men and women who had demanded entry to my family home. They identified themselves ...

  24. IRAQ: US escalates air attacks five-fold

    deaths. An example of this occurred on October 21 when 17 Iraqi non-combatants, including women and ... include attacks carried out by helicopters. The USA Today article went on to note that "increased use ... for anti-occupation fighters. According to the US military's manual on counter-insurgency warfare ...

  25. Gaza humanitarian crisis deepens

    its "war on terrorism". He stated that, "Terrorism is a relative concept, particularly ... Ramallah On November 7, the Israeli High Court of Justice gave Israeli PM Ehud Olmert's ... dependent on Israel for most of its electricity and all of its fuel. In September, Israel declared the Gaza ...

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