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1. Ned Kelly: freedom fighter or villain?

   REVIEW BY BEA BREAR Ned Kelly Directed by Gregor Jordan Based on Robert Drewe's novel, Our ... Australian folklore? Australian director Gregor Jordan's film adaptation of Robert Drewe's novel of ... of the rich, so the Kellys were not the only family to suffer persecution at their hands. Ned Kelly ...

2. IMF finds poor less poor

   Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which computes PPP figures for the rich ... mainly to the rich countries, whose currencies are traded to the tune of $US1 trillion a day. Hot money ... Dividends Suspicions of hidden agendas are excited by the IMF's approving quotation of Robert ...

3. Live Blog: News and analysis on Catalonia's struggle for self-determination

   National liberation Dick Nichols Catalonia Barcelona Catalonia in Spain: Europe's key struggle for democracy Click here for latest news Resources: For English-language news and information sources on Catalonia, click here. For solidarity information ...

4. Remembering Berta Cáceres, assassinated Honduras indigenous and environmental leader

   ROBERT REDFORD: Berta filed complaints with the Honduran government and organized peaceful protests in ... ROBERT REDFORD: For well over a year, the Lenca maintained the roadblock, with standing harassment and ... narrated by Robert Redford. In accepting the award, Cáceres vowed to continue standing up for the rights ...

5. Who trusts the government?

   Trilateral Countries?, Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam analyse the results of surveys conducted in the ... rich industrially developed countries. They find a sharp decline in confidence in politicians in the ... A University of California study, reported in the Economist (July 17, 1999), shows that in 18 out of 20 rich ...

6. Corporations and climate change

   Robert A. Lutz told reporters in a closed-door meeting in January, is "a total crock of shit". ... by Guy Pearse, formerly an adviser to Liberal Environment Minister Robert Hill, Clive Hamilton in his ... swiftly to a zero-emissions world economy. In rich countries like Australia, this future economy will ...

7. Global warming: The world is skating on thin ice

   paymasters, and rich-country governments, are responsible for the crisis will be exposed. These “skeptics” ... release of The Day After Tomorrow, the corporate media has often turned to Robert Balling, director of the ... come down and invade us from space’, laughed Robert Balling, who argues against nightmare scenarios of ...

8. Why the New Right is divided

   Quadrant editor Robert Manne, includes the present deep recession, the de-industrialisation of Australia ... business and the rich. There was never a break with the mentality that big business should get as much as ... business and the rich largely through tax cuts, real wage cuts and privatisation. With the recession ...

9. NSW protesters: 'We will break these laws'

   policing Ecofascism Gadigal Country/Sydney "This is a law to protect the rich. We will need to break ... president of Stop CSG Sydney, condemned mining and energy minister Anthony Roberts for saying the new law ...

10. John Pilger: Suffering of Aboriginal people continues

    Roberts, "since they were completely amoral and incapable of sincere and prolonged gratitude." ... benefited Aboriginal communities, whose poverty is an enduring shock. In Roeburne, in the minerals-rich ...

11. The book Tony Blair doesn’t want you to read

    interests in the resource-rich region by any means possible. Radical Islamists usually fitted the bill. ... Indonesia under anti-imperialist president Ahmed Sukarno was also seen as a threat. Sir Robert Scott, ...

12. Emails reveal corporate plot to silence WikiLeaks

    a class war going on, and it is the rich and powerful who are waging it. “Anyone who does anything that ... out. “[PM Julia] Gillard and [Attorney-General Robert] McClelland need to disclose all the assistance ...

13. Libya: West’s bombs no solution

    — led by forces of the absolute monarchy in Saudi Arabia. The March 25 Sydney Morning Herald said Robert ... regimes have been willing to impose neoliberal policies that open up countries in the oil-rich region to ...

14. Coal seam gas — dirtier than coal, worse than shale

    surface waters, while taking rich farmland out of food production. But at least, its promoters argue, coal ... journal Climatic Change, was conducted by a team under Cornell University environmental biologist Robert ...

15. After Canberra is nuked

    Robert Menzies' attempt to ban the Australian Communist Party in 1951. "The strength of those ... because it is the key ideology used to justify the plunder of the impoverished Third World by the rich ...

16. Killers for hire

    a Blackwater deployment to Azerbaijan in the oil and gas-rich Caspian Sea region to patrol pipelines, train an ... Blackwater's Stallone and Scwharzenegger clones are petrol to the blaze in Iraq. Middle East reporter Robert ...

17. John Pilger: Bringing down the new Berlin Walls

    vast nuclear arsenal. Robert McNamara, the US defence secretary during the Cuban crisis, describes this ... in the economics departments of leading universities. This is neoliberalism — socialism for the rich ...

18. Iraq: Five years on, Bush still promises 'victory'

    critical of the survey's methodology. In a January 11 media release, Les Roberts, one of the authors ... the secular Baath Party government of oil-rich Iraq had "ties" to Saudi Arabian Islamist ...

19. In brief

    the 17.8 months afterwards. The research was led by Les Roberts of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ... decade, caused by the exhaustion of its rich phosphate deposits and the subsequent desertion of many of ...

20. World Bank guru reveals crimes of the free market

    backed by then-US treasury secretary Robert Rubin and his deputy, Lawrence Summers, argued that these ... “One could only ask, was Fischer being richly rewarded for having faithfully executed what he was told ...

21. UNITED STATES: Anti-war coalitions demand 'Bring the troops home now!'

    are rich men in expensive suits conducting statecraft not to protect the US, but to protect the ... off", he told Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, for an article ...

22. IRAQ: US still calls the shots

    Bush's envoy to Iraq, Robert D. Blackwill, 'railroaded' the Governing Council into coalescing ... objective behind Washington's invasion and occupation of the oil-rich Middle East country. Using the US ...

23. Behind the Confederate Flag controversy

    January 19 is the birthday of rebel traitor General Robert E. Lee. Top officials say they're simply ... genuine democracy. The rich and powerful white men who run the US will do what is necessary, including ...

24. 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 ...

25. Sinking the WTO

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

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