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  1. The new shape of US politics

    friendlier to the rich than those of the 1950s Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower. An even more urgent ... workers to the rich in US history. Will Obama call a halt to this colossal rip-off? Will an Obama ... former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and former Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker 鈥 both with long ...

  2. Top climate scientist slams coal, carbon trading

    a string of rich countries on coal use and greenhouse emissions. His most stinging rebukes were reserved ... various carbon "sinks". Much of the carbon dioxide given off by Robert Stephenson's ... one, Hansen points out, would get rich from such a tax. "Unlike cap-and-trade, no millionaires ...

  3. Free trade deal a bad idea

    The agreement is the latest in a series of bilateral and regional trade agreements that the rich ... multilateral deal that could only decimate their economies. The rich countries and the big corporations that ... ensure local content on Australian media", while US trade representative Robert Zoellick claimed ...

  4. ZIMBABWE: Getting to know the real enemy

    and those that are getting rich off the people's suffering that are the culprits for the ... Zimbabwe. "It is the policies of the government and the rich people who support them that are a sin... ... system that has utterly failed them. President Robert Mugabe and his ruling ZANU-PF party hacks might be ...

  5. Libya: Gaddafi seeks to crush revolt, but West no saviour

    tactic to ensure a stable pro-West regime in the oil-rich nation. Opponents of Gaddafi from within Libya ... revolution鈥檚 spokesman said Libya鈥檚 people would liberate cities across the oil rich North African nation and ... intervention would suit the West鈥檚 imperial interest. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has urged caution 鈥 as ...

  6. Gurrumul bio highlights impact of Aboriginal musicians

    Books & music Indigenous Emma Murphy Garrumul: His Life & Music Robert Hillman 2013, $65 ... catapulted the demand for recognition to an international stage. As Robert Hillman writes in Gurrumul 鈥 His ... where that beauty comes from, its richness and complexity 鈥 that鈥檚 the wonder鈥 鈥淭he languages of ...

  7. Who's the bad guy?

    Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey Reviewed by Karen Fredericks Somehow a story on the cover of Newsweek, ... is angry at the ostentatious wealth of a plastic surgeon, but he does not blame the rich. Like the ... (played by Robert Duvall) who has been pursuing him on his rampage e he tried to do all the right things, ...

  8. Write on

    unemployment, but this is true only for the rich. One of the conditions of that prosperity is that the rest of ... a talking clock. Robert Wood Sydney UN force Senator Gareth Evans has now decided to support the building of ... the version of such denial propagated in France by Robert Faurisson). Moreover, Lyotard's work of ...

  9. 'Pure' science and Marxism

    Waldheim the nazi war criminal to the same job. Robert Wood Surry Hills NSW Cuba blockade Granma reports ... Cuban community in Miami have been handing US congressman Robert Torricelli increasing sums of money to ... Robert Torricelli presented three bills that could benefit the company's business. John Clancy ...

  10. Write on

    men who benefited: they were the rich who got richer 鈥 and among the poor who got poorer. The editor ... Robert Newberry. Robert Newberry conducted the consultancy investigation into the NPWS for the NSW ... the rest of the rich and exploitative first world. Kath cites opposition to Western contraceptives ...

  11. Class war in feudal England

    church creamed off its 10%, divinely ordaining the hierarchy of rich and poor. Into this grossly unequal ... Robert Hales) and the Archbishop of Canterbury (who was also Lord Chancellor) 鈥 all lost their heads when ... system of wealth transfer from the poor to the rich was resumed. Royal Commissions with punitive, ...

  12. John Pilger on the silent war on Africa

    state" 鈥 a term Western governments like to use 鈥 while saying nothing about how this oil-rich country ... Africa is from the same corporate wisdom. Hypocrisy That Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is an ... rich-world exports continue to rise; the desecration of the African environment by Western corporations; the ...

  13. UNITED STATES: Drowning in debt

    '80s ushered in the austere '90s", explained Robert Manning, author of Credit Card Nation, ... the harsh "bankruptcy reform" measures by cynically pointing the finger at "rich ... practices of the "rich cheats" at Chase Manhattan and MBNA. And they didn't make a peep about ...

  14. Write on: Letters to the editor

    this Inquiry, through its Secretary, Mr Robert Diamond, at Parliament House, Canberra. But 50, or even ... a class-divided society. The rich ruling class, to secure it's domination and maintain the status quo, needs ... aspirations of young people. Ensuring increasing private profits for the rich comes out ahead of tackling ...

  15. Bolger's gamble hits NZ Welfare state

    government critic, former prime minister Sir Robert Muldoon, said the budget wasn't as bad as he ... claim, none was able to counter it convincingly. Top of the so-called rich list is commerce minister ... couple, with two children, earning a combined income over $32,394, is classed as rich. According to Helen ...

  16. Australia鈥檚 corporate media is hardly independent

    corporate news is limited to the actions and statements of the rich and powerful. If Labor and Liberal agree ... critical coverage. US media critics Robert McChesney and John Nichols have said that due to significant ...

  17. Solutions exist to avoid climate disaster

    Bellamy Foster and Robert McChesney said the car industry, even before the 2008 crash, 鈥渨as faced with ... tax-dodging super-rich could have hidden in offshore tax havens. That鈥檚 equal to almost half of global GDP. ...

  18. No cuts, more funds-- education for all

    to universities. In the 1960s the conservative Liberal government of Robert Menzies built new ... today. The rich are making more, and giving less. This isn鈥檛 a moral aberration, this is the nature of ...

  19. Mainstream media: promoting the voice of hate

    Soldiers鈥, came to the Erskineville meeting with prepared scripts. APP member Robert Hunt came dressed in ... white supremacist far-right (born again as anti-Muslim hate campaigners today). But powerful, rich ...

  20. John Pilger: Riots reveal Britain鈥檚 forbidden truth

    super-rich have trashed the British economy and the lives of millions. This is fast becoming unmentionable as ... shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes on the floor of a London Underground train. And there was Robert ...

  21. Write On: letters to the editor

    and the rich go on as if nothing had changed. In fact, the interests of the majority of people in any ... crisis, you pay for it." Robert Cavooris Washington, DC No more war If al-Qaeda "adopts tools ...

  22. Protesters 'greet' US war chief Rumsfeld

    Alexander Downers and defence minister Robert Hill, were held at the Adelaide Town Hall. For Rumsfeld's ... only to the rich. Stephen Darley from No War explained Rumsfeld's role in crimes against humanity ...

  23. Zimbabwe's two dictatorships

    are suffering from both the political dictatorship of President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African ... and the rich. While Mugabe unleashes repression, businesspeople unleash vicious price increases on the ...

  24. Zimbabwe: Deal 'no cause for celebration'

    much ground that has been surrendered to President Robert Mugabe, the loser of elections held earlier ... operator who owns rich farmlands and over 200 properties in Harare, and John Bredenkamp, sanctions buster ...

  25. US bases centre of new Latin America struggle

    Garre met US defence secretary Robert Gates in Washington to strengthen bilateral military relations. ... resource-rich Amazon, over which Brazil has reasserted its sovereignty. On September 16, Brazilian defence ...

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