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AFGHANISTAN: Taliban: Made by the USA
tons of weaponry had been being supplied by the US each year. The oil-rich Saudi Arabian monarchy ... Taliban" and welcomed its victory in September 1996. (According to Robert Fisk, writing in the September 26 ... those dedicated to overthrowing strategic oil-rich Arab and Central Asian states and US allies. Only in ...
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Humphrey McQueen on WikiLeaks: Yes, Virginia, there are conspiracies
to be found in dictionaries but through examining the operation of social power (see Robert Spicer, ... be considered in 鈥. every case as a combination of the rich to oppress the poor, and preserve to ... town. Two contacts were crucial. The first was the chair of the National Union, (Sir) Robert Knox, which ...
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Summer reading: Recommended books of the year
Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng Yellow Jersey Press, 2011 Gary Speed hanged himself on November 27. ... Welcome to the world of professional sport. Robert Enke was set to become the long-term number one ... the rich, assault the environment and crush their citizens. A society that respects nature and ...
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Write on
that riches and honours will fall out of the sky on us 鈥 when the only assured reality so far is a 2 or ... Olympics breaks even. Will Homebush mausoleums become Sydney's Wailing Wall? Robert Wood Surry Hills ... enemies won't listen to me" syndrome, and, worst of all, confirms that to some extent Robert ...
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Write on
rich, who can at least be called to account 鈥 that is, if they still exist independently of ... conglomerates. Claire Wagner Albion Qld United front David Roberts (Write on, GLW No. 32) is obviously aware that ... think it a good idea. It is quite wrong for David Roberts to label this, and the "laconic" ...
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The secret oil agenda driving the Guyana-Venezuela dispute
expand its borders into the area west of the Essequibo River that was known to be rich in gold, the ... the 鈥淪chomburgk Line鈥, named after the explorer Robert Hermann Schomburgk, acquired a large portion of ...
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Gas has worse climate footprint than coal
US by scientists from the NOAA and the University of Colorado. This time, the target was the rich oil ... quantify emissions from shale gas extraction. Conducted by a team under Cornell University scientist Robert ...
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Arab Spring: Power not giving up without bloody fight
host of a major US naval base and an important oil terminal, the highly autocratic, oil-rich monarchies ... were also charged with the murder of protesters they were unable to save. Renowned journalist Robert ...
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Noam Chomsky: 鈥楾he Occupy movement is unprecedented鈥
historian Robert Brenner is the falling rate of profit. There are other factors that led to major changes in ... world is dividing into a plutonomy [an economy controlled by the very rich] and that鈥檚 where the action ...
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Can Africa survive Obama's advisors?
poorer and serves the rich to become richer". Volcker served Richard Nixon as under-secretary of the ... under Summers and Robert Rubin in Bill Clinton's Treasury Department during the 1990s. Summers ...
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United States: Stimulus package falls short
about 35% of the total. Unlike the Bush administration's giveaways to the super-rich, these tax ... Robert Gibbs chose 鈥 a measure inserted into the bill that would impose tougher restrictions on executive ...
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The summit with no answers
club of rich industrialised countries, predicts the world economy will shrink by 2.75% in 2009. ... 1.7%. But in a speech in London, World Bank president Robert Zoellick said that even this decline would ...
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MIDDLE EAST: The US empire makes its move to take over
Andrew Roberts) but also to rehabilitate Gladstonian convictions of superiority and promote "the ... campaign by the rich and powerful against the poor and weak, especially those with natural resources, has ...
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Afghanistan: US spy chief admits war going badly
war secretary Robert Gates on February 6 in which he stated: "The Taliban no longer occupy any ... 鈥 the conquest of oil-rich Iraq. Between 2002 and 2004, the annual death toll resulting from attacks by ...
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UNITED STATES: Re-emergence of twin deficits sparks alarm
treasury secretary Robert Rubin (now a director of two of the world's largest corporations 鈥 Citigroup ... super-rich), and the remainder to the reduced tax income and increased social spending related to the 2001 ...
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AFGHANISTAN: Behind the facade of 'democracy'
admissions by national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and former CIA director Robert Gates. After the ... the region's rich oil and gas reserves. ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco and BP have already reportedly ...
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Bush's coming war on Iraq is a war on us all
to war to extend its influence, and stabilise and strengthen corporate domination of the oil-rich but ... 13 UN speech] Middle East expert Robert Fisk described what is really going on: 聯The president is ...
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BRITAIN: When the whirlwind blows
who understood these tensions describe September 11. Run by rich and powerful men, al Qaeda drew on ... the reporting of Robert Fisk in the Independent and here and there on radio, dissent 聴 the lifeblood ...
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'Deglobalisation'? Sure, but what's next?
relation to previous traditions of anti-capitalism. Analytically, Bello is influenced by Robert ... capitalism can work for the poor as well as the rich" but then had to unhappily concede how ...
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The significance of the mass anti-war protests
represents something more. In the rich countries we're witnessing a decisive break with the post-World ... minister Robert Hill conceded the protests did send the government a clear message. Howard's approval ...
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David Barsamian: Fighting the US propaganda machine
in the oil-rich regions of the world. To understand imperialism, he said, it is only necessary to ... Parenti, Tariq Ali, John Pilger, Robert Fisk are all getting huge, unprecedented audiences now. They are ...
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KOSOVA: Kosovars demand independence
NATO forces would very likely come under attack. British Brigadier Robert Fry claimed the ... in partitioning Mitrovica and thus ensuring Serbian control of the mineral-rich northern part of ...
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ZIMBABWE: ISO MP 鈥 'We hope to influence events'
health, summed up by the slogan, "Tax the rich to fund the poor and the workers". We called for ... President Robert] Mugabe has been sounding conciliatory [since the election], but we are likely to see an ...
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Why election bribes won't save Howard
Robert Gottliebsen said the impact of the work involved in implementing the GST on the Coalition's ... Howard and his ministers from their richly deserved defeat come election day. March 21, 2001 441 ...
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Greens capture humanitarian vote
Fremantle candidate Robert Delves scored 9%, the same as fellow candidate Steve Walker in neighbouring ... public services funded by increased taxes on corporations and the rich. It would require the exposure of ...