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1. Asian currency crisis: rescuing the rich

   secretary Robert Rubin and Federal Reserve governor Alan Greenspan warned during the IMF's recent ...

2. US trends: the rich get richer, the poor poorer

   rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the people in the middle are becoming less ... Labor secretary Robert B. Reich said in a speech recently that the US economy has entered a period of ... the wealthy. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. And this will generate ...

3. It's a rich man's country yet

   drive under a bridge that Tim calls the "Robert Sergi", after a crane operator who died there ...

4. Summer reading: recommended books of 2013

   Capitalism Must Die book cover. Robert W McChesney Professor of Communication, author Reign of Error: The ... every other country in the world, rich and poor. Blair's successor, David Cameron, has taken this ... to transition — for example, the “political Marxism” of Robert Brenner and his followers — and also ...

5. After Title Fight- The Future of the Yindjibarndi and the Pilbara

   Yindjibarndi people, the traditional custodians of land rich in iron-ore deposits, take down a multi-billion ... Disrupted event, facilitator Robert Wood (author, activist and Creative Director of the Centre for Stories) ...

6. United States: What two cities tell us about policing, mass shootings and institutional racism

   rights must be protected”. Robert E Crimo III — the lone, white Independence Day shooter — climbed onto ... seen as a threat. What Black people — rich and poor — must deal with is outrageous. Bitter experience ... Walker (left) and Robert E Crimo III United States: Uvalde school shooting exposes violent gun culture, ...

7. Blog: The COVID-19 crisis in Europe

   that tenants can no longer ask to be represented by a duty solicitor on the day. “If you’re not rich ... influence on the UK economy is so massive and so skewed towards protecting the super-rich. Research on the ...

8. John Pilger: Silencing the lambs. How propaganda works

   public subsidy and private profit: socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor. The day after 9/11 ... samizdat already exists on the internet: Consortium News, founded by the great reporter Robert Parry, Max ...

9. Toxic sugar is only half the story

   Healthcare Coral Wynter Obesity sugar Robert Atkins Heart Foundation of Australia carbohydrates ... Robert Lustig Rachel Carson DNA endocrine disruptors What causes heart disease — high fat or the ... the world. US pediatrician and endocrinologist Robert Lustig describes it as a social problem and says ...

10. Loose cannons

    current campaign in which there is wholesale ignoring of bans on vote-buying. Embarassment of riches ... has contributed to higher pay." — Normandy Mining boss Robert Champion de Crespigny commenting on ...

11. War, climate catastrophe and capitalist profiteering

    the war helped the rich countries grow faster than ever before — or since". There is no better ... war was between 2–3 billion people. Between 3–4% of people died to allow rich countries’ economies to ... British Marxist economist Michael Roberts  pointed out, the problem is “the West”. “The mature capitalist ...

12. Livable city or urban nightmare? Free public transport!

    his guns in the face of bureaucratic opposition. Kennett's cabinet colleague, Robert Maclellan, ... the rich pay In its broad outlines, the socialist position is clear. Resume full public control of the ... Such approaches are mistaken. We live in a very rich society, objectively well able to afford a quality ...

13. The deep roots of Haiti’s uprising

    Latin America & the Caribbean Economy Workers & unions Robert Roth Jean-Bertrand Aristide ... Port-au-Prince to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moise.  Robert Roth looks at the roots of the ... the streets, burned tyres, and attacked stores owned by the rich. Luxury hotels in the Petionville ...

14. Brisbane targetts ExxonMobil

    Robert Austin Magan-djin/Brisbane Twenty protesters staged a late afternoon rally on Friday 29 ... Speakers highlighted ExxonMobil's history of support for brutal regimes in oil-rich countries, dating ...

15. Unfunny disabilities-friendly comedy

     across Australia in March and April Remember Pretty Woman back in 1990 where rich guy Richard Gere ... raced off fallen-woman sex worker Julia Roberts?  Remember how repulsive that was? Well here’s a French ... variation where a sleezy misogynist rich guy falls for a woman in a wheelchair. He fakes being disabled so ...

16. Forum discusses implications of criminalising homelessness

    Housing Jacob Andrewartha Victorian councils and local government Homelessness Robert Doyle ... interests of the rich at the expense of the majority. Spike, from the Homeless Person’s Union of Victoria, ... streets. Former Melbourne City councillor Richard Foster criticised the response of Lord Mayor Robert Doyle ...

17. Struggle reawakens in Zimbabwe

    Workers & unions Democracy Economy Agriculture Leo Zeilig Robert Mugabe A march for jobs in ... Robert Mugabe, were seriously rattled. Young people, workers and traders – who survive by hawking food, ... President Robert Mugabe to find a solution to the country's problems or better still for him and his ...

18. Halo of hypocrisy: Vatican Inc. pushes reconquest of Latin America

    Economy Latin America & the Caribbean Robert Austin The anointment of reactionary Argentine ... America’s unique riches. Since foreign capital and the CIA adopted the model of Brazil's 1964 military ... which the church has been historically integrated and richly blessed. Violeta Parra, Chilean co-founder ...

19. For an inclusive needs-driven National Disability Insurance Scheme

    organisations struggling to survive with too few resources. This will reduce choice and enable some to get rich ... services and NDIS minister Stuart Robert began a trial of so-called “ independent assessments ” for those ... Robert claimed that independent assessments would be introduced for all applicants and participants in ...

20. Housing activists call for rent relief now

    told �鶹��ý that “the rich were trying to make us pay for the COVID-19 crisis” but that “we can ... become mono socio-economic playgrounds for the rich.  “We are demanding the government legislate to ... 1265 Housing activists Barney Gardner and Robert Car outside NSW parliament. Photo: Rachel Evans Barney ...

21. Mass struggle and state repression in Uganda

    election. According to the Electoral Commission, he won nearly 59% of the vote, while his main rival, Robert ... widened the gap between rich and poor. The public face of this disgruntlement is Wine, who has attempted ...

22. Battle begins over who will pay for the latest bailouts

    Professor Robert Breunig, who heads up the Australian National University’s tax and transfer policy ... Morrison insists that if we cut taxes on companies and the rich we will grow a bigger pie so we can all ... have a bigger slice. The reality however is that this line has made the super rich even richer and left ...

23. Five new books for ecosocialists

    Mifflin Harcourt, 2019 Algae created the Earth we know today, with its oxygen-rich atmosphere, abundant ... Eco-Socialism Now And For The Future: Practical Utopias and Rational Action By Robert Albritton Palgrave ... at a global level are essential. Robert Albritton proposes “practical utopias” as a process of ...

24. A Communist in parliament: the story of Fred Paterson

    for the CPA, notably Liberal PM Robert Menzies' attempts to outlaw the party in the 1950s. But ... in 1947. A rich tradition Paterson had a rich tradition of socialist agitation in parliament to draw ...

25. Loose cannons

    Egalitarian society "The annual Australian rich list was released last week estimating Kerry ... Kyoto..." — Federal environment minister Senator Robert Hill explaining why he thinks there's point in ...

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