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1. Juicy, velvety and lethal polemic

   cutting best when penning portraits of the leading lights of the US state. Judge Robert H. Bork, the ... adjectives. For lethal polemic with a literary flourish, this is rich, nutritious fare indeed. June 24, 1998 ...

2. Shellcove Marina: a test of ALP policy

   expert Rudy Van Drie; underwater diving expert Robert McKee; and legal expert and Greens activist Karla ... for the foibles of the rich? Or will he support his own coastal policy, which helped him to win the ...

3. Rolling over the membership

   leadership to an economic strategy which has reduced the tax rates for the rich from 60 to 47% while the ... family reunion, Robert Tickner and Frank Walker to make sure that Aborigines got the most limited deal ...

4. Artist and revolutionary

   Robert Hughes was still flailing away in 1970: Counihan's art is "flypaper for whatever ... all this political activism, he drew and painted. His subsequent career is rich in lessons on the ...

5. Lone canoe, with waves

   BasicBooks, 1994. 590 pp., $45.00 (hb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon The US left has an unfortunately rich history ... inconsistencies — supporting Israel, admiring secretary of defence Robert McNamara, disdaining black militancy ...

6. France: Melenchon shakes up presidential poll

   Robert Hue (3.4%). By 2007, the PCF vote had collapsed to 1.9%. Left Front This year, the PCF decided not ... the bankers and the ruling rich. Melenchon sees rising mass resistance to neoliberal austerity in ... actually exists ― to make the rich and the bankers pay for their crisis. His meetings have combined an ...

7. Rise of the populationists greenwashes racism

   former US secretary of defense Robert McNamara, had failed to make a dent in population growth. For all ... inequality. Talking about population serves to shift blame from the rich in the West onto those who are least ... population control serves to shift blame from the rich in the West onto those who are least to blame. ...

8. Coal seam gas: rural NSW says no

   as “directional drilling” in the US.) Dart CEO Robert de Weijer said: “The way the wells work is that ... Tamworth — are also in danger. The black, nutrient-rich earth is used for grazing beef cattle and sheep, as ... hills, forests rich in biodiversity and productive vineyards have long attracted visitors and provided ...

9. How the West exploits Africa

   destruction of the Zimbabwean economy, for instance, is not just a result of President Robert Mugabe's ... the most mineral-rich countries in the world. Less than a year later, the US and Belgium conspired to ... immensely rich from his cut from copper and gold exports and from pocketing "development aid", the ...

10. Carbon trading — privatising the world's forests

    faced widespread criticism for, in effect, privatising forests and allowing rich nations to evade ... forest protection needs to be coordinated across regions and the globe. Ellen Roberts, a member of the ... the world's intact native forests. Last year, the rich countries spent trillions of dollars ...

11. Iraq: Corporate greed drives war and occupation

    Washington's domination of the oil-rich Middle East. At a White House meeting the day after the 9/11 terrorist ... administration, including Richard Armitage, Robert Zoellick and Zalmay Khalilzad (who is now US ambassador to ... of US soldiers for the bottom-lines of the corporate rich is nothing new. As US Major-General Smedley ...

12. WORLD ECONOMY: US outflanked in Eurasian energy politics

    total China oil imports, Beijing has become more active in the states bordering the oil-rich Gulf of ... a contender in a high-stakes game of potential regime change in neighbouring, oil-rich Chad. Earlier this ... Leading neo-conservative ideologue Robert Kagan wrote a prominent opinion piece on it in the April 30 ...

13. The secret war against the defenceless people of West Papua

    Indonesia's brutal occupation of West Papua, a vast, resource-rich province — stolen from its people, like ... noted the "horrible irony" of hunger in such an "immensely rich" province. According ... minister, Senator Robert Hill, described Kopassus as having "the most effective capability to respond ...

14. UNITED STATES: Why AMFA represents future for mechanics at United Airlines

    BY MALIK MIAH & RICH LESNIK SAN FRANCISCO — Mechanics and utility workers at United Airlines ... Tom Buffenbarger and transportation coordinator Robert Roach have denounced AMFA as ... Miah and Rich Lesnik are mechanics at United Airlines in San Francisco and members of the AMFA UAL ...

15. IRAQ: No blood for oil!

    War, Iraq was the second biggest OPEC oil exporter. Thomas Ferguson and Robert Johnson noted in the ... French-owned Compagnie Francaise des Petroles 23.75%; and Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (an extremely rich ... military presence in the strategic, oil-rich Middle East and ensure that business gets back to ...

16. The bell tolls for us

    ethicists, such as Professor Robert Goodin and Pam Kinnear of the Australia Institute, have suggested that ... minimum-wage rates. The rich frequently engage in "downward envy", but in a different form. They ... welfare". Whether you are rich or low paid, "downward envy" is self-defeating because it deflects ...

17. ZIMBABWE: Socialist MP survives challenge from MDC right

    the country's predominantly white rich commercial farmers, some of whom have influential ... Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to posture as the champion of land redistribution, even though he had done ... of the rich", he said. He added that there was no split between the MDC and ISO: "ZANU-PF ...

18. Write on: Letters to the editor

    political body; i.e. an Australian Student Party. Robert Stephen Sydney Hanson I agree with Dave Riley (GLW ... Industry and the Coalition government are energetically for a GST so as to benefit the rich at the expense ... a lifelong Liberal voter, I am appalled. When is this government going to do something for the rich? Brent ...

19. Write on: Letters to the editor

    present students and rich dummies). Allow universities to sell degrees directly to whoever has the ... without overcrowding HECS-paying students, and the rich will save much valuable time. A similar system ... or want this? John Roberts Widjabul clan Bundjalung Nation Hong Kong hand-over I am apprehensive at ...

20. US airline workers debate ownership plan

    By Malik Miah and Rich Lesnik By mid-year the largest airline in the country, United Airlines, ... According to the Wall Street Journal, "Labor Secretary Robert Reich helped broker the buyout ... strike, and as we have done in the past. Malik Miah and Rich Lesnik are employed by United Airlines in San ...

21. Kenyans fight Western-backed dictator

    publicly exposed in 1990 when Moi assassinated his foreign minister, Dr Robert Ouko, who had approached the ... security for the people who have been displaced from their land. The poor are very poor, and the rich are ... very rich. President Moi is reputed to be one of the richest people in the world. There even used to be ...

22. Inquiry annoys big media, but could hurt alternative media

    concentrated nature of the media.” La Trobe Univeristy politics professor Robert Manne said on The Monthly ’s ...

23. Walls and death: Europe’s refugee crisis is a crisis of politics

    immigration minister Robert Goodwill announced on September 7 a solution seemingly inspired by Donald Trump ... by politicians in other rich Western countries. In the US, Trump has made building a wall on the ... society and try to reduce the gap between rich and poor,” Katja Maurer, spokesperson for the refugee ...

24. BRITAIN: The great betrayal

    hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs and income inequality has grown while tax for the rich has ... fallen. For the first eight years of Thatcher, the rich paid 60% income tax. Under Blair, they pay 40%. If ... rich. Much of the promised billions will go on wasteful "private finance initiatives" that ...

25. 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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