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Anti-terror laws and anti-terror wars
forced an estimated 90% of the city's 300,000 people to flee. Electricity and water to the city were ... have lost their jobs since the invasion, and still have not had running water and electricity restored, ...
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VIETNAM: An uphill reforestation battle
coffee requires a lot of water, and the amount planted went well beyond what was sustainable given the ... amount of water available." Further, when the world coffee price collapsed in the late 1990s, it ...
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PARAGUAY: US military prepares to 'spread democracy'
reserves of water. Near the Estigarribia airbase are Bolivia's natural gas reserves, the second ... the Guarani water reserves and Bolivia's natural gas. In spite of frequent attempts to link ...
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Vietnam's Agent Orange victims call for solidarity
isn't diluted by water and is chemically stable so it doesn't easily decompose. As a result, it ... water systems contaminated by it. And the dioxin in their blood gets passed on to their offspring, ...
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Palestine: Butchery in Beit Hanoun
siege, the town was completely sealed. Water, electricity and phone lines were cut off, and the UN team ... tens of thousands are deprived of potable water. The Gaza Strip, with 1.4 million residents, is ...
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Israel tightens the noose: 'suffer or leave'
has electricity between 6 and 8 hours each day, with disastrous consequences on water supply, sewage ... barrier" is slicing through the West Bank, annexing settlements, water sources and roads into the Israeli ...
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Balochistan's history of insurgency
population subsists below the official poverty line, less than 50% have clean drinking water, only 50% of ... clean water and irrigation are often ranked higher than areas aligned to the federal government. ...
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Drive for nukes ignores vast geothermal resource
is sunk into the granites and water at very high pressure is pumped in. Numerous mini-earthquakes are ... repeated. If the geologists have calculated correctly, the fracture zones interconnect. Water pumped down ...
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Stern avoids rocking the foundations
not do enough, soon enough. The over-generous allocation of water quotas in Australian agriculture has ... produced an unprecedented water crisis. The overgenerous allocation of carbon quotas and rorting in the ...
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Omission, censorship mark climate change debate
severe tropical storms, water scarcity, desertification and the continued melting of the world's ice ... atmospheric concentrations of water vapour, due to warming of the oceans, which intensifies the greenhouse ...
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Haiti: A state of siege
weapons, as residents attest. Often pipes that brought in water to the slum community now lay shattered. ... water supply projects, came to a halt following the 2004 coup d'etat. A medical university, ...
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Ecuadorians vote for radical change
poisons the water table and causes birth defects. Correa has also set about repairing Ecuador's key ... litres of oily waste-water. Other companies are being investigated for corruption, and breaches of human ...
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Christmas Island: Howard's new refugee shame
A naval ship patrols the waters a few kilometres north of the island as part of "Operation ... unseaworthy boats and forcing them to return to international waters. Apart from the SIEV X, islanders are ...
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John Pilger: Washington's war on democracy
take control of their water. In El Alto, perhaps the poorest city on the continent, people stood ... an educator as a leader. He will arrive at a school or a water project where local people are ...
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Kevin Rudd's Work Choices lite
the specialist division on the construction industry will just be a watered down version of the ABCC? ... policy would restore, such as through the abolition of AWAs, are in danger of being watered down as the ...
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Northern Ireland: Sinn Fein in government
privatise water — you have to wonder what a state's for if it can't even provide water! This has ...
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The indigenous fire in Latin America
survival such as gas, water, land, coca, employment and other resources. While providing much valuable ... Landless Peasants, the Coalition in Defense of Water and Life, and feminist organisation Mujeres Creando. ...
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Iraq: British 'defeated' in Basra, US official says
improvement. The water supply is as bad as before the war, forcing the people to buy purified water. Refuse ...
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'Unfair laws should be fought'
listen." Union leaders across the country were outraged by federal Labor's latest watering-down of its ... Labor policy", he told GLW. "We think that all forms of AWAs, including the slightly watered ...
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Afghanistan: the 'other' occupation must end
people in Kabul have access to safe drinking water, according to the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation ... Unit. "We witnessed desperate people in Kabul forced to draw their drinking water from beneath ...
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Celebrating the life of Gabriela Ngirmang of Palau
to Palauan lands and waters. Both legal and illegal pressure was brought to bear on the Palauan ... government responded with economic coercion, including turning off the lights and water, and laying-off ...
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Iraq: Turkey begins imposing sanctions
with no water or electricity. In a media statement, the International Commmittee of the Red Cross and ... Iraq also lacks infrastructure to deliver basic services such as water, sewage treatment and ...
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Marx and the global environmental rift
desertification, water shortages, regional climate change, conservation of energy, the dependence of species on ... demonstrating for the first time that water vapour and carbon dioxide were associated with a greenhouse effect ...
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Occupation brings death, corruption and poverty
It also found that 70% of Iraqis now lack access to adequate water supplies, up from 50% in 2003, and ... suffering from a growing lack of food, shelter, water and sanitation, health care, education, and ...
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West supports Israel's Gaza holocaust
full control over its airspace, territorial waters and movement of people and goods. This leaves Israel ... drinking water and dwindling medical supplies. Agriculture has suffered from the repeated Israeli military ...