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A deeply flawed revolution
1773, dumping 342 chests of East India Company tea into the water. The militant actions of the poor ... the army as cooks, washers, carriers of water and ammunition, they shared all the dangers of death by ...
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ISRAEL: A 'huge warehouse' of nuclear weapons
Egypt, the agreement was revised to provide a 24-megawatt reactor. France purchased heavy water from ... water to a third country. French customs officials were misled over the destination of reactor ...
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SOUTH AFRICA: Mass struggle is the only road
end to electricity and water cut-offs. In Sandton the world's rich and powerful have consolidated ... water. Their promise to provide sanitation to the working people of the world is another opportunity for ...
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Corporate polluters hijack Earth Summit
improvement or a continuing decline over the past 10 years — Poverty has grown, fresh water and secure food ... 4 argued: "Privatisation of water, energy and health sectors, and the inevitable imposition of user ...
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Eyewitness report: 'Welcome to Christmas Island'
will the detainees be completely isolated, but all water, power and communication services will have to ... be laid on for the purpose. The pipes for the water supply have already arrived. This road is on the ...
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AFRICA: 'Nepad? No thanks', say African activists
privatisation, especially of infrastructure such as water, electricity, telecommunications and transport, will ... railroads, telephone land lines, water and sewage reticulation systems, electricity transmission, ports and ...
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The high-tech poisoning of Asia
Already, well water is no longer drinkable and water has to be trucked in from 30 kilometres away. The ...
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VENEZUELA: 'Nothing can stop this revolution'
drinkable running water for the first time. More than 3000 Venezuelans have received free medical treatment ... privatisation of the electric, gas and water industries has been stopped." Despite the Chavez ...
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Despair and punishment at Baxter
couldn't see a doctor, and was told to take two Panadol tablets and water. She had to wait three weeks for ... tablets and water. Two days later she collapsed unconscious and had to be taken to hospital, where she ...
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John Pilger: Howard whips up pro-war paranoia
it was overloaded with Iraqi refugees and in waters near Australia. An inquiry by the Australian ... captain had rescued asylum-seekers from drowning in Australian waters. A handful of tenacious journalists ...
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IRAQ: US terrorises civilians
the city down. By that I mean you get rid of their power, water. In two, three, four, five days, they ... been into the Shiite town of Balad, "US$1.2m so far — providing help with the water and ...
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14 asylum seekers 'threaten' national security
island and asking for water, were greeted with hostility and fear before concern is an indication of just ... would be prevented from re-entering Australian waters. Meanwhile, the United Nations Human Rights ...
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SOUTH AFRICA: 'Dying to fight' for treatment
grassroots-organised rallies in Durban townships protesting against water cut offs and rent increases, during which ... people sang, "No water, no vote!".) Activism In past four years, TAC activists have handed ...
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WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION: Services rules expansion threatens national sovereignty
including the provision of education and medical care, as well as postal services, water and energy ... services, such as water provision and education to corporate competition. GATS' "built-in" ...
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UNITED STATES: Expert: 'Depleted uranium use is a war crime'
never enter our territorial waters. Internal documents show that the US Department of Defense (DoD) has ... health and the environment by contaminating air, soil and water. More than 15 countries are known to have ...
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ACEH: Support waning for Indonesia's terror war
Endang Suwarya issued a decree prohibiting foreign vessels from entering Aceh's waters. He said this ... out of the water". On the same day, a decree was issued to limit the use of telecommunication ...
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BOLIVIA: Social conflict and resistance in El Alto
resistance — known as the "water war" — against the sale to the giant US Bechtel construction ... company of local water supplies in the city of Cochabamba that broke out in April 2000, the mobilisations ...
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Global warming: has the meltdown has begun?
currents that bring warm water from the tropics to otherwise frigid parts of the world. "Without the ... Earth's climate to rapidly warm. About 12,700 years ago, the fresh water from melted polar ice, Arctic ...
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VENEZUELA: The Bolivarian Revolution will not be defeated
They have appealed to people not to pay their taxes, nor pay for water, electricity, and gas; and they ... in Maiquetia airport during the coup; that US warships illegally penetrated Venezuelan waters in the ...
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After M1: Let's converge on Canberra to stop the WTO
privatisation of public services like health, education, energy and water supplies. A significant component of ... catches and degradation of the lake ecosystem, including negative impacts on water quality", Klaus ...
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Crisis-hit Russians look to the stars
believe that if they put water in a glass in front of their television sets, an extrasense could ... "charge" it for them via the screen. If this water were then sprinkled on flowers, the story went, the ...
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Syria: the peace of the weak
negative. Water pipes go dry every night in Damascus. Electricity is rationed. Thirty per cent of the ... Ocalan. Suppose now that Turkey shuts off Assad's water, or confronts him again because he backs the ...
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INDONESIA: The ferment is everywhere
strikes; urban poor wanting water or demanding an end to "wild tributes"; farmers protesting ... sent out the money yet or because the agents say the rice has too high a water content (with the result ...
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INDONESIA: Impending catastrophe
slums have no fresh water. Slum dwellers must buy their water and also pay for the use of public ...
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IRAQ: Death for oil
water, inadequate diets, broken-down hospital care and collapsed systems. We have massive malnutrition in ... to invest that money in agriculture, health care and education, to rebuild the infrastructure, water ...