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IMF boss who pays no tax lectures Greek people
International solidarity Economy Peter Boyle How outrageous is this story? Just days after International Monetary Fund boss Christine Lagarde lectured Greek people to pay their taxes or not expect any sympathy from the rest of the world, the British Guard ...
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Battlelines drawn for Cancun
Indigenous International solidarity Economy Environment Simon Butler Climate change Climate Debt United Nations (UN) Cancun Copenhagen If at first you don鈥檛 succeed, redefine success. This phrase has become the unofficial motto of this year鈥檚 United Natio ...
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Boycotting Israel: the threat of a good example
Middle East Below is an address to Marrickville Council meeting on BDS by Dr. Peter Slezak, associate professor in history and philosophy at the University of New South Wales, arguing against a motion on April 19 to rescind the council鈥檚 support for the b ...
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Union conference debates climate policies
Margarita Windisch Jeremy Smith One hundred activists of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) attended the Pushing the Boundaries climate change conference over April 28-29. The two days of talks, vibrant debate and action-based workshops set a pr ...
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Gosford landing... the next Barangaroo?
Helen Vocalan Many people have heard of the mess the government & Lend Lease are up to at Barangaroo, but little has yet to be made public on a similar development for the Gosford Waterfront Landing. The General Manager of the Central Coast Regional D ...
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Burma: Rohingya refugees flee new wave of violence and ethnic cleansing
Patel said. 鈥淭rapped between these cruel fates, their desperate need for food, water and medical care is ...
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Hazelwood closure: no just transition without a plan
be spent directly in Latrobe Valley, not neighbouring shires. 鈥淵ou pour the water into the teacup and ...
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Dakota pipeline struggle: Native Americans versus fossil fuels
that puts their water supply at risk, threatens to plow up their sacred sites, and would worsen climate ... these people are treated like third-class citizens. Where they have no running water in their houses, ...
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Australia鈥檚 nuclear spin doctors
Environment Jim Green How have Australian scientists handled the difficult task of keeping us informed about the unfolding nuclear disaster in Japan? Only a few Australian scientists have featured repeatedly in the media. The most prominent have been Prof ...
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Video: Lee Rhiannon 鈥 Lynas rare earths refinery in Malaysia 'should not go ahead'
Economy Environment Peter Boyle Gadigal Country/Sydney 麻豆传媒 Weekly 's Peter Boyle spoke to Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon outside Lynas Corporation's annual general meeting on November 30 about Lynas's plan to build a rare earths refiner ...
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Behind a corporate monster: How Monsanto pushes agricultural domination
attorney-general as false and misleading advertising. Monsanto lost. In France鈥檚 north-west, the Brittany Water and ...
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Huge protest for action on climate change
devastating impacts of sea level rise, drought and lack of access to clean water. "We know that climate ... around the waterfront. Marchers symbolised rising sea waters by partly immersing ourselves in the Lagoon ...
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Jimblah grasps Australia's burning issues
Soul).聽 Elefant Traks. Given the pre-colonial history of fire-management, news images of water ... says, as a sweating Urthboy passes between us to get a much-needed drink from the office water cooler. ...
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Utopia: An inside story
tin shed with no running water, and no electricity. It has holes in the walls and is barely fit to ... two kids. It has holes in the walls, no running water, no electricity. And those that aren鈥檛 lucky ...
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WikiLeaks exposes TPP corporate power grab
it took action to devalue its currency and freeze energy and water bills in the wake of its 2001 ... frack gas from underneath the St Lawrence River, which is an essential source of drinking water in ...
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Ten new political albums worth a listen- May 2015
the lights, cutting off the water, in that Australian tradition of Indigenous slaughter." As for ... the flooding of Welsh valleys and decimating entire villages and communities to supply water over the ...
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The case for boycotting Sri Lankan cricket
dunk my head into water. They covered my head with a polythene bag soaked in petrol and tied tightly ... rods. They burned me with cigarette butts and when I asked for water they gave me urine,鈥 he said. Now ...
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Antony Loewenstein: Detention centres outsource cruelty
exile Josefa Rauluni, detainees who tried to help rooftop protesters with water and blankets were ... who were not even taking water, remain in a critical condition. A group of 40 people from the Fijian ...
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An open letter to Professor Ross Garnaut
than a billion people populate river basins that draw melt-water from the Himalayan-Hindu Kush ice ... Change and Water, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts Correspondence: Damien Lawson, ...
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Australian agriculture 鈥 a carbon-neutral future?
about seven years before they are oxidised to carbon dioxide and water. After 12 years they are almost ... soil structure and water retention. There is also a big role for the composting of urban green wastes, ...
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Climate change: the eco-socialist solution
sufficient water to live in the summer? What happens when Bangladesh is covered by rising sea levels and 200 ... skyrocket and water tables are bottoming out. Despite its new "environmentally friendly" image, ...
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Beyond Copenhagen: left alternatives to capitalism
to the environmental crisis and all its associated issues, including food, land and water security ... a problem in the water, in the soil, in the air' 鈥 and separated from their social origins", ...
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International outrage over Israel's slaughter of Gaza aid workers
drawing attention to the fact that it happened in international waters. France: ''nothing can ... in international waters. We condemn the violence and call for it to stop. The situation is still ...
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US May Day protests: Immigrant workers demand rights and dignity
Supportive shop owners and community organisations donated water and sweet coffee spiced with cinnamon to ... many provided food and water for the marchers. Although the temperature in Tucson was hot, it was ...
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The epic struggle of indigenous Andean-Amazonian culture
elevated belts. This has the function of avoiding floods in rainy years. In dry years water held in the ... ditches is used for irrigation. Heat absorbed by ditch water during the day helps to counteract cold ...