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  1. The crisis in Darfur and Chad

    control some of the richest farmlands and access to water particularly in central Darfur. The Janjaweed ... for access to grazing land and water. This conflict has been going on since far back in history and ...

  2. UN report: Severe climate change may now be 'inevitable'

    change-induced wars over increasingly scarce supplies of food, water and oil than actually acting to stop climate ... wars is centred on "the eruption of desperate, all-out wars over food, water, and energy ...

  3. Global food crisis: biofuels threaten hunger

    agricultural land is irrigated, not due to water shortages but because of a lack of investment. Such ... argued that growing agrofuel output would "compete with food crops for water, land and capital and ...

  4. 'Africa needs justice not charity'

    urban water supplies. Mali was forced to agree to privatise its railways and cotton industry. The World ... 5000 teachers. In May, Tanzania repudiated the water privatisation contract with the joint venture led ...

  5. VIETNAM: 30 years later, war crimes go on and on

    completely insoluble in water, so it is not diluted by rain. It is soluble in oils, so it tends to ... forming a thick layer above the waterways. Regiment 10's water commandos continued their activities. ...

  6. US officer: 'Why I disagree with Bush's war for oil'

    charge of planning and supervising the supply needs, which included water, food, packaged petroleum ... water, and a healthy economy. I learnt from my time in Iraq that while the locals initially rejoiced in ...

  7. Radioactive racism: 'The promises don't last, but the problems always do'

    the Water Resources Act and the Freedom of Information Act. The new mine owner, BHP Billiton, refuses ... concerned the laying of a water pipeline on Arabunna land in the mid 1990s. The dispute led to violence, ...

  8. BRITAIN/IRAQ: John Pilger — 'Not in our name'

    current strategy of "total war" and target Iraq's electricity and water, the consequences ... wrote: "The death of 5-6,000 children a month is mostly due to contaminated water, lack of medicines ...

  9. KOREA: US war drive: is North Korea next?

    light-water nuclear reactors and foreign fuel oil supplies in exchange for Pyongyang rejoining the NPT. The ... administration failed to come through with the light-water nuclear reactors and worked to undermine the growing ...

  10. COVER STORY: Bush plans bloodbath in Iraq

    southwest Asia, including the waters of the Persian Gulf. Its purpose, bluntly spelled out in a US Air Force ... water, electricity and other vital systems to the city's defenders and driving out (or killing) the ...

  11. Forest issues in Tasmania

    their ballast water, stir up sediment thereby making the waters murky and less able to support fragile ...

  12. Why the government fears the UN

    criticisms were watered down in the final report after ferocious lobbying by Australian diplomats. The ... by attempting to water down agreements. In discussions on the draft Declaration on the Rights of ...

  13. WORLD ECONOMY: 'The crisis is consequence of failure of neo-liberal globalisation'

    absorbs hundreds of billions of dollars; money laundering; the lack of drinking water; the scarcity of ... which it is being subjected, and which is causing the poisoning of the waters and the atmosphere, the ...

  14. Lasseter's last dream

    about his dream of great gold mines. Of herds of stock fed and watered by artesian bores. How he would ... of bread, a swig of water or even release. And Lasseter wishes he could pray. He used to once. But he ...

  15. GST: good for the rich, bad for us

    include health, education and child-care services, local government rates, water and sewerage charges and ... council rates, water and sewerage charges are to be GST-free, but other services provided by local ...

  16. Five years after Oslo: is there still hope for Palestine?

    from Jordan, so that Israel will always control the border — and the water of the Jordan River. ... powers — a hotchpotch of disconnected cantons without land, water or an economy. Sixty per cent will be ...

  17. Iraq sanctions: a crime against humanity

    Serbia). The poor state of sewerage and water treatment works, partly a result of the 1991 bombing, is ... allow chlorine to disinfect water supplies is, at best, contrary to basic principles of preventive ...

  18. DIG: The last history of Burke and Wills

    But now they have no means of carrying enough water. No means of reaching Mount Hopeless. They sit by ... the streets of the cities. And they will cry for us. A flood of water to fill this parched ...

  19. Can the planet survive tourism?

    herbicides and pesticides and both the courses and hotels use enormous amounts of valuable water — the basis ... 2500 litres of water a day, according to a 1992 United Nations report. A farmer uses just 77 ...

  20. Moruroa: the cover-up begins

    "solution" would be its dilution: he said "there will be enough water to reduce the strength/damage of ... mission found elevated levels of tritium, an isotope with a half-life of 12 years which is water soluble, ...

  21. Write on: Letters to the editor

    brindle. This is the second driest continent on earth, yet we use water like there is no tomorrow, fill in ... our precious wetlands or drain them for infrastructure and industry, bulldoze the bushland for water ...

  22. Urban nig.htmares

    hit Latin America in the last three years was directly spurred by the lack of clean water and sewage ... shantytown dwellers; they have to organise things like water and electricity for themselves. This ...

  23. McArthur River mine threatens the gulf

    acknowledgment that dredging and increased water turbidity "may have some effect". The environmental ... is known that seagrasses absorb metals from sediment and/or water. It is also well known that ...

  24. The day the Devil came to Dangawullah

    and were struggling to save their Christmas dinner as water gushed through holes in the roofs and ran ... crucifix held aloft, casting a cleansing bottle of Holy Water before him, but with his hands firmly ...

  25. Uranium: leave it in the ground!

    "The mining of uranium inevitably leads to an increase in the war danger." The moves to water down ... a Westinghouse-Mitsubishi pressurised water type (PWR) similar to the one which nearly melted down in 1979 on Three Mile ...

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