“We’ve tried to enter Palestine by land. We’ve tried to arrive by air. Now we’re getting serious. We’re taking a ship”.
717
I am sure readers would agree that the real swindlers were exposed in the discussion after the much-watched screening of Martin DurkinÂ’s Great Global Warming Swindle on ABC TV last week.
Some 80 people packed the Resistance Centre on July 1 for a Latin America solidarity conference organised by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN), Australia Solidarity with Latin America (ASLA) and the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) committee.
PM John Howard and ALP leader Kevin Rudd have both attacked Unions NSW secretary John Robertson for comments, secretly recorded and leaked to the media, made at a Bennelong Your Rights at Work meeting in late June.
“Nearly five months into a security strategy that involves thousands of additional US and Iraqi troops patrolling Baghdad, the number of unidentified bodies found on the streets of the capital was 41% higher in June than in January, according to unofficial health ministry statistics”, the July 4 Washington Post reported.
Money for nothing
"The 11th annual study of 71 countries by investment bank Merrill Lynch and consultancy firm, Capgemini found that buoyant economic growth across the world pushed the riches of 'high net worth individuals' (HNWI) up by a hefty
“Governments will only act when they are forced to by social movements”, Dr Mark Diesendorf told around 150 people at the Queensland University of Technology on June 28. “In the USA and Australia, these social movements around climate change are growing, and involving a broader sector of the community.”
The Monster at our Door: The Global Threat of Bird Flu
By Mike Davis
The New Press, 2006
216 pages, $22 (pb)
By Mike Davis
The New Press, 2006
216 pages, $22 (pb)
'Speciesism'
While I can agree with Richard Blumer (GLW 713) about the horrors of intensive capitalist animal farming and the need for reform to prohibit cruel and unnecessary suffering of animals, I cannot agree with his argument that "speciesism
Smoke suffocates charcoaled slabs of continents while
Uncertain politicians hesitate to make unpopular precedents.
Now or never.
Sunshine energy abounds, but rejected as being economically unsound.
Heat melts the ice as white bears drown in spreading seas but
Industries cling to destructive, established technologies.
Now or never.
Evolution? or extinction?
@auth poem = Selina OÂ’Brien
Uncertain politicians hesitate to make unpopular precedents.
Now or never.
Sunshine energy abounds, but rejected as being economically unsound.
Heat melts the ice as white bears drown in spreading seas but
Industries cling to destructive, established technologies.
Now or never.
Evolution? or extinction?
@auth poem = Selina OÂ’Brien
The following is abridged from a letter sent by Dean Mighell, Victorian secretary of the Electrical Trades Union, to ALP leader Kevin Rudd following MighellÂ’s forced resignation from the party on May 30.
Like the rest of Latin America, Venezuela’s history is scarred by colonialism’s racist legacy — Venezuela’s people were dispossessed in 1520 following Spanish settlement. In the following centuries, they were systematically killed and their land exploited. Slavery, which allowed the colonisers to plunder Venezuela, existed until 1854, and at the time of the 1830 constitution neither indigenous people nor those descended from Africa were recognised as Venezuelans.
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