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1. Environment versus the market

   and animals to extinction. It has turned vast rivers into little more than open sewers for chemical ... proposed, and begun to implement, so-called "tradeable pollution rights": if you want to destroy ... the environment, you have to pay to do it. But how much should we charge for the "right" to ...

2. London prepares for the war games

   Democracy Environment Housing Imperialism & war Sports Tim Dobson It has not even begun, but a world record has already been set for the London 2012 Olympic games. The games, which begin on July 27, are the most corporatised, militarised and draconian ...

3. Direct distraction: The Coalition’s ‘cure’ for climate change

   a tight call, so we have to get things right first time. If we delay, the laws of physics will not be ... way in the next decade. The scheme will concede huge emitting rights to big carbon polluters. Within ... marginal soil moisture, and there simply isn’t the animal manure for farms that stretch over the horizon. ...

4. Suharto fiddles while Indonesia burns

   a dry season made worse by drought, will be especially vulnerable. Larger animals are also at risk. ... Primates, such as the orangutan, are especially vulnerable because, unlike four-footed animals, they are ... violation of indigenous rights of being "stooges" of foreign timber interests. Hasan has become ...

5. No future for nuclear

   dies, becomes cancerous or is horribly deformed. We are talking not only about human cells but animal ... destroyed block has been leaking right from the beginning, and another disaster threatens from the one ton ... where people, animals, plants and the earth itself are respected and valued. April 27, 1994 140 ...

6. Domestic violence: how the law fails women

   to coerce her to do something he wants her to do without any concern for her rights... in order to be ... Seligman, whose experimentation on animals demonstrated that exposure to unavoidable painful stimuli can ... render animals passive, helpless and unable to escape when given the opportunity. The "battered ...

7. Quebec: Huge protest backs students, gov't unleashes attack dogs

   that was adopted by Quebec’s National Assembly on May 18, which effectively proscribes the right of ... like “animals”. The detainees were denied bathroom access and one man who suffered a cardiac emergency ... accessible to everyone, the more society is likely to make the right choices. I see it in my work: People ...

8. Hobbits of the world unite (A revolutionary reads Tolkien)

   locals, keeping out stray animals and directing passers-by to the best local beer. There is also a local ... fight the dragon Smaug, who had stolen all of the dwarven treasures from their rightful owners. Smaug is ... utopianism is alive in Australia. There’s something of it in right-wing populist groups like Bob Katter’s ...

9. Capitalism, agribusiness and the food sovereignty alternative

   sweeteners, animal feed or human food. As the editors of 2000's Hungry for Profit wrote, "The ... water and resources, and the people affected must have the right to know and to decide about food ... human rights, land reform, and protection of the earth against capitalist ecocide. La Via ...

10. UNITED STATES: 'We have Iraq on the radar screen'

    Henry Kissinger. The cabal is also supported by powerful right-wing think-tanks such as the Washington ... Republican right have pushed since the end of the 1991 Gulf War. It would have Washington convert the present ... facilities with a potential biological application. Breweries, animal feed factories, vaccine and drug ...

11. Iraq sanctions: a crime against humanity

    deteriorating soil quality and irrigation facilities...". The FAO and WFP also reported, "The animal ... stating that they "undermine the moral credibility of the UN" and contradict the human rights ... Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child? How can the Security Council regard with almost ...

12. New stage in Israel's war on Palestine

    Elsewhere, a Jewish man in his 20s was arrested for spray-painting “Kahane was right” on a road sign ... and murdered in cold blood by human animals”. He vowed: “Hamas is responsible and Hamas will pay.” ... Israeli economics minister and right-wing extremist Naftali Bennett said: “There is no forgiveness for ...

13. Dakota pipeline struggle: Native Americans versus fossil fuels

    Democracy Now! spoke to her right outside the Red Warrior Camp in North Dakota, where she has set up her ... painted with animals that are threatened by climate change. Asked why communities were now protesting the ... by Monsanto and Syngenta as trademarked varieties that they created. Right? “And then you’re out here ...

14. Toxic sugar is only half the story

    evidence for the increase in intake of animal fats to be the direct cause of coronary mortality. Instead, ... hearings. It now turns out Atkins may have been right in placing limits on our sugar intake. It was partly ... which affects gene function, has increased enormously. If the methylation pattern is not right, some ...

15. 10 new political albums worth a listen: February 2015

    a soundtrack that was right on the money. On the 10th anniversary reissue of their 2005 album Fuck World Trade, ... with their new album Disobedient. The bleak, polluted world that plays out in their animated lyric ... United States Of Israel bombing hospitals in Lebanon with no right. Logically ridiculous hypocrites ...

16. Political music: 11 new albums you need to hear

    human fucking rights then?" it asks, before the moaning refrain: "'I haven't got ... convention, the Swiss-based Russian ska band (yes, you read that right) give the song a whole new melody and ... animals. The cover art for their latest long-player is no exception, showing plastic waste spilling from ...

17. Livewire rapper to celebrate Aboriginal survival

    discussion at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. The Darwin Aboriginal Rights Coalition has organised a Survival ... animals and we are still surviving." Dizzy, who says she always has a blast whenever she gets ... it's done right; at times I can be very critical of myself; I love the water; I am a visionary; I am ...

18. David Spratt: Powerful working towards climate talks disaster

    plant and animal species; dangerous ocean acidification and widespread drought, desertification and ... they rightly judge such schemes become a substitute for hard-core cuts in domestic emissions by the ... climate-aid will be given. Developing countries have refused, and can rightly point to recent practices such ...

19. Sudanese communists discuss prospects for peace

    right to dissolve parties if they criticise or oppose the CPA. Suleman said that this violates ... still a chance for both governments in the north and south to move things in the right direction, to ... Darfur has the largest source of animals — cattle, camels and sheep. Moreover, traditionally people from ...

20. Write on: Letters to the editor

    Flannery's expeditions to search for rare and unknown animals of New Guinea. Flannery devotes a whole section ... "l" liberals (and a lot of rabid right-wingers) call it, "civil" capitalism. Has Flannery ... development of its kind. Instead of continuing to support the right-wing Israeli government and its religious ...

21. Bush's war threatens millions with starvation

    100 people had been killed. Giant craters were where houses once stood. Dead animal carcasses littered ... rights to images captured by the commercial Ikonos satellite. The clear intention was to deny the media ... accurate enough to depict bodies on the ground or damage to villages. Washington bought the rights ...

22. Write On: Letters to 91������̳ Weekly

    restriction of the right to protest and supporting students' requests for an inquiry into the police ... success of the rally on April 2, and the victory it won for the right to protest, should be applauded by ... and cohorts: "These young people have every right to express their opinions and show their ...

23. Cuba debates its socialist future

    a spirit of dialogue, of mutual respect. “I think [Cuban] politics is going through this stage right now.” ... banned from backing candidates and all citizens have the right to be nominated. Despite this, there ... 1920s. To the right, some economic specialists argue that medium-sized private enterprises should be ...

24. Write On: Letters to 91������̳ Weekly

    this "home"? Who is allowed to live there? And with what rights? Perhaps it is a home ... a separate "home" — a home that doesn't make sense unless there are special rights for Jewish ... quoting famous civil rights leader Martin Luther King. While King was certainly an impressive figure in ...

25. 12 new left-leaning albums worth a listen

    city has fallen and the last animal is diseased, starving children will inherit a wasteland. What then ... everything from LGBTQ awareness and Indigenous rights to environmental battles in the Kimberley. ...

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