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1. Write on: Letters to the editor

   Write on: Letters to the editor Germaine Greer I couldn't agree more with most of Mary ... of the reality of men becoming violent, which I was to learn later from bitter experience. However, ... I do not entirely agree with all of Mary's conclusions. Some women certainly in the Adelaide ...

2. Love, lust and pain

   "doesn't make your life any happier just because you are making a hundred grand a year. A feeling of ... Picador, 280 pp, $14.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley Ben Elton, in full flight, is a gab feast. Elton, aka ... "motor mouth", by trade is a stand up comic, one of Britain's most successful. Those familiar ...

3. Write on

   Humans and animals Laura Bahnisch (Write on, #149) accuses Dave Riley ("Becoming Human", ... GLW #147) of speciesism for pointing to the fundamental distinction between human nature and animal ... environment with instinctual or learned responses. Only humans are capable of indirect "mediated" ...

4. Capital punishment, US style

   develop more effective methods of reducing violent crime. Executions cost more than life imprisonment. ... undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any ... because many people being executed were black males accused of raping white women in the southern states. ...

5. Write on: Letters to the editor

   China and Che In GLW #328, Bob Saltis is critical of Eva Cheng's support for ... "workers' democracy" in GLW #315. It is a pity that Bob, who is president of the Cuba Friendship ... Society in SA, has not taken Fidel's advice to study the economic writings of Che Guevara. Che ...

6. From Moratorium to socialism

   By Dave Riley When I left school at the end of 1966 I had two passions — theatre and politics. But ... the spectre of communism was our substitute for social studies. We were taught to be rabidly ... Santamaria drew together a coalition of right-wing forces to combat the emerging youth radicalisation. With ...

7. Write on

   on perusing Dave Riley's (GLW #163) vitriolic confusing review of the same, leaves the distinct ... areas of life. It provides protection for everyone in Australia against discrimination based on ... Telephone typewriter There has been a drastic reduction in the service of the TTY (telephone ...

8. Write on: letters to the editor

   However, the Palestinians are not fighting to see everyday life eased, but for the end of Zionist ... Oslo It was said that the Oslo Accord(s) will ease the everyday situation of the Palestinians. ... occupation, for the right of return and for the establishment of the independent State of Palestine. Israel ...

9. Bertolt Brecht: the man who never was

   The Life and Lies of Bertolt Brecht By John Fuegi Harper Collins. 732 pp., $39.95, (hb) Reviewed ... by Dave Riley As the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, word went out that this action drew on the ... inspiration of "the three B's" — Biermann, Bahro and Brecht. The masses of Berliners who took ...

10. Write on: letters to the editor

    experience in corporate conferences etc. where harassment of female house staff is a way of life. Harassment ... behalf of myself and my other comrades who were recently in the middle of our elections when your weekly ... #198 came out. Our team was opposed by another team and reported by Michael Bramwell, the author of the ...

11. Write on: letters to the editor

    insanity that is driving humanity worldwide to destroy its own life support systems in the names of ... Northern Ireland Dave Riley's article "Sinn Fein Says Yes" (GLW #318) misses the ... the presence of British troops in Northern Ireland, and (b) the cooption of the Protestant section of ...

12. Write on

    badly in his criticism of Irina Glushchenko's article, Russia's Population Falls (GLW 59, June ... Russia's birth rate due to the economic crisis and a partial collapse of the medical system. In fact, the ... Glushchenko cites with what I consider to be ironic intent. The main point of the article is the crisis in the ...

13. Write on: Letters to the editor

    of that child's life should the child so desire. These measures are already partially in place ... Write on: Letters to the editor Think again, Sidoti About your report [GLW #410] by Sean Healy of ... people, I wish to commend the latter for their clear understanding of the Burmese SPDC's ploy for ...

14. Write on

    escape. The cost of attaching one of these life saving devices to a trawl net is $750-$1000, which is ... writing ban that prohibited all of Georgia's prisoners from writing letters to our contacts, friends ... like the governor of the state of Georgia and prison administrators that lifted the ban. The lesson to ...

15. End ties with the Indonesian dictatorship!

    national coordinator); Peter Riley (Industrial Workers of the World); Lisa Macdonald (91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly); ... regime in Indonesia. Suharto may have gone, but the foundations of the Suharto dictatorship remain ... — foundations like the constitutional right of the army to intervene in politics and the outlawing of parties ...

16. Degrading to society

    much of what we were telling him about the efforts that were under way to persuade Governor Riley to ... death are sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of release. This satisfies society's ... The death penalty continues to be a matter of considerable debate in the United States. MICHAEL ...

17. Write On: Letters to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly

    I cannot for the life of me understand why a left paper needs to be so democratic as to print such ... arguing their cases in support of Eminem, Dave Riley (GLW #544) and Ben Standing (GLW #543) attempt to ... #545), sounds like a defender of South Africa during its apartheid years. From my reading, there is no ...

18. Greg Palast — investigative reporter gets personal

    crime investigator, who exposed the 2000 and 2004 elections of George W Bush as frauds, has gone for ... hang-ups about his furniture-dealer father, troubled love life and nagging insecurities. “All my stories ... Early on in the book, he recounts a typically tickling episode in which he tries to down a bottle of ...

19. Write on: letters to the editor

    gall to oppose Bill Ethell. What is this, Secretary for life? Secondly the photo of Bill Ethell must be ... Davies Maylands WA Qld Greens In GLW #240 Dave Riley had an article addressing the question of the Qld ... something that interested them and improved the quality of life all round what happiness it could bring all ...

20. 'Industrial cuisine' and the 'traditional diet'

    of food preparation aren't possible unless we begin to replicate the social life of previous ... of domestic life are oriented to the ideal of the nuclear family with a male "breadwinner" ... By Dave Riley There is perhaps nothing so intimate as the food we put in our mouths. In our ...

21. Ratbags in the ranks: Hanson, the Coalition and the far right

    shot crocodiles and lived the life of Riley. In his book New Guinea Patrol, Martin Kerr writes that to ... Ratbags in the ranks: Hanson, the Coalition and the far right The rise of the virulently racist ... Hanson's bigoted outpourings with kid gloves, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ of big business prepared for its own purposes to ...

22. Write on: letters to the editor

    stealing my 15 seconds of what could of been fame." Dave Riley Brisbane Shorter working week I heard ... Hanson is having on my life and I'm sure many others. I am not of Aboriginal or ethnic origin but ... Native title and the environment Considering that land degradation is one of the major problems ...

23. Write on: Letters to the editor

    humane about taking the life of a crocodile simply for personal prestige or money, or for that matter ... responsibility. Unless this happens, similar disasters, with more needless loss of life, are not just likely but ... fearing arrest, demonstrates that the democratic right to freedom of political expression ("free ...

24. Write on: Letters to the editor

    misses so much else in his recent assesment of the life and work of Gore Vidal (GLW #436). While Phil ... Central, were, as far as I am aware, the only candidates raising the red flag of socialism in the whole ... state. At a time when "economic rationalism" is the common ideology of both the Coalition and ...

25. Write On: Letters to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly

    bomb but one with a half-life of 24,000 years. What does Mr Howard intend to do about this? The most ... unanimously supported the marchers with the hooting of car horns and cheering. A hundred years ago this would ... proven at this present time; not only in the country town of Taree but all around the nation. It only ...

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