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Write On: Letters to the Editor
it", which, quoting Professor George Williams, observes that the Howard government's war on terror ... silenced by terror laws", (both GLW #769), on what has been happening pursuant to Australia's ... quote Robert Menzies and the editorial quotes him saying six days after the start of World War II that ...
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A confused critique of capitalism
slave market in which these women are put on the auction block. This is gut-wrenching reading but her ... 2008 292 pages, $29.95 (pb) I was attracted to this book after hearing Loretta Napoleoni on ABC radio ... on June 2. In a short, punchy talk she made the most astonishing attacks on modern capitalism. There ...
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Hope, terror and youth rebellion
Simon Butler Looking back on the political movements of the '60s and '70s is now ... movements demanding women's equality, queer equality, racial equality and an end to the West's ... wars of aggression and conquest. The modern environmental movement also originates from this time. The ...
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Don't pay for a failed system
Iraq, the US has spent $3 trillion on the war alone. The $1.339 trillion annual global military ... Tony Iltis "Meltdown" is a word that one hears a lot on the news these days. Despite the ... various forms of state intervention in the finance industry on both sides of the Atlantic, sharemarkets ...
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A guide to the Wall Street meltdown
financial crisis based on what they read in mainstream newspapers. These papers typically fence off business ... anchors rarely mentioned the economy except to give stock market reports or figures on economic growth. ... century, capitalist enterprises had become too big to rely simply on their own profits to finance ...