Headlines from GLW #745, 2 April 2008:

Corporations and climate change

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 29 March 2008

Global warming, General Motors’ vice-chairperson of global product development Robert A. Lutz told reporters in a closed-door meeting in January, is “a total crock of shit”. Within hours the remark was reported on the internet, and spread, as Lutz subsequently lamented, “like ragweed”. »

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Stop the bloodshed — freedom for Tibet!

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 28 March 2008

A demonstration by Buddhist monks in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, on March 10 to commemorate the anniversary of China’s crushing of the Tibetan independence movement in 1959 triggered protests for self-determination that, by March 14, had escalated into anti-Chinese riots in which 19 people were killed. »

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Australia's hidden empire

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 29 March 2008

When the outside world thinks about Australia, it generally turns to venerable cliches of innocence — cricket, leaping marsupials, endless sunshine, no worries. Australian governments actively encourage this. Witness the recent “G’day USA” campaign, in which Kylie Minogue and Nicole Kidman sought to persuade people in the US that, unlike the empire’s problematic outposts, a gormless greeting awaited them Down Under. After all, George Bush had ordained the previous Australian prime minister, John Howard, “sheriff of Asia”. »

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A just program for Indigenous employment

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 29 March 2008

As part of the former Howard government’s Northern Territory “intervention”, the Community Development Employment Program (CDEP) was abolished. The Howard government had planned to abolish it across other states on July 1 this year. »

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Other Headlines

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Latin America: Two bad days for imp...

Malawi: Big Tobacco and child labou...

Malaysia: Electoral break-through t...

Sri Lanka: MP murdered. media freed...

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Venezuelan revolutionary leader: ma...

Wall Street vs homeowners — gu...

West Papua: Free peaceful protester...

read »Comment & Analysis

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Government to 'speed up' 457 visa p...

Letters: Letters to the Edit...

Resistance!: A case for soci...

Our Common Cause: A rare and...

read »General

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read »Australian News

Bass Coast council quits desal talk...

Kevin Rudd addresses Zionist fundra...

Labor’s new IR bill: another f...

Qld Aboriginal wages stolen again

Relationships register: real equali...

Special treatment for pulp mill pro...

Stolen Generations: Redress scheme ...

Supermarket planned for historic Ab...

Victory over Tullamarine toxic wast...

Visy sacks injured worker

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