Headlines from GLW #746, 9 April 2008:

World Bank climate profiteering

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 4 April 2008

The World Bank’s long-running identity crisis is proving hard to shake. When efforts to rebrand itself as a “knowledge bank” didn’t work, it devised a new identity as a “green bank”. Yes, it’s true. »

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How can sustainable energy solve greenhouse?

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 5 April 2008

Overwhelmed by the greenhouse debate? Bamboozled by all the competing claims that renewable energy sources cannot supply 24-hours-a-day power (“base load”)? Depressed by the unending vastness of “the literature” on global warming and renewables? »

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Market madness: The US economic crisis

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 April 2008

UNITED STATES: As the full severity of the mortgage crisis emerged over the past year, there were still defenders of the free-market system ready to counter every criticism of sub-prime mortgage peddlers and profit-hungry banks by pinning the blame on the real culprits. »

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The Tibetan and Uighur struggles for justice

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 4 April 2008

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GLW publication schedule

GENERAL, 5 April 2008

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A revolutionary response to the climate change crisis

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 4 April 2008

Dave Holmes is a veteran leader of the Democratic Socialist Perspective, a Marxist tendency in the Socialist Alliance. He co-wrote the pamphlet Change the System Not the Climate (Resistance Books, 2007) and will be participating in the upcoming Climate Change — Social Change Conference. Green Left Weekly’s Peter Boyle spoke to him about the key issues the conference needs to address. »

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Where is the justice?

World Bank climate profiteering

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Labor to push uranium expansion

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