GLW issue 662, published 2006-03-29.

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UNITED STATES: Global warming at 'tipping point'

On March 15, Reuters reported on new findings by the Washington-based World Resources Institute that human-fuelled global warming has reached a "tipping point". The institute has released a report surveying recent scientific research, which found

Rod Quantock pokes fun at power

Rod Quantock is a Melbourne institution in comedy. This year, he marks his 20th anniversary at the Melbourne Comedy Festival with his new show Australia. Australia looks at this wide brown land and examines what's so good about it, other than its

CSIRO: Research for science or corporate profit?

Pip Hinman Dr Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, a marsupial biologist employed by the CSIRO for 20 years until 1995, is one of a growing number of critics of the way the CSIRO handles the balance between its private and public research. He is also critical of

Green Left Weekly fighting fund 2006: Five percent of a corporate fat cat's income

Peter Boyle Correction: A recent report, quoted in Green Left Weekly, that the CEOs of the big corporations belonging to the Business Council of Australia (BCA) were paid 63 times the average wage of their companies' employees, was wrong.
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CHINA: Women's liberation going backwards?

Eva Cheng On founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Communist Party of China (CPC) declared that "women shall enjoy equal rights with men in political, economic, cultural, educational and social life". In the years after 1949,

EL SALVADOR: Venezuelan pact provides low-cost oil

On March 5, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government announced a new joint venture to help reduce transport costs in FMLN-governed municipalities. Part of the alternative Latin American
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