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Food Riots: System Breakdown

April 2, 2008 – 1:13 pm

John Hinkson on food shortages, population growth, climate change, and why neo-liberalism as an untenable social order

Posted in editorial | Also tagged 2020 Summit, bio-fuels, capitalism, climate change, commodity consumption, ethics, food availability, food prices, food riots, food shortages, global market, global population, global trade, global travel, John Hinkson, neo-liberalism, oil and gas shortages, peak oil, water availability, World Bank | Comments Off

In Terror and Hope

October 2, 2001 – 7:57 pm

Guy Rundle

Posted in editorial | Also tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Albanian terrorists, Andy Butfoy, Angela Mitropoulos, anti-globalisation, anti-semitism, biological weapons, chemical weapons, civil liberties, civil society, colonialism, Damien Lawson, development, Douglas McQueen-Thomson, ethnic cleansing, executive power, foreign policy, free trade, GATT, Geoff Sharp, George W Bush, global justice, globalisation, Gulf War, Guy Rundle, heroin, holocaust, IRA, Iraq, Jimmy Carter, John Hinkson, John Howard, Kashmiri terrorists, Kimberley Serca, Kosovo, labour rights, malnutrition, market, militant Islam, Mullah Omar, Nauru, Nehal Bhuta, neo-liberalism, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine, peace movement, Pentagon, preventable disease, propaganda, protectionism, reconciliation, refugee action movement, security, shar’ia, solidarity, sovereignty, Taliban, terror organisations, terrorism, UN Security Council, United Nations (UN), United States, violence, war, Winston Churchill, World Bank, World Trade Centre (WTC), World Trade Organization (WTO), Zapatista uprising | Comments Off

Addicted to War

February 2, 2001 – 9:03 am

Jospeh Raso The New US Aid Package Fuels Colombia’s Counter-Insurgency War

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Andrés Pastrana, atrocities, Bill Clinton, biological warfare, Carlos Castano, Colombian military, Colombian security forces, counter-Insurgency, Edward Herman, Egypt, El Salvador, George Bush, George W Bush, Guatemala, Gulf War, human rights monitors, Human Rights Watch, Indonesian armed forces, inequality, international relations, Israel, José Napoleon Duarte, Joseph Raso, labour unions, Latin American militias, National Liberation Army (ELN), new world order, paramilitary groups, poverty, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), School of the Americas, state terrorism, transnational corporations, United States, US aid, US corporations, Vietnam Syndrome, Vinicio Cerezo, World Bank | Comments Off

Become the Media

November 2, 2000 – 6:57 am

Alex Kelly and Jason Gibson

Posted in against the current | Also tagged activism, affinity groups, Alex Kelly, civil disobedience, community media, corporate media, Crown Casino, decentralised organisation, hactivism, independent media, Jason Gibson, mainstream media, Melbourne IndyMedia, Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), open-publishing model, protest, public sphere, radicalism, S11, S26, Seattle IndyMedia Centre, World Economic Forum (WEF), World Trade Organisation (WTO), Zapatistas | Comments Off

Capital’s First International?

June 2, 2000 – 4:41 pm

James Goodman The World Economic Forum is Coming to Town

Posted in against the current | Also tagged academia, Al Gore, Asia, Bill Clinton, capitalism, Chief Executives, class, commodification, corporate responsibility, democracy, economic research, environmentalism, executive salaries, George Soros, global inequality, globalisation, James Goodman, Kofi Annan, market fundamentalism, media, neo-liberalism, non-government organisations (NGO), Russia, social dislocation, sustainability, Switzerland, Ted Turner, Tony Blair, trade unions, transnational corporations, United Nations (UN), United States, World Economic Forum (WEF) | Comments Off

From Colony to Global Prize

June 2, 2000 – 4:38 pm

George Aditjondro Timor Loro Sa’e Under a New Wave of Economic Transformation

Posted in features | Also tagged Africa, agrarian reform, agriculture, aid workers, annexation, Asia, Australian Defence Forces, banking, Cambodia, capitalism, cartel, Catholicism, coffee, coffee plantations, collaboration, colonialism, construction, corruption, deportation, East Timor, East Timor independence, economy, energy management, environmental policy, environmentalists, fertility control techniques, forced deportation, genocide, George Aditjondro, grants, guerillas, health workers, hotels, human rights violations, humanitarian aid, indigenous people, Indonesia, inequality, information technology, investment, Japan, land appropriation, loans, Malaysia, militia, mining, monopoly, nationalism, NGO, Nobel Prize, North Korea, Northern Territory, oil, oligopoly, peacekeeping, political elite, political prisoners, Portugal, post-colonial states, prostitution, protesters, reconstruction, referendum, self-determination, Singapore, South Korea, squatters, state property, Suharto, Taiwan, teachers, telecommunication, Timor, tourism, trade unions, United Nations (UN), United States, uranium, West Papua, Western Australia, World Bank, Xanana Gusmao | Comments Off

Uncanny Reflection – The Destruction of Chechnya

December 2, 1999 – 6:54 am

NATO’s bombing of Serbian forces and Russia’s action in Chechnya have some chilling similarities writes Simon Cooper

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Al Gore, Asia, Balkans, Bill Clinton, bomb attacks, Boris Yeltsin, Britain, capitalism, Caucasus, Chechen republic, Chechnya, economic sanctions, Europe, financial crisis, fundamentalist Islam, gas, global economy, Grozny, humanitarian aid, Indonesia, information war, international markets, Islam, kidnapping, Kosovo, loan defaults, Madeline Allbright, media, money-laundering, Muslim, natural resources, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), oil, oil & gas reserves, Patrick Cockburn, Red Cross, retaliation, Rupert Cornwall, Russia, Serbia, Simon Cooper, terrorism, Tony Blair, United States, USSR, Vladimir Putin, Zygmunt Bauman | Comments Off

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