Overwhelmed by the greenhouse debate? Bamboozled by all the competing claims that renewable energy sources cannot supply 24-hours-a-day power (鈥渂ase load鈥)? Depressed by the unending vastness of 鈥渢he literature鈥 on global warming and renewables?
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Ben Bernanke is the chairperson of the US Federal Reserve Bank. If he sneezes at the wrong time, the world鈥檚 sharemarkets take another dive and currency speculators rush for their global roulette table. So when he addressed the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs on April 3 he was choosing his words very carefully. And there was one word he was wary about using: 鈥渞ecession鈥.
March 31 Reuters article reported that Ecuador has sued Colombia in international court over drug crop fumigation along its frontier. "Ecuador asks the court to declare Colombia's air fumigation a violation of Ecuador's sovereignty", foreign minister
The Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) is spreading its net further throughout the building industry in an attempt to intimidate unions from standing up for the interests of their members.
Even from my bed on the opposite side of the room it was possible to see the gruesome surgical-steel staples bisecting Miguel鈥檚 head.
In 1910, German revolutionary socialist Clara Zetkin put a proposal to the International Socialist Women鈥檚 Conference that the date March 8 become a day dedicated to fighting for women鈥檚 rights.
US plans for a "Star Wars" missile base in Poland have been met with wide spread opposition and protests, including a mass protest taking place in Warsaw on March 15. Demonstrators marched to parliament and then the US embassy calling for the Polish
A legal challenge by environmental group Blue Wedges to the federal government鈥檚 approval of the dredging of Port Phillip Bay was defeated in the Federal Court on March 28. Blue Wedges鈥 case was based on the slipshod manner in which environment minister Peter Garrett approved the project on February 6, a week after the giant dredging ship the Queen of the Netherlands arrived in Melbourne on January 29. The ship was commissioned by the Victorian government to dredge a new shipping channel in the bay.
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.
The one thing that President Thabo Mbeki has to be given credit for is his consistency. Ever since he ascended to South Africa鈥檚 political throne, the would-be king has stuck doggedly to the fundamentals of a macro-neoliberalism that has underpinned this country鈥檚 developmental path for the last decade and more. It is a consistency that has, not surprisingly, greatly benefited the elite few and cost the majority dearly.
We are taking a break from production to attend the 麻豆传媒 Weekly Climate Change 鈥 Social Change conference (see ad on page 5). The next issue of GLW will be dated April 23.
European governments no longer have the right to legally enforce minimum wage standards in their contracts, according to a European Court of Justice ruling on April 3. The court was passing judgement on a case brought by a Polish construction company
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