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		<title>Alternatives to Empire Forum: Global Ethic or Global Hegemony?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Wed April 28th, 2010 
 5pm for 5.30 Start    -    9pm Finish
Uniting Church Centre 130 Lt Collins Street Melbourne 
        Snacks, tea/ coffee &#38; conversation                                                     5.00-5.25pm 

Welcome  + Update on A2E Project                                                   5.30     

Larry Marshall/ Harry Kerr                                                              

Presentation by Professor Joseph Camilleri                                5.40       


US Empire:  Hope, Hegemony and Obama                                                         
Australia’s Role in engaging with  Empire        

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		<link>http://alternativestoempire.org/2010/03/05/alternatives-to-empire-forum-global-ethic-or-global-hegemony/</link>
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		<title>An American Attack On Iran Would Lead To US Collapse Says Top Russian General</title>
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Written by Juan Cole     


23 Feb 2010



Russia&#8217;s General of the Army Nikolay Makarov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, warned that an American attack on Iran now, when the US is bogged down in two wars, might well lead to the collapse of the United States. He said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternativestoempire.org/2010/03/03/an-american-attack-on-iran-would-lead-to-us-collapse-says-top-russian-general/</link>
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		<title>Democracy Thwarts U.S. Base Plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christine Ahn and Gwyn Kirk, "Democracy Thwarts U.S. Base Plans" (Washington, DC: Foreign Policy In Focus, February 10, 2010)
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		<link>http://alternativestoempire.org/2010/02/26/democracy-thwarts-u-s-base-plans/</link>
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		<title>Howard Zinn (1922–2010): A Tribute to the Legendary Historian with Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Naomi Wolf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We pay tribute to the late historian, writer and activist Howard Zinn who died suddenly on Wednesday of a heart attack at the age of 87. Howard Zinn’s classic work A People’s History of the United States changed the way we look at history in America. &#8230;
 http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/01/28
 To see an animation of Howard Zinn’s People’s History [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternativestoempire.org/2010/01/29/howard-zinn-1922%e2%80%932010-a-tribute-to-the-legendary-historian-with-noam-chomsky-alice-walker-naomi-wolf/</link>
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		<title>When the Media Is the Disaster; Covering Haiti -By Rebecca Solnit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The belief that people in disaster (particularly poor and nonwhite people) are cattle or animals or just crazy and untrustworthy regularly justifies spending far too much energy and far too many resources on control &#8212; the American military calls it “security” &#8212; rather than relief. A British-accented voiceover on CNN calls people sprinting to where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternativestoempire.org/2010/01/22/when-the-media-is-the-disaster-covering-haiti-by-rebecca-solnit/</link>
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		<title>The Story of Religion:  Joe Volk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stories we are told by our leaders and the stories we tell each other help to build our worldview. We have to take back control of these narratives to empower each other and construct a  more peaceful world.]]></description>
		<link>http://alternativestoempire.org/2009/12/11/the-story-of-religion-joe-volk/</link>
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		<title>POLITICS-ASIA: Inter-religious Forum Calls for Nuclear Abolition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MELBOURNE, Dec 8 (IPS) &#8211; For the global religious community, the use of nuclear arms is an overwhelmingly important ethical issue for the human family. Thus, nothing less than the immediate abolition of such weapons is needed from the highest levels, said speakers at the Parliament of the World’s Religions currently underway in this Australian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternativestoempire.org/2009/12/11/politics-asia-inter-religious-forum-calls-for-nuclear-abolition/</link>
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		<title>Weapons of Mass Democracy by Stephen Zunes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nonviolent Resistance Is the Most Powerful Tactic Against Oppressive Regimes
On the outskirts of a desert town in the Moroccan-occupied territory of Western Sahara, about a dozen young activists are gathered. They are involved in their country’s long struggle for freedom. A group of foreigners—veterans of protracted resistance movements—is conducting a training session in the optimal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alternativestoempire.org/2009/11/27/weapons-of-mass-democracy-by-stephen-zunes/</link>
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		<title>Toxic Assets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was revolting, monstrous, inhumane – and scarcely different from what happens in Africa almost every day. The oil trading company Trafigura has just agreed to pay compensation to 31,000 people in Cote d’Ivoire, after the Guardian and the BBC’s Newsnight obtained emails sent by its traders(1). They reveal that Trafigura knew that the oil slops it sent there in 2006 were contaminated with toxic waste(2). But the Ivorian contractor it employed to pump out the hold of its tanker dumped them around inhabited areas in the capital city and the countryside. Tens of thousands of people fell ill and 15 died(3). It is one of the world’s worst cases of chemical exposure since the gas leak at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. But in all other respects the Trafigura case is unremarkable. It’s just another instance of the rich world’s global fly-tipping.
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		<link>http://alternativestoempire.org/2009/11/27/toxic-assets/</link>
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		<title>Naomi Klein on Climate Debt: Why Rich Countries Should Pay Reparations To Poor Countries For The Climate Crisis.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But, yet, the mass movement that we were a part of ten years ago really isn’t present in the streets. And I think a lot of that has to do with, perhaps, the “Obama effect” in the United States where everyone is still in this waiting pattern, hoping that he’s going to save the day.

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		<link>http://alternativestoempire.org/2009/11/27/naomi-klein-on-climate-debt-why-rich-countries-should-pay-reparations-to-poor-countries-for-the-climate-crisis/</link>
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