Issue #1559      8 August 2012

• Plans in US for takeover of WA naval base
• Editorial – No medals for the private sector
• Two Communists running in local government elections
• COAG disability wrangle – Coalition ugliness on display
• Disgruntled Torres Strait Islands leaders in walk out
• Qld unions plan state-wide strike
• NSW firefighters fight funding cuts
• Asbestos alert
• “What the frack” – Unconventional gas and its place in WA’s energy future
• Hiroshima Day 2012
• “Don’t be duped by Western humanitarian rhetoric on Syria”
• Russia to revive army bases in three oceans
• Cuba crash reveals dissident links with European politicians
• Foreign companies stripped PNG of community-owned forests
• A bit rich
• Greek steelworkers fight on
• The attempted US siege of Bolivia
• Book Review – GERM Warfare: School Education in Finland
• Culture & Life – Assault on the vulnerable

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