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鈥淪top the blackmail: Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism.鈥 Paris, July 2014.
Supporters stand with Ezra Nawi outside an Israeli prison where he served a one-month sentence, May 23, 2010.

Israel has arrested three human rights defenders amid what appears to be a concerted campaign to sabotage domestic groups documenting Israeli abuses of Palestinians, Electronic Intifada said on January 21.

Two recent events 鈥 the victory of right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri in Argentina's presidential election in November and the win by Venezuela's right-wing Democratic Unity Roundtable in the December National Assembly elections 鈥 have radically altered South America's political map.
Bernie Sanders. Self-described democratic socialist and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders used a January 5 speech to call for structural reforms to the US financial system, calling Wall Street's business model as fraudulent, .
Young child at a protest on the current Flint water hazard, October 28 2015.

Poisoned water in Flint, Michigan, has exposed residents to toxic levels of lead and caused drastically elevated levels of the element in children, . Michigan authorities declared a state of emergency in Flint on January 5.

The Hurriers

British band are passionate, independently-driven 鈥 both in terms of control of their output, promo and gigs 鈥 and, almost as a bonus, a kick-ass in-your-face rock'n'roll act. The five-piece hails from Barnsley in South Yorkshire, a working-class town with a long history of mining.

鈥淧otentially the most widespread and globally synchronous anthropogenic signal is the fallout from nuclear weapons testing.鈥 Repeatedly, over hundreds of thousands of years, glaciers expanded south and north from the polar regions, covering much of the Earth with ice sheets several kilometres deep.
2015 the hottest year on record Last year smashed the record for the hottest year since reporting began in 1850, according to the first full-year figures from the world鈥檚 three principal temperature estimates.
Farmland

In the past few years, private investors backed by corporate interests such as global banks, financial firms, hedge funds and food giants have bought a huge amount of farmland across the global South.

In 1978, Deng Xiaoping, who Mao Tse Tung called a 鈥渃apitalist roader鈥, initiated an economic reform program labelled 鈥渕arket socialism.鈥 Within two decades, China had managed to transition from a closed communist state to an open centre of dynamic capitalism with the greatest economic growth rates in human history. After the onset of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008, China immediately injected $US586 billion into its economy in classical Keynesian counter-cyclical stimulus spending. The next year, it began the largest fixed investment stimulus program the world has ever seen.
Waterfront workers at Hutchison Ports terminals in Sydney and Brisbane are "back in the gate now," and "normal work is proceeding" Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) Sydney branch assistant secretary Joe Deakin told 麻豆传媒 Weekly on January 20. Settlement of the long-running dispute which began on August 6 last year was finally achieved in December.
The manifesto below was developed to promote a vision for a 鈥減lan B鈥 against austerity and the assault on democracy by European elites. It has been signed by dozens of activists, academics and political figures, including former Greek finance finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, Barcelona mayor and housing rights activist Ada Colau, former Greek parliamentary speaker Zoe Konstantopoulou, British film maker Ken Loach and renown intellectual Noam Chomsky.