Fossil fuel divestment is gathering pace around Australia and the world. More and more individuals and organisations are pulling their investment assets out of companies involved with the exploration, extraction, production or financing of fossil fuels.
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Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics
By Richard Seymour
Verso, 2016
paperback, 256 pages
If ever a book was born under a lucky star, it surely was Richard Seymour鈥檚 Corbyn.
No sooner had the English socialist blogger and author鈥檚 book about the British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn been published in May than the anti-Corbyn coup pushed it into the best sellers list.
Intervention from the White House and a court order have temporarily halted construction of the Dakota Access crude oil pipeline 20 miles (32km) on either side of Oahe Lake, part of the Missouri River in North and South Dakota.
The temporary restraining order halts construction along this 40-mile stretch. But pipeline construction continues apace elsewhere.
A large minority in Turkey, at about 20% of the population, the Kurdish people have long faced systemic discrimination by the Turkish state. This has included massacres and violent repression of their culture, with even the Kurdish language banned until recently.
Such oppression led to the Kurdistan Workers鈥 Party (PKK) launching an armed struggle for national liberation in 1984. In recent years, the PKK 鈥 whose leader Abdullah 脰calan remains in solitary confinement in a Turkish jail 鈥 has declared its commitment to a peaceful solution to the conflict.
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn told a meeting in London on September 15 that the Kurdish people鈥檚 right to self-determination needed to be recognised, said the next day. The meeting was organised by the British Kurdish People鈥檚 Assembly.
Climate science denialists will often fool people, and sometimes themselves, by cherrypicking the bits of evidence they think fit their argument.
At other times, they鈥檒l construct elaborate conspiracy theories about human-caused climate change being a front for a New World Order, with the United Nations as the Illuminati.
But often, they just get things badly, horribly, terribly and embarrassingly wrong.
South Australia鈥檚 peak environment body Conservation SA warned on September 19 that a nuclear waste repository under construction in Finland has few lessons for the high-level nuclear waste dump proposed for SA.
said there were so many differences between the Finnish and SA nuclear waste plans that Premier Jay Weatherill鈥檚 current study trip there would provide little insight.
A video showing Turkish soldiers and state-sponsored Kurdish village guards torturing and abusing Saime Av艧in (Ava艧in Gabar), a female Kurdistan Workers鈥 Party (PKK) guerrilla fighter, has surfaced on social media, said on September 20.
Last week the ABC broadcast , a program following the joint travels of federal Labor MP Linda Burney and conservative commentator Andrew Bolt as they debate whether Indigenous peoples should be 鈥渞ecognised鈥 in Australia鈥檚 Constitution.
Viewers are told at the outset that they will be asked to vote in a referendum on constitutional reform. The program claims this referendum 鈥渃ould unite or divide our nation鈥 and asks: 鈥淗ow will you vote?鈥
Protests triggered by public transport fare increases in 2013.
Less than two years after Workers鈥 Party (PT) candidate Dilma Rousseff was re-elected as Brazil鈥檚 president, she was removed from office by the Brazilian senate.
The Brazilian right, which controls the senate, carried out a constitutional coup. In the process, they revealed their contempt for democracy.
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