About 5000 people walked across Commonwealth Bridge and rallied in front of Parliament House on June 5, calling for real action on climate change now.
Speakers included former Liberals Leader John Hewson, Richard Dennis from the Australia Institute, 2010 Greens Senate candidate Lin Hatfield Dodds and Bishop Pat Power.
Hewson said we needed to respond to climate change with a greater sense of urgency and in a way that recognised the magnitude of the problem.
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Media outlets from the Dawn Media Group, Pakistans leading media house, published the first set of WikiLeaks files relating to Pakistan on May 20.
The leaked US cables revealed that the Pakistani military is complicit in US drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas, bordering Afghanistan.
Each set of cables published by the group has had a ripple effect, with the leaked US cables widely reproduced.
At first, embarrassed military spokespeople and politicians exposed by the leaks denied the contents. Later, they tried to ignore them.
Global greenhouse gas emissions rose faster than ever last year and the market-based schemes set up to bring emissions down are in trouble. That鈥檚 the bad news from two recent reports by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the World Bank.
It鈥檚 been a year since the 鈥渕emorandum of understanding鈥 between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Greek government was signed. It is now clear it has failed to deliver the country鈥檚 promised economic recovery.
As confirmed by the treasury data, Greece鈥檚 debt has risen rather than fallen.
At the same time, the impact on Greek people of the austerity measures demanded by the IMF has been devastating.
Official unemployment has reached about 16% 鈥 an all-time high. There are 787,000 people unemployed 鈥 181,000 more than last year.
The editor-in-chief of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, told the Belfast Telegraph that the United States was working behind the scenes to put WikiLeaks and himself out of business.
Since the 1980s, Friends of the Earth's (FoE) annual Radioactive Exposure Tour has exposed thousands of people first-hand to the realities of 鈥渞adioactive racism鈥 and to the environmental impacts of the nuclear industry.
The tour is a 10-day journey into the heart of the breathtaking semi-arid landscapes of South Australia and its atomic history and current uranium mining operations.
As many as 1 million people gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square and across Egypt on May 27 for a 鈥淔riday of Anger鈥. The huge march showed the revolution that ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak in February has reached a new stage.
The demonstrations were called by left organisations in defiance of Egypt's military rulers 鈥 as well as the Muslim Brotherhood and liberal groups that were part of the mass protests against Mubarak in February.
鈥淚n all of the mainstream media analysis of WikiLeaks' recent release of Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) from Guantanamo, relating to almost all of the 779 prisoners who have been held at the prison over the last nine years and four months,鈥 Andy Worthington wrote in a may 11 TruthOut.org article, 鈥渙ne group of prisoners has so far been overlooked: the Yemenis.鈥
British Conservative PM David Cameron told a May 26 London press conference with US President Barack Obama that the world's biggest superpowers support the 鈥淎rab Spring鈥 uprisings.
He said the main task of the May 26-27 G8 meeting in Deauville, France the following day was promoting 鈥渄emocracy, freedom and prosperity鈥 in the Middle East.
Obama also expressed 鈥渟olidarity鈥 with the uprisings. 鈥淚t will be years before these revolutions reach their conclusion, and there will be difficult days along the way鈥, he said. 鈥淧ower rarely gives up without a fight.鈥
Rebellion runs through pop music, but no performer has ever fused music and radical politics like Gil Scott-Heron, who died on May 27. In a series of early 1970s albums, Scott-Heron, collaborating with composer/arranger Brian Jackson, made militant funk and soul that remains unmatched. It exploded any idea that art and politics don鈥檛 mix, and has been hugely influential. Scott-Heron has become known as the godfather of rap not just because his spoken word over drumbeats prefigured the genre, but because he used the style to tell of ghetto life and urge resistance.
Secret Genocide: Voices of the Karen of Burma
Daniel Pedersen
Maverick House, 272pp
Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's national League for Democracy (NLD), might be relatively free, for now. There are many others in Burma, however, who are anything but free of the continual repression and brutality that is still being enacted by the nation鈥檚 military regime.
For the people of the country鈥檚 various ethnic minorities, such as the Shan and the Karen, life is little more than the day-to-day endurance of a seemingly endless civil war.
A subpoena from the Manhattan district attorney on June 3 has added to a growing list of official probes into investment bank and securities firm Goldman Sachs. Reuters said on June 3: 鈥淕oldman Sachs Group Inc now faces probes by several government authorities into derivatives trades it executed in late 2006 and 2007. 鈥淥n Thursday, sources close to the matter said Goldman received a subpoena from the Manhattan district attorney, who joins the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission in examining Goldman's actions.鈥
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