Recent in Australia now show that Kevin Rudd is the preferred prime minister of 44% of those surveyed, but the guy is just another right-wing creep swanning around the world, giving the world unsolicited advice in Ruddese while living it up in presidential hotel suites costing up to .
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Troy Davis was executed by the state of Georgia on September 21.. Journalist Jon Lewis was present at the execution and told media waiting outside the prison that Davis was 鈥渄efiant until the very end, defending his innocence until the end鈥.
Davis was convicted of killing off duty Georgia police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989. He was sentenced to death.
At this year鈥檚 Deadly Awards, an annual celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture being held on September 27, all eyes will be on one of the fastest rising stars in Aboriginal music.
鈥淏loody Greeks 鈥 corrupt and lazy, born cheaters who think the world owes them a living. Why should the hard-working taxpayers of the euro zone core economies like Germany have to fund billion-euro rescue packages for those scoundrels?鈥
That鈥檚 the vicious tone of Germany鈥檚 tabloids and conservative politicians towards Greece鈥檚 galloping public debt crisis and the Greek people鈥檚 protests against the austerity programs.
The austerity has been imposed on them by the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund (the 鈥渢roika鈥) as the price of bail-out funding.
Yirrkala, in north-east Arnhem land, is home to the famous 1963 鈥淏ark Petition鈥. This was a protest action by the Yolngu people that led to the first native title litigation in Australia鈥檚 history.
I was there last month for the anniversary of that stage of their landmark struggle.
The petition was an attempt by the Yolngu people to force legal recognition of their land ownership rights.
A 20-hour assault on the US embassy in Kabul by Taliban fighters on September 14 has exposed further weaknesses in the already-crumbling facade of the United States-led occupation of Afghanistan.
The Taliban launched a sustained rocket attack on what is supposedly the most secure area in the country, seriously embarrassing Western officials who continue to insist 鈥減rogress鈥 is being made.
How ironic that The Clash should be on the cover of the British music magazine NME in the week that London was burning, that their faces should be staring out from the shelves as newsagents were ransacked and robbed by looters intent on anarchy in Britain.
The聽wave of riots in numerous English cities this August did not lead to widespread disruption anywhere in Wales.
Despite this, several people in Wales have been arrested for riot related offences, some of whom have been denied bail and handed highly disproportionate聽sentences.
These arrests are not a result of the limited disorder that happened in Cardiff on August 9, which briefly led the BBC to drop the term 鈥淓ngland Riots鈥 in favour of 鈥淯K Riots鈥.
鈥淲e are going to the United Nations to request our legitimate right, obtaining full membership for Palestine in this organisation,鈥 Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Ramallah-based, internationally recognised Palestinian Authority (PA), declared in a September 16 televised address.
鈥淲e are going to the Security Council.鈥
Abbas has acknowledged the initiative is largely symbolic and that UN recognition of Palestinian sovereignty would not translate to actual control of territory.
WikiLeaks' release of cables from the United States embassy in La Paz has shed light on its attempts to create divisions in the social and indigenous movements that make up the support base of the country鈥檚 first indigenous-led government.
The cables prove the embassy sought to use the US government aid agency, USAID, to promote US interests.
A March 6, 2006, cable titled 鈥淒issent in Evo鈥檚 ranks鈥 reports on a meeting only months after Morales' inauguration as president in December 2005 with 鈥渁 social sectors leader鈥 from the altiplano (highlands) region in the west.
Neoliberal policies 鈥渨hich have fed the growing political disaffection of Bolivia's majority poor, have helped fuel the country's rolling 'social revolution.'"
This was how a May 6, 2006, US embassy cable from La Paz recently released by WikiLeaks viewed the powerful wave of struggle that led to the election of Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, in 2005.
This secret assessment came despite Washington publicly trumpeting neoliberal policies as the way to solve the problems of Latin America's poor.
What the polls had predicted would be an easy victory for the Social Democrats in Denmark's September 15 election turned out to be much closer.
The last poll before the vote showed the Social Democrat leader Helle Thorning-Schmidt ahead of her Liberal opponent Lars L酶kke Rasmussen by 52.3% to 47.5% as preferred prime minister.
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