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Among the are details of some of its secret media partners. The company鈥檚 鈥淐onfederation Partners鈥 are spread across four continents.
Rally to save Perth's foreshore, February 26.

A rally to oppose the Western Australian government's plans to redevelop the Perth city foreshore attracted about 1000 people on February 26.

and the released the statement below on February 28. * * * At noon on Tuesday February 28 at Parliament House in Canberra a strong coalition of human rights, community sector and Aboriginal organisations will demand the Senate reject 鈥淪tronger Futures鈥 legislation, which passed through the House of Representatives yesterday.

Whistleblowing website released the statement below on February 27.

Among the are details of some of its secret media partners. The company鈥檚 鈥淐onfederation Partners鈥 are spread across four continents.
Graphic of Wikileaks 'TOP SECRET' document under a magnifying glass.

The crackdown on whistleblowers to protect national security is "neo-McCarthyist hysteria" and Julian Assange says he has the emails to prove it.

Greg Palast.

Vultures鈥 Picnic Greg Palast 416 pages, 2011 Penguin www.gregpalast.com Investigative reporter Greg Palast is back 鈥 and this time, it鈥檚 personal. The former United States corporate crime investigator, who exposed the 2000 and 2004 elections of George W Bush as frauds, has gone for a more intimate feel in his latest book, Vultures鈥 Picnic.

Colectivo Mujer and the Addison Road Gallery in Marrickville, Sydney invite you to 鈥淟atinas: Our Origins, Our Voices鈥. This cultural event will celebrate International Women鈥檚 Day (IWD) on March 8. Colectivo Mujer is a group of women from Latin America and elsewhere who strongly identify with our cultures that recognise the contribution of women and men to ever-evolving feminisms.
The released the statement below on February 26. * * * Stop the War Coalition opposes sanctions against Syria 鈥 steps towards a military intervention 鈥 by the United States, Israel, NATO or any other foreign power. We oppose the violence by the Syrian state and the armed mercenaries and agent provocateurs, which, in many cases, are being supported by foreign powers.
Arabian Knightz

The Egyptian revolution has mobilised millions of people. It brought down the United States-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak. The struggle for democracy and equality continues. Countless songs dedicated to the uprising rocketed around the internet.

German President Christian Wulff resigned on February 17 after prosecutors applied to have his presidential immunity stripped in a corruption scandal. Wulff has been accused of having received kickbacks from businessmen, including a home loan of 500,000 euros (paid via an anonymous bank cheque) in 2008. When German tabloid Bild threatened to publish the allegations, Wulff left voice messages on the editor's phone threatening "war".
Two decades after the demise of Soviet bureaucratic 鈥渟ocialism鈥 and the onset of its 鈥淪pecial Period鈥 crisis, Cuba is immersed in an ongoing debate on the future of its socialist project. When Raul Castro became interim president in August 2006, he called for free and frank debate. He launched a series of nationwide consultations in the lead-up to the Sixth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) in April last year. Intersecting with these organised debates is a wider discussion in Cuba鈥檚 revolutionary press, academic journals and other institutional spaces.