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.
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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.
The crackdown on whistleblowers to protect national security is "neo-McCarthyist hysteria" and Julian Assange says he has the emails to prove it.
A rally to oppose the Western Australian government's plans to redevelop the Perth city foreshore attracted about 1000 people on February 26.
The Colin Barnett government plan would involve flooding the Esplanade and building large high rise developments on the new water's edge.
Speakers at the rally said there was no public consultation about the plan before it was presented, that the plan involves cutting Riverside Drive leaving only one east-west thoroughfare through the city and that the heritage value of the Esplanade will be ruined.
and the released the statement below on February 28.
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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.
The released the statement below on February 26.
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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.
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.
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.
Amnesty International has called on Israel to , who has been held since December without charge under Israel's infamous policy of 鈥渁dministrative detention鈥.
The call came after Adnan, near death, ended a 66-day hunger strike when Israel signed a deal on February 22 agreeing to release the 33-year-old father of two by April 17.
In the kabuki theatre of British parliamentary politics, great crimes do not happen and criminals go free.
It is theatre after all; the pirouettes matter, not actions taken at remove in distance and culture from their consequences. It is a secure arrangement guarded by cast and critics alike.
The farewell speech of one of the most artful, Tony Blair, had "a sense of moral conviction running through it", effused the television presenter Jon Snow, as if Blair's appeal to kabuki devotees was mystical. That he was a war criminal was irrelevant.
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