British band are passionate, independently-driven 鈥 both in terms of control of their output, promo and gigs 鈥 and, almost as a bonus, a kick-ass in-your-face rock'n'roll act. The five-piece hails from Barnsley in South Yorkshire, a working-class town with a long history of mining.
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Bernie Sanders.
Self-described democratic socialist and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders used a January 5 speech to call for structural reforms to the US financial system, calling Wall Street's business model as fraudulent, .
Two recent events 鈥 the victory of right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri in Argentina's presidential election in November and the win by Venezuela's right-wing Democratic Unity Roundtable in the December National Assembly elections 鈥 have radically altered South America's political map.
Poisoned water in Flint, Michigan, has exposed residents to toxic levels of lead and caused drastically elevated levels of the element in children, . Michigan authorities declared a state of emergency in Flint on January 5.
Ezra Nawi.
Israel has arrested three human rights defenders amid what appears to be a concerted campaign to sabotage domestic groups documenting Israeli abuses of Palestinians, .
鈥淪top the blackmail: Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism.鈥 Paris, July 2014.
Photo: Counterfire.
For the first time in 40 years, tens of thousands of junior doctors took to their picket lines on January 12 to oppose government plans to attack Britain's public National Health System (NHS).
As part of its bigger plan to run the NHS into the ground, the Conservative government is trying to impose a new contract on all junior doctors working in England.
鈥淧otentially the most widespread and globally synchronous anthropogenic signal is the fallout from nuclear weapons testing.鈥
Repeatedly, over hundreds of thousands of years, glaciers expanded south and north from the polar regions, covering much of the Earth with ice sheets several kilometres deep.
In 1978, Deng Xiaoping, who Mao Tse Tung called a 鈥渃apitalist roader鈥, initiated an economic reform program labelled 鈥渕arket socialism.鈥
Within two decades, China had managed to transition from a closed communist state to an open centre of dynamic capitalism with the greatest economic growth rates in human history.
After the onset of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008, China immediately injected $US586 billion into its economy in classical Keynesian counter-cyclical stimulus spending. The next year, it began the largest fixed investment stimulus program the world has ever seen.
The manifesto below was developed to promote a vision for a 鈥減lan B鈥 against austerity and the assault on democracy by European elites. It has been signed by dozens of activists, academics and political figures, including former Greek finance finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, Barcelona mayor and housing rights activist Ada Colau, former Greek parliamentary speaker Zoe Konstantopoulou, British film maker Ken Loach and renown intellectual Noam Chomsky.
Well my only New Year's resolution was to have no hope the status quo would somehow miraculously change itself in 2016 鈥 and it is a resolution that has proven all too easy to keep.
For instance, any hopes that changing the 鈥渇ive鈥 to a 鈥渟ix鈥 on the annual calendar would lessen the misogyny strangling decency in this country were pretty quickly defeated.
Families struggling on low incomes and the environment will benefit from an innovative crowdfunding campaign to install solar hot water systems made by the Earthworker Cooperative in homes. The campaign is supported by organisations such as the Father Bob Maguire Foundation, Aboriginal Housing Victoria and Common Equity NSW.
The first installation of a solar system funded by the "Give Tanks" campaign took place on January 12 in a home managed by Aboriginal Housing Victoria.
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