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The USA has many friends and many foes, as does the Russian Federation. The perceptions about these nuclear armed powers is mainly determined by their leaders. President Trump, supposedly the leader of the 'free world" and President Putin, the autocratic former KGB operative strong man who rules with an iron fist. Their recent Helsinki summit does little to reassure people, friends or enemies, of whom of these two to believe or trust.
One Punch Wonder
Directed by Amanda Crewes
Performed by the Actors Hub Perth
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus takes a look at four new books of interest for ecosocialists. Inclusion does not imply endorsement or agreement with eveything the book says.
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One Last Spin: The Power & Peril of the Pokies
Drew Rooke
Scribe, 2018, 325 pages
Ever wondered if it possible to win against the pokies? Why not ask someone who should know, like a poker machine technician.
鈥淚 make these machines in order to grab your money,鈥 one such techie said when asked by freelance Sydney journalist, Drew Rooke. 鈥淚 would not be so stupid to play myself.鈥
Tory-supporting media have been portraying Britain鈥檚 socialist Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as a Soviet fellow-traveller. Meanwhile, 贬颈濒补谤测听奥补颈苍飞谤颈驳丑迟 notes, Labour鈥檚 shadow chancellor and close Corbyn ally sets out a vision that breaks with the old bureaucratic state model.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell can usually barely breathe a word about nationalisation without setting off a media frenzy, so it鈥檚 strange that his most interesting comments yet on the subject passed with so little comment.
Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjarto accused United Nations officials on September 19 of 鈥渟preading lies鈥 with their criticism of Budapest鈥檚 anti-migration policies.
The comments came just days after new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, and UN rights experts harshly criticised Hungary鈥檚 immigration policies.
Szijjarto told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that 鈥渋t was obvious鈥 the UN officials were 鈥渂iased pro-migration officials鈥.
Dozens of DJs and music producers have joined an international call to support the cultural boycott of Israel.
鈥淎s long as the Israeli government continues its brutal and sustained oppression of the Palestinian people, we respect their call for a boycott of Israel as a means of peaceful protest against the occupation,鈥 reads the statement artists posted on their social media pages, along with the hashtag #.
Canada鈥檚 historic vote in June to legalise cannabis is yet another nail in the coffin of the so-called War on Drugs, conceived in the 1970s by聽then US-president Richard Nixon, writes Natalie Sharples.
鈥淪o called鈥 because it was deliberately conceived to obscure what it really was: not a war on substances at all, but on Black people and the anti-war left.
From September 12-16 activists took part in workshops and actions in Newcastle to end coal. The protest was organised by Frontline Action on Coal.
As the plight of child asylum seekers separated from their parents fades from the news, hundreds of children remain incarcerated and separated from their families, writes Barry Sheppard from San Francisco.
Of these, about 400 are children of parents who have been deported. There is little chance these families can be reunited soon, and probably never will be.
Climate change catastrophe has confronted hundreds of thousands of people of the eastern seaboard of the United States and on the Philippines island of Luzon, writes Phil Hearse, as Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut made landfall simultaneously.
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