The article published below is an abridged July 10 column by former Cuban President Fidel Castro. It was originally published in Granma.
803
He occupied a (somewhat self-appointed) position as a hero of Australia鈥檚 environment and Indigenous rights movements for decades. Yet these days, former Midnight Oil frontman and current ALP environment minister Peter Garrett works overtime to prove his credentials as a defender of big business and the big polluters.
The July 14 Age reported on unoccupied 鈥済host mansions鈥 in the well-heeled Melbourne suburb of Toorak. These million-dollar houses have been bought by wealthy landowners and left unoccupied 鈥 in some cases for decades.
Zero point eight of a degree of warming may not seem like that much. This is how much average temperatures have risen over the past two centuries as a result of carbon pollution.
June 28 was the anniversary of the two bookends of World War I, in which it is estimated more than 15 million people died. On that date in 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. Five years later, in 1919, 90 years ago this year, the Versailles Treaty was signed in Paris.
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) sent the open letter below to Melbourne International Film Festival on July 5.
Mass resistance to the illegal military coup that overthrew elected Honduran President Manuel 鈥淢el鈥 Zelaya on June 28 is continuing to grow.
US President Barack Obama used his African heritage in his July 11 speech to the Ghanaian parliament in Accra as justification for proceeding to blame Africa鈥檚 problems on its own people.
About 5000 people turned out for the government-organised Harmony Day march through Melbourne on July 12.
July is the infamous marching season of the Orange Order in the six counties in Ireland鈥檚 north still claimed by Britain. The Orange Order, a Protestant sect, is strongly 鈥渓oyalist鈥 (supporting British rule over the six counties) as well as anti-Catholic.
PERTH: Thirty people rallied against a proposed new gas plant on July 10 outside the Perth Offices of Chevron and Shell. The protest was organised by the Wilderness Society. The two companies are considering joining a proposed joint venture development with fellow-fossil fuel companies Woodside, BHP Billiton and BP for a gas processing (LNG) industrial hub at James Price Point, 50 km north of Broome, in the Kimberly.
The United States state department has admitted it had prior knowledge of the military coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya on June 28.
- Previous page
- Page 3
- Next page