Cuadrilla Resources, which is exploring for natural shale gas in north-west England, has admitted its use of the notorious process of 鈥渇racking鈥 was responsible for earthquakes in the region this year, BusinessInsider.com said on November 7.
Fracking is a dangerous process involving fracturing rock with pressurised liquid. Some of the health and environmental dangers of the process were revealed by the film Gasland, about the impact of the practice in the United States.
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鈥淭here is money.鈥 That was the major election campaign slogan of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) in October 2009.
The World Bank Out of Climate Finance coalition issued the statement below on December 1 from Durban, South Africa.
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Today, 163 civil society organisations from 39 countries released a letter exposing an attempt led by the US, Britain and Japan to turn the Green Climate Fund into a 鈥淕reedy Corporate Fund鈥 at UN climate talks in South Africa.
The Green Climate Fund was created to support people in developing countries 鈥 people who are the most affected by the climate crisis but are the least responsible for it.
Despite the crushing victory of incumbent Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in the October 23 Argentine presidential elections, the campaign and results also demonstrated that an important social and political left alternative continues to exist.
The unpredictable consequences of the global economic crisis and the reaction by Cristina鈥檚 mixed social base to future policy decisions may prove important challenges to her new government.
Israeli officials suspect that France-based megabank BNP Parisbas has pulled out of Israel due to pressure from Palestine solidarity groups, even though the bank itself has denied this.
Israeli paper Haaretz reported on 24 November: 鈥淭he powers that be are furious at BNP Paribas for shuttering its operations in Israel, and suspect it is acting due to Arab and anti-Israeli pressure in France, the bank鈥檚 home base.
Alameda Park is Mexico City's languid space for lovers and open-air ballroom dancers: the gents in two-tone shoes, the ladies in finery and heels.
The cobbled paths undulate from the great earthquake of 1985. You imagine the fairground sinking into the cobwebs of cracks, its Edwardian organ playing forlornly. Two small churches nearby totter precariously: the surreal is Mexico's facade.
鈥淧reliminary results from Congo鈥檚 presidential election show incumbent Joseph Kabila leading,鈥 Associated Press reported on December 3. For several reasons, this is not surprising news from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Cricket is on the verge of a corruption-induced implosion, yet you wouldn鈥檛 know in Australia. As far as Australian cricket administrators are concerned, it is the end of the world as they know it and they feel fine.
Despite more and more revelations coming out about corruption in cricket, it was still shocking for many to hear former Indian batsman Vinod Kambli claim that something was 鈥渁miss鈥 in the semi-final of the 1996 World Cup.
Egyptians went to the polls on November 28 in the first round of parliamentary elections since dictator Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February.
Large numbers of people turned out to vote despite calls from some revolutionary groups for a boycott of a process seen as a means to legitimise the rule of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF).
The elections were held amid ongoing protests against the military regime by thousands of pro-democracy activists in Tahrir Square in Cairo and elsewhere across the country.
The phrase 鈥渙rganise, don鈥檛 agonise鈥 has become a bumper sticker, a popular slogan in the feminist movement, the title of many speeches, conferences and newsletters. African-American civil rights activist Florence Rae Kennedy coined the term. Gloria Steinem quoted her in Ms magazine in 1973.
Since then, this powerful slogan has circumnavigated the world many times 鈥 used by many activists and movements.
It has lasted because the slogan reasonates strongly with the condition of the oppressed, exploited and persecuted.
In the face of a broad and growing campaign, rhetoric from the NSW government is beginning to match some of the risks when it comes to coal seam gas (CSG) mining. This begs the question: what is being done when it comes to CSG?
In an about CSG mining on December 1, NSW Premier Barry O鈥橣arrell told 2GB鈥檚 Alan Jones: 鈥淚 don鈥檛 intend to allow 鈥 particularly after the drought we went through over a decade 鈥 mining or any other activity to threaten water resources.
Victorian nurses have decided to take their claims directly to the community, after negotiations with the Baillieu Victorian government over their enterprise bargaining agreement broke down yet again.
Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) Victorian branch secretary Lisa Fitzpatrick told a mass meeting on December 2: 鈥淭he government negotiators staged a 鈥榖reakdown鈥 in negotiations last night to bait nurses and midwives into taking further industrial action that would pull the last forced arbitration trigger.
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