Greens MP David Shoebridge gives greetings to Socialist Alliance national conference. 22 January 2012
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Internet freedom activist and WikiLeaks collaborator Jacob Applebaum spoke at a forum titled War on the Internet , co-hosted by Electronic Frontiers Australia and the Australian Greens at Trades Hall in Melbourne on January 21.
The released the statement below on January 24.
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Frustrations over the immigration department鈥檚 reneging on promises of community detention and bridging visas for long term detainees have spilled over to the Pontville detention centre in Tasmania.
Around 150, more than half of the Afghan asylum seekers at the detention centre, are now involved in a hunger strike. The asylum seekers have been in detention between 15 and 33 months.
The final day of the Kerry Blockade against coal seam gas exploration activities by Arrow Energy in the Scenic Rim in south east Queensland.
SOPA is powered by the capital of 'old media'.聽These are folk who want to maintain an old, outmoded and redundant status quo to the detriment of all of us.
The released the statement below on January 16.
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Refugee activists are concerned about the welfare of two Iranian refugees currently on hunger strike in Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation in Broadmeadows.
The Refugee Action Collective (Victoria) is also concerned about the growing number of refugees who remain detained after receiving their refugee status, whilst awaiting security checks from ASIO that take far too long.
The following statement was issued by the family of Mere Samisoni, arrested by the Fijian military regime, and later released on bail on January 3. For more information, please contact pacifikanews@gmail.com .
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The family of award-winning Fijian businesswoman and former MP Dr Mere Samisoni has been warned by her lawyers she might be charged with conspiracy by the country鈥檚 military rulers when the courts reopen on Tuesday.
United States: Panetta admits Iran not developing nukes
鈥淯.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta let slip on Sunday the big open secret that Washington war hawks don鈥檛 want widely known: Iran is not developing nuclear weapons,鈥 RawStory.com reported on January 9.
The article said: 鈥淎ppearing on CBS鈥檚 Face the Nation on Sunday, Panetta admitted that despite all the rhetoric, Iran is not pursuing the ability to split atoms with weapons, saying it is instead pursuing 'a nuclear capability.'
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez condemned the United States鈥 decision to expel the Venezuelan consul general in Miami as 鈥渁rbitrary and unjustified鈥 on January 9. Chavez derided the move as 鈥渁nother demonstration of the arrogance of ridiculous imperialism鈥.
Venezuelan diplomat Livia Acosta Noguera had reportedly been working in the US since March when she was ordered to leave on January 8 amid claims that she had discussed the possibility of orchestrating cyber attacks against the US government whilst serving as vice-secretary at the Venezuelan embassy in Mexico.
In July last year, millions of Red Shirts 鈥 a mass movement of the poor 鈥 turned out to vote for the Pheu Thai party (PT), headed by Yingluck Shinawatra.
The party won a landslide majority despite attempts by the military, media and elites to block the party's victory. The election result was a slap in the face for the military and the 鈥減arty of the military鈥 (the misnamed Democrat Party 鈥 DP).
Almost a year after the Scottish National Party鈥檚 (SNP) landslide victory we have a date 鈥 Autumn 2014 鈥 for the most important referendum in Scottish history.
Scotland will vote on whether it stays in a union [the 鈥淯nited Kingdom鈥漖 dominated by the right wing 鈥 a state that invaded Iraq, imposed nuclear weapons on the Clyde and destroyed Scotland鈥檚 industrial base 鈥 or become an independent nation. As such, it would have the power to fundamentally change Scotland for the better and reflect the left of centre political terrain instead of being dominated by the Tory home counties.
It took about 20 minutes after the last official US combat troops crossed the border from Iraq into Kuwait for the Potemkin village of 鈥淚raqi stability and democracy鈥, carefully built by the occupation, to fall apart.
The regime of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki brought a terrorism indictment against the vice-president, Tariq al-Hashimi, who promptly headed north to autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, where the central government鈥檚 hand doesn鈥檛 reach. Purges of university professors and arrests of political figures not favoured by the Maliki regime have begun.
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