Everyone should be concerned about the June 30 US Supreme Court鈥檚 ruling in favour of retail arts and crafts company Hobby Lobby.
Along with two other family-owned firms, it sued the federal government, saying they should not have to pay for health insurance plans covering four contraceptives to which they object on religious grounds.
The decision represents an expansion of corporations鈥 rights at the expense of workers, health care provision and women鈥檚 reproductive health choice 鈥 all in the name of protecting religious freedom.
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After the June summit meeting of the G77 + China leaders held in Santa Cruz, the Bolivian government and the Bolivian Workers Central (COB) sponsored an 鈥淎nti-Imperialist International Trade Union Conference鈥 in Cochabamba over June 30-July 2.
The conference was attended by representatives of unions in 22 countries who are affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU).
Palestine solidarity protesters burned their TV licences in front of BBC Bristol鈥檚 HQ on July 28 in protest at the broadcaster鈥檚 biased coverage of Israel鈥檚 onslaught on Gaza.
Peace activists began their occupation of BBC Bristol鈥檚 grounds on July 23.
The act of civil disobedience came after campaigners handed a dossier to BBC bosses providing examples of biased reporting of Israel鈥檚 war on the Palestinians.
It came after the BBC issued 鈥渘otice to quit鈥 letters in past couple opf days threatening court action if the protesters don鈥檛 end their 鈥渋llegal occupation.鈥
For the second consecutive Saturday, a huge demonstration took place for Gaza in London on 26 July.
: "Tens of thousands of people amassed outside the Israeli embassy in London today to protest against Israel's incursion into Gaza which has killed over 1000 Palestinians, including at least 192 children.
The Brazilian government recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv on July 23, the Wall Street Journal said the next day. Brazil condemned the "disproportionate use of force" by Israel in a military offensive in Gaza.
Brazil's foreign ministry said in aJuly 23 statement: "We strongly condemn the disproportionate use of force by Israel in the Gaza Strip, from which large numbers of civilian casualties, including women and children, resulted.
"The Brazilian government considers unacceptable the escalation of violence between Israel and Palestine," it added.
One of the most important public debates over the future of Venezuela鈥檚 revolutionary process has opened up after the publication of a document by recently ousted planning minister Jorge Giordani.
In it, Giordani launched a series of scathing criticisms of the 鈥渘ew path鈥 he says the government has taken since former president Hugo Chavez died in March last year.
Giordani dropped the bombshell on June 18, a day after he was removed from the post he had held almost uninterruptedly since 1999.
Marta Harnecker, a veteran Chilean-born author and politcal analyst who as an advisor to the government of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez between 2004-11, spoke to Jose P. Gurrero about the new left-wing government in El Salvador.
When the Palestinian national football (soccer) team secured entry into the 2015 Asia Cup to be played next January in Australia, it won the right to play in an international tournament for the first time in its 86-year history.
Crowds gathered by the hundreds on the beaches in Gaza to dance, play music and watch the triumph of their national team on large movie-sized television screens on the beaches.
Ireland: Sports fans fly flags for Gaza
Dublin Gaelic Athletics Association fans unfurled a huge banner reading 鈥淔ree Gaza鈥 during the Leinster Senior Football Final on July 20, while Palestinian flags were flown by crowds at other sporting events across the country.
Charlie's Country
Directed by Rolf de Heer
Starring David Gulpilil
In cinemas now
From the opening moments of Charlie鈥檚 Country you know that you are witnessing a different kind of cinematic experience.
Co-written by its star David Gulpilil and its director Rolf de Heer, and produced by Aboriginal actor Peter Djigirr, Charlie鈥檚 Country presents an Aboriginal cinematic vernacular.
Citizen Strangers: Palestinians & the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler State
Shira Robinson
Standford University Press, 2013
352pp, US$24.95
If anyone still believes that the apartheid label applies only to Israel鈥檚 occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, and not to present-day Israel itself, they need only read Shira Robinson鈥檚 Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel鈥檚 Liberal Settler State to be disabused of the notion.
Malaysian Airlines lost its second Boeing 777 this year on July 17, when flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was apparently hit by a missile over war-torn Eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
The incident happened while the Ukrainian army was carrying out a huge land and air offensive to crush breakaway republics in eastern Ukraine, over whose territory the plane was shot down.
Most passengers were Dutch, but 38 Australians were also killed.
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