In a deeply polarising election, the Greens Party campaign for the US presidency, with Jill Stein for president and human rights activist Ajamu Baraka fore vice-president, won more than 1.2 million votes (about 1%), up from about 470,000 in 2012.
In response to the victory of far-right populist Donald Trump 鈥 which some Hilary Clinton supporters have tried to blame the Greens for 鈥 the Stein campaign has issued a strident call for resistance, which is reprinted below.
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Morocco is eagerly promoting its green credentials in its hosting of the November 7鈥18 United Nations COP22 climate change conference in Marrakesh. But a new report discloses that the North African country is consolidating its hold on occupied Western Sahara through European-built energy projects.
Surrounded by a barren desert landscape in the far south west of Algeria, about 100,000 people inhabit refugee camps, entirely dependent on aid from the international community. About 100 kilometres away, behind a 2700 km long border fence, is their homeland 鈥 Western Sahara.
The 2015 Annual Report from Barwon Health revealed a budget deficit of $13 million. Barwon Health is Victoria鈥檚 largest regional health service and Geelong鈥檚 largest employer, with more than 7000 employees across all its operations.
Barwon Health鈥檚 board aims for small surpluses, but the report revealed the 2015鈥16 operating deficit contributed to a total net deficit of $22 million after depreciation and other capital items were accounted for.
The political situation in Turkey continues to deteriorate in the wake of the attempted coup d鈥櫭﹖at in July, allegedly organised by the G眉len Movement, a former ally of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). It has in fact led to a slow incremental counter-coup where President Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an and his cronies have progressively jailed, marginalised and silenced opponents of all hues 鈥 but especially the Kurdish movement.
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Kars deputy and party spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen said 441 HDP members have been detained since the arrest and imprisonment of 10 HDP MPs on November 4.
Speaking to the press in Ankara on November 10, Bilgen said there had been a systematic crackdown on HDP members and those protesting the imprisonment of the left-wing pro-autonomy HDP's MPs, including co-chairs Selahattin Demirta艧 and Figen Y眉ksekda臒.
To the fury of business spokespeople, South Australia鈥檚 鈥淐itizens鈥 Jury on Nuclear Waste鈥 has effectively exploded plans by the state Labor government to host the world鈥檚 largest nuclear waste dump.
The jury was intended by Premier Jay Weatherill to lend his scheme a garnish of popular consent. But in their final report on November 6, the jurors instead concluded that the dump plan should not go ahead 鈥渦nder any circumstances鈥. The vote was overwhelming, with two-thirds of jury members opposing the government鈥檚 projections.
People took to the streets in major cities, and high school students walked out of class聽to reject Donald Trump's election as president of the US.
Police and company armed guards have launched new attacks on peaceful protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.
On October 27, police unleashed a wave of brutality on Native American 鈥渨ater protectors鈥 seeking to block pipeline construction. About 300 highly militarised police with armoured vehicles and riot gear, joined by 80 North Dakota National Guards and 150 DAPL employees, attacked with pepper spray, Tasers, sound cannons, bean bag rounds and rubber bullets.
One thing is crystal clear: Hillary Clinton is a failure. And so is the neoliberal establishment.
Even if Clinton had聽narrowly managedto defeat Donald Trump, she would still have lost. Her failure is not individual, however, but a failure of Clintonism, the Democratic Party, and decades of failed economic policies.
From US SocialistWorker.org :听
Why? How? Those questions are dominating the mainstream media as they take stock of Donald Trump's victory in the presidential race.
They are dominating us at SocialistWorker.org, and no doubt our readers, too. It is hard to come to terms with the upside-down results we are seeing. But here are some thoughts.
Thousands of people demonstrated in London on November 6 in the latest protest against the mass arrests of pro-Kurdish politicians in Turkey. On November 4, the regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an issued聽arrest warrants for all 59 MPs from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), a left-wing largely Kurdish-led party.