The call to put "a price on carbon" has gained wide support in Australia. It has also gained new currency in the context of a minority Labor government formed with support from the Greens and three independents.
Support for a price on carbon has come from across the political spectrum 鈥 from the Liberal Party's Malcolm Turnbull through to grassroots climate activists.
91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Simon Butler asked five Australian climate activists if they thought a carbon price was good policy and should be supported by climate action movement.
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On September 19, about tens of thousands of protesters from Thailand鈥檚 resurgent Red Shirt movement (popular name for the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship), took to the streets of Bangkok to defy the regime.
Klaus Crimson, whose photographs of this historic rally can be seen at , told 91自拍论坛 Weekly: 鈥淚t was truly an amazing experience. By 9am it was pretty clear to me that it might grow into something big.
Prominent Australian writer and climate action advocate Clive Hamilton will speak in a feature session at the October 2-3 Sydney Festival of Dangerous Ideas on the topic: 鈥淲e are all climate change deniers.鈥
He spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Simon Butler about climate denial, carbon pricing, population levels, and that 鈥淥h shit鈥 moment about climate change.
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The year before England won the 1966 World Cup, I interviewed its captain, Bobby Moore. Having not long arrived in England from the antipodes, where 鈥渟occer鈥 was a minority sport beloved by Italians and Croats, I did not have a clue about the game.
Nevertheless, I had been assigned to write a 鈥渉uman interest鈥 piece on the West Ham star by the same convivial assistant editor who had hired me believing I could play cricket, because I was Australian, and so assist the Daily Mirror team in its grudge match against the Express.
The counting of votes in the September 19 Swedish parliamentary elections sent out shock waves.
The far right won its first parliamentary seats, and for the first time in modern Swedish political history, an incumbent non-Social Democrats government has been able to win a national election.
As such, the process of dismantling the Swedish welfare state is set to continue unabated.
The governing right-wing Alliance emerged as the largest bloc, but failed to keep its majority. With 173 seats, it is two seats short of controlling the assembly on its own.
When I heard about the strike that was planned by Italian Football players in Serie A league on September 25 and 26 (but has been postponed), I wondered what familiar refrains would be used to attack it.
The inevitable 鈥渕illionaires complaining about their conditions鈥 line was put by Yahoo Sports football blogger Brooks Peck in a September 12 piece.
Peck鈥檚 article mocks the idea that the 鈥渞ights鈥 of 鈥渓avishly paid鈥 players are being violated: 鈥淭his is Cambodian sweatshop type stuff.鈥
Ten years after the United Nations general assembly adopted the Millennium Development Goals, 鈥渢he fulfillment of these goals are under serious threat鈥, Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations Jorge Valero told the general assembly on September 21.
The goals include cutting world hunger and the number of people living in extreme poverty by half
Bolivian President Evo Morales said they would not be reached unless 鈥渨e put an end to the unjust distribution of wealth鈥. He noted that 40% of the world鈥檚 poorest people own 5% of the wealth, while the richest 20% control 75%.
As if straight out of a Cold War era movie, US corporate media outlets such as the Miami Herald ran headlines on September 18 claiming scientists from Albuquerque 鈥渢ried to sell classified nuclear data to Venezuela鈥. Readers were no doubt shocked to read in the Miami Herald that 鈥渁n elderly maverick scientist who battled the scientific community for decades over laser fusion was indicted Friday in New Mexico, charged with trying to sell classified nuclear weapons data to Venezuela鈥.
The announcement by the Cuban Trade Union Confederation (CTC) on September 13 about plans to reduce the state sector workforce by half a million was greeted by jeering headlines from journalists outside the island.
Cuba is rarely of interest to the corporate press unless they believe there is some crisis to celebrate or that new measures can be interpreted as evidence of a shift from socialism to capitalism.
More than three million people took part in strikes and protests across France on September 23. They were demanding the withdrawal of laws that will dramatically reduce the right of workers to access pensions. The protests, which had been called by a coalition of seven of France鈥檚 union confederations, showed that the passage of the Pension Bill through France鈥檚 lower house of parliament had done nothing to weaken opposition to the attack on pensions.
The 2008 election of Barack Obama appeared to herald a new dawn for 12 million undocumented immigrants, many of them laboring in the US鈥檚 most exhausting and underpaid workplaces.
The president鈥檚 own aunt, 58-year-old Zeituni Onyango, was forced to live 鈥渨ithout papers鈥 in Boston when a judge rejected her original petition for asylum in 2004. So it seemed Obama would be sympathetic to the plight of immigrants at least.
However, mounting evidence indicates life is becoming increasingly miserable for the undocumented population in the US.
Protests against an attempt to stifle student participation in elections for representatives to faculty boards have triggered one of the most important student occupations seen in Central America in recent years.
The occupation, which began in August, has shut down Guatemala鈥檚 sole public university, the University of San Carlos (USC). It has become a direct challenge to the privatising agenda of successive governments and university administrations.
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