鈥淲hy do they hate us?鈥 That was the question asked by many baffled Americans after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
Eleven years later, Americans are asking the question again after the US ambassador, another US diplomat, two US marines and 10 Libyan guards were killed in attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi.
The hate film, Innocence of Muslims, was virtually unheard of until its producers dubbed its most offensive scenes into Egyptian vernacular Arabic and promoted it in the Middle East on social media.
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I was attending a small but engaging rally against internet spying on September 15, organised by the Pirate Party and others at Hyde Park North, when seven police cars and four-wheel-drives drove into the park and about 20 police officers got out. Protesting members of the Muslim community shouting 鈥淎llahu Akbar!鈥, marched into the park and police told us to hurry and pack up. More police ran, in phalanx formation towards the Muslim rally.
You don't have to be a clairvoyant to see what is to come in the aftermath of the so-called 鈥淪ydney riots鈥 that occurred on September 15.
Media will show images of 鈥淰iolent religious fundamentalist thugs鈥 taking over streets. 鈥淪hocking images鈥 of protesters holding up placards with slogans like 鈥淏ehead all those who insult the Prophet鈥.
Protests by Muslims have spread around the world against the anti-Islamic propaganda film Innocence of Muslims.
In response to violent attacks on US embassies in Libya and Yemen, that killed for Americans including the ambassador, US President Barack Obama informed US Congress on September 14 that he had deployed US soldiers 鈥渆quipped for combat鈥 to the two Arab nations.
US: One in five kids live in poverty
"New figures have been released by the US census bureau revealing a yearly decline in median household income for Americans, growing inequality and more than one in five children under 18 years old living in poverty.
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"In a survey of data for 2011, the census discovered that real median household income in the US had dipped by 1.5% from its level in 2010 to sit at $50,054 a year. The fall is the second consecutive annual decline ...
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More than 1000 members of the United Firefighters Union (UFU), along with supporters from other unions, marched to the Victorian parliament house on September 13 to protest against funding cuts to the Metropolitan Fire Brigade and the Country Fire Authority.
UFU members marched in their uniforms, despite attempts by management to intimidate them not to do so.
Leaked Treasury documents obtained by the union show that the Metropolitan Fire Brigade will lose $25 million and the Country Fire Authority $41 million in the first year of the cuts.
Sinn Fein TD (member of the Irish parliament) Pearse Doherty speaking to about 100 people in Perth on September 8 about the brutal austerity, to fund huge bank bailouts, in Ireland. This is destroying the lives of working people and driving 76,000 people to emigrate every year.
Billionaire mining giants slash jobs
Despite making profits of $20 billion combined in the past year, mining giants BHP Billiton and Xstrata announced on September 10
BHP Billiton, which announced an , will scrap 300 jobs when it closes its 33-year-old Gregory mine in Queensland next month.
After melting past the previous record minimum in late August, Arctic sea ice cap has continued its rapid decline.
By September 5, the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) said the ice cap had fallen below 4 million square kilometres 鈥 鈥渁 45% reduction in the area of the Arctic covered by sea ice鈥 since the 1980s and 鈥90s.
This year鈥檚 melt 鈥渄idn鈥檛 just touch the record, it really drove right through it鈥, the NSIDC鈥檚 Ted Scambos told US National Public Radio on September 12.
鈥淥ne of the things you learn as an anthropologist, you don鈥檛 come in and change the culture,鈥 Dartmouth College president Jim Yong Kim told wealthy alumni when contemplating the institution鈥檚 notorious hazing practices, prior to US President Barack Obama鈥檚 request in February that he move to the World Bank.
Kim鈥檚 Harvard doctorate and medical degree, his founding of the heroic NGO Partners in Health and his directorship of the World Health Organization鈥檚 AIDS division make him the best-educated, most humane World Bank president yet.
Indoor and outdoor sex work is currently decriminalised in New South Wales. This may soon change with the . The licensing scheme will take brothel regulation out of the hands of local councils and will give police powers to regulate brothels.
For the Financial Post, the recent actions of the Bolivian government in nationalising a Canadian mine confirmed the country鈥檚 status as an 鈥渙utlaw nation鈥, according to an August 3 article.
But for less biased observers, the reality was a little different. Responding to pressure from local indigenous communities the Bolivian government confirmed on August 2 that it would expropriate the operations of a Canadian-owned mining project.
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