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1. Palestine:'Watered down' UN report released

   released only a "watered down" version of the report by a four-member UN Board of Inquiry (BoI). ...

2. Electricity, clean water now luxuries

   electricity and clean water are now "luxuries for most Iraqis". For example, Baghdad, a city with ... Alawi told IRIN. In addition, before 2003 the water "was clean and healthy", Alawi explained, ...

3. Gloucester anti-fracking activist: 'CSG in NSW is dead in the water'

   New South Wales is dead in the water”, Julie Lyford, spokesperson for Groundswell Gloucester, said ...

4. IR minister in hot water over individual contracts

   a remote location allowance and watering down of grievance procedures. Meanwhile, DEWR management has been ...

5. Oil threat to Victorian waters

   spill in Australian waters in the next 10 years are better than 50-50, according to the federal ...

6. Fire with water

   Fire with water By Melinda Jollie Naomi Wolf, the respectable darling of liberal feminism, author ...

7. Hinchinbrook campaign in court and on the water

   values. It is being backed up with a water-borne blockade against attempts to dredge. The complexity of ...

8. Biodiversity treaty watered down

   exploitation of resources by US companies. And now we're taking this watered-down treaty and forcing it ...

9. Troubled waters: China's Three Gorges Dam

   Sandouping. By 2008, behind the dam wall water levels will rise some 175 metres, creating ... earthquakes, flood prevention, hydraulic power, water conservancy, silting, navigation and relocation. In 1988 ... near future, be literally 100 or so metres below water? Uncertainties over the dam's construction ...

10. Liberal MP in hot water over pro-Pinochet comment

    Imperialism & war Anti-racism International solidarity Federico Fuentes NSW parliament narrowly voted down a September 17 motion to discipline Liberal MLC Peter Phelps over comments he made in parliament defending General Augusto Pinochet’s violent mi ...

11. Caltex charts new waters in sacking workers

    Workers & unions Liam Cohrs Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) Caltex Australian Maritime Officers Union (AMOU) The crew of Caltex oil tanker the Alexander Spirit have ended a three-week industrial dispute that began on July 2. They have set sail from ...

12. Nuclear warships to be banned in Tasmanian waters?

    Duncan Meerding nipaluna/Hobart On August 6, in memory of the bombing of Hiroshima by the US in World War II, a vigil to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons was held outside Hobart's Town Hall. The vigil, attended by 40 people, had a street the ...

13. Kingaroy water poisoning sparks outcry

    Environment Elections Agriculture Healthcare Coal Climate crisis Jim McIlroy Magan-djin/Brisbane “The poisoning of groundwater near Kingaroy is just the tip of the iceberg with coal seam gas [CSG] extraction”, climate change activist and Socialist Allianc ...

14. Reject Work Choices, and Rudd's watered down version of Work Choices!

    With his April 17 speech to the National Press Club, federal Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd launched a pre-emptive strike against all those unionists, including ALP members, who thought that the April 27-29 ALP national conference would be debating a new i ...

15. IRC waters down union agreements

    BY GRAHAM WILLIAMS MELBOURNE — In yet another hurdle for manufacturing workers to jump in their industrial Campaign 2003, the Victorian Industrial Relations Commission is increasingly refusing to certify agreements. "The IRC is tightening up on what ...

16. Why Labor has watered down its 'opposition'

    By Sue Boland Anyone who voted for the Australian Labor Party or the Australian Democrats in last year's federal election must be feeling well and truly duped by now. Most ALP and Democrats voters believed, falsely, that these parties represented an ...

17. ASIA PACIFIC: Lame duck APEC flounders in troubled waters

    BY EVA CHENG If US President George Bush hadn't dominated this year's October 17-21 summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) in Shanghai, China, with his "anti-terrorist" war drive, the peak regional body of 21 economies ...

18. UN goes to water on Timor

    By Russell Anderson and Sally Low GENEVA — Late in the evening of March 4, while many delegates were out of the room, the chairperson of the 48th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights read out an unsigned statement of "deep concern ...

19. Climate activists target Santos’ NT expansion plans

    Protect Our Water Palmerston Santos Larrakia Traditional Owners Gulumerrdgen/Darwin A protest outside oil ... Centre Northern Territory, Protect Our Water Palmerston among others. Along with Origin Energy and Empire ...

20. Ecosocialist Bookshelf — April 2023

    colder and warmer Pacific Ocean waters meet. Christina Dunbas-Hester reveals how logistics infrastructure ...

21. Sudan: Death toll rises as countries accelerate evacuations

    clashes, but also because of severe shortages of water and electricity — as observed in Khartoum’s Bahri ...

22. Albanese condemns refugees detained offshore to no future

    Nauru. These people, who arrived in Australian waters about 10 years ago, were some of the Earth’s most ...

23. Khader Adnan, who yearned to live free, dies in Israeli prison

    feed others, he refused any sustenance except water and salt in pursuit of a greater cause. Over the ...

24. India: Long march by farmers succeeds after gov’t accepts demands

    protests (2021) India: Indigenous peoples demand ‘water, forests, land’ before coal World ...

25. United States: Fight to stop ‘Cop City’ continues amid police violence, trumped-up charges

    water supplies, threatened the lives of forest defenders and now have murdered one,” Stop Cop City said ...

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