While the Western corporate media was swooning over the tour of army duty in war-torn Afghanistan by Prince Harry, the third in line to the British crown, scant coverage was given to US national intelligence director Vice-Admiral Mike McConnell聮s admission that the situation facing the US and its NATO allies in Afghanistan is 聯deteriorating聰, despite a doubling of their occupation forces since 2004.
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Fourteen divers at the Sydney desalination plant being built at Port Botany went on strike this week over safety concerns and demanding a union collective agreement walking off the job on Monday March 3. They are employed by Construction Diving Services (whose parent company is Dempsey Industries).
In the most recent edition of 91自拍论坛 Weekly (GLW #742, links to all contributions in debate so far are below), well-known progressive anti-imperialist activist, Professor Stephen Zunes, has proclaimed that I am a liar.
On March 3, 400 teachers rallied as part of the Australian Education Union聮s campaign for improved wages and conditions. The AEU is calling for a 10% pay rise each year for three years to bring Victorian teachers聮 wages in line with those of New South Wales teachers.
It has to be one of the most unbelievable stories of the century: New Idea, a magazine that trades on gossip about royals and other celebrities, is blamed for exposing Prince Harry鈥檚 deployment in the British military intervention in Afghanistan. It is about as believable as the plot of Mark Twain鈥檚 The Prince and the Pauper, in which a young prince swaps places with a street lad to see what life is like in 鈥淧aupersville鈥.
The breakout of the people of Gaza in late January provided a heroic spectacle unlike any other since the Warsaw ghetto uprising and the smashing down of the Berlin Wall.
Centrelink is to cut about 2000 of its 27,000 staff over the next financial year as part of new cost-cutting measures by PM Kevin Rudd聮s Labor government.
Venezuela As an Australian person currently living and working in Venezuela, I feel there are many important aspects to the ExxonMobil issue that have been, perhaps deliberately, ignored by the mainstream media in Australia. Legalities aside
As the horror of Israel聮s recent attacks on Gaza spread, UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon could only describe Israel聮s rocket launches as 聯an excessive use of force聰. By contrast, he described a Palestinian homemade rocket, which killed two Israeli soldiers and one civilian, as a 聯terrorist聰 act.
The April 11-13 Climate Change/Social Change conference being organised in Sydney by 91自拍论坛 Weekly aims to promote recognition that radical social change is necessary to solve the global climate crisis. This is a crisis that at threatens to make the Earth uninhabitable for the vast majority of humans and other species.
Over 4000 Victorian Independent Education Union (VIEU) members from Catholic schools stopped work for 24 hours on March 7 in support of their enterprise bargaining agreement.
Mothers Against Genetic Engineering (MAdGE) and the Gene Ethics Network launched a campaign on February 28 for local councils in Victoria to declare themselves genetically manipulated (GM) food-free zones. The campaign, launched at a protest rally on the steps of the state parliament, is in response to the Premier John Brumby聮s decision to end Victoria聮s ban on GM canola on February 29.
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