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Headlines from GLW #809, 9 September 2009:


Global warming and bushfires: what to expect
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 7 September 2009
In the last week of winter, something strange happened: bushfires raged across New South Wales, with major fires in the Shoalhaven and Eurobodalla in the south of the state. »

East Timor 10 years on — still waiting for justice
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 7 September 2009
I was angry that Timorese president and peace laureate Jose Ramos Horta used the 10-year anniversary of the United Nations-supervised ballot in East Timor on August 30 to declare: “There will be no international tribunal.” »

Can renewables re-power Australia?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 7 September 2009
"Forget ‘alternative’ energy — it can’t work!" That — and in almost those exact words — was among the messages of an article published in the Rupert Murdoch-owned Weekend Australian on August 8 by journalist Terry McCrann. »

Abortion law reform campaign steps up
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 7 September 2009

Equal marriage rights — we are winning
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 7 September 2009
The August 1 national day of action for equal marriage rights was the biggest demonstration for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights in Australian history. »

Sri Lanka: Humanitarian disaster in concentration camps
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 7 September 2009
A humanitarian catastrophe has been escalating over the last three months in the internment camps in which 285,000 Tamil civilians have been imprisoned in the north of Sri Lanka. »

Honduras — Resistance leader: US is behind the coup
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 7 September 2009
In Sao Paolo, Brazil, over August 17-19, Green Left Weekly journalists Kiraz Janicke and Federico Fuentes, together with journalists from Marea Socialista (Venezuela) and Alternativa Socialista (Argentina) spoke to Gilberto Rios, from the National Popular Resistance Front against the Coup in Honduras (FN). »

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Global warming and Australia’s ‘Big Dry’
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 7 September 2009
From desert-fringe villages and drowning atolls, global warming is predicted to set climate refugees on the move. But arguably, the first climate refugees to reach Australia’s major cities are arriving already. And the places from which they have come are not exotic — rural towns like Mildura, Renmark and Griffith. »

Can we survive the ‘recovery’?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 7 September 2009
Business economists and their paid media scribblers are frantically keen to announce the end of the financial crisis. Their aim is to return confidence in the market and to encourage working people to take on more debt. »

United States: Race, class and a sick system
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 7 September 2009
The critical lack of quality and affordable health care is devastating for African Americans. Twice as likely as whites to go without health insurance, African Americans suffer chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure and diabetes at an escalating rate. »

Germany: Left makes election gains
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 7 September 2009
Before the recent elections in the German states of Thuringia, Saarland and Saxony it seemed likely that Christian Democrat (CDU) German Chancellor Angela Merkel would return to power comfortably this year, probably in coalition with the free-market fundamentalists of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). »

Bolivia: ‘It is possible to build a better world’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 September 2009
As Bolivia heads towards its December 6 national elections, the right-wing opposition has again turned to violence and disinformation to try to halt the process of change led by the country’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales. »

Also in #809:


read »International News

  • ALBA nations denounce US military b...
  • Bolivia: ‘It is possible to build...
  • Caracas to host world meeting of le...
  • Chomsky praises Venezuela’s revol...
  • East Timor 10 years on — still wa...
  • Germany: Left makes election gains ...
  • Honduras — Resistance leader: US ...
  • Kanaky: Jailed pro-independence uni...
  • Sri Lanka: Humanitarian disaster in...
  • United States: Justice denied for N...
  • United States: Race, class and a si...
  • Vietnam: For people-to-people solid...
  • Brief: Indonesia — ‘Parl...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • A dangerous time for Latin America
  • Abortion law reform campaign steps ...
  • ‘Harmonisation’ will kill more ...
  • Can renewables re-power Australia?
  • Can we survive the ‘recovery’?
  • Della Bosca’s affair is not the r...
  • Equal marriage rights — we are wi...
  • Global warming and Australia’s ...
  • Global warming and bushfires: what ...
  • Noel Pearson does not speak for us
  • NTEU members to strike at UNSW
  • Oil, gas and coal: climate vandalis...
  • Workers demand best practice OHS la...
  • Resistance!: Australia’s n...
  • Resistance!: Young people to...
  • Our Common Cause: UN Rapport...

    • read »General

  • Green Left Weekly’s $250...

    • read »Australian News

  • Christmas Island prison awaits refu...
  • Climate groups to form national net...
  • Cops will be watched
  • ESOs return to work with a 34% pay ...
  • MP calls for urgent action against ...
  • Venezuelans speak on people’s pow...
  • Brief: Australia’s neglect...
  • Brief: Catherine Hill Bay ac...
  • Brief: End the blockade agai...
  • Brief: International student...
  • Brief: Keep Wallsend in publ...
  • Brief: Labor strips award: w...
  • Brief: Protest condemns town...
  • Brief: Students demand fair ...

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  • Review: Big sounds of strugg...
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  • Review: Living in the ‘Age...
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