As Malaysian opposition parties and social activists, emboldened by advances in the March general elections, prepared to hold a giant protest against recent oil price hike (petrol up 41%, diesel up 67%) in Kuala Lumpur on July 6, a series of disturbing events unfolded.
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The following article is abridged from a June 26 post on http://peruanista.blogspot.com. The full article, along with a series of videos on the struggle, can be found at http://links.org.au.
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These are some of the corporations currently doing business with the Burmese military junta. For a full list, see the Burma Campaign UK’s “Dirty List” of corporations in Burma.
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There have been nationwide protests against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) governments decision to raise the prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas.
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On June 30, the collective agreements covering actors in the US television industry expired.
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In full campaign mode, as Bolivia prepares to go to the polls again on August 10 to decide the fate of the president and nine departmental prefects [state governors] in recall referendums, Bolivias left-wing indigenous President Evo Morales took time out to speak exclusively to Argentinian journalist Pablo Stefanoni in the presidential palace.
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Here is a good news story.
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In response to the extreme, racist anti-immigrant “Return Directive” law, passed by the European parliament on June 18, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened to stop oil sales to any country that applied the directive.
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Despite raids by Israel that left six people dead in the Gaza Strip and numerous rockets launched by Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad the previous day, a ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas government in Gaza took effect on June 19. At the official start of the ceasefire at 6am, both sides appeared to be holding the truce.
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On June 11, British Prime Minister Gordon Browns proposals to extend the time that police are allowed to detain terrorist suspects without charge narrowly scraped through a vote in the House of Commons. The MP vote was 315 to 306 to back Browns proposal to extend the limit on detention without charge from 28 to 42 days.
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Our dependency on oil has never been more excruciating than it is today.