Palestinians in Israeli jails hold mass hunger strike
Contributed by Jim Hayes More than two thousand Palestinians in Israeli jails have begun a mass hunger strike against detention conditions.
Australian governments are accused of failing indigenous peoples
Contributed from Queensland The Oxfam report released on 11 April shows that Australian governments have failed to achieve meaningful change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait…
Wollar’s Bev Smiles faces jail over mine protest
Contributed by Ugly Wollar environmental activist Bev Smiles is prepared to go to jail after becoming one of the first people in NSW to be…
Doughnut economics does not really provide the answer
Contributed by Joe Montero George Monbiot is a thinker who has deservedly won widespread respect. He wrote an article that appeared in The Pen yesterday….
Where is Australia going when homeless are mistreated?
Contributed by Fiona Ross (Friends of Public Housing) On 7th February 2017, controversial proposed changes to the City of Melbourne’s bylaws were passed narrowly –…
Is the doughnut a breakthrough alternative to growth economics?
George Monbiot (The Guardian 12 April 2017) writes about the growth paradigm that has been the cornerstone of orthodox economists. Is there is limit…
The French election and the Mélenchon wild card
Contributed by Joe Montero It seems that the political climate in France is changing. Following a common world trend, the two traditional establishment parties. As…
Video: Australian Conservation Foundation aims to stop Adani
Contributed from New South Wales The Australian Conservation Foundation has lifted its campaign to turn up the heat to put a stop to the giant…
China warns of ‘storm clouds gathering’ on the Korean Peninsula
Contributed by Jim Hayes China has warned that tensions on the Korean Peninsula could spin out of control. What China says is important, because it…
Video: Assange answers accusations over Russian connection
From Democracy Now Interview with Julian Assange on the fiction about the Russia connection with the Podesta files and last year’s American presidential election
