Home

Recently Syndicated News in English

rss
If there is a website you would like to see on this page, please let us know!

  • Immigration: Australia’s favourite scapegoat

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Australian PM Kevin Rudd’s appointment of Tony Burke as population minister continues the Australian tradition of playing political football with immigration. His appointment came after Treasury estimates predicted that Australia’s population will grow from 22 million to 36 million by 2050.

    »  | 93 reads «

  • Human rights in the prison system

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    The current federal inquiry into the over-representation of Indigenous youth and young people in the criminal justice system, which began in late March, has brought attention to issues surrounding incarceration in Australian jails and detention centres.

    »  | 162 reads «

  • Google bans Cuban blogger

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Internet giant Google Inc. has cut off Cuban writer and essayist Henry Ubieta’s access to his “La Isla Desconocida” (“The unknown Island”) blog, hosted on Blogger, and blocked his access to his gmail account.

    »  | 66 reads «

  • Forum condemns Black deaths in custody

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Outraged by the six Aboriginal deaths in custody this year, the Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA) organised a public meeting at the Redfern Community Centre on April 9 to tell the stories and call for justice.

    »  | 62 reads «

  • Food sovereignty study tour to Venezuela planned

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Ferne Edwards, a PhD student at the Australian National University who researches sustainable food movements, cities and climate change, was so inspired by the social changes in Venezuela when she visited there as part of a food sovereignty tour in 2009 that she decided to organise an opportunity for other Australians to visit and see it for themselves.

    »  | 68 reads «

  • Dracula’s Army and war atrocities

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    That the contents of a previously suppressed Pentagon video has come as a nasty shock to so many, highlights the noxious disinformation fog in which Western citizens are cocooned.

    »  | 94 reads «

  • Climate activists to attend Bolivia conference

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Australian climate activists will join thousands of other people at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia over April 19-22.

    »  | 86 reads «

  • Burma: Poll boycott planned, Aus trade grows

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Burma Campaign Australia said on March 30 that Burma political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), will not register in the forthcoming national election in Burma.

    »  | 77 reads «

  • Brother Fox has the last laugh

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Indigenous and trade union activist Chicka “The Fox” Dixon (1928-2010), was farewelled by more than 1000 people in a state funeral in Sydney Town Hall on March 31.

    »  | 122 reads «

  • Australian Tamils to vote in referendum

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    The following article is based on a statement that appeared on www.vkr1976.com.au.

    »  | 95 reads «

  • West Papua: Land grab to displace locals

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Plans for a US$6 billion food estate in the Merauke region of West Papua has been attacked by farmer and environmental organisations as a land grab that would destroy 2 million hectares of virgin forest.

    »  | 72 reads «

  • Indonesia: ‘Our goal is a new workers’ party’

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana is the international relations officer for Indonesia’s Working People’s Association (PRP).
    In 2003, Mahendra was imprisoned for two years for “insulting the government” of then-president Megawati Sukarnoputri.

    »  Read more | 91 reads «

  • Demand for open investigation into an Aboriginal trans death in custody

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    On March 10, 2009, three days after Mardi Gras, 34-year-old Veronica Baxter was arrested by Redfern police. She was charged with six counts of supplying a prohibited drug and held on remand at the all-male NSW Silverwater Metropolitan Reception and Remand Centre.

    »  | 88 reads «

  • Cuba: The issues behind the ‘dissidents’

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Hunger strikes and suicides justified by strong moral, ideological, patriotic or religious beliefs usually touch people’s conscience.

    »  | 95 reads «

  • China, population and the environment

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    At the failed December United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen, the issue of population control was put on the agenda by the delegation from China.

    »  | 100 reads «