April 5, 2010, Sydney Morning Herald
Iraqi refugees on hunger strike on Christmas Island. About 10 Iraqi detainees were pledging yesterday to maintain a hunger strike until death, in the latest eruption from distressed asylum seekers at the Christmas Island detention facilities. The incident comes a day after a larger group of more than 20 asylum [...]

<p>In San Francisco, a group organized by a tenant group called Homes Not Jails occupied an empty privately owned Mission District duplex yesterday...

Parents love their childless friends, often their only source of grown-up activities like, say, uninterrupted conversation. Or drinking and shooting pool (mmm...).

By Amie Ferris-Rotman - Sunday, March 21, 2010

A Muslim diaspora is demanding the Sochi 2014 Olympics be canceled or moved unless Russia apologizes for the 19th century deaths of many of their ancestors in the location where the Winter Games will be held...Circassians argue the Sochi Games are as insensitive as hosting a sporting competition on the grounds of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz.

<p>The New York City Anarchist Book Fair is free to the public. It is for activists to connect with each other and for anyone who wants to explore ...

Why not use the president's tack: just talk about the need for clean energy and energy independence? Because that approach leads to wrong policies, ineffectual legislation larded with giveaways to special interests, such as the Waxman-Markey bill in the House and the bills being considered now in the Senate.

Peak oil - arriving or already arrived - is placing a tremendous strain on the world's economy.