UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has called a special Climate Summit at United Nations Headquarters in New York City on September 23.
This meeting, which is in addition to the annual UN Climate Change Conferences within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is intended to 鈥渕obilize action and ambition on climate change鈥. Because this event will take place during the annual UN General Assembly meeting, Ban can expect a large number of heads of state to attend, as well as the 鈥渂usiness, finance, civil society and local leaders鈥 that he has invited.
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The following statement was adopted by the Socialist Alliance national executive on September 4 in response to the Australian government's decision to join the US and other imperialist states in further military intervention in Iraq.
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The US wars on Iraq, in 1991 and 2003, killed hundreds of thousands of people and completely wrecked the country. The US promoted sectarian divisions to maintain control. It created the conditions for the rise of the 鈥淚slamic State鈥 and is thus responsible for the crisis.
Stop the War Coalition in Sydney released the statement below on September 11.
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Anti-war activists gathered outside the Defence Department in Sydney on September 11 to say no to another war on Iraq.
Called by Stop the War Coalition (STWC) and Marrickville Peace Group, the snap action heard from several activists, who said Western military and political interference was largely to blame for the rise of fundamentalist and sectarian groups in the Middle East.
This article is an abridged . That day, US President Barack Obama announced plans to .
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Barack Obama and the US political establishment 鈥 Democrats and Republicans alike 鈥 are whipping up support for a new war drive in the Middle East.
鈥淭om Morello, as his alter ego the Nightwatchman, performed a new cut called 鈥楳arching on Ferguson鈥 at the Jail Guitar Doors' Rock Out! benefit concert September 5th at Los Angeles' Ford Theatre,鈥 on September 7.
Live coverage of a speech by Britain's Trade Union Congress general secretary Frances O鈥橤rady was cut off minutes after she had warned of a return to a 鈥淒ownton Abbey鈥 society, on September 8, 鈥渇or a newsflash announcing that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting her second child鈥.
If you were in Newport and Cardiff in south-east Wales during the first week of September, you might have thought you鈥檇 entered a warzone. Instead, it was simply the September 4 and 5 NATO Summit.
As NATO warships drifted ominously into the harbour and US Osprey and Nighthawk helicopters thundered in the sky, above mile after mile of steel fencing, disgruntled residents were left taking to Twitter to complain about their desks shaking at work.
鈥淭he amount of helicopters I have heard today makes it sound like we鈥檙e at war,鈥 one said.
In Scotland, a remarkable popular movement, the campaign for independence, is heading towards it decisive test. On September 18, a referendum is being held on whether the country will remain part of the 鈥淯nited Kingdom鈥.
To better understand the surge in pro-independence sentiment over the last weeks of the campaign, 麻豆传媒 Weekly's European correspondent Dick Nichols spoke with Alister Black, editor of the Scottish independent Marxist review .
Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism
Umair Muhammad
www.confrontinginjustice.com
Too many supposedly radical books are written by academics for academics, apparently competing to see who can produce the most incomprehensible prose.
My list of 鈥渂ooks to be reviewed鈥 contains literally dozens of overstuffed and overpriced volumes that only a handful of specialists will ever read, and with little relevance to the non-university world.
When Google CEO Eric Schmidt turned up to meet WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, he brought several people with him who were connected to the US government. "The delegation was one part Google, three parts US foreign-policy establishment," Assange writes in his latest book, When Google Met WikiLeaks. "But I was still none the wiser."
Bronx-based rapper, producer, film-maker and youth worker Intikana hits out at indigenous injustice, cultural colonisation and international imperialism, among many other topics. 麻豆传媒 Weekly's Mat Ward put 18 questions to him.
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