It seems like an overly cliched script with a plot so tired that even Hollywood聮s dross-marketing machine might think twice about touching it: a Mid-East nation led by an aggressive regime with a record of violating human rights whenever it feels like (which turns out to be often) threatens countries in the region with its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. But, in a twist unlikely to make it into the next blockbuster, according to a January 7 article in London聮s Sunday Times, it聮s the Israeli military that聮s planning to use nuclear weapons, not the 聯mad Arabs聰 that are the more conventional WMD-toting movie villains.
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The carbon offset industry was all about growth in 2006. The high-profile, Britain-based CarbonNeutral Company reported an annual turnover of 拢2.7 million, while the global market sold an estimated 拢60 million, and this figure was estimated to increase five times over in three years.
Parliamentarians from the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP), the Dutch Socialist Party, the Greens and the Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru party were arrested on January 8 following a protest at the Faslane nuclear submarine base on the River Clyde. The protest was organised by Faslane 365, which is promoting a year-round blockade of the base.
Committing Poetry in Times of War
Directed by stavros
With Bill Nevins and Priscilla Baca y Candelaria
Directed by stavros
With Bill Nevins and Priscilla Baca y Candelaria
Saddam Hussein was rushed to the gallows as 2006 ended 鈥 a former dictator put to death under instructions from his one-time supporters in the US government.
Nuclear power I
No nuclear plant in the World has survived without massive taxpayer subsidies. It's not an energy solution, it's corporate welfare. John Howard's more interested in pork barrelling his wealthy mates than providing Australians with
Sending shockwaves through the corporate elite, on January 8 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared his government鈥檚 intention of reversing the privatisations that had been carried out by previous governments. Declaring 鈥淲e鈥檙e on our way to socialism, and nothing and no-one can prevent it鈥, Chavez insisted, 鈥淎ll that was privatised, let it be nationalised鈥, according to a January 9 Associated Press report.
While starving Australia聮s public education and health services of funding, the Coalition government is planning to spend well over $200 million on the annual talk shop dressed up as a 聯leaders聮 summit聰 of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) scheduled for Sydney this September.
Mision Vuelvan Caras, literally 聯about-face聰, is a social project 聴 or mission 聴 launched by the revolutionary government of Venezuela in 2004 to train and offer employment to thousands of people. It is changing the lives of a large number of the country聮s citizens, many of whom previously had no formal education or jobs to rely on.
As the bulk carrier, Pilion, docked in Geelong on January 9 with phosphate from Western Sahara, the Australia Western Sahara Association (AWSA) called on the fertiliser company Incitec Pivot to stop violating UN regulations by importing phosphate from Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa.
On December 5, after weeks of speculation, the commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama announced that he had overthrown the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase in Fiji聮s third military coup in the past 20 years. On January 4, the military restored the powers of President Ratu Josefa Iloilo, so that he could swear in an interim government with Bainimarama as PM.
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