A popular rebellion is shaking the regime of Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad 鈥 and highlighting the hypocrisy of US policy in the region.
The protests of recent weeks spread further following Friday prayers on March 25. The Syrian regime responded with vicious repression that left at least 61 people dead, and with a belated promise of reform.
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The bad news for Ohio鈥檚 350,000 public workers is that a new law bans them from striking 鈥 the good news is at least they will no longer risk jail for doing so.
A March 30 Reuters article said: 鈥淥hio鈥檚 legislature on Wednesday passed a Republican measure to curb the collective bargaining rights of about 350,000 state employees, and Governor John Kasich said he will sign it into law.鈥
The new law will ban unions from striking in support of public workers and limit workers鈥 ability to collectively bargain.
Secret US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks on March 15 show that former US ambassador to Nepal, James Moriarty, actively sought to destabilise Nepal鈥檚 peace process in order to prevent a Maoist rise to power.
The Maoist-led People鈥檚 Liberation Army waged a decade-long 鈥減eople鈥檚 war鈥 against Nepal鈥檚 centuries-old feudal monarchy. A people鈥檚 uprising in 2006 brought the monarchy down, opening the way for an elected constituent assembly in 2008.
US coal giant Drummond paid right-wing paramilitaries accused of murder and human rights abuses for protection of its Colombian operations, Colombiareports.com said on March 16.
The article said the information was revealed in secret diplomatic cables sent between 2006-2010 released by WikiLeaks to the Colombian paper El Espectador,
The online journal is hosting a series of commentaries from left-wing groups and commentators from around the world on the crucial question of whether or not to support the US-NATO military intervention in Libya.
The pro-democracy movement in Bahrain has been severely weakened by the brutal wave of repression that began on March 15.
Attempts to reignite pro-democracy protests have been broken up by government security forces and strikes have been called off.
Troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates entered Bahrain on March 14 to help the Bahraini government 鈥渞estore order鈥 by attacking thousands of pro-democracy protesters.
Writing in the aftermath of the several high profile WikiLeaks publications including the and the Afghanistan and Iraq , News Corporation journalist Brad Norington set out on a crusade against online media, and more specifically, against WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.
Every election time, a fraction of the population turn up to a polling place, muttering under their breath, and give withering looks to the volunteers offering them 鈥淗ow to Vote鈥 cards.
They wait in line to get their name marked off. With their obligations completed for another few years, they hastily scribble a 鈥1鈥 next to the name of whichever candidate happens to come first on the page, and, still muttering, march off home.
I was having a conversation about the likely outcome of the NSW elections on Radio SkidRow, a Sydney community radio station, just days before the March 26 election.
鈥淲e know what is going to happen after [the Liberals'] Barry O鈥橣arrell wins the election, don鈥檛 we?鈥 I said. 鈥淗e鈥檒l wait a couple of weeks then he will announce that Labor has left the cupboard bare so they鈥檒l have to bring in an emergency budget.
If the last federal election promised the beginnings of a break from the two-parties-for-capitalism electoral system that has plagued Australian politics for the last century, the March 26 NSW election seems to be a lurch in the other direction.
The Liberal-National Coalition won dominance of the Legislative Assembly and (with small right-wing parties) control of the Legislative Council because a large number of working-class voters punished the Labor party with a 13.5% swing in primary votes.
About 8000 people demonstrated for urgent action on climate change in Sydney's Belmore Park on April 2 in a powerful counter-mobilisation to a 2000-strong climate deniers rally led by right-wing radio shock jocks Alan Jones and Chris Smith from Radio 2GB held in Hyde Park.
The climate deniers rally was a repeat of a similar-sized rally held in Canberra a week earlier and is part of an attempt to build a right-wing populist Tea Party-style movement as exists in the US.
The climate change activists rally was organised by the internet-based group GetUp!
Climate change is often called the greatest environment threat facing humanity.
The threat is very real. Unless we cut carbon pollution fast, runaway climate change will worsen existing environmental and social problems, and create new ones of its own.
But it鈥檚 no longer enough to simply refer to the climate crisis. Climate change is one part of a broader ecological disaster, brought about by an economic system that relies on constant growth, endless accumulation and ever-deepening human alienation.
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