The steady stream of revelations of political, military and corporate bastardry from the stash of US diplomatic cables leaked to WikiLeaks became, in late August, a torrent.
It is about to become a deluge.
Between December and August, the number of secret US cables published by WikiLeaks was fewer than 20,000 of the more than 250,000 in the whistleblowing website's possession.
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After 15 days on strike, 45,000 workers from United States鈥 telecommunications company Verizon marched in to work on August 23 after getting agreement from their stubborn employer to bargain.
The communication and electrical workers will be working under their old contracts while talks continue. They agreed not to strike again for 30 days.
During the strike, which stretched from Virginia to Massachusetts, Verizon was unable to provide timely installation and repairs, and reports of outages plagued the company.
The tens of thousands of cables released by WikiLeaks since August reveal a wide variety of lies told by the US government and crimes in which the US government is complicit or helped cover up. www.wlcentral.org provides a daily rundown, with links, to some of the key cables.
Below are three cables that depict the apparent covering-up of US military war crimes in Iraq; the riding rough-shod over the popular will of nation in Ireland; and the way the US government seeks to divert attention from its crimes with calculated media spin.
Will the host city for the November-December United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP17) clean up its act?
The August 23 launch of a major Academy of Science of South Africa (Assaf) report,聽 Towards a Low Carbon City: Focus on Durban, offers a chance to test whether new municipal leaders are climate greenwashers.
Will they try to disguise high-carbon economic policies with pleasing rhetoric, as their predecessors did?
At the end of the night of Wollongong's council elections, September 3, it seemed likely voters had elected Gordon Bradbery, a progressive independent, as lord mayor.
Bradbery won 33.9% of the primary vote and is expected to win on preferences. The Liberals鈥 John Dorahy won 23.4% of the primary, Labor鈥檚 Chris Connor 19.7%, the Greens鈥 Jill Merrin 5.9% and Community Voice鈥檚 Michael Organ 4.1%.
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Votes in the wards were still being counted as 麻豆传媒 Weekly went to print, but it鈥檚 clear the once Labor dominated council will have a very different make up.
It has become a cliche in mainstream media and political discourse that feminism is no longer necessary in society. However many ordinary women disagree.
麻豆传媒 Weekly asked members of the newly formed Feminist Collective of South Australia about feminism鈥檚 relevance today.
Emma Gray-Starcevic said: 鈥淲omen still earn on average 17% less than men in Australia, and are under-represented in a huge number of jobs, especially in industries such as law, business and politics 鈥 jobs synonymous with high wages and powerful positions.
Supporters of Fijian workers rallied in Melbourne on September 2 against a recent crackdown by the military regime.
The same day, two Fijian trade unionists, Fiji Trades Union Congress president Daniel Urai and National Union of Hospitality, Catering and Tourism organiser Nitin Gounder, appeared in a Fijian court charged with unlawful assembly because they met with their union members to discuss a collective agreement.
The Fijian trade union movement is under very heavy attack by the Fijian military government. New laws aiming to make it virtually impossible for unions to exist.
An article, , in the August 13 Australian by Cameron Stewart purported to be an examination of issues around the targeting of Max Brenner by Palestine solidarity protesters as part of the global boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign.
If you鈥檝e even casually followed the climate debate in Australia over the past few years, it鈥檚 most likely you鈥檝e heard a Labor or Liberal party politician utter the phrase: 鈥淕overnments should not pick winners.鈥 The idea is that governments鈥 role is not to give direct support to renewable energy such as wind power or solar power, but instead to create the market conditions where the best, most efficient technology can come to the fore. But the argument is always used as an excuse for why governments cannot pick clean, renewable energy.
The day after the Barry O鈥橣arrell Coalition government was elected in NSW in March, NSW Business Chamber CEO Stephen Cartwright said he wanted action in the first 100 days of the new government.
He said business wanted O鈥橣arrell to cut government spending, sign up to the weaker federal occupational health and safety laws (OH&S), appoint a Small Business Commissioner, establish Infrastructure NSW, and produce the first report card on the progress of the Pacific Highway upgrade.
The statement below is being circulated by , a campaign group which formed during the fight against electricity privatisation in NSW and the newly formed , made up of left and green union activists.
The land around Muckaty Station, 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, was nominated as a possible site for a nuclear waste dump by the Northern Land Council in May 2007. This was accepted by the federal government in September 2007.
Natalie Wasley from the Beyond Nuclear Initiative told 麻豆传媒 Weekly: 鈥淎 small group of traditional owners, hoping for cash for their impoverished community and improved services like roads, housing and education, agreed to the dump site. However, many other traditional owners remain opposed to the plan.
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