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And still the stupid deny climate change
PETER FROST thinks we can learn something from Australia’s devastating forest fires
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
NOT too long ago I spent a month following the annual whale migration up the east coast of Australia. We started from Adelaide in South Australia, through Victoria and New South Wales, on up to the nearly the most northerly tip of Queensland.
Travelling by camper van at every campsite the first thing we and every other camper checked was the latest fire status. Huge moving arm signs everywhere gave the latest up-to-date state of the risk of forest fires. Australians took these warnings very seriously and recent catastrophic events down under show they were right to do so.
The recent fires have already caused nearly thirty human deaths with many more still to be discovered when rescue teams can safely access burnt out houses. Millions of dollars worth of housing stocks, other buildings and infrastructure as well as huge losses on farms need to be added to the cost of the disaster.
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