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Protestors were on the offensive again today against the G20 meeting in Melbourne with some of the most confrontational protest actions of recent times in Australia....

The Sea Shepherd purchase of the Leviathan, in its campaign to stop Japanese whaling, has been stymied by the Government of Antigua, where the Leviathan is presently registered. Antigua is a pro whaling nation....

Singapore has banned 20 NGO delegates, and some NGO organisations from attending the IMF/World Bank meeting during the week of September 14-20, despite these people having formal invitations from the IMF/World Bank. The Singapore Government has announced a hardline policy against outdoor protests during the meeting of the IMF and World Bank....

Reports from West Papua detail that the Indonesian military are engaging in reprisal killing in response to 43 Papuans seeking asylum in Australia. Five people have been shot by the Indonesian military, two dead, with one of the killed teenagers being a relative of one of the asylum seekers. The survivors of what was described as an unprovoked attack, are in a critical condition....

Paul Watson for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has offered to withdraw from the current campaign against the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary if either the Australian or New Zealand Government agrees to take Japan to court over the whaling issue. He said that if the Australian and New Zealand Government had serious concerns for human safety in regard to confrontations between conservationists and whalers then they should make a proper legal challenge....

The Nisshin Maru whaling factory ship has stopped and the hunters are out hunting in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Once again Greenpeace activists have put their inflatable zodiacs into the water to try and form a human shield between harpoon and whale. Tensions are higher after the collision of the Nisshin Maru and Arctic Sunrise. Maybe there are things which people on dry land can do as well, such as boycotting Gordon's seafood products, and products of other companies invested in by ...

In the latest drama between whalers and conservationists, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship, the Farley Mowat, has ordered the whaling supply ship, Oriental Bluebird, to leave the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. When they refused to comply, the Farley Mowat slammed their starboard hull against the starboard hull of the Oriental Bluebird. The Farley Mowat is persuing the supply ship out of the whale sanctuary....

The International Fund for Animal Welfare has examined video footage taken by Greenpeace that shows a harpooned whale fighting for its life alongside a Japanese whaling ship in an international whale sanctuary near Antarctica. Leading international law expert, Professor Don Rothwell, has advised IFAW that the Japanese Government is breaching international laws with JARPA II. He has advised that the Australian Government has very strong grounds to take Japan to the International Law of the Sea...

Introductory comment by Peter Meyer: This important essay by Gilad Atzmon points out that the idea of "expressing one's true self", whether as a Zionist, a lesbian or whatever, is a delusion. One's "identity" is really a process of identification with a set of ideas, choices, beliefs, attitudes and assumptions. These may be healthy and conducive to contentment and good relations with others or they may be sick and lead to actions and policies rightly described as evil, as...