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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/25/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 3:26pm PST
Why We Fight
What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine....
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 5:56pm PST
BAYAN USA CONDEMNS KILLINGS & EXPRESS CONCERN FOR INT'L HUMAN RIGHTS JUSTICE CAPULONG
Threats against the Philippines’ premier human rights lawyer linked to Hacienda Luisita massacre, derailment of peace talks and U.S. “war on terror”...
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 1:11am PST
World Water Day 2005: Water Privatization in Stockton and Detroit
To mark World Water Day 2005, we take a look at the issue of water privatization in this country in California and Michigan. We speak with activists from Stockton and Detroit and an independent filmmaker who produced the documentary, "Thirst."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 1:48pm PST
UFCW Calls for ABC News to Drop Wal-Mart as 'Only in America' Sponsor
UFCW Calls for ABC News to Drop Wal-Mart as 'Only in America' Sponsor; Union Cites Deceptive Advertising Practice...
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2005 10:59am PST
Trouble in the Ranks
p>Private Jeremiah Adler wrote home on his sixth day in Army boot
camp:
"’I am so fucked up right now... I feel that if I
stay here much longer I am not going to be the same person anymore.
I have to GO. Please help... Every minute you sit at home I am
stuck in a shithole, stripped of self-respect, pride, will, hope,
love, faith, worth, everything. Everything I have ever held dear
has been taken away. This fucks with your head... This makes you
...
Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2005 6:03pm PST
Oxfam Decries U.S. Pressure on Guatemala to Repeal Medicines Law
Oxfam Decries U.S. Pressure on Guatemala to Repeal Medicines Law; U.S. Pushes for Unpopular Change as Part of CAFTA Campaign...
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 11:36pm PST
Wolfowitz at the World Bank: An Empire without a Global Economic Policy?
A momentum to break open debtors' prisons that the Washington Consensus built in the global south has been building up, demonstrated by Argentina's ability to compel 75% of its creditors to accept 35 cents on the dollar. The nomination of Paul Wolfowitz for WB presidency can only invigorate the global justice movement, which will have an inviting target at the IMF and the WB's 2005 Spring Meetings on April 16-17 and their 2005 Annual Meetings on September 26-27 -- both in Washington D.C. At...
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 4:27pm PST
MILTARY KILLS TWO CAMPESINOS AND WOUNDS 10; POLICE KIDNAP THREE
After another day of protests against the ratification of CAFTA today, March 15, in Colotenango, Huehuetenango a group of campesinos and teachers were violently repressed by the military, so far leaving two dead and ten wounded....
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 11:27am PST
TWO DIE in Guatemala free trade protests
Two people were killed and many injured as violence broke out during protests in Guatemala on Tuesday 15 March when President Oscar Berge ratified the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)....
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 10:55am PST
W names Wolf as Chief Robber Baron
3 months after the Pretzel W unilaterally claimed a mandate from the voters, the Neo-Cons' Team Evil is now complete. The latest addition to this "woeful-wits" Cabal is the naming of Wolf Paul--chief architect of the Iraquagmire--to the post of World Bank chieftain(aka Chief Global Robber Baron)......
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 12:03pm PST
Film: Why I Love Shoplifting From Big Corporations
subMedia completes second short film inspired by crimethinc's manifesto....
Posted: Sat, Mar 12, 2005 3:34am PST
BTL:Bush Administration May Reject Ratification of International Tobacco Control Treaty
...International Tobacco Control Treaty ~ Interview with Derek Yach, one of the principle drafters of the International Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 3:39am PST
Confessions of a "Little Eichmann"
Dee Ouellette lays out her argument in defense of Ward Churchill and presents first hand experience of being a "Little Eichmann", someone who did not create the institutions of injustice but works day in day out making sure it functions efficiently....
Posted: Thu, Mar 10, 2005 10:31am PST
Manifesto of Porto Alegre (unofficial translation)
Another development model should be realized based on an energy-saving way of life and democratic controls on natural mineral resources, particularly drinking water. Another world is possible promoting democracy....
Posted: Thu, Mar 10, 2005 7:04am PST
Internat'l Food Not Bombs Convergence, June in Philly
gather for the 25th anniversary of food not bombs at the biotech protests/green and black urban gathering this june in philly!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 9, 2005 1:19pm PST
When the Left is "Right" in Lebanon
THE LEFT is ALIVE in Uruguay, but dead in...LEBANON. It is worse in Lebanon; there is a small group of former leftists who claim that they constitute the "new left." I have written in an article in As-Safir that they are more the like "old right." They share the same slogans of the fascistic Phalanges Party from the 1970s, and they see no fault in Hariri's aggressive and cruel capitalism which impoverished large segments of the Lebanese population....
Posted: Fri, Mar 4, 2005 7:05pm PST
BTL:White House and Media Escalate War of Words Against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
...Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ~ Interview with Eva Gollinger, attorney reporting from Caracas, Venezuela, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Mar 3, 2005 5:41am PST
Green and Black Urban Gathering this June in Philly
We are calling for anti-authoritarian, eco-positive radicals and allies to gather during the anti-biotech mobilization and share our vision of struggle for liberation and harmony among all living communities....
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2005 10:16am PST
FDA Chooses Drug Industry Health Over Public Health
The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) associate safety director, Dr. David J. Graham, highlights FDA priorities, with the safety of your medicines being low among them. And adverse reactions to 'properly prescribed and administered drugs' is the US's 4th leading cause of death....
Posted: Tue, Mar 1, 2005 12:12pm PST