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textLATEST CONFRONTATION BETWEEN US EMPIRE AND EVO MORALES AND HUGO CHAVEZ by Stephen Lendman
US EMPIRE AGAIN CONFRONTS EVO MORALES AND HUGO CHAVEZ...
Posted: Sun, May 28, 2006 6:33am PDT
textThe Shrinking Planet: Culture shock - Notes and essays from the relocated and expatriated. by Jes Alexander, Ed.
We asked, "TELL US ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCES LIVING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, OR THE CULTURE SHOCK OF MOVING TO A DIFFERENT REGION." You answered, in your own words:...
Posted: Sun, May 28, 2006 4:42am PDT
textIrish Free State: an entity without a backbone or a soul by NIFC
The 26-County Irish Free State: an entity without a backbone or a soul of its own. No to the 26 county neo-colonial state. No to the 6 county colonial state. Support the 32 county Irish Republic. Work towards a new Ireland. Support the EIRE NUA proposals!...
Posted: Sun, May 28, 2006 1:32am PDT
textEast Timor & Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) Statement on the Current Violence in E.Timor by ETAN
May 27, 2006 - We have watched the unfolding situation in Timor-Leste this past week with deep concern....
Posted: Sat, May 27, 2006 11:13am PDT
textGrupo denuncia "popularização" da censura na web by FSP/BBC
Regimes repressivos estão tirando vantagem da facilidade de censurar e restringir o debate na internet, afirma um relatório dos Repórteres Sem Fronteiras (RSF), o grupo de pressão que denuncia ameaças à liberdade de expressão e de imprensa....
Posted: Sat, May 27, 2006 1:03am PDT
textCall Kamala harris and tell her to drop the charges against Gabriel Meyers by Defiant
TELL KAMALA TO DROP THE CHARGES!...
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 3:31pm PDT
textEnron Played Central Role in California Energy Crisis by Democracy Now (repost)
Six years ago, California was plunged into an unprecedented energy crisis. Rolling blackouts shut down parts of the state. Power bills soared. It turned out that at the center of the crisis was Enron – although the company’s role wasn’t fully understood at the time. We play excerpts of audiotapes that proved Enron asked power companies to take plants offline at the height of the California energy crisis - in order to make more money....
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 7:54am PDT
textEnron Execs Found Guilty on Multiple Conspiracy, Fraud Charges by Democracy Now (repost)
The two top figures in the Enron corporate scandal have been found guilty. On Thursday Enron founder Ken Lay was convicted on 10 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud and for making false statements to banks. Enron’s former CEO Jeffrey Skilling was also convicted on 19 of 28 counts. With Lay’s conviction, one of President Bush’s top financial backers is now facing the possibility of spending the next 30 years in prison. We speak with investigative journalists Robert B...
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 7:52am PDT
textThe Dilemma of Capitalism by Walter Grode
Without capitalism, we could not live but we can hardly survive with it. Shifting social costs is the real core of capitalism.. Politics is powerless toward the economy.. Governments are constantly forced to weigh the necesary control of capital against the danger of positional deterioration....
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 5:25am PDT
textVENEZUELA GRANDEST OF GRAND PRIZES FOR US by Stephen Lendman
NEW ESTIMATES OF VENEZUELA'S OIL RESERVES MAKES IT GRANDEST OF GRAND PRIZES FOR US...
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 10:37am PDT
textForge a chain of resistance against imperialist globalization by Office of Congressman Crispin Beltran
As trade unionists, we have the power and the means to unite the broadest number of people to decisively defeat the maneuvers of intensifying imperialist globalization. We must closely link the struggle of the working class to the struggles of the other major productive forces of our respective societies, such as the peasants, women, and youth. Only then will we be able to unite the broadest number of people to weaken the hold of the ruling elite conspiring with the forces of monopoly capital...
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 9:28am PDT
textInside the People's Movement: Angels and Demons in Nepal by Counterpunch (reposted)
Today, the talk of people's power in Nepal is the order of the day. Even the Mainstream Media, Moriarty, Manmohan and their intellectual goons are full of that. Evidently they are having hysterical fits intensified by the return of the Cold War paranoia. The possibility of the Maoists' coming over ground and their revolutionary agenda -- targeting the Nepali dependency -- being constitutionalized is definitely a grave crisis for Indo-American imperialism in South Asia. And in order to have a ...
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 8:44am PDT
textMad Profits by Ulrich Greiner
The new type described by the sociologist Christopher Lasch in his book "The Blind Elite" is unscrupulously fixated on economic calculation. He cannot feel any sense of responsibility for the community of a city, region, or country. This sense cannot even arise....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 4:53am PDT
textLittle Australian liars pants on fire! by hamid
PRIME Minister John Howard and Defence Minister Brendan Nelson say they have been unable to contact or locate East Timor's president and prime minister to have them sign an agreement to bring in Australian troops....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 4:32am PDT
textJust say NO! to Target in Davis by Stop Target's sweatshop labor!
Target corporation brings sweatshop products and big box values to an otherwise fair labor college town in the Sacramento Valley. Naturally people of Davis resist corporate bullies and say NO! to Target's sweatshop sales pitch.....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 5:58pm PDT
textMarkey criticizes FCC chair for refusing to open investigation on NSA/phone records case by Matthew lasar
A Massachusetts Congressmember today denounced the Federal Communications Commission for "taking a pass" on investigating reports that the nation's top telephone companies handed over consumer phone data records to the National Security Agency (NSA)....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 4:57pm PDT
textCan You Still Fully Hate an Eco-friendly Wal-Mart? by foe
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Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 2:35pm PDT
textGentrification Alert - Starbucks headed to San Pablo in Emeryville by Dee Ouellette
Emeryville City council planning to meet in secret June 6 to bring a Starbucks to San Pablo and 43rd reneging on their promises to keep San Pablo free of corporate chains. Public will be given no opportunity to comment....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 12:45pm PDT
textHercules Pulls the Rug Out from Under Wal-Mart with Eminent Domain by f*%k walmart
In a story dated this past Monday, before the eminent domain vote, Judy Davidoff, an attorney representing Wal-Mart, said in an interview that the city has virtually no choice but to grant approval for Wal-Mart's plan. Well, Judy, money can't buy you everything and the town of Hercules does indeed have a choice....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 11:59am PDT
textHuman to Human Transmission of Bird Flu Has Begun by McNeil (repost) & commentary intro.
Reacting to the death on Monday of an Indonesian man, the World Health Organization said Tuesday that the case appeared to be the first example of the avian flu jumping from human to human to human. According to an evening radio broadcast on 5/23, the death toll has reached a total of seven family members out of a total of eight who were infected with the illness. The World Health Organization isn't realeasing the data on the genetics of the viral culprits at this point. They've only s...
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2006 12:44am PDT
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