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Human to Human Transmission of Bird Flu Has Begun 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
Loan Revolt: the Revolution Starts with Student Loans (Sallie Mae) 
Did the American Revolution first start off as a tax and fee revolt? Did they not revolt against debtor's prison and greed of the companies?
PLEASE FORWARD THESE ARTICLES TO EVERYONE!!!...
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 11:00am PDT
Arundhati Roy on India, Iraq, U.S. Empire and Dissent Today we spend the hour with acclaimed Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy. Her first novel, "The God of Small Things," was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997. It has sold over six millions copies and has been translated into over 20 languages worldwide....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 9:47am PDT
Anti-Nuke Activists Disrupt UC Regents Meeting 
Thursday, May 18, 2006 - For the second straight year, anti-nuke/demilitarization activists from around the state disrupted the University of California Regents meeting at UC San Francisco. In addition to concerns of corruption on behalf of top UC officials, students continued the decades old tradition of opposition to UC's vital role in the production of weapons of mass destruction. Through it's management of both Los Alamos National Lab and Lawrence Livermore, UC employees have designed eve...
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 5:41am PDT
Writings on the Anarchist Movement "I received this essay in the mail the other day. Matt asked me to send
it to revolutionaries and whoever else was interested in reading it. He
wrote it on May 4th, 2006 where he is currently imprisoned inside the
California Institution for Men in Chino, CA."...
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2006 5:19pm PDT
BRING THE WAR HOME DC 08/10-14 July 2006 is the month to Bring the War Home to cities across the nation with Direct Action and Civil Disobedience to shut down all metropolitan areas. Then organizers from around the world will converge on DC August 10th through the 14th to confront the true war machine....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2006 1:03pm PDT
(Italy and Libya Perspective) Off the Mainstream AND Alternative Media Map 
Notable foreign correspondent Eric Margolis noticed some odd developments that no one else had....
Posted: Sun, May 21, 2006 10:55am PDT
Free Books on the Internet These two e-books could reinvigorate public discourse in a dry weary land resigned to its contradictions. Tabooed subjects like infrastructure investment, inequality, distribution, wasteful consumption and militarism are discussed....
Posted: Sun, May 21, 2006 6:04am PDT
Conservative coalition enters Next Phase In response to increased UN pressure to close the illegal Guantanamo Bay detention/torture centre, the Americans left no doubt, “we have no intention of closing Guantanamo Bay”. The flagrant illegality of Guantanamo Bay is lost on the Americans, or worse, stands as a defiant monument to American belligerence and unilateralism. The rest of the world can go to hell; Americans do what they want when they want, is that clear?...
Posted: Sat, May 20, 2006 7:56am PDT
China's surge vs global job transfers China's surgeob is altering global map, which includes job transfers....
Posted: Sat, May 20, 2006 3:59am PDT
Charges still pending after day in court for G8 protestors One defendant must stilll face felony charge after judge's ruling in preliminary hearing....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 10:43pm PDT
How to Keep it Up (Momentum, That is) The Project, Page 11
Momentum in social justice movements globally and locally....
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 3:37pm PDT
Dell Inc., Intel, Microsoft -- all will go down with Moore's Law 
Dell, Intel, and Microsoft stocks are in freefall. (Dell is getting a dead-cat bounce today on AMD news.) Like the last Tech Wreck (in 2000), this one has to do with Moore's Law. Moore's Law is a self-fulfilling prophecy financed by Intel, his company, as long as they can afford it....
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 3:18pm PDT
U.S. Supporting Walords in Mogadishu Fighting The U.S. tangentially has admitted to supporting Somali warlords in the supposed fight against "Islamists" who are challenging the power of the walords. A lesson in "enemy of my enemy" politics....
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 10:02am PDT
Stop the Telco Takeover -- National Day of Out(R)age -- Save Public Access The Baby Bells are moving nationwide to dominate and control our communication delivery systems. More than 500,000 people have spoken on behalf of net neutraility and saving public, education, and government access channels. Internet users, community activists and independent media producers, consumer groups, churches and are speaking out. The National Day of Out(r)age is an opportunity for everyone to make their voice heard with political action....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 4:37pm PDT
Perhaps a little compassion? This article just goes to show that no matter who you are or what you do, oil prices will affect you in MANY different ways....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 2:27pm PDT
New Frontiers of Shamelessness: Bono's Independent "I have no embarrassment at all. No shame." Bono says it himself, in the course of his luvvie interview with comic Eddie Izzard, and that's a typically 'disarming' tactic. But don't be disarmed: Bono's shamelessness is of a whole different order from anything we've seen before, and it crosses new frontiers in the edition of the London Independent that he allegedly 'edited' today (16 May)....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 6:55am PDT
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