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Flint's Revolutionary Traditions-1936-37: The Way To Win Today
The task facing the US and world working class is to halt and throw back the capitalist offensive and to open up a new working class offensive of our own....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 7:09pm PST
Ryan Harvey y El Pinche Simón: El Enemigo Común in Santa Cruz (audio/mpeg 3.9MB)
On February 16th, about 40 people crowded into the RCNV in Santa Cruz to hear Ryan Harvey perform anarchist folk music and see a premier screening of El Enemigo Común....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 5:38pm PST
STATE of EMERGENCY has been imposed in the PHILIPPINES!
Several dozen demonstrators were arrested, mostly social movement activists and civil society leaders including Ronald Llamas, president of AKBAYAN and Professor Randy David, a well-known academic and vocal critique of the Arroyo government....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 3:51pm PST
Demonstrator violently arrested outside SF city hall!
Lone demonstrator, shouting anti-capitalism slogans and claiming to represent Neo-Socialism arrested and punched by police!...
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 3:30pm PST
Syria just changed over to the euro: I want to change to euros too!
Iran oil bourse changes to Euros in March.
Hopefully not gettin bombed by US in retalliation,
as Iraq was,
as Venezuela suffered 2 US coups for same......
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 2:33pm PST
The Bush Administration's Great State of the Union Ethanol Scam
Did Congress and the Senate "Day Trade" Ethanol on the day of the State of the Union address and rip-off Americans the following morning by selling it off?
It certainly looks as though the marriage between the White House, Senate and Congressional leadership and Wall Street has been exposed....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 1:25pm PST
EMERGENCY NATIONAL RALLY AGAINST MARTIAL LAW IN PHILIPPINES
On the 20th anniversary of People Power and the ouster of Marcos, a State of Emergency/Martial Law has been declared in the Philippines. All rallies are banned. Email and texting curtailed. Massive rallies are going on being met with violent dispersal by Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines. Disparate forces from the mass movement to former President Cory Aquino are calling for the president's ouster....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 12:51pm PST
Philippine President Declares a state of emergency. Rally at Philippine consulate today.
The Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has declared a state of emergency in the Philippines in response to an alleged coup attempt by rogue military officers. Despite the fact that all guilty parties have been arrested and the coup attempt has been thwarted, the Philippine government still proceeded to ban all political rallies and is seizing any media outlets that they perceive to be aiding any attempt to destabilize the Philippine goverment. Please join us in a rally today at the ...
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 12:18pm PST
Venezuela's Citgo Faces Congressional Inquiry For Offering Discounted Oil to U.S. Poor
Republican Congressmember Joe Barton of Texas has launched an investigation into one of the world’s major oil companies - Citgo. The Venezuelan-owned company announced a discounted gas program for poor Americans last year. We’ll speak with Democratic New York Congressman Jose Serrano, one of the few members of Congress promoting this effort....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 7:34am PST
Memorandum 2005: Alternative Economic Policy
In Germany and the US, the corporation is often stylized as the suffering servant. the market is made sacrosanct; all problems are defined as interferences with the market. Profits soar and investments fall. Corporations pay increasingly less tax and receive subsidies. Alternative economic policy is needed to restore long-term sanity in taxation, investment and distribution....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 5:25am PST
Indy Documentary Film Screenings of "El Enemigo Común" (The Common Enemy)
Screenings in Berkeley, San Francisco, and Oakland.
Austin Indymedia (ATXIMC) has been traveling back and forth to communities of unarmed indigenous people in Oaxaca, Mexico for the last 5 years (on and off), and in that time ATXIMC has contributed to release of 21 political prisoners, and helped spearhead three Amnesty International Campaigns. The most recent Amnesty Campaign has resulted in 39 community members being able to return home after being displaced by a paramilitary attack....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 1:41pm PST
David Irving & William Buckley Jr's 'Missing Link'
In Sweden, 20 years ago I interviewed Marita Johansson, a survivor of the Nazi death camps in which arms Anne Frank had died, of typhoid as she told me. I did not only want to see the tattooed number on her arm - it was there - but report honestly....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 2:08am PST
After Peak Oil, is Peak Empire next?
Finally, after years of debate, most mainstream scientists agree that the era of Peak Oil is indeed upon us, meaning that the high point of world oil production will soon--if indeed it hasn't been reached already--decline, perhaps even precipitously. Yet, mainstream scholars & pundits have not come to the same conclusion in regards to the increasingly desperate & barbaric U.S. Empire......
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 1:57am PST
Globalization and Terrorism
!POR UNA GLOBALIZACION QUE SITUE EN SU CENTRO EL DESARROLLO HUMANO INDIVIDUAL!
-International Terrorism: definition.
-Globalization: a simple definition.
-Update Capitulate corresponding book "DIEZ HORAS CON LA
GLOBALIZACION”(GOOGLE)
If to somebody it interests the extensions to him of the appointments, look for in google /yahoo "Terrorismo global y local”
According to the book “DIEZ HORAS CON LA GLOBALIZACION” (amazon, google, yahoo, netbiblo, Foro-los retos de la globa...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 12:58am PST
Selling Off the Public Estate to Pay for Destructive Tax Cuts & Wars, 20060222
http://www.counterpunch.org/doe02222006.html
How to Pay for War & Cut Taxes for the Rich
Selling Off the Public Estate...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 2:16pm PST
GIVE PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH A DRUG TEST! DUBAI DEAL PROVES HE'S "HIGH", RIGHT?
GIVE PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH A DRUG TEST, DUBAI PROVES HE'S "HIGH", RIGHT?...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 8:59am PST
he Iranian Oil Bourse
The denomination of oil sales is a pure transaction affair.. In the present situation, the oil bourse represents a symbolic manifestation of Iran's desire to be less dependent on a US-dominated dollar-world....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 6:02am PST
Wells Fargo:Lootin' & Pollutin' since 1852-Stop Wells Fargo's investments in Dirty Money!!
Howdy pardner, there 's a new campaign in town and it's aim is Stop Wells Fargo's investments in Dirty Money!!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 3:55pm PST
ISOnuts: One Stop Activism and the Gentrification of the Left
A student activist's take on meddling in student activism by the International Socialist Organization....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 12:38pm PST
Readings From Howard Zinn's "Voices of a People's History of the United States"
Today we spend the hour with readings from a Voices of a People's History of the United States edited by historian Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. It is the companion volume to Zinn’s legendary People’s History of the United States – which has sold over a million copies....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 11:18am PST