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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
Nigeria: Militants threaten tankers as hostages seized on oil barge Nigeria is facing a serious escalation in the conflict that has hit the oil-rich but poverty-stricken Niger Delta region, as rebels threatened yesterday to blow up offshore tankers, a day after seizing nine foreign hostages, including a British man....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 10:54am PST
Life After Enslavement For Rotchana Sussman, Siwan Techadi and Waeo Saengtarat, February has special meaning. Ten years ago this month, eight people who held their lives in the balance pleaded guilty to smuggling, involuntary servitude and conspiracy. Their accusers: The three Thai woman who came to America, looking for work and a better life, only to be sold into slavery....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2006 10:56am PST
president bush to undergo major testing. Millions of american people are starting to
notice a very un american president and vice
president these days. Every day more and more
americans are starting to wonder if these 2
guys are even fit to run our nation anymore.
The things they do sometimes seem a little
strange and often illegal. So some of the american
people are hoping to find a couple good shrinks
and maybe a few good lawyers to see if what they
are doing in washington is really legal or illegal,
maybe even a littl...
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2006 2:33pm PST
Nigeria Militants Take Hostages, Attack Oil Terminal Nigerian militants took nine foreign hostages and attacked two pipelines and Royal Dutch Shell Plc's Forcados offshore oil export terminal today in retaliation for raids by government military forces....
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2006 9:07am PST
URGENT- ACT NOW 4 BIG MOUNTAIN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES STOP FORCED RELOCATION ON BIG MOUNTAIN, BLACK MESA, AZ. TARGETED NAVAJO FAMILIES SAY THAT NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION!
Something critical is about to happen concerning the traditional communities on Big Mountain & surrounding areas. Please take a moment to read and fax this letter today. It will automatically be sent to the Senate Committee On Indian Affairs, Senate & Congress. Link supplied below....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 2:19pm PST
Café Night! - Benefit for Anarchy magazine Announcing a benefit for Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed. In the hopes of opening up a broader conversation about the architecture of our industrial propaganda industry we are proud to present a café night event and movie....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 11:17am PST
Mexico hosts Fourth World Water Forum From the 16th to the 22nd of March 2006 the Fourth World Water Forum
will take
place in Mexico City along with many forms of protest against privatization and corporate ownership of a basic human need....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 4:49pm PST
Appeal to Release Gopal Siwakoti “Chintan” and Other Political Detainees in Nepal Mr. Gopal Siwakoti “Chintan,” a prominent human rights activist in Nepal, along with a number of other activists, has been detained in very adverse conditions without charges by the increasingly dictatorial monarchy. This is a letter demanding his release – please endorse as well as send a copy to the Embassy of Nepal....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 2:27pm PST
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