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Economic Hit Man John Perkins: “We Have Created the World’s First Truly Global Empire” John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," joins us in our firehouse studio to talk about his former work going into various countries to try to strongarm leaders into creating policy favorable to the U.S government and corporations. Perkins describes himself as an economic hit man....
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 7:33am PST
Neocon-Neoliberal Newspeak 
By Hamid Golpira
Tehran Times Staff Writer
Most of the neoconservatives in the United States advocate globalization and the neoliberal economic model. What’s wrong with this picture?...
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 6:48pm PST
Hugo Chavez and George W. Bush Contrasted 
Whitney draws a sharp contrast between the popularly elected, humanistic president of Venezuela and Bush....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 10:45pm PST
Announcing: April 8th, Joint International GM Opposition Day o 5 April : March for GMO-free regionsduring the GMO European Conference held in Vienna, Austria.
o 6 April :National Call-In Day to the US Congress, in support of the "Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act,USA
o 8 April : JIGMOD, Earth...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 7:26pm PST
BENEFIT FOR ARRESTEE ZACHARY JENSON at the Long Haul Infoshop this FRIDAYYYYYYYYY!!! ...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 5:15pm PST
Communist Participation in the Zapatista Rainbow “The Other Campaign Will Not End Until Capitalism Ends”...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 7:52am PST
Billionaire investor demands General Motors slash jobs, health care, pensions Last week the board of directors of General Motors voted to give a seat to Jerry York, a senior advisor to billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian and a former chief financial officer known for his drastic cost-cutting measures at Chrysler Corporation and International Business Machines. Kerkorian is a Las Vegas casino mogul who owns nearly 10 percent of the automaker’s stocks....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 7:29am PST
The Lowdown on Sweet?: Aspartame Aspartame is sold under the brand names Nutra-Sweet and Equal and is found in such popular products as Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, Diet Snapple and Sugar Free Kool-Aid. Hundreds of millions of people consume it worldwide. And Dr. Soffritti's study concluded that aspartame may cause the dreaded "c" word: cancer....
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 8:10pm PST
The real state of the U.S. Economy Conservative, anti-war Roberts:
"The economics profession has failed America. It touts a meaningless number while joblessness soars. Lazy journalists at the New York Times simply rewrite the Bush administration’s press releases.... Polls indicate that the Bush administration is succeeding in whipping up fear and hysteria about Iran. The secretary of defense is promising Americans decades-long war. Is death in battle Bush’s solution to the job depression? Will Asians finance a decade...
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 12:18pm PST
More torture and repression in Barcelona A little background of recent repression in Barcelona....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 2:38pm PST
BTL:International WTO Opponents Strategize on... ...Blocking Hong Kong Accord's Implementation. ~ Excerpt of World Social Forum speech by Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, produced by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 12:03pm PST
Trial of top Enron officials begins in Houston The trial of Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling began last week in Houston, Texas, the home of the now bankrupt former energy giant. Lay was Enron’s chairman and CEO, while Skilling was the long-time president and chief operating officer, who also served briefly as CEO in 2001. Both are charged with various counts of securities and wire fraud, and Skilling is also charged with insider trading....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 10:25pm PST
Rough trade: Diamond industry still funding bloody conflicts in Africa The global diamond trade is continuing to fund vicious civil wars in countries such as Ivory Coast and Liberia, despite international efforts to blacklist stones from regions at war....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 6:03pm PST
GMO Advocate George McGovern booksigning Wed nite All Saints Church When George was in Rome he said that Monsanto GMO foods were necessary to end starvation on the planet. Are we that weak?...
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 6:15pm PST
Ecuador: Police end occupation of oil pumping station 
Photo: Ecuadorean university student demonstrators face a police barricade during a protest against government policies around Carondelet Palace in Quito February 8, 2006....
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 4:31pm PST
The South is Bled White Since the Asian crisis and the 1980s, we have had massive net capital flows from the South to the North. Thes flows are much greater than what flows to the Soutyh in economic aid. Thus the South is systematically bled white under the present conditions of the world economy....
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 6:22am PST
Radical Folksingers Ryan Harvey and Mark Gunnery at 7pm before El Enemigo Común (2/16) 
Ryan Harvey and Mark Gunnery are coming to town! They will be playing at the RCNV on February 16th at 7:00pm before El Enemigo Común, which will start at 8pm.
Ryan and Mark, from Riot-Folk! Records, will be doin' what they do best: playing hard-hitting anarchist folk music.
It's Not Just Bush (It's the System!)
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/itsnotjustbush.mp3...
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 4:52pm PST
3 authors interviews: The China Factor and the Overstretch of the US Hegemony 3 books that can change your mind in 2005 about the geo-politic and geo-economic dynamics going on...
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 4:18pm PST
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