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Food Security in Africa: Availability, Accessibility and Affordability Agriculture is the Foundation of Black Culture Globally
Nearly 1 billion people on the planet are food insecure, most in the African Union.
Black Farmers must begin to share a global methodology to feed ourselves....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 11:21am PST
World Social Forum Wrap Up 
The sixth World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela ended on Sunday, January 29. This article is about what happed, some analysis about the WSF and where it is likely to go from here....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 7:49am PST
The legacy of US Fed chairman Greenspan While it was not planned that way, it is perhaps appropriate that the trial of Enron’s top two executives, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, for fraud and conspiracy, should have begun just one day before Alan Greenspan stepped down from his position as chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 6:38am PST
CorpWatch Radio: A weekly review in anti-corporate news CorpWatch Radio is a weekly review and contextualization of the week in corporate news, featuring headlines and a short interview. This week's headlines include: Mining in Indonesia, Privatization of toll roads, Teflon bans, Pharmaceutical gifts, trafficking of third world labor to Iraq, Enron, and more. This week features an interview with Danish journalist, Lotte Folke Kaarsholm about Maersk's shady businesss dealings in Iraq....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 6:37am PST
CorpWatch Radio: A weekly review of Corporate News (audio/mpeg 27.9MB) CorpWatch radio is a weekly review and contextualization of the week in Corporate news. This week includes: Enron, Mining in Indonesia, the Privatisation of toll roads, Pharmaceutical gifts, the trafficking of third world labor in Iraq, and much more.
This show features an interview with Lotte Folke Kaarsholm about Maersk's business practices in Iraq....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 6:14am PST
With Exxon Making a Record $5 Million Per Hour, a Look at Bush's Energy Policies In tonight’s State of the Union address, President Bush is expected to outline a set of energy proposals that administration officials say will address growing public anxiety over high energy costs. This will follow Exxon Mobil’s recent announcement of making the biggest annual profit ever earned by a U.S. corporation, drawing the criticism of consumer groups. We speak with Steve Kretzmann of Oil Change International about their report titled, "Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq's Oil We...
Posted: Tue, Jan 31, 2006 9:20am PST
World Social Forum: A Constructive Critque The World Social Forum must address its problems now....
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2006 11:14pm PST
The Time is Ripe for a Fair Trade Victory - Act Now! ... because the political climate is more favorable, the fight to stop it will be different. We have the potential to win; it’s time to act....
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2006 2:13pm PST
- Pics of the massive protests against the WEF in Switzerland - 
This weekend the WEF (World Economic Forum) is taking place in Davos, Switzerland. Protests and Direct Action against it started all over Switzerland......
Posted: Sun, Jan 29, 2006 8:49am PST
Criticism is Unlikely George Orwell in "1984" warned that criticism ahnd dissent would be expunged from memories and children would be born for Big Brother. In capitalism's last phase, the myth of the self-healing market drowns out alternatives of a future-friendly economy....
Posted: Sun, Jan 29, 2006 7:44am PST
Competition Leads to Unemployment without Taxation To create jobs, the profits from the Common Market must be brought back into the economy as investments. The Union pursues the exact opposite with tax competition. The competition leads to higher unemployment without the recylcling of profits....
Posted: Sun, Jan 29, 2006 7:06am PST
BYU professor's group accuses U.S. officials of lying about 9/11 
Last fall, Brigham Young University physics professor Steven E. Jones made headlines when he charged that the World Trade Center collapsed because of "pre-positioned explosives." Now, along with a group that calls itself "Scholars for 9/11 Truth," he's upping the ante....
Posted: Sat, Jan 28, 2006 9:16pm PST
Google: Trials of an internet giant 
... and to think that we learned all this by Googling it....
Posted: Sat, Jan 28, 2006 6:32pm PST
Third World Prostitution: Photo-Op for Neo-Liberals Alexander Cockburn is one of the last of a dwindling generation of erudite essayists. (Lewis Lapham, the other one?)
Here, he writes about how the media and politicians latch on to a issue like prostitution, but fail to ask: how is it possible?...
Posted: Sat, Jan 28, 2006 2:28pm PST
Making Sense of "Anna's" Posts A few thoughts on FBI infiltrator "Anna's" posts....
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 9:05pm PST
So Bush thinks Palestinians should have voted for Israel's Sharon or Netanyahu? "Not only that but the US Govt. under Bush's leadership,continues to supply Israel with tanks;helicopter gunships and various other heavy artillery and weapons of war which Israel uses in its ongoing "nazi-like" genocide of the indigenous Palestinians,many of whom live in defenseless,3rd world-like refugee camps!"...
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 7:01pm PST
Altered State of the Union Markets do not usually reward the crowd, they punish it.. The biggest trade deficits ever.. keep Europe's discount airlines in your prayers..and more....
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 2:16pm PST
Deductive Foundations If you are really seeing - you´re tripping hard....
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 12:23pm PST
The Mayab The Mayab - the land of the Mayans - is the Other Country for Mayan Language speakers in México, Guatamala, Belize, Honduras. It is the place where the Mayan Culture is the strongest emanating force in the human circumstances....
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 12:19pm PST
The Mayanization of Marxist-Leninism Where the Zapatista Army (EZLN) is coming from....
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 12:14pm PST
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