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textWorld Trade ~ Global Black Farmers Need State Support Now by Hans Pienaar
Few new Black Farmers will be helped to join the company of the ruling elite, allowing the government and its rich allies to claim success. But millions of subsistence farmers, whose forebears had to suffer from the exploitation of apartheid, will be as condemned as ever to lives of drudgery and defeat....
Posted: Fri, Dec 23, 2005 2:40pm PST
textWal-Mart Wins Grinch of the Year for Second Year in a Row by Jobs With Justice
With 52% of the 13,134 votes cast, Wal-Mart won the 5th annual online "Grinch of the Year" election sponsored by National Jobs with Justice. Nominated by Wake Up Wal-Mart, the company is criticized for leading the global race to the bottom; boosting profits for their executives on the backs of their employees through low wages, insufficient healthcare, and discrimination....
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2005 11:59pm PST
textCharles Schwab,SRA International,Mantas Inc.,CIA and Bellador Group by Tony Ryals
Should the CIA be allowed to both invest in U.S. SECURITIES AND 'ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING' TECHNOLOGY OR A COMPANY INVOLVED IN 'AML' THAT COULD BE USED BOTH TO DETECT UNUSUAL ACTIVITIES IN STOCKS BUT ALSO TO COVER IT UP ? NOTE,MANTAS WAS IN CHARGE OF CHARLES SCHWAB'S ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING OPS WHEN JAMES DALE DAVIDSON OF AGORA INC.,BALTIMORE AND THE BELTWAY'S FAR RIGHT NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION PROMOTED THE FRAUDULENT ENDOVASC OF MONTGOMERY, TEXAS THROUGH AGORA INC.'S 'VANTAGE POINT' AND MILLIONS ...
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 6:01pm PST
audioZapping the Empire: The Grey Lady's Smokeless Gun (audio/mpeg 17.4MB) by Joe Broadhurst
Bush says he protects civil liberties, Bush admits he violates civil liberties, Bamford says it's a felony, the Pentagon admits it is watching activists, ACLU says Talon database is huge, Bush says 30,000ish Iraqis murdered, New York Times held story for Bush Administration, New York Times held story for Bush Administration, New York Times held story for Bush Administration & many, many Americans are illiterate....
Posted: Wed, Dec 21, 2005 5:28pm PST
textOn His Birthday, Mao Continues to Inspire Many Chinese by New America Media (reposted)
A resurgence in interest in Mao Zedong includes biographies on the leader, T-shirts with his image and restaurants serving "Mao's red cooked pork pot." Many Chinese think that despite Mao's crimes, he brought China forward and gave it self-respect. On Dec. 26, Beijing marks the 112th anniversary of Mao Zedong's birth....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 6:07pm PST
textThe Plagues Continue by Michael Treis
All kinds of cancers and virsus are popping up. Bird Flu is nothing new! They get you to run to line up for their injections for flu shots but whwt else might you be receiving. Read on....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 2:15pm PST
textSave the Date! Film Night and Report Back from Hong Kong by Heads Up Collective
Don't miss the first "Televising the Revolution" Film night of 2006. Hear from Garment Workers and Students about their Bay Area Delegation to the Hong Kong WTO protests. A benefit for the Chinese Progressive Association...
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 10:25am PST
textStop the WTO Negotiations! Save Jobs! by 150 organizations
After ten years under the WTO, unemployment has increased everywhere in the world.. Many transnational businesses try to distance themselves from responsibility for working conditions by outsourcing work.. Joy to the world, not only to the superrich!...
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 6:29am PST
textCharles Schwab:Mantas Inc,Herndon, Va, Pro-Money Laundering Arm of.. by Tony Ryals
Mantas Inc. whose expertise is supposedly anti-money laundering has allowed untold millions or perhaps billions of laundered dollars go unchecked by criminals or even possibly terrorists through our banking , brokerage and market maker systems......
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 5:37pm PST
textWTO Talks Close with Partial Trade Agreement, Over 900 Protesters Arrested in Hong Kong by Democracy Now (reposted)
The World Trade Organization wrapped up its six-day ministerial meeting on Sunday with a partial trade agreement. On Saturday police arrested 900 protesters during widespread protests on the streets of Hong Kong led by farmers, peasants and union members. We go to Hong Kong for a report....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 7:24am PST
textOliver Twist in Hong Kong by Haiti Action (reposted)
by John Maxwell...
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 7:07am PST
textWTO talks keep trade round on life support by wsws (reposted)
In the end an agreement was reached and outright collapse avoided, but the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting in Hong Kong could do nothing to disguise the deep divisions within the world economy. And the agreement itself is something of an absurdity....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 6:59am PST
textWTO Reaches Compromise Trade Accord by IOL (reposted)
Trade ministers of the World Trade Organization (WTO)'s 149 members agreed on Sunday, December 18, to end farm export subsidies by 2013 and open rich-country markets a bit wider to the world's poorest nations, saving long-running global trade talks from collapse....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 8:51pm PST
textWTO soli demo in Berlin by jfk
WTO soli demo in Berlin: http://germany.indymedia.org/2005/12/135264.shtml...
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 6:12pm PST
textKong Yee Sai Mau: The Battle of Hong Kong by anon
Farmers, workers, women’s organizations, fisher folk, Hong Kong youth, migrants and other movement people from Korea, across Asia and around the world marched on, broke through several police lines to less than a block from the site of the WTO conference center and laid siege to it until we were dispersed with teargas and mass arrests tonight....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 4:53pm PST
imagePhotos from the WTO Protests in Hong Kong, Day 5 (12/17), page 3
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by Puck Lo
December 17- Confrontations at the main barricade in the protest zone continued until around 5pm....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 11:29am PST
textReport from Hong Kong: Deciphering the Language of Globalization by CounterPunch (reposted)
By LAURA CARLSEN...
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 11:10am PST
imagePhotos from the WTO Protests in Hong Kong, Day 5, page 2
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by Puck Lo
At the main barricade blocking the road to the convention center where the WTO ministers met, protesters battled police resolutely all afternoon....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 11:00am PST
imagePhotos from the WTO Protests in Hong Kong, Day 5
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by Puck Lo
December 17- The early part of the day was filled with small, festive marches that wandered around Hong Kong....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 10:42am PST
textLapsing Into CrimethInc Jargon on the Day After the Big One: One WTO Protest Story by Puck Lo
When the moment finally explodes like overripe fruit, you will be caught unprepared, soaked in pepper spray, your camera broken. You will be grumpy and trying to get home, but you won't have the one set of keys that you're sharing with five other people--and the fucking cellphone doesn't work on this side of the Pacific....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 8:05am PST
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