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Writers needed for new national newspaper
The Canadian National Newspaper is seeking writers internationally, who have a background in research on human rights and/or environmental protection related issues....
Posted: Sat, Aug 6, 2005 7:10am PDT
Peru: Seven Killed in Conflict Over Copper Mining Project
Seven local farmers were killed when police attempted to block a protest march to the site of a copper mine under exploration by a British firm in the northwestern Peruvian region of Piura, according to local residents and authorities and a Catholic bishop....
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2005 2:21pm PDT
A world only Thomas or Milton Friedman could love.
Alexander Cockburn writes about his recent visit with P. Sainath in India.
Get a glimpse of the world being created by wars for natural resources and the protection of unfettered "free trade", the recent "passage" of CAFTA, and the latest G8 deals ("bait and switch"-- you think Bush, Blair, and Bono were more than just diverting attention from Iraq?)....
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 12:36pm PDT
Study: Calif. farms get millions in fed water and crop subsidies
Some of California's largest farms receive millions of dollars in
federal subsidies by "double dipping" using government-subsidized water
to grow subsidized crops such as rice and cotton, according to a
watchdog group's analysis....
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 10:29am PDT
Dictatorship as Economic Advantage: China's Rise
"Paul Samuelson questions the theory that existed for 200 years: the theory of free world trade..Wolfgang Hirn shows how China's rise to the omnipotent production nation leads to deindustrialization.. The 150-year western dominance is obviously coming to its end.."...
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 6:12am PDT
Bush Insider Claim WTC Collapse Bogus
When Morgan Reynolds called the official story about 9/11 bogus, it seemed like the whole world stopped for a moment to listen....
Posted: Wed, Aug 3, 2005 6:42pm PDT
!0 million for famine, 500 million for military (BKH)
Bombs not Food...
Posted: Wed, Aug 3, 2005 8:10am PDT
Purgatory of the Market
"The new capitalism is also a totalitarian movement that cannot or will not rest until it has seized the whole world and put everything in private hands that previously was subject to state or civil control.."...
Posted: Wed, Aug 3, 2005 6:38am PDT
A Revolutionary ‘Sound bite' (BKH)
Bring revolutionary clarity which is required to overcome and destroy counter revolutionary mass confusion, the product of the propaganda attacks and deceits of this current ruling system....
Posted: Wed, Aug 3, 2005 6:20am PDT
Sweatfree Public Hearing Thur! 8/4
The hearing starts at 1pm sharp in
Room 263, City Hall. We will meet at 12:30 on the front steps to update all
participants on where the legislation currently stands and messaging for the
hearing....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 1:39pm PDT
Future Global Relations Are Determined By Demographics
International relations between countries around the globe are subject to plenty of change over the next ten to twenty years. Observers believe that the US will have to share its power with around a dozen other countries that will rise to prominency on the world stage....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 1:38pm PDT
Cops Radio Chaos during Anti-G8 Protest
Here is a piece taken from SFGate from the SF Chronicle written By Chronicle staff writer Jaxon Van Derbeken. It is on the radio transmissions between the different police agnecies during the Anti-G-8 protest last month. One thing should be noted is that 2 Federal agents were the first to assist the injured officer....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 11:47am PDT
Disinformation as a Strategy of Power (Part II)
"Perpetual growth is not possible in nature or anywhere else.. Globaliza-tion, the free market with its absolute competition protected by the WTO agreements doesn't have anything to do with fair competition.. Accelerated capitalism is a system that increases social inequality.. A global network of resistance is developing with the French No.."...
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 6:23am PDT
Chinese city rebellion against rich & powerful
In their eyes, the party that assumed power in China 56
years ago as a champion of peasants and workers seems to
have switched sides, backing capitalist businessmen instead
of the poor as part of a new get-rich ethic in which bribery
plays a big role.
And 1 city rebels....
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 12:45am PDT
Anti-G8 Legal Update 8/1
A legal update on those arrested at July 8th's G8 solidarity march.
Updated - August 1
The court process continues slowly. Please call 415-285-1011 with questions or if you were a witness....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 11:45pm PDT
Bohemian Grove & the 25th Vigil
Report from the Saturday, July 16, 2005 demonstration at Bohemian Grove on the Russian River...
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 9:31pm PDT
KARL ROVE, MICHAEL LEDEEN SPIES PROCURED FORGED NIGER DOCUMENTS
Karl Rove's only full-time foreign-policy advisor is Michael Ledeen, a rabid anti-Arab, pro-Israel activist. The FBI is investigating Ledeen for procuring forged documents (shown here) on nonexistent WMD, which George Bush used to justify his war on Iraq. When Joseph Wilson exposed the farce, Rove helped "out" Wilson's CIA wife. Did Ledeen procure the documents for Rove, and how might he have done that? The story includes multinational stool pigeon Rocco Martino, Italian spy Fra...
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 9:12am PDT
The Globalization of State Terror
"The world is tilting further and further to the right and the
litany of horrors growing by the day.."...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 9:25pm PDT
Reclaim the Parks Video (video/x-ms-wmv 46.2MB)
Vidoe I made from the Modesto RTP 12:30...
Posted: Sat, Jul 30, 2005 10:44am PDT
Democracy Sold Out - CAFTA Approved by Pork and a Hill of Beans
Razor Thin Vote Seals Fate Against More Expansion of NAFTA
by Deborah James...
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 4:49pm PDT