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Relentless Foe of the Amazon Jungle: Soybeans
Where the jungle once offered shelter to parrots and deer, the land is now increasingly being cleared for soybeans, Brazil's hottest cash crop....
Posted: Sun, Sep 21, 2003 7:56pm PDT
AUDIO: Robert Fisk- What is Happening Is An Absolute Slaughter Every Night of Iraqi People ......
Posted: Sun, Sep 21, 2003 7:24pm PDT
cheap-labor conservatives Have you got three minutes. Because that's all you need to learn how to defeat the Republican Right. Just read through this handy guide and you'll have everything you need to successfully debunk right-wing propaganda....
Posted: Sun, Sep 21, 2003 2:52pm PDT
anarchists arrested in spain Spanish police targeting squatters as "terrorists."...
Posted: Sun, Sep 21, 2003 10:56am PDT
Not In Our Name: Easy Action #1 Chalk the Names You Will Need:
1. Chalk
2. The names listed here.
3. A couple of Friends or recruit some on the spot...
Posted: Sun, Sep 21, 2003 10:31am PDT
Wesley Clark: Hero or Villain? The hidden and ignored recent history of Yugoslavia and its relevance to the candidacy of General Wesley Clark for US president....
Posted: Sun, Sep 21, 2003 9:28am PDT
RIVER:'A Modern-Day Fairy Tale.' Iraqi girl discusses the lie used to decimate her country Like a mythical fairy, weapons of mass destruction have vanished from Iraq and reappeared in Syria. No doubt once we obliterate Syria and find no weapons, we will be informed how this elusive fairy found its way to Lebanon. After razing Lebanon and finding no trace of our highly evanescent fairy, we will be told of how she was so cruelly kidnapped and taken to Iran. As fairies often tend to be, this nuclear fairy is of course non-existant in the Middle East -- except in one country, Israel......
Posted: Sat, Sep 20, 2003 10:45pm PDT
Another Potential Threat to Reservists: Unemployment The 1994 “Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act” *(USERRA) requires employers to save the job position held by a Guardsman or reservist called to active duty. But labor experts warn that over the last year there has been a startling increase in incidents where civilian firms have “reorganized” their operations to the result that returning part-time soldiers have come home to the unemployment line. In a number of cases, employers have directly issued layoff orders for retur...
Posted: Sat, Sep 20, 2003 10:00pm PDT
Don't Blame the People Interview with Indy Media's News Dissector, Danny Schechter of the MediaChannel.org....
Posted: Sat, Sep 20, 2003 2:34pm PDT
New York Tragedy: French Fried Friedman How sad. The last remaining neurons of Thomas Friedman's shrinking brain were apparently lost in hot bubbling tub of deep fatuousness today....
Posted: Sat, Sep 20, 2003 2:06pm PDT
We Are No Longer New Yorkers If you want to carry out a brazenly imperialist war in Iraq, by all means, go ahead. But what do the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the sympathy emanating from those events have to do with it?...
Posted: Sat, Sep 20, 2003 7:00am PDT
Preparting for the Struggle Against Apartheid Efforts to create divisions within the political leadership of Palestine constituted the greatest threat to resolution of the current crisis between Israel and the Palestinians, South African Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said.
"It is significant that the resolution was supported almost unanimously by the international community," said Pahad. The four negative votes were Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and the United States....
Posted: Sat, Sep 20, 2003 6:32am PDT
Senate Defies Veto Threat on Overturning Overtime Laws 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act still intact but not not safe from White House plan for destruction....
Posted: Sat, Sep 20, 2003 5:29am PDT
NY Times Columnist Rattled By 'Death Threats' Paul Krugman is a mild-mannered university economist. He is also a New York Times columnist and President Bush's most scathing critic. Hence the death threats....
Posted: Sat, Sep 20, 2003 2:39am PDT
Art Regurgitates Life (Watch Where You Step!) 
** Virtual Agit-Prop Theater **
The ringleaders were arrested, the demonstration was repressed, the crowd was gassed and quickly dispersed....
Posted: Sat, Sep 20, 2003 2:31am PDT
"Report From Baghdad" Part Six--International Activists in Iraq 
This is the finals of the six-part series "Report form Baghdad" by Pacifica Radio KPFK Los Angeles reporter Lee Siu Hin's July 2003 trip to U.S. occupied Iraq, to commemorate today's 6-months U.S. invasion to Iraq (Sep 20). To view the entire series, please visit:
http://www.actionla.org/Iraq/IraqReport/index.html
The interactive CD-ROM vison of "Report from Baghdad" is on sale; with articles, over 50 photos, and hours of audio & video interviews. USD$15.00 plus USD$3....
Posted: Sat, Sep 20, 2003 2:22am PDT
BTL:Bush Administration Launches New Attack on Clean Air Rules... ...Environmental Groups Fight Back. Interview with John Walke, director of clean air programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Fri, Sep 19, 2003 11:27pm PDT
Gay former lawmaker disinvited to lead antitax group 
Club for Growth national president Stephen Moore left a voice mail for Steve May saying, "we need to make a change in leadership to someone who is less objectionable and to someone who is not a lightning rod." -- i.e. someone who is not Gay....
Posted: Fri, Sep 19, 2003 11:12pm PDT
Mother Jones Smears Rachel Corrie -- Specious Journalism in Defense of Killers This type of shallow skepticism is reserved for the activists, while Israeli military claims are treated with respect by Hammer and often go unquestioned, even when the statements are clearly disputable and even laughable. While ISM activists "claimed" their versions of the story, Hammer trusts IDF spokesperson Sharon Feingold as having "assured" and "explained" to him the facts. Feingold "assured" him that the IDF "do[es] not target civilians,&quo...
Posted: Fri, Sep 19, 2003 10:50pm PDT
Write to a Muslim-hater (by Latuff) 
If anti-Semitism is fought worldwide, the same can't be said on anti-Muslim and anti-Arab prejudice....
Posted: Fri, Sep 19, 2003 10:43pm PDT
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