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Obituary: The Late (not-so-Great) King Sugar The decomposing corpse of the West Indian sugar plantation system was officially certified dead on Thursday, half a century after it had ceased to show signs of life....
Posted: Sun, Nov 27, 2005 10:42am PST
Rodent Trials Show Biotech is Squeaky Unclean A 3 million dollar, ten-year trial of genetic modification (GM) on field peas at The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia's national science research organization, was scrapped last week (November 18, 2005) when the GM pea caused inflammation in the lungs of mice it was fed to. (1)...
Posted: Sun, Nov 27, 2005 10:16am PST
The Currency of Black Gold The Oil War is also being waged by the predominance of the Dollar and the Euro....
Posted: Sun, Nov 27, 2005 6:58am PST
What Really Happened at Mar del Plata What an absolute load of manure the WSJ puts out. Straight from the sewers of Foggy Bottom.
The funny thing is that for all their millions of column inches, the pig press can't bring itself to report the truth, which is that it was Vincente Fox that started this food fight....
Posted: Sat, Nov 26, 2005 11:17pm PST
Zapatistas: Intergalactic encounter The Zapatistas from Chiapas, Mexico, announce their plans for a intergalactic encounter “from below and from the left”. Intergalactic because they struggle for “a world in which all worlds can fit”....
Posted: Sat, Nov 26, 2005 8:52am PST
MOCK with FROCKs---Sacramento Activists Stroll the mall Two genderbending activists strolled the Downtown Plaza in Sacramento with empty bags with a message --"Buy Nothing" "Stop Exploitation" and of course "Shoppin is a DRAG"...
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2005 5:32pm PST
California Department of Corporations re Schwab,Endovasc anti-naked short' scam Note that Charles Schwab hosted an illegal pump and dump account for 'up to 30 million'Endovasc shares in late 2002.Endovasc and Houston attorney John O'Quinn put out a BusinessWire press release immediately after what is now known to be an illegal pump and dump from that Schwab 'select clients' account claiming Charles Schwab, Refco,and Ameritrade were 'naked shorting' Endovasc shares.Both were lying to cover up Schwab's and perhaps Refco's hosting of illegal dump accounts of Endovasc and ot...
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2005 3:52pm PST
Padilla Case Further Reveals Fallacy Of Al Qaeda And US War On Terror "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has been described as a US created myth by top terror experts."...
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2005 12:50pm PST
APEC: mass protests and political tension in South Korea Angry protestors clashed with police outside the 21-nation Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting held in the South Korean port city of Busan last weekend. Like protests against Bush’s recent visit to Latin America, the demonstrations of South Korean workers and farmers expressed widespread hostility to the global capitalist order and Washington’s criminal war in Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Nov 25, 2005 6:17am PST
Worst case scenario-outcomes of 911? Worst case scenario-outcomes of 911?...
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 8:01pm PST
Come support anti-G8 protest defendants 
There is a preliminary hearing set for 2 of the arrested protestors of the July 8th, 2005 anti-G8 demonstration. Please come and show your solidarity on December 1, 2005 at 8:30AM in Department 20 of the San Francisco Superior Court House on 850 Bryant Street.
May justice prevail for all...
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 7:55pm PST
Paul Samuelson Attacks a Dogma The best-known economist of the world doubts that shifting services to India and buying cheap goods from China bring advantages to Americans when the income of workers falls through the foreign competition.. The rich North will lose its monopoly profits under the conditions of globalization....
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 5:52am PST
The (pompous) Vancouver "2010 Olympic Committee" shows its True Face!! The pompous and greed-driven Vancouver "2010 Olympic Committee" shows its True Face!!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 22, 2005 6:55pm PST
Wake-up Walmart Black Friday Nov 26 Action Send Walmart corporation the message that we don't want sweatshop products and a union busting corporation in our local community!!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 22, 2005 4:42pm PST
China vs World: book review 
Understanding our changing world and global development....
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2005 6:52pm PST
Only the Rich Profit from US Growth "The same Congress since 1997 has consistently refused to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 an hour.. The founding fathers defined their new form of government as government by the people for the people. In themeantime US democracy has become government by the rich for the rich.."...
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2005 7:06am PST
A Debate: Does Wal-Mart Work or is it a High Cost for Low Price? Wal-Mart - the world's largest retailer - has been in the headlines recently with the release of a new documentary "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" that criticizes the company's labor practices. A film defending the company, "Why Wal-Mart Works: And Why That Makes Some People Crazy," has also been released. We host a debate over Wal-Mart with the communications director of Wal-Mart watch and the filmmaker of "Why Wal-Mart Works."...
Posted: Fri, Nov 18, 2005 8:10am PST
CKUT: An Hour with Noam Chomsky (audio/mpeg 25.3MB) CKUT Special Presentation: An Hour with Noam Chomsky...
Posted: Fri, Nov 18, 2005 8:09am PST
Protest outside Asia-Pacific summit Asia-Pacific leaders have opened their annual summit where they were expected launch a bid to revive stalled global free trade talks and pledge unity in combating bird flu and terrorism.
Outside the venue, demonstrators clashed with riot police using high-power water hoses.
Some 4,000 demonstrators marched on the summit in the port city of Busan where leaders gathered from the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum (Apec), including US President George Bush, Chinese Presiden...
Posted: Fri, Nov 18, 2005 6:49am PST
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