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The shipyard workers of Naval Gijón continued their year-long struggle against privatization today, February 10, with more burning barricades. There was also a small scuffle with the riot police....

a new chapter of Food Not Bombs started yesterday in Placer County....

Imperial Presidency: Strategies to Control the Great Beast By Noam Chomsky It goes without saying that what happens in the U.S. has an enormous impact on the rest of the world-and conversely: what happens in the rest of the world cannot fail to have an impact on the U.S., in several ways. First, it sets constraints on what even the most powerful state can do. Second, it influences the domestic U.S. component of "the second superpower," as the New York Times ruefully describ...

Sometimes the Hearst Corporation's Chronicle actually has some interesting tidbits, though you might have to dig for them. Consider the last paragraph of an article in Friday's business section, trumpeting the summer opening of a new luxury hotel at Third and Mission: "It used to be, in San Francisco, if you weren't behaving, you'd be told, 'You're going to end up on the corner of Third and Mission,'" said the new hotel's general manager. "Now, if you're at Third and Mission, y...

Mega long slam of Ward Churchill by Bob Black...

The Great Depression shattered the myth that capitalism—a for-profit market economy—constituted a fail-safe, efficient system of economic organization. Before the Great Crash and the free fall of the world economies (excepting the Soviet Union), orthodoxy insisted that the marketplace was a rational, self-correcting mechanism, that markets might stumble, but in the long run they would deliver the most efficient distribution of goods and services....

More than 70 Italian police officers, many of them senior commanders, are about to go on trial accused of orchestrating a campaign of police brutality at the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 and then organising a huge cover-up....

Don't miss the Chiapas Support Committee Northern California Tour with Ramon Penate Diaz and Miguel Pickard!...

On February 3, 2005, thousands of people gathered in Trafalgar Square in London to demand the elimination of world poverty from the G7. Nelson Mandela delivered the keynote speech adjacent from the South African embassy, the site of anti-apartheid demonstrations during Mr. Mandela’s imprisonment....

This is a call out to all those who want to help get active in mountain top removal...There is a coordinated day of action nati0onally taking place on Bebruary 10th. Get wild! Get active!...