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Corruption at the very top
Two top scientists - Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and his deputy, H.
Clifford Lane - are among 916 government researchers who have been
receiving royalties on experimental drug treatments without disclosing
those royalties on their annual ethics forms or on experimental patient
consent forms....
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 1:57am PST
Human Security
Attention must now shift from security of the state to security of the people-human security. The UNDP sees expansion of the security concept as a step to more peace and more prosperity and sets the concept of human security in the context of human development and human rights....
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 6:36am PST
RECLAIM THE STREETS!!!--San Diego, CA--J20
Street Party in San Diego! Meet at 7pm, at 3rd and Broadway, on January 20th to reclaim our streets from the chains of cars and commerce for the liberation of community and creativity.
What to bring? What to wear? What will this look like? Wear your favorite Dia De Los Muertos outfit or your favorite Irish outfit or your favorite celebratory outfit! Bring noisemakers, drums, bagpipes! Be prepared to dance and celebrate the the reclamation of public space, the commons, autonomy and collecti...
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 2:42am PST
Call Goes Out to Ignore Debts
A movement has started preparing itself to boycott all mortgages and credit card debts and reconsider the global economy with a clean slate....
Posted: Mon, Jan 17, 2005 2:38pm PST
Cosmos as Meditation: Mystic Muslim Cosmology
Cosmos as Meditation: Sufi and Shi'a Muslim Reflection on the Spiritual
Cosmology...
Posted: Mon, Jan 17, 2005 12:36pm PST
The Cry of the Subject: Book Review
The institution of modern universal competition is elevated into a law by the ideology of practical necessities..Every institution dies when its preservation is made an end-in-itself..The totalitar-ianism of the market threatens the destruction of humanity....
Posted: Mon, Jan 17, 2005 7:46am PST
SERIE NOIRE
SERIE NOIRE
ARTS 911 & POST 911
DOW JONES, NASDAQ, NIKKEI, 911, WARS, TERRORISM......
Posted: Mon, Jan 17, 2005 2:32am PST
Don't Watch That, Watch This (Global Edit) (video/x-pn-realvideo 31.4MB)
Topical satire that uses judiciously edited footage of celebrities, sports personalities and politicians to create a whole new take on reality....
Posted: Sun, Jan 16, 2005 4:27pm PST
Like a bag of baby bunnies in a herd of dinosaurs
Thoughts about the Bushian economic quagmire, and roadkill on the globalization superhighway, with references to Bruce Sterling. (A rant, in other words.)...
Posted: Sat, Jan 15, 2005 4:24am PST
Reconnecting Workshop
Reconnecting Workshop
healing from the trauma of civlization through the pratice of the wild
Tuesday January 25th 1-5pm
The Brazil Building
Tilden Regional Park...
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 9:41pm PST
Got Soul?
Noreena Hertz on today's Democracy Now! quotes Debt Vultures and gives world new catchphrase: Capital Has No Soul....
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 12:12pm PST
The Debt Threat: How Debt is Destroying the Developing World
As a group of the world's richest countries agree to temporarily freeze debt repayments of Asian countries hit by last month's tsunami, we speak with globalization expert Noreena Hertz, author of The Debt Threat: How Debt is Destroying the World....
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 9:26am PST
A Moralist on the Social State
A hundred years ago eight farmers worked to feed one non-farmer. Today one farmer feeds 88 persons..Income from assets and business activities have been consistently relieved of taxes in the last 25 years. Profits soar and investments fall while the social fabric is shredded....
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 9:22am PST
Does Hope Have a Future?
Hope, as the theologian Jurgen Moltmann has explained, distinguishes humankind from all creation..Hope is a transnational category and cannot be only nationalist or myopic. Where there is danger, there is also hope (Schelling)....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 8:15am PST
new anarchist discussion group in sacramento!
There is a new anarchist discussion group meeting weekly in sacramento. Come check it out!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 3:02pm PST
Link Between Antibiotic Overuse in FoodAnimals and Antibiotic-Resistant Urinary Tract Infe
A new report from scientists at the University of California at Berkeley concludes that an outbreak of antibiotic-resistant urinary tract infections (UTIs) was probably caused by foodborne bacteria, and that resistance in such bacteria likely arises from use of antibiotics in agricultural animals....
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 9:56am PST
THIS WEEK in the WAR ON TERROR
You hear a lot of things when you work in a hotel lobby. One guest, commenting to her companions on the tsunami disaster in Indonesia, declared, without shame, that "the place is an al-Qaeda breeding ground, you know."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 8:34am PST
Washing Away the Lies about Disaster Relief
As the fervor dies down and the media stops their fanatical coverage of this event, moving on as they inevitably do to the next celebrity basketball match or the next Pentagon press release, what will happen to the tsunami victims?...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 8:19am PST