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“Diamond Life”: Documentary Examines How Diamonds Funded the Civil War in Sierra Leone We turn now to the issue of conflict diamonds -- also known as blood diamonds. The documentary “Diamond Life” looks at how diamonds funded the civil war in Sierra Leone....
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:15pm PST
New Cold War with Russia Over Oil and Gas Pentagon chief Robert Gates might tell Vladimir Putin that "one Cold War is enough," but the new Cold War chilling relations between Russia and the West has less to do with nuclear weapons and much more about who will control energy resources. Paolo Pontoniere is a New America Media European commentator....
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:17am PST
US Securities and Exchange Commission moves to further limit liability for corporate fraud The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken further steps to limit the liability of corporations and accounting firms that engage in fraud and corruption....
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2007 6:11am PST
New Cold War with Russia Over Oil and Gas Pentagon chief Robert Gates might tell Vladimir Putin that "one Cold War is enough," but the new Cold War chilling relations between Russia and the West has less to do with nuclear weapons and much more about who will control energy resources. Paolo Pontoniere is a New America Media European commentator....
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 9:26am PST
Long live the struggle of the proletarians and masses of Guinea! Guinea-Conakry is a small West African country of 10 million inhabitants, one of the poorest countries on the planet, in spite of the richness of its mining industry: diamonds, gold, iron, uranium and especially bauxite of which it is the 2nd largest producer in the world. Although the majority of the population of Guinea lives in misery, local and foreign bourgeois and the multinationals grow rich, protected by the regime of General Lansana Conté (who seized power after a coup in 1984) again...
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 4:45am PST
New York loses out in world financial markets A report commissioned last month by New York City’s Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York’s Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, “Sustaining New York’s and the US’ Global Financial Services Leadership” [1], demonstrates graphically the decline of the United States economy compared to Europe and Asia in the key area of finance capital....
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:20am PST
Korean protestors in Wash DC march against US-Kor free trade area, US mad cow beef (audio/mpeg 3.9MB) The US-Korea free trade tralks are underway again in DC, so protestors were in the streets to opose the deal. A major point of opposition has become the fear that the treaty will force Koreans to accept US beef-in which mad cow disease has been detected. AUDIO 4min 15 sec...
Posted: Sun, Feb 11, 2007 4:14pm PST
Massive demonstrations in Haiti catch UN by surprise Well over 100,000 took to
the streets of seven major cities throughout Haiti on February 7 to
demand an end to the UN occupation, freedom for political prisoners and
the return of exiled president Aristide....
Posted: Sun, Feb 11, 2007 12:33pm PST
"True Compañeras": Women's Participation in the Popular Movement of Oaxaca 
An account of the important role of women in the Oaxacan social movement...
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 11:13pm PST
ya salio: indymedia oaxaca fanzine Krutaay - We are not in a hurry, because we are going far -: the no compromise, autonomous, leader and fear less fanzine, put together by compas around indyoaxaca and others, is now out, is now OUT!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 3:47pm PST
Direct action in Buenos Aires for the 4F prisoners 
On the morning of Sunday, February 4, marking a year in prison for Alex, Rodrigo and Juan, and in the framework of the call-out to create actions for their freedom, a solidarity group of individuals placed an explosive device in a centrally-located office of the BNL, pointing out, in this manner, one of the entities visibly responsible for our daily subjugation....
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 11:52am PST
Bush wants to make tax cuts for the rich permanent President George W. Bush’s budget proposal calls for making permanent the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts scheduled to expire at the end of 2010. This would further widen the chasm between the wealthy elite and the rest of the population....
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 7:16am PST
Bush administration stokes trade tensions with China The Bush administration took a drastic step last Friday toward provoking an open trade conflict with China by referring its disputes with Beijing to the World Trade Organisation (WTO)....
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 7:14am PST
Russia, Support anarchist anti-fascist arrested in Krasnodar Anarchists in Krasnodar are raising money to support Vahtang in prison, as in
Russian prison relatives and friends of prisoners have to feed them....
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 11:46am PST
Colombian Guerillas on Trial in Washington: Simon Trinidad Update On 2/15/07, there will be a meeting in the Mission to discuss this the two trials of Colombian FARC members in Washington DC. Extradited illegally to the US, they are denied the right to their own attorneys, and their witnesses have been prohibited.
For more info on the 2/15/07 event, see http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/01/18355490.php...
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 7:42am PST
Big oil companies post record profits for 2006 The three giant US-based energy conglomerates—ExxonMobil, Chevron and ConocoPhilips—posted record profits for 2006, according to reports issued by the companies at the end of the week....
Posted: Sat, Feb 3, 2007 7:31am PST
Africa: US Oil's New Target (video/x-pn-realvideo 25.3MB) Looks at how, in its feverish search for new sources of oil, America has set its sights on Africa. [43m16s]...
Posted: Sat, Feb 3, 2007 7:20am PST
After the Repression in Atenco and More than Six Months Setting up the Protest Camp, Only Five People Maintain It “There’s No Hope for Them Through the Legal Path... Don’t Leave Us Alone, at Least Come to Visit,” Exclaims Jesus from the Camp Outside Santiaguito Penitentiary...
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 6:27am PST
PRISONERS GO ON HUNGER STRIKE IN WESTERN SAHARA TO PROTEST CONDITIONS, TREATMENT AND TORTURE 
El Aaiun, Western Sahara, January 30, 2007 The Sahara Press Service(SPS) reported that Sahrawi prisoners incarcerated in the Carcel Negra (Black Prison) in El Aaiun, Western Sahara started an indefinite hunger strike to protest against the "inhumane treatment and hard conditions of detention" they are subjected to....
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 3:08pm PST
Student protests in Greece More than 6,000 students, teachers and academics demonstrated in central Athens yesterday against government plans to reform the education system and allow private universities to operate in the country....
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 12:12pm PST
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