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BRING THE WAR HOME DC 08/10-14 July 2006 is the month to Bring the War Home to cities across the nation with Direct Action and Civil Disobedience to shut down all metropolitan areas. Then organizers from around the world will converge on DC August 10th through the 14th to confront the true war machine....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2006 1:03pm PDT
U.S. Supporting Walords in Mogadishu Fighting The U.S. tangentially has admitted to supporting Somali warlords in the supposed fight against "Islamists" who are challenging the power of the walords. A lesson in "enemy of my enemy" politics....
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 10:02am PDT
Stop the Telco Takeover -- National Day of Out(R)age -- Save Public Access The Baby Bells are moving nationwide to dominate and control our communication delivery systems. More than 500,000 people have spoken on behalf of net neutraility and saving public, education, and government access channels. Internet users, community activists and independent media producers, consumer groups, churches and are speaking out. The National Day of Out(r)age is an opportunity for everyone to make their voice heard with political action....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 4:37pm PDT
Hundreds Gather in Duncan Oklahoma to Protest Outside Halliburton Shareholder Meeting We go to Oklahoma to speak with Corpwatch’s Pratap Chatterjee about his new report "Hurricane Halliburton: Conflict, Climate Change and Catastrophe." We also speak with Nigerian attorney Michael Keania Karikpo who represents Environmental Rights Action in Nigeria....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2006 9:23am PDT
London Mayor Gives Warm Warm Welcome Hugo Chávez One superior politician salutes another....
Posted: Mon, May 15, 2006 9:08pm PDT
US Congress passes more tax cuts for the rich The US Congress this week passed another round of extraordinary tax cuts for the rich, worth an estimated $70 billion over five years. The bill is part of the relentless redistribution of social resources in the United States, from the vast majority of the population into the hands of a small oligarchy. It will be signed into law by President Bush early next week....
Posted: Sat, May 13, 2006 9:22am PDT
July 15 - Day of Action against Climate Change and G8 International Day of Direct Action
against Climate Change and the G8
Rise Up Against G8 Policies
Target Fossil Fuel Industries in Your Town or Bioregion...
Posted: Sat, May 13, 2006 12:09am PDT
Taking Care of Your Teeth Naturally “Modern” society is used to buying everything necessary for oral hygiene in prefabricated, mass-produced packaging. But people all over the world use natural toothbrushes made from plants which contain beneficial oils and properties, growing around them. The precursor to the modern toothbrush was a twig. This article will explore different ways to take care of your teeth and mouth naturally, without paying off a major corporation for those benefits....
Posted: Fri, May 12, 2006 9:02pm PDT
Group Poses As Halliburton Reps At “Catastrophic Loss” Conference The Yes Men have struck again. On Tuesday, a man claiming to be a representative of Halliburton gave a presentation at the "Catastrophic Loss" conference at the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Florida. Conference attendees include leaders from the insurance industry. We speak with the Yes Men's Andy Bichlbaum, who took part in the hoax....
Posted: Fri, May 12, 2006 7:15am PDT
Call Congress Now to Stop Tax Breaks for Wealthiest Americans Here’s what you can tell your representative when you call:
“Vote ‘No’ on the tax reconciliation bill. We don’t need more tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans putting our country deeper in debt.”...
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 11:08am PDT
Chinese leader’s trip to Saudi Arabia and Africa highlights growing resource rivalry While the visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao to Washington last month received considerable media coverage, there was virtually none for the remainder of his extended overseas tour. Yet it was the rest of Hu’s trip—to Saudi Arabia and three key African countries—that highlighted one of the chief reasons for his chilly reception at the White House—the growing rivalry between China and the US over oil, natural gas and other scarce resources....
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 7:09am PDT
Cheney’s speech will deepen divisions in Europe over energy Europe has moved to the top of Washington’s diplomatic agenda as the Bush administration prepares to take military action against Iran. While George W. Bush was soft-soaping Chancellor Angela Merkel in Washington, Vice President Cheney was on a six-day “democracy” tour in eastern Europe....
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 7:08am PDT
Pfizer illegally tested antibiotics on African children. A Nigerian government report found that Pfizer tested the experimental drug Trovan on children without their authorization....
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 11:18am PDT
Korean Troops Occupy Village for US Base Expansion 
For three days, 1,000's of protestors have clashed with police and soldiers in a resistance to a U.S. base expansion. The expansion of Camp Humphreys (K-6) is part of the United States' Global Posture Review, following the agenda of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), and implemented by the Bush Administration to consolidate its military hegemony over Northeast Asia....
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 9:36am PDT
Death By Drought A Threat To Millions In Africa A fast approaching "hunger season" threatens millions of lives in the Horn of Africa, and world emergency relief donations are far from enough to stave off the coming crisis, humanitarian agencies say....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 4:34pm PDT
Africa: The New Frontier for Imperial Oil 
In his State of the Union address, George Dubya said that the U.S. is “addicted to oil.” What he didn’t say was that post-WWII oil policy – which has been a central plank of U.S. foreign policy since President Roosevelt met King Saud of Saudi Arabia and cobbled together their ‘special relationship’ in 1945 – is in shambles. The pillars of this policy – Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf oil states, and Venezuela – are hardly models of U.S. spheres of influence. With surplus capacity in the...
Posted: Sat, May 6, 2006 5:11pm PDT
Bakai squatter community eviction: Almaty, Kazakhstan Tierra y Libertad in Kazakhstan, 2006: hunger strike, riot cops and molotov cocktails....
Posted: Sat, May 6, 2006 3:46pm PDT
FILIPINO PEASANT IMAGINATION VERSUS AMERICAN LEFTISM IN THE ACADEMY 
The following remarks delivered at the Carlos Bulosan Symposium at the Library of Congress, April 28, 2006, are intended to supplement the author's paper "Blueprint for a Bulosan Project" posted in the online journal OUR OWN VOICE. This essay critiques the position of "leftists" in the elite academies who claim a "manifest destiny" to civilize colonized subalterns and peasant radicals like Bulosan who have failed to take "America" out of a transnationa...
Posted: Fri, May 5, 2006 4:31pm PDT
Take Back the Oil Companies! Nationalizing the oil industry should be the central tenet of any progressive political movement. Evidence of the industry's involvement in the invasion of Iraq as well as its obvious complicity in corrupting the political system should provide ample proof that the oil giants are a clear and present danger to democracy and need to be put under state control....
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 8:24am PDT
US dollar fall raises questions on global stability Was it US Federal Reserve Board chairman Bernard Bernanke’s first bungle or are we seeing the start of a major shift in international currency markets? That was the question being raised in financial circles last week as the dollar underwent a fall against all major currencies....
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2006 8:22am PDT
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