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HEALTH: Intimidation, Politics and Drug Industry Cripple U.S. Medicine The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is supposed to safeguard the nation's medical products, but they're "taking care of business rather than patient safety",says FDA's associate safety director Dr. David J. Graham. In interviews, he and others highlight the all too brutal facts....
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 10:10am PST
Aceh Independence Struggle Enters New Phase Background on Aceh: 1999-2000 nonviolent independence movement....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 7:56pm PST
Bay Areas, ROLLING LETTER CAMPAIGN! Save Social Security From Bush!...
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 5:46pm PST
Tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka’s east speak to the WSWS From December 29 to January 1, a WSWS team spoke with tsunami survivors in and around the eastern Sri Lankan town of Ampara. At least 25,000 people from the area were killed and more than 166,000 were left homeless by the December 26 tragedy. Another 80,000 are now living in refugee camps....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 1:18pm PST
Globalization in Ecuadorian Amazon Globalization and the TLC, Free Trade Agreement threatens Ecuador's Amazonian rainforest. Road building and oil drilling is about to start in Yasuni National Park...
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 5:48pm PST
Tsunami Warning: Why Didn't Scientists Notify the Press About the Impending Disaster? We speak with Australian journalist Peter Symonds about the lack of warning systems in Asia that could have prevented tens of thousands of people from being killed in the tsunami disaster....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 9:01am PST
Acehnese Refugees Speak Out We continue to look at the area hardest hit by the Tsunami – Aceh. Over 100,000 of the dead are in Indonesia alone. We'll speak with an Acehnese refugee whose mother was a woman's rights activist in Aceh, imprisoned by the Indonesian government. The prison was destroyed by the Tsunami. We also hear from Acehnese refugees who held a protest outside the UN. Acehnese and U.S. human rights groups protested yesterday outside of the Indonesian Mission to the United Nations, condemning the Indonesia...
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2005 8:53pm PST
A call for an Anti-Authoritarian Bloc for the Inauguration. The Parade Must End: A call for an Anti-Authoritarian Bloc for the January 20, 2005 protest of the Presidential Inauguration in Washington D.C....
Posted: Mon, Jan 3, 2005 11:48pm PST
US Military Base in Indian Ocean Received Tsunami Warning The US military base in the Indian Ocean on the British-controlled island of Diego Garcia, received sufficient warning of the tsunami so that it suffered no damage, unlike the rest of the Indian Ocean....
Posted: Thu, Dec 30, 2004 9:42pm PST
Incipient Boycott of American Companies Because of the Iraq Occupation excerpt from a good article by Jim Lobe, confirming what Sy Hersh experienced in Europe recently, as dependence upon establishing the corporate identity through the brand, as described by Naomi Klein years ago in No Logo, backfires...
Posted: Thu, Dec 30, 2004 11:38am PST
COLOMBIA: THE EMBERA KATÍO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FIGHT MULTINATIONALS 
Four hundred Embera-Katio indigenous people have come to Bogotá from their distant lands in Cordoba near the Caribbean Coast of Colombia to demand that the Colombian government meet with them concerning the construction of the second hydroelectric dam on their lands. The first dam, ‘Urra 1’, flooded 7,400 hectares of land in 1999, destroying the rivers which were the source of food, transportation, and culture for the Embera-Katio people. Now the multinational (Canada, Sweden and Russia) comp...
Posted: Thu, Dec 30, 2004 12:09am PST
Tsunami Relief as a Subterfuge? The Pentagon Scrambles to Reenter its Old Air Base in Th 
Is the tsunami aftermath a “window of opportunity” for bolstering the Pentagon’s presence in Southeast Asia? The Thai people reject the proposed build-up of the American military at Utapao air base and in the Gulf of Thailand. The tragedy of the natural catastrophe in the Indian Ocean should not serve as a pretext for strengthening the U.S. military presence in the region....
Posted: Wed, Dec 29, 2004 4:40am PST
Moment of Truth At Hand The US Dollar's moment of truth is at hand. Unfortunately, George W. Bush is our President. Be afraid....
Posted: Mon, Dec 27, 2004 7:51pm PST
4/15-17: Call for Mass Mobilization During the Spring Meetings of IMF/WB Call for a Mass Mobilization April 15-17th, 2005 During the Spring Meetings of
the World Bank and International Monetary Fund...
Posted: Thu, Dec 23, 2004 11:32pm PST
Seoul: Farm protest paralyzes the city Angered at government action to allow more rice imports into Korea, farmers blocked five major bridges over the Han River in Seoul yesterday, causing havoc on the roads....
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 2:37am PST
U.S. Organic Company's Sewing Cooperative Affiliate Forms World's 1st Worker-Owned Free T U.S. Organic Company's Nicaraguan Sewing Cooperative Affiliate Forms World's First Worker-Owned Free Trade Zone; Deal Paves Way for Spike in Jobs and Sales in U.S. and Nicaragua...
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 9:48am PST
Anarchist Call to Resist the Inauguration in DC Anarchist Call to Resist the Inauguration in DC...
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 10:18pm PST
United Kingdom G8 Protest Next July! he final plenary of the European Peoples' Global Action Conference, which
took place in Belgrade, Post-Yugoslavia from 21st-29th July 2004, is calling
for a Global Day of Action on July 5-8th 2005 - the opening day of the 2005
G8 Summit to take place at Gleneagles, Perthshire, United Kingdom (Scotland,
around 40 miles/70 km from Edinburgh)....
Posted: Sun, Dec 19, 2004 12:54am PST
Protest persecution of Italian anarchist Massimo Passamani Italian anarchist, Massimo Passamani is going on trial on December 16 for "multiple aggravated injury" to a fascist city councilor. Here is his statement about the incident:...
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 1:50pm PST
the "Reform" of Social Security the next big battle: will we let Wall Street get away with it?
if we do, poverty among the elderly is going to skyrocket in the coming decades...
Posted: Fri, Dec 10, 2004 2:21pm PST
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