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Cheney Faces Criminal Indictments;Other Illegal Actions Raise Warning Flags at White House Vice President Dick Cheney faces criminal indictments for illegal activities while CEO of energy giant Halliburton and also illegally intervened to secure a $7 billion no-bid contract for his former employer after his election to office, an analysis by the White House counsel’s office concludes....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 12:19am PDT
Group takes over World Bank Lobby; Celebrates Capitalism and the Benefits of Exploiting Po JULY 1, 2004 Washington, DC—A group calling themselves the Party Liberation
Front (PLF) took over the lobby of the World Bank Headquarters this morning
and threw a party to “celebrate” the 60th birthday of the World Bank and the
success of its global capitalist agenda. 60 years ago finance leaders from
the major world powers met in Bretton Woods, NH to establish the World Bank
and IMF. Since then wealthy elites in the US and elsewhere have reaped
billions of doll...
Posted: Thu, Jul 1, 2004 11:09am PDT
Deep unrest threatens Andean leaders Indigenous groups in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia are experiencing a political awakening that could have profound repercussions for each country's democracy....
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 10:50pm PDT
The Crash Begins on the Golf Course "Anonymous economic forces are not responsible. For 20 years the governments of the most important industrial countries have systematically pursued a policy of redistribution upwards from below.. The misery of the third world is indescribable.."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 9:31am PDT
Working class action in Argentina This is from a Trot group, but in spiote of that it contains useful info......
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 7:14pm PDT
Shaukat Aziz Slated to Become Prime Minister of Pakistan 
Pakistan Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali forced out to make way for Shaukat Aziz....
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 10:55pm PDT
6/28: 1 month anniversary of arrests and torture of activists in Guadalajara June 28 is the 1 month anniversary of the reperssion violence and illegal
detentions against the protesters of the Third Coumbre of Latin America
the Carribbean and European Union....
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 11:51am PDT
The Social Movement Needs a Strategy "The provisional declaration presented for Porto Alegre III starts from the weakening of the Washing-ton Consensus that fixed the neoliberal agenda, cemented market fundamentalism and a growing loss of legitimation of international institutions.."...
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 9:37am PDT
WalMart Civil Rights Class Action Certified Federal Judge Orders Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the Nation’s Largest Private Employer, To Stand Trial for Company-Wide Sex Discrimination...
Posted: Wed, Jun 23, 2004 11:52am PDT
Fairy-Tale about the Upswing "Neoliberal policy lowers individual real income, increases mass unemployment and reduces mass demand.. The need for a constant influx of foreign capital is gigantic, $2.3 million a minute.."...
Posted: Mon, Jun 21, 2004 10:37am PDT
Texans can do no wrong "After reading stacks of documents from the investigations and talking to energy experts, I found more smoking guns in California's energy crisis than in a Clint Eastwood movie, and none of them have Ken Lay's prints on them." -- Kathryn Jones, 2001...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:42pm PDT
Marx Reloaded: Reflections on the 155th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto "As predicted, free enterprise and competition have led to a concentration of capital and monopolization of the productive forces. Instead of increasing investments.., plants are closed, production sites shifted abroad, men and women dismissed and state fees only paid by lower class...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:37am PDT
Pastry Operations in Poland and Brazil On June 2, 2004, an activist from Food Not Bombs-Warsaw (Poland) pied the
President of the City, Lech Kaczynski. The pie action was made to protest
Kaczynski's moves to prevent the city's annual gay parade from taking place....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 10:16pm PDT
South Korea struggles against WEF While we are since 214 days in sit-in strike, last weekend we supported the struggle of S. Korean workers, peasants and students against WEF....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 8:59pm PDT
WAR: Festival Against Imperialism (Lawrence, KS: June 30-July 4) ...
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 6:30pm PDT
One Year On and the Swiss Authorities Try to Jail the Aubonne Bridge Activists they Nearly One Year On and the Swiss Authorities Try to Jail the Aubonne Bridge Activists they Nearly Killed while they were doing an action against the G8 in Evian.
On the 1st of June 2003, an international affinity group blockaded the motorway in order to stop an official delegation from reaching the g8 in Evian, two climbers suspended themselves from a single rope being stretched across the street. Nevertheless a police officer cut the rope and sent Martin plummeting 20 metres into a shallow, rocky ...
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 12:50pm PDT
The Icy Normality of Hunger "World agriculture in its present state of development could feed 12 billion persons.. The daily silent genocide of hunger that occurs in icy normality is not a fate. People are responsible..For Rousseau, there was no natural law of capital.."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 9:33am PDT
India: Behind the rout of the Telugu Desam Party- World Bank social engineering Last month’s electoral rout of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government brought into sharp relief the enormous gulf that separates India’s ruling elite from the toiling masses. The BJP’s claim that India is “shining” appealed to an elite gone giddy over a foreign investment and stock market boom. But for hundreds of millions of workers and small farmers, the “India shining” propaganda only served to underscore the government’s callous indifference to ...
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 10:00am PDT
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