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view of Foreign Aid on Tire Co
A critic of US foreign policy advertises his views, space generously donated by BF Goodrich....
Posted: Sun, Mar 20, 2005 7:47am PST
Trouble in the Ranks
p>Private Jeremiah Adler wrote home on his sixth day in Army boot
camp:
"’I am so fucked up right now... I feel that if I
stay here much longer I am not going to be the same person anymore.
I have to GO. Please help... Every minute you sit at home I am
stuck in a shithole, stripped of self-respect, pride, will, hope,
love, faith, worth, everything. Everything I have ever held dear
has been taken away. This fucks with your head... This makes you
...
Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2005 6:03pm PST
Photos Of Anarchist Contingent At Saturday's Anti-War Protest
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Posted: Sat, Mar 19, 2005 3:40pm PST
The ugly American bank
PRINCETON, New Jersey You can say this about Paul Wolfowitz's qualifications to lead the World Bank: He has been closely associated with America's largest foreign aid and economic development project since the Marshall Plan.
I'm talking, of course, about reconstruction in Iraq. Unfortunately, what happened there is likely to make countries distrust any economic advice Wolfowitz might give....
Posted: Fri, Mar 18, 2005 8:40pm PST
INFOSPACE OPENS IN SANTA ROSA
After more than 2 years of meetings, dreaming, planing and fundraising a radical infospace has opened in Santa Rosa California. Free Mind Media Guild is proud to be the first InfoShop to ever open in Sonoma County. We have garden space, Internet Access and tons of Books, Zines and Info to Distro. Please stop by or call us just to check it out and tell us how happy you are…....
Posted: Fri, Mar 18, 2005 7:21pm PST
Sacramento Area Anarchist Events Calender
To join the email list detailing Sacramento area anarchist events, or to have an event added to the list, send an email to sactoacafe@riseup.net...
Posted: Fri, Mar 18, 2005 4:23pm PST
Michiag Woes-Why people may be leaving
I am confounded by the total lack of customer servcie & worker pride in the rustbelt state of michigan...
Posted: Fri, Mar 18, 2005 1:10pm PST
Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolfowitz: He Bungled Iraq, the Pentagon, and East Timor.
Look Out World Bank, Here He Comes...
Posted: Fri, Mar 18, 2005 11:45am PST
Oxfam Decries U.S. Pressure on Guatemala to Repeal Medicines Law
Oxfam Decries U.S. Pressure on Guatemala to Repeal Medicines Law; U.S. Pushes for Unpopular Change as Part of CAFTA Campaign...
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 11:36pm PST
World Bank Should Publish Board Minutes on Wolfowitz
World Bank Should Publish Board Minutes on Wolfowitz Vote Says Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development...
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 11:11pm PST
Wolfowitz at the World Bank: An Empire without a Global Economic Policy?
A momentum to break open debtors' prisons that the Washington Consensus built in the global south has been building up, demonstrated by Argentina's ability to compel 75% of its creditors to accept 35 cents on the dollar. The nomination of Paul Wolfowitz for WB presidency can only invigorate the global justice movement, which will have an inviting target at the IMF and the WB's 2005 Spring Meetings on April 16-17 and their 2005 Annual Meetings on September 26-27 -- both in Washington D.C. At...
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 4:27pm PST
MILTARY KILLS TWO CAMPESINOS AND WOUNDS 10; POLICE KIDNAP THREE
After another day of protests against the ratification of CAFTA today, March 15, in Colotenango, Huehuetenango a group of campesinos and teachers were violently repressed by the military, so far leaving two dead and ten wounded....
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 11:27am PST
TWO DIE in Guatemala free trade protests
Two people were killed and many injured as violence broke out during protests in Guatemala on Tuesday 15 March when President Oscar Berge ratified the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)....
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2005 10:55am PST
California Black Farmers - Not in our Name
We definitely need to fight the USDA and also produce new sources of capital and markets for Black farmers. However, the Pigford v. Glickman class action lawsuit is OVER and it did neither....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 2:36pm PST
W names Wolf as Chief Robber Baron
3 months after the Pretzel W unilaterally claimed a mandate from the voters, the Neo-Cons' Team Evil is now complete. The latest addition to this "woeful-wits" Cabal is the naming of Wolf Paul--chief architect of the Iraquagmire--to the post of World Bank chieftain(aka Chief Global Robber Baron)......
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 12:03pm PST
An Overview of Anarchism
Within the modern anti-capitalist and anti-corporate-globalization movements we have seen a marked shift from the hierarchical leftist groups of the sixties and seventies that were more given to intrigues, factionalism, and demagoguery, to decentralized, non-hierarchical organizing....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 11:32am PST
No. 1?
No concept lies more firmly embedded in our national character than the notion that the USA is "No. 1," "the greatest." Our broadcast media are, in essence, continuous advertisements for the brand name "America Is No. 1."...
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 10:13am PST
Pentagon hawk Paul Wolfowitz to run World Bank
The World Bank has confirmed that the US president has nominated his Deputy Defense Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, to run the global development body....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 8:10am PST
How does Bill Gates Do it?
For a clearer picture of who Bill Gates is go to New Zealand....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2005 3:07am PST
Short List of "Practical Necessities"
When interests rise, fewer and fewer investments occur in production and employment, unemploy-ment increases and the economy goes flat. This analysis of the Austrian economy could help the US out of its quagmire of private affluence and public impoverishment....
Posted: Tue, Mar 15, 2005 10:41am PST