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Bond: The World Bank/IMF during neoliberal and neoconservative fusion
Sep 25, 2006
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) annual meetings just completed in Singapore were a disaster for the Third World, especially Africans who face a dramatic decline in voting shares on the IMF board, at the same time a few middle-income c
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Jul 31, 2006
There are times when I think that this tired old world has gone on a few years too long. What's happening in the Middle East is so depressing. Most discussions of the eternal Israel-Palestine conflict are variations on the child's eternal defense for misb
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
Jul 13, 2006
Great Moments in the History of Imperialism
Brecher: Lieutenant Watada's War Against the War
Jun 14, 2006
In a remarkable protest from inside the ranks of the military, First Lieut. Ehren Watada has become the Army's first commissioned officer to publicly refuse orders to fight in Iraq on grounds that the war is illegal. The 28-year-old announced his decision
Bond: African Workers And Scholars Unite
Jun 12, 2006
At Workers University in Cairo, a mid-May gathering of 100 trade union leaders and intellectuals from across Africa adopted surprisingly common radical language, exhibiting a pent-up desire to jointly fight global neoliberalism.
Blum: The Anti-Empire Report
May 22, 2006
"Come Out of the White House with Your Hands Up!"
Bohmer: Olympia Expels Nazi
Apr 09, 2006
On Sunday, April 2nd, a counter-demonstration, led by the Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace (OMJP), ran the neo-Nazi, National Socialist Movement (NSM) out of our town The NSM has targeted Olympia, Washington as a major location for demonstrating the
Bond: Water Activists Turn On The Taps And Turn Up The Pressure
Mar 24, 2006
On March 16 in Mexico City, thousands of grassroots water warriors marched against an equivalent number of establishment delegates from governments, corporations and international agencies at the World Water Forum.
Bagdikian: Enemies Of The State
Mar 10, 2006
A brutal idiocy in the Vietnam War was the statement, "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
Bond: Wolfowitz's 'anti-corruption' hoax
Mar 08, 2006
A few weeks ago, Colin Powell's former chief of staff in the State Department, Lawrence Wilkerson, revealed to a PBS NOW audience something we all knew anyway about Saddam Hussein's weapons arsenal: 'I participated in a hoax on the American people, the in
Blum: How I Spent My 15 Minutes Of Fame
Feb 16, 2006
The Anti-Empire Report
Bond: Municipal elections won't appease furious South Africans
Feb 13, 2006
The run-up to March 1 elections for 284 South African city, town and
Brecher: Command Responsibility?
Jan 22, 2006
*A jury verdict in Memphis late last year caused little stir among the general public, but it may have caught the attention of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and other high officials of the Bush administration. The jury found Colonel Nicolas Carranza, for
Bagdikian: A Dirty Dupont Secret---Again?
Dec 21, 2005
A widely used form of DuPont's Teflon, suspected of being a carcinogen and creating organ damage in animals, is being studied by the Food and Drug Administration, according to abcnews.com, but the potential danger to human beings was known to a DuPont eng
Bond: Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Climate Change Titanic
Nov 29, 2005
Climate change damage, the subject of a major Montreal 'Conference of Parties 11' which aims to update the Kyoto Protocol from November 28-December 9, is apparent to anyone following the news.
Bagdikian: Beware the Widows and Orphans
Nov 16, 2005
Whenever a politician pulls at our heartstrings, to be generous to the widows and orphans, to act in relief of the poor and the suffering ---- grab your wallet. If major events of the past and continuing appeals from the White House present an act of merc
Brecher: The Harriet Miers Appointment
Nov 08, 2005
If Hariet Miers' appointment to the Supreme Court is confirmed, she will
Bond: World Bankers And Oil Barons Loot Africa
Oct 04, 2005
With apartheid-like race/class practices in New Orleans so recently unveiled, Washington's self-congratulatory rhetoric about sub-Saharan Africa at last weekend's IMF/World Bank annual general meeting was not just sickening but also counterintuitive.
Bond: Dragging SA’s Land Debate from the Neoliberal Quicksand
Aug 29, 2005
There are a great many surface-level political processes now unfolding in South Africa, reflecting underlying contradictions that are irreconcilable.
Oct 19, 2006
What sort of dogmatic free-market ideologue would use poor people's (often socially-constructed) desire for credit to justify shrinking the already beleaguered welfare policies of wretched Third World states?