August 14, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

Venezuela Pledges Strengthened Alliance with Bolivia Following Morales Referendum Victory (Venezuelanalysis) August 11, 2008

2004 Democratic Party Dirty Tricks in Oregon and Beyond (Scott L. West, SC) August 13, 2008

Amazon Rainforest Threatened By New Wave of Oil and Gas Exploration: Vast swathes of the western Amazon are to be opened up for oil and gas exploration, putting some of the planet’s most pristine and biodiverse forests at risk. (The Guardian UK) August 13, 2008

Schwarzenegger’s Wage Cuts Condemned: Unionists having been protesting against the decision by Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to cut the wages of more than 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of US$6.55 per hour, alleging he must do so because the state legislature has not passed a budget. (Green Left Weekly) August 9, 2008

Shell Rebuked For 'Greenwash' Over Ad For Polluting Oil Project: The Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell misled the public about the green credentials of a vastly polluting oil project in Canada. (The Independent UK) August 13, 2008

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, WITH THE IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR AND TENT STATE UNIVERSITY, HOST THE “TENT STATE MUSIC FESTIVAL TO END THE WAR” DURING THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: Rage Against the Machine has joined forces with the Iraq Veterans Against the War and Tent State University to perform as part of the “Tent State Music Festival to End the War” on Wednesday, August 27 at the Denver Coliseum. They will join the Flobots, The Coup, State Radio, and Wayne Kramer. Doors open at 9:30 am, show begins at 11 am. Tickets are free and available by lottery. (TentState.org) August 2008

The Nation Magazine and Buyers Remorse Over Obama (Counterpunch) August 14, 2008

August 11, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

Cindy Sheehan On The Ballot: Cindy Sheehan qualified Friday for a November showdown with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, collecting the signatures needed to get on the ballot as an independent candidate for Congress in California. (San Francisco Chronicle) August 9, 2008

Georgia, Russia, and the USA: The "New Cold War" Escalates: The US ruling class, in pursuing its "new Cold War", has introduced an infernal logic of mutual escalation, so that even if this crisis simmers down, a new one is bound to emerge soon. The much-vaunted new world order is increasingly resembling the old one, but with more nuclear weapons and less stability. (Lenin's Tomb) August 9, 2008

President Morales Wins Bolivian Election: President Evo Morales of Bolivia won a resounding victory in a recall vote yesterday after calling a referendum to break a political stalemate and revive his leftist campaign. More than 63 percent of voters in this bitterly divided Andean nation ratified the mandate of Mr Morales. (Times Online) August 11, 2008

Exit Polls: Morales Ratified by Larger Margin than in 2005: The Morales-García Linera duo got more than 7 percentage points above 53.7 percent that they needed. (MR Zine) August 8, 2008

Israel's Siege of Collective Punishment: Imagine if Chinese-Americans visiting relatives were prevented by the Chinese government from returning to America. Or if an American traveled to Iran and was then forbidden from reaching an airport to come home. This happened to me at the hands of Israel, supposedly America's closest ally in the Middle East. I am a US citizen from Olathe, Kansas. I am also a Palestinian born in Gaza. I traveled to Gaza last December to care for my ill father. Israel trapped me there for four months. Yaser Wishah comments. (Electronic Intifada) August 7, 2008

Greens Launch Effort Against Electoral College Manipulation Of Presidential Elections In US: The Green Party of the US says that the outcome of the 2008 presidential election may be affected by the antidemocratic apportionment of Electoral College votes, with the popular vote misrepresented by the winner-take-all system of assigning votes to electors. (GP.org) August 5, 2008

Ecuador: Chevron Battles Government, Indigenous People (Green Left Weekly) August 10, 2008

July 31, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

South Central Farmers, Community members, and Progressive Organizations Call For Shutting Down the "h" Horowitz Warehouse in South Central Los Angeles (SouthCentralFarmers.com) July 24, 2008

His High Imperial Holiness Obama Does Berlin: While we should recognize that John McCain is a dangerous dunderhead, many have recently begun the overdue process of demystifying His High Imperial Holiness The Dali Obama in the United States. The sooner Europeans do the same the better for all concerned. (Black Agenda Report) July 30, 2008

Let Them Eat Mud Cake: In Haiti mud cakes have become a staple diet of the poor. Haiti is an example of how capitalism causes starvation and mass deprivation around the globe, usually hidden from view because it's built into the system, with no clear bad guy to put the blame on. (Wis[s]e Words) July 29, 2008

In Review: Jonathan Neale's ‘Stop Global Warming–Change the World’: A positive and optimistic addition to the arsenal of socialists and climate activists alike (Climate and Capitalism) July 29, 2008

Paramilitary Death Squads, Threats, Assassinations, Chainsaw Murders: One More Gruesome Month Under Colombia's Alvaro Uribe (Latin America News Review) July 29, 2008

The Spectre of 21st Century Barbarism: As capitalism continues with business as usual, climate change is fast expanding the gap between rich and poor between and within nations, and imposing unparalleled suffering on those least able to protect themselves. That is the reality of 21st Century Barbarism. No society that permits that to happen can be called civilized. No social order that causes it to happen deserves to survive. (Socialist Voice) July 27, 2008

Latin America’s Struggle For Integration And Independence: The election of Fernando Lugo as Paraguayan president seems to confirm the idea of a new fashion for presidents. The former priest joins the ranks of current Latin American presidents that includes two women (Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Argentina and Michelle Bachelet in Chile), an indigenous person (Evo Morales in Bolivia), a former militant trade unionist (Lula de Silva in Brazil), a radically minded economist (Rafael Correa in Ecuador), a doctor (Tabare Vasquez in Uruguay), a former guerrilla fighter (Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua) and a former rebel soldier (Hugo Chavez in Venezuela). But in order to understand the dynamics in Latin America today, it is necessary to go beyond broad sweeping statements, just as it is not enough to simply analyse these governments through the prism of national politics. (Green Left Weekly) July 26, 2008

Solidarity Key For Seattle Sprinkler Fitters: An 11-day strike ended in a victory for 300 fire sprinkler installers, members of the United Association of Plumbers, Pipe Fitters and Sprinkler Fitters Local 699. (Socialist Worker) July 31, 2008

Poland’s Left Turn: The growth of popular anger against neoliberalism has created an historic opportunity for a new left movement to emerge (Socialist Worker UK) July 29, 2008

June 29, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

Amazon Tribes Fight to Keep the Xingu Alive: For five days in May, hundreds of tribal people from the far reaches of the Amazon Basin came together to protest plans for huge dams on the Xingu River, the largest tributary of the Amazon. (IRC Americas Program) June 24, 2008

Green Fascism and the Greening of Hate: Population control — the ideology of the green right (Climate and Capitalism) June 27, 2008

War As Environmental Disaster (The Mahatma X Files) June 28, 2008

Mike Davis: The real question is this: Will rich counties ever mobilize the political will and economic resources to actually achieve IPCC targets or, for that matter, to help poorer countries adapt to the inevitable, already "committed" quotient of warming now working its way toward us through the slow circulation of the world ocean? The real danger is that human solidarity itself, like a West Antarctic ice shelf, will suddenly fracture and shatter into a thousand shards. (TomDispatch.com) June 26, 2008

Great Apes To Have Rights in Spain (Telegraph UK) June 27, 2008

Circus Brings USDA-Documented Animal Cruelty to Dallas (In Defense of Animals) June 27, 2008

Obama’s Circle of Imperialist Foreign Policy Advisors (Socialist Worker) June 18, 2008

June 25, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

Telecoms Flex Their Muscles: FISA “Compromise” Locks-in Spying: You knew it would eventually come to this: a huge victory for the Bush regime and a gigantic swindle by Democratic party sell-outs posing as an “opposition.” Thursday, House and Senate leaders in a bipartisan Washington love-fest, stooped to new lows of dissimulation as they reached agreement on a bill that gives the nation’s spy agencies and their outsourced “partners” in the telecommunications industry carte blanche to illegally spy on Americans. (Dissident Voice) June 23, 2008

A Critique From the Left of Jonah Goldberg's Ludicrous book Liberal Fascism (Socialist Humanism With A Human Face) June 18, 2008

2008 Green Party National Convention in Chicago (July 10-13) will be a public forum for discussion of impeachment and other major issues on which Democrats and Republicans have failed in their responsibility to voters. (GP.org) June 24, 2008

James Hansen's Timely Warning on Climate Change: On June 23, 1988, the threat of climate change finally captured the media's attention when James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, warned a U.S. Senate committee that the planet was already warming as a result of human activity. Monday, 20 years to the day after his appearance before the Senate committee, Hansen was back on Capitol Hill with a more immediate warning. (Toronto Star) June 25, 2008

Is Your City Going to Be Bottled Water-Free? A new resolution from leading U.S. mayors shows that more cities may be ditching the bottled stuff in favor of tap. (Alternet) June 24, 2008

Taking on the Purple Machine: SEIU President Andy Stern and his staff prevailed at the convention, but pro-reform members succeeded in advancing a debate inside the country's largest union. (Socialist Worker) June 17, 2008

University of California Workers Avert Walkout to Continue Contract Talks (MR Zine) June 24, 2008

Germany's Die Linke: ‘We have the wind of history in our sails’: After a year of stellar successes, almost 600 delegates from Germany’s new left-wing party, Die Linke, came together for the party’s first ever congress, held in the east German city of Cottbus on May 25 and 26. (Links) May 30, 3008

June 21, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

500,000 Flee Iraq: Half a million Iraqis fled their homes last year creating the worst refugee crisis in the world, a new report says. The US took 1,500 - less than half the number it promised to resettle. (Mirror UK) June 20, 2008

Medical Tests Prove Abuse, Torture In Iraq, Gitmo: Medical examinations of former terrorism suspects held by the US military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, found evidence of torture and other abuse that resulted in serious injuries and mental disorders, according to a human rights group. (Jerusalem Post) June 18, 2008

Nationalise Big Oil, Enemy of People and Planet: The union and environment movements must fight side by side against the devastation the Shells and Exxons are wreaking on our planet and the livelihoods of its peoples.
(Socialist Alliance) June 2008

Charges Finally Dropped Against Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste in Haiti: The Court of Appeal of Port-au-Prince has announced the dismissal of all remaining charges against Father Gerard Jean-Juste. The Catholic priest is a prominent supporter of Famni Lavalas, the political party of ousted Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide. (HaitiAnalysis) June 19, 2008

Ice on Mars: Excited scientists have hailed the discovery of water ice on Mars as a major breakthrough in the search for life on the planet. (Press Association) June 21, 2008

EU Treaty Rejected in Ireland: The pro-corporate European Union Lisbon treaty has been rejected by voters in a referendum in the Republic of Ireland. (Green Left Weekly) June 14, 2008

June 18, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

For Mass Transit, Mass Investment: With record ridership and fuel prices, subways, trains, and buses are strapped. (Christian Science Monitor) June 16, 2008

Co-operatives Turn Idle Landed Estates Green in Venezuela (Inter Press Service) June 14, 2008

U.S. Green Party Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney's Call to Action in Support of Dennis Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment Against Bush (RunCynthiaRun.com) June 2008

Essential Information On Carbon Trading From The Corner House: A great source of analysis and comment on global carbon trading is The Corner House, based in Britain. These are just some of the documents, presentations and videos available on their website. Highly recommended. (Climate and Capitalism) June 17, 2008

Fallujah's Legacy (Lenin's Tomb) June 16, 2008

U.S. Democrats to Back Down on Iraq War Conditions: Democrats in the U.S. Congress, who came to power last year on a call to end the combat in Iraq, will soon give President George W. Bush the last war-funding bill of his presidency without any of the conditions they sought for withdrawing U.S. troops, congressional aides said on Monday. (Reuters) June 16, 2008

Calif. City Halls Swamped With Same-Sex Couples Seeking Marriage Licenses (365Gay.com) June 17, 2008

Retirement for Seven Lab Chimps: The last seven chimpanzees at a Penn. research facility have been permanently retired and head to sanctuary. It's time the country's remaining 1,200 chimps living in laboratories are similarly relieved. (HSUS.org) June 13, 2008

June 14, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

Kucinich Vows New Round of Impeachment Articles Against Bush if Measure Dies (Online Journal) June 13, 2008

The Myth of the Market: The increasing injustice and environmental destruction of recent years has been justified by the alleged 'efficiency' of the market. But both theory and evidence show that markets are economically inefficient, wasteful of human and natural resources. (21st Century Socialism) June 11, 2008

Three Cheers For The Irish "No" Voters!: Irish voters torpedoed the Lisbon Treaty Friday. In the face of an almost united political establishment, a majority of voters decided to vote in favour of Irish independence and neutrality and against the nefarious plans of the European Business elite and their paid political agents. (Greenman's Occasional Organ) June 13, 2008

Only Nuclear Dreams Mushrooming: The proposal by the Paris-based International Energy Agency for more than 1,400 nuclear power plants to be built over the next 40 years is unfeasible, environmental activists say. (Inter Press Service) June 13, 2008

Hunger Strike by Bhopal Victims in India: The three organisations of Bhopal survivors leading the 111 day-long campaign in Delhi, along with participants from more than 18 countries announced the launching of a global hunger strike from June 10. (Business Standard, India) June 9, 2008

Activists Launch Protests Against Corporations in 8 Brazil States: Thousands of landless rural workers invaded dams, railways, plantations and corporate headquarters in a wave of protests across eight Brazilian states on Tuesday. (International Herald Tribune) June 10, 2008

How Europe Underdevelops Africa And How Some Fight Back (Counterpunch) June 13-15, 2008

Racism in the Tar Sands: Exploiting Foreign Workers and Poisoning Indigenous People in Canada (Oil Sands Truth) June 12, 2008

June 8, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

Life, Liberty, Water: As climate change and worldwide shortages loom, will people fight over water or join together to protect it? (Yes! Magazine) Summer 2008

World's Biggest Solar Farm Going Up In Portugal (The Guardian) June 6, 2008

Venezuela, along with Argentina, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Bolivia, criticised the final declaration of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Summit in Rome on Thursday, arguing that the document failed to identify the true causes of rising food prices, such as agricultural subsidies and unequal trade policies imposed by developed countries. (Venezuelanalysis) June 6, 2008

Stop Funding Torture! An Open Letter Urging Action by Congress (StopFundingTorture.com) May 2008

Obama and the Occupation of Iraq: People who believe Barack Obama will end the occupation of Iraq are likely in for a rude awakening. Despite talking about withdrawal from Iraq, his plan would keep troops in the country for years to come, likely well beyond his potential first term. (ZNet) June 8, 2008

Senate Considers $455 Billion in Nuclear Subsidies: The Senate is considering providing the nuclear industry with over $500 billion in subsidies for new nuclear power development. The subsidies are included in a much-touted bipartisan climate change bill. (Democracy Now!) June 6, 2008

Water Activists Slay Corporate Behemoth, Felton, CA’s Victory to Control Water Resources: Their victory is one in a series of setbacks for corporate water interests. (Food & Water Watch) June 2, 2008

June 4, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

The 2nd of May Revolt at the UN Forum on Indigenous Peoples: The United Nations censors indigenous people at a forum for indigenous people (w/ links to video) (Climate and Capitalism) June 2, 2008

From Kennedy to Obama: Liberalism's Last Fling: John Pilger refers back to his travels with Robert Kennedy to describe the false hopes offered by those, like Barack Obama, who exploit the appeal of liberalism then present a very different reality. (JohnPilger.com) May 29, 2008

The American Electoral Charade: Two candidates with almost identical positions on virtually every issue fight to exhaustion over non-substantial concerns for months, and will doubtless soon celebrate having achieved "unity." Those citizens that want to abolish the American oligarchic form of government should vote for the Green Party, and put Cynthia McKinney at the head of the ticket. (Black Agenda Report) June 4, 2008

Dirty Deeds in Bolivia: Bolivia’s right-wing extremists who have been doing their best to rip their own country apart for the past two years rather than accept the rule of their constitutionally elected President Evo Morales finally have showed themselves in their true colours. (Bolivia Rising) June 2, 2008

Blackwater: From the Nisour Square Massacre to the Future of the Mercenary Industry (w/ audio and Video) (Democracy Now!) June 2, 2008

West Coast Winter Soldier: “Enough Is Enough, It’s Time to Get Out”: Dozens of veterans from the U.S. occupation of Iraq converged in Seattle over the weekend to share stories of atrocities being committed daily in Iraq, in a continuation of the "Winter Soldier" hearings held in Silver Spring, Maryland in March. (Inter Press Service) June 2, 2008

Whalemeat Traders Defying Ban: Icelandic and Norwegian companies have begun exporting whalemeat to Japan (BBC News) June 2, 2008

June 2, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

New Round of Climate Talks Open Today With Big Agenda, Small Hopes (Canadian Press) June 1, 2008

Iraq Death Toll 'Above Highest Estimates': The real number of the dead is far higher than even the highest declared in death tolls, many Iraqis say. (Inter Press Service) June 2, 2008

Local Indigenous Leaders Beaten and Publicly Humiliated in Bolivia (Inter Press Service) May 27, 2008

The Crime of Indigenous Insubordination in Bolivia (MR Zine) May 31, 2008

Rank-and-file Members to Challenge Stern at SEIU Convention (Fight Back!) May 2008

Where does Andy Stern want to take labor? Turns out that the man hailed as the savior of the U.S. labor movement for the 21st century is an old-school labor bureaucrat after all. (Socialist Worker) June 2, 2008

Egyptian Protests: Falling Wages and High Prices (The Bullet) June 2, 2008

New Labour's Time Is Up: From the start New Labour was pledged to consolidate the Thatcherite paradigm rather than offer anything different (Guardian Unlimited) May 27, 2008

May 30, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

The global biodiversity crisis that threatens life on Earth is driven by economic policies that fail to value nature, a new report finds. (Inter Press Service) May 30, 2008

Loss of Biodiversity Threatens Livelihoods of World's Poorest (London Independent) May 30, 2008

The Climate Change Threat To US Crops and Water (The Guardian UK) May 29, 2008

Greem Party candidate Cynthia McKinney Statement on Hunger Strike to Oppose US Star War Deployment in Czech Republic, Poland: Cynthia McKinney today sent a letter of solidarity to citizens activists in the Czech Republic who's hunger strike is focusing attention on efforts by the Bush Administration to escalate a new arms race with its deployment of Star Wars installations in Eastern Europe. (AllThingsCynthiaMcKinney.com) May 30, 2008

Cynthia McKinney & The Green Party Option (Nadir's Blog @ Think MTV) May 8, 2008

Statement by Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions to 2008 Chevron and ExxonMobil Shareholder Meetings (ZNet) May 30, 2008

Florida Farmworkers Chop Up Burger King (MR Zine) May 30, 2008

May 26, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

Her Voice, Our Voices: Roslyn Zinn R.I.P. (Rebel Frequencies) May 22, 2008

Utah Phillips R.I.P. Some Thoughts From David Rovics (Songwriter's Notebook) May 25, 2008

Billions Wasted on UN Climate Programme: Energy Firms Routinely Abusing Carbon Offset Fund, US Studies Claim (The Guardian) May 26, 2008

Discredited Strategy: Increasing allegations of corruption and profiteering are raising serious questions about the UN-run carbon trading mechanism aimed at cutting pollution and rewarding clean technologies (The Guardian) May 21, 2008

South Africa is All of Us: The situation is the culmination of policies that have made the rich richer, and the poor poorer. But "the ruling elite is not South Africa. There are many within South Africa who are in solidarity with those under attack, and are opposed to the conditions that feed xenophobia." (Pambazuka) May 22, 2008

Moles Wanted: In preparation for the Republican National Convention, the FBI is soliciting informants to keep tabs on local protest groups (Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages) May 21, 2008

ILO: Workers In Israeli-Occupied Gaza And West Bank Suffering (Workers Independent News) May 26, 2008

Unionists Granted Bail in Zimbabwe (Green Left Weekly) May 23, 2008

May 24, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info Links

Amazon Indians Lead Battle Against Power Giant's Plan to Flood Rainforest (The Independent UK) May 23, 2008

US Empire in Somalia: Hidden Catastrophe, Hidden Agenda (Media Lens) May 13, 2008

US Senate Passes No-Strings War Funding Bill (Inter Press Service) May 23, 2008

“War, Inc.”: John Cusack’s New Film Satirizes the Corruption, Profiteering and Hubris Behind the Iraq War (Democracy Now!) May 23, 2008

Why Cusack's War, Inc.. Is Must-See Political Filmmaking (Alternet) May 21, 2008

Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU): Say No to Xenophobia (MR Zine) May 21, 2008

Union-Busting at Woodman’s Grocery Chain in Wisconsin (Socialist Worker) May 23, 2008

May 19, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

Plans For New Coal Plants Under Fire In UK: Protesters are to launch one of the hardest-hitting environmental campaigns for more than a decade over plans to build a new generation of coal-fired power stations in the UK. (London Observer) May 18, 2008

I Give Up, Says Brazilian Minister Who Fought To Save The Rainforest: In a letter to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Ms Silva said that her efforts to protect the rainforest acknowledged as the "lungs of the planet" were being thwarted by powerful business lobbies. (The Independent UK) May 15, 2008

The Emergence of Real Trade Unionism in Wal-Mart Stores in China (China Labor News Translations) May 4, 2008

Comments on the Strike Movement in Egypt (International Socialist Review) May-June 2008

Women - The Guardians of Potato Biodiversity in Peru (Inter Press Service) May 16, 2008

Iraq Veterans Describe Atrocities to US Lawmakers (OneWorld.net) May 17, 2008

Santa Ana, California Labor Rally: HEY, ARNOLD! NO BUDGET CUTS! (Los Angeles Indymedia) May 15, 2008

May 13, 2008 - News, Views, & Info

Perceived as “Dykes, Whores, Bitches”: 1 in 3 US Military Women Experience Sexual Abuse (The WIP) May 7, 2008

Bolivia: Fraud, Violence and Mass Resistance Marks Right-Wing Push (Bolivia Rising) May 11, 2008

Food Crisis (Part One): The Greatest Demonstration of the Historical Failure of the Capitalist Model (Socialist Voice) April 28, 2008

FOOD CRISIS (Part Two): Capitalism, Agribusiness, and the Food Sovereignty Alternative (Socialist Voice) May 11, 2008

Exposing 'Juan Crow' in the state of Georgia: the matrix of laws, social customs, economic institutions and symbolic systems enabling the physical and psychic isolation needed to control and exploit undocumented immigrants. (The Nation) May 8, 2008

Antiwar Marine's Mother Elaine Brower Reports From March's Winter Soldier
(Against the Current) May/June 2008

A Report on Winter Soldier 2008 (Against the Current) May/June 2008

Amazon's Future in Delicate Balance. 75% of Deforestation in Amazon is to Create Cattle Pasture (BBC News) May 12, 2008

May 11, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

Hollywood Could Soon See Another Strike (Workers Independent News) May 8, 2008

A Nuclear Problem: Oglala Sioux Fight Expansion of Uranium Mine (Indian Country Today) May 9, 2008

Regime in Burma Worsens Suffering from Cyclone (Green Left Weekly) May 10, 2008

World's Native Peoples Take on Climate Change (Living on Earth) May 9, 2008

Journalist Kevin Pina on the Neoliberal Roots of Haiti's Food Crisis (Socialist Worker) May 5, 2008

May 10, 2008 - Some News, Views, and Info

Indigenous Speak Out Against Carbon Markets (Inter Press Service) May 4, 2008

Two More Gruesome Weeks Under Colombia's Alvaro Uribe (Latin America News Review) May 7, 2008

The Wages of Left Capitulation to the Democratic Party 1 (Counterpunch) April 26/27, 2008

McCain, Clinton, Obama and the Wages of Left Capitulation to the Democratic Party 2 (Counterpunch) May 9, 2008

Polarizing Bolivia: Santa Cruz Votes on Autonomy (Upside Down World) May 8, 2008

Expanded Undercover Investigation Shows Mistreatment of Downer Cows Is Commonplace at Livestock Auctions (Humane Society of the United States) May 7, 2008

Mumia Abu-Jamal Asks: Who's uncle is really crazy? Uncle Jeremiah or Uncle Sam? (Prison Radio) May 1, 2008

Rockefeller Family Fables (Dissident Voice) May 8, 2008

Burger With a Side of Spies: How Burger King Hired a Sketchy Private Security Firm to Spy on Non-Violent Activists (New York Times) May 7, 2008

Food Crisis: The Greatest Demonstration of the Historical Failure of the Capitalist Model

By Ian Angus, Socialist Voice, April 28, 2008

- - -
Food is not just another commodity — it is absolutely essential for human survival. The very least that humanity should expect from any government or social system is that it try to prevent starvation — and above all that it not promote policies that deny food to hungry people.
That’s why Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was absolutely correct on April 24, to describe the food crisis as “the greatest demonstration of the historical failure of the capitalist model.”

Read all of 'Food Crisis: The Greatest Demonstration of the Historical Failure of the Capitalist Model'. . .

Evo Morales: 10 Commandments to Save the Earth

Climate and Capitalism, April 21, 2008

Speaking at the United Nations today, Bolivian president Evo Morales proposed 10 commandments to save the planet, life and humanity.

1.Acabar con el sistema capitalista
Putting an end to the capitalist system
2. Renunciar a las guerras
Renouncing wars
3. Un mundo sin imperialismo ni colonialismo
A world without imperialism or colonialism
4. Derecho al agua
Right to water
5. Desarrollo de energías limpias
Development of clean energies
6. Respeto a la madre tierra
Respect for Mother Earth
7. Servicios básicos como derechos humanos
Treat basic services as human rights
8. Combatir las desigualdades
Fighting inequalities
9. Promover la diversidad de culturas y economías
Promoting diversity of cultures and economies
10.Vivir bien, no vivir mejor a costa del otro
Living well, not living better at the expense of others

LINK