Let's just say that Comrade George Bush's $700 billion no-speculator-left-behind bailout of US financiers - perhaps the most significant wave of government takeovers of the economic commanding heights since Fidel Castro's moves in tiny Cuba back in the 1960s - undermines the credibility of neo-conservative insistence that all problems must be solved through unregulated markets.Farmers Protest WTO in Hong Kong
In this online video, retired CIA officer Ramond McGovern says Obama should negotiate a rational relationship with Russia.
A look at the compelling new documentary based on Naomi Wolf’s book of the same name.
The "End of America," a compelling new documentary by award-winning filmmakers Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern in collaboration with best-selling author Naomi Wolf received some love today in the New York Times:
The pointedly inflammatory film, adapted from Naomi Wolf’s book "The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot," compares the Bush administration’s attempts to discourage dissent and to wield increasingly unchecked power to the events preceding the establishment of 20th-century dictatorships in Germany, Italy, Chile and elsewhere. Without explicitly invoking the word, it implies that since 2001 the United States has drifted toward fascism in the name of fighting terror.
The Facing a Mekong River Dam
Currently the UN considers industrial tree plantations as forests. This is, simply put, an egregious error. Plantations are not forests. Forests are diverse ecosystems and plantations are void of biodiversity. The UN definition endangers Indigenous Peoples, forest dependent people, peasants, small farmers, biodiversity and exacerbates climate change.
When the 250 workers at the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago were told that the plant was shutting down, they decided to take matters into their own hands. On Friday, December 5, they occupied their factory in an act that echoes the sit-down strikes of the 1930s and the occupation of factories during the 2001 crisis in Argentina. Workers Occupying Chicago Factory
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