|
MARCH
8-1, 04
Archives |
|
Chief
export: our jobs! WILL THAT EASE THE TRADE
DEFICIT? March 8, 2004 By Ted Lang
My father and mother both emigrated from Germany in the 1920's. My dad
began his employment career working as an unskilled laborer in low paying jobs.
He enrolled in night school and trained to become a machinist. This included
mathematical computation, reading blueprints and measuring with and reading a
micrometer, dial indicator and calipers. He learned to operate turret lathes,
milling machines, shapers and punch and drill presses. thepeoplesvoice.org
US forces accused of looting, torture and
death in Afghanistan March 8, 2004 By Kim
Sengupta American forces in Afghanistan have been accused of flouting
international law with arbitrary arrests, torture and killing of prisoners in a
report by a civil rights watchdog. Soldiers are accused of using unprovoked
deadly force in capturing civilians, some of whom were then allegedly subjected
to cruel and inhumane treatment leading to deaths in custody. It is also alleged
that looting has taken place during searches of homes. news.independent.co.uk
Bush Stalling
Iraq, 9/11 Probes March
8, 2004 By MIKE GLOVER John Kerry on Sunday
accused President Bush of "stonewalling" separate inquiries into the
events leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists attacks, as well as into the
intelligence that suggested Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq. "Why is this administration stonewalling and resisting
the investigation into what happened and why we had the greatest security
failure in the history of our country? The American people deserve an answer
now," Kerry said. "The immediate instinct of the Republicans and this
administration was to shut it down." nwitimes.com
Did the FBI conceal wider right-wing
involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing?
March 8, 2004 By Joanne Laurier The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
has been forced to reopen its investigation into the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
amid claims that the federal police agency suppressed information pointing to
wider right-wing terrorist involvement. The Associated Press (AP) revealed last
week that FBI agents destroyed evidence pointing to the possibility that bomber
Timothy McVeigh, eventually executed for the crime, may have been assisted by a
group of white supremacist bank robbers. wsws.org
President George Bush and the Gilded Age March
8, 2004 Yoshi Tsurumi (Professor of International Business)
Something really strange has happened to the U.S. under the Bush Administration.
With her ever bulging budget deficits and foreign debts, America's skewed income
distribution is rapidly making the U.S. resemble Argentina or Mexico. glocom.org
Another flawed fact on the war in Iraq
March 8, 2004 By George McEvoy When John Kerry lists the wrongs he
attributes to the administration of President Bush -- the budget surplus turned
into a huge deficit, the loss of jobs and pensions, the lack of an exit strategy
in Iraq, etc. -- he always leaves out one that bothers me greatly. And that is
that Mr. Bush and his advisers have changed our world image completely and made
us into an aggressor nation. palmbeachpost.com
Two-thirds of
US crops GM contaminated, claims report March
8, 2004 By GEOFFREY LEAN More than two-thirds of conventional crops in
the United States are now contaminated with genetically modified material -
dooming organic agriculture and posing a severe future risk to health - a new
report concludes. nzherald.co
Will Global Rules for GMOs Be Too
Late? March 8, 2004 Stephen
Leahy (IPS) As activists celebrated the emergence of a strong Biosafety
Protocol to control genetically-engineered organisms (GEO) last month, U.S.
scientists reported that contamination of GEOs is spreading and might be
impossible to stop. ipsnews.net
Democracy Took the Day
Off
March 8, 2004 PRNewswire Author and Gospel singer Bob Miller, a
registered Republican shocked his fellow song writers at their annual conference
this week with his most unexpected political opinions. There were no hecklers,
but then most everyone appeared speechless except Miller, "I'm not
campaigning against a fellow Republican. The truth is, Bush does not represent
the Republican Party or any other party for that matter. He represents the Bush
dynasty. Is it not bad enough that another four years of his dictatorship will
produce yet more unemployed, homeless and demoralized Americans? biz.yahoo.com
13 die in Israeli
attack on refugees March
8, 2004 By Stephen Farrell ISRAELI
forces swept into refugee camps in the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing 13
Palestinians, including an 8-year-old boy, and wounding up to 60 people. theaustralian.news.com
US detaining 10,000 Iraqis
March 8, 2004 More than 10,000 Iraqi men and boys are being kept in jail by
their US occupiers, with the youngest captive being just 11 years old. aljazeera.net
Austin, TX Activists Unite Against Police
Oppression March 8, 2004 Last year, while
undercover agents from the Austin police department were infiltrating
anti-war activist workshops, officers of the same department continued the
customary practice of harassment
and brutality against communities of color on Austin's east side. indymedia.org
RNC tells TV stations not to run
anti-Bush ads March 8, 2004 GOP
committee says MoveOn.org's spots are illegally financed (CNN) The Republican
National Committee is warning television stations across the country not to run
ads from the MoveOn.org Voter Fund that criticize President Bush, charging that
the left-leaning political group is paying for them with money raised in
violation of the new campaign-finance law. cnn.com
Bush
Lied to the American People about 9/11 Terrorists' Motives
March 7, 2004 By: Tom Murphy Bush's
lie hides from many Americans the fact that we were attacked by Al-Qaeda because
of specific foreign polices and not because we are the "brightest
beacon of freedom and opportunity" We don't deserve to be lied to. What
Bush lied about was WHY WE WERE TARGETED. The day after the worst terrorist
attack in American history, President Bush addressed the nation. Those looking
for an explanation for why the terrorists attacked America got only a lie. thepeoplesvoice.org
Bush jobless
recovery hits middle class March
7, 2004 In his new campaign ads, President Bush speaks
warmly of a nation on the rebound, with a growing economy that's producing jobs.
But the America that Bush sees is not the reality for millions of workers,
especially in the middle class. The federal
government's latest employment numbers are, again, dismal. The U.S. added only
21,000 jobs in February, less than one-tenth the monthly increase the country
needs to stay even. nydailynews.com
He molests the dead
March 7, 2004 By Jimmy Breslin In his first campaign commercial,
George Bush reached down and molested the dead. But this only in keeping with
both Bushes. George Bush, Sr., had the badge of officer Eddie Byrne, who was
gunned down in South Jamaica, and he stood up at Christ the King High School in
Middle Village and held it up. This second George Bush came up with the badge of
a Port Authority cop, George Howard, who died. He was from Hicksville. His
mother gave Bush the son's badge. When Bush came back to the trade center a year
later, he reached into his pocket and whipped out that badge and he had a tear
in his eye. newsday.com
Bush and the myth of great leadership
March 7, 2004 By BILL MAXWELL President Bush's new campaign ads are on
the air and generating unintended consequences. Nov. 2, of course, will tell us
if these ads were effective. We do not need to wait until November to know,
however, that these ads are some of the most cynical, tasteless, deceptive and
exploitative the nation has ever seen. sptimes.com
Buffett says
Bush tax cuts favor corporations March
7, 2004 OMAHA (AP) Billionaire investor Warren Buffett accused the Bush
administration Saturday of pursuing tax cuts that favor business and the
wealthy. "If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly
winning," Buffett said in Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s annual report. siouxcityjournal.com
Operation Sweatshop
March 7, 2004 By Chris Floyd Jean-Bertrand Aristide's move to raise
Haiti's minimum wage was the last straw for American corporations and elitist
U.S. factions. This week, the Bush administration added another violent
"regime change" notch to its gunbelt, toppling the democratically
elected president of Haiti and replacing him with an unelected gang of convicted
killers, death squad leaders, militarists, narcoterrorists, CIA operatives,
hereditary elitists and corporate predators -- a bit like Team Bush itself, in
other words. tmtmetropolis.ru
Godfather
Colin Powell The Gangster of Haiti
"The deed is done. Haiti has been raped. The act was sanctioned by
the United States, Canada and France." - Editorial, Jamaica Observer Colin
Powell is "the most powerful and damaging black to rise to influence in the
world in my lifetime." - TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson. zmag.org
"Unknown Soldier" Speaks Out To
Bring Troops Home March 7, 2004 by
Daniel Redwood "We don’t care about Iraqi deaths. It’s
something that does not even count. The hospital was told not to keep count. The
Iraqi infrastructure does not keep an account of the deaths anymore. The
American government told them not to. We do always keep a list of the Americans
injured and the number that die. But here in America you don’t see anything
about these soldiers coming back. You don’t read anything about the funeral.
It’s like it’s a secret, like these people didn’t exist." interventionmag.com
Stern
predicts will be run off air for criticizing Bush
March 7, 2004 Howard said he got a call from someone who
tells him about what's going on inside the FCC. He said that he heard that the
FCC is going to fine him and make it impossible for his company to keep him on.
He said he has to get this message out before he's kicked off the air. . . sianews.com
2003 summer hottest in 500 years
March 7, 2004 European researchers say last summer was the hottest on the
continent for at least five centuries. Thousands of deaths were blamed on the
heatwave news.bbc.co.uk
The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change
March 7, 2004 Spencer Weart Only within the past decade have researchers
warmed to the possibility of abrupt shifts in Earth's climate. Sometimes, it
takes a while to see what one is not prepared to look for. physicstoday.com
How Industry Won the Battle of Pollution
Control at E.P.A. March 7, 2004 By
CHRISTOPHER DREW and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. Just six weeks into the Bush
administration, Haley Barbour, a former Republican party chairman who was a
lobbyist for electric power companies, sent a memorandum to Vice President Dick
Cheney laying down a challenge. nytimes.com
1,188
Americans Killed in Iraq - Your Son Will Be Next
March 6, 2004 By Joe Vialls According to a well-placed Pentagon
source, the White House and corporate media are reporting less than half the
actual American military deaths in Iraq. As of 3 February 2004, the 'official'
media total stood at 528, while the real total at midnight on the same day was
1,188. This criminal discrepancy in the fatality figures is not the fault of
soldiers on the ground in Iraq, but of corrupt civilians in the Pentagon working
for Paul Wolfowitz Inc. The Pentagon officer explained it like this. joevialls.altermedia.info
US job growth at a standstill
March 6, 2004 By David Walsh The US Labor Department’s jobless
report for February revealed that almost no new jobs had been produced during
the month. The official jobless rate held steady at 5.6 percent, but it failed
to rise only because of a sizable contraction in the active labor force, as
hundreds of thousands lost hope of finding a job. wsws.org
Bush close to imposing sanctions on Syria
March 6, 2004 By Reuters The Bush administration
plans to impose sanctions on Syria within weeks for its support of terrorist
groups and for failing to stop guerrillas entering Iraq, congressional officials
and other sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. haaretzdaily.com
Hide and Seek in Florida By BOB HERBERT Tens of thousands of youngsters from
low-income families who were eligible for a children's health insurance program
in Florida but, instead of being allowed into the program, were diverted by
state officials to a long waiting list. Even children with serious health
problems were put on the list. Republican leaders in the Florida House and
Senate have crafted the new legislation in ways that will radically limit future
access to KidCare and prevent the press and the public from getting information
about the number of kids who are frozen out. nytimes.com
A Chilling Possibility
March 6, 2004 nasa
Global warming could plunge North America and Western Europe into a deep freeze,
possibly within only a few decades. That's the paradoxical scenario gaining
credibility among many climate scientists. The thawing of sea ice covering the
Arctic could disturb or even halt large currents in the Atlantic Ocean. Without
the vast heat that these ocean currents deliver Europe's average temperature
would likely drop 5 to 10°C (9 to 18°F), and parts of eastern North America
would be chilled, similar to global average temperatures toward the end of the
last ice age roughly 20,000 years ago. science.nasa.gov
Haiti: Thousands march in Port-au-Prince
against US-backed coup March 6, 2004 By
Keith Jones A crowd, estimated by Reuters at more than 10,000, marched on
the US embassy in Port-au-Prince Friday to denounce the US-orchestrated coup
against Haiti’s elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and demand the
withdrawal of US and French troops from the Caribbean island country. wsws.org
The price of occupying Iraq
March 6, 2004 By Tariq Ali The whole world knows that US President
George Bush and British PM Tony Blair lied to justify the war, but do they know
the price being paid on the ground in Iraq? greenleft.org.au
Has Bush no shame?
March 6, 2004 By Geraldine Sealey Relatives of 9/11 victims say the
president's new ad campaign desecrates ground zero and demand that he pull it
off the air. salon.com
And justice for all
March 6, 2004 Bush EPA dilutes meaning of environmental justice The U.S.
EPA has failed to integrate environment al justice research into the development
of its policies, says a report
[PDF] More troubling still, the EPA under President Bush seems to have
watered down the very definition of environmental justice to the point of
emptiness. workingforchange.com
Israeli
Terrorists Mysteriously Released by Mexico March 6, 2004
By Fred Lingel
A retired colonel from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and a suspected Mossad
operative caught entering the Mexican Congress with weapons and explosives were
quietly released and the story was hushed up to hide an attempt to force Mexico
to join the United States’ “war on terrorism,” according to the ACN news
service, a Mexican media company. americanfreepress.net
Martha Stewart Guilty on All Counts March 6, 2004
Martha Stewart was found guilty on Friday of all counts in the trial over a
suspicious sale of stock where she was accused of lying to investigators. Each
count carries a possible prison term of five years and a $250,000 fine. reuters.com
George Bush: World Class
Monster March 5, 2004 By Anonymous Evil
is arrogant. It has no conscience. It is utterly self-serving. It hides from
the light and will attack, even destroy others to preserve its own demented
delusions. It is an unrestrained sociopath, wallowing in the murky darkness of
its own psychosis while endlessly rationalizing its terrible deeds. It
infiltrates the weak-minded and subverts the weak of character. beachnet.com
Greenspan Testimony Highlights Bush Plan for Deliberate
Federal Bankruptcy March 5, 2004 By Michael Meurer
Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's Feb.
25 testimony to the House Budget Committee provided an unintentionally candid
look at the Bush administration's deliberate fiscal policy of bankrupting the
federal government to justify a sweeping program of privatization. During
his February 25 testimony before the House Budget Committee, Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan generated sensational national headlines by recommending
that President Bush's $1.5 trillion in tax cuts be made permanent while Social
Security and Medicare benefits be dramatically cut to achieve long term deficit
reduction and a balanced budget. truthout.org
The Assault On American Freedom March 5, 2004
By Kenneth W. Phifer
All Americans will become casualties of the war on terror, if Attorney General
Ashcroft has his way. Civil liberties are at the heart of our
American democratic ideals, a heart that today is being attacked. The civil
liberties proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and secured in the
Constitution give us freedom of religion and speech and press and assembly, give
us freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. A significant minority of
people in this country, shown a copy of the Bill of Rights, year after year call
it enemy propaganda. washtenawweb.com
Bush's Dark Age: The End
of Science March 5, 2004 By
Frederick Sweet A group of leading American scientists, including
over a dozen Nobel Prize laureates, have made public their 46-page report,
"Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: An Investigation into the Bush
Administration's Misuse of Science." The highly detailed report gives
alarming examples of the Bush Administration's misuse of science that have
already cost American lives, and foretells of soon-to-arrive national disasters
directly caused by the Administration's wholesale ideological distortion of
science. interventionmag.com
The Haitian Army Returns: Who Is Guy Philippe? March 5, 2004
Watch
128k stream The feared Haitian army, disbanded by Jean-Bertrand
Aristide, is making a comeback. We take an in-depth look at the paramilitary
leader who now claims to be in control of the Haitian police and military: Guy
Philippe, a former Haitian police chief who was trained by US Special Forces in
Ecuador in the early 1990s. democracynow.org
Furor over Bush's 9/11 ad March 5, 2004
By
MAGGIE HABERMAN The Bush reelection campaign
yesterday unveiled its first three campaign commercials showcasing Ground Zero
images, angering some 9/11 families who accused President Bush of exploiting the
tragedy for political advantage. nydailynews.com
Illness blamed on GM crops
in Phillipines March 5, 2004 By John Aglionby
Villagers
say the trouble began in July last year when the genetically engineered maize
plants started flowering. "There was this really pungent smell that got
into our throats," said Maryjane Malayon. "It was like we were
breathing in pesticides." Her sister, Amaniel, their parents, Samuel and
Merlina, and Maryjane's nine-month-old daughter, Eileen, began coughing,
vomiting, feeling dizzy and suffering from head and stomach aches. mg.co.za
Ann Coulter: The True Voice of "Compassionate
Conservatism" March 5, 2004 “Then there are the 22 million Americans on food
stamps. And of course there are the 39 million greedy geezers collecting Social
Security.” washtenawweb.com
What’s
behind the attack on pensions and social security?
March 4, 2004 By Nick Beams One of the most significant features of
government policy in all the advanced capitalist countries is the growing attack
on the pensions and social security systems developed in the post-war period.
Greenspan ruled out tax increases on businesses and the wealthy and sought to
present the planned attack on social security as the inevitable result of
changes in the demographic structure of society. wsws.org
Insurer warns
of global warming catastrophe March
4, 2004 By Thomas Atkins GENEVA (Reuters) The world's second-largest
reinsurer Swiss Re warns that the costs of global warming threaten to spiral out
of control, forcing the human race into a catastrophe of its own making. reuters.co.uk
Four wars and a cloud of dust
Administration's big trick plays help conceal dozens of smaller ones
March 4, 2004 Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- Anyone see any reason to think Haiti will be better off
without Jean-Bertrand Aristide? Just another little gift from the Bush foreign
policy team, straight out of the whacko-right playbook workingforchange.com
The close relationship between the Venezuelan
opposition group Súmate and the U.S. Government
March 4, 2004 The documents on this site reveal the intimate economic and
political relationship between the National Endowment for Democracy (“NED”)
and the Venezuelan opposition group Súmate. NED approved a grant of $53,400 to
Súmate on September 12, 2003, the grant states that Súmate will “train
citizens throughout Venezuela in the electoral process and will promote
participation in a recall referendum”. venezuelafoia.info
The passion of Howard Stern
March 4, 2004 The shock jock says radio colossus Clear Channel fired him because
he criticized George Bush -- and he's sure as hell not going to go quietly. salon.com
Radio Activist
March 4, 2004 BY KEN PICARD Can Thom Hartman reclaim the airways for
America's radical middle? “Calling for a rapid and radical return to the old
values that made America great,” says an announcer’s voice, “the values of
democracy upon which this country was founded, here’s Thom Hartmann.” sevendaysvt.com
Laughter
of the Gods March 3, 2004
By: Sheila Samples The more I look at the chaotic mess George W. Bush is
making in every blessed corner of the world, the more I am inclined to take a
closer look at the God in whose name he claims to be making it. Just who IS this
God that chats up brazen hypocrites and zealots in our midst -- whipping them
into a frenzy of pharisaic attempts to strangle democracy at home and abroad?
This awesome creature is on a murderous rampage in the Middle East, Africa,
South America and -- as Donald Rumsfeld would say -- east, west, north and south
somewhat. Armed and jackbooted, Bush's flinty-hearted Diety bears no resemblance
to the compassionate and forgiving God in whom Christians have put their faith
for more than two millenia. thepeoplesvoice.org
Aristide:
'U.S. Forced Me to Leave Haiti' March
3, 2004 Haiti’s President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
said that he was “forced to leave” the Caribbean country by US military
forces who said they would “start shooting and killing” if he refused. news.scotsman.com
Reign of terror follows US-backed coup in
Haiti March 3, 2004 By Bill Van Auken
The US ouster of President Jean Bertrand Aristide and Haiti’s occupation by a
US-led military force have set the stage for a bloody wave of repression in the
impoverished Caribbean island nation. By means of covert subversion and overt
military intervention, the Bush administration has overthrown a popularly
elected president and resurrected political forces linked to decades of
dictatorship and counterrevolutionary terror in Haiti. wsws.org
President Chavez Frias warning the United
States he will cut oil supplies March 3, 2004
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias is warning the United States
government that he will cut oil supplies if the Bush 2 administration makes any
further move against his government by trying to invade Venezuela or to impose a
trade blockade. "If Mr. Bush is possessed with the madness of trying to
blockade Venezuela ... or worse, for the Americans to attempt to invade
Venezuela in response to the desperate whining of his lackeys ... not a drop of
petroleum with come to them from Venezuela." vheadline.com
Opposition radicals refuse to accept
defeat by due democratic process March 3,
2004 Spontaneous riots have broken out across Venezuela this evening as
embittered opposition radicals refuse to accept that they have been defeated by
due democratic process. vheadline.com
GI denied health care after speaking out
March 3, 2004 By Mark Benjamin (UPI) An Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran
says Army officials at Fort Knox, Ky., refused him medical treatment after he
talked publicly about poor care at the base, which helped spark hearings in
Congress. upi.com
THE MAD GAS RUSH March
3, 2004 By Ted Williams In its haste to indulge energy companies, the
White House is sacrificing fish, wildlife, and the ranchers of the Rocky
Mountain West. Extract as much gas and oil as possible as fast as possible, at
any cost to fish and other wildlife and with enormous subsidies to industry at a
time of record profits. That pretty much sums up the Bush administration's
“energy policy,” magazine.audubon.org
USA OUT OF BUSINESS
March 3, 2004 By Don Smith It has been quite some time since I felt the
need to formally write to you regarding the state of the US economy. The first
time was back at the beginning of the year 2000. I will let the events that have
occurred since then speak for themselves. Once again I charge myself with the
task of issuing a warning to good people under the influence of stock-pushing
analysts and office-seeking politicians. Many people think we are in a bull
market in stocks again while others believe we are in a bear market rally that
is going to end shortly and wreak havoc unseen since the early part of the 20th
century. What I would like to throw into the mix is the idea that the entire
"Game" is about over. gold-eagle.com
EXCLUSIVE
BREAKING NEWS: PRESIDENT ARISTIDE SAYS 'I WAS KIDNAPPED' 'TELL THE WORLD IT IS A
COUP' March 2, 2004 democracynow.org Watch
128k stream Multiple sources that just spoke with Haitian President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide told Democracy Now! that Aristide says he was
"kidnapped" and taken by force to the Central African Republic.
Congressmember Maxine Waters said she received a call from Aristide at 9am EST.
"He's surrounded by military. It's like he is in jail, he said. He says he
was kidnapped," said Waters. democracynow.org
Why they had to crush Aristide March
2, 2004 Peter Hallward Jean-Bertrand Aristide was re-elected president of
Haiti in November 2000 with more than 90% of the vote. He was elected by people
who approved his courageous dissolution, in 1995, of the armed forces that had
long terrorised Haiti and had overthrown his first administration. He was
elected by people who supported his tentative efforts, made with virtually no
resources or revenue, to invest in education and health. He was elected by
people who shared his determination, in the face of crippling US opposition, to
improve the conditions of the most poorly paid workers in the western
hemisphere. guardian.co.uk
The overthrow of Haiti’s Aristide: a
coup made in the USA March 2, 2004 Editorial
Board The actions taken by the US government in Haiti demonstrate the
farcical character of its claims that the aim of the US invasion of Iraq was to
inaugurate an era of democratization and freedom in the Middle East and around
the world. wsws.org
Dick Cheney’s
Nigerian nightmareMarch 2, 2004 BY DAN KENNEDY
Investigators in three countries are probing an alleged $180
million bribe involving Halliburton. How long can the veep keep this tale of
international sleaze from dominating the news? bostonphoenix.com
The New Evil Empire
March 2, 2004 By John Kaminski America has become what Nazi Germany and
the Soviet Union used to be Remember the Red Menace, also known as the Communist
threat? Or how about the Third Reich, the creator of which became the chief
metaphor for evil in the 20th century? Most Americans, certainly those younger
than 30, don't remember either. Hell, they don't even remember Vietnam or Nixon
or The Beatles. The terms and their connotations are totally unfamiliar, unless
encountered in history texts. Millions of Americans simply do not remember what
America used to stand for - freedom, justice, equality - and as a result, don't
fully comprehend the appalling reality of what America has become. rense.com
The
Social Security Promise Not Yet Kept March 2,
2004 By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON SOCIAL Security retirement benefits
are going to have to be cut, Alan Greenspan announced last week, because there
just is not enough money to pay the promised benefits.
President Bush said those already retired or "near retirement age'' should
not worry. They will get their promised benefits. That, in short form, was the
story carried on front pages and television news programs across the country.
But there is an element that was forgotten in the rush of news. nytimes.com
Mexico is Contaminated by Its Neighbor
March 2, 2004 By David Bornstein Mexico, which has never
authorized cultivation of transgenic corn on its territory, is possibly the
victim of massive contamination. The key to the enigma probably lies in the
importation of genetically modified grains from the United States. "Mexican
peasants planted their fields with seed corn imported from the United States and
distributed by a government agency at prices that defied any competition. This
corn is transgenic, but the farmers in our poorest regions know nothing about
that. Nobody ever told them what transgenic was," truthout.com
Bush Diverts
Attention From Real Problems March
2, 2004 Harley Sorensen The Great Divider
was at it again last week, rallying his religious fundamentalist troops in their
never-ending war against the principles of freedom. sfgate.com
China issues human rights record of the
US March 2, 2004 english.people.com
The report reviewed the human rights record of the United States in 2003 from
six perspectives: Life, Freedom and Safety; Political Rights and Freedom; Living
Conditions of US Laborers; Racial Discrimination; Conditions of Women, Children
and Elderly People; and Infringement upon Human Rights of Other Nations. The
United States has turned a blind eye to the rights and interests of common
laborers, leading to serious problems like poverty, hunger and homeless people.
The disparity between the rich and the poor keeps widening in the US, says the
record, the fifth of its kind issued by China, in response to the annual country
reports on human rights by the United States. english.people.com
/ Full
text
Union surrenders benefits, wages in
sellout of California grocery strike March 2,
2004 By Rafael Azul and John Andrews The United Food & Commercial
Workers Union (UFCW) surrendered to all of the major demands of the supermarket
chains after a19-week strike/lockout of 59,000 workers in Southern California.
This betrayal of the longest work stoppage in the history of the US supermarket
industry sets the stage for devastating rollbacks in the working conditions and
living standards for hundreds of thousands of workers who already face low wages
and brutal exploitation. wsws.org
'I would vote for anyone but
Bush - even Donald Duck' March 2, 2004 Berlin
Many American expatriates are flocking to Democratic primaries abroad and
pinning hopes on a John Kerry election victory in November. "Bush is one of
the biggest threats to world peace and to the standing of the US in the world
community," Darren Sullivan, a photographer who lives in Amsterdam, said
yesterday. thestar.co.za
America has super-sized March
2, 2004 By ALAN FREEMAN I knew that something was up when I wandered
into the drugstore next door to The Globe and Mail's Washington office looking
for a soft drink and realized that the smallest size available was a neat 20
ounces. globeandmail.com
Bin Laden
Has Confronted American Forces Inside Afghanistan Numerous Times
March 2, 2004 By
Zafir Jamaal The chief of Al-Qaida, Osama Bin Mohammad Bin Laden, has
confronted American forces many times inside Afghanistan says a Taliban
spokesman. Speaking to Ausaf sources in Khost, Taliban spokesman Mohammad Saif
ul Adil has said that Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri are both in
Afghanistan and not Pakistan as some officials claim. jihadunspun.com
Chavez calls Bush 'asshole' as foes fight troops
March 1, 2004 By Patrick Markey CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) -
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called U.S. President George W. Bush an
"asshole" on Sunday for meddling, and vowed never to quit office like
his Haitian counterpart as troops battled with opposition protesters demanding a
recall referendum against him. Chavez, who often says the U.S. is backing
opposition efforts to topple his leftist government, accused Bush of heeding
advice from "imperialist" aides to support a brief 2002 coup against
him. "He was an asshole to believe them," Chavez roared at a huge
rally of supporters in Caracas. news.yahoo.com
|
FAIR USE NOTICE:
This site contains copyrighted articles and information about environmental, political,
human rights, economic, democratic, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. This news
and information is displayed without profit for educational purposes, in accordance with, Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
Thepeoplesvoice.org is a non-advocacy internet web site, edited by non-affiliated U.S.
citizens. editor |
|