World Globalisation Newswire Archive

The anniversary of the death of the Philippines' national hero Jose Rizal this Dec. 30 affords us the occasion to reassess his work, particularly in the context of ongoing fierce class war in the Philippines between the oppressed, impoverished majority and the few privileged landlords and politicians bought by global capital. This is taking place at a time when the Philippines is being re-colonized by the U.S., the world's imperialist hegemon. Would Rizal want the country partitioned by greedy transnational corporations and their racist elites in the brutal terrorist war against peoples of color? These reflections hope to provoke a re-thinking of what it means to be a Filipino with the Philippines in dire crisis, using Rizal as a point of departure, especially in the light of its citizens becoming an embattled diaspora--more than ten million OFWs as exploited domestics and contract workers scattered around the planet, while the country's rich natural resources, cultures and traditions are wasted by foreign profiteers supported by local comprador parasites currently headed by the corrupt Arroyo regime. "O where is the hope of the motherland...."?

* A member of the group promoting the Alternative Social Forum explains why the World Social Forum (WSF), taking place in Caracas during January 2006, is another attempt by the Chavez government to impede the autonomous development of social struggles in the country.

Hardly anyone today dares financing the social state by cutting the armament budget.. The fat years are over! Three cheers for dispossession! Expropriation instead of representation!

Revolution 30A

This week is being used by the state-approved and in effect the state-licensed media commentators to renew the plugs for loyalty to the agencies of profit big business and their ideological tributaries.

To scoff is to remain ignorant in the face of profundity! Blindness is always the result!
Let wisdom's seventh chapter unseal the symbols.

Free traders praise this globalization as a panacea for spreading prosperity and combating poverty. However employees are not harvesting the fruits of this development.
Half of the workers of the world do not earn enough to free themselves and their families from poverty.

CENSURE INTRODUCED IN HOUSE
THE REPORT: MASSIVE REPORT ALLEGES GROSS MISCONDUCT OVER IRAQ WAR, 'TORTURE'...
Censure motion hits Bush on Iraq, 'torture'...
Dem senator seeks advice on impeachment

After ten years under the WTO, unemployment has increased everywhere in the world.. Many transnational businesses try to distance themselves from responsibility for working conditions by outsourcing work.. Joy to the world, not only to the superrich!

On the day when the mainstream UK news outlets are running the alleged story about alleged class division between John Prescott and his boss Tony Blair - and on the alleged rift between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair over the British EU rebate...
in contrast with the absence from the main news media in the UK of anything like decent reporting on how BOTH Prescott and Brown are as much responsible as Blair for continuing with the policy of impoverishment of huge parts of the world’s populations...

In Reading last night, around 20-30 anti-capitalists, environmentalists, students and others marched from the Reading International Solidarity Centre, to make a free cafe and anti-World Trade Organisation demonstration outside Starbucks in the town centre. Protesters moved quickly into the Oracle Riverside - busy private land on both sides of the canal which is lined with posh restaurants, bars and the cinema between the huge Oracle shopping center and it's multi-story carpark.

- SOUTH KOREAN FARMERS STAND TALL AND BREAK INTO CONVENTION CENTER WHERE THE WTO-TRADE-TALKS ARE HAPPENING -

Here some more inspiring photos from the WTO summit in Hong Kong. See feature for more info.

A thorough analysis of humanity's role in the destruction of the environment and acceleration of global warming

HONGKONG-- A proposal of rich countries to open the markets of less developed nations to their non-agricultural products like fish, the Philippines' 1.8 million small fishermen-and Southeast Asia's 12 million-could drown in a sea of imports from the likes of China and Japan.

I again, near the end of your free time here, am asking for Americans to help
me protect our freedom as it pertains to the false allegations that have been
leveled against myself as a true living god by your seriously criminal demon
leader dictator, the truly evil, Mr. bush Jr..

Compilation of images from last two days of resistance against the WTO in Hong Kong

Soldiers have big weapons. Human Righst Observers fight them with their cameras. Then the soldiers erase the tapes

Written by Little Wolf, Translated by Perspex
Source: InMedia HK
 http://www.inmediahk.net/public/article?item_id=84236&group_

Its not comprehensive but there is alot there
Sites with reports and actions as well as some background info