World Globalisation Newswire Archive

The produced wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small elite.. The downside of this concentration of wealth is absolute poverty, hunger and disease.. The material wealth in the western world is sufficient to meet the financial obligations to the South.

This is an urgent appeal from eco-activists in Indonesia. This appeal is about an environmentaly destructive development called 'Northern Coastal Reclamation Project'. Our campaign strategy will be to push the Dutch reclamation consultant to resign from this corporate-greed project, therefore we need solidarity from dutch activists (and also from all people everywhere else of course!)

The name of the consultant company is WitteveenBos.  http://www.witteveenbos.co.id/ -- It is the only consultant in Indonesian for this kind of project. The plan is threatening the lives of many poor people, and will wreck an ecologically sensitive area.

£4.9 million indeed. And it could easily be seen. Police, horses, dogs, helmets, body armour - even the horses had kneepads. They looked ready for some kind of weird sporting spectacle that crossed horse-racing and skateboarding.

The one glaring undeniable fact regarding the Bush administration is the fact that they have failed in ALL their endeavours – in other words they have done nothing right. The latest display of neo-con ineptitudes by John Bolton and Condoleezza Rice regarding their tactical inaction during the conflict in South Lebanon reveals the essential ideology/philosophy of the neo-cons – not only [to], ‘GIVE WAR A CHANCE; but also, WAR IS THE ANSWER’! [Thank you John Lennon.]

THE SPIRIT OF THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION

- IN CASE PEOPLE MISSED IT - WE HAD A KEY MOMENT YESTERDAY - things are moving - the "royal society" is the oldest scientific organisation in britain, invented after 1649, then put into practise after the "restoration" - its about as establishment as it gets . . . .
- the reaction was shocking too, though - revelatory, for some, in fact -

On the occasion of the Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) together with the World Bank in Singapore, the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) and other civil society organizations blame “the Fund” for being the single most influential factor for the worsening poverty in the Philippines and other countries in the South.

Latest news on the struggle against Shell in the West of Ireland. Large numbers at pickets prevent entry into refinery construction site. Shell’s public relations efforts come to naught.

It’s difficult to imagine Oxford University professors having cosy chats with seasoned mercenaries. It’s even more difficult to believe that there is a strong link between leading Oxford University academics and men who are paid to go to war and whose only loyalty is to their bank accounts. Or is it?

Ground zero hero Major Mike McCormack says he was deliberately targeted for helping release documents on EPA government cover-up, says 75% of police, firemen believe 9/11 cover-up

A Singapore activist, Mr Seelan Pillai, has been arrested and held at the Clementi Police Station in Singapore. His arrest and detention is believed to be in connection with Singapore hosting the IMF and World Bank Meeting and was reported by the Singapore Democratic Party on September 13.

37 died
chemicals in envelopes
immediately after 9/11
miami, washington dc, congress,
- but -

Millions of us are deeply distressed and angered. But, people are held back by the fear they are alone and powerless.
Many hope that somehow the Democrats will do something to change this when every day it becomes more clear they will not.
From out of this huge reservoir of people, we can unleash a great wave, moving together on the same day – our numbers making a statement
that can not be ignored and that lets it be known that we are determined to bring this whole disastrous direction to a halt.
On Thursday, October 5, join us in saying to the world: This regime does not represent us and we will not stop until we drive it out!
Walk out of school! Refuse to work! No shopping on Oct 5! Come to mass demonstrations across the country and march through the streets
calling on millions more to join us in repudiating this criminal regime with the mobilization of massive political opposition!

Jubilee South and the Freedom from Debt Coalition of the Philippines, two of the proponents and lead organizers of the International Peoples Forum vs the IMF and World Bank, denounce the latest move of the Singapore government to prevent the exercise of freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.

Killing foreign children for domestic financial gain. How insane is that for a democratic foreign policy?

‘Siberia and today’s arctic regions of Canada will be the future breadbaskets of the world.’ I read this forecast in the sixties and immediately scoffed at the prediction. The guy who made these predictions is either nuts, a charlatan, or both, I thought. The regions referred to are renowned for their permafrost, and aside from some mosses, lichens and ‘summer’ grasses, there is no way those areas could yield a viable supply of food for “the world” – that was then!

"You are a dog ... you should die. We are going to necklace you," whispered a British-accented caller into the phone. It was the latest in a round of death threats that Athena Kolbe, Human Rights Investigator and Master's level social worker at Wayne State University, had received. According to police officials, Kolbe first began receiving threatening calls at home and on her cell phone at 4:00 AM on the morning of Monday September 4.

President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper have now been fingered in the softwood lumber money laundry.
Harper allowed a $500 Million dollar deal to go forward at the expense of all Canadian citizens.

There was a feature on BBC1 Heaven and Earth show here in the UK which had
Professor David Ray Griffin, Theologian, talking to Ed Stourton, who travelled to Amsterdam to meet Professor David Ray Griffin who is at the vanguard of this controversial school of thought - and who says that it's every Christian's duty to uncover the truth of the "cover up" that he alleges is taking place about 'the-truth' ehat really happened on 9/11?

See Heaven and Earth Link:-  http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/heavenandearth/programme.shtml

It is probably no coincidence that a useless video of old Osama bin Laden reruns mysteriously appeared on Al Jazeera at about the same time George W Bush decided to break the Guiness Book of Records on 'terrorism speeches' -even though he already held the record ! And it was also probably no coincidence that his terrorism speech fest was timed to kick off the U.S. midterm elections. In fact it is both humorously and sadly all too obvious.