World Globalisation Newswire Archive

News about the persecution and intimidation of Left wingers and Independent media who do not agree with the war against the LTTE.

About 1,000 protestors demonstrate against the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Essen, Germany, February 10, 2007

"It is the tragic of each and any democracy, that everybody here can tell freely his oppinion in public and that state representatives have to be protected in a democracy. In dictatorships things like that would not happen."
Horst Teltschik, organizer of the NATO-security conference in an interview given to BR 2

Until recently, the bribes paid by German firms abroad were deducted from the corporation tax as operating expenses.. The neoliberal dogma doesn't need any religion any more since it makes capitalism itself into a religion.. The cult of abstract riches cannot replace morality.. In structural over-accumulation, surplus capital presses on the finance markets. Mergers and takeovers become central.

Imperialism is constant for capitalism. But it passes through various phases as the system evolves. At present the world is experiencing a new age of imperialism marked by a U.S. grand strategy of global domination. One indication of how things have changed is that the U.S. military is now truly global in its operations with permanent bases on every continent, including Africa, where a new scramble for control is taking place focused on oil.

China's President Hu Jintao re-establishes trade links with Africa vowing not to interfere with the sovereign rights of African nations. The net result of this soft approach is African nations clamouring to the Chinese whose trade links with Africa extend thousands of years into the past. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of large African port cities containing artefacts and trade material from China and Africa. Large amounts of ceramics, ivory, gems, precious metals and a wealth of other artefacts reveal a long history of lively and thriving two-way trade between the two continents.

Here is a list of some of what has been going on in Europe agaist this June's g8 summit in Germany

The tree camp in the Brecon Beacons is still going strong. The mood is good and everyone is happy ( well all except National Grid that is !!! ).

A call to global solidarity in the face of H5N1 and other avian influenza viruses signed by Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Walden Bello and others. Bird flu is not a media scare story, it is a major threat to poor people throughout the world. What we need is a global justice response.

69 and 53 days of hunger strike!

In flagrant contempt of best archaeological practice, a systematic campaign of tree felling, earth clearance and monument removal has begun at the Hill of Tara. This is before the Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract for the M3 Motorway, to run through the Tara / Skryne Valley, has even been signed. Daily protests are taking place, every 7am in the morning at the Hill of Tara car park.

Dick (dark side) Cheney is to visit Oz this month to thank Howard for his support, RUBBISH! Howard has recently returned from the U.S. where ample opportunity to “thank him”, presented itself. No, the world’s most hated man and notorious psychopath is visiting Oz to inspect and organise something tangible and corporeal. Why these neo-conservative clowns persist in treating the Australian people as servile morons is beyond me, or is it? Perhaps our fearful leader, John Howard, has given the ‘wrong’ impression to the world. Is it possible Howard the despicable coward does not reflect the true Australian character, are we really a bunch of colonialist slaves and lackeys? For now the shoe fits perfectly; the ‘boss man cometh’ to re-organise his slaves AND to set his property interests in order!

French farmer and anti-globalization activist Jose Bove addresses the media during a press conference in Saint Denis, north of Paris, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007. Bove said in a newspaper interview Wednesday that he will run in France's spring presidential race.

As part of Corporate Watch's ten year anniversary, Indymedia.org has been deemed Top Publication opposing Corporate Power

Violation of migrants’ human rights in Morocco an “accident” says Commission official. The European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights held an exchange of views on the situation of migrants in Morocco on Monday, 22nd January.

In the case of BR-376 the situation is still more serious. Because it is intended to give to private exploration a federal highway that was constructed with money of the people of Paraná State.

Germany. Protesters managed to get into the park of Castle Belvedere, the place where german Bundespräsident Köhler welcomed mexican president Calderon, who got into office by election fraud and who brutally surpresses the social movement in Oaxaca.

Switzerland.
protesters show Calderón he is not welcome. They managed to protest directly in fron of the Hotel Belvedere.

"Global poll condemns Bush administration on Iraq war and global militarism
By: Kate Randall on: 26.01.2007 [17:13 ] (72 reads)

Big Anti-War Rallies in DC, Elsewhere Tomorrow
Speakers to Include Jesse Jackson, Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon

Major anti-war rallies are slated for tomorrow across the United States, with the biggest gathering expected at the National Mall in Washington."

Protesters carried though actions and demonstrations against the gathering of the rich and powerful at the World Economic Forum this week. Marches and actions took place mainly in Zuerich, Basel, Delemont and St.Gallen in various different forms.

Five indigenous communities were cleared by 800 policemen and 150 soldiers in the regions Izabal and Alta Verapaz in Guatemala on 8th and 9th January 2007.