World Analysis Newswire Archive

In this episode of So Far and Yet So Near:

- coverage of a Fair Trade Fortnight debate: is free trade better than fair trade?
- a Muslim poet speaks about his life and work
- the role of famine in human history - and how obesity and famine may be linked

"THEY WERE ALL UNARMED. NOBODY FIRED A SINGLE SHOT AT THEM (THE TROOPS). THEY WENT IN, TIED UP THE PEOPLE AND SHOT THEM ALL. THEY DID NOT LEAVE ANY WOUNDED BEHIND," HE TOLD REUTERS.*

A review of news, opinion, and photography recorded, from the Indymedia Newswire. With times and freqs for tuning in anywhere you can, at your leisure. Free to rebroadcast. The world & recorded for the community archive! World Peace!

Flying home from India, I started to ask myself what a leader like Mahatma Gandhi would do, but I feared I would not be able to live up to the answer, unless I have some wise advice form my longtime friends. Please look into your hearts and let me know what you find.

Here is a link to the study in question:
 http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011/$File/rwp_06_011_walt.pdf

James Petras’ Photographs of Cuba Before and After Developing: An anarchist commentary on his declarations about Cuba

* The Cuban Libertarian Movement (MLC – Movimiento Libertario Cubano) makes some pertinent observations about certain declarations by somebody who was until recently an unconditional defender of the Cuban revolution.

Since September 11 there has been ongoing speculation that the Bush Administration would counter one crisis or another by triggering another terrorist attack on American soil. The Republicans are in a particular funk at the moment, and with elections coming up, the idea that another attack might occur is difficult to resist.

On the other hand, Bush now bases his entire Presidency on the illusion that he is the guy to protect Americans from terrorism. It will be difficult to blame the next attack on Clinton. After the Dubai ports fiasco and other questions about American port security, the responsibility for a new attack might turn right back at Bush. Another attack blamed on another Middle Eastern country that the United States is talking about attacking follows a fairly obvious pattern.

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.

The minorities of Bangladesh have witnessed large-scale violence, cultural genocide and discrimination and bias at the hands of all the successive governments in perpetual order.

Peter Tatchell says free speech is under attack and needs defending

"The strength and survival of free society and the advance of human knowledge depend on the free exchange of ideas. All ideas are capable of giving offence, and some of the most powerful ideas in human history, such as those of Galileo and Darwin, have given profound religious offence in their time. The free exchange of ideas depends on freedom of expression and this includes the right to criticise and mock. We assert and uphold the right of freedom of expression and call on our elected representatives to do the same. We abhor the fact that people throughout the world live under mortal threat simply for expressing ideas and we call on our elected representatives to protect them from attack and not to give comfort to the forces of intolerance that besiege them."

A message to the citizens of the world and especially the politicians, scientists and physicians involved in the debates about uranium weapons from Dr. Doug Rokke, former Director, United States Army Depleted Uranium project, former United States Army Gulf War 1 Depleted Uranium assessment and recovery team health physicist, and confirmed DU casualty.

There will be ‘hell to pay’ and hopefully an entertaining spectacle when the ICC becomes a real people’s court and those in the dock will prove that the people of the WORLD cannot be abused or deceived for long.

A review of news, opinion, and photography recorded, from the Indymedia Newswire. With times and freqs for tuning in anywhere you can, at your leisure. Free to rebroadcast. The world & recorded for the community archive! World Peace!

. . . . it seems the old criminals that were taught techniques + tech-use at the taxpayers expense in the u.s. + u.k "M.I" + "Economic"equivalents, along with their "cultured"offspring, are (ab)using them outside the "public" sector to shakedown hi-slushfunded co's trapping others into "cult" slave gangs

Only in America to my knowledge is a major scam or false claim called 'naked short selling' or anti-naked short selling' allowed by the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission to be used to mask or divert attention from illegal pump and dump or manipulation of penny stocks and penny stock near do wells such as Taser stun gun company and Patrick Byrne's Overstock.com who also operates a website called NCANS or National Coalition Against Naked Short Selling.And it is a total lie and fraud with websites created especially to promote the myth and often tout penny stocks.Recently generally unprofitable Nasdaq stocks have begun to make the false claim that counterfeit shares are being sold when in fact the worthless shell companies are themselves cranking out more shares to dump or sell to naive investors. It is my contention that this is an organized crime indeed that stretches to Kuala Lumpur and Dubia or UAE and points in between even though the fraudulent claim is only made in the U.S. where the worthless shares eventually wind up.

Education systems in free cities and regions must be very different to those of nation states. It is not just the methods of encouraging learning that will distinguish education in free cities from that of nation states, but the truth that the knowledge is rooted in. There is no point in swotting to pass examinations in subject knowledge that is wrong. Yet, that is exactly what young people in state education systems are doing. Neither they, or their parents, or their teachers realise this fact, but it remains the case.

A review of news, opinion, and photography recorded, from the Indymedia Newswire. With times and freqs for tuning in anywhere you can, at your leisure. Free to rebroadcast. The world & recorded for the community archive! World Peace!

A court case in Amsterdam has backup for the first time the validity of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike license used by many people as an alternative to traditional all rights reserved copyright.

From Indymedia Paris

On the 16th of march, 64 french universities, out of 84, were on strike.
This huge movement has started in january. Why ?