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PRESS RELEASE Privatisation of Iraq on Trial - POSSIBLY POSTPONED

Privatisation of Iraq on Trial
- POSSIBLY POSTPONED

The biggest Brazilian gold mine belongs to a US company

07-07-2004 17:34 | Globalisation | World

Serra Pelada gold mine, in the Amazonian State of Para, one of the main Brazilian gold producers, was bought by the US mining company Phoenix Gems, which paid 40 millions dollars to exploit 100 hectares.

The contract of an important part of Serra Pelada mine’s shares, was subscribed last June 5th between a cooperative of "garimpeiros" (Brazilian gold searchers) and the US Company Phoenix Gems.

The Fuel of the World Machine

07-07-2004 16:41 | Globalisation | World

"The twofold energetic crisis of capital accumulation consists in that human energy has become vastly unprofitable while fossil energy has become too expensive. Devaluing people and upgrading oil is the short formula for the increasing dilemma of the dominant way of productionand life..The demands of a global growth economy and natural reserves in energetic fossil raw materials are in a disproportion..Production cannot keep up with need

Peace Campaigners Declare Iraq Procuremment Conference is Illegal

PRESS RELEASE

Peace activists on trial claim international privatisation of Iraq is pillage and violates the Geneva Convention.

KERRY: an 'ISRAELI' PRESIDENT FOR THE US ?

QUOTE: US SENATOR KERRY: ''MY PRO-ISRAEL VOTING RECORD IS SECOND TO NONE." In the policy paper, which has not been released publicly, Kerry outlines clear, strongly worded positions on several issues important to the American Jewish community.

Brave New World: Book Review

28-06-2004 17:57 | Globalisation | World

"Social policy can support the economy when women are increasingly integrated in the working life for example. Childcare must be assured. If a shortage of workers exists, a useable health care must be established..But what happens if workers are in abundance?.. Strikes and lockouts are part of the so-called `class struggle from above' when owners of capital have the power to play off workers against the unemployed.."

ResIstanbul - protests against NATO summit

28-06-2004 13:58 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

On the 28th and 29th of june politicians and military officials meet in Istanbul for the NATO summit.
For weeks protests against the summit take place in Istanbul and other cities against the NATO summit, globalisation of profiteering and power, as well as against the politics of the turkish government.
Whileas the turkish military and government are keen to get a “piece of the cake” which is called Iraq, a social movement is born on the streets.
About 24000 policemen and the declaration of state of emergency in Istanbul give the impression of Turkey being a proud host of the NATO summit.

Murder in St.Petersburg

28-06-2004 13:51 | Anti-racism | Globalisation | World

A well-known human right activist and scientist, who worked in the fields of discrimination, nationalism and racism, was shot on Saturday,19th of june in his house in St. Petersburg.

Annulling Debts as a Great Step

27-06-2004 17:18 | Globalisation | World

"The goal must be redefined beyond goods production and abstract labor, beyond the market and the state.. The great step of debt cancellation occurs when the burden can no longer be endured.. The absolute limit is reached when the whole public and social life collapses as in countries like Argentina, when German communes close their libraries.. The new finance capitalism is a speculative bubble and debt capitalism.."

SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL NEWS RELEASE

23-06-2004 12:47 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

BOTSWANA PRESIDENT PERSONALLY GIVES BLANKETS TO
BUSHMEN AND TELLS THEM NOT TO GO HOME
In a surprising move, last week the president of
Botswana personally visited New Xade, one of the
government sites where the 'Bushmen' were taken
after being expelled from their ancestral land.
Although it was only 3 weeks before the Bushmen
take his government to court for the right to
return to their land, President Festus Mogae was
accompanied by Sidney Pilane, the lawyer acting
for the government in the case.

Alternatives instead of Corrections

22-06-2004 21:17 | Globalisation | World

"Politics has actually never lost this control. The Washington Consensus is a purely political project.. With the slogan `Another World is Possible', the movement makes a far-reaching claim. It fights for a new social, economic, political and democratic order all over the world.. Alternative aims at changing the system, not at corrections within the system.." Jacques Nikonoff works with Attac France.

Fairy-Tale about the Upswing

21-06-2004 17:45 | Globalisation | World

"A worldwide upswing of normal duration is only conceivable if demand is lasting.. Neoliberal policy lowers individual real income, increases mass unemployment and reduces mass demand.. In 2002 the US balance of payments deficit amounted to five percent of the GDP. The need for a constant influx of foreign capital is gigantic, $2.3 million a minute.." The truth will set us free but the truth is a process, not a cudgel orfairy-tale

Smoking Crusade is about MONEY, not Health

The so-called "smoking" bans as pushed by the Corporatocracy are about what may be the biggest evasion of Corporate Liability of all time. The elements of truth, about harms of "smoking", hide information about WHY typical smoking products are so harmful, and how this involves Big Oil, Pharms, Pesticides, Chlorine, and so on.

Brunswick Georgia G-8 Arrestees Begin Hunger Strike

19-06-2004 09:10 | G8 2005 | Globalisation | Repression | World

There are still 10 people in the Glynn County Jail in Brunswick, Georgia, 9 males and one female. Four of the Brunswick Ten have begun a hunger strike and are demanding that the charges for all 15 arrested on Thursday's walk to Sea Island be dropped.

Activist Armada: Pirates of the G8

On Wednesday June 9th, 10 Pirates did the unthinkable: they set sail toward Sea Island against all odds. Determined to make their message heard these activists brought their banner and their voices to the summit doors ignoring the weather, the darkness, and the warnings of danger.

G8 counter summit in Mali

18-06-2004 07:18 | G8 2005 | Globalisation | World

For the third time already, a counter summit from below took place on the african continent in Mali at the start of june simultaneously with the meeting of the states presidents of the industrial nations, this time it was in Kita, 180 km away from Bamako. (before in Siby).

Marx Reloaded: Reflections on the 155th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto

17-06-2004 16:45 | Globalisation | World

"As predicted, free enterprise and competition have led to a concentration of capital and monopolization of the productive forces. Instead of increasing investments.., plants are closed, production sites shifted abroad, men and women dismissed to increase profit rates and state fees only paid by the lower classes.. A globalization of the capitalist model cannot be organized justly because a wild tiger cannot become a vegetarian.."

Brave New World of Work: The Political Economy of Insecurity

16-06-2004 16:36 | Globalisation | World

"The utopia of the free market has an unintentional upshot: the Brazilianization of the West.. What is most remarkable is the new similarity of the development profiles of paid labor in the so-called first and third world, the incursion of the precarious, intermittent, fluffy and unsanctioned in the western bulwarks of the full employment society.." Ulrich Beck is a professor of sociology in Munich and author of `TheRiskSociety

NO BLOOD FOR EU TRADES!

16-06-2004 05:09 | Globalisation | World

Negotiating Human Rights in Tehran?

June 15, 2004
Intellectual Conservative
Nooredin Abedian

Demonstration in Sao Paulo against the FTAA and the WTO

15-06-2004 17:56 | Globalisation | World

Yesterday, on Sao Paulo, where the 11th UNCTAD it’s having place , was made a demonstration protesting against the World Trade Organization, the Free Trade Area of the Americas and the war strategy of United States.

World Globalisation Newswire Archive

PRESS RELEASE Privatisation of Iraq on Trial - POSSIBLY POSTPONED

The biggest Brazilian gold mine belongs to a US company

The Fuel of the World Machine

Peace Campaigners Declare Iraq Procuremment Conference is Illegal

KERRY: an 'ISRAELI' PRESIDENT FOR THE US ?

Brave New World: Book Review

ResIstanbul - protests against NATO summit

Murder in St.Petersburg

Annulling Debts as a Great Step

SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL NEWS RELEASE

Alternatives instead of Corrections

Fairy-Tale about the Upswing

Smoking Crusade is about MONEY, not Health

Brunswick Georgia G-8 Arrestees Begin Hunger Strike

Activist Armada: Pirates of the G8

G8 counter summit in Mali

Marx Reloaded: Reflections on the 155th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto

Brave New World of Work: The Political Economy of Insecurity

NO BLOOD FOR EU TRADES!

Demonstration in Sao Paulo against the FTAA and the WTO

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