World Globalisation Newswire Archive

According to La Jornada, 11 are said to be dead and here is a list of people still missing/disappeared, arrested and wounded.

Some recent articles and reports one year on from the Gleneagles G8 (from NEF, Oxfam, WDM etc)....

While there was immediate criticism from many NGOs after the final G8 2005 communique, the situation now, just a few weeks before the St Petersburg G8 Summit in Russia, is just as depressing.

Some movement yes, but nothing like what's needed.

As to climate change and energy, well, there's plenty of reasons to be protesting against the G8.

George Bush is partly to blame for the troubles in every region the IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies) report cited as “engaged in brutal combat” in which simultaneous global turning points could initiate an international crisis. I believe all these regions have become trouble spots largely because of the war on terror, and/or George Bush Jnr’s “Axis of Evil” announcements. I will prove my thesis without mentioning the war in Afghanistan or Iraq, because we all know the roles Bush and Blair played in those “trouble spots.”

Now in english....

From:
 http://spb8.net/en/uncategorized/21

This bulletin is prepared by some members of Moscow group of Network Against G8 (SPB8). It is result of common discussions in inter-regional meeting of 28th of May 2006 between St. Petersburg group of Network Against G8, St. Petersburg League of Anarchists, Punk Revival, FrontAIDS, Indymedia, Indyvideo, Legal-team, Medical group, AFA St. Petersburg and individual activists, but bulletin does not necessarily reflect opinions of all members of the network. We will publish new issues as soon as there is something to tell. Please distribute it widely!

Gordon Brown's hype of 'Islamic banking' and his claim that he is Islamic-banking-friendly, should be seen in context: Most of today’s inner city poor need not be in poverty. They are being pushed into poverty by Labour councils in the main. Most of the poor in East London are Muslim. So is there a problem of connection here?

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

It's probably a surprise for many, but this most sought after terrorist, al Zarqawi, was never on the FBI's list of the '10 Most wanted'. Nor on the FBI's list of 'most wanted terrorists'. ('Links' below) - With a reward of $25 million - like Osama bin Laden - on his head? Didn't they want him?

I was a firm believer in the war on terror, its aims, resolution never to bow down and eventually its ultimate success. This article would have reflected that, but while trawling through reams and reams of official government releases in order to write said article, I found evidence that starting in 1979 the American Government, headed up then by President Carter had begun a policy of funding Islamic terrorists to fight the soviets in Afghanistan. As well as extensive evidence that this policy was not only expanded in Afghanistan but also other groups opposing communism were funded in other countries. Eventually my own views were changed and this article will now show, that since 1979 successive American Presidents selectively or intentionally ignorant attitude toward unintended consequences of foreign policy decisions, has figured largely in the scourge of Islamic extremist terrorism the world now faces.

The most prominent international labor organizations active in Haiti, the ICFTU, AFL-CIO, ILO, and ORIT, working to support and strengthen labor unions that agitated for the ousting of Haiti’s democratically elected government, have simultaneously refused to condemn the massive layoffs and persecution of public sector workers and trade unionists committed by its illegally-imposed successor.

The Bank of Brazil will be a little less of Brazil, in the Stock exchange of São Paulo, thanks to plus an controversial decision of the petist government, totaly converted to the dogmas of international economic neolibertinism - same pathology that acomete the Toucans.

Have all the world's $billion secret services been asleep on their watch? MI5 / MI6, the whole of Scotland Yard, all agents, 'spooks' etc. too? While the 'hijackers' prepared to sacrifice their lives as 'fanatical martyrs for Allah'? In strip joints eating pork chops, washing it down with whisky, and sleeping with blond 'infidels'? Or what?

Although obviously right-libertarian, he makes interesting points about fiat currency.

With an arrogance bordering on intimidation, the US wishes to impose its will onto Chile's sovereignty and force it to block Venezuela's admission to the United Nations Security Council. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet will travel to Washington on June 9 to meet with Bush and his PNAC predators.

America has been steadily reducing its active presence in the South Pacific over the past decade. Australia (the deputy sheriff) is expected to ‘step up to the plate’ and safeguard western interests in that region. Timor is the first test of deputy (dog) in the region and to date the deputy appears to be weakening at the knees.

G8-Xtra was a paper produced to support the mobilization against the G8-Summit 2007 under the 'interventionist left' banner. For the European Social Forum in Athens an english version was distributed which contained an article on St. Petersburg 06 - reproduced below.

The whole pdf can be downloaded from:
 http://gipfelsoli.org/Heiligendamm/IL/ESF_g8xtra_net.pdf

Following the St Petersburg G8 Summit in Russia in July, the international camp against the G8 Summit 2007 in Heiligendamm, will take place from August 4th-13th 2006 at Heiligendamm, Rostock.

There is an english translation of the "First Call" here... Please read how to contact the camp working group and how to get involved.

Hi, I was trying to find this on Indymedia and could not - so it's published here. It was published at the start of May:
 http://gipfelsoli.org/Gipfelinfo/060516_St_Petersburg.html

A new bulletin is out, but only in german at the moment - english translation coming soon:
 http://gipfelsoli.org/St.Petersburg/Leaflet%202.pdf

Brricks's Hunt for Gold worldwide - or: yesterday we hunted in America, today and tomorrow globally

listen to the report, 8 mins 20 secs

People cam from Poland, Czech, Russia, Khazakhstan, Bulgaria and beyond to tell officials of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development where they are going wrong in the mission to create democracy, human rights and sustainable development in the former Soviet regions to our east.