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  • Money is NOT the measure of all things
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Was just reading about Canada Health taking an ADHD med off the market. Was reading in E.F. Schumacher’s "Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered" that we have GOT to geta grip on the economic "matrix" where growers can’t afford to GROW organically but they are happy if they can BUY organic. What’s up with that?
    This whole business paradigm we’ve been forced to live under HAS GOT TO CHANGE! Money/profit is NOT the measure of all things and we’d better start taking LIFE (…)

  • Halliburton Doing Business With The "Axis of Evil"
    5 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Halliburton Doing Business With The "Axis of Evil" Jefferson Morley washingtonpost.com staff writer Thursday, February 3, 2005
    The award for oddest geopolitical couple of 2005 goes to the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Houston-based Halliburton.
    You might not think that a charter member of President Bush’s "axis of evil" could enlist the oil-services firm once run by Vice President Cheney to bolster its bargaining position with an international community intent on (…)

  • Chavez nationalises VENEPAL under workers control !
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hands Off Venezuela Campaign
    Chavez nationalises Venepal under workers’ control By Jorge Martin - Thursday, 20 January 2005
    Chavez talks to Venepal worker after signing the decree. Picture: Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias On the morning of January 19th, in the Ayacucho room of the Presidential Palace in Caracas, and with the presence of Venepal workers and trade union leaders, Chavez signed decree number 3438 which expropriates Venepal. From now on it will be co-managed by the workers (…)

  • Whistleblowers Expose How Private Contractors Loot US Taxpayers
    4 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former managers working with Custer Battles, a high-profile private security company in Iraq, are accusing the firm of using affiliated "shell" companies in the Cayman Islands and other "tax haven" countries to fraudulently overcharge on government contracts by tens of millions of dollars. The accusations are spelled out in a lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act and made public October 8.
    Custer Battles, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, first grabbed headlines after winning a $16.5 (…)

  • China: Capitalism means war against the working class
    14 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Heiko Khoo
    China’s drive to the “socialist market” has fostered a booming economy. This concealed a mass of contradictions which an economic crisis will unravel. Here we expose the terrible price paid by the working class for capitalist “reforms.” The leadership of Hu Jintao
    September 2004 saw the transfer of leadership from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao, thus consolidating his political and military power. Born in 1942, Hu is the first leader to have grown up after the revolution. (…)

  • Silent Night, Deadly Night
    3 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Twenty years later, the Dow/Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal continues to wreak havoc on the lives of thousands. And yet corporate officials have never answered for their actions.
    By Mark Hertsgaard
    On the night her world changed forever, Rashida Bee was 28 years old and had already been married for more than half her life. Her parents, traditional Muslims, had selected her husband for her when she was 13. He worked as a tailor, and they lived together in her parents’ modest home in the (…)

  • Genocide By Omission
    2 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Genocide By Omission
    By Lloyd Hart
    Earlier this fall it was finally admitted by scientists and researchers at the university of Harvard Medical School in Cambridge Mass. that Linus Pauling was absolutely correct in his research and findings in the 1980’s on the best way to combat AIDS. That way of course was to rebuild the immune system.
    Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is a disease where the immune system fails and allows the body to fall victim to opportunistic diseases it (…)

  • George’s Economic Bubble About to Burst?
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Avoiding debt might be a very good idea.....
    Economic ’Armageddon’ Predicted (23 November 2004) http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/112804K.shtml Stephen Roach, the chief economist at investment banking giant Morgan Stanley, has a public reputation for being bearish. But you should hear what he’s saying in private. Roach met select groups of fund managers downtown last week, including a group at Fidelity. His prediction: America has no better than a 10 percent chance of avoiding economic (…)

  • Off the Record: An Investigative Journalist’s Inside View of Dirty Politics, High Finance...
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Off the Record: An Investigative Journalist’s Inside View of Dirty Politics, High Finance, and Corporate Scandal
    by Jason Leopold
    Off the Record is the story of the cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance told by Jason Leopold, who survived a life of drug abuse and petty crime and went on to become one of the most highly regarded investigative reporters of the last few years, uncovering some of the biggest scandals of corporate America, the office of the governor of (…)

  • Newly Unclassified US Documents: Bush Ancestor’s Bank Seized by Gov’t
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jonathan D. Salant
    WASHINGTON - President Bush’s grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, government documents show.
    Prescott Bush was one of seven directors of Union Banking Corp., a New York investment bank owned by a bank controlled by the Thyssen family, according to recently declassified National Archives documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
    Fritz (…)