by Eric A. SmithLONDON, Mar 7 -- Well, now it's official.Blair has joined Bush in declaring their mutual global campaign a 'war on evil', thus officially designating our bombs holy and the enemy's evil, should we have harbored any doubts.So while we poison civilians with depleted uranium for the "greater good", our enemies are using (or were maybe perhaps planning to … [Read more...] about -God, Blair and the Bomb: A tentative search for moral clarity
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(See below for how YOU can help support the victims of Sara Lee)More than a year later, Leonor Castillo is still a very angry woman. She sits at the kitchen table of her two-room cinderblock house and talks in a gentle voice that mutes the rage about her six years at the plant: the sudden reorganization of the production system with the result that everyone seemed to be … [Read more...] about -One of the ongoing battles against global sweatshops (Sara Lee)
-Power Struggles in Haiti and Venezuela: Interviews Available
BILL FLETCHER, bfletcher@transafricaforum.org, https://www.transafricaforum.org Executive director of TransAfrica, Fletcher said today: "In recent weeks, the Haitian crisis has been deepening. In addition to mass protests against President Aristide, demanding his resignation, there have been military assaults in several cities and what appears to be a move toward … [Read more...] about -Power Struggles in Haiti and Venezuela: Interviews Available
-Jewish Voice for Peace: Cecilie Surasky on “Anti-Semitism” at the World Social
(Cecilie Surasky is the Communications Director for Jewish Voice for Peace and a New Voices fellow with the Academy of Educational Development.)(plus other recent articles from A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE)It is my first morning at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India and I am at a workshop on Palestinian women and the occupation. In the audience is a woman who I first … [Read more...] about -Jewish Voice for Peace: Cecilie Surasky on “Anti-Semitism” at the World Social
-Mokhiber-Weissman / The 10 Worst Corporations of 2003 / Feb 18
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2003 February 18, 2004 By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman2003 was not a year of garden variety corporate wrongdoing. No, the sheer variety, reach and intricacy of corporate schemes, scandal and crimes was spellbinding. Not an easy year to pick the 10 worst companies, for sure.But Multinational Monitor magazine cannot be deterred by such … [Read more...] about -Mokhiber-Weissman / The 10 Worst Corporations of 2003 / Feb 18