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Google Gaggle! OH F@!$

2011-11-10T16:18:00.000Z

I really made a mistake by trying to change my email address - if anyone has been through the hops of "conflicting accounts" you know what I mean!

BP refuses award, ejects the messengers

2011-04-18T14:11:00.007Z

Diane Wilson got fished out of the Blog at Democracy now after an attempt to present the "Black Planet" award at a British Petroleum shareholders meeting. Since this was in London, she didn't get teargassed or beaten as is the custom stateside, but after 30 minutes of persistence, she did get arrested. She reports:

When I saw they absolutely were going to do everything they could to block me out, I had a baggy of molasses I had stuck in my bra, believe it or not, and I ripped it out, and I put it on my face, and I put it on my hands. And I said, "This is why they do not want us in here. They want us to go away. They want us to be quiet. They do not want any attention brought on this oil." And so, I probably stood there for, oh, 20 or 30 minutes, and eventually they arrested me. They hauled me off and arrested me.

I was charged with disrupting the peace. And I kept laughing about that, and I said, "Disrupting the peace for BP?" That was pretty outrageous. You know, they had disrupted our lives down there. But just appearing at the door of a BP general assembly, and we’re disrupting the peace. And they took me down to the Forest Gate Metropolitan Police. And I must say, the police in London are extremely, extremely nice. They kept wanting to get me coffee.

The is the same Diane who went on the lam 6 years ago after her famous protest at Dow Chemical. She comes from a long line of fishermen, who have seen a bountiful resource completely destroyed by toxic industries who have absolutely no concern for human life or the need to make a living and have safe food. The picture links back to its source at Democracy Now, and here's the historic banner-drop at Dow Chemical.

Klimaforum 10 in Cancun: current program

2010-12-09T08:39:00.003Z

Terminator takes on the dinosaurs and fossil fools

2010-10-29T04:02:00.001Z

"A new executive order requires the Golden State’s utilities to get a third of their electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020. This is in addition to robust energy efficiency programs that make California consistently one of the leaders, worldwide, in creating negawatts.

Whats a negawatt?
Get the pdf

Further evidence that the smart money is on clean tech, is that Pacific Gas and Electric and Exelon have quit the US Chamber of Commerce and Duke Energy has left the National Association of Manufacturers." From Bill Hewitt, earlier this month

Myanmar snuffs news of deaths in oil pipeline blaze

2010-10-28T22:32:00.009Z

According to independent sources, more than 100 people have died as of Wednesday in Myanmar's oil pipeline blaze

On Monday, AFP reported the death of at least 14 workers at an oil fire in central Myanmar. That is the only report we had until yesterday, and casualties continue to mount. According to AFP "Authorities were battling to put out the blaze, which broke out on Sunday near Pakokku town in the Magway region." The official who passed the information to AFP did not want to be named.

The vast majority of industry in tightly controlled Mynmar is in the hands of the French company Total, and California based Chevron. Chevron took over the operations of UNOCAL after UNOCAL was sucessfully sued for sponsoring the rape and torture of villagers along their pipeline in Myanmar.

UNOCAL had long been one of the brands sold by the oil giant Chevron, but until the recent settlement, UNOCAL operated as an independent corporation.

The source for this article was a Malaysian publication Mysinchew.com, by way of AFP. Since then, the democratic resistance has leaked eyewitness accounts of villagers nearby:
Death toll exceeds 100, Democratic Voice of Burma

reported Wednesday - DOGSPOT

Tsunami Hits Indonesian Islands

2010-10-26T23:31:00.026Z

UPDATE 10-29-2010:

Rescuers need boats - 343 dead, 404 injured, 338 missing,

- Jakarta Post

On Tuesday a tsunami smashed into a remote Indonesian island chain while in central Java a volcanic eruption left 13 people dead.

An intial 7.7 magnitude underwater quake triggered the tsunami 15 minutes later. After 5 hours, the islands were rocked by a 6.1 magnitude aftershock, and a series of smaller quakes in the range of 5.1 to 6.2 magnitude. The apocolyptic scenario was completed by 3 eruptions of the Merapi volcano, which erupted yet again on Friday.

Details, along with seismic reports, have been moved to DOGSPOT

Chevron expert judged incredible in federal court

2010-10-25T01:25:00.000Z

Not once in 2 decades of work for Texaco and Chevron has John Connor found his clients to be responsible for harm to even a single person. The jury in Jefferson County, Mississippi found otherwise.

Crap and Trade is a Republican Idea

2010-10-23T23:58:00.011Z

Two in a row for GRIST - they released a great issue yesterday. In "The GOP changes its tune on cap-and-trade", Dan Weiss explains how and why the Republicans are:

"...repudiating Reagan's legacy of cap-and-trade for cheap political gain to curry favor with polluting industries".

"Cap-and-trade is a cost-effective alternative that allows the firms that can more cheaply reduce their emissions below their required limit to sell any additional reductions to companies that are not able to make reductions as easily. This creates a system that guarantees a set level of overall reductions while rewarding the most efficient companies and ensuring that the cap can be met at the lowest possible cost to the economy.
The Reagan White House conceived the first cap-and-trade program to reduce pollution. It was used in the 1980s to phase out lead in gasoline at a lower cost."

Dan Weiss also sites Cap and Trade proposals by Newt Gingrich, George W. Bush, and Sarah Palin as recently as 2008. What a short memory we are supposed to have! Republicans bank on contributions from major polluters in exchange for their flip-flop on this issue dear to companies like Peabody and Chevron. Even before the court ruling that opened the floodgates of money for the upcoming election, Chevron has recently laundered millions through the Chamber of Commerce, an effort that is being scaled up this year. But not for candidates who support even the mildest attempts to mitigate the real cost of dirty industry.

Daniel J. Weiss originally posted his article at The Center for American Progress.

The World Bank - funding decades of climate injustice

2010-10-23T23:18:00.008Z

The world bank has gotten in many affairs beyond their original agenda, but their carbon trading portifolio has become a significant threat to climate progress. Daphne Wysham reveals their gambit at GRIST.ORG:
Her article- Critics question World Bank’s role as carbon trader, fossil-fuel funder was published 5 years ago. It should not be too much of a surprise that the World Bank envisions itself as banker for the UN climate process, which they also seek to shape. Negotiations unraveled when their hidden role in Copenhagen was revealed. As we head toward Cancun, their cards are on the table, but they are playing the wrong game.
It is time for them to fold. MORE at DOGSPOT

Handy Guide for Chevron Protests 2.0

2010-10-22T23:04:00.001Z

Here is a handy little guide for environmental activists who need to know more about the corporate giant that owns the largest toxic oil spill in history. Included are timely tidbits in 5 major categories:

Chevron corporate profile,
Chevron goes to Ecuador,
Chevron websurfing,
Who sells Chevron?, and last but not least
Chevron drills into the future.

The latest pdf is here and here.
The online version -
Who is Chevron, who promotes their greenwash ?
- contains useful links to information that might be included in a "long version".

Green cheers for new Chevron drilling?

2010-10-22T07:01:00.002Z

Is this a green blog?

The blog that calls itself "Green" at the New York Times announces with uncritical acceptance new drilling by Chevron in the Gulf of Mexico. If you want to talk to their executives, you have to be a cheerleader, and Clifford Kraus certainly is. Here's a quote from his blog, for which Green is clearly a misnomer:

"I caught up with Bobby Ryan, Chevron’s vice president for global exploration, to get his take on the announcement so soon after the lifting of the moratorium, which came in the aftermath of the blowout on a BP well that killed 11 rig workers and flooded the gulf with millions of barrel(sic) of oil. He said that despite the accident, the gulf continues to be one of the crucial areas of focus for Chevron, the second largest American oil company after Exxon. “We are going to continue to explore,” he said."

Unfortunately, there is more. Read it and you'll agree. Fresh Green Blog is a green blog -:)

Chevron websurfing

2010-10-22T04:10:00.000Z

example of a "websurfer" from Chevron:
canonical name chvpkproxy3.chevron.com.
address 146.23.4.23
Chevron provides access to the web by proxy from a network that includes these addresses:
146.44.0.0/15, 146.24.0.0/13, 146.40.0.0/14, 146.32.0.0/13, 146.22.0.0/15, 146.46.0.0/16
Their domain is registered with Network Solutions:
Chevron Corp.
Domain Coordinator
6001 Bollinger Canyon Rd.
San Ramon, CA 94583-2324
US

more about Chevron Corporation

Spoof preempts Chevron ad campaign

2010-10-19T18:08:00.008Z

Even as I type this, several news outlets continue to distribute a spoof from environmentalists that preceded a genuine effort from Chevron. The fake press releases include a link to chevron-weagree.com where a slick slide show presents a message that would be a complete turn-around for the oil giant. Chevron has launched an effort to take it down...
Full story has been updated and moved
The original spoof site has been archived, and can easily be mirrored. http://dogspot.us/chevron/
You can download the entire site as an archive

Chevron - Oil companies should clean up their messes

2010-10-19T17:32:00.003Z

Clean Up Their Messes chevron-weagree.com

This is only one slide from the spoofed Chevron website. The latest update is here: Masks come off in Chevron charade

Oil companies should fix the problems they create

2010-10-19T17:26:00.003Z

Fix The Problems They Create chevron-weagree.com

This is only one slide from the spoofed Chevron website. The latest update is here: Masks come off in Chevron charade

Chevron - Oil companies should put safety first

2010-10-19T17:18:00.007Z

Put Safety First chevron-weagree.com

This is only one slide from the spoofed Chevron website. The latest update is here: Masks come off in Chevron charade

Chevron - It's time oil companies stop endangering life

2010-10-19T17:16:00.006Z

Stop Endangering Life chevron-weagree.com

This is only one slide from the spoofed Chevron website. The latest update is here: Masks come off in Chevron charade

Tell Chevron to Clean up their energy act - in Ecuador and elsewhere

2010-10-19T17:09:00.003Z

As part of the 10-10-10 day of action organized by 350.org, Rainforest Action Network staged a clean-up at every Chevron station in San Fransisco:

"...there was a major “clean-up” at one of Chevron’s largest Bay Area gas stations at 1298 Howard Street in downtown San Francisco at noon. At the Howard Street station, activists risked arrest by blocking all entrances to the pumps with giant banners and warning signs reading “Closed for cleaning due to oil spills and climate pollution,” while other activists were physically cleaning the station." more

There is no mention on their site, of the advertising spoof that pre-empted Chevron's ad campaign yesterday - but the use of javascript on their home page is remarkably similar to the spoofed ad -:)

People's Declaration from Klimaforum

2010-10-10T21:32:00.003Z

Here is an index for the Declaration that resulted from Klimaforum09. Klimaforum10 has claimed a "blogspot",and the official site maps the way to a People's Forum in Cancun.

10-10-10 Visit a Vertical Farm

2010-10-10T11:00:00.002Z

Today is a day of action, coordinated by 350.org as a Global Work Party, and among the 7000+ actions registered on their site, one of the most interesting is an open house at Chicago's first vertical farm.

The most innovative use proposed for The Plant is to develop a test site for implementing aquaponic farm techniques in a “vertical” environment. Vertical farms have been the subject of well-publicized research, both at Columbia University in New York and at Chicago’s own Illinois Institute of Technology. But to date, indoor farming in multi-story, urban buildings has not been attempted on any scale.

They are just a few miles from the IIT campus: 1400 W. 46th Street and you're welcome to vist between 11:00am and 4:00pm. Find out more about it at the blog of developer John Edel.

Remove the US roadblock to climate action en route to Cancun

2010-10-10T04:33:00.005Z

Hopes for a legally binding agreement at the next UN climate conference have been reduced almost to nil by the failure of the US Senate...

It is a certainty that system change will be required in order to promote climate change. This was the theme of Klimaforum09, and it will be continued with Klimaforum10 in parallel with the UN conference in Cancun this year. An important instance of "system change" could be the change in the US political system: to eliminate the US Senate which has been standing in the way of progress on every front. The Senate has not even ratified the Kyoto treaty - and never will. Yet this is a measure that would easily have passed in the US House of Representatives, which is the only legislative body the American people need...

Can we streamline politics to achieve system change?

Energy rebate program ends after only 2 hours

2010-09-25T17:32:00.004Z

The State of Illinois had 3 million dollars of stimulus money for appliance rebates. A 15% instant rebate was offered on energy saving appliances starting Friday morning, and came to a grinding halt at about 10:30 am. This is quite a bit different than reslts in the other 49 states...(read more)

Hopi Reject Carbon Capture Pilot Project

2010-09-23T21:21:00.004Z

Reversing a decision made in July, the Hopi Council narrowly rejected a project that would test the viability of carbon capture on Hopi land.

In August, The Navajo Nation’s Resources Committee unanimously expressed their disapproval of the project.

The test would involve drilling near the Navajo Aquifer, which has already been threatened with depletion by the mining operations of Peabody Energy. Peabody would likely be involved if the project was considered viable.

The full story has been moved to DOGSPOT

The Vision of Black Elk

2010-09-22T00:55:00.004Z

"... It was a happy summer and nothing was afraid, because in the Moon When the Ponies Shed (May) word came from the Wasichus [the White Men] that there would be peace and that they would not use the road any more and that all the soldiers would go away. The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow. You can see that it is not the grass and the water that have forgotten.

Maybe it was not this summer when I first heard the voices, but I think it was, because I know it was before I played with bows and arrows or rode a horse, and I was out playing alone when I heard them. It was like somebody calling me, and I thought it was my mother, but there was nobody there. This happened more than once, and always made me afraid, so that I ran home.

It was when I was five years old that my Grandfather made me a bow and some arrows. The grass was young and I was on horseback. A thunder storm was coming from where the sun goes down, and just as I was riding into the woods along a creek, there was a kingbird sitting on a limb. This was not a dream, it happened. And I was going to shoot at the kingbird with the bow my Grandfather made, when the bird spoke and said: "The clouds all over are one-sided." Perhaps it meant that all the clouds were looking at me. And then it said: "Listen! A voice is calling you!" Then I looked up at the clouds, and two men were coming there, headfirst like arrows slanting down; and as they came, they sang a sacred song and the thunder was like drumming. I will sing it for you. The song and the drumming were like this:

Behold, a sacred voice is calling you;

All over the sky a sacred voice is calling.

I sat there gazing at them, and they were coming from the place where the giant lives (north). But when they were very close to me, they wheeled about toward where the sun goes down, and suddenly they were geese. Then they were gone, and the rain came with a big wind and a roaring..."

excerpted from: Black Elk Speaks, by John G. Neihardt

geese at sunset

2010-09-21T02:02:00.005Z

This photo was taken before I became a friend of the flock.

2010-09-16T22:42:00.003Z

The Ecology of Education, reuniting Love and Learning

"Teaching at the Edge" by John Elder is something new to me. I wandered into it by following links from visitors at my other sites, and I am drinking it up! Here's a short quote that resonates with my deepest feelings about education, some of my oldest beliefs:

"Love is the deepest science, but it is not quantifiable. Loving attentiveness to one's bioregional community is a discipline, in the sense of being a life's study. It does not, however, depend upon the sort of exclusive vocabulary which those academic categories we call "disciplines" use to define and defend themselves. It has already become a temptation, given the rapid growth of interest in environmental issues, to develop environmental studies or environmental education into separate new departments or programs of their own. But we should resist this impulse. The essence of environmental education is a certain energetic waywardness with regard to compartmentalization and boundaries of all kinds.
One revelation of Stories in the Land and the Watershed Partnerships for me has been that often, the most whole-hearted and integrated teaching occurs in the lower elementary grades. Instead of always having schools and colleges looking up the line to the specialized and professionalistic standards of graduate schools, I would recommend that they also try to emulate the best first grade classes, where music, art, and literature flow directly into the studies of science and mathematics."

more

2009-12-17T17:55:00.002Z

Morales finds an ally inside the Copenhagen tent

Today David Corn reported, with his usual accuracy, an unexpected alliance in Copenhagen.
Unexpected for those unfamiliar with John Kerry's long term commitment to environmental justice:

As Bolivian President Evo Morales was thundering in the press briefing room of the Copenhagen climate summit on Wednesday—railing about the "guilt of the countries of the North" and denouncing President Barack Obama for spending more on the war in Afghanistan than on climate change programs for the developing world—Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) was 100 yards away in a crowded room, delivering a somewhat similar message. Industrialized nations began global-warming pollution, Kerry said, so they now have a responsibility to "ramp up significantly" climate financing for poorer nations as part of a final deal. The South American populist and the North American senator essentially agreed.

Corn is not holding his breath in anticipation of a COP15 deal:
His Mother Jones article just hit the web minutes ago:
http://motherjones.com/environment/2009/12/deal-or-no-deal-time-copenhagen

Kerry's speech is archived here:
Senator John Kerry's speech at the COP15 climate talks today
... along with my comments and a link to the video. Later in the day, he was seen walking through the lobby of the now famous Bella Center, where protesters from Climate Action Justice and other groups were staging a sit-in after a long battle with police. He congratulated them for their dedication, and we should all be thankful he showed up before Obama officially brings his lame offer to the table. Kerry's speech reveals his long term intimacy with the issues of the moment, and he speaks the same language as those who went to the street with placards demanding SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE. It is time. But I will agree with David Corn. Check the link above to read his prognosis for COP15.

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2008-01-20T19:38:00.000Z

Water Diversion Still a Problem for Navajo and Hopi

With global warming out of control, coal-fired power plants should not be allowed to further destroy scarce resources. Although the efforts to re-open the Black mesa Mine were abandoned last year, the matter cannot be considered closed. MORE

2007-02-05T00:36:00.000Z

War Against the Poor Enters New Phase

"...two officers got out of the car and approached Common Ground volunteers. One of them, officer Lusk (badge number 1811) was involved in a previous incident where, he ... and another off duty officer in uniform broke into the office without a warrant and took computers and files belonging to Common Ground."

story continues in

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2007-01-10T11:27:00.000Z

Why is the UN Complicit in the Rape of Haiti?

Since 1981, when the "Santa Fe Statement" was drafted, powers within the Republican party have been trying to install Marc Bazin as the ruler of Haiti, with the help of a crew of pirates trained by the School of Americas. The recent outrages of MINUSTAH are merely an extension of the same tired old policy, executed by graduates of the School of the Americas. RAPE OF HAITI

2007-01-04T14:17:00.000Z

Goodbye John Lennon, Welcome to the 80s

John Lennon was born during the Bombing of Britain, and died at the hands of a mysterious assailant on 8 December 1980 (mirror), at the age of 40. He was an inspiration for the kids a decade younger than himself who became known as "The British Invasion". At an early concert that drew unexpected crowds he was asked what he thought of his young fans. "Look at their teeth," he said, "they're working class heroes".
SONG AND STORY CONTINUE

2006-12-08T10:03:00.000Z

Dumpster Divers Needed for EPA Bailout

"...the EPA has already destroyed documents. The Christian Science Monitor reports that "scientific journals worth hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars were thrown in dumpsters in October." An EPA chemist told the Kansas City Star that one library was told to throw away journals. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility uncovered documents ordering one library to recycle materials?"as many as possible."

full story at The Union of Concerned Scientists

2006-05-11T00:37:00.000Z

Laughing Off Disaster at the Bush White House

Laughter in response to tough questions isn't unusual in the Bush White House. Yesterday's reponse to the 18 page letter from Iran's President Ahmadinejad was not much different from what we recently experienced when Bush was questioned by an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University about contractor impunity - although it was not nearly as abusive as the incoherent joking and laughter that Secretary Rumsfeld launched at public news broadcasters when questioned about the bombing of Afghanistan - where, by the way, we are still deeply involved in a full scale war.

full story and more at DOGSPOT

2006-04-13T21:17:00.000Z

Coastal Commission Staves off Special Interests

Last I heard, the coastal commission successfully asserted it's independence from Arnold Schwarzenegger, prevailing against an attempted take-over bid by friends of the governor's office.

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2005-11-07T03:57:00.000Z

New Lies Attempt to Smooth a Bad Week for Bush

John King of CNN has eaten too many bananas. The load of compost he dumped on TV viewers via CNN has aged considerably since the original lies that got us into Guatemala in 1952. Now a re-colonization of South America is being planned, and along with it the same stale CIA lies promulgated by smirking reporters, who, knowing the truth, nonetheless collaborate to mislead the American people because only they know which side their bread is buttered on.

story continues in

this site is temporarily down.

PBR Weekend Edition

2005-10-14T20:58:00.000Z

Peace Activist Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

In his politics a proponent of peace, and in his art a master of silence, Harold Pinter has received his just reward from the Swedish Academy with their announcement of the Nobel Prize in literature. It was Pinter's adaptation of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" in 1981 that helped launch the careers of Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. Pinter also began his career as an actor, and in the 50 years since has become one of the world's most widely respected playwrights, winning accolades from Tom Stoppard and Vaclav Havel. The occassion was true to form, by his own account: "I was called 20 minutes before the official announcement. The chair of the Nobel committee phoned and said, 'You have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature'. I remained silent, and then said, 'I'm speechless.'"

In a report from ABC news, Nobel permanent secretary Horace Engdahl added to the academy's explanation for Pinter's win, saying the playwright "restored theatre to its basic elements - an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of each other and pretence crumbles". His style even saw the word 'Pinteresque' added to the artistic lexicon, meaning "a work of drama full of atmospheric silences peppered with half-stated insights".

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Theft of rural land from the poor in Colombia

2005-04-08T16:27:00.002Z

In June of 2000, several writers for the Wall Street Journal won awards for daring reports of specific instances of terror: terror that continues systematically throughout Columbia. A frightening timeline leads to a trail of US funded terror squads operating in a similar manner today.

"Parmilitaries routinely induced fear in the rural population by entering villages and rounding up the residents in the town plaza. They would then brutally kill a handful of villagers, often dismembering them with machetes and chainsaws, before ordering the rest of the people to leave the region...
By forcibly displacing the rural population in this manner, the paramilitaries hoped to eliminate local support for the guerrillas. This strategy has aggravated the already grossly inequitable distribution of arable lands as large landowners, as well as multinational corporations interested in oil, coal and natural gas resources, have taken over much of the abandoned land."

update - 10-30-2010 - the link to Colombia Journal didn't work because they've moved their stories around. Here's a newer story that relates to theft of rural land by Uribe and his henchmen.

2005-04-08T15:44:00.000Z

Morales Gains Credibility in Bolivia

In October of 2003, Evo Morales led an uprising in Bolivia that ousted former president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. In a vain effort to retain his position, Lozada had ordered his troops to shoot to kill. In spite of this, the US State Department assured Lozada of support in his "effort to restore order". More than 80 protesters died, and Lozada fled in disgrace to the US, where he has been in hiding since.

"We want to charge him with economic damages and crimes against humanity," Morales said. "We are soon going to see him in prison."

Morales may yet prevail, since the Bolivian congress has recently voted to put Lozada on trial

full coverage in

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2005-03-08T19:14:00.000Z

From Eyes of the Heart
by Jean-Bertrand Aristide:

Around the world what is called the informal sector makes up a $16 trillion-a-year economy. Of this women are responsible for $11 trillion. In Haiti, where official unemployment is about 70%, the informal sector is in fact much larger than the formal sector...

How do these people survive?

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2004-04-07T18:30:00.000Z

2001 Coup Led by Guy Phillip

Story from Haiti Support Group
Photo from Haiti Press Network
Background: Haiti Contras

Former FAD'H sergeant, Pierre Richardson, said he attended meetings in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo to plan the attack along with Guy Philippe, former police chief of the northern city of Cap-Haitien, and Jean-Jacques Nau, former police chief of the Delmas suburb of Port-au-Prince.
According to the police, Richardson, who has a bullet wound in his leg after Monday's assault on the presidential palace, had been stopped on a road near the border with the neighbouring Dominican Republic. When apprehended by police, he was said to have been carrying a wad of cash and an M16 rifle. The police say that Richardson had been involved in the July 28 attacks on the national Police Academy and three police stations, which left five dead and 14 wounded. Apparently, he later fled to Dominican Republic where he was granted temporary residence this month.

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2004-03-31T04:22:00.000Z

Status of Haiti Delays Economic Negotiations

Trinidad and Tobago Express(03-28)
Jamaica Observer (03-28)

"So intense was behind-the-scenes lobbying from Washington, the Sunday Express was reliably informed that while one Prime Minister felt obliged to refuse to take a telephone call from a Bush administration official, another was aggravated enough to respond with expletives when presented with what was viewed as a virtual ultimatum. "

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Inter-American Development Bank Draws Fire on Camisea Development

2004-03-19T22:09:00.003Z

"Camisea is an environmental disaster and the IDB should stop supporting this nonsense with US taxpayer dollars given the issues of non-compliance"
Jon Sohn of Friends of the Earth.

The project involves:

Drilling platforms and pipelines inside a reserve established to protect nomadic indigenous peoples, who lack immunity to common illnesses and are seriously threatened by the project;

Pipelines cutting through pristine tropical rainforests, protected areas, indigenous communities and across the Andes to the coast; and

A fractionation plant and export loading facility next to an internationally renowned marine reserve.

A few historical links:
http://www.foe.org/climate/climatelawsuit/casestudies.htm

http://www.foei.org/en/resources/link/mining/16case.html

2004-03-16T19:51:00.000Z

Technology and Terror, Two Responses to Globalization

"We can have our whole global supply chain on the screen at the same time," holding a virtual meeting, explained Nilekani. The room's eight clocks tell the story: U.S. West, U.S. East, GMT, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia.
As I looked at this, a thought popped into my head: Who else has such a global supply chain today? Of course: Al Qaeda...

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2004-03-11T19:08:00.000Z

Sustainable Economic Development in Haiti?

not much has happened since 1995, when this document was published...

"...As Haiti confronts extraordinary pressures from USAID, the World Bank, IDB and IMF to reform its economy through structural adjustments, RCH provides a timely example of the kind of project which U.S. corporations are encouraged -- and often funded -- to conduct under the banners of privatization, democracy enhancement and humanitarian assistance.
Such projects -- wrapped in development rhetoric about creating jobs, ensuring an affordable food supply and improving agricultural production -- raise key questions, not only for the Haitian poor but also for the U.S. citizen whose tax dollar often funds free market enterprises which richly benefit powerful U.S. corporations while further disempowering the peasant majority....

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“This is what I call a real coup d’état,” Aristide said. “This is an issue for all African Americans and Africans.”
“It’s like he is in jail, he said. He said he was kidnapped,” Waters said. She said Aristide had been threatened by U.S. diplomats who reportedly told the Haitian leader that if he failed to leave, Guy Phillippe, the rebel leader, would storm the palace and he would be killed.

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2004-03-03T20:24:00.000Z

Roger Noriega and the Haiti Contras

Dan Carpenter
Indianapolis Star (03-03)

An example of the "...Republican Party's diversity and Hispanic outreach, Roger Noriega was the State Department's chief negotiator in efforts to bring a satisfactory resolution to the unrest that threatened the presidency of Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
...Noriega has a history, and it fits with the entire sordid history of our relations with Haiti. He was chief of staff for then-Sen. Jesse Helms back when Helms was Aristide's most powerful enemy in the world.

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2004-03-02T21:25:00.000Z

Bush Administration Backed the Ouster of Aristide

Ron Howell
Newsday (03-01)
"The departure of Haiti's Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a victory for a Bush administration hard-liner who has been long dedicated to Aristide's ouster, U.S. foreign policy analysts say..."
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2004-02-29T23:14:00.000Z

U.S. policy toward Cuba is dominated by one man, a scandal-plagued Cold War relic who has no business being President Bush's chief adviser on Latin America.
That's what U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, has to say about Otto Reich.

2004-02-27T23:58:00.000Z

Discovering Why We are in Iraq

Separate statements by Ahmed Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), and U.S. retired Gen Jay Garner, who was in charge of planning and administering post-war reconstruction from January through May 2002, suggest that other, less public motives were behind the war, none of which concerned self-defence, pre-emptive or otherwise.

DOGSPOT

2004-02-25T23:14:00.000Z

UN Global Compact undermines corporate accountability

February 24, 2004, Washington, DC – The Alliance for a Corporate Free UN has written a letter to the heads of five UN agencies asking them to withdraw from the UN’s Global Compact. The letter details specific ways in which the Compact undermines corporate accountability, and follows several years of correspondence with the Global Compact Office by the Alliance.

2004-02-17T19:29:00.000Z

Bush Appoints Iran-Contra Figure To Head Up Iraq "Intelligence" Probe

PACIFICA RADIO (02-12)

"The impartiality of the commission has...
...come into question. The co-chairs named to head up the inquiry will be federal appeals court Judge Laurence Silberman and former Virginia Democratic Senator Charles Robb.

Judge Silberman has been described as a longtime Republican operative and is widely thought to have helped orchestrate Ronald Reagan's1980 "October Suprise" when Reagan secretly made contacts with the Iranian government before he was elected.

More about the return of the contras at DOGSPOT

2004-02-14T23:18:00.000Z

A New Contra Arms Scandal in Haiti?

Otto Reich is a known quantity when it comes to controlling the press and manipulating events to achieve U.S. foreign policy objectives in Latin America and the Caribbean...

...Otto Reich? Is this the same Otto Reich who once used taxpayer dollars under the Reagan administration, from within his shadowy Office of Public Diplomacy, to cajole the U.S. press into supporting the Contra war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua?

Revolution in Haiti

2004-02-14T19:25:00.000Z

Haiti's President Arisitide Faces Overthrow

Reversal in US Policy may lead
to overthrow of reform leader

HAITI PROGRES(02-11)

Background

Haiti’s “armed opposition” launched its most lethal offensive yet last week, creating the civil strife that may be used by the US State Department to justify military intervention. On Feb. 10, State Department officials gave their first public hints that they would favor President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s resignation...

Full Story

2004-02-06T19:23:00.000Z

Unocal Still on Trial for Rights Abuses

Cheney ruled on January 23 that Unocal cannot be held liable under one legal theory, the "alter ego" theory. However, plaintiffs have asserted two other theories of liability, which means that Unocal may yet be held liable for gross human rights pipeline area.

Full article

2004-02-06T19:19:00.000Z

Unocal Faces Liability for Human Rights Violations
plaintiffs will present evidence to a jury directly connecting Unocal to the brutal Burmese military’s use of forced labor, rape and murder while providing security for their pipeline.
(12-08) Earthrights International (12-09) 18:08 PST LOS ANGELES (AP) “the methods of the Burmese military were well known, and Unocal knew when it joined the Project that these abuses were certain to be committed for its benefit.”
AP Story Earthrights Coverage

2004-02-06T19:13:00.000Z

Prepare for Another Whitewash

In the wake of an investigation that largely cleared Prime Minister Tony Blair of falsifying intelligence that was used to justify the invasion of Iraq, President Bush now calls for a similar inquiry into the "sources" that lead to our involvement. As the New York Times blighthly notes, this undertaking is awash with difficulties. Some would say flawed form the outset. Notably Jay Rockefeller, vice chairman of the senate committee tasked to investigate this type of failure.

continued at DOGSPOT

2004-01-31T21:27:00.001Z

False Basis of Iraq War Precipates International Scandal

"For bureaucratic reasons we settled on weapons of mass destruction because it was the one issue everyone could agree on."

Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz

SPECIAL COVERAGE
(12-5-2010 we still get visits to this story - the link to the timeline is down. I will try to restore it. - dave)

2004-01-29T21:34:00.000Z

Breaking News has been superceded by

DOGSPOT

where you can also post your own.

2003-11-25T22:20:00.001Z

New Threat to Ecuadoran Rainforest

"they're still doing things that would never even be contemplated
in the United States, Europe or any of the industrialized world,"
said Kenny Bruno, with EarthRights International

...things have changed since the election of Rafael Correa. This short lived threat was mostly abated even prior to his election in 2006.

(11-24-03) Houston Chronicle

Houston-based Burlington Resources has plans to explore the region for oil, despite widespread opposition from local indigenous groups. Burlington and an Argentine company hold rights to explore a combined area of nearly 1 million acres.
That's an area about two-thirds the size of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, another sensitive region oil companies have eyed for exploration. The Ecuadorian rainforest happens to be closer to Houston. But because this controversy is unfolding in a foreign country, it has gone largely ignored by the U.S. media.
full story at Amazon Watch

2003-11-25T20:47:00.000Z

"Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread...

(11-17) 23:11 PST WASHINGTON (AP)

When the House voted to stop charging wounded soldiers for their hospital food, it had a lot to do with what Rep. Bill Young's wife heard during a bedside visit with the troops.
Read more about this unspeakable outrage....
at least now IT'S A FEDERAL CRIME TO CHARGE
WOUNDED VETERANS FOR THEIR
HOSPITAL FOOD

...and forgive us our trespasses": Jesus Christ

2003-11-20T23:04:00.000Z

Who Supplies Oregon Farm Labor?

"Many farmers hire labor contractors who will bring to this country Mexican laborers who are paid by the piece or pound or basket.."

No mention of this on the web, although it is a thriving practice among respectable businessmen in Salem, Oregon*.
background

*pop. 136,924, 2000 census

2003-11-20T21:38:00.000Z

IMF Attempts Coverup of Illegal Arms Trade

the IMF knew about the charges against its employee and the international warrant that finally led to his capture

"In June 2001 a parliamentary investigation concluded Baca had illegally countersigned decrees authorising weapons purchases with revenues from state enterprise privatisations that were intended for poverty reduction. ...In September of that year he had to testify in a Peruvian court about his links with former President Fujimori's spy chief Vladimir Montesinos, recently sentenced to five years(?!) in prison for human rights abuses, money laundering, embezzlement and arms deals."

2003-11-18T20:46:00.000Z

Republicans Shut Down Iraq Intelligence Investigation

John D. Rockefeller in today's Washington Post

...my staff recently drafted an options memo on the use or potential misuse of intelligence. The memo, intended only for me, was pilfered from the usually secure Senate intelligence committee and distributed to the media. full story

2003-11-07T22:25:00.000Z

They've Learned to Speak the Language

Some nuspeak from the China Business Summit
which apparently has benefitted from it's close association with the
World Economic Forum:
"Private companies used to be managed like family businesses. But now they’re introducing modern corporate governance practices and growing into modern companies...
Where once they measured success purely in terms of financials, they’re now thinking in terms of human capital —
What does this mean?
That family owned businesses thought only in terms of financials?
What is human capital? Is this a humanistic concept?
Due to the corporate media blackout, few people heard the
discussion
of the now infamous Kathie Lee handbags held in the US House of Representatives:
"...when we look at how Chinese workers are already being treated by corporations such as Wal-Mart, Timberland, Nike, Alpine and others, it becomes clear that is not the case. Wal-Mart and Nike's operations in China have become synonymous with child labor, forced labor and hazardous working conditions."
The discussion references: "...an excellent new report called
Made in China,
released by Charles Kernaghan, of New York City."

2003-10-24T22:03:00.000Z

MORALES SEEKS TRIAL OF FORMER BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT

Morales, a former presidential candidate and now a congressman, also repeated calls for trying Sanchez de Lozada, who has taken shelter in the United States, saying he fears for his own safety and that of his family at home.

Evo Morales, a leader of Indian coca farmers, helped lead the protests that toppled President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada last week after the president promoted a plan to export Bolivia's natural gas.
"We have to wait for better conditions. When gas is in the hands of transnationals, it is just a looting of our natural resources."
Morales, a former presidential candidate and now a congressman, also repeated calls for trying Sanchez de Lozada, who has taken shelter in the United States, saying he fears for his own safety and that of his family at home.
"We want to charge him with economic damages and crimes against humanity," Morales said. "We are soon going to see him in prison."

FULL STORY From Ioan Grillo on the Associated Press newswire

2003-10-24T20:47:00.000Z

"... as soon as a grave question of principle was raised...

the scholars were seen to...
leave to their libraries to draw nearer the masses, to involve themselves in life; and the experience has proved that they know how to make themselves heard.
The moral agitation to which these events gave rise has not been extinguished, and I am among those who think that it must not be extinguished."

Emile Durkheim

The Intellectual Elite and Democracy, 1886

2003-10-21T22:46:00.000Z

Debido al espacio
limitado enque nos encontramos
POR FAVOR SOLAMENTE
UNA PERONA EN LA AREA DE COMIDA
Si usted trae sus ninos, porfavor
traigan a alguin que se quede con
ellos en la area de espera.
Gracias por su coperacion.

2003-10-18T19:21:00.000Z

Bolivia Ousts Enron Collaborator

Hundreds of news stories continue to break as the unrest increases in La Paz where over 30 thousand protesters have taken to the streets to protest the plans of Enron, Shell and BP Amoco to accelerate the exportation of natural gas. According to Amazon Watch: "Years of gas development have brought little economic gain to Bolivia's forest communities who bear the grievous social and environmental costs of gas operations. Now the scramble for profits from the new gas bonanza is driving energy giants such as BP, Enron and Shell to embark on massive new pipeline projects with little thought for the well-being of the nation's poorest peoples." The protests which began in September, have become increasingly violent, resulting in extreme measures. Bolivia's only international airport, in El Alto, just outside of the nation's capital in La Paz has been closed since October 11. Bolivia's current president, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, lacks the popular support enjoyed by the leftist majority in congress. The Economist summarizes the conflict quit succinctly:
"Mr Sanchez (or Goni, as Bolivians call him) was an effective liberal reformer in his first term, from 1993-7. Last year, he won the presidency again, but with just 22.5% of the vote, barely ahead of Evo Morales, of the far-left Movement to Socialism. The two men seemed to personify two Bolivias: Goni is a Chicago-educated mining magnate; Mr Morales, of Aymara Indian descent, is the rabble-rousing leader of the coca-workers union. ...
...Ecuador's President Lucio Gutierrez is facing strikes and protests, having lost the backing of the Andean Indian groups that helped bring him to power. A state of emergency was declared this week, as banana growers (Ecuador is the world's largest exporter of the fruit) blocked roads and ports, demanding higher prices and more state aid. " The strife has spread through the region, weaking the presidency of Alejandro Toledo in Peru, where a state of emergency has been in effect since June.

2003-10-17T19:24:00.000Z

Bolivia at fever pitch as coalition falls

Fri 17 October, 2003 20:07 BST
By Alistair Scrutton
LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivia's government coalition has fallen apart after a main ally of embattled President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada withdrew his support, echoing demands from protesters for the unpopular leader to step down. more

2003-10-17T01:23:00.000Z

Bolivia Ousts Enron Collaborators

Hundreds of news stories continue to break as the unrest increases in La Paz where over 30 thousand protesters have taken to the streets to protest the plans of Enron, Shell and BP Amoco to accelerate the exportation of natural gas. According to Amazon Watch: "Years of gas development have brought little economic gain to Bolivia's forest communities who bear the grievous social and environmental costs of gas operations. Now the scramble for profits from the new gas bonanza is driving energy giants such as BP, Enron and Shell to embark on massive new pipeline projects with little thought for the well-being of the nation's poorest peoples." The protests which began in September, have become increasingly violent, resulting in extreme measures. Bolivia's only international airport, in El Alto, just outside of the nation's capital in La Paz has been closed since October 11. Bolivia's current president, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, lacks the popular support enjoyed by the leftist majority in congress. The Economist summarizes the conflict quit succinctly:
"Mr Sanchez (or Goni, as Bolivians call him) was an effective liberal reformer in his first term, from 1993-7. Last year, he won the presidency again, but with just 22.5% of the vote, barely ahead of Evo Morales, of the far-left Movement to Socialism. The two men seemed to personify two Bolivias: Goni is a Chicago-educated mining magnate; Mr Morales, of Aymara Indian descent, is the rabble-rousing leader of the coca-workers union. ...
...Ecuador's President Lucio Gutierrez is facing strikes and protests, having lost the backing of the Andean Indian groups that helped bring him to power. A state of emergency was been declared this week, as banana growers (Ecuador is the world's largest exporter of the fruit) blocked roads and ports, demanding higher prices and more state aid. " The strife has spread through the region, weaking the presidency of Alejandro Toledo in Peru, where a state of emergency has been in effect since June.

2003-10-15T00:04:00.000Z

Building new or maintaining old refineries
is considered to be a crime in Russia more

2003-10-14T23:38:00.000Z

It's The Truth

Pravda, 2.18.03 Interpol agents detained one of the members of the IMF-WB new mission to Argentina, Jorge Baca Campodonico, on Thursday, a few meters from the Sheraton Hotel of Buenos Aires. The former Peruvian Minister of Economy currently serves in the International Monetary Fund and is accused of links to the former chief of the Peruvian intelligence services, Vladimiro Montesinos. Montesinos was the main collaborator of the Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (1990 - 2000) and is now under arrest in Lima for criminal actions against the public administration. Montesinos has also been prosecuted on connections with narcotraffic, corruption and political assassinations. more PRAVDA?

2003-10-07T18:42:00.000Z

Although Dennis Jett now seems too be worried about whether we're committing war crimes in Iraq, the unjust imprisonment of Lori Berenson never seemed to weigh very heavily on his conscience, and he didn't seem to concerned about the rights of the 48 innocent victims of his cohort Alberto Fujimori mentioned in the document below.

In fact, he made sure the information was reported as classified information for fear that it "might jeopardize our diplomatic relations" with Peru.

2003-10-06T19:56:00.000Z

This document describes the military detention, torture and release of 48 Oxapampa residents in February and March 1997, who were falsely accused of being MRTA members. more

2003-10-03T20:29:00.000Z

ARCHIVE PUBLISHES PERU HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTS

on August 28, 2003
"...the National Security Archive posted on the Web
33 of the most important declassified U.S. documents
used by the Commission in its work"

2003-10-03T20:26:00.000Z

in a letter to secretary of state Colin Powell on Dec. 19, 2002, representatives of the national security archive wrote:

"...Now, three months past the promised delivery date, the State Department has yet to release the material to the Peruvian Truth Commission, whose strict deadline is rapidly approaching.... (The Commission’s collection of information stage will be over at the end of January, while their final report is due by July 2003.)"

2003-10-01T21:52:00.000Z

Former CIA director

James Woolsey

"...has been named in news reports as a possible candidate for a key position in the reconstruction of a postwar Iraq."

2003-10-01T21:31:00.000Z

Who's with Wilson?

according to the conservative Center for Security Policy
"The Clinton Administration has placed itself squarely in the tradition of Presidents Wilson and Carter..."
Does this mean the self-christened "neo-Wilsonists" are correct that indeed we have had a nation policy of perpetual war for most of this century?

2003-09-27T18:29:00.000Z

Are we committing war crimes in Iraq?The Bush administration is doing some serious diplomatic arm-twisting to ensure that Americans do not fall under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. Washington is threatening to cut off aid to dozens of our allies, including countries that supported our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, if they don't go along with an exemption for Americans.
full story by former ambassador to Peru, Dennis Jett"available for a limited time online". His timing is impeccable, and his position is hard to predict.

2003-09-26T21:30:00.000Z

At the end of the Last Chance run, the river makes it's way through the Railroad Ranch, also known as Harriman State Park. The ranch was purchased from the Oregon Short Line railroad in 1907 by Edward Henry Harriman. It was operated as a working cattle ranch until the 1960s. The property was transferred to the State of Idaho with stipulations that the wildlife and scenic quality of the area be protected.

2003-09-26T19:56:00.000Z

Would Prescott call it Neo-Wilsonism?
"Prescott's father, Samuel P. Bush, owned Buckeye Steel Castings Co. which made parts for the Harriman brothers' father's (E.H. Harriman) railroads. Harriman's financing for the railroads came largely from William Rockefeller. These shipped the oil of his brother John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil. (This was the origin of the two Georges' involvement in the oil business.) Samuel Bush became a leader in President Woodrow Wilson's "War Socialism" as director of small armaments and ammunition on the War Industries Board (which set up coercive price-fixing cartels over American industry during World War I). There, Bush assisted Percy Rockefeller (son of William) in his takeover of small arms manufacturers. ..more

2003-09-24T20:57:00.000Z

STILL IN PRISON
Committee to Free Lori Berenson
Lori Berenson is still in prison. A sad reminder of a lesson we haven't learned well enough from the days of Huey Newton: in order to remain effective as a challenge to the established order, you must not allow the Centurions to lay hold of your body. In the early years of Lori's imprisonment, she wouldn't be able to write to us.
Here's some of her latest

2003-09-24T20:47:00.000Z

Is It Really Wilsonism?
(exhibit A)
Speaking to a group of college students on April 2, 2003, former CIA Director James Woolsey revealed, "...the United States is engaged in World War IV, and that it could continue for years." Woolsey described the Cold War as the third world war. He then said "This fourth world war, I think, will last considerably longer than either World Wars I or II did for us. Hopefully not the full four-plus decades of the Cold War..."

2003-09-19T22:39:00.000Z

Sustainable Energy And Economy Network
September 18, 2003
"Severe environmental destruction is the legacy of 40-plus years of oil drilling by Shell Oil in an area of Nigeria known as the Niger Delta, home to over 14 indigenous ethnic nationalities, including the Ogoni people. Ogoni farmlands were expropriated without compensation, their environment polluted, their communities attacked by the military if they protested. The CIA reports that the Niger Delta has suffered the equivalent of 10 Exxon Valdez oil spills, without ever being cleaned up."...more

2003-09-19T21:24:00.000Z

"On Monday, seven anti-privatization activists were arrested in Soweto for blocking the installation of prepaid water meters. The meters are a privatized answer to the fact that millions of poor South Africans cannot pay their water bills."
writes Naomi Klein

in The Nation

2003-09-12T21:26:00.000Z

I'm here today cleaning up some blog history - removing the dead links, and in some cases, moving material to new sites with links from here that work. Does that make sense? Scroll through the old material and see what I mean.

2003-01-29T22:38:00.000Z

the real david roknich is now at
davidroknich.com,
where he's posting the sheet music for his newest project:
Summer Music
The performance notes are in blog form, and you can post comments, ask questions, hurl tomatoes, whatever....

2002-04-11T21:23:00.000Z

"In July, 2002, the G8 will retreat to the hills of Kananaskis, Alberta for its annual gathering. Ensconced in a tiny, well-guarded resort town, the "leaders" of 8 states and their entourages will hide from the protesters who will fill the streets of Calgary and Ottawa and the highways to Kananaskis..."

2002-04-05T15:50:00.000Z

"...We go to Ramallah hospital, ...where the Israelis attempted numerous times to go in and take who they wanted, but hospital staff and foreigners refused to let them in. Anyway, we went there to pick up our reporter and cameraman who were there to tape the burial of numerous martyrs. The reason they were being buried on hospital grounds was because there was no more room in the morgue. Anyway, we are right in front of the hospital and it is packed with demonstrators and doctors and nurses and the ...Israelis start shooting at everyone. Firstly, the curfew had been lifted so we had every right to be out and secondly it was just media, peacekeepers and hospital staff. What the hell were they firing at???" More first-hand accounts of Israeli terrorism sponsored by US tax dollars

2002-04-04T16:35:00.000Z

The Language of Globalization
"Advances in technology could mean either that the same quantity of useful goods and services could be produced with less effort or that, with the same effort, more could be produced... That is not the way things are going, not because technology could not go that way, but because it is directed and harnessed by the power-holders to increase and concentrate their power. It has been used to change the balance of power between classes." Peter Marcuse

Fresh Green Blog

Google Gaggle! OH F@!$

BP refuses award, ejects the messengers

Klimaforum 10 in Cancun: current program

Terminator takes on the dinosaurs and fossil fools

Myanmar snuffs news of deaths in oil pipeline blaze

Tsunami Hits Indonesian Islands

UPDATE 10-29-2010:

Chevron expert judged incredible in federal court

Crap and Trade is a Republican Idea

The World Bank - funding decades of climate injustice

Handy Guide for Chevron Protests 2.0

Green cheers for new Chevron drilling?

Is this a green blog?

Chevron websurfing

Spoof preempts Chevron ad campaign

Chevron - Oil companies should clean up their messes

Clean Up Their Messes chevron-weagree.com

Oil companies should fix the problems they create

Fix The Problems They Create chevron-weagree.com

Chevron - Oil companies should put safety first

Put Safety First chevron-weagree.com

Chevron - It's time oil companies stop endangering life

Stop Endangering Life chevron-weagree.com

Tell Chevron to Clean up their energy act - in Ecuador and elsewhere

People's Declaration from Klimaforum

10-10-10 Visit a Vertical Farm

Remove the US roadblock to climate action en route to Cancun

Energy rebate program ends after only 2 hours

Hopi Reject Carbon Capture Pilot Project

The Vision of Black Elk

geese at sunset

The Ecology of Education, reuniting Love and Learning

Morales finds an ally inside the Copenhagen tent

Water Diversion Still a Problem for Navajo and Hopi

War Against the Poor Enters New Phase

DOGSPOT

Why is the UN Complicit in the Rape of Haiti?

Goodbye John Lennon, Welcome to the 80s

Dumpster Divers Needed for EPA Bailout

Laughing Off Disaster at the Bush White House

Coastal Commission Staves off Special Interests

New Lies Attempt to Smooth a Bad Week for Bush

PBR Weekend Edition

Peace Activist Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Theft of rural land from the poor in Colombia

Morales Gains Credibility in Bolivia

Extraordinary Rendition Comes out of the Closet

Caribbean Civil Groups Urge Haiti Investigation

Global Warming Campaign Promise

Andre Apaid's Splendid Little Coup in Haiti

Building a Bigger Debacle: from Edsel to the World Bank

Textile Quotas Lifted: Race to the Bottom Continues

Haiti Outside of Globalization

2001 Coup Led by Guy Phillip

Status of Haiti Delays Economic Negotiations

Inter-American Development Bank Draws Fire on Camisea Development

Technology and Terror, Two Responses to Globalization

Sustainable Economic Development in Haiti?

US Delegation Confirms Aristide Kidnapping

Black helicopters in Baghdad

Moslims Analyse Attacks in Iraq

Haitian Rebels Have a History

Interview with Aristide Confirms US Coup

Roger Noriega and the Haiti Contras

Bush Administration Backed the Ouster of Aristide

Discovering Why We are in Iraq

UN Global Compact undermines corporate accountability

Bush Appoints Iran-Contra Figure To Head Up Iraq "Intelligence" Probe

A New Contra Arms Scandal in Haiti?

Haiti's President Arisitide Faces Overthrow

Unocal Still on Trial for Rights Abuses

Unocal Faces Liability for Human Rights Violations

Prepare for Another Whitewash

False Basis of Iraq War Precipates International Scandal

New Threat to Ecuadoran Rainforest

"Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread...

...and forgive us our trespasses": Jesus Christ

Who Supplies Oregon Farm Labor?

IMF Attempts Coverup of Illegal Arms Trade

Building a Bigger Debacle:
from Edsel to the World Bank