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Greece: This Is Just the Beginning! by Christakis Georgiou

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:24:00 -0400

The austerity measures imposed on Greek workers to reduce the deficits are nothing but a prelude of what may happen to the other European countries. The Greek crisis demonstrates the divisions in the ruling class on the strategies to adopt.

'Our Surplus Is the Deficit of Our Partners': Interview with Heiner Flassbeck

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:14:30 -0400

Economist Heiner Flassbeck holds the German wage policy responsible for the problems of Greece.

Welcome to the world's first Murdochracy By John Pilger

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:42:00 -0400

Adelaide is Australia's festival city. Its arts festival is currently in swing. Polite debate, aesthetics and high-octane wine are putting the world to rights. With one exception. Adelaide is where Rupert Murdoch began his empire. The voracious trail starts here. No statue stands; his is a spectral presence, controlling the only daily newspaper, even the printing presses. Across Australia, he owns almost 70 per cent of the capital city press and the only national newspaper, and Sky Television, and much else. Welcome to the world's first murdochracy.

Le budget Harper 2010: ' Les Changements Climatiques? Connais pas.'

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:12:00 -0400

Les r�ponses � la crise environnementale de la part des gouvernements occidentaux peuvent �tre regroup�es en deux cat�gories. Celles qui tombent sous l'empire de la n�gation du danger, � la mani�re Bush, et celles qui sont de l'ordre du ' capitalisme vert ', plus ou moins maquill� en d�veloppement durable.

Indonesia: People's Democratic Party relaunched as open, mass-based cadre party

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:42:00 -0400

March 11, 2010 -- An historic decision to relaunch itself as an open party was made at the seventh congress of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) of Indonesia on March 1-3. The party's socialist politics will be expressed within the five principles laid out by Indonesia's first President Sukarno's June 1, 1945, speech on 'Pancasila' (nationalism, internationalism, democracy, socialism and belief in god).

Students defy injunction to occupy lecture theatre

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:12:54 -0400

Around 300 students have occupied a lecture theatre at Sussex University in a show of defiance against university management. It is the third time this year that the university has been occupied by students in protest at planned cuts.

Progressive Jews Welcome Defeat of Motion Condemning Israeli Apartheid Week

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:08:06 -0500

OTTAWA, March 12 /CNW Telbec/ - Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), a national network of Jewish human-rights activists, welcomes yesterday's defeat of MP Tim Uppal's House of Commons motion condemning Israeli Apartheid Week. 'This shows courage to stand up to the Orwellian attempts by Israel's supporters to bully Israel's critics into silence,' said IJV spokesperson Sid Shniad. 'Apartheid', the term Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak and former prime minister Olmert used to describe the occupation's effects, shouldn't be controversial.

Land grabbing in Latin America

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:49:24 -0500

The history of Latin America is one of agrarian conflicts, and of indigenous peoples struggling to defend their ancestral territories. A new chapter of this history is opening. Another wave of land grabbing is hitting the Americas, and this time it operates from a distance and wears a halo of 'neutrality'. Today's land grabbers (as thoroughly explained in governmental web brochures) say that they are merely responding to food insecurity and a world crisis 'that forces us to grow food wherever we can, even if we outsource production, because we will bring home this food for the benefit of our citizens'. But when we dig a little, the financial monster shows its tail. The land grabbers are in fact big corporations and joint ventures investing enormous amounts of money in land, food production, the export and import of commodities, and food-market speculation.

Greeks Strike Over Budget Cuts, Bonds, Stocks Decline

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:09:00 -0500

March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Greek hospitals, airports and schools were shut and police scuffled with protesters as unions staged the second general strike this year against government budget cuts to curb the European Union's biggest deficit. ....... 'The main risk is not that adjustment in Greece is not feasible, but that Greek society will refuse to shoulder the inevitable near-term economic pain,' Deutsche Bank analysts including Thomas Mayer wrote in a research note.

Halalt First Nation holding blockade for the water

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:39:00 -0500

For more than two weeks now, members of the Halalt First Nation, near the southeastern coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, have held onto their own 'protective blockade' in defense of the Chemainus River. The blockade officially went up on February 25, just two days after the Okanagan Band launched their blockade to defend the same prescious resource: their water. More than half the First Nation is taking part in the effort, which is centered at a portion of Chemainus Road that runs through their territory.

Vale Inco workers in Sudbury, Ont., reject offer to end 8-month strike

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:40:58 -0500

SUDBURY, Ont. - Vale Inco workers in Sudbury, Ont., have voted 88.7 per cent to reject the company's latest contract offer. Their colleagues at the nickel miner's operation in Port Colborne, Ont., cast their votes today. The offer was presented to the union bargaining committee on Sunday during exploratory talks with a mediator in Toronto