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Governments Negotiate UN Agreement on Global Development (tags)
The United Nations, International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and finance ministries are meeting in New York to finalize an agreement for the Financing for Development Conference (FfD) to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in July
ENERGY-SOUTH AFRICA: Food Security Hobbles Biofuel Strategy (tags)
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 18 (IPS) - Worried that it may be seen as insensitive to the food needs of Africa, the South African government, which is facing a general election in 2009, has chosen food security in framing a biofuel policy.
Reviewing Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" (tags)
The human wreckage of disaster capitalism.
COMMENTS ON JOHN PILGER'S NEW BOOK FREEDOM NEXT TIME (tags)
PILGER'S ACCOUNT OF COURAGEOUS PEOPLE FIGHTING FOR THEIR FREEDOM
Carta de la señora Maigret a las "visitadoras" (tags)
El mito del eterno regreso está vinculado a un caos y a un infructuoso esfuerzo de logos. La batalla mediática de la operación Libertad Duradera es un proceso de descomposición del pragmatismo en las cloacas del poder. El hecho de que los agentes más activos del mismo, las visitadoras que se liberan y engullen el poder de su creador, Pantaleón, busquen su redención en los altares de San Pantaleón no constituye una evidencia de que éstas consideraran el hundimiento del barco. Este artículo muestra que la búsqueda del “blanqueo” y la huída de las ratas no son exclusivas. Por el contrario, en la invocación a San Pantaleón, las visitadoras, no buscan un reposo, sino un recurso para iluminar un mundo de las esencias cada vez más alejado, incompatible y excluido de la descomposición del marco pragmático.
Hamas emphasizes need for Israeli withdrawal (tags)
Khalid Mashal, a leader-in-exile of the Palestinian Hamas party, stated Monday in an interview that Israel must withdraw its troops from Palestinian territories as a prerequisite for peace talks. "If Israel recognises our rights and pledges to withdraw from all occupied lands, Hamas, and the Palestinian people together with it, will decide to halt armed resistance."
ANC accuses US of using Africans to promote nevirapine AIDS drug (tags)
More drugs company crimes exposed.
Another of thousands of examples of the mass media 'inventing news' to fit their agenda. With most people accepting what they hear on TV as fact it is little wonder myth can gain universal acceptance.
This two part article will descibe just how and why the Southern primaries may be the defining moment of the 2004 cycle.
World Summit Hears Clamour of Thousands Protesting Outside (tags)
Thousands of demonstrators have marched to the World Development Summit venue in Johannesburg, in the first mass protest to take place since it opened on Monday.
And so the farce begins... (tags)
Today at 11am, Thabo Mbeki, the President of South Africa, opened the NGO Forum of the World Conference Against Racism. While Mbeki spoke of the present world order built on slavery and colonialism, his government is busy privatising the water and electricity in South Africa, which is resulting in a 'pay or die' scenario for people here.