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Let the oil drilling begin The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $685 million loan for Iraq on December 24. Now the country’s war torn economy will be fully integrated into the global economy—indefinitely. The reconstruction of Iraq will soon be open to even more industrialized nations and interests. Iraq will not be sovereign or [...] Are we to decide the importance of issues by asking how fashionable or glamorous they are? Or by asking how seriously they affect how many? – Nelson Mandela. This two-part article explains in depth the problem of poor water supply in Delhi, India, using examples from other countries showing why water privatization hurts more than [...] 1/2 mile in on the road to Lahaina by the general store. There’s probably many more in the West Maui mountains, however these are easily accessible. It might be sabotage. Chris Murray is the writer with the documents about UK/US complicity in torture in Uzbekistan that Blair Watch posted today (see following post.) Blair Watch has the post from Craig Murray’s blog online. The story is seeping into mainstream media. Chris Floyd has a news scraper with all the latest. [...] These documents need publishing Blair Watch now has documents online showing British and US government complicity in torture in Uzbekistan. The British government doesn’t want these documents made public. Blair Watch, at some risk to themselves, has published them and is asking other blogs to do the same and to host them on their servers, [...] We did a lot! Two major antiwar marches and rallies that drew tens of thousands, Anti-Arnold and Minutemen actions, Free The Five work, went to New Orleans and held meetings about it, opposed Social Security privatization, supported the hotel workers strike, and much more. I played a role in organizing most of this. It was [...] The Bishop Museum in Hawaii is a respected museum run by non-natives (haoles) with collections of native Hawaiian artifacts. They often lend them out to native Hawaiian groups for use in ceremonies. Five years ago they lent 82 ‘priceless’ items to a native group, Hui Malama, who then claimed the artifacts were stolen by the [...] Hana Highway twists and turns for some forty miles, with over 600 curves and dozens of one lane bridges. Hana itself is a tiny little village of 1,200 with a couple of stores, a hotel, and that’s it. It had been a plantation town, and in many ways still is. Mostly populated by native Hawaiians, [...] These valleys are really steep, and completely dense with trees, vines, shrubs, and lush vegetation. Trying to hike them without a path would be nearly impossible.
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