Category Imperialism

L.A. event: Report Back from Syria

ANSWER LA Public Forum: Report Back from SyriaResisting U.S. aggression in the Middle EastFriday, January 6, 7:30 pm 1800 Argyle Ave, #410, LA(Free parking and childcare available)Featuring Richard Becker, ANSWER organizer from San Francisco Becker recently traveled to Damascus, Syria…

IMF approves loan for Iraq:

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…

‘Free trade’ and war

We’ve got to face the fact that the neoliberal economic model has been underwriting conflicts all over the planet. "Unfortunately we live in a world today in which we seem to break things into little components, so we have people…

Here we go again

 Counterfeiting cases point to North Korea Pyongyang is accused of being behind a growing effort to print and move rafts of U.S. $100 bills. U.S. authorities have unsealed hundreds of pages of documents in support of the cases in recent…

Battle of Seattle redux?

Hong Kong was braced yesterday for its biggest security operation since the handover from British rule in 1997 as thousands of international protesters began flying in to try to derail the World Trade Organisation summit later this week. As well…