dementia writes "Cool Hunting: How Big Companies Exploit the Anti-Globalization Movement

Did you know what the cool hunters are? Did you accidentally notice lately any advertisements with radical themes or the latest fashion that demonstrates symbols of revolution impressed you? When anti-globalization becomes a mass movement it is easily noticed by the brand companies that they don't want to loose a share from any part of the consumer pie .

Bill Weinberg's World War III Report, #20, Feb. 9, 2002

Independent Sentinel of Truth in the War on Terrorism

SPECIAL REPORT ON NYC WEF PROTESTS

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

1. US Admits to Bogus Bombing Raids--But Life is Cheap in Afghanistan

2. Kabul Backs Down to Paktia Warlords

3. Kochi Nomads Way of Life Threatened

4. US Pumps Aid into Uzbekistan Torture Regime

5. Pakistan Protecting Osama--With US Connivance?

6. Did Musharraf Regime Aid Group Holding Hostage Reporter?

7. Iran Rattles Saber Back at Bush

8. US and Iran Fund Rival Warlords

9. Bush & Blair Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

10. Compromise on Legal Status of Guantanamo Detainees

THE MIDDLE EAST

1. IDF Resistance Spreads; Sharon Suspends, Jails Reservists

2. Palestinians Consider "Nonviolent Intifada"

3. Israeli Bedouins Launch Rights Campaign

4. US-Israel Joint Exercise Tests "Iraq Scenario"

THE WAR AT HOME

1. Utah Dumbs Down "Terrorism" Definition

2. Free Speech Wins FBI Visit

3. Racial Profiling Gets New Lease on Life

4. Super Bowl Saturated with Propaganda

NEW YORK CITY

1. 200 Arrested at WEF Protests



WATCHING THE SHADOWS

1. Bush Asks Congress to Limit 9-11 Probe

am writes:

Woomera 2002 : Autonomadic Caravan and Festival of Resistance

== an invitation to make the journey ==

Woomera is a remote town, 500 kms from Adelaide (Australia). It is also the centre of an economy of death, suffering and incarceration founded on the dispossession of indigenous lands.

Our humanity is obliterated in Woomera, in the concentration camp, by missiles, by nuclear weapons, by toxic waste, by colonisation, by capitalism, by fear and division.

We are making the journey to discover our humanity in the liberation of those who have been dehumanised.

We are making the journey to refuse the death, pain and confinements that are manufactured in the name of The Economy. We refuse the caging behind razor wire and the new world borders fashioned so that capital, by reserving for itself the 'right' to move around the world, can better enforce austerity, misery, the earth's destruction and the 'race-to-the-bottom'.

In 2002, each of us are making the journey in our own unique way to reveal the connections between dispossession and the enclosures; the dislocations that have occurred and are still occurring in the name of profits, warlords and empire.

We will not mimic what we go to abolish, but instead wish to open a multitude of paths toward a different world.

We invite you to make the journey with us.

More info at http://www.woomera2002.com/
email: infodesk@woomera2002.com

World War III Report #19

Bill Weinberg, Feb. 2, 2002

Vigilant, Independent Sentry of Truth in the War on Terrorism

SPECIAL ISSUE ON ENRON AND ENERGY

"Not since the rise of the railroads more than a century ago has a single industry [energy] placed so many foot soldiers at the top of a new administration." (Newsweek, May 14, 2001)

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

1. Secret US Casualties in Kandahar?

2. Casualties and Ecological Toll of Bombardment Debated

3. Warlords Still Calling in US Air-strikes Against Rivals?

4. Pashtun Monarchists Stage Armed Protest

5. Northern Alliance Building Parallel Government?

6. Nostalgia for the Taliban--Already!

7. The Real Agenda at Tokyo: Debt Collection?

8. Technocrats Plan Dollarization of Afghanistan



THE MIDDLE EAST

1. Israeli Generals Plot Re-occupation of West Bank & Gaza

2. ...While IDF Troops Pledge Non-Cooperation

3. Al-Qaeda Re-grouping in Lebanon?

4. US-Saudi Rift Widens



WHO'S NEXT?

1. Improbable "Axis of Evil"



THE WAR AT HOME

1. Studies: Fewer Facts in Media Coverage, Public Pleased

2. Closure Through Commercialism



NEW YORK CITY

1. Ground Zero Toxic Threat Update

2. WTC Survivors Protest Evidence Destruction

3. Giuliani's Girlfriend Appointed to Twin Towers Fund



WATCHING THE SHADOWS

1. Enron & the Bush-Cheney Energy Plan

2. Enron & the California Energy Crisis

3. Enron & the Caspian Pipeline

4. Enron in India

5. Enron in Argentina

6. Enron in Croatia

7. Ex-Enron Veeps in the News

Arianna writes: "Hi, this is an interview that first appeared in Le Monde and then in La Stampa.
I have quickly translated it into English. See what you think. The original
French and the Italian translation are in links to the newspapers, below. Arianna

"Porto Alegre, Sad Empire": An Interview with Toni Negri

By Stephane Mandard

On the eve of the World Social Forum, which will take place from the 31st of
January till the 5th of February in Porto Alegre, we have interviewed the
Paduan philosopher Toni Negri, charged with armed insurrection and currently
under house arrest.

Numerous representatives of the liberal anti-globalisation movement have
turned Empire, the book you wrote with Michael Hardt, into their 'little red
book'. Do you agree with them?

"Porto Alegre is not the Paris Commune! However, the World Social Forum is
an important moment, a place where an extraordinary generosity and militant
abilities are about to meet. I am in agreement with the spirit and the
objectives of the movement: to construct, at a global level, an opposition
to liberalism and to develop a possible alternative, within the framework of
globalisation. It is a fundamental stage in the construction of a
counter-Empire. The anti-liberal movement, on the other hand, gives
expression to many different positions. And I don't agree with all of them."

World War III Report, #18

Bill Weinberg, Jan. 26, 2002

Vigilant Ombudsperson in the War on Terrorism

SPECIAL ISSUE: DID HAMID KARZAI WORK FOR UNOCAL?

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

More US Casualties Bring Total to 19 Dead

Afghan Donors Meet in Tokyo

Warlords, Bombardment Devastate Ecology

Warlords Ready to Take On Peacekeepers; Refugees Are Cannon Fodder

Northern Alliance Fractures; Militias Plunder Aid Shipments

Hekmatyar Challenges Gul Agha in Kandahar

Kandahar, Herat Warlords Feud: US-Iran Proxy War?

Green Berets Mix It Up in Kandahar

No Peace in Paktia

Kabul Still Militarized and Dangerous

CIA Gets New War Powers

US Expanding War to Ex-Soviet States?

New York Post Calls for Torture

UK Detainees Face "Barbaric" Conditions

WATCHING THE SHADOWS

Was Karzai a Unocal Consultant?

SOUTH ASIA

India Tests Nuclear-Capable Missile

Calcutta Attack Targets US

Southeast Asia "Terror Web" Busted

Indonesian Troops Kill Aceh Separatist Leader

THE MIDDLE EAST

Israeli Troops Call for Non-Cooperation

Ghosts of Sabra-Shatila Massacre Haunt Lebanon

US Drops Mandatory Purdah for Servicewomen in Arabia

THE BALKANS

Protests in Sarajevo as Bosnia Deports Terror Suspects

Bulgarian, Romanian Troops to Afghanistan

THE WAR AT HOME

Biggest Pentagon Budget Since the Reagan Era

"Patriotism Defense" in Slaying of Afghan-American

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Citibank Trial in Geneva

January 15th , 14 activists went on trial for the occupation of Citibank, Geneva, but for the public (and the media) it was "the trial of Citibank"!

The protestors were among more than 50 activists who had occupied the headquarters of Citibank last May, during a demonstration held to protest against massacres of the afro-Columbian community in Columbia by paramilitary groups. The principal function of the approximately 15,000 paramilitaries is to destroy popular organisations and unions and drive peasant, indigenous and afro-Columbian communities off lands targeted by transnationals. In a number of cases it has been proved that transnationals such as United Brands, British Petroleum or Coca-Cola have been directly involved in killings (Coca-Cola is on trial now in Florida for the assassination of its union leaders in Columbia). The activists said they had no proof that CitiBank had financed paramilitaries, but pointed out that all transnationals and foreign investors in Columbia necessarily profit from a situation in which all forms of worker and peasant organisation are ruthlessly repressed (a union person is killed every two days in Columbia and 10,000 have been declared "military objectives"). Citibank is a major investor (largest foreign and quickest growing bank in the country) which benefits in multiple ways from this institutionalised violence. It also has close ties to the CIA (for example, Montesino the ex-security head of Peru ran his narcotrafic through Citibank.)

French critic Pierre Bourdieu died of cancer at 11 p.m. Wednesday night at the Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris. He was 71. Internationally renowned for his radical and committed work in sociology and anthropology, he moved in his last years from the academic style to more active engagment in social movements. He was the Director of Studies at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and a member of the College de France since 1981. For his followers, his work on the social world constituted a "symbolic revolution" in knowledge.

For French readers, Liberation's obit may be found at Liberation on Pierre Bourdieu and Le Monde's at "http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3246--259825-,00.html">Le Monde on Pierre Bourdieu

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Diez De Abril for the 21st century.

Or How a Rebel Community Born of the Zapatista Uprising, Grows and
Consolidates.

By Ramor Ryan.

A little child, big-bellied and mucky, stumbles out of her dirt-floor house
into the sun, and smiles radiantly. This is 4-year-old Rosa, a child of
Diez De Abril, born of two Zapatista Militia volunteers Adelita and
Palestino. It is January 2002 and despite much adversity, Rosa is alive and
well. She lives where she was born, a fertile valley in Chiapas, occupied
by the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) in 1994, and populated
by a Zapatista support base community in 1995. The village is called Diez
De Abril (10th of April) in memory of the anniversary of the death of
Emiliano Zapata.

Land And Freedom, A Reality.

The history of Diez De Abril is one of struggle and resistance. It is an
inspiring example of how a dispossessed people, united by necessity and
will, can organise themselves into a strong representative organisation.
And through this organisation satisfy, using lightening direct action and
long-term community resolve, the demand for land and freedom. Such it was
that landless Tzeltal and Tojolabal indigenous farmers joined with the
EZLN, participated in the insurrection of 1994 and seized this land by
force. They drove the finquero (land estate owner) away and defended the
gains of this local revolution from subsequent police, military and
paramilitary threat with their bodies and political guile. The 4 years of
little Rosa's life have been tumultuous, dramatic and occasionally
traumatic, but like the community, here she is, young and healthy and
looking towards a better future.

World War III Report, #17

Bill Weinberg , Jan. 19, 2002

Vigilant, Independent Ombudsperson for the War on Terrorism

THE AFGHANISTAN FRONT

Powell Does Kabul

Mountains Still "Shaking" Under Aerial Bombardment

9-11 Survivors Meet Afghan Bombardment Survivors

Islamic Law is Back

Northern Alliance Terror in Kabul

Masoud Cult Shows Northern Alliance Power

Language Discrimination Shows Northern Alliance Power

Ecological Toll of Taliban Terror

Unarmed Minorities Seek Voice

Kandahar Castro: Un-closeted Again?

Dog-Fighting Out; Cock-Fighting In

Bamiyan Buddhas to be Rebuilt?

War Captives in Legal Limbo

Ex-Yugoslavia War Crimes Prosecutor Blasts US Tribunals

Ashcroft Wants Death for Accused Hippie Terrorist



THE NEW GREAT GAME

US Militarizes Kyrgyzstan

Russia Breaks Ranks With US on Afghanistan Bombardment

Death Merchants Salivate Over Indo-Pak Conflict

India Plays al-Qaeda Card

Pakistan Sells Out Fundamentalists (Sort Of)

...Not to be Confused with Democratization

Talking Heads Debate China Posture



THE MIDDLE EAST

Uglier and Uglier in Holy Land

Israeli Chief of Staff Schmoozes Bush Cabinet

Terrorism by Bulldozer Continues

Israeli Bedouins Have Bad Deal

US Military Tribunals Pioneered in Egypt

Algeria Dictatorship on "Good Guy's List"

Turkey Sues Chomsky Publisher for Telling Unapproved Truth



THE WAR AT HOME

Feds Crack Down on "Un-American" Art

...And Books

Bill in Congress to Bring Back Draft

Press Persuaded by Presidential Pretzel (But We Aren't)



NEW YORK CITY

Ground Zero Workers Have No Insurance

First Clean-Up Fatality; Contractor Fined $100

EPA Blasted on Clean-Up

WTC Survivors Protest Compensation Plan

WTC Survivors Protest Commodification of Disaster Site

Street Peddlers Cut Out of Downtown Revitalization Plan

Silverstein Wants to Rebuild Terrorist Bait

FEMA Loses WTC Disaster Probe

Laid-Off Workers: Marriott Exploits 9-11