AltWeeklies Wire
Unnatural Disastersnew
The aftermath of the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami is a classic example of how humans can worsen natural disasters.
Seattle Weekly |
Geov Parrish |
01-05-2005 |
International
Tags: international
A Tsunami of Greed on Wall Streetnew
American contributions of about $44 million to the tsunami recovery effort seem modest by any standard -- and especially when compared to an estimated $15.9 billion being paid out in year-end bonuses to security industry employees.
The Village Voice |
James Ridgeway and Nicole Duarte |
12-29-2004 |
International
Fascism in America?
The last place you might expect to find a progressive would be the executive offices at Mobil or Xerox Corp. But Laurence Britt never stopped challenging the status quo. Although he's written three novels since retiring, it's one short article that has gained him high visibility on the left.
City Newspaper |
Ron Netsky |
12-07-2004 |
International
Tags: international
How Fanning Island Got a Toilet and Other Tales of Development
The arrival of the Norwegian Cruise Line's mammoth Norwegian Wind is turning isolated Fanning Island from a fish-and-coconuts economy to one of cold, hard cash.
Honolulu Weekly |
Catharine Lo |
12-01-2004 |
International
Tags: international
No Blood for Phony Foodnew
The breadbasket of the ancient world that holds all the essential seeds of our ancestors is now threatened by a genetic engineering invasion. The U.S. quietly ushers in genetically engineered food patent laws while banning ancient seed collecting in Iraq.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
11-25-2004 |
International
Tags: international
Study Puts Iraqi Civilian Death Toll at 100,000new
The Brookings Institute calls the tally "preposterous." But according to the researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who performed the study, the estimate is conservative.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
11-17-2004 |
International
Tags: international
Back from Venezuela with Tales of the 'Bolivarian Revolution'new
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is portrayed in the U.S. media as a populist and potential communist dictator, buying off the masses with handouts. An Athens County man who spent four months last summer working for Chavez, however, tells a different story.
The Athens NEWS |
Jim Phillips |
11-15-2004 |
International
November Surprises: What the Presidential Election Was Really Aboutnew
Less than an hour after George W. Bush's victory speech Wednesday, U.S. fighter planes launched major air strikes against Falluja. Yet the transparently self-serving timing of the biggest Bush military offensive since 2003 is passing unchallenged.
The Village Voice |
Wayne Barrett and Anna LeMond |
11-09-2004 |
International
The Endless War: Gaza Sinks In a Sea of Blood
A Palestinian student and journalist gives a gruesome first-hand account of life in the embattled Jabalya refugee camp. Artvoice publisher Jamie Moses writes an introduction.
Artvoice |
Mohammed Omer |
11-04-2004 |
International
Psychologist's Theory to Bring Peace Could Turn Soldiers Into Better Killersnew
Rachel MacNair argues that in war, the major stressor that causes post-traumatic stress disorder isn't watching a buddy die or coming under heavy fire from enemies. Instead, she believes, the key factor is killing someone else.
The Pitch |
Ben Paynter |
10-26-2004 |
International
Tags: Abortion, a member of PeaceWorks who has worked with the War Resisters League, battle fatigue, Lynn Cheatum, morality of killing, National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study, Perpetration Induced Traumatic Stress, Ph.D. candidate in psychology and sociology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, shell shock, the American Friends Service Committee and the Kansas City Interfaith Peace Alliance, international
Interview With a Warlord: A Deposed Legend Tells His Side of the Storynew
Ismail Khan, the recently deposed warlord-governor of Herat Province in Afghanistan, claims he was removed from office because he wouldn't have allowed drug traffickers to move opium through his district.
L.A. Weekly |
Ann Rachel Marlowe |
10-19-2004 |
International
Flight of Sudanese 'Lost Boys' Captured in Comic Booknew
A reality comic book, Echoes, portrays the suffering caused by the genocide and ethnic cleansing against animist, Christian and Muslim blacks in Sudan.
Dallas Observer |
Zac Crain |
10-12-2004 |
International
Jihad! Iraqis' Holy Men Make Bold Declaration Of Warnew
If Sunni clerics are a window into the soul of the violent resistance to U.S. aims in Iraq, the landscape they reveal couldn't be bleaker for U.S.-led forces.
Long Island Press |
Borzou Daragahi |
10-04-2004 |
International
Iraqis Slow to Embrace Democracynew
As Iraq's interim National Assembly begins its work, many Iraqis express a profound alienation from the political process that's supposed to pave the way to their first democratic government.
Long Island Press |
Borzou Daragahi |
09-24-2004 |
International
Africans Fleeing Genocide in Sudan Take Refuge in Egyptnew
Thousands of African refugees propelled by wars, economic misery, and politics have resettled in Cairo, a teeming metropolis with room for no more. Desperate conditions there have led to unrest.
The Village Voice |
Kareem Fahim |
09-15-2004 |
International
