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  • Double standard on globalization
    3 August 2003

    Boston Globe July 30, 2003
    Double standard on globalization
    By Robert Kuttner
    If you get into a conversation with a billing representative of your credit card provider or phone company, you may notice a faint Indian accent. That’s because the services industry is shifting more back room operations to India, where labor costs are a fraction of those in the United States. IBM, likewise, will soon move several thousand computer programming jobs to India, where programmers get far lower (…)

  • One in 10 U.S. Tech Jobs May Move Overseas, Report Says
    3 August 2003

    July 29, 2003
    One in 10 U.S. Tech Jobs May Move Overseas, Report Says
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - One out of 10 jobs in the U.S. computer services and software industry could shift to lower-cost emerging markets such as India or Russia by the end of 2004, a top computer consultancy said on Tuesday.
    Gartner Inc., the world’s biggest high-tech forecasting firm, said in a report entitled U.S. Offshore Outsourcing: Structural Changes, Big Impact’’ that 500,000 of the 10.3 million U.S. technology (…)

  • Media Too Soft on White House
    3 August 2003

    Newsday - August 1, 2003
    U.S. Media Are Too Soft on the White House
    By Norman Solomon
    This summer, many journalists seem to be in hot pursuit of the Bush administration. But they have an enormous amount of ground to cover. After routinely lagging behind and detouring around key information, major American news outlets are now playing catch-up.
    The default position of U.S. media coverage gave the White House the benefit of doubts. In stark contrast, the British press has (…)

  • GLOBE AND MAIL: America’s cultural offensive
    3 August 2003

    America’s cultural offensive
    Washington hopes to ease foreign-policy woes in the Middle East by wooing hearts and minds with a new Arabic-language radio network, satellite TV channel and glossy monthly magazine. It’s the funky side of the war on terror, SIMON HOUPT writes
    By SIMON HOUPT
    Saturday, Aug. 2, 2003
    http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030802/DIPLOMACY /TPEntertainment/TopStories
    Toni Braxton is going to save the United States from terrorism. All (…)

  • Democracy in Iraq? Bush does not want it; it won’t happen!
    3 August 2003

    Democracy in Iraq? Bush does not want it; it won’t happen!
    A guerrilla war was planned all along in Iraq against the U.S. and will continue for decades. It will come home to Americans as well.
    Craig B Hulet
    Democracy in Iraq? While it is on decline in America? And it is supposed to be America, which institutionalizes it in Iraq? If they achieve anything in Iraq, we know they will "call it" democracy even if it "is not," just as we in America continue to mouth "but we re free." (…)

  • Pakistani woman faces deportation
    3 August 2003

    Press Conference Announcement
    Date: Aug 4, 2003 Time: 10:00 A.M. Location: 200 Rene Levesque, in front of Complexe Guy Favreau
    The Action Committee Against the Racial profiling of Pakistani Refugees, South Asian Women’s Community Centre and No One Is Illegal Montreal would like to announce an upcoming press conference regarding the recent Immigration and Refugee Board decision to continue the detention of Mrs. Bilqis Fatima and her son Imran Hussain.
    On Thursday, July 31, 2003, the (…)

  • Iraqi Communists - Speed Up Putting Power in Hands of People
    3 August 2003

    Iraqi Communist Party Leader:
    We Strive to Speed Up Putting Power in the Hands of People
    Published in ’Tareeq Al-Shaab’ - Central Organ of the Iraqi Communist Party
    Weekly edition: 27 July - 2 August 2003
    No.23, Year 68
    In an interview with Comrade Hamid Majeed Mousa , the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party, published by the Iraqi daily ’Al-Sa’ah’ on 23 July 2003, he said that the party strives through participating in the Governing Council to raise the (…)

  • Bush, the rainforest and a gas pipeline to enrich his friend
    3 August 2003

    The Independent (UK) July 30, 2003
    Bush, the rainforest and a gas pipeline to enrich his friends
    By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
    President George Bush is seeking funds for a controversial project to drive gas pipelines from pristine rainforests in the Peruvian Amazon to the coast.
    The plan will enrich some of Mr Bush’s closest corporate campaign contributors while risking the destruction of rainforest, threatening its indigenous peoples and endangering rare species on the coast. (…)

  • Those Whom the Gods Would Destroy . . .
    3 August 2003

    Those Whom the Gods Would Destroy . . .
    By John Lacny
    The Bush regime is probably unprecedented in human history for the rate at which it makes actual policy proposals that are impossible to satirize. There are such things out there as informal "celebrity death" betting pools, where cubicle denizens gather around the water cooler to make morbid wagers on who will croak next. (The dogged crew of wishful thinkers who have been pulling for Strom Thurmond finally collected their money this (…)

  • Congressional Black Caucus Rebuts Bush
    3 August 2003

    August 1, 2003
    Congressional Black Caucus Rebuts Bush
    by Christian Morrow
    New Pittsburgh Courier
    PITTSBURGH (NNPA)- Almost immediately after President George W. Bush’s address to the National Urban League at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings borrowed a phrase from radio commentator Paul Harvey, calling a press conference to give "the other side of the story." As chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Cummings said Bush failed to mention his party (…)