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The role of volunteers in the Western Sahara Project Volunteers play a vital role in the work of the Western Sahara Project, and make a major contribution to the funding of the Project. Volunteering for a Western Sahara Project field season is a way of experiencing a unique desert environment and culture in a part of the world which is largely closed to outsiders. Volunteering is also an opportunity to learn about the fascinating and little-known archaeology of this remote region and of the (…)

Days Away From Economic Chaos?
by Bill Sardi
August 21, 2009
America is just a few days away from a possible day of reckoning. I again call attention to this day, August 25, when the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issues its 2nd Quarter report for 2009 on the state of health of American banks.
It has not particularly alarmed Americans that its growth and prosperity have been built upon debt. The American public is a bit desensitized, particularly since the Y2K threat fizzled. (…)

More US wealthy opt to surrender their citizenship
17 August 2009 - David Bain
As offshore havens comply with transparency demands, a growing number of ultra-wealthy Americans are handing back their passports.
Private client lawyers and relocation specialists are reporting a surge in wealthy Americans living abroad who are prepared to give up their citizenship to avoid the scrutiny of US tax authorities.
Although such a move means they have to pay an exit tax, lawyers say this is a (…)

Money system: meltdown by the end of 2009
LEAP2020 20.8.09
1. Disappearance of the financial base (Dollars & Debts) all over the world
A very simple image illustrates the global insolvency characteristic of today’s global financial system: the financial base which banks, insurers and global financial institutions were resting upon, is collapsing in the same way as a city built on a huge fault would collapse, suddenly realizing that what was meant to be solid land intended to firmly (…)

http://www.rel-uita.org/agricultura/agrotoxicos/irc/2009/con_amanda_villatoro-eng.htm On July 26, a large delegation of trade union representatives from different countries was invited by the trade unions active in Ingenio San Antonio (ISA), a sugar mill owned by Nicaragua Sugar Estate Ltd., company member of the Pellas Group, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Sandinista Confederation of Workers (CST) and inform about the content of a controversial agreement signed between the (…)

Bank Mafia rules the world By Dr.-Ing. Artur P. Schmidt Thursday, 20 August 2009
Like the Italian Mafia, the Wall Street bankers and intelligent networks are now the prime example of organized crime. They move their customers over the table and go after the taxpayers, if you are on the wrong color at the roulette table set. Financial oligopolies
In 2008, the global financial system completely collapsed. What we were experiencing were nonsensical socialist bailout the few financial (…)

Well, to take Israel, you have the fact that the Druze and “Bedouin” communities outrightly joined the Israeli side after 1948. You can, as Saharawi Citizen says, traitors in any movement. Benedict Arnold? The Algerian independence movement had more than one defector and collaborator.
Arab Israelis are said (by Israelis) to have equal rights to Jewish Israelis; though there are Israelis who challenge that. It really doesn’t matter much if the Sahara is wealthy or poor. The legal status is (…)

China’s Miracle Economy: Have the Chinese Become the World’s Greatest Capitalists?
Ellen Brown: Author, "Web of Debt" August 17, 2009
I don’t care if it’s a white cat or a black cat. It’s a good cat so long as it catches mice." — Deng Xiaoping, who opened China to foreign investment after 1978 China is being called a "miracle economy." It seems to have decoupled from the rest of the world, preserving an 8% growth rate while the rest of the world sinks into the worst recession since the (…)

Fidel Castro slams U.S. for battle over healthcare
Wed Aug 19, 2009
HAVANA, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro criticized the United States on Wednesday for being willing to spend billions on its high-tech military but finding it difficult to approve healthcare reform that would protect its poor people.
He wrote in a commentary published on a state-run Internet site that huge military budgets are approved easily by the U.S. Congress but U.S. President Barack Obama is (…)

Chinese Stocks: massive losses - 20% ... and so it begins again ... From Jochen Steffens Thursday, 20 August 2009
It is interesting that the markets in China is already massively burglarize. Here are the first indexes in losses of up to 20% can be reported. We remember, China has responded to the recent downward movement also much earlier and much more violent!
It is slowly being critical. The U.S. economic data deteriorate even clearer now. I had you already weeks before the first (…)