http://solifeats.blogdrive.com/ Features Sun, 29 May 2005 02:50:00 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2005. Writing Poetry Organizations http://solifeats.blogdrive.com/archive/5.html Sun, 29 May 2005 10:45:48 GMT Profit$ of Doom (May 14, 2005, Good Weekend) From Aceh to Iraq, a ruthless form of disaster capitalism is reshaping vulnerable societies to its own design, with the so-called democracy builders making millions in the process, writes Naomi Klein. Last year, in the lull of the northern hemisphere August media doze, the Bush Administration’s doctrine of preventive war took a major leap forward. On August 5, the White House created the Office of the Co-ordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilisation. Headed by the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Carlos Pascual, its mandate is to draw up... (more) http://solifeats.blogdrive.com/comments?id=5 http://solifeats.blogdrive.com/archive/4.html Sat, 28 May 2005 10:42:47 GMT Guantanamo and the New Legal Order By Jean-Claude Paye Monthly Review, May 2005 The “war against terrorism” has provided all executive branches of the leading Western governments with a perfect opportunity to make some deep adjustments to society. These changes are so far-reaching that they approach a shedding of the old political regime. We in the West are witnessing a reversal of the role of criminal procedure right across the board. Its usual function—to guarantee fundamental freedoms and cap the powers of police and government—is morphing into the opposite, a suspension of constitutional... (more) http://solifeats.blogdrive.com/comments?id=4 http://solifeats.blogdrive.com/archive/3.html Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:56:45 GMT US had advance warning of tsunami: Canadian professor By Khalid Hasan 01/03/05 "Daily Times" -- WASHINGTON: A Canadian expert has claimed that the US Military and the State Department were given advance tsunami warning and America’s Navy base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean was notified but the information was not passed on to the countries that bore the brunt of the disaster. Prof. Michel Chossudovsky of the University of Ottawa asks in an analysis produced for the Venus Project why fishermen in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand were not provided with the same warnings as... (more) http://solifeats.blogdrive.com/comments?id=3 http://solifeats.blogdrive.com/archive/2.html Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:06:25 GMT Journalists Close Ranks; Demand Probe of Media Killings The Philippine press closed ranks Aug. 16 as at least 200 journalists, broadcasters and photographers from the multimedia industry marched to the gates of the national police headquarters at Camp Crame, along Edsa, Quezon City to denounce police incompetence in solving media killings. Similar protests were held in the Visayas and Mindanao. By Aubrey SC Makilan and Ronalyn V. Olea Bulatlat   Their rage is hotter than the news  Photo by Aubrey SC Makilan The Philippine press closed ranks Aug. 16 as at least 200 journalists,... (more) http://solifeats.blogdrive.com/comments?id=2 http://solifeats.blogdrive.com/archive/1.html Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:52:55 GMT Featured articles on issues, on Soli, on anything of interest... http://solifeats.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1