China considering allowing Peasants to sell rights to Farmland

Due to the current Chinese Milk Scandal, Chinese leaders are considering allowing peasants the right to buy or sell land-use rights for the first time, which could allow farmers to move more firmly into the market economy.The new policy will be discussed this weekend by...

New 'Madeleine in Morocco' sighting: 'I'm convinced it was her, says woman'

"A Spanish tourist who believes she saw Madeleine McCann dragged across a street in Morocco has been desperately searching for the four-year-old ever since. Isabel Gonzalez, 60, is certain she saw the blonde toddler with a North African woman wearing a headscarf in the remote...

The roots of Dalit rage

"The roots of Dalit rage The symbolism of Dalit politics is a tactical response to the threat of violence lurking beneath the surface of Indian democracy. The benevolent tolerance that caste Hindu society affects may well be misplaced. by | Sukumar Muralidharan In January...

The Peasant Who Stood Up to Hitler

Justine Nicholas Lew Rockwell.com Thursday, December 7, 2006 - When a leader allows himself to break the rules of humanity, it is the duty of every citizen to break the leader's rules.So wrote Franz Jagerstatter. Chances are...

Coca growers resist Bolivia crackdown - The Washington Times

"SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia -- Indigenous coca farmers who helped put President Evo Morales in power are violently resisting even the token eradication efforts demanded by the United States to avoid Bolivia's decertification as a country cooperating against drug trafficking. ...

chondogyo

"The armed rebellion spread like a wildfire. The peasant army had few muskets and its arms were mainly bamboo spears and swords. The peasants wore bandanas on their heads and waistbands on their waists to identify themselves. The peasant army waved yellow flags with the...

Madonna's Publicists are Good

Madonna is such a smart woman -- better yet her publicist (s) rock (s).  What better way to answer your critics than to face the biggest critic of all, the big O.  I'm sure the pros and cons of this huge interview (ratings will fly through the roof) have been...

Planet Earth - just a dot in space

"... Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions,...

March 27, 1941 -- Takeo Yoshikawa arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii

Takeo was the Japanese spy inside Pearl Harbor. On December 6, 1941, Takeo sent his final message: *No barrage balloons sighted, Battleships are without crinolines. No indications of air or sea alert wired to nearby islands. Enterprise and Lexington [aircraft carriers]...

International Immigration and Imperial-Centered Accumulation

All the orthodox explanations of international migration fail to examine the social structure of the political economy of the "people-exporting" countries and "people-importing" countries.

Five killed in Guatemalan clash over land (Reuters)

" GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - At least five people were fatally shot or slashed to death with machetes in Guatemala when peasant farmers tried to invade a large estate they had been evicted from, police said on Sunday. Some 200 families attempted to invade a property, called...