Direct Action (SolFed) #27 2003

Contents

• How green is my biofuel? Given the oil wars, is the European Union scared of running on empty? There's more to green fuels initiatives than meets
  the eye.
• Evil Empires - A short history: From the Romans to the Bushes (sic) in a 10-minute read.
• The spOILs of war: Because the oil trade is based on the dollar, oil-importing countries are hooked on it. This sustains almost unlimited military spending by the US to secure more oil. Meanwhile, oil-exporting countries have billions of dollars to invest back into the US economy.
• The Serbian resistance
• This slaughter must be stopped!
• Foil the base
• Legalising contamination
• Crap comrades
• MayDay
• Indian summer
• Elections retrospective
• On the edge: 'T&G' Clmrles; Met's new riotcop; Royal scroungers; Doorstep bully; Justice Italian-Style; Protesters hijack radio; What will you send?; WMD Bristol; GM Update; Witch-hunting
• international news:
  US, India, Australia, China, Poland, Iceland, Italy.
  Feature: Jordan's Sweatshops
  globalfocus: Latin Troubles
  Venezuela/Colombia/Argentina: Updates on the mayhem in South America, as unreported in the mainstream
  media.
• Imperial ambition: An interview with Noam Chomsky.
• blairedvision: A Lower Class Degree - Education, education, education? What the HE White Paper really means.
• justicepage: Mumia, Prison Survival, Giannis Serifis
• reviewfeatures: CD Activism:
  Informed Dissent - anti-war benefit compilation Video CD with footage of anti-war actions, music videos and Noam Chomsky interviews.
  The activist toolbox - complete guide to activism in credit-card size from the UHC Collective.
  Chomsky on terrorism - Chomsky's most anticipated lecture ever.
  30 years on - retrospective on Small is beautiful - a study of economics as if people mattered.
• book reviews
  The new rulers of the world - John Pilger
  hotlines - call centre I inquiry I communism
  Anarchism vs. Primitivism - Brian Sheppard
• Anti-globalisation... and the myth of the ‘good’ oppressor: Many have tried to articulate the aims and rationale of the anti-globalisation movement. Within some of the more popular arguments lurk suspect theories that mistake the symptom for the cure. Anti-globalisation... and the myth of the ‘good’ oppressor: Many have tried to articulate the aims and rationale of the anti-globalisation movement. Within some of the more popular arguments lurk suspect theories that mistake the symptom for the cure.
• notes+letters
• DA resources: Info ., upcoming events, campaigns, friends & neighbour