WIRE # 22, August 26, 2000
World court – Peace in Burundi – Clinton in Africa – Truth & reconciliation – The Kursk affair – Israel: 200 nukes – China, arms seller in Africa – UN out of cash, Kosovo – NATO’s smelter takeover in Kosovo foreseen 6 months ago – Media and US elections – Pentagon hates peace in Korea – US, the worlds largest arms exporter – New report on UN peacekeeping – 20 million lives at stake in Africa, no humanitarian intervention – The world water crisis…
WIRE # 21, August 16, 2000
Millennium Peace Summit at the UN – Cluster bombs kill – BMD & new cold war – Vandana Shiva on poverty – UN & big business – World debt special – Globalizing NGO struggles -NATO in bed with scorpion in Kosovo – Montenegro – Where are the bodies buried? – Chomsky on Kosovo – New presidential candidate in FRY – NATO-Media lie machine – Peacemaker as peacewrecker – Special report on US presidential campaign – IAEA running out of money – Lost nuke – Amnesty’s Pierre Sané on humanitarian intervention – A new UN legion for peacemaking? – New economics – Women’s perspective on globalization – Inequality increases in Latin America.
WIRE # 20, August 4, 2000
Moral philosophy • Gandhi research • Joanna Macy • World Peace Portal • Positive developments in Somalia, India and the Koreas • 5 aspects on ballistic missile defence • G8 Okinawa • Ongoing chaos in Kosovo • The media’s own Kosovo crisis • John Pilger’s website • US and Columbia • Vieques • Scott Ridder back in Baghdad • US militarization • The plight of the Iraqi people • Gypsies, a non-territorial nation • What is Kofi Annan really saying? • The UN in the hands of global capital? • Chomsky on unsustainable development • The world digital divide • Strategic communication about development
WIRE # 19, July 17, 2000
Desired futures • People’s peace in India-Pakistan conflict • Electronic activism • US missile defence fiasco • China-US rivalry • Jubilee 2000 Coaliton • Tension Serbia-Montenegro • Kosovo’s absurd elections • Was NATO’s bombing OK? (documents) • What the media wrote ten years ago about repression in Kosovo, of Serbs • CNN and Pentagon psychological warfare • What media knew and didn’t tell • Illegal spy stations check what you say and write in 30 countries • Secrets about US nuclear madness, more nuclear targets around the world • AIDS – a major killer • Insider view of the Hague Tribunal • Economic globalism has failed • IFRC World Disaster report – 30 think pieces from the Internet
WIRE # 18, July 7, 2000
Positive news • World summit Social Development • Overcoming violence • Changemakers • G8 Okinawa • World apartheid • Kosovo and increasing conflict between the West and the Albanians • Big brothers used Orwell • The end of the European project • Terrorism goes down, anti-terrorism goes up • The rich are getting richer – some 20 think pieces from Internet selected for you.
WIRE 17, June 23, 2000
New activism • Bourdieu & Grass • Russia, China and US ballistic missile defence • War and money • Truths about NATO’s bombing • The West to give Milosevic amnesty • Montenegro • Self-censorship in US press • US, a rogue state? • Tribunals and Amnesty on NATO • Global non-sustainability…and more
