The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) is also looking into how AOL Time Warner, the massive internet and media corporation, generated revenue through a number of unusual transactions, including shifting revenue between divisions and and selling advertising for eBay and then accounting for them as their own revenue...

Many of us know about the the scandals involving Enron, Andersen, and Worldcom (now MCI) - from fraudulent transactions to accounting fraud and document shredding.  But this is only the tip of the iceberg for USCSI members, a group saturated with accusations of shady dealings...

The U.S. Coalition of Service Industries (CSI or USCSI) is the largest services oriented lobby group in the United States. With prime access to elite government and corporate circles, its various corporate members gain handsomely from international trade agreements, from IMF or World Bank handouts, and from privatization programs...

In the fragmentation project which is being operated by the government (this is the real agenda of the political parties and the three branches of the government, not the one which appears in the press), Mexico will be divided in 3:  The north, with its states incorporated into the economic and commercial framework of the American Union;  the center, as provider of consumers with middle and high level purchasing power; and the South-Southeast, as a territory to be conquered for the appropriation of natural resources which, in the globalized destruction, are increasingly more important: water, air and land (wood, oil, uranium...and people)...

As far from Bill Clinton as the extremist George W. Bush appears today, certain things hold the same for both presidents, particularly concerning their treatment of the world's poorest nations...

The Fifth Ministerial Conference of World Trade Organization (WTO) would be held in Cancun, Mexico in September 2003, in the midst of several controversial issues. There has been no meaningful progress on agriculture, TRIPs and public health, “special and differential treatment

- TORONTO – Le chef du Nouveau Parti Démocratique du Canada, Jack Layton, demande qu’une enquête indépendante soit menée sur les méthodes policières lors des manifestations contre le mini-sommet de l’OMC.

Les États-Unis viennent de signer un Traité de Libre Commerce avec le Chili, ce à quoi l'Alliance Chilienne pour un Commerce Juste et Responsable (ACJR) rétorque avec des arguments qui donnent à réfléchir...

Traduit de l'espagnol par Pierre Trottier

Here is an excerpt of the photo-reportage of the "No One Is Illegal" march that happened last sunday in the streets of Montreal, beginning the anti-WTO mobilization that will continue up to wednesday.

Click here to browse the complete sequence of pictures!

Montreal- The World Trade Organisation's mini-ministerial meetng will unfold at Montreal's Sheraton Centre from July 28th to 30th.This meeting brings together the finance ministers from 25 countries plus the Europeen Union. Supachai Panitchpakdi, director-general of the WTO is also expected to be present.

One of the main objectives of the Montreal mini-ministerial is consensus-building among what is in fact is a minority of its members before their ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico, September 10-14, 2003.

On the agenda: the privatisation of services through the General Agreement on Trade in Services, the protection of corporate privaledges such as Chapter 11 of NAFTAA, access to public markets, investment, and political leverage.

Weeks after Pierre Pettigrew's declaration that the "anti-glibalisation" movement has "completely dissapeared," the Popular Mobilisation Against the WTO is organising 5 days of creative resistance, popular education, and direct action with the goal of disturbing the WTO meetings in Montreal.

CMAQ, Montreal Indymedia, and many volunteers have set up an Independent Media Centre that will be open throughout the days of action.

Follow the all the developments HERE!!! and participate in coverage of the events!

Listen participative ROCK THE WTO RADIO, 104.5 FM in downtown Montreal.

The calendar for the mobilisation:

JULY 28TH UPDATES:
- 08/28 WTO PROTESTS MET WITH POLICE PURSUITS, MASS ARRESTS
- 08/28 Light Rioting at anti-WTO protest in Montreal
- 08/28 200 arrested in Green Zone Monday a.m.
- 08/28 green zone raided

Each day during the mobilisation, IMC Quebec will produce a "News Poster" that will be put up all over downtown Montreal to inform citizens as to the week's developments and details about the protests. In the first edition, IMC activists covered the Teach In that was held at UQAM on July 26th.

- 07/27 Slide show of the NO ONE IS ILLEGAL MARCH
- 07/27 Video of the NO ONE IS ILLEGAL march
- 07/27 No One Is Illegal! The photo-reportage...

- 07/27 Why are we marching? "NO ONE IS ILLEGAL"!

- 07/26 Our words are our weapons!!!
- 07/26 Get a job! Punk!! So what’s with all the fuss about the WTO anyway?
- 07/26 The war: a tool of capitalist repression
- 07/26 Agreement on Agriculture: Recipe for disater!

- 07/26 Re: Pettigrew criticizes globalization protestors
- 07/26 WTO in Montreal - Police repression starts before the conference even does!

- 07/25 Popular Mobilisation against the WTO launch 5 days of actions!
- 07/25 Spread the word: EXPOSE the W.T.O.!!!

- 07/24 Grassy Narrows: Fighting for Land and Sovereignty