In my life-time as an independent Dutch foreign correspondent - also in Latin America - I've seen some 'Foreign Offices' been undressed, tarred and feathered: but this beats everything! Red alert, Hugo Chavez!

We are not mobilizing for this year’s World Bank / IMF meetings? What?! You will not find a rally and a march from one part to another filled with speeches and empty platitudes. BUT, YOU WILL FIND LOTS OF ACTION! Don’t come to Washington, DC, April 21 – 23 if all you intend to do is march. However, if you want to take effective action, you can march and do a whole lot more!

Dans le cadre du dossier sur la "crise nucléaire" en Iran, Franc-Parler publie, à titre d'information, une intervention de la délégation cubaine à la réunion extraordinaire des gouverneurs de l'AIEA.

The World Bank, IMF etc. bring countries to their knees even by sending the 'jackals': "Jackals' are CIA-sanctioned people that come in and try to foment a coup or revolution. If that doesn't work, they perform assassinations, or try to." *[Important video below]

El Pueblo Palestino se Moviliza en el Primer Aniversario de la Decisión de la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ) para demandar:

¡Destrucción del Muro del Apartheid!

¡Implementar la Decisión de la CIJ AHORA!

A momentum to break open debtors' prisons that the Washington Consensus built in the global south has been building up, demonstrated by Argentina's ability to compel 75% of its creditors to accept 35 cents on the dollar. The nomination of Paul Wolfowitz for WB presidency can only invigorate the global justice movement, which will have an inviting target at the IMF and the WB's 2005 Spring Meetings on April 16-17 and their 2005 Annual Meetings on September 26-27 -- both in Washington D.C. At the same time, the Wolfowitz nomination, like John Snow's performance, underscores the empire's lack of global economic policy. To be sure, there is no lack of clarity in the domestic business agenda, but all elements of the domestic agenda (the class action "reform," the bankruptcy "reform," the medical malpractice liability "reform," tax cuts, Social Security privatization, etc.) either do nothing to defuse or make bigger ticking economic time bombs -- the ballooning housing bubble, mounting consumer debts, the credit bubble, the widening current account deficit, rising oil prices, the falling dollar, and so on -- that may go off any time.

A Better World Is Under Construction!!

Were you at the first A16 demonstration against the IMF and World Bank in Washington, DC in 2000? Come back once again to challenge these illegitimate institutions and their plans for a world of unbridled greed! Did you miss out on the first mass protests against the IMF and World Bank? Now's your chance to be part of the second A16! The Mobilization for Global Justice is calling for all those interested in helping to construct a mass movement against neo-liberalism and the devastation it is wreaking on the world to converge on Washington, DC from April 15th-17th. Come help us celebrate the successes of our movement, which in the past five years has not only put these institutions on the defensive and on the run, but has begun construction of the new world that has for so long been in all our hearts.

For fliers to distribute in you community, logistical information, meeting times and updates e-mail m...@riseup.net or visit www.globalizethis.org . GET INVOLVED! IT’S A BLAST!

Les réunions du FMI, où que je voulus qu’elles se produisent, continuèrent de rassembler des milliers de manifestants qui protestèrent contre la politique de l’Organisation Mondiale du Commerce (OMC). Ils dirent que le Fond Monétaire International (FMI) est arrogant. Qu’il n’écoute réellement pas les pays en développement qu’il veut supposément aider...

Amartya Sen, citoyen hindou, âgé de 66 ans, fut couronné par le Prix octroyé par la Banque Centrale Suisse, en honneur à Alfred Nobel, dans la discipline des sciences économiques, pour l’année 1998. La décision de récompenser Amartya Sen, seul, par le Nobel no. 43 d’Économie, a signifié un changement dans la ligne suivie ces dernières années par l’Académie des Sciences...