California dreaming turns to California nightmare as decades of agribusiness, real estate development and exploitation of migrant workers take their toxic toll. Gifford Hartman takes us on a guided tour of the Golden State's darkside

Short article from Bahrain weekly 'The Gulf' in which the author of 'Super Imperialism' and 'Global Fracture' makes what is hardly the 'modest proposal' he pretends it is, and perhaps also gives a clue as to what he thought he was doing as 'economic adviser' to Denis Kucinich's presidential run. Hudson proposes that an unspecified bloc of 'Middle Eastern' state-capital should try to settle the dollar-standard blackmail once and for all by offering to buy the US out of the military infrastructure (i.e.

Financial Times 'Insight' column (April 2, 'Companies & Markets' section) which may be too quick to dismiss the role of the free-falling dollar in dollar-denominated oil prices, but makes an interesting case for the necessity of the current 'speculative' $100+ a barrel rate based on total stocks, once producer countries' excess capacity levels are considered in relation to their own domestic energy needs.  The author unwittingly comes close a 'Midnight Notes'-type argument: the Opec states are forced to provide for electricity demand from growing

In 'Lobster' 53 Robin Ramsay notes that the US 'military-industrial complex', in its perpetual need to generate enemies, "has just landed a big one: Africa".  While the Bush administration has created the long-lobbied for Unified Command for Africa, it's the NGOs, Hollywood liberals, Clinton functionaries and other sundry 'multilateralists' of the Save Darfur Coalition who are leading the charge.
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