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News :: Globalization
Starbucks Sues Tiny Indigenous-owned Coffeeshop For "trademark Infringement"
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11 May 2003
Modified: 08:19:52 PM
Three years ago, Darin Swanson and his partners christened their HaidaBucks cafe. Now the coffee shop in the Queen Charlotte Islands (British Columbia, Canada) is being sued by the Starbucks company, which says the name is too familiar to their own. "I guess they have a problem with the word 'bucks' in our name. They're letting us use the word Haida -- nice of them," Swanson said. Swanson and his partners -- all members of the Haida Nation -- insist they have aboriginal rights to the name and will not be ground down. Swanson had never set foot in a Starbucks coffee shop.
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News :: Regime
Cheney Firm Paid Millions In Bribes To Nigerian Official
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11 May 2003
Haliburton admits bribing Nigerian official
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Commentary :: Miscellaneous
A Quick Note On Indybay Policy
Current rating: 3
11 May 2003
Reposting a note on SF-IMC editorial policy, and why I'm no longer interested in posting there.
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Commentary :: Israel / Palestine
"A Pubic Relations Move"
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11 May 2003
A nice typo in a Haaretz commentary on the Powell visit...
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News :: Labor
Borders Books Union Worker Speaks
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11 May 2003
Borders Union worker speaks at the "Meeting the Challenge" labor conference
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Commentary :: Peace
The Rational Destruction Of Yugoslavia
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11 May 2003
Now that the United States has completed a so-called humanitarian intervention in Iraq, I believe it is very informative to look back at the previous one in Yugoslavia. A brilliant analysis by noted author and political scientist Michael Parenti.
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News :: International Relations
Frustrated, U.S. Arms Team To Leave Iraq
Current rating: 3
11 May 2003
Task Force Unable To Find Any Weapons
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Commentary :: Urban Development
"Corporism: The Systemic Disease That Destroys Civilization."
Current rating: 2
11 May 2003
Huge corporations now control America's body politic by reason of their bald-faced purchases of the three branches of the American government and America's major media.
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News :: International Relations
Donald Rumsfeld OK'd Sale Of Nuclear Reactors To North Korea In 2000
Current rating: 3
11 May 2003
Donald Rumsfeld, the US defense secretary, sat on the board of a company which three years ago sold two light water nuclear reactors to North Korea - a country he now regards as part of the "axis of evil" and which has been targeted for regime change by Washington because of its efforts to build nuclear weapons.
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News :: Economy
The Oil-Consumption Party Is Over
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10 May 2003
Professor Richard Heinberg predicts world oil shortages in the near future.
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