WORLDWIDE WEDNESDAY ARCHIVES Check in with Antinous for cultural issues and international affairs. 020605 - Globalization OK 020529 - Peace with Mother Earth 020522 - Independent Europe? 020515 - U'Wa Defeat Oxy 020508 - USA Afraid of War Crimes Court 020501 - Biocolonialism 010704 - Declaration of Independence 010627 - Amnesty Turns 40 010620 - France's 35 Hour Work Week 010613 - Outsourcing Colombia's War 010606 - Global Rules Cower in Cyberspace 010530 - Dutch "Coffee" Shops 010523 - Biodiversity and Society 010516 - Lost City of Annau 010509 - Indigenous Gathering 010425 - American Indian Reformers 010418 - Global Greens 010411 - Green Taxes 010404 - Farmer vs. Monsanto 010321 - TechnoEvolution 010314 - Zapatista 010307 - Taliban Destroys Buddhas 010221 - Universal Values 010214 - Czech Women 010207 - Marxist Revolution? 010131 - Global Digital Equality 010124 - Porto Alegre World Social Forum 010117 - Monde Maps 010110 - Stone Age Discovery in Namibia 010103 - Ten Worst Corporate Criminals 001220 - Big Business vs. Human Rights 001213 - Death of a Language 001206 - Pope Says Drop the Debt Now that the filth of US politics is almost behind us we turn to the subject of flushing! A new look at Roman toilets shows that technology may not have been enough to keep the streets clean. Click HERE to learn more.   Leave it to the native Australians to set the example for the modern world.   Aborigines have made the switch to solar, dreaming the future today.   Click HERE to learn more!   What is the WTO and why is it a danger to the average person? Today a writer from Youth for International Socialism gives his take.   Why should you be against the WTO?   Click HERE to find out!   Battles have engulfed the West Bank and Gaza strip killing dozens.   The Israeli army unleashed tanks and helicopter gunships against Palestinian rioters.   Is it war? Click HERE!   Imagine having a nation, but no country - like Israel a hundred years ago.   Today the Kurds are a people without a home, the largest stateless nation in the world.    Click HERE to learn more. High Fuel Costs The people of Siberia are paying for our oil with their very lives! Click HERE to learn more. Hidden Message: He's a Rat! Subliminal messages do influence groups of people. What's the story with Bush's ads? Click HERE to find out! Street Children There are 40 million children in the streets of Latin America, many addicted to drugs. Click HERE to learn how to help them! Everybody thought they were gone for good, but explorers have discovered a family of Naua indians still living in the jungle. Click HERE to meet this lost tribe! Word Bank betrays Awá Tribe "They killed my mother, my brothers and my sisters, and my wife." Karapiru Awá, survivor of a massacre. Click HERE to find out why! Today we have a double take on the image to the left. Find out how culture paints our world views. Click HERE!   This year the Peace Corps is celebrating 40 years of service.   Maybe you were a volunteer or maybe a beneficiary. Whatever your involvement with the Peace Corps, they want to hear from you!   Click HERE.   Today we have a brief lesson on what can happen when a country uses great wealth to improve life for everyone and not just an elite few, what happens when the elite mess around with a good thing and what might happen to a royal familly embroiled in scandal. Some people call these wandering people Gypsies. But who are the Roma and where did they come from?   Learn about 1000 years of history and discover a few secrets about these mysterious people.   Click HERE for this story!   In the west we shake hands to say hello, goodbye and especially when we meet someone new.   What does your shake say about you? Does it really matter to others?   Click HERE to read the latest studies on shaking hands.   For centuries Africa has been split into parts by colonization and tribal rivalries.   Now the Organization of African Unity may change all that, making the dark continent one!   Click HERE for the full story.   For decades the nation of Korea has been split as the cold war rages on - but not for long!   Did Korea save the world from a third global war, one with nukes?   Click HERE to find out.   Why would someone want to make themselves black in America? If you have to ask, racism is still alive.   Today we look at crossing the color line, what it means and why some writers do it.   Click HERE to begin!   The quest for gold has been going on for centuries, and the first millionaire was King Croesus.   Dig back to the first coins and the first gold refinery with today's feature.   Click HERE to learn more! >  Vandana Shiva, author of Stolen Harvest, is one of the leading voices against global economics.   Find out what this grassroots leader means by "food totalitarianism" and "hijacked food."   Click HERE!   The USA and Taiwan are on opposite sides of the globe. One is a tiny island; the other is a superpower.   So how did the fates of Taiwan and the US become deeply intertwined? Only the Chinese know for sure!   Click HERE!   Under the skin we humans are not so different. A new study proves it!   A close look at the DNA of the people of the middle east shows how Jews are related to Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese.   Click HERE to learn more.   When the US of A wants to test practice live bombing raids, they go to Puerto Rico and the tiny island of Vieques.   There is just one problem: the people who live there don't like to be bombed!   Click HERE to get the scoop.   Uranium is used by the military for nuclear bombs, but it is also used in bullets and 'bomblets.'   Tons of uranium were shot at Kosovo and Iraq, and now cancer and other problems follow!   Click HERE to learn more.   Today Antinous looks at a Brazilian state that has turned to eco- tourism and preservation.   Find out what Bahia has done to protect the environment and its future.   Click HERE to begin!   Will A16 be the bomb that "kicks the bums out?" Protesters say "No IMF, No World Bank!"   Hot on the heels of steamy Seattle, the streets of Washington, DC will flow with people this week.   Click HERE to learn more.   Every day we select a headline from One World News because we think they cover the world best.   Today we want you to explore the world yourself, your world: One World!   Click HERE to learn more.   What country has more prisoners than any other? Why, the United States of course!   The USA has more people behind bars than the population of several US states combined!   Click HERE to learn more.   After 36 years of awful, bloody civil war, a lasting peace may have come to Guatemala at last.   Can seemingly intractable conflicts can be resolved at the negotiating table?   Click HERE to learn more.   As the number of us on the planet goes up, we need to go back to nature - not tame it!   Now close to the limit of fresh water, what will we do when the basis of life has run out?   Click HERE to learn more.   Governments have talked about the need to halt small arms flows to human rights abusers.   But talk is cheap. It's time to take action!   Click HERE to learn more.   Now that the cease fire with the Basque has ended, there has been a new round of bombs.   Today Antinous takes another look at this nation without a country.   Click HERE to learn more!   Few would like to admit it, but race plays a big role in sex and society.   Today's writer shows how sex can be a weapon or a reason to fear.   Click HERE to learn more.    Is the UN a plot to take over the world, a fresh start after two world wars or just a debating society?    Today Antinious says that although the UN is a great idea, it is probably doomed to fail.   Click HERE!   This month a summit will cap a series of meetings all over the USA to talk about Africa.    Leaders from the globe will convene to plan the future.   Click HERE to get involved!    A nation in tatters, the people of Ecuador filled the streets last week to help a bloodless coup.   But the new leaders they put in place were swapped for old boys by the military.   Click HERE to learn more!   Today we just provide a simple but important link to a site that feeds the hungry - and all you have to do is click!   Tell everyone about this site, and visit it once every day. It is easy and so important!   Click HERE to feed someone!   Today Antinous tells us that the United States does not want that old Panama Canal anyways!   With control of the "Zone," has Panama also finally siezed control of its own destiny?   Click HERE to find out!   For hundreds of years the histories of Algeria and the United States have been intertwined.   The latest issues involve the Sky Needle in Seattle and guerillas in the African mountains.   Click HERE to learn more! December 15, 1999 - Global Millennial Celebrations December 8, 1999 - Swamp Wars December 1, 1999 - Police open fire on Seattle Protesters November 17, 1999 - The Dirty Truth Behind WTO November 10, 1999 - The Innu Driven to Suicide in Canada November 3, 1999 - Will Oz Save the Queen? October 27, 1999 - An English Parliament October 20, 1999 - Women in Afghanistan October 13, 1999 - Test Ban Treaty October 6, 1999 - Rethinking DeSoto's Trail September 29, 1999 - Australia is Deputy Global Policeman September 22, 1999 - Third World Picks Up Eco Tab For Western Appetites September 15, 1999 - Third World Debt Kills Kids September 8, 1999 - African Fractals September 1, 1999 - Virtual Vacations August 25, 1999 - Stolen Children August 18, 1999 - Dagestan August 11, 1999 - The World Bank August 4, 1999 - Tunnels July 28, 1999 - Russia on Borrowed Time July 21, 1999 - Global Population 6 Billion July 14, 1999 - Iran Students Protest July 7, 1999 - Africa at War June 30, 1999 - Kashmir's Cyber- War June 23, 1999 - Burma June 16, 1999 - G.I. Joey June 9, 1999 - History's Timeline June 2, 1999 - Saving the Miami Circle May 26, 1999 - The Many Nations of North America May 19, 1999 - Hero Lost at Sea May 12, 1999 - Cambodia Joins Asean May 5, 1999 - Death of the Dictator April 28-May 4, 1999 - GONE FISHIN' April 21, 1999 - Spy Stuff April 7, 1999 - Basque March 31, 1999 - Macedonia: The Next Hot Spot? March 24, 1999 - Macao Goes Native March 17, 1999 - WTO Calls for Environmental Action March 10, 1999 - Sri Lanka March 3, 1999 - No Paradise in Tibet February 24, 1999 - Big Oil Holds Nigeria Hostage February 17, 1999 - Erope Embroiled in Kurdish Protests February 10, 1999 - Eretrea February 3, 1999 - Native Americans Fight for Land January 27, 1999 - Maps of the News January 20, 1999 - Afghanistan January 13, 1999 - Russian Orphans January 6, 1999 - The Euro is On the Track December 16, 1998 - Puerto Rico Statehood? December 9, 1998 - Western Canada December 2, 1998 - Quebec November 25, 1998 - Cyprus November 18, 1998 - Aloha Hawaii 50? November 11, 1998 - World Survey 2000 November 4, 1998 - Tibet's Freedom Octoner 21, 1998 - Italy Revolts! October 14, 1998 - West Sahara October 7, 1998 - Chevron Kills Activists September 30, 1998 - Language Extinction Septeber 23, 1998 - Global Economic System Fails September 16, 1998 - Genetic Bottleneck Split the Races? September 9, 1998 - Back to the USSR September 2, 1998 - Uwa vs. Big Oil August 26, 1998 - Native Arts Revival Brings Profits August 19, 1998 - Socialist Capitalism August 12, 1998 - UK & USA to Re-Unite? August 5, 1998 - Stop Timor Torture July 29, 1998 - Columbus on Trial July 22, 1998 - Albania's Growing Pains July 15, 1998 - Final Peace for the Tzar July 8, 1998 - Puerto Rico Strikes! July 1, 1998 - Chinese communist party at 77 June 24, 1998 - The Very Very Rich June 3, 1998 - Population Bomb May 27, 1998 - The Roma May 20, 1998 - Spies Are Watching You! May 13, 1998 - Digital Freedom Network May 6, 1998 - Hunger Strikes for Tibet April 29, 1998 - Sergei Kiriyenko April 22, 1998 - Earth Day April 15, 1998 - Fire Fall April 8, 1998 - African Heritage April 1, 1998 - US Domestic Propaganda March 25, 1998 - Global Gods March 18, 1998 - I'm a White Guy March 11, 1998 - China Cracks Down on Tibet March 4, 1998 - Native American Foods February 25, 1998 - Who is Kofi Annan? February 18, 1998 - Iraq, the People we Plan to Bomb February 4, 1998 - Principles for Sustainable Living January 28, 1998 - American Stories January 21, 1998 - All About Egypt January 14, 1998 - Cuba Votes January 7, 1998 - Peace Corps: A Big Help or a Big Joke? December 31, 1997 - Visit Malawi December 17, 1997 - Countries of the World December 10, 1997 - Cross Cultural Kitsch December 3, 1997 - Food Only For the Rich? The Coming War November 26, 1997 - Cultural Values November 19, 1997 - Beyond War November 12, 1997 - Spy Cams November 5, 1997 - Moscow Photos October 29, 1997 - American Hemisphere? October 22, 1997 - Global Warming October 15, 1997 - Blood For Oil: The Uwe Tribe threatens Mass Suicide October 8, 1997 - The Circus around the World October 1, 1997 - Native American Museums September 24, 1997 - The Empty Frame: Where is the Dalai Lama? September 17, 1997 - The Inca Trail September 10, 1997 - Rosewood Reborn September 3, 1997 - News from Around the World Click for More Stories