This website for a documentary about how donated clothing has destroyed local textile industries in Africa has a nice infographic. The Salvation Army profits off selling donated clothing to Africa.

Here's an informative discussion, including maps, of the severed submarine cables that have left users across the Middle East and Asia without access to the Internet.

This awesome photo-essay shows how the West dumps toxic computer parts on the developing world.

It's worth pointing out the difference between "outsourcing" and "offshoring" here. Newspapers are outsourcing when they hire a stringer to cover the city council meeting; they're offshoring when they hire writers in India to watch them online.

This map shows the volume of goods sourced from a country by showing the relative size of a country.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez boosted the Amazon sales rank of Noam Chomsky's *Hegemony or Survival* from 39,513 to 21 after recommending it in a speech at the United Nations.

This map displays the global economic reach of Starbucks and McDonalds.

Wow, there's a real "Wee Britain" in Shanghai! Who knew "Arrested Development" would be so prescient?

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has become a folk hero in the Arab world.

I lost my enthusiasm for Adbusters almost as soon as I subscribed, but this might be an interesting opportunity for a reader or two.

I'm not sure it bodes well that a Chinese business is outsourcing manufacturing to my home state. The relaunced MGs will be built in Ardmore, which is about halfway between Dallas and OKC.

I'm not sure why Sterling insists on describing himself as a mere "science fiction writer," since his most influential stuff seems to be his nonfiction work. He talks here about his latest book and environmental issues.

I've been meaning to post something about the actions in Oaxaca, and this will have to do.

The esteemed law professor sounds off on the hazards of the proposed WIPO broadcast treaty.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica editor turned professional troll splits hairs over the Countering Systemic Bias Wikiproject.

This is a great primer that explains the precarious position of the US economy. It doesn't even mention rising energy prices.

The Miami Herald runs a photograph of a high school student in a T-shirt that says "Mexico," just to have the image of a Mexican jumping a fence.

''If knowledge doesn't have owners, intellectual property is a trick of neoliberalism,'' Hugo Chavez says.

Good, if aggro, post on nativist critics attacking folks for waving the Mexican flag at pro-immigration rallies.

Nice San Francisco Chronicle article about how Bush's policies toward Latin America has led to pan-national popular movements against the US.

Article decribing draconian provisions of WIPO broadcast treaty. The proposed treaty would give broadcasters control over content for 50 years after first broadcast.

French fries are to freedom fries as Danishes are to... Roses of the Prophet Mohammad

LiveJournal entry with a nice analysis of the protests incited by a Danish cartoon.