Do you really think a boycott will work?

A boycott of American products could, if enough people took part, have a significant impact on the US economy to have an effect on US foreign policy. However, being realistic this is unlikely to happen so spare us the "do the math" emails.
Alough initaly a site advocation the Boycott of America products in the wake of Bushs' tearing up of the Kyoto protocol, this site is now more about disseminating truth, encouraging free thought and the bypassing of corporate-controlled media.

Iraq deserve what they are getting after what they did on 9-11!!

This is possibly the most worrying of comments we receive. According to a New York Times/CBS News survey, 42% of the American public believes that Saddam Hussein is directly responsible for the September 11 attacks and an ABC news poll says that 55% of Americans believe that Saddam Hussein directly supports al-Qaida. This is hardly surprising considering the quality of the news and reporting that goes on in the US and where Americans get their information. Let us be very clear here; there is no evidence whatsoever that Iraq or Hussein have anything whatsoever to do with 9-11 or al-Qaida..... Chomsky article

Who are you, where are you, why don't you identify yourself??

We get a lot of very abusive and threatening emails. We will hapilly communicate with you directly by email but would prefer not to give out our home addresses.
Why are you so keen to know who we are and from which country, why does it matter?

The USA spends loads on foreign aid, without us the world would starve.

US GDP = $10 trillion. Of this, foreign aid is 0.24%... somewhere in the region of $24 billion, an enormous sum and probably more than any other country gives in aid.... but to look at it another way, the rest of the western world gives an average of 0.47% of their GDP, compared with the United Nations' recommended minimum of 0.7% of GNP. In addition to this: out of this "aid" money over $3 billion goes to Israel annually (and most of that to their arms program), this is, for instance, more than the entire content of Africa receives from the USA and is indeed more than any country gives to any other country in a year. The US budgets $360 billion for ‘defence’ every year – an annual military budget that exceeds the combined annual military budgets of the next 25 top countries. The cost of a single cruise missile costs $800,000, which means that the opening blitz on Baghdad, when 320 missiles were dropped in a single day, cost the US a stupendous $256 million. A single stealth bomber—$1.26 billion—which is about the same amount as America gives in aid each year to sub-Saharan Africa. The United Nations is facing a massive shortfall in feeding the world’s poorest people: In the drought-struck Horn of Africa, 11 million Ethiopians are at risk from hunger, yet only half their food needs have been pledged by richer nations. In neighbouring Eritrea, two thirds of the population face starvation, but just over 2% of the $163 million asked for by the UN has been offered. Southern Africa is also in the grips of drought with 14 million people in desperate need of food aid yet western aid has been trickling in. In Burundi, almost one sixth of the inhabitants have been forced out of their homes by conflict and natural disasters. The country has now been officially listed as the third poorest nation on earth, but has received only 3% of its UN request.

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