The real goal is the seizure of Saudi oil
Iraq is no threat. Bush wants war to keep US control of the region
Mo Mowlam
Thursday September 5, 2002
The Guardian
I keep listening to the words coming from the Bush administration about
Iraq and I become increasingly alarmed. There seems to be such
[The WSSD text now explicitly makes the links between women's sexual and
reproductive
rights and sustainable development]
Ottawa, September 4, 2002 -- Katherine McDonald, Executive Director of
Action Canada for Population for Population and Development (ACPD), said
today, If there is one
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2230670.stm
Summit conclusions at a glance
Water and sanitation:
Governments agreed to halve the number of people
lacking clean drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015.
The deal was welcomed by development charities as
an important step towards
Peacefully, Nigerian Women Win Changes From Big Oil
by Michael Peel
LAGOS, NIGERIA - The town museum in Calabar, southern Nigeria, contains a
striking section on a 1929 Niger Delta protest known as the women's
war. The conflict, which stemmed from opposition to British
colonial rule, escalated
[The following is some coverage of the sequence of events in
July leading up to the Nigerian women's triumph over Big Oil]
Itsekiri Women Invade Chevron's Oil Terminal
By Mike Oduniyi
This Day 7/10/02
Another crisis has hit the oil sector, as about 150 Itsekiri women,
stormed the Escravos Tank
NY Times, Sept. 5, 2002
ARGENTINA 87, UNITED STATES 80
10-Year Winning Streak Ends for U.S. Basketball
By MIKE WISE
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 4 Down by 20 points before halftime, dumbfounded by a
former Temple University point guard in need of work, 12 N.B.A. players and
their tortured coach were
I have been reading the exchange. I was most impressed by the essay that triggered the
debate.
The Deirdre McCloskey piece in the current issue seems to me to be defensive and
missing
the point. I think I could pass the test he poses at the end -- I did have the Stigler
book as my
http://www.ufenet.org/press/2002/EE2002.pdf
Very interesting study.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[link to send an open letter to the President of Nigeria
http://www.mertonai.org/amina/OpenLetter.htm]
Subject: GENNET: Sharia law in Nigeria
To: GENNET [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Victor Hart20
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 12:51 AM
Colleagues,
The
- Original Message -
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:42 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:30053] Study of CEO ripoffs
http://www.ufenet.org/press/2002/EE2002.pdf
Very interesting study.
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The folks over at
I have just finished a draft of a 1st level labour economics text for
use in my own course here at the U of Manitoba and also for the
Masters in Personnel Management course I teach at the University
of Ljubljana.
The title of the book is _Labour Economics and the Labour Market:
Alternative
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30058] Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Jones writes:Those who want to silence such authentic voices of the oppressed women of the South as Vandana Shiva are its servants.
could you name someone who wants to _silence_ Shiva? as opposed to simply disagreeing with her opinions and
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Mark Jones writes:These silent, invisible women, hundreds of millions of them, are a condition of existence of late capitalism, of US imperialism in its exterminist phase of final decay.
what makes you think that US imperialism is in its phase
Devine, James wrote:
Mark Jones writes:Those who want to silence such authentic voices of
the oppressed women of the South as Vandana Shiva are its servants.
could you name someone who wants to _silence_ Shiva? as opposed to
simply disagreeing with her opinions and thus being willing to
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30061] Re: RE: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is a graduate student in Sweden named Bo Husqvarnaquistholm who is closely aligned with Bjorn Lomborg, the self-described skeptical environmentalist who favors
global warming
heck, if I lived in Sweden, maybe I'd favor global
M. Shahid Alam is a friend. He sent me this and I asked if I
could forward it. I think that it is sad, but in line with the
McKinney campaign.
I am writing this note to keep you posted on a smear campaign
that has been
initiated against me for my support of the academic boycott of
Israel. A
Devine, James wrote:
Mark Jones writes:Those who want to silence such authentic voices
of the oppressed women of the South as Vandana Shiva are its
servants.
could you name someone who wants to _silence_ Shiva? as opposed to
simply disagreeing with her opinions and thus being willing to
This Husqvarnaquistholm sounds like a dangerous fellow. I understand he's
also for clear-cutting old growth forests. Just one point of clarification,
though. Did he actually say condors or condoms? If it was condoms, did he
mean Ireland, not Great Britain?
He argues that if Great Britain
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30064] Re: RE: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Jones wrote:Those who want to silence such authentic voices
of the oppressed women of the South as Vandana Shiva are its
servants.
me:
could you name someone who wants to _silence_ Shiva? as opposed to
simply disagreeing
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30065] Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
didn't St. Pat chase the condoms out of Ireland?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-
From: Tom Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September
Doug Henwood wrote:
Shiva's biggest fans are among Western NGOs. She has almost no followers
in India.
can you back up this statement? perhaps starting with a more quanititative
description of what you mean by almost no. what counts as almost no?
is it 0? 10? 100? 1% of the indian
I was going to jump all over this until I
read the column. He's going to have a rough
time with the 'smear' line.
His column says:
Of necessity, dispossession is implemented by force, and it follows that
resistance to the coloniser must also be violent.
(which I agree with, by the way)
and:
Robert Biel's The New Imperialism: Crisis and Contradictions in
North/South Relations (Zed Books, 2000) is everything that Hardt-Negri's
Empire is not. Starting with the premise that there *is* such a thing as
imperialism--as opposed to some nebulous concept of Empire--Biel supplies
the kind
At 05/09/2002 19:29, Louis Proyect wrote:
Robert Biel's The New Imperialism: Crisis and Contradictions in
North/South Relations (Zed Books, 2000) is everything that Hardt-Negri's
Empire is not.
This is a wonderful book by Biel and, prompted by my mentor Lou Proyect, I
just spent a day at the
It is and has been perfectly legal and accepted, for a long time, to use
condoms in Ireland.
You just have to chainsaw the tip off before donning.
Tom Walker wrote:
This Husqvarnaquistholm sounds like a dangerous fellow. I understand he's
also for clear-cutting old growth forests. Just one
ravi wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote:
Shiva's biggest fans are among Western NGOs. She has almost no followers
in India.
can you back up this statement? perhaps starting with a more quanititative
description of what you mean by almost no. what counts as almost no?
is it 0? 10? 100?
Eugene Coyle wrote,
It is and has been perfectly legal and accepted, for a long time, to use
condoms in Ireland.
You just have to chainsaw the tip off before donning.
Jaysus friggin' Christ, Gene, you wouldn't be needing a condom if you did
that! Unless it was for a tourniquet.
Tom Walker
Wake-up call
If the US and Iraq do go to war, there can only be one winner, can't there?
Maybe not. This summer, in a huge rehearsal of just such a conflict - and with
retired Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper playing Saddam - the US lost. Julian
Borger asks the former marine how he did it
I don't think I was resubscribed to Enviroethics (or pen-l) when I posted
my review of Lomborg's Julian Simon regurgitation to the TWS and ECOLOG
listservers. As published in Conservation Biology a few months ago
(under the title Julian Simon Redux):
Lomborg, B. (2001) The Skeptical
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I wonder if Support Shiva makes a good slogan for mobilizing yankees against the Iraq invasion.
how about Support Vishnu?
JD
how about Support Vishnu?
JD
Nah! Not good. Support Vishne is much better. Vishne means sour
cherry in my language. Therefore, Support Vishne is
ecologically more correct. Moreover, Coca Cola's attempts to take
over the vishne juice business back home is a serious problem for
my poor vishne
ravi wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote:
Shiva's biggest fans are among Western NGOs. She has almost no
followers in India.
can you back up this statement?
I've heard it from people in the antiglobo movement, and from Ulhas
Joglekar on either this list or lbo-talk.
Doug
- Original Message -
From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shiva's biggest fans are among Western NGOs. She has almost no
followers in India. How does someone get nominated as the authentic
voice of the oppressed anyway?
Hey comrades, she has lots of grassroots South Africa fans after
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