back, self-promotingly

2002-10-17 Thread Doug Henwood
Hi gang. Back for a bit before taking a little trip. Sorry that my return message is a blast of self-promotion, but it won't happen again, I swear. Today I'm doing a two-hour special radio show, as part of WBAI's fundraising marathon. So, please listen, and if you're so moved, please pledge

Re:Saul Lecture Web site

2002-10-17 Thread W.R. Needham
Title: Re:Saul Lecture Web site web site for: John R. Saul. 1996 Hagey Lecture, at the University of WaterlooPower versus the Public Good: The Conundrum of the Individual and Society. http://economics.uwaterloo.ca/needhdata/SaulJRHageyLecture1996V2.PDF -- Dr. W.R. Needham Associate Chair,

Chutzpah (Re: back, self-promotingly)

2002-10-17 Thread Tom Walker
Why apologize? Isn't self promotion all there is anyway? Doug Henwood wrote, Hi gang. Back for a bit before taking a little trip. Sorry that my return message is a blast of self-promotion, but it won't happen again, I swear.

UN resolutions that are not enforced

2002-10-17 Thread ken hanly
By Maggie Farley, Times Staff Writer UNITED NATIONS -- When President Bush chastises the U.N. for letting Iraq violate 16 Security Council resolutions, what he doesn't mention is that Iraq is not alone. Nearly 100 U.N. resolutions are being violated by other countries, and in many cases, a

oil, europe and usa

2002-10-17 Thread Ian Murray
[The Guardian] Blood and oil Europe and America are taking increasingly divergent approaches to the unreliability of the Middle Eastern petroleum supply - one green, the other unrepentantly black, writes Randeep Ramesh Thursday October 17, 2002 The question of whether oil is worth spilling

Digging their own grave

2002-10-17 Thread Louis Proyect
WSJ, Oct. 17, 2002 Did Washington Set the Stage For Current Business Turmoil? Seeking Growth, Policy Makers Made Free Markets Freer, Shot Down Naysayers By JACOB M. SCHLESINGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL On an unseasonably warm February morning in 1987, three bank executives