http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/16/news/congress.php
U.S. Senate rejects bill with Iraq withdrawal timeline
By Jeff Zeleny and Carl Hulse
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
WASHINGTON: Democrats who are highly critical of President George W.
Bush's Iraq war strategy suffered a stinging defeat on
On 5/17/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yoshie wrote:
Iran demonstrates that an oil exporter can achieve food self
sufficiency in key staples if the government tries (see below), but
Venezuela's agricultural labor force as percentage of the total labor
force was 6.9% in 2004 (16.8% in
On 5/17/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yoshie:
Regarding comparison of Iran and Venezuela, Hugo Chavez doesn't agree
with you, nor would researchers who do comparative work on political
economy (it's hard to find any other pair of countries whose assets
are more similar to each other
Do the estimates below seem accurate to you?
http://www.thedialogue.org/publications/2006/winter/arriagada.pdf
Petropolitics in Latin America
A Review of Energy Policy and Regional Relations
Genaro Arriagada
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Stagnant production: While Venezuela has
One thing that Chavez and his comrades are doing extremely well is to
create an environment in which people learn to govern themselves. No
one can take away that invaluable education and experience from them,
and they are likely to make the right decisions when oil prices go
down, those who are
This is an aspect of Venezuela seldom discussed by the
English-speaking Left. -- Yoshie
http://www.rnv.gov.ve/noticias/index.php?act=STf=2t=46788
En Caracas
Creada Confederación de Empresarios Socialistas de Venezuela
La nueva confederación se vinculará con todas las áreas empresariales:
On 5/17/07, s.artesian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On a different note or maybe not--
Yoshie, there is absolutely no correlation
between percent of population engaged in agriculture and food
self-sufficiency. On the contrary, the correlation is usually
negative. The lower the percentage of
On 5/17/07, michael a. lebowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 22:37 17/05/2007, you wrote:
http://www.fas.usda.gov/pecad/highlights/2005/07/July2005/Venezuela_Jul05.htm
Venezuela: Agricultural Overview
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wheat
According to the U.S. Agricultural Attache,
On 5/17/07, michael a. lebowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 22:13 17/05/2007, you wrote:
This is an aspect of Venezuela seldom discussed by the
English-speaking Left. -- Yoshie
http://www.rnv.gov.ve/noticias/index.php?act=STf=2t=46788
En Caracas
Creada Confederación de Empresarios Socialistas
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Europe/West_asks_if_Musharraf_is_dispensable/articleshow/2050626.cms
West asks if Musharraf is dispensable
16 May, 2007 l 0014 hrs ISTlRASHMEE ROSHAN LALL/TIMES NEWS NETWORK
LONDON: Seven years after General Musharraf seized control, Pakistan's
continuing
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37687
POLITICS-US:
Neo-Cons Driving Iran Divestment Campaign
Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, May 10 (IPS) - Neo-conservative hawks who championed the
invasion of Iraq are leading a new campaign to persuade state and
local governments, as well as other institutional
On 5/16/07, Ulhas Joglekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Bulletin Online
http://www.thebulletin.org/
Volume 63, Number 3 / May/June 2007
Pakistan's Nuclear Forces, 2007
Robert Norris
Pakistan, which has a nuclear arsenal of about 60 nuclear weapons is busily
enhancing its nuclear
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16638054.htm
Court overturns Turk officers' sentences in blast
16 May 2007 08:58:46 GMT
Source: Reuters
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, May 16 (Reuters) - Turkey's Supreme Court
overturned a 40-year jail term on Wednesday imposed on two
paramilitary officers over
On 5/16/07, Daniel Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Divestment campaigns are almost a clear sign of someone who doesn't know
what they're talking about. I meant to pass this on earlier this week;
hedge fund manager Cody Willard talking about the Darfur divestment thing.
Some of it will be rather
http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=51598NewsKind=Current%20Affairs
http://www.iran-daily.com/1386/2842/html/economy.htm#s227361
FAO approves Iran new energy proposal
Monday, May 14, 2007
LONDON, May 14 (IranMania) - The United Nations' Food and Agriculture
On 5/16/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NY Times, May 17, 2007
Clash of Hope and Fear as Venezuela Seizes Land
By SIMON ROMERO
snip
The violence has gone both ways in the struggle, with more than 160
peasants killed by hired gunmen in Venezuela, including several here
in
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/magazine/13refugees-t.html
The New York Times
May 13, 2007
The Flight From Iraq
By NIR ROSEN
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
From the Iraqi perspective, the greatest loss has been the flight of
the professional class, the people whose resources and
On 5/14/07, Leigh Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/14/07, Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/magazine/13refugees-t.html
The New York Times
May 13, 2007
The Flight From Iraq
By NIR ROSEN
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
From the Iraqi
2001-'06: The First 'Recovery' with Declining Total Mfging Hours Worked:
www.uscc.gov/trade_data_and_analyses/industry_job_trends/2006/B%20Weak%20US%20Job%20Recovery.pdf
--
Yoshie
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37717
EGYPT: Labour Unrest Spreads
Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO, May 14 (IPS) - Workers in Cairo's vital public transport sector
threatened to go on strike earlier this month if the state did not
meet their list of demands. The incident was
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSISL2673220070514?src=051407_1258_TOPSTORY_strike_shuts_down_pakistani_cities
Pakistani cities virtually shut down by strike
Mon May 14, 2007 10:06PM EDT
By Kamran Haider
KARACHI (Reuters) - A Pakistani opposition strike virtually shut down
Karachi and
On 5/13/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in what countries and legal traditions does the government officially
own land and/or subterranean mineral rights and only lease them to the
users?
All mineral deposits, as well as many other things, are public
property in Iran. In recent years,
On 5/13/07, raghu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/12/07, sartesian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just kidding. Or maybe not. I really don't know how an individual would
do any of it. But state power is a big leg up for a collectivity.
Anyway, I don't have the answer.
Any process that would put
On 5/12/07, Marvin Gandall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yoshie wrote:
On 5/11/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so Hubbert's Peak is due to nationalizations?
Setting any talk of a peak aside, the FT is basically saying that
state oil companies tend to limit access and give less than
On 5/12/07, Michael Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/11/07, Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the FT is basically saying that
state oil companies tend to limit access and give less than maximally
favorable terms to oil multinationals based in the West.
Yoshie
to what meaningful
On 5/12/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it's interesting that the article misses the fact that even if these
countries don't invest in exploration for and exploitation of possible
new oil reserves, those reserves will still exist.
That is not a political issue. Oil companies know that
In March 1973, Ali A. Mazrui published an article titled The Lumpen
Proletariat and the Lumpen Militariat: African Soldiers as a New
Political Class (Political Studies 21.1: 1–12). The term Mazrui
used, lumpen militariat, to describe a class of semi-organized and
semi-literate soldiers who, kept
On 5/12/07, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The article the set off this discussion did not mention the disinclination of
the
private petroleum companies to contribute to productivity. Instead of
exploration,
they use their cash hordes to buy each other's companies. They do little
On 5/12/07, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In saying little, I should've been more precise to event at the adjective --
relatively; meaning relative to their cash flows.
At least historically, multinationals tended to use their outdated equipment in
Third World settings, employing
Barring a coup, an upshot of the current conflict in Turkey seems to
be to give more power to presidency, whichever party wins in the
upcoming elections. -- Yoshie
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/05/11/MNG37PP4UA1.DTLtype=politics
Turkey moves to popular
On 5/12/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
from SLATE: The Wall Street Journal reports that Iranian hardliners
are currently battling to rid their country of ... Western-style
neckties.
it's about time they've chosen a good cause.
The WSJ claims that it's new (at
A new development that is probably very good for my dear Islamic
Republic of Iran. If Islamo-Stalinist Ali Khamenei is not smart enough
to drop SCIRI and Al-Akim, the other way around would have to do. I
hope Sadr will be able to put together a multi-sect coalition against
the US occupation and
On 5/12/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A new development that is probably very good for my dear Islamic
Republic of Iran. If Islamo-Stalinist Ali Khamenei is not smart enough
to drop SCIRI and Al-Akim, the other way around would have to do. I
hope Sadr will be able to put together a
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117901087289601168.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Russia, Asia Strike Pipeline Deal
Associated Press
May 12, 2007 7:17 p.m.
TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan -- Russia announced a deal Saturday to
dramatically increase the amount of natural gas it moves from Central
Asia to
On 5/10/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://iran-daily.com/1386/2830/html/economy.htm#s223692
12m Below Poverty Line
Almost 12 million people live below the poverty line while two
million are in absolute poverty, a member of Majlis Social Commission said.
snip
That's nothing to
On 5/11/07, sartesian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No doubt about it. Venezuela is not utopia. But this, the
progressive nature of a society, is not just a question of equal
distribution. It is also a question of development of the organs of
class power. And in this regard, with the
On 5/11/07, s.artesian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I honestly do not know what protagonistic democracy and antagonistic
democracy mean. I was,am referring to classes. The social forces, the
old conflict between means and relations of production that has triggered
both the struggle in Iran and
On 5/11/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Protagonistic democracy -- cf. Mike Lebowitz's BUILD IT NOW -- refers
to grassroots and participative democracy such as the Bolivarian
circles. It really isn't the opposite of antagonistic democracy
(i.e., democracy within a class system). It also
On 5/11/07, michael a. lebowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quick rule of thumb--- the opposite of 'protagonistic democracy' is
not 'antagonistic' but 'representative democracy'./m
True, but I've been thinking of relative absence of sharp antagonism
and emphasis on deliberation and cooperation
Unlike, for instance, Iran and Venezuela, Russia has been very
cautious about spending windfall oil profits in the current oil boom.
That has meant that the Russian record on inflation is better than
those of Iran and Venezuela, but the ever growing Stabilization Fund
has generated political
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8OOAF780.htm
The Associated Press April 26, 2007, 9:21AM EST
Putin promises more focus on projects
By ALEX NICHOLSON
BW Exclusives
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday promised billions of dollars to
spur on the ambitious social and infrastructure
On 5/9/07, Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yoshie:
If secular parties make an unexpected comeback in the upcoming
elections, I'll chalk it up to the raki and bikini votes. ;-
Geee Yoshie, you did not get the point! It is not about the raki and bikinis.
It is about the raki and topless
In terms of sheer numbers, the Egyptian strike wave is comparable to
the Iranian one that Andreas Malm and Shora Esmailian document in
Iran: the Hidden Power (10 April 2007,
http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-irandemocracy/hidden_power_4513.jsp)
and _Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and
A very promising development. It's great that a poem by Faiz Ahmed
Faiz was read at the rally. Things are getting very interesting from
Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey to even goddamn Pakistan (who would have
thought of Pakistan as a promising candidate for social change from
the left?), all getting as
On 5/6/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The conditions of the working class in Iran are terrible. An
estimated 40 percent live under the international poverty line and
according to the Iranian Central Bank itself, more than 50 percent
live beneath the government's designated poverty
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f80f29aa-fe93-11db-bdc7-000b5df10621.html
Politics and easy profits signal global oil crunch
By Sheila McNulty in Houston
Published: May 10 2007 03:00 | Last updated: May 10 2007 03:00
In the oil business, the constant development of new technology has
created the adage
On 5/10/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 06:20 PM 5/10/2007, you wrote:
Figures collected during the past 30 years indicate that per capita
income in Iran has declined 120 per cent [!] based on fixed prices.
The income-expense deficit for the urban family during March 2003-04
stood
On 5/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hey, the Henry Jackson Society[1] have come out in favour of the AKP
versus the army and secular middle class!
http://zope06.v.servelocity.net/hjs/sections/greater_europe/struggle_democratic_turkey/document_view
I think that this has a lot
On 5/9/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Politics under capitalism, in my view, is rarely polarized between
Chavezes and their enemies, Good vs. Evil.
Between conflicts like Mugabe vs. MDC and contests like Chavez vs.
Rosales, there's a great deal of distance, and in that distance,
On 5/9/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Attacks on this or that, however sharp, don't do much, unless they
come with at least attempts to build viable alternatives to the
objects of attacks.
--
Yoshie
How am I supposed to build a viable alternative to the AKP?
That's a job of
On 5/9/07, Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 9, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
That's a job of leftists in Turkey. Your job is to build a viable
alternative to the DP here.
While you're handing out assignments, as long as you're living in the
U.S. - and it's been
On 5/9/07, Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 9, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On 5/9/07, Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 9, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
That's a job of leftists in Turkey. Your job is to build a viable
alternative
On 5/9/07, ravi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9 May, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
On May 9, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
That's a job of leftists in Turkey. Your job is to build a viable
alternative to the DP here.
While you're handing out assignments, as long
On 5/9/07, Daniel Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yoshie wrote:
Leftists in the North basically act as if criticisms of parties,
movements, and governments of the South are just a matter of pointing
out this or that is wrong, which doesn't help activists in the South,
most of whom already know
Zimbabwe is a good example that shows that the party-government that
comes out of the Marxist tradition in some way and its liberal
opposition are not necessarily superior to the kind of state and
society that exist, for instance, in Turkey and Iran, led by secular
nationalists and Islamists
On 5/9/07, ravi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9 May, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Patrick Linder wrote:
Because everyone knows that those people in the South can't be
trusted to know for themselves what needs to be done. They need
smart people like intellectuals from the North to tell them what is
wrong
On 5/9/07, Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 9, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Daniel Davies wrote:
I hate to say this, particularly given the context, but the obvious
counterexample to this is Iran, where a very large proportion
indeed of the
local socialist opposition ended up exiled or
On 5/9/07, Daniel Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yeah I heard that, but I thought he was kind of retrofitting it. Of the
small number of Iranian dissidents I know, they all more or less admit that
everybody was taken in by Khomeini and nobody expected things to end up like
they did.
No one
On 5/9/07, Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 9, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
It's not so much Mojahedin, Tudeh, Fedai,
etc. didn't know who Khomeini and Khomeinists were -- it's that the
former underestimated the latter's ability to build hegemony over
Iranian
On 5/9/07, Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 9, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Jonathan Rée argues that Foucault was more clear-sighted about the
Iranian revolution than many critics of his give him credit for, and
he in fact registered his objection to the government
A very interesting development. Why don't all smaller parties (those
who decide not to merge to create bigger parties) do this? -- Yoshie
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070509-034808-3139r
Turkey's Kurdish party to field independent candidates
AFP
May 9, 2007
ANKARA --
On 5/9/07, Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Louis:
Plus, I have no use for the AKP since I really like my raki, as
does my father-in-law.
Well said, Louis. I like my raki too and these bloody AKP municipalities do not
give liquor permits to newly opened restaurants. To hell with the AKP,
http://www.merip.org/mero/mero050707.html
Behind Turkey's Presidential Battle
Gamze Çavdar
May 7, 2007
(Gamze Çavdar is an assistant professor of political science at
Colorado State University.)
This is a bullet fired at democracy, snapped Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan,
Turkey's prime minister and
On 5/7/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Among these Eurocentric historians farming practices loom larger than
any other supposedly objective criterion underpinning the rise of the
West. The West is the world of the plucky, inventive yeoman farmer,
while the despotic East employed
On 5/7/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's not an East-West thing. Compare the trends in R. Allen's table:
in England and the Netherlands, productivity went up, in France it
stayed the same, and in Belgium, Germany, Spain, and Australia it
declined. The differences are indicative
On 5/7/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Grave errors
Neil Clark
May 7, 2007 7:00 PM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/neil_clark/2007/05/grave_errors.html
snip
In many cases, it's been parties nominally of the left, bought off by
capital, which have been doing the dirty work.
That
http://www.blackcommentator.com/228/228_left_margin_somalia_war_oil.html
Left Margin
Somalia: the Other (Hidden) War for Oil
By Carl Bloice
BC Editorial Board
The U.S. bombing of Somalia took place while the World Social Forum
was underway in Kenya and three days before a large anti-war action
On 5/7/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In that case, maybe it's time to let go of it. The debate has no
apparent implications for what people think of imperialism today and
what to do about it.
--
Yoshie
Actually, I was inspired to take up the question once again by some
posts from
Just as in the US presidential election of 2004, the center left in
France nominated, for the 2007 presidential election, the candidate
who alienated the far left and didn't motivate the excluded and
alienated, so 20% of the left of the left abstained or cast blank
votes, and a majority (64%) of
On 5/7/07, sartesian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Several things are of note here: first Brenner is specifically
attacking and refuting the demographic determinism that sought to
substitute population pressures for class analysis, and analysis of
class struggle, in the conditions of society in
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/business/yourmoney/06view.html
May 6, 2007
Economic View
Does It Even Matter if the U.S. Has a Cold?
By DANIEL GROSS
FOR the last several decades, the United States has functioned as the
main engine of growth in a global economy that has been moving with
The Labor Party of Israel is just like the Democratic Party of the
USA, so Olmert survives, just like Bush. -- Yoshie
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087sid=a_X2MVdZPBAIrefer=home
Olmert Survives No-Confidence Votes on Failures in Lebanon War
By Jonathan Ferziger
May 7 (Bloomberg)
Some accuse Monthly Review of third worldism. If MR has had more to
say about the South than the North, that's because revolutions have
happened in the South, not in the North, and the magazine has always
liked revolutionaries, socialist or democratic, more than liberals,
which socialists and
On 5/6/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(The author is Ted Crawford, an editor of Revolutionary History.)
Politics and Society in Turkey, 22-30 April 2007,
as seen through a coach window and contrasted
with Syria another country with Islamic
traditions, claiming to be secular. (1,825
On 5/6/07, Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yoshie:
Those who are concerned about the rise of the Islamist
party need to go to the root of the problem.
I wish they did but they will not. They are happy as long as their way of
life is not threatened and they took to the streets because the
In Turkey (like many other countries where Islam is the dominant
ideology of working people), it is the religious party that seeks to
win the poor, on the basis of such secular issues as economy and
welfare, while secular parties talk only about religious issues, (the
Turkish definition of)
On 5/6/07, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I admit that I know very little about Turkey. The last two times followed the
country's politics, I was mostly looking at first the brutal dictatorship that
was
attacking even liberals and then later oppression of the Kurds.
I appreciated
On 5/6/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These are the kinds of actions that are taking place at an ever
quickening pace in Iran today and we owe a debt of gratitude to
Andreas Malm and Shora Esmailian for bringing them to our attention.
Eventually, the workers will find a way to unite
On 5/6/07, sartesian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Think we have the right to demand better than the commentsfrom Yoshie.
These mind you own business, ofay. It's a black thang riff
compounded by the smear of calling critical analysis of Iran support for
imperialism is one sure way of getting worse
On 5/6/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In short, workers in Iran today want reforms like higher wages, not
revolution, so foreigners as well as exiles who try to associate them
with their own regime change causes do them disservice by making them
look suspect in the eyes of the
On 5/6/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/6/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In short, workers in Iran today want reforms like higher wages, not
revolution, so foreigners as well as exiles who try to associate them
with their own regime change causes do them disservice
On 5/6/07, Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 6, 2007, at 8:24 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Leave Iran to the Iranian people
Does this advice apply to you, or only people critical of Iran?
It applies to people who have failed but should be trying to stop the
USG from its foreign
On 5/6/07, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll support the Iranian workers against the government if and when
they actually demand socialist revolution, but I won't project my
wishful thinking upon them when they are not, which fact is documented
by such researchers as Shora Esmailian
The decline of the far left and the looming defeat of the center left.
Sounds like the USA in 2004. But the French at least know how to
recover, in the streets, what they lose at the ballot boxes. Not so
in the USA. -- Yoshie
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/04/news/france.php
Sarkozy
On 5/5/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
from SLATE: The NY [TIMES] off-lead says many Guantanamo Bay
detainees are refusing to cooperate with their lawyers because they
think they're powerless and/or tools of the U.S. government. The NYT
says a recent Department of Justice crackdown on
On 5/5/07, Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
New York Times:
To Turkey's secular elite, Mr. Erdogan and his crowd want to drag the
country back to the past. But it is precisely his party's local
approach that makes it likely to that he will prevail. If he does,
power would shift to the
On 5/5/07, Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 5, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
The question is why such middling sorts, who are merely well-to-do,
attend the rallies for the republic organized by the
fascist/neofascist nationalists supporting and supported
On 5/5/07, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
for what it's worth, the subject should be ward heelers. Being from
Chicago, I know that there were many in the city under the old Mare
Daley. Heeling gets its name, I believe, from wearing out one's
shoe-heels walking around...
True, true.
http://english.sabah.com.tr/2EBC8374FE6F48BC8B1A47ABB13C4B8A.html
Secularists ask for a merger in the center right parties
Tens of thousands of secularist flag-waving Turks rallied for the
third big anti-government protest in a month on Saturday asking center
right parties to merge as conflict
On 5/5/07, Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yoshie:
Sabri says they aren't elitist, at least not as much as the NYT
claims they are, and I'm sure he's right, but they sure don't seem
as concerned about workers as they appear to be about secularism.
I did not say that they are not
On 5/4/07, Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yoshie:
Both sides are wrong in the sense of both being for
neoliberal capitalism and imperialism, though nuances
exist. But one side is democratically elected, while
the other side isn't,
Unfortunately, this is not the case Yoshie. Neither
On 5/4/07, Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yoshie:
It's interesting that the law that was meant to favor the
military-backed party ended up being the opposite.
Not only that, such a strong Islamist movement in Turkey is also the monster
the Military created in the 1970s.
With a few
On 5/4/07, Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Muslims are big players in economy
Earnings are considerable, but marketers often overlook them
May 3, 2007
BY ALEJANDRO BODIPO-MEMBA
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
snip
Comerica may soon offer products that conform to Muslim traditions
It seems that the AKP has found a way to divide the secular parties
regarding the presidential election. It's also interesting that The
bills that Mr. Erdogan's party submitted included lowering the minimum
age for candidates for Parliament to 25. This would be a boost for the
party, known by
Much has been written about the AKP, Hamas, Hizballah, the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt, and other Islamists who form mass parties and
movements (which are unlike jihadist cells), in the corporate media
as well as left and liberal alternative media. Ideologically, they
are quite disparate.
Will America be forced to enter into détente with Iran? -- Yoshie
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/04/news/diplo.php
U.S. and Iranian officials meet at session on Iraq
By Helene Cooper and Jon Elsen
Friday, May 4, 2007
SHARM EL SHEIK, Egypt: American and Iranian officials spoke briefly
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/world/middleeast/03diplo.html
The New York Times
May 3, 2007
Concern Is High and Unity Hopes Are Nil at Talks on Iraq
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN and HELENE COOPER
SHARM EL SHEIK, Egypt, May 2 — Four years ago at this Red Sea resort,
leaders of Saudi Arabia and Egypt
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/04/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Conference.php
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Russia fail to offer immediate debt relief to
Iraq at conference
The Associated Press
Thursday, May 3, 2007
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt: Saudi Arabia said it is still negotiating with
Iraq over
Only in Iran! Thoroughly delightful. -- Yoshie
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1735969.ece
May 2, 2007
Iranian President accused of indecency
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00162/Ahmadinejad_162886a.jpg
This salute on the gloved hand of an
On 5/1/07, raghu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/30/07, Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Surprisingly sensible for WSWS (if you can ignore typical WSWS
formulae at the end). -- Yoshie
Just curious: what do you have against the WSWS?
WSWS can't resist inserting into every single
1 - 100 of 1790 matches
Mail list logo
