[PEN-L] America's perkiest ex-con saluted

[How are the mighty re-risen. From the Washington Post:] ... The real buzz out of the annual [National Magazine Awards] ceremony [April 13] was that Martha Stewart, America's perkiest ex-convict, won two awards and showed up to get them despite being under house arrest. She is allowed out for 48

Re: [PEN-L] Househunters

US Army's transformation into an amazingly lifelike replica of the Wehrmacht besides invading Iraq, how is the US Army like the Wehrmacht? doesn't it differ from the Wehrmacht in some ways, too? I don't find Nazi analogies to be very useful. JD

Re: [PEN-L] Lebanon/America buying time

You very much for your informative posting. We need much more international perspective, like this one and the round of notes regarding Mexico. Much that I have read suggests that the United States is playing into Iran's hand in strengthening its influence in Iraq. You make Iran seem

[PEN-L] Yemen and the World Bank

Yemen and the world Bank Consider a country like Yemen. Real GDP growth is anticipated this year at 2.9 percent slightly below the population growth rate (20 million people now with a total fertility rate down to 6.3 recently). The average salary for a family of six is about one hundred

Re: [PEN-L] Lebanon/America buying time

Of course it is and it isn't. The war should be won for everyone and not for shiites or iranians and that is why sectraian clerics do not have that perspective and cause a lot of damage. no religion should win the people should win. the war will be won because when the full fledged armed struggle

[PEN-L] floating exchange rates the neoliberal policy revolution

In thinking about the rise of neoliberalism in the US and other rich capitalist countries, most emphasize globalization while many others add stuff such as deregulation (in the US, of airlines, trucking, etc.) and anti-trust (in the US, the break-up of ATT, etc.) and the like as encouraging

[PEN-L] Chinese villagers protest pollution

NY Times, April 14, 2005 Rural Chinese Riot as Police Try to Halt Pollution Protest By JIM YARDLEY BEIJING, April 13 - Thousands of people rioted Sunday in a village in southeastern China, overturning police cars and driving away officers who had tried to stop elderly villagers from protesting

Re: [PEN-L] Househunters

From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] US Army's transformation into an amazingly lifelike replica of the Wehrmacht besides invading Iraq, how is the US Army like the Wehrmacht? Cf., Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play? I don't find Nazi analogies to be very useful. JD You have

Re: [PEN-L] Househunters

Jim Devine wrote: BTW, I think that one reason why the left has sputtered is that some people jump at the Nazi or fascist analogy. It encourages the anyone but Bush attitude, among other things. Yes. About the only real political result of crying fascist is to bolster the Democratic Party

Re: [PEN-L] Househunters

Carl wrote: What kind of a country is it where people turn giddy with glee and plaster their cars with Support Our Troops ribbons when their boys and girls have committed Fallujah-cide -- obliterating an entire city and driving its population into homelessness and destitution? Fascism is about

Re: [PEN-L] Househunters

On 14/apr/05, at 20:07, Jim Devine wrote: On 4/14/05, Carl Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... General disinclination to wake up and smell the Fascism is one reason the antiwar movement has sputtered I also a qualitative difference between Nazism and fascism. Hitler was Mussolini doubled or

[PEN-L] Block Tokyo from the UN Security Council!

Block Tokyo from the UN Security Council!: http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/04/block-tokyo-from-un-security-council.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * Calendars

[PEN-L] Another Surreal Article on Fallujah in Mainstream Press

The NYTimes tone is a lot more 'pro-administration' than the WP one, but the result is still something between comedy and horror. Choice excerpt with my running commentary based on the rest of the piece: For that reason, the convoy dashed through the city as rapidly as possible over the rutted

[PEN-L] new radio product

Just added to my radio archive http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html: April 14, 2005 Tariq Ali (latest book: a set of interviews done by David Barsamian) on empire, U.S. power, Israel, and the bellicose, pious, and ill-read Tony Blair * Matt Taibbi, author of Spanking the Donkey, on

Re: [PEN-L] Househunters

heck. I don't care about toxicity. It's accuracy that I care about. Also, communication. Do you think most people in the country would agree that the US government is fascist? JD On 4/14/05, Carl Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Devine wrote:

Re: [PEN-L] Blood for oil?

It's a good article, though Malthusian seems a poor description of Hubbertista theory, since Malthus emphasized and over-emphasized over-population. Ricardian seems more apt: capitalism rams itself into natural barriers (limited oil supplies) causing diminishing returns and disaster. On 4/14/05,

[PEN-L] The Socialist Workers Party in the 1960s: indispensable contribution to radical history

The Socialist Workers Party in the Sixties and Beyond by Paul Le Blanc The Party: The Socialist Workers Party, 1960-1988, a Political Memoir, Volume 1: The Sixties, by Barry Sheppard. Melbourne, Australia:

Re: [PEN-L] Another Surreal Article on Fallujah in Mainstream Press

From: M. Junaid Alam [EMAIL PROTECTED] The NYTimes tone is a lot more 'pro-administration' than the WP one, but the result is still something between comedy and horror. Choice excerpt with my running commentary based on the rest of the piece: ... Two bakers [in Fallujah] were at work kneading

Re: [PEN-L] Househunters

From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] heck. I don't care about toxicity. It's accuracy that I care about. Also, communication. Do you think most people in the country would agree that the US government is fascist? No. But then just a year ago Gallup reported that 78 percent of Americans believe in