G'day Thaxalotls,
Just got word from listmaestro Hans that there'd been some problems with the
list's technical settings. All's well now, and we should be back to a normal
pulserate henceforth.
So, might the world economy be on the upswing, or not? Are we amidst a
profitability and investme
Many of the Taliban forces have been allowed to defect over the past
weeks. Then others have been permitted to return to civilian life.
In so far as this happening it is not been done in the interests of
these people. It is being undertaken partly to isolate the hard core
Talibs. It forms part
of
US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11
By Patrick Martin
20 November 2001
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Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have
revealed that US officials threatened war against Afghanistan d
Karl: Karzai's existence as the leading figure in the interim government
is based on the military invasion of Afghanistan by imperialism. His
present political existence has its social base in Washington. His
social base is not the Afghanistani masses which is why he makes for a
fragile political
Institute of War and Peace
31-12-2001
Afghanistan: US Casualties Spiral
Scores of US soldiers wounded in Afghanistan have been arriving at the
Khanabad air base in southern Uzbekistan - far more than official
reports suggest
By Andrei Sukhozhilov in Khanabad (RCA No. 91, 7-Dec-01)
Its approach
Following may be of interest
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Asia Source
Special Report
Taliban: What prompted Bamiyan?
March 28, 2001
On February 26, 2001, Mullah Mohammad Omar, Afghanistan'
December 28, 2001
Afghan Warlords and Bandits Are Back in Business
By NORIMITSU ONISHI
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 27 - Abdul Aziz found himself driving an
18-passenger bus one recent afternoon on southern Afghanistan's main
highway, on a particular stretch that is the no man's land between the
Dear Friend of HM,
hope you are well. This is just a brief note to tell you about the new
arrangement HM now has with its publisher Brill. We have agreed with the
latter to launch a book series alongside the journal, consisting of a new
scholarly monographs and collections, original translations,
Peter Symonds: "A Western diplomat confirmed this week that delegates in
Bonn chose a different leader, Abdul Sattar Sirat, to head the interim
government. Pressure from American and United Nations officials resulted
in the naming of Mr Karzai and the selection of ministerial positions.
'The resul
Washington's man to be installed as Afghan prime minister
By Peter Symonds
22 December 2001
The new Afghan interim administration headed by Hamid Karzai is due to
be sworn into office in Kabul today. While UN officials are withholding
details of the two-hour ceremony for security reasons, it pro
Hello, Hallo, Moin, Good Morning,
http://www.redglobe.info has been updated with e.g. an article about the
Women of Farc and an report of an action taking by the "Women in Black" in
Palestine.
http://www.redglobe.info hat neue Artikel. U.a. ein Artikel über die Frauen
in der FARC und eine Ak
Karl: Reg Whitaker comments on the US attack on Afghanistan smack of
blatant partisan subjectivity that forms part of the culture of
reformism:
To argue that "this victory was too easy" suggests that the author of
this piece would have been happier had the so called war in Afghanistan
been a "le
Hello and Hallo,
we have updated (as usually daily) http://www.redglobe.info. Please pay
attention to the A.N.S.W.E.R. posting
http://www.redglobe.info/article.php?sid=180&mode=thread&order=0
Wir haben neue Artikel auf der http://www.redglobe.info site. Aber das ist ja
ziemlich normal. Bitte
Oct 18, 2001
http://starbulletin.com/2001/10/18/news/story3.html
Hawaiian studies professor Haunani-Kay Trask said at a UH anti-war forum yesterday
that America should stop using its military to police the world and open foreign trade
markets.
U.S. bears sole blame for Sept. 11, Trask says
Ali: It's somehow as if history has become too subversive. The past has
too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it
and start anew. But as everyone is discovering, you can't do this to
history; it refuses to go away. If you try to suppress it, re-emerges in
horrific fas
It is clear that the Taliban has been forced to flee from most cities
and towns.
It is clear that it has been a much weaker, less cohesive force, than
popularly
understood. The Taliban had been successful in taking over much of
Afghanistan as a result of defections based on bribery of opposition
c
There has been nothing but disinformation, contradictory information and
rumour surrounding this current war in Afghanistan. There has also been
crass prejudice on the part of many, perhaps even most, journalists
working on the story for the bourgeois media. or as Mr Chomsky
euphemistically calls
A programme broadcast on Irish tv implies that it was Regis Debray that betrayed
Che Guevara and not the artist. We see a tv team trying to interview a very
uncomfortable Debray over the issue. He was quite uncooperative to say the
least.
Karl Carlile
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A study of the history of the Taliban with regard to its take over of most of
Afghanistan will show that it had not demonstrated any particular skill on the
battlefield. The Taliban had made many of its gains as a result of defections
due to sizable payments to the appropriate commanders or due sw
Ossam Bin Laden entered Afghanistan in response to an invitation by
Rabbini --not the Taliban.
Karl Carlile
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It is now clear that Washington may launch tactical nuclear weapons against the
Taliban. Given that they are now using the daisy cutter or whatever it is called
it is clear from this and other circumstacnes that tacticla nuclear devices may
be on the cards.
It may be that the Taliban walked away
Strategic assets of Taliban still intact: Hasan Rahmani
PESHAWAR: Mullah Muhammad Hasan Rahmani, Governor of Kandahar has claimed that
actual strength and arms and ammunition depots of Taliban are still intact and
they are well set to fight out the infidel forces rallying behind the United
State
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US War Against Terrorism
Failures? or Successes?
By our political correspondent
It has been four weeks that the United States B-2 Stealth Bombers and B-52s are
carpe
US, Israeli commandos preparing to deprive Pakistan of nukes
US fears coup against Musharraf
WASHINGTON: A special US unit is training with Israeli commandos to take out
Pakistan's nuclear weapons in case of a coup against President Pervez Musharraf,
the New Yorker magazine
Taliban shoot down a B-52 Bomber, 2 helicopters
10 US soldiers held by Bin Laden
QUETTA: Taliban authorities on Friday confirmed that their soldiers had shot
down a B-52 bomber of the US-led forces in northern Afghanistan on Thursday and
two helicopters in Ghazni province in Southern Afghanistan
It has been reported that Turkey is sending in a small number of special troops
for ground operations within Afghan territory. The Turkish state has a vested
interest in seeing increased and prolonged US involvement in Central Asia.
Clearly Turkey is making this military gesture as a means of main
Despite increased and more intensive bombings by Washington The National
Islamic United Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (the "United Front") now
say that they cannot mount a ground attack on Taliban frontline positions until
US carpet bombing is further increased. It is clear that strateg
As increassing oppostion to the bombing of Afghanistan mounts Bush/Blair
increase the scale of bombing to engage in carpet bombing. This is how this duo
respond to public and political opinion
Karl Carlile
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Irish Times
NY toll may be
less than 3,000
Conor O Cleary
26-10-01
Almost every day the official number of people declared dead and missing in the
World Trade Centre attack is revised downwards - by 500 in the last
"Pakistan has two reasons to support the so-called mujahideen. First, the
Pakistani military is determined to pay India back for allegedly fomenting
separatism in what was once East Pakistan and in 1971 became Bangladesh. Second,
India dwarfs Pakistan in population, economic strength, and military
BBC World Service have said that the US military have made a broadcast telling
the people in Afghanistan not to mistake cluster bombs for food packages. Both
are the same colour -yellow.
Karl Carlile
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BBC
Exiled warlord 'in talks with Taleban'
Hekmatyar wants to create an alliance with the Taleban
Former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has said he is in talks with both the
Taleban and the opposition Northern Alliance on the creation of a united front to
defend Afghanistan from the US-led m
It now transpires that about 2000 less people were killed in tha attack on the twin
towers. The figures it appears were exaggerated. Yet Blair continues to say 6000
thousand or so people were killed.
Regards
Karl Carlile (Communist Global Group)
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Deutscher Memorial Lecture 2001
Peter Gowan
Winner of the 2000 Deutscher Prize
for The Global Gamble:
Washington¹s Faustian Bid
for Global Dominance
will lecture on
'American Global Government: Will it Work?'
Brunei Gallery
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street,
Party slams its door on Jiang's plan
Asia Times Online (Hong Kong) Oct. 23, 2001
By Xu Yufang
BEIJING - With no fuss and without a word in public at all, the ruling
Chinese Communist Party (CPC) has repudiated the bold plan of its
leader, General Secretary Jiang Zemin, to open the party to
ca
Relentless bombing has failed to effect a collapse of the Taliban. The
ineffectiveness of Washington's friends, the Northern Alliance forces, despite lots
of imperialist propaganda that had been suggesting otherwise. The restrictions
imposed on Yankee imperialism in the degree to which they can co
It's like Tanto said to the Lone Ranger when they were surrounded by Indians: "What do
you mean "we" , Kemosabi "
We Are All Alone
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - NYT
October 26, 2001
So let me see if I've got this all straight now: Pakistan will allow us to use its
bases Mondays, Wednesda
The attempt by the CIA to organise opposition within Afghanistan against Taliban
forces through Abdul Hak explains the curious developments that have been taking
place and to which I referred in my last despatch. The softening diplomatic language
emanating from Washington has to do with prepaara
September 17, 2001
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Oppose Terrorism!
Oppose War!
Start a Movement to Build Peace!
KCTU Statement
Thousands of people have died or were injured in the September 11 terror
attack on the U.S. The U.S. government has
Gallup Poll - World Opposes Military Action
An international Gallup poll
(http://www.gallup-international.com/terrorismpoll_figures.htm)
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A few very fast off the cuff observations. The situation is rapidly changing. I am
not as pessimistic as before.
There something strange abroad. Rumsfield is reported to have said that they may
never catch OBL. A top admiral has said something along the lines that the Taliban
are sturdy warriors.
The attack on Aghanistan by the US continues. The bombs increasingly fall on civilian
areas killing and wounding increasing numbers of non-combatants. Yet the western
mainstream media continues to provide reports on the matter as if they it is
providing reports on interstellar activity in deep spa
Just a few scribbles
It is beginning to look like the US has no military nor political strategy concerning
Afghanistan. It keeps on bombing Afghanistan because it is militarily and politically
bankrupt. It has to do something so it keeps on bombing. Its bombers continuously
circle around the Afgha
Pakistan, not Afghanistan, is the source of Islamic militancy. Pakistan has been
using Islamic militants as a instrument in its foreign policy. Consequently it has
been responsible, with the support of Saudia Arabia and the US, for the export of
Islamic militant forces to Afghanistan, Chechyna and
It would seem that Russian strength is much less than is popularly believed. The
reason the Putin regime is actively co-operating with US expasnsionism into Central
Asia is because he knows Russia is so weak that there really is not much it can do
about this. So his strategy is to turn necessity i
Conditions are such in Afghanistan that the only basis for unity is the army and
religion. These two forces constitute the cohesive unity that unifies this
society.They are the only institutions that have a universal character that spreads
itself across the length and breadth of Afghanistan. Con
One of the principal reasons why the the Israeli state under Barak and currently
under Shalon ultimately resist a Middle East settlement is because it fears a
settlement that might lead to stability in the Middle East.
The Israeli state, for many years now, has been receiving more funds and arms
The so called war against terrorism is merely a means by which imperialism can hope
to improve capitalist profitability in period when because of the contradictions of
capitalism it is growing increasingly difficult for the bourgeoisie to struggle
against the the tendency of the general rate of pr
The UK relentless efforts to get into bed with the US on foreign policies issues
actively undermines European Union goals to establish an EU common foreign policy.
Regards
Karl Carlile (Communist Global Group)
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Thobani's orginal speech is available online at
http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewNote.cfm?REF=1155
Sunera Thobani essay: please distribute widely
WAR FRENZY
Sunera Thobani
My recent speech at a women's conference on violence against women has
generated much controversy. In the aftermath of th
Pakistan has been seeking to extend its regional power base in Central Asia. The
attack on Afghanistan by US/UK imperialism constitutes a response to this Pakistani
colonialism. Without Pakistan's support there would have been no Taliban regime in
Afghanistan. Pakistan's strategy is the extension
PENTAGON SPLIT OVER WAR PLAN
Generals at odds with politicians on strategy
By Julian Borger and Richard Norton-Taylor
[The Guardian - UK - Monday October 15, 2001]:
The Bush administration is growing increasingly alarmed by the
direction of the military campaign in Afghanistan
The class question is central to the struggle to the working class. The issue of the
seizure of power is the central and only concern of the working class. The working
must seize power to create the conditions that eliminate the conditions that lead to
the brutal death of members of the working c
Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory and the Centre
for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, invite you to a roundtable
discussion between Michael Hardt, Simon Bromley and Alex Callinicos of the
book EMPIRE (Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt) and the themes it raises.
Fri
A rushed posting.
It is clear that the US just bombed and bombed to crush the Taliban and
what is Binnie's crew. The US military have the distinction of providing
further proof that with the air technology together with all the
necessary accessories it is possible to bomb an enemy to pieces.
Th
Hugh-
I think it's time Charles dipped into Trotsky's work on the Permanent
Revolution. The essential book is the work of that name written in
Trotsky's first place of foreign exile, the island of Prinkipo near
Istanbul, but it should be read together with Results and Prospects, an
amazing work wr
Commenting on Russ' discussion infra:
We have a full array of positions on
the exchange value and value,existent
and non-existent before (or during) capitalism.
Actually, I agree with Russ pretty much as
he says it below, except it seems to me that
others are correct in noting that the excha
Sorry, so you or Baudrillard were
criticizing it there too ?
Chas.
>>> "Russell Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/18 2:36 PM >>>
This is a tag problem- not my words on burger capitalism!
Thought I'd compare this thread
with its first (?) post. Russ
EDICIONES CURSO
ha publicado
El movimiento
anticapitalista y el Estado.
Seattle, Washington,
Melbourne, Buenos Aires, Okinawa, Praga,
Quebec, Niza,
Gotemburgo, Barcelona, Genova, ...
¿"Globalizacion", "antiglobalizacion"?... Desde su irrupcion en
Seattle, en diciembre de 1999, hasta Geno
Much of the reformist left rants on about the breaking of the Geneva
conventions concerning the recent brutal events at the fort at
Mazar-i-Sharif. It suggests that the blame for the brutal atrocity lies
with the US and Northern Alliance forces. These protestations are
nothing less than the rantin
It appears that events in Afghanistan follow, in many ways the same
pattern that lead to the collapse of the Milosevic regime and the latter
eventual apprehension.
It would appear that the fingerprints of the CIA are all over the recent
sequence of events in Afghanistan. The collapse of the Talib
None of the delegates attending the Bonn circus democratically represent
the people of Afghanistan. The Taliban did not represent the people of
Afghanistan but neither does the NA, the king nor these so called tribal
chiefs.
Karl Carlile
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