BY going to war alone the US will hit many birds with one stone:
· change the present international security arrangement to reflect its dominance, i.e. goodbye UN security council
· take one huge strategic oil reservoir
· elbow its junior allies, France Germany
· tie a noose around India, china
Over the past 30 days I have followed the entirety of the debate on Marxline held under the title "Oil and Overproduction." Off and on I have written several fragments - not published, as this discussion heated up and much of these fragments will probably be left to the criticism of the mice, as
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34153] corporatizing the national park service
for what it's worth, I heard on US National Public Radio that Secretary Norton is rated very poorly as an administrator because almost all of the rangers, etc., don't like her way of running the Dept. of the Interior.
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34150] $4 billion
Will the Bush Administration affer $4 billion in education and health
care to the American Peace Movement if it backs off? I doubt it.
Dan Scanlan
to paraphrase some dear departed despot, how many divisions does the American Peace Movement have?
Devine, James wrote:
BTW, I am wondering about the Bushies' response to the peace
movement. Are they simply ignoring it? or are they doing Cointelpro
again? or what?
What's your guess? These guys are total maximalists, rounding up
people like old A. Mitchell Palmer. They've got to have some
In conclusion, it is observed that the 2000/2001 crisis administration
in Turkey primarily works as a debt-management program. In this sense,
it is understood that the main purpose of the IMF-led salvation packages
that are hailed as big successes in the international media is actually
an
Title: Davos debates imperialism
from SLATE's news summary:
The [Wall Street] Journal has the best details on Davos' cross-Atlantic
atmosphere of animosity. During a dinner speech, Patrick Cox,
president of the E.U. parliament, proudly announced, The real
Europe has real values, adding our
Title: Bush admin. threatens unprovoked nuking of Iraq
from SLATE: Saturday's LA [TIMES] reported that the Pentagon is drawing up plans to possibly use nukes against Iraq. Administration officials have hinted in the past that the U.S. might go nuclear if Saddam uses chemical or biological
As for the political response, it looks to me as though the Bushies are
willing to risk a roll of the dice: they are betting that a war against
Iraq will be swift, have few US casualties, lead to a few months of
feel-good news stories about individuals or communities who now have
hope (as
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34162] Re: Re: RE: $4 billion
even if the war isn't short, sharp, and sweet (to the US), Bush's poll numbers will definitely rise at the time of the start of the war. Something about waving the flag. It always seems to work.
Jim Devine [EMAIL
(Sung to the tune: If You're Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hands )
If we cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq.
If the markets hurt your Mama, bomb Iraq.
If the terrorists are Saudi
And the bank takes back your Audi
And the TV shows are bawdy,
Bomb Iraq.
If the corporate scandals
But it does not always work for long. Think of the fate of daddy bush.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:39:32AM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
even if the war isn't short, sharp, and sweet (to the US), Bush's poll
numbers will definitely rise at the time of the start of the war. Something
about
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030127-409553,00.html?cnn=yes
How Affirmative Action Helped George W.
The President might ask himself, Wait a minute. How did I get into Yale?
By MICHAEL KINSLEY
George W. Bush is all for diversity, he explained last week, but he
doesn't
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Louis Proyect wrote:
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We observe that what lies behind the colourful jargon
of effective and
transparent government, good governance, and
credibility is a set
of structural transformations to ultimately satisfy the
needs and
demands of the foreign
Title: Re: [PEN-L:34157] Cointelpro
Jim wrote:
BTW, I am wondering
about the Bushies' response to the peace movement. Are they simply
ignoring it? or are they doing Cointelpro again? or
what?
Good question. Conceding that in the opening
years of the 21st century in the United States there
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34167] Re: Re: Re: Turkey, again...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the
IMF cannot be considered to be a development
institution of any kind, not even on the most
charitable interpretation of its work.
has the IMF -- as opposed to the WB -- _ever_ been considered a
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34167] Re: Re: Re: Turkey, again...
My statement
was too weak. The IMF is not simply a collection agency. Like its masters at the
US Treasury, it's also a highly-ideological crusader for extending the power of
the financial interests. Like the crusaders of old, it has
Devine, James wrote:
My statement was too weak. The IMF is not simply a collection
agency. Like its masters at the US Treasury, it's also a
highly-ideological crusader for extending the power of the financial
interests. Like the crusaders of old, it has the power to burn
Constantinople.
Monday, January 27, 2003
Losses may mean fewer pension funds
Problems threaten to accelerate move away from plans
By PAUL NYHAN
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Corporate pensions are swimming in red ink, but the tens of billions
of dollars in losses may mask another problem: that the
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