I do not know where I have across this, but one out of four Iraqi children in souther iraq is born with some sort illness related the 1990 bombing.
Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a government source to verify these figures? I have mentionedthem in class, but students want some
There is good reason to believe that the war with Iraq is intended, in
part, to teach the world some lessons about what lies ahead when the
empire decides to strike a blow
Noam Chomsky Feb 1
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40ItemID=2938
And to teach the rest of the
Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility by
Daniel Litvin 340pp, Texere
Christopher Hope's review gives quite a lot of detail about this book on
multinationals at work and at war. Litvin was an insider working for Rio
Tinto.
Chris:
Can France afford to isolate itself by the threat of a
futile veto in the Security Council? That is the only
question left now before the start of war if we are to
read the messages the Bush administration appears to
wish to send.
My bet is:
No!
Welcome to the internationally
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/02/03 07:59PM
Lowry, Tom. 2003. The NFL Machine. Business Week (27 January): pp. 87-94.
We're 32 fat-cat Republicans who vote socialist, Baltimore Ravens
owner Art Modell quipped recently.
above may be current incarnation of comment, modell has
been quoted for years on
Huh? Nuclear power plant construction hasn't been approved by the NRC
since 1979. Why start now? As far as I know, it's IMPOSSIBLE to operate a
nuclear plant without releasing radioactivity -- during normal operation,
that is, not just accidents. It seems, however, that plans are underway in
There is also an imperial grief. I hope humane people on this list will forgive me, in speculating whether this tragedy might do anything to knock Bush's imperial arrogance. The idea that the whole nation must go into mourning because it is shocking that 7 people trained for struggle might fall
Bobby Seale will speak on Thursday, February 6, 2003 at Eastern Michigan
University in the McKenny Union Ballroom, 8 p.m.. Co-Founder and former
chair of the Black Panther Party, Seale is the last surviving architect of
one of the most important movements in American and African-American
Lots of coverage on the protests:
Ivory Coast Women Condemn French
BBC News
Feb 3, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2720753.stm
Thousands of women have surrounded the French embassy in the Ivory Coast
commercial capital, Abidjan, angered by a French-brokered peace plan.
The women,
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34303] Imperial grief
some quibbles/comments...
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Chris Burford writes [about the Columbia tragedy]:
There is also an imperial grief. I hope humane people on this list will
Jim Devine wrote:
call me a crude materialist, but it's not just a belief. It's also
the facts that (1) the US media find more to broadcast about national
events; (2) the event involved the US government, the most powerful in
the world; (3) it involved NASA, a government organization that
Excellent commentary, Carrol! Thank you.
I think the best commentary was written about 60 years ago -- Carrol
Deportee
The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting,
The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps.
You are flying them back to the Mexican border
To pay all
http://artdaily.com/news.asp?not=11
Guernica Reproduction Covered at UN
NEW YORK.- The Guernica work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the
Security Council of the United Nations has been covered with a curtain.
The reason for covering this work is that this is the place where
diplomats make
More on local matters - about the friendly face, for instance, of HCS and
AB
You may not care about your friendly local multinational, but as Trotsky
said about foreign policy, it cares about you.
Fwd by Chris Burford:
Empires of Profit by Daniel Litvin
Christopher Hope's review gives quite a
April 26, 1937 was market day in the small city of Guernica, located in the Spains
Basque region. On that terrible day, Hitler's
war planes, supporting General Franco and his troops that were engaged in the Spanish
Civil War, bombarded the quiet city. Most men
had already left the city to fight
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34320] Art notes from all over
perhaps the problem is that Negroponte supports those who bombed Guernica?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-
From: Ralph Johansen [mailto:[EMAIL
From AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15027
Shock and Awe: Guernica Revisited
By Gar Smith, AlterNet
January 27, 2003
Forget Osama. Forget Saddam. The Pentagon's newest target is the city of Baghdad.
U.S. military strategists have announced a plan to pummel Iraq with as
Shock and awe would work if the Iraqis had their troops lined up in
batallions or whatever. Supposedly, they are dispersing the troops, so
the effort to isolate the army would not work.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
It's not an anti army thing; it's an anti population thing. It is meant to
traumatize to the point of unfeeling/unreaction.
Joanna
At 01:30 PM 02/03/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Shock and awe would work if the Iraqis had their troops lined up in
batallions or whatever. Supposedly, they are
The reports I read indicated that it was anti-army, but that may just be
BS to cover up impending war crimes.
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:31:28PM -0800, joanna bujes wrote:
It's not an anti army thing; it's an anti population thing. It is meant to
traumatize to the point of
Sure, sure, like the Atomic Energy Commission assuring everyone in the
fifties that fallout from nuclear tests was not harmful, because their
studies said so. What, are we all stupid or something? No, but memory is
short and no help at all from the media. For ex., this article. The weapons
are
- Original Message -
From: Ian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 1:56 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:34275] Re: Re: re: The human cost of budget cuts
- Original Message -
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Of course, the Rumsfeld
Ian Murray wrote:
I just heard on NPR news that the US no longer has the manufacturing ability
to make any more space shuttles...
Eh? It's a 1970s design that it would make no sense to replicate now.
But it's impossible to believe the U.S. couldn't design and build one
based on 2000s
- Original Message -
From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ian Murray wrote:
I just heard on NPR news that the US no longer has the manufacturing
ability
to make any more space shuttles...
Eh? It's a 1970s design that it would make no sense to replicate now.
But it's
http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/news/manifesto.html
Most likely what the NPR bloke meant is that the
original machine tools used for manufacturing the
Shuttles have been dismantled and put to other uses,
the dies have been melted down or whatever, and so you
can't just phone up an order to the factory for another
shuttle.
dd
Doug Henwood
LA Times, Feb. 3, 2003
Making Nuclear Bombs 'Usable'
Pentagon wants to see whether deep bunkers can be blasted without the
damage spreading.
By Richard T. Cooper, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has launched a fast-track program to develop
computers that would help decide when
When he was a young boy, Yale Strom noticed two sidukah (charity)
boxes in his father's shop. One was the omnipresent blue Jewish National
Fund box intended for Israel that my own father kept in his fruit store.
The other was targeted for Birobidzhan, the Jewish Autonomous Region
that Stalin
The Washington Post, July 7, 1989, Friday, Final Edition
EDITORIAL; PAGE A17
How to Help Poland
by George Soros
When the heads of state meet in Paris later this month, they will have
Poland on the agenda. It will be one item out of many, and there is a
danger that they will miss an
In a December 8, 2002 NY Times Magazine article titled The Liberal
Quandary Over Iraq that is still available online, author George Packer
stresses the importance of the Balkan wars in the defection of a wing of
the left to American social patriotism. He writes:
So let me rephrase the
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