The real bond between the United States and Europe is the values we share:
democracy, individual freedom, human rights and the Rule of Law.
Statement of 8 European leaders in support of USA 30 Jan
The German translation of Rule of Law is Rechtsstaatlichkeit. This suggests
a meaning slightly
The trauma and awe of war is already having an economic impact on egypt where poverty levels are of concern. the devaluation of 15% in anticipation of the war raised the price level by about 15% and cut real wages. the IMF welcomed that. the impact of that on the poor in this period of transition
February 2, 2003
Saddam's Arab 'brothers' desert Iraq
Their chronic disunity, backstabbing and petty tribalism is once more on display
By ERIC MARGOLIS -- Contributing Foreign Editor
Never has the old maxim "hang together or be hanged separately" been more fitting than for the Arab states now
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/voices/0,12811,880735,00.html
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Shuttle Disaster Hurts Retail Sales
Tue 10:07am ET - Reuters
Nonstop television coverage of the space shuttle Columbia disaster
on Saturday kept riveted consumers away from stores, hurting retail
demand last week, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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Title: war justifications
does anyone remember the rationales behind
1. the US conquest of Grenada (under Pres. Reagan)?
2. the US intervention in Lebanon (ditto)?
3. the US invasion of Panama (under Pres. Bush, version 1)?
4. the US intervention in Somalia (under Bush/Clinton)?
Devine, James wrote:
does anyone remember the rationales behind
1. the US conquest of Grenada (under Pres. Reagan)?
Save medical students and prevent the construction of a pro-Soviet
military airbase (was actually designed to expand tourism.)
2. the US intervention in Lebanon (ditto)?
To
3. the US invasion of Panama (under Pres. Bush, version 1)?
Stop cocaine trafficking.
Sure it wan't to knock off one of Bush Senior's cocaine trading partners?
Title: space disaster
THE COLUMBIA DISASTER
Top-Level Report Cited Safety Fears
Former NASA official who warned of faulty wiring, corrosion says agency didn't follow up.
By Ralph Vartabedian and Peter Pae
Times Staff Writers
February 4 2003
A top-level NASA report three years ago warned
Title: gossip
from SLATE's survey of major US newspapers: The [Washington] Post's Lloyd Grove picks up on an important interview neo-lefty [?!?!?] polemicist Christopher Hitchens gave Doublethink, a conservative magazine. Among the apparent revelations Hitchens makes: 1) His former Oxford
To crush the poorFirst it was Reds, then drugs, then terror. So who have
the US really been fighting in Colombia?George MonbiotTuesday February
4, 2003The GuardianLast week, on the day George Bush delivered his
state of the union address, the Pentagon received a visitor. A few hours before
Below is a summary translation of an article that appeared in the
Turkish daily Hurriyet yesterday. The original article also
mentions the ongoing bargaining on the compansation of the
economic losses Turkey will suffer from the Iraq war without
giving any details.
WAR PROTOCOL
So what was Turkey's price? Debt forgiveness? Or just another IMF program?
Doug
So what was Turkey's price? Debt forgiveness?
Or just another IMF program?
Doug
Who knows? But I don't think the reason behind this is money.
They are doing it out of fear.
Sabri
Keep in mind that this fellow is a Jordanian, so he has
incentive to defend Jordan's position, which is not very
different than that of Turkey.
Sabri
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The Istanbul conference: a post mortem
Daily Star, 02/03/2003
While each of the six Middle Eastern states Egypt, Saudi
Arabia,
At 05:05 PM 02/04/2003 -0800, you wrote:
The post-war era will reveal that Iraq was only a prelude for a
widespread process of change designed to eradicate the sources of
terrorism, and targeting most of the countries of the Middle
East.
Well targeting most of the countries of the Middle East
Columnists like the one below are the fucking war party in
Turkey.
Who knows where the so-claimed $200 million the US distributed to
the columnists/anchormen in the Middle East went?
Sabri
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Turkey And The U.S., Talking War
BYEGM: Tuesday, February 04, 2003
HURRIYET- Columnist
The post-war era will reveal that Iraq was only a
prelude for a widespread process of change designed
to eradicate the sources of terrorism, and targeting
most of the countries of the Middle East.
Well targeting most of the countries of the Middle East
is true, but eradicating the sources
American Airlines Ask Labor for Cost Cuts
By BRAD FOSS
The Associated Press
Tuesday, February 4, 2003; 2:22 PM
American Airlines pleaded with employees Tuesday to accept steep cuts in
wages, benefits and work rules that would save $1.8 billion annually,
stressing that the company's livelihood
[New York Times]
February 5, 2003
Economic Woes Hit Law Firms
By JONATHAN D. GLATER
Law firms, commonly seen as islands of security and stability to their
employees, are proving vulnerable to the turbulence in the economy.
Squeezed between their clients and their own lawyers' wage demands in
So what was Turkey's price? Debt forgiveness?
Or just another IMF program?
Doug
Hey!
Just read it in an article by Korkut Boratav, a member of the
Independent Social Scientists- Economists group Ahmet Tonak
mentioned a while ago. That is, he is one of us.
Quoting from the corporate media,
Almost $300,000 per soldier.
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:47:12PM -0800, Sabri Oncu wrote:
$14,000,000,000 in return for the passage of 50,000 US troops
from Turkey.
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California State University
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