Chris Patten EU commisioner for foreign affairs said Tuesday that Europe
may not pay for the reconstruction of Iraq following a US invasion.
This is an extraordinarily blunt statement for someone who has to represent
a consensus opinion, and even though he glossed it over as politicians do.
He
Sir Terence Clark, UK ambassador to Iraq in mid to late 80's on BBC this
am. He went on to say that was because Saddam brought them electricity,
water, education and health, including to the villages. It was with the
Iraq war and the Kuwait war that the standard of living, which was very
high
At 2003-03-12 19:22 -0800, Ian wrote:
Blair is plunging Britain into a crisis of democracy
Threat of war has created an unprecedented globalisation of public opinion
Seumas Milne
Thursday March 13, 2003
The Guardian
Seumas Milne is one of the most consistent progressive journalists over
more
Tuesday
British media reported that Bill Clinton, had broken silence on the war by
finding an ingenious way of saying that Bush should have listened to Blair
more, and then there would have been less of a split with Europe.
And Zbigniew Brzezinski (sp?), not remembered over here as a dove,
Title: Bush ultimatum
Bush Orders Iraq To Disarm Before Start Of War
WASHINGTON, DC-Maintaining his hardline stance against Saddam Hussein, President Bush ordered Iraq to fully dismantle its military before the U.S. begins its invasion next week. U.S. intelligence confirms that, even as we
Excerpting from Jim's post:
Bush said Sunday during his weekly radio address. This madman has every
intention of firing back at our troops when we attack his country.
Yeah, how crazy is that? Firing back at troops who attack your country?
Who knows, if he's *really* crazy he'll order a
Bush said Sunday during his weekly radio address.
This madman has every
intention of firing back at our troops when we
attack his country.
Yeah, how crazy is that? Firing back at troops who
attack your country?
Who knows, if he's *really* crazy he'll order a
preemptive first
The article was from the Onion, but today satire and reality are
indistinguishable.
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:19:01AM -0500, Gil Skillman wrote:
Excerpting from Jim's post:
Bush said Sunday during his weekly radio address. This madman has every
intention of firing back at our troops when
From the Australian ABC-TV science show, _Catalyst_
We're told that [Australian] aborigines were nomads. Yet the local
Gunditjmara in Western Victoria claim their ancestors lived in a village.
They had eel farms, and even an eel industry, which exported produce across
the country. If this is
This is goddamn embarrassing. We had a huge rally today, though.
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So I guess Seymour Hersh would be banned since he is a terrorist according
to Richard Perle.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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Subject:
Title: RE: [PEN-L:35543] Commodity production 8000 years ago?
according to Marx, commodity exchange and thus commodity production is as old as the hills, though I don't know if he thought in terms of 8000 years ago and Australian natives.
In order that this alienation [of products] may be
Hakki Alacakaptan wrote:
The notion that precapitalist social formations like
the Yanomami, the
Mapuche in Chile, the Miskitos in Sandinista
Nicaragua, the Kurds, the
Ogoni in Nigeria, et al have to be civilized at
the point of a bayonet
is antithetical to socialism.
Hmm. You can
Anyway nothing would prove to the US that Hussein had disarmed. If he hasnt
WMD the US will find them after the invasion anyway.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
http://www.accuracy.org/SH030803.htm
Why So Long for Iraq to Comply?
By SAM HUSSEINI
It's been 12 years. Why hasn't Saddam Hussein complied? So
Dont worry. The US rejects the proposal. Interesting enough prime minister
Chretien has come out strongly against regime change. He doesnt have to
worry since he is stepping down as leader of the Liberals.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everyone,
Can someone possibly direct me to more recent personal debt (credit card,
consumer/auto loans) figures for the US, which must be 1-2 trillion (US$)
by now? I believe I read a Fed brief/memo on personal debt some time ago,
but after a search of the FRED database, only percentage
Authors, what have you successfully used in the past to draw detailed
camera-ready graphs that provide lots of flexibility to:
1) draw nonlinear curves without using equations
2) position curves
3) indicate points and regions within the graph
4) label points/segments/regions throughout the
So what is the code name of the upcoming invasion of Iraq? Operation Just
Because? Operation Enduring Freedom Fries? Operation Desert
Madness?Operation Enduring Misery? Operation Infinite Arrogance?
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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From: k hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 1:36 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:35554] Code name for Iraq Invasion
So what is the code name of the upcoming invasion of Iraq? Operation
Just
Because? Operation Enduring Freedom Fries?
From: k hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So what is the code name of the upcoming invasion of Iraq? Operation Just
Because? Operation Enduring Freedom Fries? Operation Desert
Madness?Operation Enduring Misery? Operation Infinite Arrogance?
Operation Just Us
Carl
Title: FW: Lip synch Bush Blair
For fans of the Dubya Toni, see the following e-video:
http://www.zen15631.zen.co.uk/bb.mpg
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-
From: Charles Higgins [mailto:[EMAIL
This is a response I wrote to a subscriber of the Rad-Green list
who wrote to me personally. I made slight changes to it after I
sent my response to him/her.
Best,
Sabri
++
However, Erdogan has now assumed prime ministership.
What could this mean for the future?
Dear ,
Let me
In a word: the Marxian law of value holds generally, as far as economic
laws are valid at all, for the whole period of simple commodity production
-- that is, up to the time when the latter suffers a modification through
the appearance of the capitalist form of production. Up to that time,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,913590,00.html
Title: RE: [PEN-L:35560] Is war illegal without a second UN resolution?
By the way, while I was driving around Los Angeles this afternoon, I heard some unnamed hawk being interviewed. His argument was that it was a major mistake for Bush to go to the U.N. for a war resolution. After all, the
http://www.counterpunch.org/mahajan03122003.html
UN Resolution or Not, This War Violates International Law
By Rahul Mahajan
The majority of the antiwar movement has made a mistake in
emphasizing the unilateral nature of the war on Iraq and the need for
United Nations approval, and we may well
So the US and Kuwaitis make illegal incursion into the DMZ and cut fences to
allow easy access for invasion and the UN response is to withdraw monitors
from the Iraqi side! Not even a complaint. The UN is not only toothless it
seems to voiceless as well..
Cheeers, Ken Hanly
UN border monitors
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From: k hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 5:42 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:35562] Re: Is war illegal without a second UN resolution?
http://www.counterpunch.org/mahajan03122003.html
UN Resolution or Not, This War Violates
[beginning to waver; adopting a least worst approach because they all know
if the UN is discredited, which it will be either way if it's going to
sanction unjustifiable aggression or not, what interimperialist
tranquility they've had since 1989 will fall further apart even further.
the double
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From: Ian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
will fall further apart even further.
==
apologies for the grammar/redundancy mangling; at least I didn't pull a
Justin. :-)
Ian
Bush won't sign bill to release stores involved in meat recalls
By Emily Gersema, Associated Press, 3/13/2003
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration will oppose any legislation that
would make meat companies tell consumers which stores received meat that
was recalled because of possible
'I feel despair'
Turkey's MPs surprised the world by voting 'no' to US troops being based
in the country. Now it seems their new prime minister will overturn this -
with the army's help. Acclaimed Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk fears that
once again his country will become a military dictatorship
(I know very little about the detail of his life, but just stumbled
across this on worldhistory.com in the course of trying to find out when
he was born. Bottom line: this is a figure who has lived on the edge and
the confrontation brewing with the world's most powerful imperial power
in
NY Times, Mar. 13, 2003
U.S. Raises Prospect of Abandoning Effort for U.N. Vote
By JOEL BRINKLEY
WASHINGTON, March 13 The Bush administration, acknowledging today that
its drive to build support for a new United Nations resolution on Iraq
had bogged down, said it was willing to postpone the
Chronicle of Higher Education
Thursday, March 13, 2003
Virginia Tech Bans Speakers With Extreme Views and Relaxes
Antidiscrimination Clause
By MEGAN ROONEY
The governing board of Virginia Tech voted on Monday to bar advocates of
extreme political views from speaking on the campus. Under the new
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