Important development in UK conjucture. I will try to get text of his
article up.
Here is Observer commentary.
Chris Burford
London
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,925878,00.html
This is it: soldiers are right, what own understanding, there is none.
Sunday's is "Pray that the President and his advisers will seek God and his wisdom daily and not rely on their own understanding".
critics whatt critics, only raving peaceniks.
Monday's reads "Pray that the President and his
Excellent piece. I have a couple of questions though about this famous
deal that Turkey missed out on. It is generally abbreviated as 24bn in
grants and loans. But if I understand correctly, it actually boiled down
to 2bn dollars earmarked for the military -- i.e., a subsidized purchase
for
From the anti-war Independent (UK):-
[other papers allege that Campbell is furious with the bias of the BBC.]
Campbell orders media shake-up
By Jo Dillon, Deputy Political Editor
30 March 2003
Alastair Campbell has ordered the Whitehall press machine to get a grip of
the war coverage,
Bring our lads home
By Robin Cook
LetÂ’s send Rumsfeld and his hawks to war instead
Sunday Mirror March 30 2003
This was meant to be a quick, easy war. Shortly before I resigned a
Cabinet colleague told me not to worry about the political fall-out. The
war would be finished long before
Title: one analysis of the war
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/complete/la-war-opkoss30mar30,1,6048071.story
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Why Attack Iraq? Because We Can
The U.S. needed a war to show it prowess in a globalized world.
By Mitchell Koss
Mitchell Koss is a producer for
Oscar winner targets Bush and bin Laden
Edward Helmore in New York
Sunday March 30, 2003
The Observer
Fresh from his Oscar ceremony tirade against a 'fictitious President'
fighting a 'fictitious war', documentary-maker Michael Moore has said he
is setting his sights on the alleged links
[feed at the trough, rents galore!]
The 2nd Annual Homeland Security Summit:
Interdependence: Assessing New Risks and Sharing the Costs
May 15 - 16, 2003
Hyatt Regency Crystal City Hotel
Arlington , VA
Event Overview:
Interdependence: Assessing New Risks and Sharing the Costs
The American
In spite of the fact that US missiles have gone astray into Iran, Turkey,
and Kuwait, Hussein's anti-aircraft fire is responsible for blasts in
civilian areas of Iraq according to some US officials. Now it seems that
Hussein is responsible for all the deaths under the UN sanctions not those
who
Saddam is much weaker than we think he is. He's weaker militarily. We know
he's got about a third of what he had in 1991. But it's a house of cards.
He rules by fear because he knows there is no underlying support. Support
for Saddam, including within his military organisation, will collapse at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/30/wsadd30.xml/
US rebuff for Saddam's would-be successor
By Damien McElroy in Dokan, northern Iraq
(Filed: 30/03/2003)
In an orange bungalow on a hill overlooking an aquamarine lake, the man who
would be the next Iraqi leader spent
- Original Message -
From: k hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On CBC today two historians claimed that no matter what happens now
Hussein
will be a heroic figure and martyr to masses of Arab people just as his
namesake. They also thought that Arab regimes who stood by or helped the
US
would
Title: RE: [PEN-L:36294] Query Re: Anti-War Activist
Demograp
quango? what's that
mean?
I posted the same query to a number of listservs, and I got the
same question as yours on LBO-talk and Solidarity. Apparently,
the term is not familiar to Americans. I'm posting the reply to
PEN-l, in case
Dear Chris Ken -
I address Chris - (tho' it is all an open question of course)
as he is clearly diligent about the UK angle -
Ken since he is a Canuck:
Let us for the moment simply agree to watch what happens. I certainly
have no crystal ball - the Stalingard Thesis (I see it cited again
in
Title: RE: [PEN-L:36294] Query Re: Anti-War Activist Demographics
hmm... that makes the Federal Reserve a quango.
Jim
-Original Message-
From: Yoshie Furuhashi
To: Devine, James
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 3/30/2003 12:22 PM
Subject: RE: [PEN-L:36294] Query Re: Anti-War Activist
Title: re: [PEN-L:36308] Punished by their own words
if there were any justice in the world, these creepins ( = creep +
cretin) would be forced to work for a living.
Jim
-Original Message-
From: Chris Burford
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 3/30/2003 10:57 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:36308]
The subtitle about sharing costs is hilarious.
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 09:52:15AM -0800, Ian Murray wrote:
[feed at the trough, rents galore!]
The 2nd Annual Homeland Security Summit:
Interdependence: Assessing New Risks and Sharing the Costs
May 15 - 16, 2003
--
Michael Perelman
The American invasion of Iraq is essentially a hostile takeover --
financing the acquisition of another country by liquidating the latter's
assets. Truly government along modern business lines...
Peter
k hanly wrote:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15ItemID=3341
Aid
I hate to say this -- it's really pretty ugly -- but the reason Baghdad
will not be Stalingrad is fairly simple. The US has the power to
destroy as much of the city and its inhabitants as it wants. There is
no military impediment to this, only the political cost of such
slaughter. It comes
Title: FW: Michael Kidron, 1930-2003
The following obit by Richard Kuper appeared in the Guardian on
Thursday.
If you are not in the UK you may not have seen it.
Ted Crawford
Obituary
Michael
Astonishing, presumably ironical, allusion by John Reid, chair of the
Labour party and member of the UK war cabinet, in a BBC Panorama debate
with Richard Perle, and Edith Creisson:
the owl of Minerva does eventually fly.
This is presumably an echo of Reid's days in the communist party, and
Hari wrote:
Let us for the moment simply agree to watch what happens. I certainly have
no crystal ball - the Stalingard Thesis (I see it cited again in the
Observer today by an Arab writer) can be left to the test of Old Man
time..
Well we cannot know for sure but this is an urgent
Of course, this article does not even pay a lip service to the
role many intellectuals, students, labor and public employee
unions, left political parties, Chambers of Engineers and
Doctors, Lawyers Guilds, Islamic groups, feminists, gays and
lesbians, artists, musicians and the like in the Peace
Read the small print: the US wants to privatise Iraq's oil
No one here believes this is a humanitarian war
Jonathan Steele in Damascus
Monday March 31, 2003
The Guardian
In this highly politicised city where anger over the invasion of Iraq
alternates with pride in the resistance, there is one
[somehow I got a hold of a rough draft of Zuboff's book last
yearhorrible]
Analyse this: corporate culture is in a midlife crisis
It is said to be the most flexible system ever devised, but capitalism is
stuck in the Ford age
Larry Elliott
Monday March 31, 2003
The Guardian
Your
Iraq
March 31, 2003
'The Yank opened up. He had absolutely no regard for human life. He was a
cowboy out on a jolly'
Patrick Barkham meets the friendly fire victims
THREE wounded British soldiers described yesterday how they survived a
terrifying attack by an American anti-tank aircraft
Three British soldiers sent home after protesting at civilian deaths
Richard Norton-Taylor
Monday March 31, 2003
The Guardian
Three British soldiers in Iraq have been ordered home after objecting to the
conduct of the war. It is understood they have been sent home for protesting
that the war is
The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
For the Arab rich, uncertain times
Elaine Sciolino/NYT NYT
Monday, March 31, 2003
CANNES Adnan Khashoggi, the billionaire wheeler dealer from Saudi Arabia,
was en route from Cannes to Monte Carlo in his chauffeur-driven Mercedes
on Thursday when
1) But what exactly is the Blair class interest? What force does he
objectively represent?
Blair's class position interestingly comes from a mother who used to vote Labour and a father who hoped to become a Conservative ...
As for the more important question of his class interests I think he
War tactics split is denied by US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,926226,00.html
Ahead of a New Yorker report published today, Monday,
America's military and civilian war leaders made an aggressive effort to
present a united front yesterday, amid claims that US troops are beginning
FWIW, the Russian GRU report is predicting no operational pause, but a
major attack to clear the way to Baghdad within 48 hours.
Peter
Chris Burford wrote:
War tactics split is denied by US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,926226,00.html
Ahead of a New Yorker report published
There was a deliberately impressive televised briefing at the Hilton in
Kuwait on Saturday morning, by Col Chris Vernon British military divisional
spokesperson. It appeared to give a confident, reasonable and acceptable
strategy for pursuing the war, even if somewhat more slowly.
I would bet
Jabber (Ghassan Abbas) ekes out a living in the West Bank showing films to
fellow refugees. As befits a denizen of a community trying to survive under
conditions of poverty and blockade, he cannot seem to make it through the
day without facing some crisis or another. When he pleads with the
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