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Aid agencies reject money due to strings
06/06/03
RICHARD READ
Two major American aid organizations are refusing U.S. government money
aimed at building democracy in Iraq because federal officials
Devine, James wrote:
don't congratulate him yet, since it's not coming out until 2004.
Au contraire - October is the pub date. Should start trickling into
stores in September. Pre-order here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1565847709/leftbusinessobseA/.
And customers who shopped for my
(Jeet Heer is a Canadian journalist, who linked Trotsky to Paul
Wolfowitz in a National Post article recently. These are comments on
selected paragraphs from his piece that can be read in its entirety at:
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/site/story.asp?id=EC4AD553-8A1D-4324-8D37-A99B2DFF9F85)
CIA aware of dubious war motive
June 11 2003
By Suzanne Goldenberg
Washington
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/10/1055220593386.html
The debunking of the Bush Administration's prewar certainties on Iraq
gathered pace yesterday when it emerged that the CIA knew for months that a
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Doug's book
Doug, did you get an advance as big as Hillary's? are they planning to initially print a million copies of your book, too?
;-)
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-
From:
the problem
with not calling yourself a Marxist is that they're going to stick you with that
label anyway.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-From: andie nachgeborenen
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003
12:52
Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 07:27 A.M. Pacific
Tax breaks could save Boeing $3 billion
By David Postman
Seattle Times chief political reporter
OLYMPIA - What had been a bid for a new Boeing factory became much more
yesterday when Gov. Gary Locke raised the stakes and said his proposed big
gulp of a
- Original Message -
From: Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GE's fines are probably much lower. Most of the GE convictions were
decades ago -- though not all. Maybe a smaller total of fines is
evidence of more political clout?
Part of the ADM story is the judge's sabotage of
* Nick Cullather , Damming Afghanistan: Modernization in a
Buffer State, Journal of American History, 89 (Sept. 2002), 512-37.
The article as it appeared in the print journal (2.27 MB; PDF
format):
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ejah/teaching/archive/2002_09/article.pdf
...A TVA for the Hindu Kush
Today's Wall St. Journal has a table based on the Project on Government Oversight's
investigation that shows, yes, GE's numbers are much higher than Boeing's.
GE's total "Fines, penalties, restitutions and settlements" since 1990 =
$982.9 million. Boeing was in third place, behind TRW, with
Spy watchdog criticises dossier
The dodgy dossier which mixed intelligence information
about Iraq with a US student's thesis was not checked by intelligence
chiefs before it was published, a committee of MPs and peers has said.
Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) makes the
Judge Blanche Manning is a woman, actually, and a fine saxaphone player. Don't unestimate the effect of prison time on the haute bourgeoisie, though, even though many people think she went too easy on ADM and too hard on themole.jksIan Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Title: Militant question
I read in a column by Frank Field in the _Guardian_ that a few years ago, the British Labour Party expelled a group called the Militant tendency, which allegedly was trying to take over the Labour Party. I'd be interested in hearing a short description of this event.
You are talking about a different judge, the one in the criminal case.
I referred to the judge in the Lysine civil anti-trust case.
andie nachgeborenen wrote:
Judge Blanche Manning is a woman, actually, and a fine saxaphone player.
Don't unestimate the effect of prison time on the haute
The judge I referred to is Milton Shadur. The case got settled in 1996 for
$45 million, though it was argued that ADM itself had set aside $50 million
for its share alone -- among multiple defendants. It was argued that the
damages were $180 million, which, tripled would be over half a
Title: Iraqi oil again
www.nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com
Widespread Looting Leaves Iraq's Oil Industry in Ruins
By NEELA BANERJEEBASRA, Iraq, June 6 Standing under the merciless sun outside his office, surrounded by employees shouting angrily about pay, Jabbar Ali al-Leaby, the
Title: Iraqi oil again
Iraq's oil reserves are actually the second
largest in the world (after
Saudi Arabia's), not third.
Barkley Rosser
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From:
Devine, James
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 7:10
PM
Subject: [PEN-L] Iraqi oil
Title: indeterminacy the balance of power
[was: Waiting for Godot bis]
Contrary to what's implied below, I never proposed that anyone assume that it [history] will play itself out before our eyes in stately and scientifically predictable fashion --- nor did anyone else on this list make
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/09/03 8:14 PM
Cicero was defending the right of the Roman ruling class to be free of
any limitations whatever on their exploitation of the populace. Julius
felt that one shouldn't kill the proverbial goose that was laying the
golden eggs. In other words Cicero's story
Too important for bankers
Central banks' ruthless pursuit of price stability holds back economic
growth and boosts unemployment
Joseph Stiglitz
Wednesday June 11, 2003
The Guardian
An independent central bank focused exclusively on price stability has
become a central part of the mantra of
The projects of the LaBOR aRT MuRAL PRoJECT described below sound
really good. Please support them if you can.
* Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:15:48 -0400
From: Alewitz, Mike (Dept. of Art) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AGITPROP NEWS: RESIST the WALLS of APARTHEID
Please Post and Distribute:
Any guesses as to how far investigations will go before they're stopped?
How serious do you think these are?
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 08:13:17PM -0700, Ian Murray wrote:
Any guesses as to how far investigations will go before they're stopped?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Fannie and Freddie
will problems at Freddie Mac (none at Fannie Mae that I've heard of) undermine confidence in the housing market, popping the housing bubble?
Jim
-Original Message-
From: Michael Perelman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 6/10/2003 8:18 PM
Subject:
GOP Whip Quietly Tried to Aid Benefactor
Provision Intended To Help Philip Morris
By Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 11, 2003; Page A01
Only hours after Rep. Roy Blunt was named to the House's third-highest
leadership job in November, he surprised his fellow top
- Original Message -
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Fannie and Freddie
How serious do you think these are?
==
I don't know. My guess is Jim Leach is the guy to watch.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/magazine/08NYU.html
The Times has a nice article about NYU paying big bucks for T. Sargent.
What do you think about it.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 10:09 PM
Subject: [PEN-L] big bucks for economists
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/magazine/08NYU.html
The Times has a nice article about NYU paying big bucks for T.
Iraq: US military free speech
Gives with one hand, takes away with the other
http://www.indexonline.org/news/20030611_iraq.shtml ... [with links]
June 11
Iraq's all-powerful civilian chief L. Paul Bremer III will not tolerate
'hate speech' from Iraq's newly freed media. To prove it he has
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