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Joanna
From: dmacdonald94591 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 00:42:41 -
Subject: million worker march
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Please Join Us in a Million Worker March
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10, recently
I believe I will get a yahoo account.
To answer the question, the issue is not Chechen independence per se, but what Free
Ichkeria did with its independence and what it is believed it would do again given
the chance; devolve into a militant Islamist failed gangster state specializing in
[Here's a word ripe for resurrection. And what a doubly apt etymology.]
bushwa (BUSH-wa) noun, also bushwah
Nonsense; bull.
[Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a mispronunciation of bourgeois.]
The tone of his (Antonin Scalia's) remarks suggested that the court had
never before moved social
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Here is one input from one of those from that part of
the world, who is not terrified to speak his mind.
Fuck you Americans!
Get out of our part of the world!
Immediately!
From this morning's local (Bloomington, Il) newspaper (under the
headline: U.S. Marines fight
Actually, Russia is a country in which per capita GDP can vary regionally by a factor
of 20. I would estimate that incomes in Moscow are 3-5 times higher than the Russian
average. In addition, all the shitwork in Moscow is done by non-Muscovites, often
illegal immigrants from elsewhere in the
Chris Doss wrote:
To answer the question, the issue is not Chechen independence per se,
but what Free Ichkeria did with its independence and what it is
believed it would do again given the chance; devolve into a militant
Islamist failed gangster state specializing in banditry, a kidnap/slave
trade
And Russia's reaction to being invaded (twice) should have been what? How should
Russia react to thousand of its citizens being kidnapped and tortured? What should the
Dagestani reaction be to attempts to force it to become a medieval Islamist state?
Reply:
If it is unacceptable to you, then
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From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:10:24 -0500
I should probably clarify that the First and Second Chechen Wars are completely
different matters. The first was a bone-headed move by Yeltsin against a national
From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NY Times, March 27, 2004
After May 1, East Europe's 'Haves' May Have More
By ALAN COWELL
SYTNA GORA, Poland
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As Europe expands in a quest for prosperity and elusive unity, many among
its new members in the East fear that hundreds of thousands of
[The FT also ran a longer and more detailed article on the same day, from
which I just want to cull the following paragraph, which emphasizes that
they suspected it was ETA from literally the very first moment they
arrived on the scene:]
[After 30 years in the front line of the battel against
Let's be clear, the determinants of policy, and anti-policy, are not
polls imaginary or real that are conducted by pollsters. What somebody
says a sample of the Iraqi people want or wanted had nothing to do with
the invasion by the United States. What somebody now says the Iraqi
people want has
dmschanoes wrote:
Supporting national liberation, or a self-determination devoid of a
specific class content of that determination, i.e. a program that
includes expropriation of the privatized, now and future, means of
production, is ultimately meaningless.
Not really. The Comintern backed the
dmschanoes wrote:
his war was precipitated by capital's need to destroy parts of the
productive apparatus and maintain a high price for oil.
I hear people say things like this and I wonder how they know. How do
you know this? Documentary evidence, or do you just *know*?
Doug
The Caucasus wars is fundamentally
over control of oil nothing to do with fighting medievalism.
_
That much of what LP writes is almost correct. It is fundamentally over
control of the transport of oil, and for that reason alone the secession
of Chechnya, its
Swans
Jeffrey St. Clair's The Politics of Nature
by Louis Proyect
Book Review
March 29, 2004
Jeffrey St. Clair, Been Brown So Long it Looked Like Green to Me:
The Politics of Nature, Common Courage Press, 2004; ISBN: 1-
56751-258-5 - 406 pages.
Comprised of over fifty-six articles, Jeffrey St.
Well, we know where the Comintern's support of the Kuomingtang took the
workers revolution, that's for sure.
And I believe you pose a false choice, in that no bourgeois nationalist
control of Iraqi oil, separate and apart from the domination, military
or market of Western capitalism is possible.
No I just don't know, I've actually studied the price of oil, rates of
return on investment, fixed asset growth in the industry for 30 years.
Here's a tip-- check the Baker Hughes rig counts going back to 1973, and
overlay it with prices and the industry rate of return to 2003. Makes
for an
dmschanoes wrote:
Well, we know where the Comintern's support of the Kuomingtang took the
workers revolution, that's for sure.
Excuse me? The problem was not support for the KMT, but the failure of
the CP to maintain an independent presence, including a newspaper. Even
Trotsky backed the KMT, just
While there are no hard local numbers, about 300,000 jobs nationwide have
been lost since 2000, according to Forrester Research Inc.
Well, while there are no hard numbers, about 10,000,000 jobs have been
lost in the U.S. due to excessive hours of work (compared to Europe).
Candidate Kerry says
After the Soviet Union collapsed, 14 regions become independent nations.
After Dzhokhar Dudayev was elected president of Chechnya, he declared
independence. But Boris Yeltsin refused to accept this and sent in
troops. After Chechen rebels drove off the Russian troops, a full-scale
invasion was
Chris Doss wrote: Lord. Dagestan is PART of Russia.
That's what Ankara says about Kurdestan.
--
The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
That's what Dagestan says about Dagestan.
Look, I can't believe I have to do this in 2004, but anyway...
Current History
October 2000
Through a Distorted Lens: Chechnya and the Western Media
By ANATOL LIEVEN
ANATOL LIEVEN is a senior associate in the Russia and Eurasia Center of the
Carnegie
Title: Message
While Michael is undoubtedly right, university administrations reward
those who do research and slight teaching. But that is no excuse for
teachers to neglect their moral responsibility to teach properly and to serve
their students. I think Jim was once a student of
Chris Doss wrote:
It is clear why Russia could not have tolerated Chechnya being used
indefinitely as a safe haven for such forces and as a potential base for
further attacks on Russia. For how long would the United States tolerate
such a situation in a neighboring state?
This is exactly the
from MS SLATE:
The NY [TIMES] off-leads and the LA [TIMES] goes above-the-fold with
the U.S.
occupation's decision to shut down a popular Iraqi newspaper run
by a radical Shiite cleric. According to the LAT, troops gave
the newspaper's editor a letter from L. Paul Bremer that said the
paper had
Chris Doss wrote:
I say: It is unreliable because the country is lawless. Now, why would
the country be lawless. I wonder if it might have something to do with
bands of Islamoid gunmen running around invading adjoining areas of
Russia and kidnapping people. Nah, couldn't be.
Reply: Well, we have
Blagov is usually quite good. I am surprised to see him get so monocausal.
Here, he writes:
It has been often said that disputes over oil transit are behind the
tragedy in unruly Chechnya - seen as the biggest security threat in the
region.
Russia has been keen to use its Baku-Novorossiisk
Since you clearly don't want to read the actual poll, let me supply
some highlights for you. These results don't sound like they're
coming from people too terrified to speak their minds.
Doug
Here is one input from one of those from that part of the world, who
is not terrified to speak his mind.
Thinking about job flight? Here's your reward.
Gene Coyle
This year sees the fifth anniversary of the Shell Economist writing
prize competition, and we hope very much that you will consider
entering. The theme is 'Import workers or export jobs?'
Points to consider
Should developing
Headline on one of the front page articles in today's FT:
Afghanistan in danger of reverting to terror breeding ground, warns UN
and the pullout quote is:
The report notes Iraq receives '10 times as much development assistance
with [a similar] population.'
Michael
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Under such conditions, you can't
trust any Western opinion polls of Iraqis to reflect Iraqi opinions
accurately, for Iraqis can't speak their minds freely:
They don't seem shy about expressing their opinions to reporters for
foreign wire services or newspapers or even
Chris, I think you won.
Joanna
Louis Proyect wrote:
Chris Doss wrote:
I say: It is unreliable because the country is lawless. Now, why would
the country be lawless. I wonder if it might have something to do with
bands of Islamoid gunmen running around invading adjoining areas of
Russia and
Gene Coyle wrote:
Thinking about job flight? Here's your reward.
Thanks, Gene. I'll enter. I won the last essay contest I entered that was
announced on Pen-L: Robin (terrorism futures market) Hanson's Has
Privatization gone far enough? Since there are eight prizes in this one, a
$5,000 show
At 1:06 PM -0500 3/29/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
Under such conditions, you can't trust any Western opinion polls of
Iraqis to reflect Iraqi opinions accurately, for Iraqis can't speak
their minds freely:
They don't seem shy about expressing their opinions to reporters for
foreign wire services or
On Monday, March 29, 2004 at 13:16:10 (-0500) Yoshie Furuhashi writes:
...
Yes, more than 1,000 supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr
demonstrated peacefully, but that is a tiny minority in the nation
of 24,683,313 (July 2003 est.,
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html), and
Bill Lear wrote:
Let me get this right: since only 1,000 out of 24 million came out for
a very vocal demonstration, that shows how cowed they are; therefore,
10,000 in the U.S., keeping proportions constant, shows the same
thing?
I don't think the issue is whether you can protest in the streets in
On Monday, March 29, 2004 at 13:16:10 (-0500) Yoshie Furuhashi writes:
Yes, more than 1,000 supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr
demonstrated peacefully, but that is a tiny minority in the nation
of 24,683,313 (July 2003 est.,
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html), and
even
Bill Lear wrote:
On Monday, March 29, 2004 at 13:16:10 (-0500) Yoshie Furuhashi writes:
...
Yes, more than 1,000 supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr
demonstrated peacefully, but that is a tiny minority in the nation
of 24,683,313 (July 2003 est.,
At 2:49 PM -0500 3/29/04, Louis Proyect wrote:
I don't think the issue is whether you can protest in the streets in
Iraq. Obviously you can. This is not exactly Pinochet's Chile,
although down the road it might come to that.
It is really more a question of determining what Iraqis think about
the
Bill, you're trying to reason, which is often a dead end. Even
though half of Baghdadis polled expressed dislike of Bush and Blair
and thought the U.S. was after their oil, and almost a fifth
expressed support for attacks on U.S. forces, their expression of
worry about what might happen (e.g.
In response to Yoshie, Bill Lear wrote:
Let me get this right: since only 1,000 out of 24 million came out for
a very vocal demonstration, that shows how cowed they are; therefore,
10,000 in the U.S., keeping proportions constant, shows the same
thing?
Saith Doug ironically,
Bill, you're
At the risk of overposting:
Those who express ambivalence or reluctant support for the US occupation of Iraq are
practicing a form of less-evilism. And like all forms of lesser evilism, this one
is based
on self-delusion.
To be precise-- the delusion is that somehow someway the actions of the
Devine, James wrote:
As for the fear of what might happen if US forces pulled out, I think
there's a very good reason to trust the poll results. People are almost
always afraid of what will happen if the state (in this case, the US
armed forces) goes away.
This is not just about whether to trust
DMS wrote:
So a question, and I won't bother you about this again: When US fatalities increase
to 10 or
20 a day from the current 1 or 2, when every shopping mall is filled with SUVs
saying bring them
home, when every Senator questions our course in Iraq because of the increasing
Across the country, in small towns and big cities, the families of
our National Guard and military Reserves are having trouble paying
the bills. Many are barely treading water. Some go under. Many
households of Reservists -- 30 percent, according to a 2002 Pentagon
estimate -- lose income when
Ex-WWN reporter trued major stories
By Morris Blake, WEEKLY WORLD NEWS.
Seven weeks into an examination of former WEEKLY WORLD NEWS reporter
Kelly Jacques's work, a team of journalists has found strong evidence
that Jacques insinuated substantial portions of veracity into at least
eight major
[The fun part is 1/3 of the way down: even David Kay is unloading on the
Bushits now]
The Independent (UK)
29 March 2004
Iraqi defector behind America's WMD claims exposed as 'out-and-out
fabricator'
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
The case for war against Iraq was dealt another
[By using State Department and Pentagon money to propagandize the US
domestic audience?]
April 5th Issue
Newsweek
Chalabi: A Questionable Use of U.S. Funding
Under investigation: Congress is examining whether Ahmad Chalabi
inappropriately used U.S. taxpayer dollars to prod
Michael Pollak wrote:
Mr Powell told the world on 5 February last year the administration had firsthand
descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels and on rails capable of producing enough
anthrax or botulinum toxin
to kill thousands upon thousands of people. He showed highly
[Summary of an article in today's WP from Slate's Today's Papers
newsletter:]
quote
Each day, activists fan out to collect signatures for a petition rejecting
the interim constitution, which Sistani opposes. Thousands of those
signatures are scanned in nightly and sent by CD to headquarters in
Jim, you are an excellent psychologist. I have been busy all day and have not been
able to wade through the entire thread, but I think that everything has already been
said. I suspect that we have pushed Chechnyia as far as we usefully can.
Devine, James wrote:
(I can understand it if
The Times (UK)
March 29, 2004
Yukos: has a deal been done?
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed oil tycoon and critic of President
Vladimir Putin, has today performed a volte-face and thrown his support
behind Russia's leader. Jeremy Page reports from Moscow.
Has Mr Khodorkovsky struck a deal with
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