From Virtual Borders to Internal Checkpoints?

2004-05-31 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Add Matrix (Multistate Anti-TeRrorism Information EXchange) and NIMD (The Novel Intelligence from Massive Data) to US-Visit and CAPPS II. In addition, the General Accounting Office's report to "the Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget, and International Security

BAS: The nuclear powered hydrogen car

2004-05-31 Thread Michael Pollak
URL: http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2004/mj04/mj04lortie.html May/June 2004, Volume 60, No. 3, p. 12 BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS Bush's nuclear FreedomCAR By Bret Lortie In his 2003 State of the Union address, President George Bush proposed $1.2 billion in research

Re: The new number one reason to vote Nader

2004-05-31 Thread Eugene Coyle
This opening by Gitlin could (and should) be the opening to stop voting Democrat. Louis Proyect wrote: Dissent Magazine, Spring 2004 Ralph Nader and the Will to Marginality by Todd Gitlin A classic book of social psychology analyzes a flying saucer cult of the 1950s. This small band of Americans be

Re: the new number one reason to vote Nader

2004-05-31 Thread Doug Henwood
michael a. lebowitz wrote: Dissent Magazine, Spring 2004 Ralph Nader and the Will to Marginality by Todd Gitlin Yes, I love it! The new slogan: 'A Vote for Nader is a vote against Todd Gitlin' is sure to mobilise old SDS'ers. Gitlin is a repulsive character, but everything he says in this passage i

Re: the new number one reason to vote Nader

2004-05-31 Thread michael a. lebowitz
To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, PEN-L list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Marxism] The new number one reason to vote Nader From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 13:09:41 -0400 Reply-To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition<[EMA

The new number one reason to vote Nader

2004-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect
Dissent Magazine, Spring 2004 Ralph Nader and the Will to Marginality by Todd Gitlin A classic book of social psychology analyzes a flying saucer cult of the 1950s. This small band of Americans believed that on a particular date soon to come, the world would be engulfed by a flood of biblical propo

Stealing American jobs?

2004-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, May 31, 2004 Rewards of a 90-Hour Week: Poverty and Dirty Laundry By STEVEN GREENHOUSE For the many New Yorkers who dread spending two hours in a noisy, often smelly laundry washing and drying their clothes, it is a godsend that most laundries will handle that unpleasant chore for them, a

It's the economy, stupid (from Stephen Gowans)

2004-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect
USA: REGIME CHANGE, OR SYSTEM CHANGE? By Jacques Pauwels, author of The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War, James Lorimer, Toronto, 2002 That the USA is entangled in a vicious war in Iraq is not the fault of President Bush, but of America’s economic system. Without wars, Americ

Viva Las Vegas

2004-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, May 30, 2004 Seekers, Drawn to Las Vegas, Find a Broken Promised Land By DEAN E. MURPHY LAS VEGAS, May 29 — South on Las Vegas Boulevard, well beyond the casino-scraped skyline, there is a three-story hotel where tourists seldom go. The parking lot is sprinkled with U-Haul trucks and t

Re: FW: Racist book "The Arab Mind" used to train military , but best use is as a doorstop.

2004-05-31 Thread Devine, James
"the West" = the Bushist power elite plus a small number of neo-con intellectuals plus a lot of people who know nothing about foreign issues (because of the poor educational system) and thus follow the first two (via the bourgeois press)? Jim D -Original Message- From: "

Judith Miller's pwogwessive background

2004-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect
Miller’s brief when she arrived at the paper was primarily to cover the Securities and Exchange Commission. But that wasn’t her true interest. At Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, studying for a master’s in public affairs, she traveled to Jerusalem in 1971 to research a paper. “I became fascin

Re: FW: Racist book "The Arab Mind" used to train military , but best use is as a doorstop.

2004-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect
Chris Doss wrote: The West is psycho. The population of Russia is about 20% Muslim, and there's no "war of civilizations" crap rhetoric going on here. The Guardian (London) November 13, 2002 Threat of war: Get circumcised, angry Putin tells reporter BYLINE: Ian Traynor President Vladimir Putin has

Re: FW: Racist book "The Arab Mind" used to train military , but best use is as a doorstop.

2004-05-31 Thread "Chris Doss"
The West is psycho. The population of Russia is about 20% Muslim, and there's no "war of civilizations" crap rhetoric going on here. --- Message Can I raise on PEN-L an article which I was uneasy to find forwarded to me by a liberal professional colleague in the USA THE AGENDA OF ISLAM - A WAR

Re: A US General: "I Don't Care If They Are Innocent"

2004-05-31 Thread Dan Scanlan
"General Ryder, the Army's provost marshal, reported that some Iraqis had been held for several months for nothing more than expressing 'displeasure or ill will' toward the American occupying forces" Two weeks ago I was detained for almost two hours in the Albuquerque NM airport for expressing the

Re: Russian oil

2004-05-31 Thread "Chris Doss"
There's an article by Kirill Pankratov on the dependence or lack thereof of Russia's economic recovery on high oil prices here: http://www.untimely-thoughts.com/index.html?art=500. (It should really have been edited -- there are a lot of obvious Russian grammatical constructions, though P's Eng