for this analysis as well. . .
Brian McKenna
In a message dated 8/5/04 11:41:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I take any attack on anyone on the basis of mental illness as a personal attack. I.e., as far as I am concerned Brian's post boils down to the proposition that "Cox is a
shithead."
there is a slippery slope
Hi All,
Just wanted to let you know that Harvey Wasserman's Bob Fitrakis' The Free Press
published my piece today. . .it's another chapter in the annals of higher ed
corruption.
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/20/2004/705
Brian
nd, c/o Ralph Dumain, P.O. Box 65972, Washington, DC 20035
In Solidarity,
Brian McKenna
Socialist Scholars Conferenec when I was back east. . .a very approachable fellow. . .
Bless him.
Brian McKenna
Hey thanks Gene. . .
it was a chore to write, but a story that had to be told. . .I''m hoping that others will pick up the baton and do for their universitywhat I did with Dow (and I only skimmed the surface). . .
you socialist economist folks are tops. . .back in 1982 I attended a week -long
sity200401.shtml
To see the entire issue, in pdf format, see:
http://www.ecocenter.org/200401/ftgu_jan-feb_2004.pdf
Brian McKenna
Some folks believe that all politics is local. . .if this issue could get some legs here in Michigan, it might help the national cause.
Brian McKenna
Joel Kovel, Stanley Aronowitz and other left figures have written about their "breakdowns" in their early books. . .stuck in that limbo abyss between the official views practices of the world (psychoanalysis with Kovel, the union movement with Aronowitz) and their emergent selves. . .many of us
In a message dated 2/9/04 2:57:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It has been
observed time and again how those recruited young and innocent to radical
groups have defected once they felt the force of tradition.
I know and quote this passage routinely, Doug (hey, out there,
Russert: But can you launch a preemptive war without iron clad, absolute intelligence that he had weapons of mass destruction?
President Bush: Let me take a step back for a second and there is no such thing necessarily in a dictatorial regime of iron clad absolutely solid evidence. The evidence
From Editor and Publisher. . .
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2086684
Brian
as a Conscientious Objector, resigning his
commission as an Army Captain on the Iraqi front lines during Operation
Desert Storm. He is currently an Emergency Physician.
Brian McKenna
yo-da-ladeee.. .yo-da-lay-deee
Rock-a-fellah.. .rock-er-fell eer
Rocky money was also tied to medical science and the Flexner Report. . .which helped create bio-medicine a century ago. . .the scourge of social medicine. . .
Brian McKenna.
W
is in our near future. . .
And for those NSC folk reading this. . .I just want to say that I'm only speaking academically. . .so to speak!
Brian McKenna
A friend sent me this brilliant item.
Brian
**
Bush's resume
George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC, USA
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
LAW ENFORCEMENT:
I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the
From one of our best journalists, Ken Silverstein. . .
War College Study Calls Iraq a 'Detour'
Institute's report warns anti-terror campaign may launch 'open-ended and
gratuitous conflict.'
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-terror12jan12,1,6125031.story?coll=la-headlines-world
Al-Jazeera sacks another English journalist
http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story788.shtml
Posted: 2 January 2004 By: Jemima Kiss
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Former BBC journalist Shaista Aziz has become the second UK journalist to be
sacked by Al-Jazeera.net in two months.
Ms Aziz was an
http://www.nypress.com/16/53/newscolumns/feature.cfm
Mind your reading. . . .
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,106890,00.html
http://www.sundancechannel.com/
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
directed by Eugene Jarecki
10:30 PM
http://www.sundancechannel.com/popup/?ixFilmID=2595
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
directed by Eugene Jarecki
YEAR
2002
80 MINS, BW
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, one of the most influential
not share or forward with anyone. . .
Does any of this soiund familiar?
Brian
DOW Chemical's Dioxin Scandal Heats-Up
Michigan Universities Need to Create True Higher Learning about Dow Chemical
by Brian McKenna
"Growth [is] the opiate we're all hooked on. . ."
Frank Popoff, former
from Ray Hanania. . . .
A detailed profile of Palestine Media Watch was published this week that
examines how organizations have been able to influence the media using the
Internet that I thought members would be interested in ...
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The revolution will be e-mailed
Can a
About the Maasi. . .I was referring to the pre-capitalist Ilparakuyo Maasi as described in the work of anthropologist Peter Rigy. . .
as for the Continuum concept. . .refer to the website under that name. . .
Brian
I agree with Joanna. . .if you want to get a sense of how kids were treated in prehistory, take a look at pre-capitalist societies today -- the Maasi, the Kung San and others - pretty good . . . .check out "The Continuum Concept"
Brian McKenna
FYI
Yesterday Environmental Media Services (EMS), in conjunction with
Moveon.org, launched a
new site called BushGreenwatch.org-- a site that includes brief
daily articles about how the
Bush administration is dismantling America's public health and
environmental protections.
Oops!
there's the site in the subject line. . .
Brian
Adventurer marxists hope to foment revolution and will take some credit for it when it occurs, rightly so. . .but it'll likely come upon us like a midnight storm, cracking the roofs, jolting us awake. . .
http://www.monthlyreview.org/561baran.htm
ever wonder about the etymology of the word "ad"?
it's the new, new math. . ."adds" multiply, dividing our consciousness, subtracting our will. . .
we need a better ruler. . .how about us?
Brian McKenna
Sleepless in the White House
One night, George W. Bush is tossing restlessly in his White House bed. He
awakens to see George Washington standing by him. Bush asks him, "George,
what's the best thing I can do to help the country?"
"Set an honest and honorable example, just as I did," Washington
to bring out the critical points. . .then we'd get some consistently frank rattling by the left on Moyers excellent (left liberal??) show. . . .One wonders where one can say what one thinks about the evils of capitalism without being ignored or pilloried?
Brian McKenna
What if that kind of money had gone to WBAI type stations? Instead it goes to the better-safe than sorry set. . .preening liberals with somnolent voices inculcated with a vicious streak of self-censorship. . .
Brian McKenna
PEN-Lers,
There's a good article in the New Yorker (see link) in which Seymour Hersh expresses incredulity that this story hasn't gotten much more attention.
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?031110ta_talk_hersh
Brian McKenna
ne at this pdf:
http://www.ecocenter.org/200310/ftgu_octnov2003.pdf
Brian McKenna
Doug,
I love Silverstein's work too. . .wanted to know more about your "shoot before aiming" remark, I assume about AC. . .
Brian McKenna
guys had a falling out?
Just curious. . .if you don't want to respond on the list, that's fine. . .
Brian McKenna
wanted it publised locally in MI.. .but if a natl. outlet picked it up, it would be easier to circulate. . .
Who is Michigan's Empire Man?
President Builds Empire in Iraq While Few Challenge Him at Home
by Brian McKenna and Dave Dempsey
"I think this must be heaven," Peter McPherson told
the term in its best meanings here -- as in propagating truths. . .
As Cockburn once told me, quoting Lenin -- and I paraphrase, one must be as radical as reality itself. . .
Brian McKenna
And a phalanx of Joel Kovels, a storm of Lenny Bruces and. . . .in the Guy DeBord tradition, a whale of Phil Ochs. . .also a suicide. . .
For more on Debord. . .
doris lessing is always hot. . .
On this weekend, this should be the most important political story in the
national news media, but it is no where to be found.fairly shocking
political news to say the least. .not Arnold's Hitler-Envy
and career groping behaviour
http://gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=283row=0
ing my bit to agitate/educate. . .uncovering the truth, then spreading it far and wide. . .admiring those like you, Mr. Perlman and Doug Henwood who do it so well. . .
Brian McKenna
they'll give Bush a boost for being open and honest. . .a man who overcomes his dark side and has finally entered the anointed realm. . .
Brian McKenna
below, which I'd like to share with you. Please consider learning more about this international initiative and letting your students know about it so that they canget involved. See also the article below thatI wrote on the Bhopal activists who visited Midland this past May
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irvana," according to Kahn.One wonders.It would be nice if some journalists out there did a little digging. And it would help if some academics (at MSU and elsewhere) conducted a little research on one of the most important ecological stories of this generation. Brian McKenna
No answers here. . .just a question. . .
I am doing a feature article analyzing MI Gov. Granholm's Michigan Land Use Leadership Council draft report. See it at:
http://www.michiganlanduse.org/
I was wondering how readers might approach this topic. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Brian McKenna
hich funds a program of scientific and scholarly exchanges with Cuba. Harvard hosts the center (which has anthropologists among its leaders). See:
http://drclas.fas.harvard.edu/regions/caribbean/cuba/intro.htm
In Solidarity,
Brian McKenna
Right on. . .here's more on the history of labor day. . .
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/vol2no4/labor10124.htm
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