that will shape the politics of this planet for many decades to come.
Whatever the outcome of the horrors of Iraq, will Balir have the stomach to
march with Bush to North Korea, Iran or Syria?
However, the political fallout will go on for a long time.
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the
opposition to him in the Labour party.
I am not suggesting any faith should be put in these divisions but they may
be useful to note.
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finally have secured some
small degree of leverage on the US administration and it may get a wider
hearing for its policy of multilateralist interventionist humanitarian
imperialism.
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-hegemonic forces in this increasingly grim
war, but these sorts of political battles behind the scenes may be as
important as the military battles.
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Brian Whitaker and Luke Harding in Sulaimaniya
Tuesday April 1, 2003
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk
A disagreement has
of politicians. Still the support for the war does not look
too enthusiastic.
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of a globally
accountable force. But that would require a degree of democratic control
over an imperialist world, that at present is inconceivable.
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president, George Bush - but
will not be making a statement to parliament, Downing Street announced
today according to the Guardian Monday 31st.
This will keep Britain's options open for any dealings on humanitarian
intervention, expecially with Russia and France.
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out in terms of influence in Iraq and
the Middle East.
It may help the US peace movement expose atrocities.
full article well worth a scan:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,926957,00.html
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Important development in UK conjucture. I will try to get text of his
article up.
Here is Observer commentary.
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http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,925878,00.html
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
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
, and
reflects a belief that there is a historical inevitability in the process
in which he and his assoicates are engaged.
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From the Preface to Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Only one word more concerning the desire to teach the world what it ought
to be. For such a purpose philosophy
not really expect me to describe his class interest exactly?! or
do more than offer inevitably a rather intuitive formulation? but I do
think that the parameters I have used are relevant.
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of papering over. Not least because it actually reflects a global
battle between two imperialist strategies. Meanwhile the surface debate is
all about whether there has been a pause. Which is a mere
epiphenomenoninherent to any war.
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PS
No one has yet thought to ask
war reconstruction contracts.
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about how much
one individual can straddle and reconcile the inter-imperialist
contradictions as they are sharpened by popular resistance across the
world. Which individuals crack up first is part of the particularity of
manifestation of the deeper contradictions.
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to die in battle than be captured.
The German army encountered fierce resistance from not only the
determined soldiers of the Red Army, but also from the patriotic civilians
as well.
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in
the world.
But the people of the world are being politicised as never before, and
the hegemons are going to lose this war, in a way no one will be able to
forget.
IMHO
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At 2003-03-27 19:33 -0500, Hari Kumar wrote:
Dear Chris:
I really would hope that you are right
at the Camp David meeting.
Rejoice!
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At 2003-03-27 22:28 -0500, Paul wrote:
What's this?:
The Guardian, March 28:
...
Richard Perle, one of the key architects of the war on Iraq, has quit as
chairman of a group which advises Donald Rumsfeld on policy issues.
Perle, a former
.
What we are seeing is a battle between two models of imperialist domination
of the world, catalysed by the resistance of Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi
people to the spread of the global Empire.
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_
Richard Perle's resignation highlights questions over US economic
what he meant.
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involve a much more complex interplay of factors.
This was the amiable informed conversational voice of someone who could
discuss with the highest levels of British military thinking!
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to deflect attention away from the
difficulty in the US providing a steady flow of beans, but he is probably
not that clever in news manipulation. Certainly not on past performance.
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deliberately dropped this word to him,
in the plane as Blair flew to meet Bush.
This is the highest level evidence there could be, short of being on the
record, that Blair has flown to Washington because he fears another Stalingrad.
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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 07:50:23 +
Senior US commander in the Nasariyah area to Channel 4 UK British reporter
on bulleting tonight in London
...soldiers are talking quite openly of getting into a Northern Ireland
situation.
Channel 4 UK reporter this evening about the UK -led southern front,
observing how only a week ago the expectation was for quick victory.
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can be expected to win over hearts and minds. The syntax of the
sentence had already shifted our perspective from that of the invading
troops to that of the Iraqi people. There was no answer.
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not know how long they secretly decided to postpone the final
attack. It sounds as if they discussed no exit strategy but Blair may have
signalled the need.
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to, but I share with Soula a
feeling that there is a high probability the US will lose this war. I never
bet money, but I would happily put 10 pounds on it.
Come to think of it, I wonder if Ladbrokes are quoting odds, or would that
be unpatriotic?
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he appears at the moment.
But lets see if the Guardian group provide any corroboration of my hunch.
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going to stick my neck out: if the people
of the world and finance capitalism are not in favour of
this war we should not expect it to be very successful politically. Who
will be the fall guy?
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otherwise IMO,
however it is spun.
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to issue a coordinated call for
a cease fire?
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Hans Blix on BBC Newsnight Tuesday evening replied 'no' when asked whether
the alleged discovery of 3,000 chemical suits, respirators, and atropine
injections proved that the Saddam Hussein regime still had weapons of mass
destruction.
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do, but
it is rather awkward to sell politically And actually even Tony might
not be up for it, sincerely anguished though he appears.
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, apparently, knows how
to fix it. There is an empty silence.
Bless that pump.
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conviction in war. It may
require reckless gambles with civilian uprisings.
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did not bother to make any reference to it at all at his conference today.
The other big question is that Blair wants an international framework for
the administration of Iraq after hegemonic victory, and Bush backs US
administration.
More gaps for Blair to finesse.
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my
apologies in turn.
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the battle for control. The
breakdown could be dramatic.
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the arguments in the UK that we must suspend
protests in support of our troops.
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preemptively every US officer in Iraq is going to have to think much more
carefully about the morale of his exhausted troops. He must look over his
shoulder and under his bed. Oh, and soldiers had better not be allowed to
have grenades in their possession.
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on an interrogation of another suspect
whose face had been slammed into a table.
What is the due process in a US military investigation?
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%.
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for a massive groups communication of
individuality, diversity and solidarity against the war in Iraq.
Mood still relaxed but more determined than Feb 15
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At 2003-03-23 09:56 -0500, Hari Kumar wrote:
BUT: is there not an element of wishful thinking here? Someone else
(?Devine) said leftists get over-wishful.
Fair question. Lets check it out.
1) The parallels with Stalingrad are fairly naive.
What was ultimately decisive about Stalingrad was
are going to see a lot of more of
this
Yes if fragging is starting so soon, it will not be the last case.
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.
That crew have not been found either.
It would be funny if it wasn't tragic. It would be cheaper if they went off
and beat each other up in the middle of the Sahara.
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.
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Baghdad the city of the Arabian nights was founded in 764 CE. by the
Abbasid Caliph Al-Mansur. It was in its prime about
800 CE., during the reign of the famous caliph Harun-al-Rashid. What
this city - which represented the crown of Medieval
Muslim civilization - resembled, is told by
http://www.russfound.org/Enet/FSD.htm
understood Somalia!!
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is rising and every one of their actions which gets televised back in
Iraq, strengthens the Iraqi resistance.
Perhaps 25% is too low a figure. But let us be cautious.
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or into four figures.
Reports of deaths of Iraqi's will be considered to be unreliable propaganda
by the hegemonic bloc, but hopefully are still being collated somewhere in
the internet. URL again anyone?
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At 2003-03-21 11:10 -0600, Kendall Clark wrote:
chris == Chris
some credible democrtic sources with links with Turkey and
Iraqi Kurdistan.
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eloquent liberal condemnation of the war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,919618,00.html
the most relevant contributions may be thought to be ones that combine
theory with practice.
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argument but
not a hegemonistic one, and open to the need for some sort of democratic
legitimacy.
Full statement on Guardian website.
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with an organised left opposition that fights for them on every front.
I report. (I do not agree with what seems to me to be a diversion into the
politics of the Labour Party rather than a widening into a campaign for
global peace and justice. However we shall see.)
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initiated by
Britain and the US?
This sleight of hand needs to be pursued.
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At 2003-03-20 23:45 -0600, Ken wrote:
[ Presenting plain-text part of multi-format email ]
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2003/03/20/042.html
Thursday, Mar. 20, 2003. Page 7
Report: U.S. Plans
all imperialism
or all capitalism, without regard to the actual situation.
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At 2003-03-20 08:10 -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
Chris Burford wrote:
We will see how the peace movement responds
and evolves, and we can each make our personally minuscule contribution
to the debate. Peace now, or Cease fire now, may remain the main slogans,
but a purely pacifist position
At 2003-03-19 09:15 -0500, you wrote:
Chris Burford wrote:
Even now, it is vital to support all non coercive, non-military and
fundamentally democratic measures for stabilising Iraq.
Whatever happened to the principle of self-determination? Do other
countries have the right to stabilize the USA
in the middle east and in the whole
world.
IMHO
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to adapt to the dominant nature of the
collusion.
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troops to keep
out of population centres. (If only to minimise the risk of clashes,
bitterness, and further terrorist attacks against the hegemons. Maintenance
of electricity and water supplies should, as Oxfam recommends be under the
auspices of the United Nations as soon as possible.
Chris
of resistance to US hegemonism. But the real fruits of victory lie
not just in one battle, but in the every increasing global unity of the
forces of popular progress.
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.
It adds to the legal arguments for a general assembly resolution.
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administration.
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with being hegemon, but it will be
difficult for its side kicks without some sort of legitimacy.
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At 2003-03-16 09:38 -0800, you wrote:
The legality issue is an excuse for giving
into popular revuksion against the war without saying that is what they
are doing, obviously. jks
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, was a mining town,
opportunistically located for its obsidian which was then traded.
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them off.
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, in the name of individual bourgeois human rights.
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fatally damage the acceptance
of the US hegemonic ambitions.
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.]
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tomorrow,
since Bush has said that votes must be cast by then, if there are any to cast.
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mobile facilities for making weapons of mass destruction, for which
the US-UK have no credible evidence.
Can US civil society catch up in time?
Bush better go to war quickly.
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be bartered within the wider culture...?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,913590,00.html
At 2003-03-11 03:41 -0500, you wrote:
At 7:57 AM + 3/11/03, Chris Burford wrote:
Blair's tactics towards public opinion seem to be almost masochistic
It makes sense that the Bush junta believed it's in their interest to
invade Iraq, thought and still think that they can get away
of this contradiction.
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is to be the only state capable of
terrorising the rest of the world. And not to be answerable to any court
for its actions.
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someone thinks they
have a very strong case.
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of shifting
imperialist contention and cooperation there is the contradiction between
global finance capital and the people of the world.
What will eventually come about will be more than the reshuffling of the
balance of power between major imperialist states.
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Yet another article by Monbiot that is thoughtful passionate and cogent.
A wilful blindness:
Why can't liberal interventionists see that Iraq is part of a bid to cement
US global power?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,911583,00.html
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say a total of half a dozen URL's with some
judiciously phrased qualifications and reservations?
I agree with the parallel you draw with Chris D on Russia.
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find the threat of legal action more intimidating.
1441 was drafted to win a unanimous vote, and then to be open to various
interpretations. It was not drafted to ensure that the hegemons would have
watertight legal protection against litigation.
Contradictions, contradictions.
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in the last Gulf war.
What France loses in contracts in Iraq, will she gain in the rest of the
Arab and muslim world? How far will inter-imperialist polarisation go?
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. It is Rumsfeld and Cheney.
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into a vicious
circle, and the fight will be on as to who bears the burden, in a world in
which the US has lost its best apologist.
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, but it is extraordinary to see how
Bush and Blair, self-declared allies, play it so differently in their
different countries.
I think this reflects fundamental contradictions within imperialism about
how to deal with the threat of terrorism and the latent mistrust of the
people of the world.
Chris
are deeper into
post-modernism, philosophy and sociology than I have gone myself. But as
I find Ian's newsclippings almost invariably a well judged and highly
useful resource I feel that to a great extent we are travelling in the
same general direction.
Regards
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is buried in the article but it is likely to be
opaquely expressed anyway.
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Contradictions, as they say, are sharpening. Who is going to stumble or
miss a crucial shot?
from today's Observer, UK
Blair sets out final terms to avoid war
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,910690,00.html
Prime Minister, go to bed now
, has reached
the point where the intelligence agencies themselves are leaking.
I wonder what is known about the fake document on Iraq allegedly trying to
buy nuclear materials in Ivory Coast?
I wonder what the cover up trail is?
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, Russia
and China might turn up in person at the decisive vote in the United Nations.
If so could Bush decline. And if he attended would he be addressing his
homespun domestic audience or a world audience?
Interesting...
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is the defeat of the ideological hegemony of the
hawks, and the emergence into dominance of a civil society which is there
in the USA, but about which we hear little on this side of the Atlantic.
The more blunders by the hawks the better.
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At 2003-03-07 23:32 -0800, you wrote:
What's postmodern about Machievellian political strategies of strategic
deception-opacity combined with a variation on good old fashioned
catachresis?
Ian
Well, I shall avoid discussing processology!
But what Blair and Campbell did was to take somewhat
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