The birth of tolerance in the Low Countries changed history. It made
Holland the center of publishing, where Galileo and Hobbes printed
their books free of censorship. The Dutch provided haven to exiled
English royalty and peasants from across Europe who fled war and
repression. It's often
* An Iraqi movie provokes controversy at a Moroccan festival
Unsanctioned
by Howard Feinstein
October 29 - 4, 2003
MARRAKECH, MOROCCO-The hash-trail metropolis that inspired Crosby,
Stills, and Nash's Marrakesh Express is now host to a world-class
film festival. Strict laws have nearly
the Bushes prefer long-dead plants, i.e., oil.
BTW, in the lite-comedy movie LOVE ACTUALLY, the Prime Minister of
England -- played by Hugh Grant, who would be an improvement over
the poodle currently in that position -- gives a great speech
against the over-bearing Americans, led by the
At 8:50 AM -0500 11/26/03, Louis Proyect wrote:
Another film that serves as a sign of the times:
* FILM REVIEW; Master Of the Sea (And the French)
By A. O. SCOTT
I was thinking of reviewing this flick, but the reviews make it
sound too tedious to sit through.
About 8 years ago I visited old
* America's Culture of Terrorism:
Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word
by Jeffory A. Clymer
University of North Carolina Press
296 pp., 61/8 x 91/4, 5 illus., notes, bibl., index
$45.00 cloth
ISBN 0-8078-2792-4
$16.95 paper
ISBN 0-8078-5460-3
Published: Fall 2003
Description
Although
* Chalmers Johnson, The Looting of Asia
LRB 25.22 (20 November 2003)
Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold by
Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave | Verso, 332 pp, £17.00
It may be pointless to try to establish which World War Two Axis
aggressor, Germany or Japan, was
* The New York Times In America
November 26, 2003
Army Says Troop Rotation Into Iraq Poses Increased Danger
By THOM SHANKER
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 Senior Army officers have told Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld that the rotation of more than 100,000 soldiers into
Iraq early next year will
At 4:51 AM -0500 11/24/03, Michael Pollak wrote:
[I]f civil unions could nationalized so that they included
citizenship rights along with health and housing entitlements and
inheritance, it would be a huge step forward.
And then maybe the way to take the next step forward towards
normalizing
* The International Herald Tribune
October 14, 2003 Tuesday
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 1
LENGTH: 821 words
HEADLINE: Korea romance: South meets North
BYLINE: James Brooke
SOURCE: The New York Times
DATELINE: SEOUL:
BODY: The daughter of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, is pouting
in the suite of a
* Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:32:56 -0500
From: Mark Lause [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Marxism] Democratic Co-creators of Growing Inequalities in America...
The Democratic role in creating a massive black hole in the Middle
East for resources and lives should not eclipse its importance as the
The old Washington Consensus (= free trade for the poor,
protectionism for the rich) has crumbled, doomed by its own excess:
* washingtonpost.com
New Doubts About Bush Trade Agenda
By Paul Blustein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 22, 2003; Page E01
MIAMI, Nov. 21 -- Another
Can't meet the re-enlistment quotas? Reduce the quotas!
* Army exceeds retention goals
By Jon R. Anderson, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Friday, November 7, 2003
. . . We needed 51,000 soldiers to re-enlist, and we got 54,151,
said Sgt. Maj. James Vales, a senior retention manager at
* The Civil War's Last Campaign:
James B. Weaver, the Greenback-Labor Party, and the Politics of Race
and Section
by Mark A. Lause, University of Cincinnati
In the presidential election of 1880, Gen. James Baird Weaver made
his case for the meaning of their victory in Civil War. Aside from
_About Baghdad_: http://www.aboutbaghdad.com/
* About Baghdad documents an exiled Iraqi poet's return to
Baghdad along with a group of other academics and artists to see what
has become of this illustrious city after wars, sanctions, decades of
oppression and violence. Sinan Antoon, the
Finally Got The News
A Film by Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman and Peter Gessner
Produced in association with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers
FINALLY GOT THE NEWS is a forceful, unique documentary that reveals
the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside
and outside
* Army and recruits grapple with Iraq
By Michael Moran, MSNBC
For Robert, joining the Army last May was a no-brainer. With the job
market stagnant and his hopes for a college education hanging in the
balance, the Army's promise to trade tuition for a three-year stint
seemed like a good
* Army Cites Burdens Posed by Rotation
Huge Movement of Troops Set for 2004
By Bradley Graham
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 20, 2003; Page A39
Army leaders warned yesterday that plans to replace U.S. forces in
Iraq early next year with a new wave of troops will present
At 11:48 AM -0500 11/21/03, Louis Proyect wrote:
What I said is that if Melvin made remarks at a branch meeting like
he made here, he'd be brought up on charges. I know for a fact that
lots of older SWP'ers, especially factory workers, felt threatened
by woman's and gay liberation but they had the
At 7:46 PM -0500 11/21/03, Kenneth Campbell wrote:
It's interesting,in this regard, to note that all
fictional plots involving the rich and the poor
changing places, always have a capitalist trade
places with a beggar...not a worker.
Today, yes, often so. Not always so...
One of my fave old
* Friday, November 21, 2003
Senate committee tasks Army with morale review after Stripes' report
By Patrick J. Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stars and Stripes
European edition, Saturday, November 22, 2003
WASHINGTON - The Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday tasked
the Army with
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:48:20 +
From: T.Hartin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: London anti-war demo report
Hi all.
we had an amazing demo in London today. We gathered at the March
assembly point, but didn't get to march properly until 1.5 hours
after the official start. The mood was very good
* New York Times November 19, 2003
Report Finds Few Benefits for Mexico in Nafta
By CELIA W. DUGGER
As the North American Free Trade Agreement nears its 10th
anniversary, a study from the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace concludes that the pact failed to generate substantial job
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
That's how things are in a number of households in many societies,
but men would benefit if their wives made wages equal to theirs or
higher wages than theirs and if combined incomes could purchase the
housework services on the market whose quality is better than what
joanna bujes wrote:
It's pretty clear to me that men take a very different view of it
than women. At the same time, they seem to enjoy the comfort of a
clean house. I don't know why we'd call it bourgeois -- people
have been cleaning themselves and their houses for ever.
sure we (men) might enjoy
Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
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Social justice organizations within the U.S. largely
The Democrats can take credit for this achievement. . . .
* Serbia fails again to elect a president
By Nicholas Wood
Belgrade
November 18, 2003
Serbia has been left in institutional limbo after it failed for a
third time in just over a year to elect a new president.
Just over 38 per cent
Not an unsympathetic portrayal of Lisa Fithian (RANT [Root Activist
Network of Trainers] United for Peace and Justice) and other
global justice movement activists:
* November 16, 2003
Them Against the World, Part 2
By AUSTIN BUNN
. . . What Miami wants, Fithian says, is crisis. This week,
At 9:02 PM -0800 11/17/03, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
Why not just say that state can at best moderate the general
tendency towards greater intra and international inequality in
income and wealth? Bush may not be moderating it while Clinton
would have to some extent. Then ask about the limits of the
At 9:43 PM -0800 11/17/03, joanna bujes wrote:
But now you have to prove to me that hubby proletarian actually
benefits from the fact that his wife earns less per hour than he
does, and it is clear as day that he DOESN'T, because it means that
real disposable household income is less than it could
I honestly am not aware enough of Pollin's economic ideas to judge
them, although I am not surprised to discover that he is some kind
of left-Keynsian.
FYI, http://www.umass.edu/peri/robertpwp.html.
--
Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in
At 2:55 AM -0500 11/16/03, Kenneth Campbell wrote:
If you want to see what people, currently, really think about power
and money, take a look at the jury awards given to humans against
corporations. Jury awards are HUGE. Usually shot down at the
non-public appellate level.
Also, the majority of
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
I honestly am not aware enough of Pollin's economic ideas to judge
them, although I am not surprised to discover that he is some kind
of left-Keynsian.
FYI, http://www.umass.edu/peri/robertpwp.html.
When Bob was at Labyrinth Books in New York a few weeks ago, someone
From the Solidarity listserv, with permission of the author:
* Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:48:47 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Rise of the Neo-Centrics
2003 has seen the rise of a new current in U.S. politics, best
described as NeoCentrics, or simply NeoCens, for ease of
* GEORGE SOROS AND THE RISE OF THE NEO-CENTRICS
By Walt Contreras Sheasby, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2003 has seen the rise of a new current in US politics, best
described as Neo-Centrics, or simply Neo-Cens, for ease of comparison
with a better known defection of Socialists to the Conservative
At 9:01 AM -0500 11/15/03, Julio Huato wrote:
I wouldn't mind his style.
What is unhelpful is his tactical misfiring.
At this juncture, you have an administration whose policies,
domestic and foreign, are exactly what the left is supposed to be
against. Yet, Cockburn is busy criticizing Bill
At 8:21 AM -0500 11/12/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
Julio Huato wrote:
A friend of mine says this is an obituary published in The
Times-Picayune, New Orleans on 10/2/2003:
Word has been received that Gertrude M. Jones, 81, passed away on
August 25, 2003, under the loving care of the nursing aides of
At 2:31 PM -0800 11/11/03, Michael Perelman wrote:
Marx believed that consumerism could serve a progressive purpose --
he even thought that newpapers would elevate workers. He never read
our own local rag.
Marx certainly overestimated the progressive nature of consumerism,
but that does not seem
At 6:35 PM -0500 11/11/03, Louis Proyect wrote:
I don't see what the problem is here. Marx believed that
consumerism could serve a progressive purpose -- he even thought
that newpapers would elevate workers. He never read our own local
rag.
You also have to keep in mind that there was no such
At 8:29 PM +0100 11/11/03, Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
I agree it is not a correct translation, but literally it would be the
heart has its reasons which reason knows not at all. The question that then
arises is why or how is it possible that reason cannot know this?
If the Roman Catholic faith is
At 4:52 PM -0800 11/11/03, joanna bujes wrote:
No, I'm arguing, that advertising isn't netural; I'm arguing that
its rhetoric has an implicit message, that this implicit message is
a form of brainwashing, and that a free society should not promote
brainwashing.
Advertising isn't neutral but
At 10:24 AM -0500 11/8/03, Louis Proyect wrote:
The Internet is as revolutionary a medium as the printing press of
the Reformation was. Time to get used to that.
No revolution happens without rich ensembles of personal social
networks, though. For all we know, chatting on the Net may be part
of
Please forward widely!
IS ANTI-ZIONISM ANTI-SEMITIC?
A Panel on CounterPunch's controversial new book:
THE POLITICS OF ANTI-SEMITISM.
ALEXANDER COCKBURN - CounterPunch Editor
LENNI BRENNER - Editor, 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis
ALISA KLEIN - Anti-Zionist veteran of the
I think the problem with the Krugman phenomenon is not so much
Krugman but the broader progressive movement. Because Krugman has
written columns critical of the Bush administration he gets raised
to the status of intellectual leader of the progressive movement--by
progresives. Krugman came
San Diego Union Tribune
October 27, 2003
New SDSU classroom can seat 520 students
By Lisa Petrillo
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
snip
This single room will enable roughly a dozen SDSU faculty members,
in just one semester, to teach nearly 7,000 students.
Fittingly, two of the 13 classes meeting there
At 9:51 AM -0800 10/28/03, Devine, James wrote:
We keep putting tens of thousands of homes in harm's way, said
author Mike Davis.
The UC Irvine history professor's scorching books have assailed
Southern California as an apocalyptic theme park, always courting
disaster. In Ecology of Fear, Chapter
, Solidarity,
Student International Forum
Website: http://www.service.ohio-state.edu/students/sif/
Contact: Yoshie Furuhashi, 614-668-6554, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; and
Keith Kilty, 614-292-7181, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in Columbus
47% of Israelis believe that the U.S. favors Israel too much, while
38% say the policy is fair and 11% think the U.S. favors the
Palestinians too much (Views of a Changing World 2003: War With
Iraq Further Divides Global Publics, June 3, 2003,
The best thing about the October 25 rally and march in D.C. to Bring
the Troops Home Now and End the Occupation of Iraq was a large and
racially diverse turnout of veterans and military families whose
loved ones are deployed in Iraq. Signs featuring enlarged
photographs of uniformed soldiers and
Apparently even Penny Hill does not have a comprehensive listing. I
found a number of sites that index various CRS reports. You might
try here (http://docs.unh.edu/Links/crs.htm) or here
(http://www.freepint.com/gary/crs.htm). You also might consult with
a librarian specializing in government
I'm looking forward to hearing Stan Goff, Fernando del Solar Suarez,
and Viggo Mortensen.
* October 23, 2003
For Immediate Release
News from: A.N.S.W.E.R and United for Peace and Justice - Momentum
Building for national protest in Washington, D.C.
Contacts: Bill Dobbs, (212) 868-5545, cell:
We got a pretty decent article in the local monopoly newspaper
_Columbus Dispatch_ the day before the major demonstration. The
send-off rally today at 5:30 PM also attracted media attention.
* Columbus Dispatch (Ohio)
October 24, 2003 Friday, Home Final Edition
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 03A
Awright, awrightbut you have to sign it when you come to SF.
Joanna
So, where's the schedule of the book promotion tour?
--
Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html,
At 7:25 PM -0400 10/21/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
Devine, James wrote:
Wages in the United States are higher than when NAFTA took effect,
but are they higher relative to labor productivity?
That's not the issue.
We should make wages relative to labor productivity an issue, though.
--
Yoshie
*
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
We should make wages relative to labor productivity an issue, though.
Doug:
Good luck explaining the concept.
productivity isn't very hard: you can talk about the effectiveness of labor.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu
At 5:59 PM -0400 10/22/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
We should make wages relative to labor productivity an issue, though.
Good luck explaining the concept.
=
Why Wojtek, I didn't know you lurked on pen-l.
Here's a problem. As long as people's wages are rising by n
On his radio show yesterday, satirist Harry Shearer said that the
British GUARDIAN reported that the US was going to end the UN food
program in Iraq in January. Is there any truth to this?
Jim
* New York Times October 12, 2003
CULTURE OF DEPENDENCY
Another Challenge in Iraq: Giving Up
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031027s=henwood
Collapse in Cancün
by DOUG HENWOOD
[posted online on October 10, 2003]
snip
Which raises a question: What is progressive about using public
resources to support farming on cold, snowy, mountainous land? Isn't
the benefit of trade exactly to
Eubulides wrote:
Because food is a matter of national security in this cruel world?
For instance, a nation that is totally or even largely dependent upon
imported food or imported inputs (e.g., fuels, fertilizers,
pesticides, etc.) for food production and distribution is vulnerable
to foreign
At 11:59 AM -0400 10/13/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
Doug asks:
I'm curious what PEN-Lers think a socialist or other variety of
progressive government should do in a mostly poor, rural, peasant
society. Promote education and industrialization?
Wouldn't that
undermine the economic and social bases
At 3:09 PM -0400 10/11/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
But are progressives against rich-country farm subsidies?
* New York Times Magazine October 12, 2003
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW
The (Agri)Cultural Contradictions of Obesity
By MICHAEL POLLAN
Sometimes even complicated social problems turn out to be
Arnold Schwarzenegger received 3,850,982 votes (at
http://vote2003.ss.ca.gov/Returns/gov/00.htm). Let's say that each
Green campaign worker in California should be responsible for
securing 100 votes for the Green Party gubernatorial candidate, by
getting registered Greens to vote, getting angry
At 2:02 AM -0500 10/8/03, Lou Paulsen wrote:
Everyone knew it was going to be Schwarzenegger or Davis or maybe
Bustamante. It's the old story: a vote for the 'third party' is a
'wasted vote' unless you know ahead of time who is going to win, in
which case you have the luxury of casting a 'protest
* Reinforcements unlikely
Even if nations alter stance on Iraq, forces committed elsewhere
By Ann Imse, Rocky Mountain News
October 8, 2003
The NATO conference in Colorado Springs this week is unlikely to
produce the news that tens of thousands of Coloradans would like to
see: A promise that
At 8:04 AM -0700 10/8/03, Michael Perelman wrote:
It's too early to tell if the recall will turn out badly. For
example, Proposition 54 -- the racial ignorance proposition --
failed because it Bustamante got millions of dollars for his
campaign, which the courts ruled to be illegal. He turned the
Pietro Basso, _Modern Times, Ancient Hours: Working Lives in the
Twenty-first Century_:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/b-titles/basso_modern_times.shtml
Pietro Basso: http://helios.unive.it/~philo/basso.html
Jonathan Sterne's review of _Modern Times, Ancient Hours_:
* Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 18:35:57 +
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Losing the war: I'm going to shoot myself in the foot
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The United States is losing the war in Iraq.
The US has something like 150,000 or 200,000 troops in the theatre.
This means there are
Bush is finished -- it's time to plan ahead for a struggle against a
Democratic President in the White House who won't end the occupation
of Iraq (thirteen months is a shorter period of time than you think).
* New York Times October 3, 2003
Poll Shows Drop in Confidence on Bush Skill in
Contact: Roland Sintos Coloma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Yoshie
Furuhashi, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 614-668-6554
--
Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html,
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At 8:33 AM -0700 10/3/03, Devine, James wrote:
Yoshie writes Bush is finished --
I don't think we should put that much faith in polls
The latest New York Times/CBS News poll (and trends in previous polls
about Iraq and economy) simply confirms my findings based upon
participant observation of
* Posted on Fri, Oct. 03, 2003
Republicans unsure of Bush's chances for 2004 election
By Ron Hutcheson and Steven Thomma
Knight Ridder Newspapers
CHUCK KENNEDY, KRT
President Bush speaks at the White House.
WASHINGTON - In a sharp reversal, Republicans who just months ago
daydreamed about a
Watch Army of One at http://www.armyofone.info/.
On the side of his helmet [Sergeant] Sellers has, in violation of
regs, attached the unmistakable pin and ring of a hand grenade. Next
to it is written, 'Pull Here' (Christian Parenti, Stretched Thin,
Lied to Mistreated, _The Nation_ 6 October
Sami Ramadani should be invited to speak at the October 25 rally
against the occupation.
* Patriots and invaders
Iraqi resistance to foreign occupation enjoys great popular support
Sami Ramadani
Saturday September 27, 2003
The Guardian
It was my first and brutally abrupt realisation that
'That's Kalashnikov. I know the voice,' says Ahmed, our friend and
translator. There is a distinct note of national pride in his voice
-- his countrymen are fighting back -- never mind the fact that we
are now mixed in with the most forward US troops and getting shot at
(Christian Parenti,
My friend Roland Sintos Coloma and I are organizing an event
commemorating the life and work of Edward Said at the Ohio State
University (to be held on Thursday, October 2, 3-6 PM, Location TBA,
a showing of _The Shadow of the West_ [written by Edward Said and
directed by Geoff Dunlop, 58 min],
Seth Ackerman, a contributing writer to Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting (FAIR, http://www.fair.org/extra/writers/ackerman.html),
comments on the FT article below: In this survey, commissioned by
USAID, about half of Iraqis asked about the resistance gave answers
indicating some degree of
The following article sums up the type of foreign aid and
reconstruction that Iraqis may expect from foreign occupiers . . .
a gift of infected animals rejected by ten countries . . . just in
time for a Muslim holy day!
* Australia to give infected sheep to Iraq for Ramadan
Agence
At 10:01 AM +0800 9/27/03, Grant Lee wrote:
the type of foreign aid and
reconstruction that Iraqis may expect from foreign occupiers . . .
a gift of infected animals rejected by ten countries . . . just in
time for a Muslim holy day!
Let's not jump to politically convenient conclusions based
* Signs Show U.S. Underestimated Iraq War
Friday September 26, 2003 8:39 PM
By ROBERT BURNS
AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wear and tear on tanks in Iraq is outpacing the
Army's efforts to repair and resupply. The administration is
scrambling to find thousands more troops by early next
Almost from Day One of the US occupation of Iraq, numerous protests
by Iraqis have been reported by the media, even by the
English-language media for the American audience. We have even read
some reports of US troops firing onto Iraqi protesters.
My questions:
Has any researcher or organization
* The Venezuelan Military:
The Making of an Anomaly
Marta Harnecker
Led by Hugo Chávez, a former military officer, a Bolivarian
revolutionary process has been underway in Venezuela since Chavez's
election to the presidency in 1998. While genuine progressive changes
have been made, and
* Under Bush, U.S. Economy Recovers, Unlike Workers
by Seth Sandronsky
Dissident Voice
September 22, 2003
The U.S. economy is now growing at a faster rate in 2003 than it was
the previous year. Over half of the April-June growth was due to war
spending, made possible by foreign lenders.
But
At 10:52 PM -0400 9/21/03, Paul wrote:
the bureaucratic inability to order spare parts
Here's an interesting article about the problem of bureaucratic inability:
* Bechtel's big test
Iraqis angered by slow pace of rebuilding their country
David R. Baker, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday,
How about a novel in which the protagonist realizes that there's a
difference between choice and freedom? That would impress me.
I don't know of such a novel, but part of the greatness of Paradise
Lost is that (in spite of its intentions and/or declared purposes)
it brings out so powerfully how
Why this specific focus on pedophiles ?
I believe the answer is, because of the astronomical recidivism rate.
Joanna
That's not empirically true (see below). The truth is that
pedophiles in modern society -- unlike in the days of _The Tale of
Genji_ by Murasaki Shikibu -- are considered to be
Jog my memoryis it Brecht?
Joanna
Yes.
--
Yoshie
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* We are facing death in Iraq for no reason
A serving US soldier calls for the end of an occupation based on lies
Tim Predmore
Friday September 19, 2003
The Guardian
For the past six months, I have been participating in what I believe
to be the great modern lie: Operation Iraqi Freedom.
A surprisingly sound opinion from a Shock Therapist, though I think
that Islamic troops under the UN mandate that Jeffrey Sachs
recommends will receive a similar welcome to what the USuk coalition
is getting from the Iraqi resistance. . . .
* Financial Times (London,England)
September 10,
Foreign occupiers simply cannot restore power (in both senses of the
word) to the Iraqi people.
Exhibit A: 7,200 Kilometers (4,500 Miles) of Pipelines:
Iraq's three state-owned oil companies are reported to currently
have a total of some 5,000 security men, but there are more than
4,500 miles of
Nice collation, Yoshie. One possible correction. On you point
about the number of support personnel per fighting soldier, Rumsfeld
is changing that ratio by contracting out much of the support. How
much, I don't know. Also, you have seen the reports about the
no-show contractors.
--
Michael
The United for Peace and Justice (www.unitedforpeace.org) Palestine
working group is building an action calendar of major national or
international activism events for the next six months so that we know
what we can plug into or adopt or what days we should work around in
our planning. If you
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS FOR THE 3RD ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE
PALESTINE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT AT OSU ON NOVEMBER 7-9
Palestine Activists,
The Third Annual Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement will
be held at Ohio State University from November 7th to the 9th. This
will be an
At 4:57 PM -0400 9/19/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
A system that relies on bribes rather than internal mechanisms of
self-censorship is probably a bit less stable. Bribe recipients are
always vulnerable to a higher bidder.
Now, US intelligence analysts and military commanders are finally
acknowledging
The USG has no problem placing its debt. Jim Grant has repeatedly
been proven wrong. But it just doesn't seem prudent, does it? The
best reason for borrowing isn't just because you can.
Doug
You and Jim Devine criticized United for Peace and Justice literature
about War and Globalization that came
* Israel shrugs off warning that US may trim $9bn loan guarantee package
By Harvey Morris in Jerusalem
Published: September 18 2003 5:00 | Last Updated: September 18 2003 5:00
The Israeli government has said it would not be swayed by
Washington's warning that it would trim a $9bn (E8bn,
At 7:17 PM -0400 9/18/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
I just interviewed Anatol Lieven, who said he didn't see much chance
of serious help coming from Europe.
* The United States is pushing hard to raise as much as $10
billion for Iraq at a donors' conference in Madrid next month.
But the European
What does Turkey have to gain by
sending troops?
An IMF loan?
Doug
Maybe! But I think it is more complicated than that.
First of all, the question is ill-posed. It is not Turkey that is
interested in sending troops, if by Turkey what we mean is those 67
million people living there. Majority
Here's a new article by Stan Goff of the Bring Them Home Now coalition:
* The repetition of words like 'remnants' and 'foreigners' [to
characterize the resistance to the US occupation of Iraq] is . . .
[a] childish cover story . . . to conceal the fact that the Iraqis
are not conforming to
[I'm cc'ing this note to the listserv of the United for Peace and
Justice steering committee.]
At 3:08 PM -0400 9/15/03, the publisher of _Left Business Observer_
author of _After the New Economy_
http://www.thenewpress.com/newcat_1.htm Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] forwarded the announcement of
At 12:50 PM -0400 9/16/03, Michael Pollak wrote:
Bush/Cheney '04:
Compassionate Colonialism
The other stickers are all quite good, but the above ought to be
reserved for Dean/Clark '04.
--
Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
At 12:50 PM -0400 9/16/03, Michael Pollak wrote:
Bush/Cheney '04:
Compassionate Colonialism
The other stickers are all quite good, but the above ought to be
reserved for Dean/Clark '04.
isnt bush/cheney supposed to be compassionate terrorism?
--ravi
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