Louis Proyect effectively demonstrates how the concept of the lesser
evil becomes nonsense, even on the most pragmatic opportunist
tactical level, as two bourgeois candidates for President, and their
supporters, circle round each other, trying to avoid giving the other
side opportunity for attack.
Chris,
Does this mean that you don't think it mattered
whether FDR or one of his Republican opponents became
President in the 30s and 40s?
Cheers,
Mike B)
--- Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Louis Proyect effectively demonstrates how the
concept of the lesser
evil becomes nonsense,
Out Now -- Before It Is Too Late
Now that resistance to the US occupation of Iraq has begun to unite
Sunni and Shiite Iraqis across the allegedly deep religious divide
and to show the sign that it may grow into a viable national
liberation movement sooner than many outsiders -- including myself --
Boston Globe, April 26, 2004
Kerry faces PR fight over foreign policy
By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | April 26, 2004
WASHINGTON -- If elected president, John F. Kerry would move to increase
the US military by 40,000 troops. He would send more soldiers to Iraq if
commanders said they were
1,150,000 March on Washington, D.C. to Voice Opposition to Government
Attacks on Women's Reproductive Rights and Health
Sunday April 25, 4:43 pm ET
Official Crowd Count Largest Ever for Women's Rights Rally in The
Nation's Capitol
WASHINGTON, April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- An estimated 1,150,000
Or, more to the point, whether Johnson or Goldwater
won in 64. Kerry may get stuck as a Johnson unless he
finds a face-saving exit, fighting an unwinnable war
he didn't believe in. We can quote his own best line
at him. But the war apart, LBJ presided over The Great
Society, the expansion of the
Chris B: Now I do not know how many of the neo-cons ever had sufficiently
left-leaning Democrat affiliations to think of themselves as
liberals or still worse, as socialists, but ideas are only
partially conscious reflections of reality according to the
dialectical materialist theory of knowledge.
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David was in his 7th grade class when the teacher asked the children what
their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came up --
firefighter, police officer, sales rep, doctor, lawyer, etc. David was being
uncharacteristically quiet and so the teacher asked him
Analysis: Iran's influence in Iraq
An official Iranian delegation is in Baghdad at Washington's request to hel=
p
resolve the impasse between the US occupation authorities and Shia cleric
Moqtada Sadr. Middle East analyst Dilip Hiro says this underlies the
influence that the predominantly Shia
This seems to be a stupid act. Surely this a total insult to the dignity of
Iraqis that they now have a flag opposed upon them. The liberation holiday
didnt work out..Neither will this. Maybe some US company has the contract to
make them and thus will have an endless contract as they are burned up
This isn't surprising. Beers coteaches a class at Georgetown in national
security issues with Richard Clarke.
Joel Blau
Louis Proyect wrote:
Boston Globe, April 26, 2004
Kerry faces PR fight over foreign policy
By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | April 26, 2004
Their main goal: ''To show that we
Chris Burford wrote:
Louis Proyect effectively demonstrates how the concept of the lesser
evil becomes nonsense, even on the most pragmatic opportunist
tactical level, as two bourgeois candidates for President, and their
supporters, circle round each other, trying to avoid giving the other
side
some of the neo-cons were (or are) members of Social Democrats, USA, which inherited a
sectarian pseudo-Marxism from Max Schachtman (who had once been a Trotskyist).
JD.
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From: Devine, James
Sent: Mon 4/26/2004 8:16 AM
To: [EMAIL
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004
Subject: White Whine: Reflections on the Brain-Rotting Properties of
Privilege
White Whine: Reflections on the Brain-Rotting
Properties of Privilege
By Tim Wise
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2004-04/12wise.cfm
To truly understand a nation, a culture, or its
F A C I N G S O U T H
A progressive Southern news report
April 22, 2004 * Issue 79
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INSTITUTE INDEX * Earth Day, Everyday
Number of U.S. residents who live in areas the EPA considers too smoggy to be
healthy, in millions: 170
Percent that federal prosecution of criminal pollution cases
The Plowshares 8
Twenty years after they broke into the Martin Marietta plant in the name
of
peace, anti-war activists revealed the name of their secret organizer
and
planned a new protest -- against the war in Iraq.
By Rich McKay | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted April 23, 2004
They called
Date: Fri, April 23 2004
Subject: Women of Color Expand the Movement Beyond Pro-Choice Agenda
Women of Color Take Lead in Pro-Choice Rally
By Ginger Adams Otis
WeNews correspondent
Run Date: 04/22/04
Women of color are joining and taking a leadership role
in this Sunday's major rally for
The GOP (Republicans) warned us what would happen
if Gore was elected in 2000:
1. We would go to war.
2. The national debt would soar.
3. The US economy would plummet.
4. The stock market would plunge.
5. Unemployment would be rampant.
6. The US dollar would quickly decline in value.
7. We
what's the source of this, Michael?
Jim D.
(Alas, I can't get to my office because they found a 2000 pound bomb nearby (left
over from WWII in the old Hughes Helicopter land). I can't get to my car to leave
campus, either. War is Hell.)
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From: Mike Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Bush, the lesser evil?
Chris,
Does this mean that you don't think it mattered
whether FDR or one of his Republican opponents became
President in
I don't see what we can learn from the anybody but Bush debate. Kerry is atrocious
-- Bush is a danger to humanity; Kerry may be better on a few issues, such as
abortion.
But we know all that. Our choice seems to be whether to vote for someone to the
right on Clinton so that things don't get
But at the present juncture both Kerry and Bush take a multilateralist
stand. Bush is not multilateralist just in terms of a coalition of the
billing but also wants the UN to participate and bless US control of
security through a UN force with the US in command. Bush also seems to have
accepted
Joel Wendland wrote:
C The mistaken notion that an abandonment of Iraq after 13 years of war and
sanctions will better the lives of anyone anywhere is completely mistaken.
So let's assume that we do not favor abandoning the people of Iraq. What is
the sensible and meaningful (i.e. has to be
Tim:
If the vast majority of the traders behave
irrationally and deny the uncertainty through
conventional forecasting practices that make
their actions predictable by the small number
of traders able to behave rationally (i.e able
to understand and predict the irrationality),
then for the
For diplomats, British career diplomats, it is remarkable. They are
retired, and they can be amiably dismissed by Blair's supporters as
Arabists - people who often had worked in embassies in Arab countries,
but the overall picture is severe.
It is presented as a policy question but really it
A short entry on corrupt conservatives and neoliberals who talk left
and walk right (borrowing the title of Patrick Bond's new book):
Talk Left, Walk Right,
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_montages_archive.html#108304110866702307.
--
Yoshie
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