The WAIF

2004-05-08 Thread soula avramidis
The Waif looking soldier is Lynndie England, according to the BBC comes from a dirt poor trailer park in west virginia where the army was the only way out of poverty. But is it not that SM a thing which is exclusive to upper class aristocracy as in the marquis de sade, has something been done

Reparations!

2004-05-08 Thread Chris Burford
The demand by the Iraqis, and the offer by Rumsfeld, of compensation for the victims of hegemonic abuse is an interesting precedent in the fast developing scenario.Its not just half a dozen cases. Writing a letter on an e-mail list will not change the world, but I continue to think that the

those who can make you believe absurdities

2004-05-08 Thread Michael Hoover
can make you commit atrocities (so wrote Voltaire) neither degradation/humiliation nor slaughter of people are unfortunate by- products of u.s. foreign policy, they stem from endorsement/practice of human rights abuses, they are consequences of culture permeated by violence/war/conquest,

Re: Reparations!

2004-05-08 Thread g kohler
Reply to: Reparations! by Chris Burford 08 May 2004 . . .snip We, the human race, workers by hand or brain, need a strategy that demands control over global funding for development, welfare and the care of the environment, under social control. . . . snip The West not only has an apology to make

taxation without representation

2004-05-08 Thread Devine, James
May 8, 2004/New York TIMES Big Gap Found in Taxation of Wages and Investments By EDMUND L. ANDREWS WASHINGTON, May 7 - Americans are being taxed more than twice as heavily on earnings from work as they are on investment income, even though more than half of all investment income goes to

Which newspaper will first suggest pulling out?

2004-05-08 Thread k hanly
When Will the First Major Newspaper Call for a Pullout in Iraq? The once unthinkable suddenly becomes thinkable. By Greg Mitchell (May 07, 2004) -- After a month of uprisings in Iraq, an unexpected hike in U.S. casualties, and a prison abuse scandal that shattered goodwill in the Arab street,

Long Commutes, Long Work Hours

2004-05-08 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
The New York Times reports that [m]ore than 18,000 household workers -- nannies, cleaners, home health aides -- endure daily trips of 90 minutes or more for jobs paying less than $25,000 a year, according to an analysis of 2000 Census data, many of them immigrants who might have found

Cut and Run...

2004-05-08 Thread k hanly
Globe and MailCoomment Saturday, May 8, 2004 - Page A23 Cut and run, and do it now To hell with Wilsonian crusades -- the U.S. must get out of Iraq. The longer it stays, the worse things will get for everyone By John MacArthur Not long before U.S. soldiers made news with their sadistic,

Re: Cut and Run... Freud and the ghost of Woodrow Wilson

2004-05-08 Thread Chris Burford
Sigmund Freud's comments on Woodrow Wilson are interesting in the context of this article (below) As a German speaking European Freud did not appreciate being rescued by Wilson, and mistrusted his naive messianic meddling. From Freud's introduction to Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study by

Re: Cut and Run... Freud and the ghost of Woodrow Wilson

2004-05-08 Thread Michael Perelman
Keynes' treatment of Wilson in Economic Consequences of the Peace are hardly flattering. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu