On Saturday, March 1, 2003 at 02:00:46 (+) Seth Sandronsky writes:
No to Will, Yes to Peace
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0227-10.htm
Ah, good old George Will, who remarked in manly prose that the bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a profoundly moral deed.
Bill
Question to any list-Brits: how's that congestion
thing in London going?
Interesting that it has taken someone on the extreme
left of political acceptability to implement a
thoroughly neo-classical economic scheme.
The visionary Bill Vickrey wrote about this in I believe
the 1950s or 60s.
mbs
stopping hitler may be easier than stopping bush now. the carnage is waiting to happen and in some scenarios US miltary analysts are aware of the time dimension and therefore winning requires a massive very massive bombing campaign. war is somehow the realisation of the military commodity. the
Title: RE: [PEN-L:35164] Re: No to Will, Yes to Peace
On Saturday, March 1, 2003 at 02:00:46 (+) Seth Sandronsky writes:
No to Will, Yes to Peace
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0227-10.htm
Bill Lear:
Ah, good old George Will, who remarked in manly prose that the bombing
of
Title: news of the world: Philipines Iraq
From SLATE's on-line survey of big US newspapers:
The Los Angeles Times leads [with] ... that the U.S. and the Philippines have been unable to reach an agreement in an increasingly embarrassing argument about how to describe U.S. troops' role in
I did not know that Tommy Chong was part of the drug paraphanalia
bust.
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-mariecocco,0,1363786.columnist?coll=ny%2Dnews%2Dcolumnists
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL
The government's resolution was not able to get the simple majority vote
in the parliament; hence it was rejected. Out of 534 parliamentarians
only 264 supported the resolution when at least 268 supporters were
needed --251 opposed, 19 abstained.
As the parliament was in this 5 hour, rather
* The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is a feature length
documentary on Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela [directed by Kim
Bartley Donnacha O'Brien].
Over the course of 7 months, from January to July 2002, we secured
unprecedented access to film Chavez in his daily life. During this
Yes, the article was interesting. But even if there IS famine in India, it does not necessarily invalidate the Sen thesis. Sen's point is that in general, famines have been caused by lack of responsiveness to public needs, which is something undemocratic states are generally worse on than
Congratulations on the courage and perseverance of those inside and outside
the Turkish parliament.
This is real internationalism!
Chris Burford
London
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Yes, the article was interesting. But even if there IS famine in India,
it does not necessarily invalidate the Sen thesis. Sen's point is that in
general, famines have been caused by lack of responsiveness to public
Arab Summit Shows Sharp Divisions on Iraq
By SARAH EL DEEB
The Associated Press
Saturday, March 1, 2003; 12:58 PM
An Arab summit aimed at finding unity over the Iraq crisis showed sharp
divisions Saturday as Saudi Arabia's crown prince and Libya's Moammar
Gadhafi shouted insults at each other
The US media bias recognizes no limits: read the following two statements
regarding the size of the demonstration in Ankara from CNN's web site
--both are on the same page!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/01/sprj.irq.main/index.html
Meanwhile, TENS of thousands of Turks holding
My apologies; the correct second link should have been the following:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/01/sprj.irq.turkey/index.html
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Subject: [PEN-L:35179] Turkey: Democracy functioning! BUT US MEDIA ARE
NOT!!!From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, March 1,
I just posted an article on Marxmail which tries to come to grips with the
Nation Magazine's well-publicized clashes with a wing of the antiwar
movement:
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/american_left/tainted_nation.htm I
mention this not to start a thread on this question on PEN-L, but
http://istanbul.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/408.php
E. Ahmet Tonak
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Simon's Rock College of Bard
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Great Barrington, MA 01230
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This exchange, together with Jim's remark, remind us that there are different
kinds of democracies. Sen touched on this in comparing Keralla with other
states in India, but he never followed up by showing the antagonism means
neoliberalism and the kind of democracy that Ian and Jim suggest. A
[ 2 pieces, both consistent with some of the hypotheses laid out in the
first two chapters of The Global Political Economy of Israel]
GOP Aides Revise Bill To Help Big Firms
Lobbyists See Opening For Special Favors
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 1, 2003; Page
Although it was not at the time when pen-l discussed Turkey's financial
crisis, but when we were specifically asked about this parliamentary
vote by Ian Murray I anticipated this possibility, i.e. Turkey's
capacity to resist, (Sabri also agreed with me) by writing the following:
It will be a
Let me publicly thank three young men, Baris, Barkin and Balaban,
who worked very hard to put istanbul.indymedia together. Without
their efforts, we wouldn't have these photos from Ankara.
Best,
Sabri
Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war
Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key
Security Council members
Martin Bright, Ed Vulliamy in New York and Peter Beaumont
Sunday March 2, 2003
The Observer
The United States is conducting a secret 'dirty tricks'
We need Rosa Luxemburg, now more than ever. Her *Accumulation of Capital*
is now reprinted in a new (paper) edition with a fine 'Introduction' by
Tadeusz Kowalik, Routledge Classics, 2003, 9.99 pounds, $14.95 U.S.
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, soula avramidis wrote:
...war is somehow the realisation of
Russian parliament speaker blasts U.S.
From the International Desk
Published 3/1/2003 7:58 PM
TUNIS, Tunisia, March 1 (UPI) -- Russia's parliamentary speaker Saturday
blasted the United States' policy towards Iraq, the region, and the world,
warning that his country would use its veto power in
Kazem Al Saher -- Singing for Iraq and Its Children:
http://www.cairotimes.com/content/people/kazart.html
* New York Times February 26, 2003
Iraqi Star Tours U.S. and Sings of Baghdad
By NEIL STRAUSS
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Feb. 23 - In Beauty and His Love, the singer Kazem
al-Sahir
At 2003-03-01 20:02 -0600, Ken wrote:
Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war
Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of
key
Security Council members
Martin Bright, Ed Vulliamy in New York and Peter Beaumont
Sunday March 2, 2003
The Observer
This is a brilliant
What wonderful news! Sometime ago on pen-l we discussed Turkey's
financial crisis in a way that is implied that Turkey would be
impotent in resisting Western demands. Nobody, I recall, including
Sabri, seem to think that Turkey would be able to show any backbone
whatsoever.
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Photo taken by Mine Doyran in Foca (pronounced Focha), a seaside resort
near Izmir. On Ali Baba's kofte (Turkish hamburger) stand, you can see the
banner with the words SAVASA NO, which means no war.
http://www.marxmail.org/foca.jpg
Louis Proyect, Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
There are 550 MPs in the National Assembly and yes votes were
less than 275. Now I am proud of Turkey.
Sabri
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Turkish Speaker Nullifies U.S. Troop Vote
3 minutes ago
By SUZAN FRASER, Associated Press Writer
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's parliament speaker nullified the
legisature's vote
NY Times, Mar. 1, 2003
Does Democracy Avert Famine?
By MICHAEL MASSING
Few scholars have left more of a mark on the field of development economics
than Amartya Sen.
The winner of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, Mr. Sen
has changed the way economists think about such issues as
The article was very interesting. I believe that Brad de Long
was arguing on pen-l about how well India was doing. My take was
that heaping up riches at the top was impoverishing the bottom.
In addition, the article suggests the ways that India's
marketization has made the poor more vulnerable.
I may be too ideolological but i have always ridiculed Sen's notion of democracy as some form of neo liberal hogwash. democracy without working class rule appears in his writing as some abstarct freedom notion devoid of real substance.in an interview about food secrurity a year ago, ramsey clark
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