An interesting point about the CIA role in this coup was that, as in
Indonesia in 1965, the Agency was instrumental in supplying the names
of the Communists to be eliminated. This has been confirmed by
different sources. For example, Qasim's foreign minister later told
two analysts that 'the
Hey Jude, don't make it bad.
Take a sad song, and make it better.
Remember, to let her into your heart,
Then you can start, to make it better.
Hey Jude, don't be afraid.
You were made to go out and get her.
The minute, you let her under your skin,
Then you begin, to make it better.
And anytime
Machine out to erase green guilt
Friday 05 December 2003, 14:54 Makka Time, 11:54 GMT
Erasing machine uses heat treatment to remove words and images
It may not be the paperless office many once thought possible, but it may be
the next best thing. With Toshiba Corp's new erasable ink, the green
There are many different sides to me, and my life consisted of phases which
differed markedly from each other... I always moved about in the light and
supple way. I could walk easily and quickly until I was 70. I could do
everything fast and I organised my life in such a way, that everything was
A liberal Zionist subscriber to the Socialist Register listserv
posted Letty Cottin Pogrebin, In Defense of the Law of Return, _The
Nation_, December 22, 2003 (available to _The Nation_ subscribers
only at
http://www.thenation.com/docprem.mhtml?i=20031222s=pogrebin):
* Put simply, I view the
Paul wrote:
OK, I'll try, but please excuse the simplicity given the need for brevity.
1) Howard Dean announces that if elected he will exactly reproduce the
Clinton era policies [never mind that he can't] but will re-distribute the
growth back to working people WHILE achieving the same
I am not a Zionist and I do not favor the Law of
Return, but I am not sure why LCP's argument is
ridiculous. It may be perceived as ridiculous by
African Americans, but that just because they might
see Jews as just privileged white people -- I
speculate here.
Historically, and it is not all
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/7435399.htm
Posted on Sun, Dec. 07, 2003
Ecuador bears crude legacy of Texaco's thirst for oil
By T. Christian Miller
LOS ANGELES TIMES
LAGO AGRIO, Ecuador - When Texaco contractors showed up at Monica Torres'
wood shack in the jungle, they said they
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I am not a Zionist and I do not favor the Law of
Return, but I am not sure why LCP's argument is
ridiculous. It may be perceived as ridiculous by
African Americans, but that just because they might
see Jews as just privileged white people -- I
speculate here.
Ditto. A law of return has
Naturally there is quite a difference between
reparations and a law of return which by its very
nature imposes costs on the Palestinian people which
bears no responsability, not even vicariously through
past generations in that place. Reparations are at
least somewhat tied to the agents and
washingtonpost.com
A Lost Retirement Dream for Boomers?
By Albert B. Crenshaw
Sunday, December 7, 2003; Page F04
There has certainly been no shortage of alarms sounded recently about the
financial status of future American retirees, especially the giant baby
boom generation, which begins turning
In a message dated 12/7/03 3:31:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There has certainly been no shortage of alarms sounded recently about thefinancial status of future American retirees, especially the giant babyboom generation, which begins turning 65 in 2011.But a big new
Put simply, I view the Law of Return as the affirmative
action program of the Jewish people.
a lot of conservative Jews are opposed to affirmative action. Therefore, if they wish
to be logically consistent, they should oppose the Law of Return.
Jim
At 10:45 AM -0800 12/7/03, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
All that said, I don't see that it is crazy, stupid, silly, or even
obviously wrong for Jews to demand some sort of special privileges
for reasons that are not that dissimilar from the reasons that
African Americans can make the same demand.
As you say, tranlating the bourgeois stats into Marxian
categories takes lots of work; why spend all that time crunching
numbers when you could better spend it by thinking politically?
I really do think it's important that some people do crunch the numbers,
since, to get an objective picture,
I agree Palestinians have zero connection to the Euro holocaust and
world anti-semitism that supports the case for Jewish national
liberation, such as it is. In this sense the Jewish claim to
Palestine is unfounded. But that would be true of most
any area outside of Europe, and Jews never
I personally think Jews, like anybody else, should have the right to
emigrate anywhere, provided that they honour the rights and
obligations/duties this involves, on the basis of clear knowledge, so they
know what they're getting themselves involved in. But personally I am not a
Jew and don't
Max writes: I think the fundamental problem here is that we try to fit the ME
into categories that point to some kind of political or ethical solution,
whereas the actual situation admits of no solution without a very
different international political setting. You can't fix it.
the late Isaac
At 7:31 PM -0500 12/7/03, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Yoshie is right in the narrow context of the current Israeli land
holdings, where jews are clearly oppressors and Palestinians the
oppressed, but wrong in the broader context of world Jewish
existence since 1800.
The narrow context of Israeli
Hi All,
Michael as luck would have it I had to go out of town immediately after
asking for some thoughts on our coverage of California budget cutbacks. I
appreciate your comments. Both points of view matter to us. Both the
larger question of who will be hurt and how it will affect disabled
Iraq delays hand Cheney firm $1bn
· Key contract decisions postponed again
· Blair drawn into row over lack of 'level playing fields'
Oliver Morgan, industrial editor
Sunday December 7, 2003
The Observer
Halliburton, the engineering group formerly run by US vice-president Dick
Cheney, has been
Taiwan's president steps up tension with Beijing by calling for missile
referendum
Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Monday December 8, 2003
The Guardian
President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan announced the island's first referendum
yesterday in a move likely to infuriate Beijing and suck the United States
Japan rebuilds with hi-tech colossus
Larry Elliott
Monday December 8, 2003
The Guardian
Tokyo hardly seems like a city in crisis. Downtown things look much the
same as they did before the bursting of the bubble 12 years ago - busy and
bustling. Yet there are those who say the neon-lit night
If Pogrebin were to apply the logic of affirmative action -- positive
discrimination in favor of the oppressed to bring about equality --
to Israel, she ought to reverse her argument, defending the
Palestinian refugees' right of return while advocating taking in only
Jews who are actually
--- Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(...) Although Trotsky remained a prominent
Bolshevik, his authority had
once again been undermined. In the elections to the
Central Committee, his
popularity showed little sign of recovering from the
depths of 1919. He
finished a humiliating
My friend, Aldo Matteucci, sent me this. I would like to know more.
Maybe some of you have even seen the book.
Frauchiger, Urs. 1982. Was zum Teufel ist mit der Musik los (Bern:
Zyglogge).
69 ff: The first to conduct was Carl Maria von Weber, in 1817, at
Dresden, followed by the composers
Michael wrote:
My friend, Aldo Matteucci, sent me this. I would like to know more.
Maybe some of you have even seen the book.
Frauchiger, Urs. 1982. Was zum Teufel ist mit der Musik los (Bern:
Zyglogge).
69 ff: The first to conduct was Carl Maria von Weber, in 1817, at
Dresden, followed by the
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