Yesterday the editor of the Mirror was summarily sacked in an amazing
coup for the government. Now three media leaders have been forced to
resign, the chair and CEO of the BBC and the Editor of the Mirror for
mishandling the exposure of government activities around the Iraq war.
Alistair Campbell
News junkies by myself can waste a great deal of time wondering
whether each next turn is a tipping point. There were reasons for
believing it last week, but there are always powerful forces trying to
rebalance. Indeed perhaps balance is what as individuals we all try to
maintain and that
from University of Illinois student newspaper...
The study, Uncovering the Rationales for the War on Iraq: The Words
of the Bush Administration, Congress and the Media from September 12,
2001, to October 11, 2002, is the senior honors thesis of Devon
Largio. She and her professor, Scott Althaus,
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MICHIGAN
REPORT
REPORT NO. 89, VOLUME 43-- MONDAY, MAY 10 2004
ASSOCIATION DEMANDS VETO OVERRIDE ON 'LIVING WAGE'
The Small Business Association of Michigan on Monday called for an
override
of Governor Jennifer Granholm's veto of a bill supporters say would
full articles at: http://www.leftturn.org/
Shia Backgrounder: A History of Oppression
by Zein El-Amine
When the media started reporting on the US military's first entry into
the city of Karbala around the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, Shia
around the world wondered if the US had any idea about
NY Times, May 15, 2004
What India's Upset Vote Reveals: The High Tech Is Skin Deep
by AMY WALDMAN
NEW DELHI, May 14 - As India prepared to vote this spring, strategists
from its ruling party mapped the country's first modern electoral campaign.
They boasted of sending four million e-mail
Paul Krugman is very worried about the economic implications of
surging oil prices thanks to the rising demand for oil (especially
due to the expansion of Chinese economy -- cf. China, in particular,
still consumes only 8 percent of the world's oil -- but it accounted
for 37 percent of the growth
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MICHIGAN
REPORT
REPORT NO. 89, VOLUME 43-- MONDAY, MAY 10 2004
ASSOCIATION DEMANDS VETO OVERRIDE ON 'LIVING WAGE'
The Small Business Association of Michigan on Monday called for an
override
of Governor Jennifer Granholm's veto of a bill supporters say would
I invited Chris here because he does have a lot of information on Russia. I do not
share his views about Putin, but I still learn from him.
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I don't know how much of it is due to the Putin administration, how much is due to
high oil prices, and how much is due to fluctuations in the solar
Chris Doss wrote:
I see the most amazing distortions of reality about the country in the
English-language press, and not just the mass media. For instance,
Edward Herman wrote a very well-intentioned article on Znet about the
Russian healthcare system that was, unfortunately, wrong. He could
I understand that Russian health care may be free, as Chris says, but my Russian
friends tell me that to get decent treatment you have to bribe people. One possible
difference between the Soviet and the present system is that today a typical doctor
might have difficulty surviving on her official
Dear Friends and Comrades,
The following note sent on Wednesday by a US student at the
medical school in Havana gives a good idea of the situation in Cuba right
now in the aftermath of the new Bush offensive. The fear of a direct US
attack in the event of a Bush victory in November is
Behind the Scenes,
U.S. Tightens Grip
On Iraq's Future
Hand-Picked Proxies, Advisers
Will Be Given Key Roles
In Interim Government
Facing Friction Over the Army
By YOCHI J. DREAZEN and CHRISTOPHER COOPER
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
May 13, 2004; Page A1
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Haider
A few weeks ago, Jim Devine posted Jeff Madrick's New York Times article about Peter
Lindert's new book, Growing Public. I am only halfway through the book -- covering
the history of welfare when public schooling. As Madrick says, Lindert is no leftist
by any means, but his book is an amazing
Michael Perelman wrote:
Sometime ago, I believe on pen-l, I questioned Brad DeLong's insistence
that increasing aggregate income meant that the people were doing better,
whether in India or China. I had not seen an indication that the BJP was
in trouble before the election. India was, by all
I doubt that there is any precedent for such a sharply worded
editorial from the Military Times as the one quoted below, going so
far as to recommend relieving top leaders from duty in a time of
war if necessary:
Around the halls of the Pentagon, a term of caustic derision has
emerged for the
THE GRAY ZONE
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib.
Issue of 2004-05-24
Posted 2004-05-15
The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal
inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year
by Secretary of Defense Donald
I didn't get any responses from my note about Nobel prize-winning economist, Harry
Markowitz, as the cofounder of one of the two infamous military contractors
associated with the prisoner abuse scandal.
Closer to home, a Davis agricultural economist is accused by some as being a traitor
for
On Sat, 15 May 2004 18:50:34 -0700, Michael Perelman
wrote:
I didn't get any responses from my note about Nobel
prize-winning economist, Harry
Markowitz, as the cofounder of one of the two infamous
military contractors
associated with the prisoner abuse scandal.
I was gonna reply with a
You are right. I think that they began with war simulations. I guess that we should
all prefer the simulations to the real thing, but the cotton response is truly wierd.
The guy was an undersecretary under Bush I, University of Chicago trained, but his
belief in free trade ran up against the
Michael Perelman wrote:
I didn't get any responses from my note about Nobel prize-winning
economist, Harry
Markowitz, as the cofounder of one of the two infamous military
contractors
associated with the prisoner abuse scandal.
Keynes connects the mistaken use of logic to predict the uncertain
Does anybody have access to the article where Thatcher is quoted as saying
Economics are (sic) the method, the object is to change the
soul. London Sunday Times, 13 May 81.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at
Some hairy old German guy once said that capital has no nation. Chicago-style
economics is an ideological expression of that. On the other hand, the agri-types who
accuse this character of treason are part of why the truth of Marx's statement is
still a bit premature: we still have sectors of
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