In the Wednesday USA Today, the article that covers Bush's speech is
subheaded:
quote
Occupation Will End Soon; Troops Remain Indefinitely
unquote
Michael
Guardian Wed 26 Two Britons killed on Monday when their armoured car
was targeted by a rocket grenade near coalition headquarters were
yesterday named by the Foreign Office as Bob Morgan, 63, and Mark
Carman, 38. Morgan was an FO-funded adviser and had been seconded to
work with the Coalition
The US Robber Barons participated in the creation of modern industry. Will
there be
any positive legacy of their Russian counterparts?
---
Me: Except that the kept the Russian economy out of the hands of foreigners, I think
not. The only one who actually did anything besides scoop up Soviet
The US Robber Barons participated in the creation of modern industry. Will
there be
any positive legacy of their Russian counterparts?
---
BTW it looks like they may be gunning for Abramovich (to be fair to him, he does seem
to have done a lot for Chukotka as governor there):
Radio Free
On Tue May 25, Michael Perelman wrote:
As far as we're concerned we've been entirely successful. That tyrant
Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before
is not important. The Bush administration is looking for a scapegoat.
We're ready to fall on our swords if he
'End of Oil' Author Paul Roberts
May 6, 2004
The demand for oil increases each year, but the supply is not
inexhaustible. Experts predict that within 30 years our oil energy
sources will be depleted. In his book, The End of Oil: On the Edge of a
Perilous New World, Roberts looks at the
Colorado Democrats voted down resolutions to Bring the Troops Home
Now at the party's state convention. More on the topic at
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/05/hooked-on-empires-logic.html.
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/
* Bring Them Home Now!
The name has been changed to protect the innocent, but on the whole , the
ex-Soviet People seem to have retained much better anti-capitalist reflexes
than those in the West have now.
Charles
^^
Chris Doss
BTW it looks like they may be gunning for Abramovich (to be fair to him, he
does seem
am I right to say that the division between Europe and Asia (which aren't separate
continents, strictly speaking) simply reflects the us vs. them attitudes of the
ancient Greeks?
Jim Devine
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(From the late 1980s until 1992, I was involved with an organization
called Tecnica that sent skilled professionals and tradespeople to
Nicaragua and to southern Africa to volunteer with government agencies
and the ANC. Although Ben Linder, an US engineer who was murdered by the
contras in
May 26, 2004
Psyops In Fourth Generation War
by William S. Lind
I recently received an invitation to speak at a conference at Ft. Bragg on
psychological operations, or psyops. Regrettably, a schedule conflict
prevented me from accepting, but the invitation got me thinking: what are
psyops in
I find the question of whether Berg was actually killed by beheading and
by whom far more interesting than the NYT article about Berg's
personality. See, for example, The Nicholas Berg execution: A working
hypothesis and a resolution for the orange jumpsuit mystery
(Fascinating. In this self-criticism, the name Judith Miller does not
appear once.)
NY Times, May 26, 2004
FROM THE EDITORS
The Times and Iraq
Over the last year this newspaper has shone the bright light of
hindsight on decisions that led the United States into Iraq. We have
examined the
NY Observer, May 26, 2004
Is Kerry Watching President Bartlet For Prep Lessons?
by Robert Sam Anson
The President we wish we had settled the Middle East crisis last week.
Thats how it looked, anyway, for the first 58 minutes and 30 seconds of
the cliff-hanging season finale of The West Wing.
In
Move Over, Michael Moore!
by Sheelah Kolhatkar
In the soon-to-be-released documentary The Corporation, a commodities
trader named Carlton Brown stares into the camera and describes his
first reaction upon hearing that two airplanes had crashed into the
World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
How
NY Observer, May 26, 2004
Here's New Face Of U.S. Military: Lynndie England
by Philip Weiss
The condemnation of Lynndie England, the abuser of prisoners, in some
ways echoes the exaltation a year ago of Jessica Lynch. Both young women
come from small West Virginia towns. The privileged who offer
You should see the reaction to the Forbes report! (Forbes just released a the 100
richest people in Russia issue.) In the 90s, the oligarchs would trumpet their wealth
to the skies and (probably) vocally exaggerate it. Now, they are scurrying to say that
Forbes is overstating their wealth. They
more accurately, I can imagine that the ancient Greeks saw the area north of the Black
Sea as some sort of barrier dividing continents (along with the Black Sea itself and
the Bosphorus) -- and later thinkers simply followed their lead without thinking. But
I remember reading that the ancient
May 26, 2004
THE LAW
Who Would Try Civilians of U.S.? No One in Iraq
By ADAM LIPTAK
hough civilian translators and interrogators may have participated in the
abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, prosecuting them will present challenges, legal
experts say, because such civilians working for the military
Back in 1991, heightened insecurity in the Arab region also resulted in short lived high oil prices. Pinning a projection on any price, save the oil price movement, is audacious at best. There are definite supply constraints, but these remain for the time being at least remotely related to the
am I right to say that the division between Europe and Asia (which
aren't separate continents, strictly speaking) simply reflects the
us vs. them attitudes of the ancient Greeks?
Jim Devine
These supposed us vs. them attitudes are certainly not
to be found in Homer, Herodotos, Thucydides,
Melvin:
I would not like to be in Putin shoes, although the leather on these shoes can sustain
an immediate long haul. Putin is going to defeat the oligarchy and expropriate their
wealth or a large part of it through taxation or direct state intervention. Putin does
not desire to defeat a
I found the NYT article very suspicious. It ignores or does not resolve
important questions and leaves out important details. Although the article
notes at one point that Iraqi police and US officials both deny they had
custody of Berg it also recounts as fact that he was in Iraqi police
custody.
There are very solid geological theories on which our understanding of the
continents is based. Here is one site with some basic information:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents
.shtml
Frederick Emrich, Editor
commons-blog (http://info-commons.org/blog/)
http://homepage.smc.edu/morris_pete/continents.pdf
The Myth of Continents, or How our Grade-School Teachers Distorted the
Truth
by Peter S. Morris
How many continents are there? It seems like a simple enough question,
and most of us who grew up in the United States during the second half
of
I ran across this definition that sheds some light:
A continent (from the Latin continere for to hold together) is a large continuous
mass of land in the planet Earth.
There is no single standard for what defines a continent, and therefore various
cultures and sciences have different lists of
Cannes stands to cheer story of Che's road to revolution
By Hugh Davies (Filed: 20/05/2004)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
As the 20th century's most romanticised revolutionary,
Ernesto Che Guevara, dead since 1967, is being
immortalised in a rash of new films led by a British-backed
epic based on
Date: Sun, 24 May 2004
South Asia's women garment workers:
Globalisation's race to the bottom
By Ron Chepesiuk
The Daily Star (Pakistan)
Vol. 4 Num 344
Wed. May 19, 2004
Ech day, 20-year old Farida leaves her home in the
slums of Dhaka and walks for one hour to her job at the
Dalia Garment
May 2004 FFIPP Update
Dear Friends of FFIPP,
Recent events in Gaza, the massive destruction of homes and civilian lives
in Rafah and Gaza City, should be protested world wide. (See below
information on events in Gaza and email addresses for sending messages of
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National Security Archive Update, May 26, 2004
READ THE KISSINGER TELCONS
Five years after the National Security Archive initiated legal
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Bingo.The Putin position seems to be that, if you do what the state wants, you can have all the money you want. If you cross the state, you go down. Hard.We will see what happens to the shares of Yukos that
what's the name of the economist (left-Keynesian, pessimistic, works for some big
bokerage) who recently wrote about labor arbitrage? where can I find his article?
what do people think of that article?
Jim Devine
http://www.cartoonbank.com/product_details.asp?mscssid=AT1VQC89CE608MUND8P0LBU63RKK1R88sitetype=1sid=70643did=4
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1223525,00.html
The GuardianMay 24, 2004.
'Its best use is as a doorstop'
Brian Whitaker explains why a book packed with sweeping generalisations
about Arabs carries so much weight with both neocons and military in the US
Consider
Stephen Roach?
http://www.morganstanley.com/GEFdata/digests/20040209-mon.html
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:55:42PM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
what's the name of the economist (left-Keynesian, pessimistic, works for some big
bokerage) who recently wrote about labor arbitrage? where can I find
right. thanks.
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Stephen Roach?
Action Alert:
The Washington Post Should Support Democracy in Venezuela Instead of
Spreading Misinformation
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
By: Venezuela Information Office
CONTACT THE WASHINGTON POST TO SUPPORT
DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA
Today, 26 May 2004, the Washington Post ran an Op-Ed by Venezuelan
Mike Davis appears to believe that the curve of global oil
production is indeed near the point of descent and that Washington
has a foreign policy to match it, a US master plan for the control
of oil in an age of diminishing supply and soaring prices, dictated
by narrow interests of corrupt oil
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