What year is this?
Cossack soldiers arrive in South Ossetia
Georgian government detains supposed 'humanitarian
aid' from Russia
By Nino Kopaleishvili
Messenger.ge
Wednesday, July 14, 2004, #130 (0654)
Cossack military formations help a demonstration of
their force inside territory of South
North Korea Goes Commercial Online (North Korea's net venture is
merely one aspect of its slow but certain transformation into a
capitalist economy):
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/north-korea-goes-commercial-online.html.
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/
* Greens
This weekend, I
heard a commercial by Rock Financial saying that mortgage rates had unexpectedly
gone down , despite the Fed raising rates recently. (They said that on the
commercial).
Is this
theliquidity trap ?
C
The Hindu
Monday, Jul 26, 2004
Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
By Atul Aneja
MANAMA, JULY 25. Relations between Turkey and Israel
appear to be souring
rapidly amid reports that Israeli commandos are
training Kurds in northern
Iraq to encourage the emergence of an independent
Kurdish state.
Ha. It's only a matter of time now until some of the
same people who have been glorifying the Kurds as a
long-oppressed victim-race now start vilifying them as
tools of imperialism.
--- Ulhas Joglekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Hindu
Monday, Jul 26, 2004
Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
Chris Doss wrote:
Ha. It's only a matter of time now until some of the
same people who have been glorifying the Kurds as a
long-oppressed victim-race now start vilifying them as
tools of imperialism.
Nobody should either glorify or vilify them. Moreover, it is a mistake
to lump all the Kurds
Anthony D'Costa wrote:
But what he said was
that Chandra Babu Naidu
the laptop toting chief minister of Andhra Pradesh,
who was recently
ousted in the elections, transferred massive water
to the urban, high tech
driven city, at the expense of the rural folks.
This story hasn't been
The neoliberals at Micro$oft's Slate Magazine are red-baiting John Kerry
over his appropriation of a line from a Langston Hughes poem:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2104295/
Kerry's Lit Crit The soon-to-be nominee sanitizes a Stalinist poem. By
Timothy Noah Posted Monday, July 26, 2004, at 6:08 AM PT
This election year is a conundrum that is baffling the antiwar Left, and
the great debate over whether or not to support Nader is separating the
wheat from the chaff. As I noted in a previous column, the
self-promoting and largely self-appointed leaders of the progressive
movement i.e. what
www.MarcCooper.com
July 25, 2004
Bombs Away: Black Dems and Lockheed Martin Together At Last
Take a close look at these two pictures I snapped tonight at the
Congressional Black Caucus Institute's homage to Fannie Lou Hamer at the
Massachussetts State House on Boston's Beacon Hill. That's right,
Counterpunch, July 26, 2004
A Reply to Norman Solomon Medea Benjamin
Believing in a Green Resistance
By TODD CHRETIEN
These are the times that try mena*TMs souls. The summer soldier and the
sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their
country; but he that stands it now,
In a message dated 7/26/2004 9:57:10 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hughes ends his poem on a more hopeful note ("America
never was America to me/ And yet I swear this oath/ America will be!"), but the
future Hughes imagined for America when he wrote those words
Chris Doss wrote: Ha.
Do you know Cuba supports self-determination by
Kashmiris?
Ulhas
--- Ulhas Joglekar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The Hindu
Monday, Jul 26, 2004
Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
By Atul Aneja
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 7/26/2004 9:57:10 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hughes ends his poem on a more hopeful note (America never was
America to me/ And yet I swear this oath/ America will be!), but the
future Hughes
Chris, why the sarcastic Ha.? The Kurds have been oppressed for centuries. Playing
a weak hand, they have
been involved in all sorts of weird arrangements, frequently living by smuggling,
shifting alliances
unexpectedly. Why can't people sympathize with them and still be disgusted by
In a message dated 7/26/2004 11:02:14 AM Central Standard
Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was quoting a Slate.com article.
Comment
Sorry . . . and apologies are due. There are times when the
distinction is blurred and indistinguishable.
Melvin P.
I'm not surprised. They probably knee-jerk support
every little group that screeches national
sovereignity! Even if India goes down in flames.
--- Ulhas Joglekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Doss wrote: Ha.
Do you know Cuba supports self-determination by
Kashmiris?
Ulhas
--- Ulhas
Sure they've been oppressed (as far as I know -- I'm
not informed on the issue). I'm alluding to certain
segments in the US according to him a group is
oppressed or not according to whether or not it is
pro- or anti-US or Israel.
--- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Chris, why the
Langston Hughes lived through the period of American
history that birthed the Red Hot Summers and this
reality helped shape the core of his vision . . . not
to mention his personal history. Without question
Langston's vision was of an America where blacks were
not murdered and lynched in mass and
Where does this ocme from, Chris. Again, Cuba is weak -- yet amazingly has survived
every imaginable sort
of pressure -- so it may find it beneficial to side with Pakistan. But to make your
generalization about
knee-jerk support seems overblown.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:07:10AM -0700, Chris
Chris Doss wrote:
I'm not surprised. They probably knee-jerk support
every little group that screeches national
sovereignity! Even if India goes down in flames.
--- Ulhas Joglekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris Doss wrote: Ha.
Do you know Cuba supports self-determination by
Kashmiris?
Michael Perelman wrote:
Where does this ocme from, Chris. Again, Cuba is weak -- yet
amazingly has survived every imaginable sort of pressure -- so it may
find it beneficial to side with Pakistan. But to make your
generalization about knee-jerk support seems overblown.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004
ravi wrote:
why pakistan? isn't it wrong to reduce the human rights violations of
kashmiris (by both countries) to a tiff between the perpetrators? or to
put it another way why is supporting self-determination for kashmir =
siding with pakistan?
apologies for the flood. correction to the
You're right, I can't read Castro's mind.
--- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Where does this ocme from, Chris. Again, Cuba is
weak -- yet amazingly has survived every imaginable
sort
of pressure -- so it may find it beneficial to side
with Pakistan. But to make your
so, are you two saying that kashmiris are a little
group that screeches
sovereignity? aren't their demands of
self-determination legitimate?
why
would india go down in flames if the people of kashmir
were to gain
self-determination?
---
You're assuming a majority of the people of Kashmir
want
Chris Doss wrote:
You're assuming a majority of the people of Kashmir want
self-determination. I don't know if they do. Since most fighters
killed in Kashmir (as far as I know) are non-Kashmiris, I doubt that
they do.
i do not know about fighters, but definitely quite a few kashmiris have
Chris Doss wrote:
You're assuming a majority of the people of Kashmir
want self-determination. I don't know if they do.
Since most fighters killed in Kashmir (as far as I
know) are non-Kashmiris, I doubt that they do.
The real issue is Indian occupation of foreign soil. India has resisted
Kashmiri
Cyber One Korea (more on North Korean online gambling and South
Koreans' yearning to communicate with North Koreans):
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/cyber-one-korea.html
Has any country dealt fairly with minorities?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Venezuela Information Office
733 15th Street
NW Suite 932
Washington, DC 20005
Voice:
(202) 347-8081
Fax: (202) 347-8091
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Monday, July 26, 2004
Contact: Robert Naiman
202-347-8081 x. 605
Chávez Gets Strong Support
From Brazil
President Lula's Party,
Renowned Leaders,
Twenty five years ago, the FSLN seized power in Nicaragua. Although it
is difficult to see this abjectly miserable country in these terms
today, back then it fueled the hopes of radicals worldwide that a new
upsurge in world revolution was imminent. Along with Grenada, El
Salvador and
In Venezuela, Failure Is Not an Option (Roland Denis on the August
15 referendum);
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/in-venezuela-failure-is-not-option.html
Yoshie
Reuters, the Washington Post, and AFP reported on statements by former
Venezuelan president Carlos Andres Perez -- now a resident of Florida -- in
an interview with the Venezuelan opposition newspaper El Nacional that the
referendum would fail and that violence was the only way for the
What about Ari Fleischer describing the one bullet option in Iraq?
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
95929
we take all threats to the President seriously; we have opened an investigation.Does anyone remember this, or have any references, or know where the relevant law might be in the U.S. code?--
There's this:
18 U.S.C.A. § 115United States Code Annotated Currentness
Title 18. Crimes and Criminal
At 04:31 PM 7/26/2004 -0400, you wrote:
My recollection is that calling for the assassination of the President is
a serious crime in the United States. [clip] You can't just go around
threatening the President of the United States, even if you're a Senator,
that's a serious crime.
Ah, but note
Actually, the thing that I was looking for was precisely what was posted,
that it's illegal in the United States to threaten the President of the
United States. The point being, that which the opposition in Venezuela does
as a matter of course would never be tolerated here.
However, and
ravi wrote:
tariq ali writes:
TA The real question is what to do about Kashmir,
and the simple answer
is to ask the Kashmiris.
Let us then ask Tibetan and Uighurs what they want.
Let us ask Sindhis and Baluchis in Pakistan, Tamils in
Sri Lanka, Arakan people in Mynamar, muslims in South
July 25,
2004GRETCHEN
MORGENSON
Housing Bust: It Won't Be Pretty
ET the stock market slide. Let the bond
market sink. As long as home prices keep rocking, it's easy for Americans to
feel fat and happy.
But what happens when the run-up in housing prices loses steam, or worse?
Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
ravi wrote:
tariq ali writes:
TA The real question is what to do about Kashmir,
and the simple answer
is to ask the Kashmiris.
Let us then ask Tibetan and Uighurs what they want.
Let us ask Sindhis and Baluchis in Pakistan, Tamils in
Sri Lanka, Arakan people in Mynamar,
ravi wrote:
Let there be self-determination everywhere, from
Bejing to
Havana.
in a general sense, why not?
Surely, Cuban leadership (and this is only an
example)should offer self-determination to Cubans
before it demands demands self-determination for
Kashmiris?
Ulhas
It's very simple, provide uninterrupted water to businesses and the rich
enclaves in the high tech cities. Some gallon figure was mentioned per
resident. This is not an overnight development, although it appears that way.
Newspapers may not have necessarily made the connection between IT
There are two main national languages: Hindi and English. A good number
of people don't speak either. But they tend to be from rural areas from
the non-Hindi belt. But Hindi is spoken by more people than English and would
easily run into several hundred millions. Even 4% of Indians speaking
In some ways, Michael Moore's rise to fame and fortune is a classic
Horatio Alger story. Starting out as the son of a General Motors
assembly line worker who lived in blue-collar Flint, Michigan, Moore now
sits at the top of the mountain. With his face on the cover of Time
Magazine and ticket
Jim Devine wrote,
July 25, 2004
GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Housing Bust: It Won't Be Pretty
I don't know the web-page that this came from.
New York Times
Tom Walker
604 255 4812
Mother Jones magazine, a magazine
catering to Birkenstock-wearing, Sierra Club-donating, brie-eating
liberals.
hey, Louis, have you been channeling Dick Cheney? It sure sounds like him or someone
in the neo-con crowd. Are the MJ folks cheese-eating surrender monkeys, too?
By the way, is
Devine, James wrote:
Mother Jones magazine, a magazine
catering to Birkenstock-wearing, Sierra Club-donating, brie-eating
liberals.
hey, Louis, have you been channeling Dick Cheney? It sure sounds like him or someone in the neo-con crowd. Are the MJ folks cheese-eating surrender monkeys, too?
At 7:48 PM -0400 7/26/04, Louis Proyect wrote:
Devine, James wrote:
Mother Jones magazine, a magazine
catering to Birkenstock-wearing, Sierra Club-donating, brie-eating
liberals.
hey, Louis, have you been channeling Dick Cheney? It sure sounds
like him or someone in the neo-con crowd. Are the MJ
Karmin, Craig. 2004. Slowdown in Buying of Securities Reverses Trend
and May Make It Harder to Finance Trade Deficit. Wall Street Journal
(26 July): p. C 1.
Foreign purchases of securities in the U.S. in May came to $56.4
billion. While that was large enough to finance the current-account
Chris,
You gave a better answer when you earlier when you said you didn't know.
Assuming want Kashmiris want or don't want is exactly not the issue. The
issue is the material determinants of the struggle, the history of the
conflict in the area and what the resolution requires.
- Original
sartesian wrote:
The
issue is the material determinants of the struggle,
the history of the
conflict in the area and what the resolution
requires.
1. Independent Kashmir would be a US protectorate in
reality.
2. Jammu Kashmir is not a homogenous entity.
3. A part of the territory of
It might explain Greenspan's recent shift to talking about interest
rates possibly going up more rapidly than earlier thought -- at a
moment when the economy noticeably slowed. Suggesting higher interest
rates might keep the cash in-bound. But maybe not for long.
Gene Coyle
Perelman,
Tonight the most recent dumbocratic POTUS announced that there
were profound differences between the two Factions: the Bushits
used 9/11 to push the country too far to the right. I kid you not--
that's what the man said!!!
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not
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