[PEN-L] Mahmoud Abbas's Mandate: 28%

Mahmoud Abbas's 'Mandate': 28%: http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/01/mahmoud-abbass-mandate-28.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * OSU-GESO:

[PEN-L] US troops' intimidating drive to get Iraqis to vote

This report came from a friend of mine in Germany, Lueko Willms. Iraqis are not only being threatened by some resistance groups if they vote. They are being threatened by US troops if they don't: From Lueko: A CNN reporter accompanied a US occupation squad -- they were breaking open doors

[PEN-L] Canadian firms fend off global competition with lower wages (correction)

Here is the correct version of the Canadian article I tried to email recently. GK From: The Globe and Mail (Canada) 26jan05 Firms fend off global competition with lower wages: Statscan By OLIVER MOORE New employees are earning less than their counterparts two

[PEN-L] Soviet history

Mike Haynes. Russia: Class and Power, 1917-2000. London and Sydney: Bookmarks, 2002. v + 251 pp. Notes, index. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 1-898876-87-8. Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff. Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the U.S.S.R. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. xiv +

[PEN-L] post-exposure stress disorder

U.S. CHILDREN STILL TRAUMATIZED ONE YEAR AFTER SEEING PARTIALLY EXPOSED BREAST ON TV WASHINGTON, DC -- As the nation approaches the one-year anniversary of the Super Bowl XXXVIII tragedy, an FCC study shows that millions of U.S. children were severely traumatized by the exposure to a partially

[PEN-L] Third Columnist Caught with Hand in the Bush Till

Gallagher later wrote in her column that she would have revealed the $21,000 payment to readers had she recalled receiving it. CB: Must be nice to have so much money that $21,000.00 received is not memorable. ^^ Third Columnist Caught with Hand in the Bush Till By Eric Boehlert

[PEN-L] Detroit budget crisis

Detroit budget crisis Feed the cities, not the Pentagon WW photo: Cheryl LaBash http://www.workers.org http://www.workers.org/ http://www.workers.org/ Special to Workers World Detroit Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick launched a major attack on the people of Detroit in his State of the City

[PEN-L] Make Poverty History

http://www.cafod.org.uk/policy_and_analysis/policy_papers/make_poverty_history/mph_briefing christian liberal rubbish? skirmishing between aid voluntary organisations for profile - eg who can get Nelson Mandela to endorse a news story? Or utopian socialism on a world scale? Chris Burford PS I

[PEN-L] When Cops Are More Unionized Than Almost All Other Workers. . . .

When Cops Are More Unionized Than Almost All Other Workers. . . .: http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/01/when-cops-are-more-unionized-than.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Proud of Britain: http://www.proudofbritain.net/ and http://www.proud-of-britain.org.uk/

Re: [PEN-L] Detroit budget crisis

What these spokespeople for big business failed to point out is that theirpolicies accelerated Detroit's population decline. Massive job losses camefrom outsourcing to non- union areas and other countries, followed by plantclosings in Detroit. Large corporations received huge tax abatements

[PEN-L] Today's GAO Reports - January 27, 2005 [GAO on AIDS and US-China Trade.....]

-Original Message- From: Webmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:33 PM To: daybook@LISTSERV.GAO.GOV Subject: Today's GAO Reports - January 27, 2005 The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released the following report and correspondence: REPORT

Re: [PEN-L] Soviet history

Aki ORR replies to Louis Proyect Louis Proyect reviews 2 books that put forward the view that the collapse of the USSR does not imply a collapse of socialism and marxist theory because the USSR was State Capitalism and not Socialism. This is an attempt to use a verbal smokescreen to hide a