[PEN-L] Supermarket imperialism

2004-12-28 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, December 28, 2004 THE FOOD CHAIN | SURVIVAL OF THE BIGGEST Supermarket Giants Crush Central American Farmers By CELIA W. DUGGER PALENCIA, Guatemala - Mario Chinchilla, his face shaded by a battered straw hat, worriedly surveyed his field of sickly tomatoes. His hands and jeans were caked

[PEN-L] Joseph Kennedy and the Jews

2004-12-28 Thread Louis Proyect
Seymour Hersh, "Dark Side of Camelot": There is no evidence that Ambassador [Joseph] Kennedy understood in the days before the war that stopping Hitler was a moral imperative. "In­dividual Jews are all right, Harvey," Kennedy told Harvey Klemmer, one of his few trusted aides in the American Emba

Re: [PEN-L] Kerry Preparing Grounds to Unconcede (?)

2004-12-28 Thread adrienne lauby
Title: Re: [PEN-L] Kerry Preparing Grounds to Unconcede (?) I don't know about the conjecture.  Here's a bunch more facts. adrienne Kenneth Blackwell has requested a protective order to prevent him from being interviewed by lawyers as part of a court challenge of the presidential vote. What is h

[PEN-L] [Fwd: THE AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER # 386]

2004-12-28 Thread michael perelman
* This is long but the collection of articles will give you an idea of the extraordinary political economy and commodification of California water. THE* *AGRIBUSINESS* *EXAMINER* December 29, 2004, Issue #386 /Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness/ /From a Public Interest Perspective/ *EDITOR\PUBLISH

[PEN-L] Open Source Angst

2004-12-28 Thread Eubulides
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/28/business/code.html The International Herald Tribune Business users worry that open-source could mean open season for lawyers By Robert Weisman The Boston Globe Wednesday, December 29, 2004 Shawn Henry, a software engineer, swivels around in his chair, squint