from a friend: WHY DO DEATHS FIGURES IN THE THIRD WORLD MATTER TO THE FIRST. they never did before, and even if it did to the peace movement that was small and ineffective. take Algeria’s death toll in the war of independence: was it one million take or add one half! or any other war in the periphery, Rwanda, Columbia; in France military generals feeling the guilt of mass slaughter in Algeria were literally suppressed from speaking their minds. racism is a practice or effective hate, not a feeling of hate by the slave against the master. colonialism past and present is the practice of racism. should a political case or plight be made on the basis of the number of skulls a people accumulate? war kills and sanctions kill. the killing should stop. but so long as one working class lives off the toil of another, that will never happen and it will be a number discussion. number discussions degenerate into number theory.
--- Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael, you know better than to get into this sort > of thing. Rakesh > should not have made it personal either. > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:14:36PM -0800, michael > pugliese wrote: > > > > oY VeY! No, Rakesh, I know you aren't pimping > for the Ba'athist > > regime! (And, neither, am i neo-conservative!! > [Heh, some may > > say different!] > > -- > Michael Perelman > Economics Department > California State University > Chico, CA 95929 > > Tel. 530-898-5321 > E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com