Re: Re: Forwarded from Mark Jones

2001-10-03 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
- Original Message - From: "Doyle Saylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Of course this is just my spirit speaking. I find it inspiring to hear > many people speak like this. To Mac Stainsby and others like them your > words keep the fire burning. > Thanks Doyle. you are now the recipient

Re: World Bank and IMF off the hook?

2001-10-01 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
- Original Message - From: "Chris Burford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Nothing can illustrate the reactionary political nature of terrorism more, > than the fact that this weekend's demonstrations against drastically > truncated IMF/World Bank meetings, were expected to attract 100,000 > mil

Re: Re: bush $ and Bin Laden $ intertwined

2001-09-30 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
- Original Message - From: "Jim Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Allegedly, "Osama" is a really popular name for Pakistani babies at this > point. Is this true? It already was. It is not an uncommon name. Macdonald

Fw: [R-G] America, We Feel Your Pain, Do You Feel Ours? - Middle East News Online

2001-09-24 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
Middle East News Online September 15, 2001 America, We Feel Your Pain, Do You Feel Ours? By Ramzy Baroud, Middle East News Online Editor A six year old Palestinian girl kneeled and nervously, yet gently laid a flower to join hundreds of other flowers, banners and candles in a small vigi

Fw: [R-G] America widens its war targets to 60 possible states

2001-09-23 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
on > the heart of the city's financial district, is due to reopen on Monday > - as is the US baseball season, suspended as a mark of respect. > > *** > TARGETS - Independent monthly paper on international affairs - contributes > to its ability to inform on issues of war and p

From Stan Goff (fmr officer US Army) regarding "response".

2001-09-16 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
Stan Goff speaks on what we must do. I ask people to forward this far and wide- it is important right now, and Stan is (as usual) helping find clarity during a blackout. I urge you all to get people reading this. Macdonald Stainsby --- --- I couldn't possibly disagree more. Since

Re: Re: quick thoughts before I rush off

2001-09-11 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
> For what it's worth, here in Columbus, Ohio, we are planning > responses, in anticipation of U.S. bombings of some Arab nation, > repressions of Arabs & Arab-Americans in the USA, etc.: > Thank you Yoshie. This is exactly the right response. The hatred and racist fear I hear all around me is al

Re: Re: Re: Police pounce on mourners for Mao

2001-09-11 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
another plane down in Pittsburgh. Anyonwe out there who is an outspoken critic/activist- be careful. Keep your head down for a few days and keep any non-white friends inside. There is going to be a counter attack- the US WILL NOT take this quietly. be careful one and all. Macdonald - Orig

Re: on-going mass executions...

2001-09-06 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
> The Party has called for distinguishing between our people and the rulers; > i.e. between the victim and the criminal. Accordingly, we continue to call > for tightening the political and diplomatic isolation of the dictatorship, > and maintaining military sanctions. UN control over the oil reve

[WW] Fidel Castro to Racism Conference

2001-09-05 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
- Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 13, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - FIDEL CASTRO TO RACISM CONFERENCE: "WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF A HUGE GLOBAL CRISIS" Excerpts from the key address by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, president

Re: (fixed) US newsman apologises for neglecting DRC

2001-09-05 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
> US newsman apologises for neglecting DRC > > New York - Few Americans know about the deaths of possibly up to 2,5 > million > people in rebel-held eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over > the past three > years, and even fewer know why. The Western media had very solid reasons for keep

Re: Re: Sick Man of Europe: Next Generation (was Michael's question)

2001-09-04 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
- > There you go. It's now legal to speak Kurdish in Turkey, in both its > dialects. (Does anyone know if it's true that, when spoken, each > Kurdish dialect is unintelligible to speakers of the other dialect?) I > should have emphasized more in my last post that while Turkey has made > gr

Re: Re: Re: Michael's Question

2001-09-04 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
- Original Message - From: "Jim Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The problem with anarchism, as I understand it, is that its opposition to > the state (centralized authority & power) _per se_ implies an opposition to > democracy, since without a state to enforce the rules, you can't hav

Re: Re: Michael's Question

2001-09-03 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
Re: Cuba, Jim Devine writes: It would be even harder if it tried democracy more serious -- i.e., > socialist democracy -- than the current US system. > Given all the factors that you correctly outlined as to the Cuban situation in the Carribbean beneath America, (etc) it would do us well not t

Re: Black day for Conrad

2001-09-03 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
. > Now, bitter from three years of battle not just with rival > newspapers but also with Canada's left-leaning Prime Minister, > Jean Chrétien, Excuse me? This huy is as "left" as Tony Blair, or even less so. The liberal party does nothing to call iself "left", from signing NAFTA to "reconsid

[PEN-L:12704] RE: Putting Henry Liu in context

1999-10-13 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
Jim Craven: >The only difference between Henry and most of us is not in gaining >materially through equities and other forms of speculation and >arbitrage--those of us who have retirement plans etc--but rather the >magnitudes of gains, the types of instruments from which speculative gains >are g

[PEN-L:12642] Re: let's give it a break

1999-10-12 Thread Macdonald Stainsby
Mr Perlman: What you criticise is, in many ways, why I joined this list. I do my "battles" etc.. with people on lists other than this one. I am about to engage in University in three months, to take this sort of stuff on head first. This particular list is a primer for the sort of things I'm g