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HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- You have been sent this message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a courtesy of the Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30813-2003Mar2.html Organizers of Antiwar Movement Plan to Go Beyond Protests By Glenn Frankel LONDON, March 2 -- The people who helped organize the largest worldwide peace demonstration in history last month say they are not through yet. More than 120 activists from 28 countries emerged from an all-day strategy session here this weekend with plans not just to protest a prospective U.S.-led war against Iraq but to prevent it from happening. They want to intensify political pressure on the Bush administration's closest allies -- the leaders of Britain, Italy and Spain -- and force them to withdraw their support, leaving the United States, if it chooses to fight, to go it alone. And they intend to further disrupt war plans with acts of civil disobedience against U.S. military bases, supply depots and transports throughout Europe. Finally, if war breaks out, they say, they will demonstrate in towns and cities around the world on the evening of the first day, and hold a worldwide rally on the following Saturday that they hope will rival or surpass their efforts of Feb. 15. We still believe we can stop this war before it begins, said Chris Nineham, one of the British organizers of this weekend's conference, held at the Stop the War Coalition's offices in northeast London. But if not, we're putting the warmongers on notice that there will be massive protests on the day war breaks out and the following weekend. In interviews last week, several of the organizers of the Feb. 15 protests traced the origins of the antiwar movement, described how they put together that event and discussed where they go from here. For the most part, the organizations are tiny, shoestring operations -- the London-based coalition operates out of two cubbyhole offices with four desktop computers, a handful of phone lines and a half-dozen paid staff members. But they use the Internet, cell phones and their connections with trade unions and local governments to establish links and coordinate with other organizations around the world. Their plans might sound grandiose. But these are the same activists who pulled off the stunning success of two weeks ago, when between 6 million and 12 million protesters gathered in about 75 countries to oppose military action. We've never really seen a movement like this before -- it's unpredictable because it's so unprecedented, said Paul Rogers, professor of peace studies at Bradford University in Britain. But it does seem that a large proportion of the people who participated two weeks ago are becoming quite politicized just by going on the demonstration. If war begins, and it doesn't have U.N. approval, we could see mass demonstrations again. The huge turnouts that day in cities including Rome, London, Madrid, Berlin, Paris and New York reflected popular disaffection with U.S. military power and the prospect of war among a broad swath of the public -- from political radicals to church groups, trade unions and ordinary citizens. But it was organized for the most part by a small network of activists from the ideological left, the anti-globalization movement and peace groups. For years these activists have stood on picket lines and organized demonstrations seeking ways to ignite mass popular support, with mixed results at best. But the increasing likelihood of war has given them an issue that resonates with public opinion throughout the world. Many of the organizers confess that they were stunned by the size and scope of the demonstrations two weeks ago. A big part of our meeting was about digesting the shock of the earthquake that was February 15, said Larry Holmes, an organizer in New York for International ANSWER, one of the U.S. groups organizing the rallies. We were just as surprised as everyone else. But you're seeing a new sense of confidence among organizations. People don't want this war, and they're giving us a mandate to do whatever it takes to stop it. The organizers say the February rallies were first agreed upon at a small strategy session in Florence in November. But their roots go back to the days just after Sept. 11, 2001, when activists say they began meeting to map out opposition to what they anticipated would be the U.S. military response to the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon. In Britain, according to organizer John Rees, several hundred activists first got together the weekend after Sept. 11. Most were from the hard core of the British left -- the Socialist Workers Party, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the anti-capitalist organization Globalized Resistance, along with Labor Party legislators Jeremy
Re: Arch-capitalist Soros slams Bush's 'imperialist vision' [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Nancy, read the Covert Action Quarterly, number 74 fori my major breakdown on many of his nefarious activities. Scum is too good for him, It's an insult to paramecia. ~HC --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^==^= This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bdn7KI.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^==^=
Fwd: [WW] Iraqi People Prepare for U.S. Invasion [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bdn7KI.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^ ---BeginMessage--- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 6, 2003 issue of Workers World newspaper - SPECIAL REPORT FROM BAGDAD: IRAQI PEOPLE PREPARE FOR U.S. INVASION By Sara Flounders Baghdad, Iraq A delegation led by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark arrived in Baghdad Feb. 22 after a 14-hour drive from Amman, Jordan, across the open desert. A waning moon lit the nearly empty six-lane highway. We couldn't help wondering if the Pentagon will launch the war when the moon disappears from the sky. Or will the surging world movement against this war be powerful enough to stop the attack? The delegation's purpose, as in previous trips, was to assess the impact of the 1991 war and 12 years of sanctions, especially on health care. Dr. Zuhair Abdul Al-Azawi, senior deputy minister of health, told the delegation on Feb. 24 that after 11 years of constantly worsening conditions, this year the situation had finally stabilized and even slightly improved. Conditions are of course still horrendous compared to the excellent health care available to Iraqis before the 1991 U.S. war, when hospitals were targeted by bombs and missiles. Sanctions since then have kept out even standard medicines and medical equipment. They've also diminished the capacity of water purification plants, the food processing industry and the electric power grid. After years of deprivation, there are no surpluses to cope with an emergency. Every effort is being made to distribute generators, drugs, antiseptics and all other available material to different parts of the country. This time, said Clark, our greatest concern is the state of preparedness of the health services in the face of war. In 1991 when the hospitals and pharmacies were fully equipped, doctors ran out of everything in the first weeks of the war. When we visited hospitals in February 1991 there were no antiseptics, no gauze, no gloves, no antibiotics and no anesthesia. Thousands died because there were no materials to save them. But again, the bad water will be the greatest crisis. The world must be told of the impending crisis, Clark added. And there must be every form of emergency medical assistance now. SURFACE CALM IN BAGHDAD On the surface Baghdad, a city of 5 million people, is calm. Schools, workplaces, offices and shops are open. Traffic is heavy. There are photo exhibits and sports events, even weddings. Movie houses are open. But every small merchant says that people buy only what they absolutely need. People expect a horrendous war, with the civilian population a Pentagon target. My family has a plan when the missiles start to hit, Ali told us. We are all going to stay in the same room. Whatever happens, it will happen to all of us together. For decades, Ali and his two brothers have run a small fish store in a poor market neighborhood of Baghdad. Their shop had the misfortune of being near one of Baghdad's larger bridges. In the 1991 war, bombs destroyed the bridge and much of the community--and one wiped out their shop. The brothers worked hard and rebuilt their shop. But now people are too poor to afford to buy fish. We spoke to Ali on Feb. 22, just a week after the massive worldwide demonstrations against a war. Protesters are trying to stop the Pentagon's Shock and Awe plan, which the media say will deliver as much destructive power in two days with conventional weapons as the atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima in 1945. Ali remembered how hard it was to get drinking water after U.S. firepower destroyed the water and sewage systems in 1991. We drank whatever we could get, he said. Lots of people got sick. Many died, especially the children. In 1991, the Pentagon had a strategy of purposely targeting anything that people need for health and life. This included water and food supplies, the electrical grid necessary in an urban society, hospitals and schools. Thomas Nagy, professor of expert systems at George Washington University, has drawn public attention to declassified Defense Intelligence Agency documents showing that the Pentagon knew what havoc the destruction of Iraq's civilian infrastructure would cause. It was part of the plan. Nagy's findings appeared in the Sunday Herald of Sept. 17, 2000, and the September 2001 issue of The Progressive magazine. The latest figures show that the 1991 war and subsequent
Fwd: [WW] U.S. Pours on Threats to Get War Votes [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bdn7KI.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^ ---BeginMessage--- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the March 6, 2003 issue of Workers World newspaper - EVEN AS TROOPS ARE READIED: U.S. POURS ON THREATS TO GET WAR VOTES By Fred Goldstein The political effects of the massive worldwide ant-war demonstrations are being felt with a vengeance in Washing ton, in the United Nations Security Council and in capitals around the globe. The anti-war resistance has forced the Bush administration, against its will, to introduce a new resolution in a last-ditch attempt to get Security Council approval for its unprovoked war of aggression against Iraq. Despite this accomplishment, the danger of war looms larger as the Bush administration is preparing to defy the world. Nevertheless, the lesson of recent events is that a further escalation of the anti-war struggle is the only answer to Washington's intransigence. When the Bush administration went to the Security Council last November with Resolution 1441--which allowed the U.S. to proceed with its war plans against Iraq--the vote for it was 15 to 0. Washing ton then firmly rebutted the French government's argument that a second follow-up resolution would be required for any authorization to go to war. To get the unanimous vote, however, the U.S. grudgingly agreed to language in the resolution to the effect that, after the inspectors came back with their report, there would be further consultation with the Security Council. Since then, the anti-war movement has exploded around the globe. On Jan. 18, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in Washington and San Francisco, as well as hundreds of thousands more in Europe. This was followed by Feb. 15, when more than 10 million demonstrated around the globe, including nearly 2 million in London. BUSH'S ALLIES SHAKEN BY MASS PROTESTS These demonstrations shook the foundations under Washington's main ally in Europe, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as Bush's two other imperialist supporters there, Jose Maria Aznar of Spain and Silvio Berlusconi of Italy. And it was precisely these three countries that saw the largest anti-war demonstrations in the world. As recently as last month, wrote Patrick E. Tyler in the New York Times of Feb. 25, the White House acted as if it would not return to the Security Council for a second resolution. But Mr. Blair, stung by criticism at home, urged the administration to reconsider. ... Late last week, continued the Times, it was not clear whether Mr. Bush would gamble on the prospect of a highly visible loss in the Security Council after the ebullient highs of last November, when the Council voted 15 to 0 to affirm the administration muscular stand... But suddenly on Saturday morning, Mr. Bush's spokesman, Ari Fleischer, reported a conference call involving the president, the Spanish prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, Mr. Blair, and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy to map out the steps at the United Nations that would pave the way to war. That conference call set off a cascade of diplomatic lobbying on four continents that is continuing, wrote the Times. The lobbying is aimed at overcoming the French, German and Russian position. They are circulating a memorandum calling for more protracted and intensified inspections and opposing immediate war. Washington needs nine of the council's 15 votes and no veto by France, Russia, or China in order to pass its war resolution. THREATENING AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA According to an Associated Press dispatch of Feb. 24, Senior U.S. officials have been quietly dispatched in recent days to the capitals of key Security Council countries where they are warning leaders to vote with the United States on Iraq or risk 'paying a heavy price.' Washington is zeroing in on the African countries of Angola, Guinea and Cameroon and the Latin American countries of Mexico and Chile. The article quoted an unnamed U.S. diplomat as saying: The order from the White House was to use 'all diplomatic means necessary.' And that really means everything. Continued the article, The wording of the order is a twist on 'all means necessary'-the diplomatic terminology that authorizes going to war. A Mexican diplomat told the AP: They actually told us: 'any country that doesn't go along with us will be paying a very heavy price.' The visits from U.S. diplomats were described as
Re: NATO's Nostradamus Predicts: More Crises, More Missions Further Abroad, M...
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- In a message dated 10/15/02 2:02:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From Keynote Speech by NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson at the Defence Industry Conference, London October 14, 2002: "The Caucasus, Central Asia, Northern Africa and the Middle East all offer a rich menu of instability." (US corporations and military industry are just salivating over the thought of this gourmet smorgasbord of resources and workers.) He writes, "The U.S. will provide the indispensable core around which most military coalitions will be built," (Everyone else will be sous-chefs. The US will make and eat this meal.The U.S. is hungry. Overweight people get desperate for food. This is a recipe for mass murder and plunder. No wonder Hollywood promotes the Hannibal Lecter story to titilate the public appetite for cannibalistic horror. Robertson is a totally unconsious monster, an imperialist vampire.) This has the makings of a viscous cartoon. Who will draw it? --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^^=== This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===
Fwd: [WW] Bush Builds a War on Lies [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Oct. 17, 2002 issue of Workers World newspaper - NOT A SPEECH BUT A DIATRIBE: BUSH BUILDS A WAR ON LIES By Fred Goldstein President George W. Bush's speech in Cincinnati on Oct. 7 was designed to build momentum for Washington's planned war of aggression against Iraq. The speech contained an almost uninterrupted stream of lies, vilification and appeals to fear and threats, all couched as arguments to answer his so-called critics. Bush repeated his insinuation, made over and over again in other speeches, that the Iraqi government was somehow tied to the Sept. 11 attack. These insinuations were made without one iota of evidence. Bush reiterated the charge, denied by the Iraqi government, that Baghdad was producing biological and chemical weapons- again without any evidence. He repeated the charge that Iraq was on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon with which to threaten the United States. No evidence supplied. Bush again implied that Iraq had expelled weapons inspectors, when in fact it was the U.S. that had the weapons inspectors withdrawn in 1998, prior to the bombing of Iraq in operation Desert Fox. Iraq refused later to readmit the inspectors because the inspection team was being directed by Washington to violate the terms of the inspection regime by probing for military information that could be used by the Pentagon in an attack. SPEECH IGNORES IRAQI CONCESSIONS Bush completely left out of his talk the monumental fact that Iraq has made the major concession of agreeing to unfettered weapons inspections of the country by the UN. Not only did Iraq announce this concession, it followed it up by working out a detailed agreement with Hans Blix, head of the UN weapons inspection team, including arrangements to inspect government buildings like the headquarters of the Republican Guard and the Defense Ministry building, among others. This agreement was torn up by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on the grounds that it was based on a 1998 UN resolution specifying that the inspection of presidential sites had to be announced in advance and accompanied by an Iraqi official. The Iraqi government then stated it would allow unannounced inspection of presidential sites. Bush had the audacity to accuse the Iraqis of aggression for firing back in self-defense at U.S. and British war planes that illegally violate its air space every single day. They fly in the so-called no-fly zones and fire at will on Iraqi targets, killing many civilians in the process. These no-fly zones were simply declared by Washington in violation of all international law. By launching an uninterrupted stream of baseless charges-- while omitting any reference to Iraqi concessions--Bush made it clear that there is no condition that the Iraqi government can meet, short of resigning and turning over the government to a U.S.-puppet regime, that will satisfy the White House and prevent the Pentagon from launching an unprovoked war of imperialist aggression. Bush's hypocrisy could not have been clearer. On the same day that he was beating the drums of war against Iraq for supporting terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction, U.S. imperialism's client state of Israel--the only nuclear power in the Middle East--launched a massive invasion upon the densely populated refugee camp of Khan Yunis in Gaza, using tanks and helicopters. They fired a missile into a crowded street, killing 13 Palestinian civilians, including children. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared the operation to be a great success. BUSH LINES UP CONGRESS Bush's immediate political goal was to add momentum to the vote for military intervention about to take place in Congress. This vote, in turn, is meant to strong-arm the UN Security Council and let them know that whatever they do or say, Washington is going to invade. The first victory of the Bush administration in lining up the political establishment for the new unilateralism of the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz grouping came in the struggle over a joint congressional resolution on the war. This victory was attained on Oct. 2 when House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, a Democrat from Missouri, stepped forward to embrace the Bush resolution. He was photographed along with the Republican supporters of Bush announcing the deal on the
Re: [prime] Response to Bush's speech [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
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TALKING POINTS ON IRAQ FROM IAC/INTERNATIONAL ANSWER [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Maybe STOPNATO organizers can use these things we wrote up (tentatively) to organize agaisnt the war and bring people out on October 26. To come to the DC or San Fransico massive anti-war marches: call 202 332 5757. Check out the InternationalANSWER.org website to get help organizing buses, and actions in your area! --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^^=== This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===
Re: Waist deep in the big muddy [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- I was just humming "Lyndon Johnson Told the Natiion," the other day by Tom Paxton. Remember? "I got a letter from LBJ He said this is your lucky day, It's time to put your khaki trousers on Thought it may seem very clear WE'VE GOT NO JOBS TO GIVE YOU HERE So we are sending you to Vietnam." And that was the 60s, when the economy was humming a hell of a lot better than now. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^^=== This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===
Re: HEATHER, you got the wrong guy...hate mail [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Oh, I am so sorry! I was surprised that you wrote that! Yay, you're as good as I thought. Please forgive the cybergaffe. In solidarity, Heather --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: hate mail [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- David. Read some books. 1. Published book of articles by the IAC: "NATO in the Balkans" 2. " " " " " "IAC's "Hidden Agenda" Michael Parenti "To Kill a Nation" (IAC) Michel Collon, Liar's Poker. And Actually the "stories" you cite were every oneof them falsified. You've joined this list but you need to do your homework. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Fwd: [WW] Dismissing Iraq Concession, Bush Readies Oil-Grab [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.U
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 26, 2002 issue of Workers World newspaper - DISMISSING IRAQ CONCESSION, BUSH READIES OIL-GRAB By Richard Becker The Bush administration wants a new war against Iraq. And Bush and company want the people of the U.S. and the world to believe it's because of a grave threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. That phony pretext for war went up in smoke on Sept. 17. On Sept. 16, Iraq's government sent an official letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan stating that Iraq would allow UN weapons inspectors to return without conditions, to prove that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction. But Washington won't take yes for an answer. The White House's predictably arrogant response was to denounce Iraq's offer for the unconditional return of the inspectors. For those who have believed that Iraq's weapons were the real issue, this denunciation might have seemed somewhat surprising. What Washington's reaction shows is that Iraq's purported weaponry is not the issue at all. If it were, the Bush administration would have welcomed Iraq's statement. Instead, the White House, in its official statement, demanded a new, effective UN Security Council resolution that will actually deal with the threat Saddam Hussein poses to the Iraqi people, to the region, and to the world. ... This is not a matter of inspections, the Sept. 17 White House statement continued. It is about disarmament of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and the Iraqi regime's compliance with all other Security Council resolution. This is a tactical step by Iraq in hopes of avoiding strong UN Security Council action. As such, it is a tactic that will fail. It is time for the Security Council to act. The White House statement is just more disinformation and propaganda. Iraq, a country severely weakened by 12 years of war and blockade, poses no threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. Iraq has nothing to match up with the Pentagon's vast array of high-tech and nuclear weaponry. All of the surrounding governments have spoken out in opposition to a new U.S. war--an unlikely position if they believed themselves threatened by Iraq. U.S. AIMS TO START A WAR Its imperial arrogance aside, the only real content of the U.S. statement is that it makes clear that Washington is vastly expanding its demands on Iraq. The Bush administration's plan for a new UN Security Council resolution would be to impose conditions on Iraq that no sovereign state could accept. One much-discussed idea is so- called muscular inspection, i.e., sending in up to 50,000 heavily armed U.S. and British forces to do the inspecting. The objective of such a resolution would not be to resume weapons inspections, but instead to start a war. The Bush plan is to make the conditions so intrusive and onerous that Iraq would have only two choices: Surrender its sovereignty as an independent state or refuse to accept the resolution. Washington would then try to make it appear that Iraq itself was responsible for the war. Such a Security Council resolution would be like the Rambouillet accord, the U.S./NATO ultimatum that preceded the Yugoslavia war. In Rambouillet, France, in February 1999, then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright proposed a peace agreement to the Yugoslav government that called for the U.S. and NATO to have free and complete access to all of Yugoslavia. In other words, NATO and U.S. troops would have been authorized to occupy Yugoslavia immediately. Albright told Yugoslavia that Rambouillet was a take-it-or- leave-it deal--no negotiations. When the Yugoslav federal parliament voted to accept all of the Rambouillet accord except for the U.S./NATO occupation, the bombing began. A similar scenario appears to be in the making in relation to Iraq. Hours after the release of the White House statement, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told CNBC: Saddam Hussein has got to go, there's got to be a regime change. MANDELA CONDEMNS WHITE HOUSE The UN weapons inspectors left Iraq on Dec. 15, 1998, at the orders of the Clinton administration. The following day, the U.S. and Britain began an intensive bombing campaign labeled Operation Desert Fox against Iraqi cities, towns and military sites. A few weeks later it was revealed that the weapons inspectors had been acting as spies,
Fwd: [WW] War and the Class Struggle [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Sept. 26, 2002 issue of Workers World newspaper - WORKERS WORLD PARTY STATEMENT: WAR AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE The U.S. capitalist government is planning an immense crime, in front of the whole world. It is assembling a huge force for mass destruction, armed with the most sophisticated weapons created by military science. It has openly announced that its goal is to destroy the government of a small but potentially prosperous oil-producing nation that has defied its dictates. Bush labels the Iraqi leader evil and a monster. His father stages a special interview to say he hates Saddam Hussein. Cynical and sophisticated liars repeat this personalized bashing as though it were the profoundest political assessment. Since Iraq has done absolutely nothing, these epithets are supposedly reason enough to launch a war that will surely bring horrible consequences for the Iraqi people--and unknown risks to U.S. troops. The financial pages of the capitalist newspapers are already leaking inside information on which oil companies from which countries will be cut in on the profits to be made from Iraqi oil, depending on how much support they give to the U.S. war. All this, of course, will automatically be ratified by the free regime Washington installs. Not since the days of open imperialist domination, before the existence of a socialist bloc and the rise of liberation movements in the colonial world forced the lords of capitalist finance to conceal their objectives and prettify their methods, have the imperialist politicians been so crass and blatant about their aims. On Oct. 26, national anti-war marches on both coasts will give voice to the growing movement to roll back the war machine. Workers World Party wholeheartedly supports this effort and urges the broadest participation of all who want to stop the war. This period is reminiscent of when Mussolini attacked Ethiopia in 1935. Ethiopia had done nothing but resist becoming a colonial possession--at a time when all the rest of Africa had been carved up by the European imperialist powers. Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians with little more than horses and light arms fought back against the fascist army, which bombed and strafed them with airplanes and machine guns. The League of Nations, established by the victors after World War I supposedly to preserve world peace, did not really try to stop Italy's invasion. Much of its debate focused on how to get Ethiopia to make concessions to Rome. All this was a prelude to the inter-imperialist struggle that led to the mass murder of World War II. The Bush administration, which owes its existence to a fixed election and the capitulation of the Democrats, has tried to significantly override, in the name of homeland security, the bourgeois democratic political traditions until now tolerated in most developed capitalist countries. It gives the impression that nothing can stop it--neither mass nor official resistance in the Third World, not the strains it has generated with its imperialist allies/rivals, not the anti-war sentiments of the masses at home. But these arrogant servants of the capitalist oligarchy are short sighted. They are undermining the very basis of their power. All their vaunted technology is just a pile of junk once the fury of the masses is unleashed. The potential strength of the working class to intervene and change history lies not just in its numerical strength--in the United States it is the vast majority of the population, separated by a growing gap from the tiny class of super-rich owners of capital. Even more important is its strategic role in production. There can be no production without the workers--it's as simple as that. And a modern economy cannot be run by slave labor. It requires the participation of those enslaved not by law but by wages and the ideological hold of the ruling class. The war drive of big capital--especially pushed by the oil gang so well represented by the Bush administration--shows no signs of alleviating the deepening economic hardships of the workers here. On the contrary. The offensive abroad is matched by an offensive against the workers and their organizations at home. The capitalist economy is doing what capitalism does periodically: it is destroying some of its own structures-- through
Fwd: WWP on Bush's 'NATIONAL SECURITY STATEMENT' [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- (Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- The Forwarded Message Follows --- ---BeginMessage--- Workers World Party statement answering 'National Security Statement' The arrogant corporate gang now controlling the White House has issued a National Security Statement that is nothing short of a blueprint for Washington and Wall Street's domination of the world. It is a declaration of war on the world's working class and all oppressed peoples. Under cover of empty promises of justice and freedom, It is a message to all countries that still maintain some independence to submit their population to the capitalist market controlled by imperialist monopolies. It is a message even to all imperialist rivals-Japan and Western Europe-that they must accept U.S. hegemony or suffer consequences. It promises that U.S. forces will occupy the world and demands all other countries contribute their youth for cannon fodder and their wealth to pay the costs. Not even Hitler Germany could dare to make such a broad claim to the wealth, resources and hands-on control of the entire world. It even demands that there be no progressive income taxes. As the Roman Empire ruled ancient Europe and the Mediterranean, the National Security Statement would have the U.S. Empire rule the world in the 21st century. Workers World Party notes that those who drafted this statement themselves stole a national election where they lost the popular vote and that they consorted with corporate heads who are now recognized as some of the biggest crooks in the country. Yet they have the gall to demand democracy and an end to corruption throughout a world market they intend to dominate. But the Bush administration is not simply a gang of usurpers. They represent the U.S. imperialist ruling class--the bankers, billionaires, financiers, plus the generals, CEOs and politicians who serve them. They command the Pentagon, that is, the most dangerous collection of weapons of mass destruction known to human history. They can intimidate presidents and prime ministers throughout the world. They appear invincible. Except, except for one thing. There is still one force that can stop them. It can stop them if it is conscious of its own interests and it organizes on its own behalf. That force is the working class and oppressed peoples throughout the world and especially the working class in the United States. To build the Pentagon's weapons of mass destruction they need the submission of the U.S. workers. To command the Pentagon they need a willing supply of troops recruited from that same class. To impose their will on the world they need to stamp out resistance in every country, if every country's people are determined to resist. The Bush gang makes its National Security Statement at a time when it is robbing the working class here of all its security. It is press-ganging government workers into its security apparatus to rob them of their unions and their rights. It has overseen a massive rise in unemployment as the capitalist system enters a crisis of unknown duration. It's main job program is that of occupation troop-and lightning rod for the misery of the world's people. Workers World Party, on the eve of its Sept. 21-22, 2002, emergency national conference, answers the National Security Statement with our own International Solidarity Statement. We reject completely the concept that the United States has any more rights than any other nation in the world, and we will fight instead for the concept of equality among all nations. We call on all class-conscious workers, progressives, anti-racist fighters, those who struggle against all forms of bigotry and for the liberation of women and of gay, lesbian, bi- and transgender people, for the rights of immigrants, to join together to struggle against this outrageous blueprint for a U.S. Empire. We promise the workers and their organizations all over the world that we will pursue this struggle and we hope for their solidarity and mutual assistance. Only the international solidarity of the workers and oppressed peoples can stop the U.S. Empire before it seizes the world. National Committee, Workers World Party September 20, 2002
Fwd: [IAC] 1000+ ENDORSE Oct. 26 Nat'l March in Washington DC! - Add YOUR end...
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- 1000+ ENDORSE Oct. 26 Nat'l March in Washington DC! OCTOBER 26 NATIONAL MARCH on WASHINGTON DC with a joint action in San Francisco to STOP THE WAR ON IRAQ BEFORE IT STARTS! ***Add your ENDORSEMENT today*** To ENDORSE, go to http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/o26/o26endorse.html#endo The Bush administration is rushing towards war. The time to act is now. The people of the United States can stop this madness. World public opinion and almost every government opposes Bush's planned war of aggression. But it will take a mass peoples' movement--in the streets, workplaces, communities, campuses and high schools--to stop the coming war. On Saturday, October 26, 2002 -- the first anniversary of the signing of the so-called Patriot Act -- anti-war, civil rights, labor, student and other forces are joining together to launch a massive international mobilization in opposition to a new war against the people of Iraq. Mass marches and rallies will be held in Washington DC and San Francisco in the U.S., and in many other countries. As the Bush administration violates international law it has been systematically engaged in a campaign of division and repression in the United States including a wholesale assault on the Bill of Rights, institutionalization of racial profiling, and aggregation of near dictatorial powers to the Executive branch. In articulating the so-called doctrine of preemptive war, the Bush administration is preparing to violate all existing international law and the UN charter which forbids countries to carry out war except in the case of self-defense. Preemption is merely a slogan to justify a foreign policy of armed aggression and military adventure. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and company are planning to send tens of thousands of young GIs to kill and be killed in another war for Big Oil. Simultaneously, the Bush Administration is diverting billions of dollars to feed military conquest and away from jobs, education, healthcare, childcare and housing. The so-called debate that is opening now to public view from within the political establishment presents a necessity for all anti-war forces to become a major factor in generating an authentic opposition to U.S. war plans in the Middle East. The October 26 National March in Washington DC and joint action in San Francisco come just one week before midterm Congressional elections. There won't be a real national debate on a planned invasion of Iraq until the people are in the streets. We can't leave it to the military establishment to decide when and how they will go to war and to define the debate. We must tell Bush and his corporate and Big Oil patrons that we will not allow this to happen. This war can be stopped. Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz and company can be stopped. But the essential element must be the mobilization of a massive new anti-war movement in the streets. We call for civilians and soldiers alike to exercise their political right to speak out against an illegal war. On October 26, there will be a National March in Washington DC, a West Coast march in San Francisco, and protests around the world. ONLY THE PEOPLE CAN STOP THE WAR! JOIN US ON OCTOBER 26, 2002! *** To ENDORSE the Call to Action, go to http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/o26/o26endorse.html#endo GROWING LIST OF ENDORSERS!!! *INITIATERS* - A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition - Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation - National Lawyers Guild - Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general - Dr. Hans Christof von Sponek, former director of the UN Oil for Food Program - Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Auxillary Bishop, Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit - Rev. Graylan Hagler, Senior Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church - Dorothy Day Catholic Worker - IFCO/Pastors for Peace - Free Palestine Alliance - Muslim Student Association - Partnership for Civil Justice - LDEF - Mexico Solidarity Network - Nicaragua Network - Korea Truth Commission - International Action Center - Kensington Welfare Rights Union - Middle East Children's Alliance - Bayan USA-International *PARTIAL LIST of ENDORSERS* - San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO) - Howard Zinn, Peoples' Historian - Mumia Abu-Jamal - Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM) - Kathy Kelly, Voices in the Wilderness* - Black Voices for Peace - Los Alamos Study Group, Santa Fe, NM - Center for Constitutional Rights - Committee in Support of the Iraqi People -
Re: U.S. is from Mars, Europe is from Venus [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- In a message dated 7/24/02 7:08:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ' (The Europeans) forgot this transformation was made possible only because the U.S. defeated Germany' So glad they did it without any help from the USSR or anything. "European Union's highly emotional reaction to American use of force derives in large part, then, from its horror at facing war again in Europe" The little wusses! . "NATO is little more than a shell" A shill, he meant, for US dominance in Eurasia. Or. A mighty well-armed shell... Daniel Pipes (www.DanielPipes.org) is director of the Middle East Forum Daniel Pipes is a disgusting creature and an anti-Soviet cold warrior of the first water --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Fwd: [WW] Stocks Yo-you as Markets Reval $ 7 Trillion Loss [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 1, 2002 issue of Workers World newspaper - TURMOIL: STOCKS YO-YO AS MARKETS REVEAL $7 TRILLION LOSS By Deirdre Griswold The connection of the banking system to the meltdown on Wall Street has at last been dragged into the open with the revelation that Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase made secret deals with Enron to help cook its books. These deals, in which the giant banks helped cover up Enron's losses, were not undertaken out of compassion or even a buddy-buddy mentality among the CEOs. They are evidence that the biggest banks resorted to criminal conduct in order to keep investors and the public at large from knowing how shaky the entire structure of monopoly capitalism was becoming. Will the disaster now unfolding on Wall Street end in a grimly familiar scene: the twin towers of U.S. capitalism, the stock markets and the banks, swiftly crumbling right before the eyes of a horrified public? $7 TRILLION UP IN SMOKE In just 10 trading days in mid-July, beginning with the day President George W. Bush went to Wall Street to calm investors' fears, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly 1,500 points, or 16 percent. The carnage in New York is now dragging down global markets as well. More than two years of decline in the U.S. stock markets have already evaporated $7 TRILLION worth of paper wealth. This is nearly a year's worth of goods and services produced by the workers of this country. How could this unimaginable volume of wealth just disappear? In this chaotic economic system, the stock markets anticipate future production. It is true that they can move upward because of pure speculation, producing what is called a bubble. The easy credit of the last decade helped inflate stock prices. Eventually, prices rise far above the earnings of the companies, and the bubble can burst. This happens periodically. But this is not the decisive factor in the current sell-off, which has vaporized so much wealth, including the retirement funds of tens of millions of workers. It is a crisis of overproduction. In a general way, it is the expansion of production that drives up the price of stocks. Had the capitalist economy continued to grow, the future wealth represented by high stock prices would have been realized. However, the prices have dropped like a stone, especially over the last three months. Some $7 trillion in anticipated value has disappeared--not only because trend-setting big investors now expect production to decline, but also because they know that a depression will actually destroy a great deal of what value has already been produced. THE DREADED D-WORD Depression! Is that an appropriate word to describe the current crash and its effects? Investor's Business Daily seems to think so. On July 3 the New York financial newspaper published a graph on its front page showing an uncanny resemblance between the movements of the Nasdaq high-tech market over the period 1992-2002 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average for 1921-32, the years of boom and bust that ushered in the Great Depression. CBS MarketWatch on July 23 also referred to a depression. It reported that Analysts at research and money management firm Bridgewater Associates point out that this is the first time since 1930 that the stock market has fallen in the face of aggressive Fed easing [the lowering of interest rates by the Federal Reserve Bank--DG]. 'In that sense, we are in uncharted waters. Clinically speaking, a recession is an economic contraction brought on by tightening and ended by easing. A depression is a self- reinforcing economic contraction, perpetuated by debt liquidation in which central bank easing is impotent to reverse the contraction. Recent market action is symptomatic of depression,' Bridgewater pointed out. Actually, these turbulent waters are not completely uncharted. This country has been in a depression before. MASSIVE DESTRUCTION OF WEALTH In a depression, factories and offices stand idle, sometimes abandoned. The equipment in them grows obsolete or rots away. Even brand-new goods, like today's computers and their software, sit on the shelves only to finally be thrown away, outmoded long before they could have been sold. In the Great Depression of the 1930s, this destruction of goods and the equipment and facilities used to produce them
Re: US commandos: 'beat cops' of the world: Ochs[WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Cops of the World By Phil Ochs Come, get out of the way, boys Quick, get out of the way You'd better watch what you say, boys Better watch what you say We've rammed in your harbor and tied to your port And our pistols are hungry and our tempers are short So bring your daughters around to the port 'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys We're the Cops of the World We pick and choose as please, boys Pick and choose as please You'd best get down on your knees, boys Best get down on your knees We're hairy and horny and ready to shack We don't care if you're yellow or black Just take off your clothes and lie down on your back 'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys We're the Cops of the World Our boots are needing a shine, boys Boots are needing a shine But our Coca-cola is fine, boys Coca-cola is fine We've got to protect all our citizens fair So we'll send a battalion for everyone there And maybe we'll leave in a couple of years 'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys We're the Cops of the World Dump the reds in a pile, boys Dump the reds in a pile You'd better wipe of that smile, boys Better wipe off that smile We'll spit through the streets of the cities we wreck We'll find you a leader that you can't elect Those treaties we sighned were a pain in the neck 'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys We're the Cops of the World Clean the johns with a rag, boys Clean the johns with a rag If you like you can use your flag, boys If you like you can use your flag We've got too much money we're looking for toys And guns will be guns and boys will be boys But we'll gladly pay for all we destroy 'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys We're the Cops of the World Please stay off of the grass, boys Please stay off of the grass Here's a kick in the ass, boys Here's a kick in the ass We'll smash down your doors, we don't bother to knock We've done it before, so why all the shock? We're the biggest and toughest kids on the block 'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys We're the Cops of the World When we butchered your son, boys When we butchered your son Have a stick of our gum, boys Have a stick of our bubble-gum We own half the world, oh say can you see The name for our profits is democracy So, like it or not, you will have to be free 'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys We're the Cops of the World --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: No War for Oil! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Silverstein works (ed?) for Newsday and was (is?)there with that creature who started the Yugoslavia demonization campaign, Roy Gutman. If UNOCAL is that unimportant, how come he doesn't mention Karzai's connection with it, that is that he was thier consultant? Does it make a big difference whether a pipeline pipes oil or gas?? There's more natural gas in the former USSR than anywhere on earth. If they are not up for developing the pipeline these days, that has more to do with the decline in the world economy, which is a great deal more serious than the "crash of 2002," on the stock markets, and has a WHOLE lot more to do with global overcapacity, or "overproduction. " (That's a very cynical word to use when billions of people are starving, homeless, landless and jobless.) So Ken Firestone is doing his homework, denouncing "conspiracy theorists" and intimating that the US went to Afganistan to help the poor. My take is he's just like his pal Gutman, and working for the disinformation- meisters. HC --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: JANE'S: NATO on track for 'robust' enlargement [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- And "robust" enlargement is so good for the robust enlargement of military firms and perhaps to respond to "robust" unemployment statistics. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Fwd: [WW] Wall Street reels as WorldCom collapses [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the July 11, 2002 issue of Workers World newspaper - CAPITALIST BOOM LEADS TO BUST: WALL STREET REELS AS WORLDCOM COLLAPSES By Milt Neidenberg The fallout from the financial crisis at WorldCom, the second-largest long-distance telephone service provider in the country, is incalculable. The corporation, which is on the edge of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, controls over 70 percent of Internet traffic at some point, about 30 percent of consumer long-distance phone calls, and 50 percent of all corporate communications in the U.S. Chief Executive Officer John Sidgemore announced that another 17,000 workers would be laid off immediately. Of a predominately non-union workforce that once totaled 80,000, some 6,000 have already been axed. Sidgemore assured the government, which relies heavily on WorldCom circuits, that there would be no disruptions of vital communications, meaning the workloads of the remaining workers will increase dramatically. Sidgemore, who dumped most of his shares in the company while management was cooking the books, has stashed away close to $90 million. But his take is much higher when additional benefits are included. Other insiders, including former and current officers and board members, walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars. One long-time WorldCom employee in New Jersey told Workers World how the layoffs were carried out: You could hear a pin drop. Those of us who didn't receive a pink slip watched as cardboard boxes piled up outside the buildings were handed out to our sisters and brothers. Management told them to fill up the boxes with the personal belongings they had accumulated during years of service. Most controlled their emotions. They were followed by guards to make sure the company property was secure. CAPITALISTS' OLD LAMENT: TOO MUCH CAPACITY WorldCom's demise, following the boom and bust period currently affecting the strategic telecommunications industry, has triggered a monumental crisis. There is just too much capacity and competition within the industry--too many sellers and not enough buyers. It has drawn the attention of the Bush administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Federal Communications Commission and congressional oversight committees. All are frantically grasping for Band-Aids to dampen the growing anger over this criminal activity--and, most importantly, to allay the fears that the fallout will not be isolated but will affect the economy as a whole. The collapse of any individual industrial or financial institution, even one as large as WorldCom, might have only limited significance for the overall economy. On occasion, the financial markets even shrug off these developments and play up what is positive to calm the jittery nerves of investors. Capitalist propaganda, through the powerful and tightly controlled media, can often do this. But this time it may prove more difficult, given the crisis. A Wall Street Journal front-page article on June 27, titled Stock Market Complicates Central Bank's Challenge to Revive U.S. Economy, showed concern about accumulating scandals-- Xerox has joined the growing list--and wonders whether the gloom and doom on the market will affect economic growth. There is a risk that at some point the cumulative impact on business, investor and consumer confidence of declining stock prices and the drumbeat of news of corporate malfeasance takes a toll on growth, warns the Journal article. Federal Reserve Board Chair Alan Greenspan has challenged the analysts' concern. He would like the public to believe that the economy is improving, and that what goes on in the stock market does not affect economic growth. Tell that to the millions of unemployed. The stock market is the heart and nerve center of the capitalist system. Its health determines the entire economic and class underpinning on which the market rests. Sam Marcy, the founder of Workers World Party, wrote in Wall Street Crash, What Does It Mean? in 1988: The stock market should not be understood in the narrow sense. It broadly encompasses the heads of the biggest banks (such as the Federal Reserve Board), the heads of other exchanges and government agencies like the SEC. It is the most prominent representative of capitalist production itself. The hope for a vigorous recovery
Re: Rolf Martens, lika fin som vanligt... [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Yay! from Heather --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: Cheap whores! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Dear STOPNATO men: Of late I see references in the (subject posting box) to someone's "bitch" and now this. These are sexist terms, my brothers, and you need to find some other epithets and metaphors with which to excoriate the enemies of the people. Surely there are more vilifying terms you can find that do not smack of sexism and the degradation of women! In sisterly solidarity, Heather --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: Is America at war with China? (*Not* with Bushy Co.?) [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG...
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Why did you even bother to post this stuff? Stopnato is more serious than this, and you are being irresponsible to post the ravings of some drug addict-paranoid-LaRouchian nutcase! --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Fwd: [WW] 'Homeland Security' and capitalist instability [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the July 4, 2002 issue of Workers World newspaper - BEHIND THE BUSH-ASHCROFT MAKEOVER OF THE STATE: HOMELAND SECURITY AND CAPITALIST INSTABILITY By Fred Goldstein The attempted restructuring of the state apparatus under the label of homeland security and the granting of more repressive powers to the FBI once again have to be viewed in light of the problems of U.S. imperialism at home and abroad. These encompass both the present and the future- including the long-term outlook for capitalist economic instability and crisis. With the stock market sinking, the so-called economic recovery sputtering, and the world capitalist economy suffering from global overproduction, it is a natural step for the government to open up repression. The movement should know that when the Bush administration talks about homeland security, it is aimed against working-class resistance to the hardships brought about by an economic crisis of the profit system. The new homeland security proposal to bring together 22 agencies--including the Coast Guard, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Border Patrol, the Customs Service and others--is being hailed as the greatest overhaul of the government since President Harry S. Truman created the CIA in 1946. Whether or not the Bush plan is approved in its present form or in some modified version--or is defeated by bureaucratic opponents--the fact is that this is an attempt by the capitalist government to partially reshape its repressive apparatus. It is meant to deal with vulnerability in a new world situation it has created. This major reshaping of the state is in response to the class struggle at home and abroad. The first dramatic transformation of the imperialist state in the 20th century took place when the FBI was empowered to open up a wave of repression after World War I. BIRTH OF FBI, CIA The FBI had been set up in 1908, but was not a highly functional repressive force until the ruling class took alarm at the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the upsurge of the class struggle in the post-war period. Major strikes in the steel industry, meatpacking, textile and the coal mines, plus a general strike in Seattle in 1919, showed a radicalization of the working class. It was met with a wave of repression. Attorney General Mitchell Palmer led what became known as the Palmer Raids. They were directed at the socialist and newly founded communist movements and the rebellious labor movement. Thousands were arrested in a series of coordinated raids; hundreds were deported. This temporarily set back the movement, but it regrouped and reemerged by the end of the 1920s and was a major force in the anti-racist and class struggles of the 1930s. The FBI took on extraordinary powers during the witch-hunt against the Communist Party in the 1950s as part of the Cold War. COINTELPRO was set up to cut down the Black, Latino and Native liberation, civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s. The next major restructuring was based upon the rapid and dramatic emergence of U.S. imperialism as a supreme world power after World War II. Having taken over the global empire of the weakened and exhausted British ruling class, as well as many outposts of the French, Dutch, Belgian and Japanese imperialists, Washington was now a global power. It was locked in struggle--with the Soviet Union, which had defeated the Nazis; with the Chinese Revolution, which had liberated one fourth of the human race; and with the national liberation struggles in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. The military-industrial complex, the basis of the Pentagon's power, had already taken shape during the war. But in 1946 Truman converted a wartime spy agency, the Office of Strategic Services, into a permanent instrument of counter- revolution, assassination and subversion: the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA went right to work in Europe trying to undermine the surging influence of communist parties and communist-led trade unions. It overthrew the popular nationalist government of Muhammed Mossadegh in Iran in 1953 and the popular land reform government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954. It carried out the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, first head of state of the newly independent Congo. It turned over Nelson Mandela, leader of
Fwd: [WW] What's behind worldwide hunger crisis? [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the June 27, 2002 issue of Workers World newspaper - WHAT'S BEHIND WORLDWIDE HUNGER CRISIS? By Monica Moorehead In mid-June the United Nations hosted a food summit in Rome that focused attention on the rise of hunger worldwide. The conference brought together over 6,600 participants representing 181 countries and 1,000 organizations. Seventy- five government leaders were also present. High-level representatives of many of the major imperialist countries--including the United States, Britain, Germany, Canada, France and others--boycotted the conference. The notable absence of these leaders infuriated many conference participants, most of whom represent the poorest developing countries that are dealing with hunger and malnutrition on a massive scale. Many of these countries are located on the continents of Africa, Asia and Latin America and in the formerly socialist region of Eastern Europe. In southern Africa alone, an estimated 13 million people go to bed hungry each night. The African continent is bracing itself for another major drought. On top of this, Africa is losing a whole generation of young people, numbering in the millions, to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The four-day food summit was called to develop a program of action to try to alleviate hunger, which affects 800 million of the 1.2 billion people who are officially impoverished by UN standards. This means that they subsist on $1 a day or less. An estimated 24,000 people die needlessly from hunger every day. The vast majority of those living in poverty are women and children trying to survive in semi-feudal conditions. One goal the conference agreed on was to develop projects to cut the number of hungry people in half by 2015. This was the same goal set at the 1996 summit on world hunger. Last September, former Pakistani Agriculture Minister Sartaj Aziz spoke on a panel on hunger in Bonn. He put forth some startling statistics: within the 48 least developed countries (LDCs), the number of malnourished people doubled between 1980 and 1998, to 40 percent of their total population or 240 million people. Aziz said the dependence of the developing countries on importing food rather producing food for their own consumption has increased dramatically over the past 26 years. The opposite is true for the industrialized countries that are able to export food because of a surplus. This surplus does not negate the reality that millions of people in the industrialized countries suffer from hunger and are malnourished. The LDCs are enslaved to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, institutions controlled by U.S. and European banking conglomerates, with unrealistic debt payments. This neocolonial relationship has played an integral role in exacerbating the poverty and hunger crisis for the poorest countries. THERE'S ENOUGH TO FEED THE WORLD But these statistics alone don't tell the whole story. According to Saskatchewan Interactive, worldwide food production is greater than the needs of the total global population. There is enough food to supply 2,700 calories a day per person to everyone in the world. Only 20 percent of the world's food production actually reaches people. Some of this food goes to livestock, while much is destroyed because it cannot be sold at a profit. The root cause of all the hunger, poverty and disease is the worldwide system of capitalism and imperialism--a cold- hearted economic system that treats every developing country as a potential market on which to dump its cheap goods, while at the same time destroying any semblance of independent social development for the well-being of the people. Imperialism destroys the livelihoods of farmers throughout the developing world. Local farmers' products can't compete after the industrialized countries flood the world market with cheaper goods. And who understands this social phenomenon better than the imperialists themselves? This is one of the reasons they did not take the Rome conference on hunger seriously and boycotted it. They knew that many delegates would rightly point the finger of blame for so much poverty and suffering at them. ZIMBABWE'S PLIGHT During the 1970s and 1980s, the southern African nation of Zimbabwe produced enough food to feed its population. Today Zimbabwe is forced to import food, which
Fwd: [WW] India, Pakistan anti-imperialist unity [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the June 27, 2002 issue of Workers World newspaper - INDIA AND PAKISTAN: ANTI-IMPERIALIST UNITY REACHES ACROSS BORDERS By Gery Armsby In response to mounting tensions and the specter of all-out war between their two countries, numerous groups and thousands of workers in India and Pakistan took to the streets June 13 to denounce threats of war by the Vajpayee and Musharraf governments. Left parties, workers' organizations, women's groups and anti-globalization forces in Pakistan and India carried out a day of joint anti-war demonstrations throughout their respective countries. A protest of more than 1,000 in Lahore, the Kashmiri capital within Pakistan's borders, was jointly called by four left parties of Pakistan: the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party, National Workers Party, Labor Party of Pakistan and the Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto). Several labor union federations, human rights and community organizations, and youths also participated. Despite a heavy police presence, the anti-war activists took their demands before the public at the Lahore Press Club, chanting, No to war, and U.S. imperialism out of South Asia. The Lahore demonstration demanded an immediate withdrawal of Indian and Pakistani troops from border areas and demilitarization of the part of Kashmir known as the Line of Control. Demonstrators also demanded an end to preparations for large- scale--and potentially nuclear--war being made by both India and Pakistan, an immediate withdrawal of all U.S. and other imperialist forces from the region, and respect for the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri nation. At a rally before the international press, speakers stressed that the policies of the U.S. government were largely to blame for the increase in tensions between India and Pakistan. They spoke against unprecedented nuclear proliferation in the region and demanded cuts in military spending. Many speakers expressed deep appreciation for Indian groups that showed solidarity by holding similar actions in the region and across India that day. They were optimistic that further coordinated actions of progressive forces in India and Pakistan would occur again in the near future. WORKER SOLIDARITY ACROSS SUBCONTINENT After learning of the Pakistani groups' plans for a June 13 demonstration, a coalition of left groups in India coordinated simultaneous anti-war, anti-imperialist protests in Delhi, Chennai, Calcutta, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Vijaywada and other major cities. The Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist)-Liberation, Socialist Unity Center of India, CPI (ML)-Red Flag, CPI (ML)- Unity Initiative, CPI (ML)-New Democracy, Communist Organization of India (ML) and the Marxist Communist Party of India collaborated to bring out their supporters among the Indian working class in a show of anti-imperialist solidarity against the mounting war crisis. More than a dozen rallies across India protested the warmongering of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party as well as the likelihood of increased imperialist intervention in the subcontinent as a result of the conflict. Six of the Indian groups issued a joint statement calling for unity against imperialist globalization, communalization and Gujarat genocide, war jingoism and subservience to imperialism, particularly U.S. imperialism. Gujarat is the scene of a vicious police campaign against minority groups and the poor. More than 2,000 Gujarat Muslims have been killed since late February. The joint statement, announcing a June 19-27 campaign of people's actions throughout India, warns, Though the war threat has receded apparently under imperialist maneuvers, [U.S. and other imperialist powers] continue to flood the subcontinent with arms and ruin the economy of both India and Pakistan further. The danger of U.S.-UK military presence in Kashmir has increased. With the military bases of the U.S. and its allies already in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the war moves on the border have provided opportunity for the aggravation of imperialist intervention in the region as part of the global policing by the U.S. The current phase of the conflict over Kashmir--which has its historical roots in the colonization of the region by the British--was ostensibly sparked by a May 14 attack against an Indian army base in Jammu that left 30
Fwd: [WW] Milosevic cross-examines war criminal [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the June 27, 2002 issue of Workers World newspaper - TURNING THE TABLES ON U.S.: MILOSEVIC CROSS-EXAMINES WAR CRIMINAL By Heather Cottin The prosecution has brought in its heavy hitters for the show trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague. They trotted out William Walker, the head of a U.S. peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, on June 12, followed by the head of the German army, Gen. Klaus Neumann, the next day. Even with Judge Richard Mays' open displays of hostility, Milosevic was not intimidated. The major NATO powers, notably the United States and Germany, created the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 1993 to criminalize Serb and Yugoslav leaders and personnel as part of their plan to dismember and re-colonize Yugoslavia. Milosevic confronted William Walker first. Walker worked for the U.S. State Department from 1985-1988 on Central America policy. He was U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador during the Sumpul River massacre. So he knows about massacres. He knows how to cover them up. Walker was an integral part of the Reagan-Bush war against the people of El Salvador that took nearly 100,000 lives. Walker was directly involved in another campaign of terror while in Central America. He supported the anti-Sandinista Contra fighters in Nicaragua with proceeds from secret arms sales to Iran. The CIA-organized counter-revolutionaries killed over 20,000 people in Nicaragua. 'MASSACRE' ALLEGATION BY U.S. WAR CRIMINAL It was Walker who first reported the story that the U.S. and NATO used to justify the 78-day bombing war against Yugoslavia in 1999. As the Associated Press noted in its coverage of the testimony, William Walker, the former U.S. head of an OSCE Kosovo peacekeeping mission, claimed he saw 'piles of bodies at Racak,' a massacre that focused world attention on atrocities by Serb forces. An analysis by Armen Georgian and Arthur Neslen in the April 5, 2001, edition of the New Statesman showed that the January 1999 Rakac Massacre came at a convenient time, when the Clinton administration was looking for an excuse to begin the war against socialist Yugoslavia. It was, according to the New Statesman article, reminiscent of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the CIA-manipulated story ... that escalated the Vietnam War. The report is notable, since the New Statesman is not friendly to Milosevic or the Yugoslav socialists. Georgian and Neslen pointed out that on Aug. 12, 1998, the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee had commented: Planning for a U.S.-led NATO intervention in Kosovo is now largely in place. The only missing element seems to be an event--with suitably vivid media coverage--that could make the intervention politically saleable. The Sunday Times of London reported in 2001 that Walker was inextricably linked with the CIA. In the Times story, diplomatic and intelligence sources alleged that the team led by Walker which discovered the Rakac Massacre was a CIA front that also gave logistical and technical support to the Kosovo Liberation Army. Milosevic knew all this. Cross-examining Walker, he charged that the CIA had recruited the OSCE team. In Kosovo, you supported a different kind of Contras, Milosevic charged, the Contra Kosovo Liberation Army. He also suggested Walker was involved in the murder of Jesuit priests and nuns in El Salvador. Clearly flustered on the witness stand, Walker said he had only supplied humanitarian aid to El Salvador from the air base used by U.S. authorities to provide illicit arms to the Contras. His credibility was clearly damaged. GERMAN GENERAL'S INCREDIBLE STORY The next day, General Neumann gave his testimony to the ICTY. His story was even more incredible. Neumann claimed, on the stand, that Milosevic told him in 1999 that Yugoslavia's problems would be solved if ethnic Albanians were murdered. Neumann was the commanding officer of KSK, the elite commando unit of the Bundeswehr, or German army. His unit trained the KLA in Albania and at NATO bases in Turkey in 1998. Milosevic's defense of himself and of Yugoslavia during the trial has proven that he knew intimately what NATO forces were doing to destabilize and destroy Yugoslavia. Milosevic knew Germany's role in dismembering the socialist federation. He knew that Klaus Neumann, the
Fwd: [IAC] SPEAKERS LOGISTICS for June 29 protest [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- June 29: What YOU need to KNOW - SPEAKERS, LOGISTICS more - On SATURDAY, JUNE 29, gather at 12 noon on Pennsylvania Ave. between 9th and 10th St. NW For DETAILS, see http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/0629/logistics.html#plan The JUNE 29 PROTEST will include SPEECHES and MESSAGES from: - Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general - Mahdi Bray, Executive Director, Freedom Foundation of Muslim American Society - Rev. Graylan Hagler, Senior Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church - Mara Verheyden-Hilliard Carl Messenio, Partnership for Civil Justice - Jennifer Harbury, counsel to Leonard Peltier - Ken Lerch, President, National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) local 39521 - Joe Leonard, Rainbow/PUSH Washington DC Bureau - Lynn Stewart, attorney under federal indictment for representing Sheik Abdel Rahman - Hanna Hanania, Free Palestine Alliance - Muslim Students Association of the U.S. and Canada - Kathy Hoyt, National Co-Coordinator, Nicaragua Network - Macrina Cardenas, Mexico Solidarity Network - Larry Holmes Brian Becker, Co-Directors, International Action Center - Bayan USA - Yoomi Jeong, Korea Truth Commission - Amer Jubran, Jaoudat Abouazza Defense Committee - Marcus Jean, Union activist threatened by Patriot Act - Rev. Phil Wheaton, Committee for Indigenous Solidarity - Constantine Kokkoris, New York City attorney - National Committee to Free the Five Cuban Political Prisoners Held in the U.S. - Peta Lindsay, A.N.S.W.E.R. student and youth coordinator - Harold Nelson, Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Committee (TASSC) WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IF *you're bringing a bus *want to get on a bus *are driving *are coming from DC For BUSES, VANS AND CAR CARAVANS coming from around the country, go to http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/0629/logistics.html#trans1 Driving DIRECTIONS from around the country: http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/0629/logistics.html#trans2 METRO DIRECTIONS for transportation within DC: http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/0629/logistics.html#trans3 Bus DROP OFF, PARKING and PICKUP car/van parking: http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/0629/logistics.html#dc1 With any additional questions you need answered or information you need, check http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/0629/logistics.html MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE JUNE 29 PROTEST IN DEFENSE OF CIVIL RIGHTS Article from NEWSDAY on June 29 protest: http://www.internationalanswer.org/news/update/061802pressconf.html#NYND FOR MORE INFORMATION [EMAIL PROTECTED] New York 212-633-6646 Washington 202-332-5757 Chicago 773-878-0166 Los Angeles 213-487-2368 San Francisco 415-821-6545 http://www.internationalanswer.org -- Send replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the IAC activists announcement list. Anyone can subscribe by sending any message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End Message---
Fwd: [IAC] NY Buses to 6/29 March on FBI [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- NYC Buses to June 29 Civil Rights March in DC All progressive New Yorkers are urged to get on the buses to Washington, DC, this Saturday, June 29, for a major demonstration in defense of civil rights. New York A.N.S.W.E.R. has chartered buses to take demonstrators to the Washington march, which will demand an end to the FBI and Justice Department's attacks on civil rights, especially the targeting of the Arab American, Muslim and South Asian communities. The demonstration will be held in front of the FBI and the Justice Department starting at 12 noon on Pennsylvania Ave. between 9th and 10th Sts. NW. After rallying at the FBI and DOJ, the demonstrators will march past the White House to Farragut Square, just two blocks from the White House, where there will be a concluding rally. NYC BUS DEPARTURE TIME AND LOCATION Buses will depart at 6:30 am on Sat., June 29, from West 14 Street between 5th and 6th Avenues in Manhattan. They will return that evening about 10:30 pm. PURCHASING BUS TICKETS To ride on a chartered bus, you need to purchase your bus ticket in advance. Round-trip tickets are $30 ($25 for students and low income). Tickets can be purchased at the International A.N.S.W.E.R. office until Friday evening, June 28, unless the buses sell out beforehand. We strongly advise that you purchase your ticket by Thursday evening. A.N.S.W.E.R. Office hours are Monday - Friday 10 am-8 pm; Saturday 11 am-5 pm. The office address is: 39 West 14 Street #206 (between 5th and 6th Avenues), NY, NY 10011. Phone: 212-633-6646. DONATIONS NEEDED TO SUBSIDIZE TRANSPORTATION Please consider supporting this action by sending a donation to help subsidize transportation for low-income participants. Checks can be made out to the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition and sent to the above address. You can also donate on-line at: http://www.internationalanswer.org/donate.html -- Send replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the IAC activists announcement list. Anyone can subscribe by sending any message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End Message---
Re: Fears over natural resources shortfall [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- "The team then calculated what would be needed sustainably to meet human demand for these various activities. They wrote: "Our accounts indicate that human demand may well have exceeded the biosphere's regenerative capacity since the Eighties." -Daily Telegraph June 25, 2002 :Fears over natural resources shortfall By Roger Highfield, Science Editor __ Capitalism produces human wants, but it does not answer human needs. To the capitalists there is a "natural resources shortfall." But it is merely because of the wastrel mentality of the capitalists that this is so. Public transportation, renewable energy like solar, wind, or wave energy, recyling and ending the flagrant overproduction of goods that are not at all necessary for people will immediatetly rectiify this false "scarcity" scare. Economists who repeat the capitalist mantras and promulgate capitalist dogma claim that the basis of the economic system is scarcity. But what is scarcity but a reliance on a ridiculous staus quo that focuses on profits and production of increasing numbers of useless commodities. In the United States, which uses 40% of the world's resources, and in the other industrial capitalist countries, people have been programmed to buy billions of useless objects. They work to spend; they do not work to live. People's culture, their enjoyment of nature or creativity or reading or a myriad of free activities has been manipulated so that even walking has been commoditized. There are special shoes, clothing,, magazines, treadmills. Life has degenerated into acquisition of goods and watching television which tells you life is about the acquisition of goods. Endless mindlessness. . . Meanwhile billions are unemployed or working as sweated labor so that this lonely, pointless and irrational system can continue. People starve while others spend money to diet. We could all be healthier and eat less meat, which would save tons of grain. The multinationals have bought up farmland to grow roses and special coffee beans and gourmet fruits, where people once grew food for their villages. Get rid of the multinationals amd the World Bank and the IMF and the people could grow food on the land. Marx spoke of the cash nexus, and this world now spins upon it. The emiseration of the people of the Third World and Eastern Europe is now joined by the growing poverty in the industrialized imperialist nations. There are plenty of natural resources, enough for all, and the Malthusians who wrote this piece have in their minds that this rapacious, destructive sytem must go on forever. They they fear it has its limits. And it does. The imperialists are in a race with time. And so are the communists. The awareness of the workers and peasants of the world is rising as the inevitablity of the failure of capitalism is dawning upon us all. The US and the imperialist nations are rapidly militarizing, ready to face the righteous anger of the people of the world who understand this system. The regenerative powers of the earth are stressed most of all by the use of fossil fuels. Global warming is actually killing the planet. The wars in the Middle East, Colombia, Africa and NATO expansion into Eastern Europe and South Asia, as well as imperial threats in Venezuela and other oil producing nations are all about s fossil fuels, most importantly oil and natural gas. But these fuels are not necessary to the planet. No one needs an SUV. We don't even need to own cars. We can rent them as needed and create great systems of public transportation. Heat and light and power can in part be created by renewable energy sources. The sun shines for free. The waves roll for free. The air blows free. As for all the clothes and toys and gadgets: we can learn to live without buying them to feed that insatiable appetite for things That appetite has been created, manipulated and propaganzied into an obsession by the capitalists. That appetite is a substitute for the human drive to live good and creative lives. Those pundits who fear a shortfall of the earth's natural resources are terrified that this obsession for things could disappear as people realize the danger and absurdity of this capitalist system. "Let the ruling classes tremble." "Tis the final conflict." --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
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HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- ---BeginMessage--- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the June 27, 2002 issue of Workers World newspaper - INDIA AND PAKISTAN: ANTI-IMPERIALIST UNITY REACHES ACROSS BORDERS By Gery Armsby In response to mounting tensions and the specter of all-out war between their two countries, numerous groups and thousands of workers in India and Pakistan took to the streets June 13 to denounce threats of war by the Vajpayee and Musharraf governments. Left parties, workers' organizations, women's groups and anti-globalization forces in Pakistan and India carried out a day of joint anti-war demonstrations throughout their respective countries. A protest of more than 1,000 in Lahore, the Kashmiri capital within Pakistan's borders, was jointly called by four left parties of Pakistan: the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party, National Workers Party, Labor Party of Pakistan and the Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto). Several labor union federations, human rights and community organizations, and youths also participated. Despite a heavy police presence, the anti-war activists took their demands before the public at the Lahore Press Club, chanting, No to war, and U.S. imperialism out of South Asia. The Lahore demonstration demanded an immediate withdrawal of Indian and Pakistani troops from border areas and demilitarization of the part of Kashmir known as the Line of Control. Demonstrators also demanded an end to preparations for large- scale--and potentially nuclear--war being made by both India and Pakistan, an immediate withdrawal of all U.S. and other imperialist forces from the region, and respect for the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri nation. At a rally before the international press, speakers stressed that the policies of the U.S. government were largely to blame for the increase in tensions between India and Pakistan. They spoke against unprecedented nuclear proliferation in the region and demanded cuts in military spending. Many speakers expressed deep appreciation for Indian groups that showed solidarity by holding similar actions in the region and across India that day. They were optimistic that further coordinated actions of progressive forces in India and Pakistan would occur again in the near future. WORKER SOLIDARITY ACROSS SUBCONTINENT After learning of the Pakistani groups' plans for a June 13 demonstration, a coalition of left groups in India coordinated simultaneous anti-war, anti-imperialist protests in Delhi, Chennai, Calcutta, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Vijaywada and other major cities. The Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist)-Liberation, Socialist Unity Center of India, CPI (ML)-Red Flag, CPI (ML)- Unity Initiative, CPI (ML)-New Democracy, Communist Organization of India (ML) and the Marxist Communist Party of India collaborated to bring out their supporters among the Indian working class in a show of anti-imperialist solidarity against the mounting war crisis. More than a dozen rallies across India protested the warmongering of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party as well as the likelihood of increased imperialist intervention in the subcontinent as a result of the conflict. Six of the Indian groups issued a joint statement calling for unity against imperialist globalization, communalization and Gujarat genocide, war jingoism and subservience to imperialism, particularly U.S. imperialism. Gujarat is the scene of a vicious police campaign against minority groups and the poor. More than 2,000 Gujarat Muslims have been killed since late February. The joint statement, announcing a June 19-27 campaign of people's actions throughout India, warns, Though the war threat has receded apparently under imperialist maneuvers, [U.S. and other imperialist powers] continue to flood the subcontinent with arms and ruin the economy of both India and Pakistan further. The danger of U.S.-UK military presence in Kashmir has increased. With the military bases of the U.S. and its allies already in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the war moves on the border have provided opportunity for the aggravation of imperialist intervention in the region as part of the global policing by the U.S. The current phase of the conflict over Kashmir--which has its historical roots in the colonization of the region by the British--was ostensibly sparked by a May 14 attack against an Indian army base in
Milosevic, Walker and Neumann [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the June 27, 2002 issue of Workers World newspaper - TURNING THE TABLES ON U.S.: MILOSEVIC CROSS-EXAMINES WAR CRIMINAL By Heather Cottin The prosecution has brought in its heavy hitters for the show trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague. They trotted out William Walker, the head of a U.S. "peacekeeping" mission in Kosovo, on June 12, followed by the head of the German army, Gen. Klaus Neumann, the next day. Even with Judge Richard Mays' open displays of hostility, Milosevic was not intimidated. The major NATO powers, notably the United States and Germany, created the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 1993 to criminalize Serb and Yugoslav leaders and personnel as part of their plan to dismember and re-colonize Yugoslavia. Milosevic confronted William Walker first. Walker worked for the U.S. State Department from 1985-1988 on Central America policy. He was U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador during the Sumpul River massacre. So he knows about massacres. He knows how to cover them up. Walker was an integral part of the Reagan-Bush war against the people of El Salvador that took nearly 100,000 lives. Walker was directly involved in another campaign of terror while in Central America. He supported the anti-Sandinista Contra fighters in Nicaragua with proceeds from secret arms sales to Iran. The CIA-organized counter-revolutionaries killed over 20,000 people in Nicaragua. 'MASSACRE' ALLEGATION BY U.S. WAR CRIMINAL It was Walker who first reported the story that the U.S. and NATO used to justify the 78-day bombing war against Yugoslavia in 1999. As the Associated Press noted in its coverage of the testimony, "William Walker, the former U.S. head of an OSCE Kosovo peacekeeping mission, claimed he saw 'piles of bodies at Racak,' a massacre that focused world attention on atrocities by Serb forces." An analysis by Armen Georgian and Arthur Neslen in the April 5, 2001, edition of the New Statesman showed that the January 1999 "Rakac Massacre" came at a convenient time, when the Clinton administration was looking for an excuse to begin the war against socialist Yugoslavia. It was, according to the New Statesman article, reminiscent of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, "the CIA-manipulated story ... that escalated the Vietnam War." The report is notable, since the New Statesman is not friendly to Milosevic or the Yugoslav socialists. Georgian and Neslen pointed out that on Aug. 12, 1998, the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee had commented: "Planning for a U.S.-led NATO intervention in Kosovo is now largely in place. The only missing element seems to be an event--with suitably vivid media coverage--that could make the intervention politically saleable." The Sunday Times of London reported in 2001 that Walker was "inextricably linked with the CIA." In the Times story, diplomatic and intelligence sources alleged that the team led by Walker which discovered the "Rakac Massacre" was a CIA front that also gave logistical and technical support to the Kosovo Liberation Army. Milosevic knew all this. Cross-examining Walker, he charged that the CIA had recruited the OSCE team. "In Kosovo, you supported a different kind of Contras," Milosevic charged, "the Contra Kosovo Liberation Army." He also suggested Walker was involved in the murder of Jesuit priests and nuns in El Salvador. Clearly flustered on the witness stand, Walker said he had only supplied humanitarian aid to El Salvador from the air base used by U.S. authorities to provide illicit arms to the Contras. His credibility was clearly damaged. GERMAN GENERAL'S INCREDIBLE STORY The next day, General Neumann gave his testimony to the ICTY. His story was even more incredible. Neumann claimed, on the stand, that Milosevic told him in 1999 "that Yugoslavia's problems would be solved if ethnic Albanians were murdered." Neumann was the commanding officer of KSK, the elite commando unit of the Bundeswehr, or German army. His unit trained the KLA in Albania and at NATO bases in Turkey in 1998. Milosevic's defense of himself and of Yugoslavia during the trial has proven that he knew intimately what NATO forces were doing to destabilize and destroy Yugoslavia. Milosevic knew Germany's role in dismembering the socialist federation. He knew that Klaus Neumann, the most powerful military leader in Germany, was the archenemy of the Serbian people and a united Yugoslavia. Neumann was part of the effort to supply and train the Kosovo Liberation Army, NATO's cat's paw in Yugoslavia. Milosevic could never confide in Neumann. He knew Neumann was an implacable enemy of peace in Yugoslavia. The ongoing trial in The Hague
Fwd: Fears over natural resources shortfall [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- "The team then calculated what would be needed sustainably to meet human demand for these various activities. They wrote: "Our accounts indicate that human demand may well have exceeded the biosphere's regenerative capacity since the Eighties." -Daily Telegraph June 25, 2002 :Fears over natural resources shortfall By Roger Highfield, Science Editor __ Capitalism produces human wants, but it does not answer human needs. To the capitalists there is a "natural resources shortfall." But it is merely because of the wastrel mentality of the capitalists that this is so. Public transportation, renewable energy like solar, wind, or wave energy, recyling and ending the flagrant overproduction of goods that are not at all necessary for people will immediatetly rectiify this false "scarcity" scare. Economists who repeat the capitalist mantras and promulgate capitalist dogma claim that the basis of the economic system is scarcity. But what is scarcity but a reliance on a ridiculous staus quo that focuses on profits and production of increasing numbers of useless commodities. In the United States, which uses 40% of the world's resources, and in the other industrial capitalist countries, people have been programmed to buy billions of useless objects. They work to spend; they do not work to live. People's culture, their enjoyment of nature or creativity or reading or a myriad of free activities has been manipulated so that even walking has been commoditized. There are special shoes, clothing,, magazines, treadmills. Life has degenerated into acquisition of goods and watching television which tells you life is about the acquisition of goods. Endless mindlessness. . . Meanwhile billions are unemployed or working as sweated labor so that this lonely, pointless and irrational system can continue. People starve while others spend money to diet. We could all be healthier and eat less meat, which would save tons of grain. The multinationals have bought up farmland to grow roses and special coffee beans and gourmet fruits, where people once grew food for their villages. Get rid of the multinationals amd the World Bank and the IMF and the people could grow food on the land. Marx spoke of the cash nexus, and this world now spins upon it. The emiseration of the people of the Third World and Eastern Europe is now joined by the growing poverty in the industrialized imperialist nations. There are plenty of natural resources, enough for all, and the Malthusians who wrote this piece have in their minds that this rapacious, destructive sytem must go on forever. They they fear it has its limits. And it does. The imperialists are in a race with time. And so are the communists. The awareness of the workers and peasants of the world is rising as the inevitablity of the failure of capitalism is dawning upon us all. The US and the imperialist nations are rapidly militarizing, ready to face the righteous anger of the people of the world who understand this system. The regenerative powers of the earth are stressed most of all by the use of fossil fuels. Global warming is actually killing the planet. The wars in the Middle East, Colombia, Africa and NATO expansion into Eastern Europe and South Asia, as well as imperial threats in Venezuela and other oil producing nations are all about s fossil fuels, most importantly oil and natural gas. But these fuels are not necessary to the planet. No one needs an SUV. We don't even need to own cars. We can rent them as needed and create great systems of public transportation. Heat and light and power can in part be created by renewable energy sources. The sun shines for free. The waves roll for free. The air blows free. As for all the clothes and toys and gadgets: we can learn to live without buying them to feed that insatiable appetite for things That appetite has been created, manipulated and propaganzied into an obsession by the capitalists. That appetite is a substitute for the human drive to live good and creative lives. Those pundits who fear a shortfall of the earth's natural resources are terrified that this obsession for things could disappear as people realize the danger and absurdity of this capitalist system. "Let the ruling classes tremble." "Tis the final conflict." ---End Message---
Fwd: [WW] What's behind worldwide hunger crisis? [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- ---BeginMessage--- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the June 27, 2002 issue of Workers World newspaper - WHAT'S BEHIND WORLDWIDE HUNGER CRISIS? By Monica Moorehead In mid-June the United Nations hosted a food summit in Rome that focused attention on the rise of hunger worldwide. The conference brought together over 6,600 participants representing 181 countries and 1,000 organizations. Seventy- five government leaders were also present. High-level representatives of many of the major imperialist countries--including the United States, Britain, Germany, Canada, France and others--boycotted the conference. The notable absence of these leaders infuriated many conference participants, most of whom represent the poorest developing countries that are dealing with hunger and malnutrition on a massive scale. Many of these countries are located on the continents of Africa, Asia and Latin America and in the formerly socialist region of Eastern Europe. In southern Africa alone, an estimated 13 million people go to bed hungry each night. The African continent is bracing itself for another major drought. On top of this, Africa is losing a whole generation of young people, numbering in the millions, to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The four-day food summit was called to develop a program of action to try to alleviate hunger, which affects 800 million of the 1.2 billion people who are officially impoverished by UN standards. This means that they subsist on $1 a day or less. An estimated 24,000 people die needlessly from hunger every day. The vast majority of those living in poverty are women and children trying to survive in semi-feudal conditions. One goal the conference agreed on was to develop projects to cut the number of hungry people in half by 2015. This was the same goal set at the 1996 summit on world hunger. Last September, former Pakistani Agriculture Minister Sartaj Aziz spoke on a panel on hunger in Bonn. He put forth some startling statistics: within the 48 least developed countries (LDCs), the number of malnourished people doubled between 1980 and 1998, to 40 percent of their total population or 240 million people. Aziz said the dependence of the developing countries on importing food rather producing food for their own consumption has increased dramatically over the past 26 years. The opposite is true for the industrialized countries that are able to export food because of a surplus. This surplus does not negate the reality that millions of people in the industrialized countries suffer from hunger and are malnourished. The LDCs are enslaved to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, institutions controlled by U.S. and European banking conglomerates, with unrealistic debt payments. This neocolonial relationship has played an integral role in exacerbating the poverty and hunger crisis for the poorest countries. THERE'S ENOUGH TO FEED THE WORLD But these statistics alone don't tell the whole story. According to Saskatchewan Interactive, worldwide food production is greater than the needs of the total global population. There is enough food to supply 2,700 calories a day per person to everyone in the world. Only 20 percent of the world's food production actually reaches people. Some of this food goes to livestock, while much is destroyed because it cannot be sold at a profit. The root cause of all the hunger, poverty and disease is the worldwide system of capitalism and imperialism--a cold- hearted economic system that treats every developing country as a potential market on which to dump its cheap goods, while at the same time destroying any semblance of independent social development for the well-being of the people. Imperialism destroys the livelihoods of farmers throughout the developing world. Local farmers' products can't compete after the industrialized countries flood the world market with cheaper goods. And who understands this social phenomenon better than the imperialists themselves? This is one of the reasons they did not take the Rome conference on hunger seriously and boycotted it. They knew that many delegates would rightly point the finger of blame for so much poverty and suffering at them. ZIMBABWE'S PLIGHT During the 1970s and 1980s, the southern African nation of Zimbabwe produced enough food to feed its population. Today Zimbabwe is forced
Re: Editorial: What does 'no massacre' mean? [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Human Rights Watch is the Arm of George Soros and a prppaganda tool of the CIA. So if they weigh in on the events in Palestine they are doing so for political advantage to the US and client state Israel. : HRW is wealthy and its tentacles reach out across the globe. HRW has opposed the sovereignty of Peoples Republic of China. Roth prosecutes the campaign opposing the right of the Chinese government to rule in Tibet and Xinchiang province. Roth has used the financial resources of Human Rights Watch to develop ongoing media campaigns against the revolution in Colombia. HRW actively opposed the election of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. Human Rights Watch Director Ken Roth is a powerful establishment figure. He helped overthrow the government of Slobodan Milosevic. In an opinion piece in of the Wall Street Journal (3/22) Roth has suggested a new tack on the U.S. war on Iraq, "Indict Saddam Hussein." HRW is 100% in support of the ICTY kangaroo court in The Hague. HRW supported the right of NATO and the Security Council to transgress all international law in the creation of such a "tribunal." HRW justified the kidnapping which brought Milosevic to his prison in The Hague last summer. Swans, an Internet website that posts articles not printed in the popular media recently noted the role of the George Soros' Human Rights watch in verifying US propaganda. Stephen Gowans on Nov. 12 writes. " Human Rights Watch, presenting itself as an impartial observer, produces lower estimates (of Afghan civilian deaths) than the enemy government does, and thereby underscores Washington's claim that the enemy is exaggerating for propaganda purposes. HRW is well-funded, and it's well-connected. Its links snake through the foreign policy establishment of the United States, through the State Department, and through the government's propaganda arm, Radio Free Europe." Heather Cottin --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Fwd: [WW] 100,00 in DC, 35,000 in SF: Free, Free Palestine [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the May 2, 2002 issue of Workers World newspaper - 100,000 IN DC, 35,000 IN SAN FRANCISCO: FREE, FREE PALESTINE By Monica Moorehead Washington, D.C. Some 100,000 people made history April 20 by chanting, Free, free Palestine, and, Stop U.S. aid to Israel, as the biggest pro-Palestine rally ever here defiantly transformed Washington into liberated territory. While there were many issues raised at the demonstration-- including opposition to U.S. intervention in Iraq, Colombia, the Philippines and elsewhere--the struggle in Palestine assumed central importance. Heroic resistance in the Occupied Territories had spread around the world and crossed the Atlantic to the United States. A large majority of the people who descended upon this political and military nerve center of U.S. imperialism were Palestinians and other Arab and Muslim peoples. Many were children and youths, waving the red, black, green and white colors of the Palestinian flag and wearing their traditional dress including the beautiful kaffiya scarves. They along with thousands of anti-war and revolutionary activists from the Black, Latino, Native, Asian, Jewish, lesbian/gay/bi/ trans communities, came to protest the brutal Bush/Sharon war against Palestine. The size and political significance of the protest com pelled some of the big-money media, including the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, to report the day's events. In addition, C-Span and Al-Jazeera--the world's largest Arab- based TV network--both showed live coverage of the White House rally. Millions of people worldwide--and especially in the Arab world--know what happened here April 20. Many mosques and Islamic centers as well as other sectors of the Arab-American community organized hundreds of buses to show support for the current phase of the Palestinian Intifada. People in 100 U.S. cities mobilized for the actions. They used every form of transportation to get here-- including car caravans, trains, vans and planes. As speakers and rally literature pointed out, the Bush administration had tried to use the attacks last Sept. 11 not only to push the United States into new war adventures from Afghanistan to Iraq, but also as an excuse to intimidate and demonize the most vulnerable and marginalized sectors of U.S. society--namely Arab, South Asian and Muslim communities. The turnout here April 20--and the crowd's mood--showed that the heroic Palestinian resistance to U.S./Israeli aggression in the occupied territories has helped reverse the reactionary tide of intimidation and paralysis that had plagued the movement for social justice here and worldwide since Sept. 11. Ever since the U.S.-backed Israeli terrorist killing machine elevated its murderous assault on the Palestinians beginning on March 29, the whole world has watched in horror as the Israeli military destroyed whole neighborhoods in Jenin, Jerusalem, Nablus and Ramallah. Many at the march carried signs showing graphic images of those who were either slaughtered or injured at the hand of the apartheid-like Israeli regime. An estimated 1,500 Palestinians have been massacred--500 in Jenin alone--and thousands injured. Besides the Washington, D.C., protest, another 35,000 people marched in San Francisco in support of the just cause of the Palestinian people. International solidarity protests were also called for April 20 in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; San Salvador, El Salvador; Managua, Nicaragua; Basque Country; Madrid, Spain; the cities of Tabasco, Oaxaca and Mexico City, Mexico; Montreal, Canada; Belgium; Japan; and South Africa. The International Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) coalition issued a call for activists to converge on the White House to demand an end to the U.S.-backed onslaught by the Israeli military against Palestinian civilians, and an immediate end to the 54-year-old illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine. ANSWER leaders said they made the conscious decision to build a pro-Palestinian demonstration to illustrate that supporting the Palestinian people's right to self- determination is part and parcel of the overall struggle against imperialist war and racist repression. Before the march began, 50,000-60,000 people gathered at the Ellipse, behind the White House. They heard a diverse
Re: The International Crisis Group [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- The Imperialists are getting restless. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
ANSWER RALLY in DC April 20th [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- I just got back from the Answer Rally which met at the Ellipse across from the White House. This rally focused on the issue of Palestine, and its participants were overwhelmingly Moslem. Hundreds of Palestinian banners fluttered in the breeze, as the crowd took up the chants, "Free, Free Palestine", and "Bush, Sharon, What did you say? How Many Kids Did you Kill today?" "We are all Palestinians, was another cry that thundered across the broad expanse. The demonstration which Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) organized specifically targeted Israel's genocidal policy and to point out that Israel would not have any power-or weapons at all if the United States were not paying for every murder. At one point the rally chanted, "Pull the Plug!" This rally was different from the A-20 rally. What they said at the A-20 Rally I don't know, but they weren't linking US imperialism in the Middle east and their signs did not show opposition to the planned war in Iraq, unleess they were carrying ANSWER signs, which many were. . The two rallies joined in a march up Pennsylvania Ave. At the capital, speakers from the two coalitions joined together. They heard froom Cynthia McKinnon, the Congresswoman who is all alone against US aid to Israel and the whole Bush War Drive, but McKinnon still believes that Congress is where the change needs to take place. Larry Holmes of the IAC spoke later and recognized that the changes were coming from the unity of the forces all over the world, from working people and oppressed people who were fighting back in Palestine and Colombia and Nepal, who were challenging imperialism in Colombia and spectacularly in Venezuela. But the focus on Palestine was overwhelming by this second rally. A remarkable youth , a Palestinian woman who had been the Valedictoian at University of California Berkeley, spoke, urging all speakers to denounce Zionism as genocide. This powerful and dynamic organizer had been forced to talk second at her graduation, in violation of tradition, because the keynote speaker at the ceremony was Madelaine Albright, and our vibrant speaker would have decimated Madame Albright as the imperialsit floozie that she is. But Albright got jeered and hecked loudly and effectively. Amy Goodman, one of the A-20 presenters said. The young graduate of UC Berkeley quoted the Spanish Civil War Communist Delores Ibarruri, known as La Passionaria, who said,"It is better to die on our feet than to live on our knees!" Between the two rallies there were over 80,000 people who marched. I was doing video for People's Video Network and the rally went by, from the start, with 35 people walking abreast approximately (and often more) for 39 minutes down Pennsylvania Ave. It moved quickly,and the spirit was strong. A-20 was a more moderate coalition which had certain Zionist-ic elements, and feared antagonizing Jews who support Israel. But those who joined with ANSWER were moving the political movement in the United States into a very mature position. The support of the Palestinian cause marks a significant change. There is no people on earth who have been so vilified, forced into such appalling and horrendous conditions, grandparents and their grandchildren have been born in the miserable tents of the refugee camps. The world turned away from them, and they were deprived of everyhting, their land, their livelihoods, and now- their lives. Their fightback has awakened the world and we felt it in DC this day. When the Berkely Valedictoian said, "YOU MUST SUPPORT THE INTIFADA," a great roar came up from the crowd. The Palestinians and Bush/Sharon's genocidal policies and murderous actions have forced our movement into a radical new phase. They are the poorest, most oppressed people on the planet, and they are fighting back with their very bodies. No one could have heard those speeches and left without a sense of solidarity and respect for the courage of the Palestinians. That so many Moslem brothers and sisters joined with Christian, Jews, athiests-whetever in this mulktinational event marked the beginning of a new phase of the struggle. I'm no Bible scholar, but I think Bob Dylan was paraphrasing the Bible when he wrote, "The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin' Thinking about Bush's military buildup- a Paper Tiger, as we see in Jenin and in the streets of Caracas. In struggle, Heather --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail!
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HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- ---BeginMessage--- Dear Friends The following are three articles to be published in Workers World tonight and distributed to tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators in Washington and San Francisco April 20, included in an extra-large issue of WW. They are WW#8217;s lead articles on (1) Venezuela, by Andy McInerney, (2) Colombia, by Teresa Gutierrez, and (3) Palestine, by Richard Becker, plus (4) an editorial on Demonization and War, which focuses on the vilification of Arafat, Milosevic and Saddam Hussein. Since these are aimed at explaining difficult issues to a somewhat new audience, they may be useful to you. If anyone translates or uses them in any way, please send me a copy of what is done. The full issue of WW will be available on the web site www.worker.org by the weekend. Fraternally, John Catalinotto Mass uprising defeats U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela By Andy McInerney The revolutionary process underway in Venezuela passed a decisive test over the weekend of April 13-14. Hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants across the country rose up to defeat a U.S.-backed coup attempt organized by the Venezuelan capitalist class against President Hugo Chávez. It was a genuine victory of people's power in the first open clash of social classes in the oil-rich South American country. But the victory also lays bare the fundamental question of the Venezuelan revolution: how to organize the popular classes-the workers, peasants, soldiers and students-to defend the revolution against further assaults by the propertied oligarchy and the weight of U.S. imperialism. The Venezuelan Revolution, a process that opened with Chávez's election in 1998, is at a decisive crossroads. Its progress will require the international solidarity of all progressive people, especially in the United States. Chávez and the Bolivarian revolution Venezuela is a mineral-rich South American country bordering the Caribbean Sea. It is the third-largest exporter of oil to the United States-down from the largest when Chávez was elected in 1998. But the tremendous wealth that the oil industry generates has never impacted the lives of Venezuela's working class. More than 80 percent live in poverty. One percent of the population owns 60 percent of the arable land. The tremendous social inequities have caused tremendous explosions of popular outrage. In 1989, the ruling class unleashed a military assault on tens of thousands of people demanding lower food prices; more than 3,000 were massacred. In 1992, junior military officers led by Lt. Col. Hugo Chávez staged a coup attempt in solidarity with huge demonstrations against International Monetary Fund-dictated austerity measures. After spending two years in prison, Chávez toured the country advocated what he described as a Bolivarian Revolution against the pro-U.S. Venezuelan oligarchy. Named for the great South American independence leader Simon Bolivar, Bolivarianism has come to mean using Venezuela's wealth for the benefit of the people of Latin America, and Latin American unity against U.S. domination. His 1998 election was the result of an alliance between his Fifth Republic Movement, based on progressive junior military officers and rank-and-file soldiers, and the parties of the working class and left. His new government began to dismantle the political power base of the rich oligarchy. The two main political parties of the ruling class--the Democratic Alliance and the Social Christian COPEI party--essentially collapsed. A new constitution and National Assembly enshrined many of the key progressive political features of the new Bolivarian Republic. In the arena of foreign relations, the Chávez government steered clear of the traditional servile position to U.S. imperialism. Chávez traveled to visit Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He encouraged an independent OPEC. He brokered a deal to provide for Cuba with favorable terms. He refused to participate in the Pentagon's military campaign against Colombia's Marxist insurgencies. Beginning in June, the Venezuelan government began to turn its attention from the political arena to the economy. In November, Chávez signed a package of 49 laws aimed at addressing the social disparities in the country. At the heart of these laws were a land reform law and legislation aimed at restricting the power of the old oligarchy in the state industries, especially
Re: THE IDIOTS GUIDE TO YIDDISH SUPREMACISTS [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- They're Zionists, they are racists, imperialist lackeys. Calling them "Yiddish supremacists" is racist and anti-Semitic in the extreme. Let us stay away from religious mudslinging attacks. The issue isn't religion. Not all Islamic people are progressive (the governments of most Middle eastern nations spring to mind) we don't vilify the US because the majority are Christians. All of this is in thruth about capitalism, class, imperialism and militarism. It is true that the majority of Jews in the nation (US) have been manipulated by their temples and religious affiliatted groups to support Israel and oppose the Palestinians. But that is also true of all the American people who support US foreign policy, manipulated by the US government and the bourgeois media. The manipulated people can be freed of their false consciousness by analysis, organizing and a general feeling of discomfort with the policies of the State(s) they support. But if they are backed into a corner by racist remarks or ethnic slurs, they can't see past their own identities. Such attacks only strengthen imperialist manipulation of nationalist antagonisms. Heather Cottin --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Venezuelan Generals are SOA Grads [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Venezuelan Generals Backing Interim President are SOA Grads Army Commander in Chief Efrain Vasquez and General Ramirez Poveda, two of the major military backers of a transitional government, received training at the notorious US Army School of the Americas (SOA). Vasquez attended the school from January 23rd to December 2nd, 1988, taking a course called "Command and General Staff Officer Training". General Ramirez took a course called "Auto Maintenance Officer Training" from May 8th to August 11th, 1972. With military backing, Pedro Carmona, president of business leaders association Fedecameras, has assumed the position of interim president. The SOA, renamed in 2001 the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers, located at Fort Benning, Georgia. SOA graduates are consistently involved in human rights abuses and atrocities throughout Latin America. SOA Watch is still researching, with concern, the events in Venezuela. The involvement of SOA trained militaries follows a clear pattern in Latin America. Former Congressperson Joseph Kennedy, stated "the US Army School of the Americas...is a school that has run more dictators than any other school in the history of the world." In total, the school has produced at least eleven Latin American dictators. Its graduates include, among others, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, Major General Guillermo Rodriguez (who overth! rew Ecuador's elected government and became dictator), Major General Juan Velasco (who did the same in Peru), Lieutenant General Roberto Viola and Lieutenant General Leopoldo Galtieri (responsible for Argentina's "Dirty War"), Bolivian General Hugo Banzer Suarez (who despite murdering labor leaders and opposition politicians and sheltering a Nazi war criminal, was honored as a member of the SOA Hall of Fame in 1988), Major General Guido Vildoso (military dictator of Bolivia), Brigadier General Juan Melgar Castro (military dictator of Honduras), and JosĂ© EfraĂn Montt (dictator of Guatemala). In an attempt to diffuse public criticism and to disassociate the school from its reputation the Pentagon renamed the SOA in 2001 the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. SOA Watch maintains that the underlying purpose of the school, to control the econom! ic and political systems of Latin America through aiding and influencing Latin American militaries, remains the same. SOA Watch, founded in 1990, is a national, grassroots conscience-based group committed to human rights and the promotion of democracy. With offices in Columbus, GA, Washington DC and chapters in communities and on campuses around the country, our goal is to work in solidarity with the people of Latin America and to close the SOA/WHISC. ### For background information about the situation in Venezuela visit: http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=170970group=webcast --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: For those with a strong stomach [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Dear Angela, I have no idea why you choose to be on this listserv if you believe the Dutch and British governments are "highly intellectual" and have "have proven themselves over the course of HISTORY to make peaceful sound judgements based on logic." Now my brothers on this listserv have little patience with you, and suggest that no one take your comment seriously. But for some reason you were added to the list, so before you unsubscribe, I will take a moment to respond to your statement. You see, this triumphalism that is inherent in Blair's speech is the sound of the victory (we think it is temporary)of capitalism in its most savage state ever.The French call it "le capitalisme sauvage." The idea of having " a strong stomach" for Blair's remarks relates to his assumptions - and your own. See, the new jobs in Europe are mostly McJobs, but even the "good" jobs are the result of the process called "Globalization," which has impoverished the Third World and the former USSR and Eastern Europe. Not to be concerned about the immiseration of the people who have been destroyed by these economic developments marks you as a person who doesn't yet understand what is going on in the world . If you genuinely want to be "anti-NATO" you need to see that the growth of NATO, the war on Yugoslavia and now NATO expansion European and overwhelmingly US expansion into the European and Asian continents since the end of the COLDWAR has been aggressive, militaristic, murderous and avaricious. All the wars Tony Blair neglects to mention that have created these new Western European economic developments have robbed someone. Even his references to enhanced GDPs for the EU makes no mention of who got what. The working class and farming and service workers have not equally shared in the economic growth. He says that women are now working. Many have to because no longer in Europe can a family subsist on one salary. That's been happening in the US foe a longer time. Women working is not a mark of liberation. It is about wage slavery. Sure, women want to work at intersting and creative jobs, but those kinds of jobs are not commonly found. In the US that is painfully clear as the gap between rich and poor has grown massively since the 1980s. But European capitalists are also the major beneficiaries of globalization which, Angela, you need to see is imperialism in a monstrous and rapacious incarnation, more horrible for the poor and the workers- and the environment- than any system previously created. They are not making 'peaceful sound judgements,' they are destroying the world. If you don't see it this way, you should unsubscribe. Or you could start reading this stuff and open your heart and your mind and the truth will make you free. H --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: Hunt The Boeing [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- In a message dated 3/20/02 10:55:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs_en.htm A very strange report on tv last week showed the Pentagon "Bombing" and it said the Boeing was there, but the thing is, it wasn't!! The picture showed no plane at all. I didn't see it but Dierdre Griswold (editor of Workers World newspaper, and a totally reliable person, who had also received the so-called "Pentagon Plane hoax" e-mail) did see the tv report. Curiouser and curiouser. --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: Hunt The Boeing [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- OK, I see no plane-evidence. What happened to the people who were supposed to have died? There was some wife of a Bush flunky. She called on her cell to talk to her husband. Was much made of her sacrifice in the DC press?? Was this made up? Wasn't there a picture of the plane clipping the tops of the street lights which allegedly happened as it flew into the Pentagon? Aren't there eyewitness accounts? This is too mad. Were there no photos of this plane coming in? Heather --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: Uzbek Leader Chides West [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- What economic reforms is this leader refusing to implement? If Human Rights Watch doesn't like him, he might be doing something (gasp) socialistic.Remember, beforre Sept. 11, they and the other imperialists were about to decend on Lukashenko (for similar problems) in Byolorussia! HC --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
More milk [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- --- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- Feudalism - You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. Fascism - You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk. Communism - You have two cows. Your neighbors help take care of them and you share the milk. Totalitarianism - You have two cows. The government takes them both and denies they ever existed and drafts you into the army. Milk is banned. Capitalism - You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income. Enron Venture Capitalism - You have two cows. You sell four of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, which is owned by your cousin, a high ranking politician in Washington DC. You then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all eight cows back, with a tax exemption for sixteen cows. The milk rights of the thirty two cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by a majority shareholder, a Senator, who sells the rights to all forty cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eighty cows, with an option on forty more. No taxes are due, however, because last year, the majority shareholder Senator sponsored a bill exempting all trading in cows from corporate income tax. The Senator records the sale of two of his cows to a California Congressman, subtracts the expenses of raising all 90 cows (which includes a $1 million contribution to the Cayman Island Dairy Farmers PAC), and declares a loss of $3 million for the year. However, before the tax return is filed, the Senator sells 900,000 of his share options in the Cayman Island company for a profit of $36 million. Meanwhile, the shortage of cows in California has caused the price of milk to go up to $125.00 a gallon and occasionally the shelves are empty causing the store owners to have to close their stores on a rotating schedule. You then resign and retire to your $50 million vacation home in the Cayman Islands. ---End Message---
Capitalism, the World Economic Felons and the Waldorf Astoria [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.
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Text: Capitalism, World Economic Felons, and the Waldorf [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Working Class Crashes Bourgeois Party at the Waldorf: By Heather Cottin The arrogance of the ruling class is boundless. While 20% of New York City residents in 2002 have been forced to depend on soup kitchens and food pantries to stay alive, the leaders of the world capitalist system will be meeting and partying at the elegant Waldorf Astoria Hotel. They will be following a long tradition of the bourgeoisie In the Gilded Age, at the late 19th Century, the Robber Barons, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Belmont, Morgan, and the others attended extravagant balls and parties at the original Waldorf located on Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. At one party, according to Matthew Josephson in The Robber Barons, the men were given cigarettes wrapped in $100 bills, while the women received 14-karat gold bracelets as favors. In the period between 1890 and 1900 there was a terrible depression, and the median amount necessary for a family to live on for one year was about $500, according to the Historical Statistics of the US. These industrialists and bankers must have sniggered as they cavalierly smoked up what amounted to 1/5 of a family's yearly survival. One night in 1897, during the depth of a depression, one of the fabulously wealthy men of the age, Mr. Bradley Martin, had the entire lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria transformed into Hall Of Mirrors from the Palais de Versailles, reflecting the complete disregard that the monarchy had for the poor in the days just before the French Revolution. August Belmont wore a suit of armor marked with gold inlay of ten thousand dollars' value. Women wore beautiful and expensive jewels as if they were corsages (Protestantism in America: A Narrative History by Jerald C. Brauer) The ruling classes, then as now, were aware of the poverty running rampant through the cities, the poverty that was forcing thousands of farmers off their farms. They were the cause of it. It was they who paid the workers their miserable wages. It was they who sent their thugs and Pinkerton rent-a-cops to kill workers, as Carnegie did in the 1892 Homestead Strike. It was the industrialists who paid the farmers so little they were forced to sell their farms. A Populist Leader, Mary Lease thundered to a crowd in Kansas in 1890: "Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street and for Wall Street." Mary "Yellin' Lease said, "The great common people in this country are slaves and monopoly is the master ; . . . We will not pay our debts to the loan shark companies until the government pays its debts to us. . . let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware!" The working classes and the farmers were moving fast in those days. As the economy declined, immigrants and native born people joined together against the banks, the corporations, the system the workers called, "wage slavery." Eugene Victor Debs led the railroad workers in a strike that stopped the railroads. It took the army to break it up and Debs went to jail. There he read Marx's Das Kapital, and came out months later a socialist. In the South, refusing to be intimidated by the Ku Klux Klan Black and White farmers joined together against the ruling class whites and organized coops. They opposed the dreaded crop lien system, which turned the African American and white farmers into debtors on their own lands. And how did the ruling classes respond to these strikes and acts of defiance? They sent in the police and National Guards against strikers. They funded and armed and encouraged the growth of the Klan. They looked the other way when nightriders and vigilantes mowed down poor people, the majority of whom were Black, throughout the South. The bourgeoisie showed their sympathy for the plight of the workers by throwing what they called "poverty socials". A western millionaire had the ballroom in his home decorated as a hobo camp and his ruling class guests came in rags and tatters. It cost $14,000 to serve them "hobo stew" on wooden plates. The cost of the party was equal to what it would have cost to have fed, housed, clothed and provided for 2800 families for a year. The wives and daughters of the bourgeoisie felt virtuous and noble as they carried baskets of fruit to poor families in the crowded, fetid tenement houses. The bourgeoisie gave occasional charity balls for the poor, just as they do today. As they danced the night away in their satins and diamond tiaras, the men talking business over cigars, their concern for the poor was as cynical as it is today. The City of New York paid the Astor family $17 million for the land and on the site of the old hotel constructed the Empire State Building. The "new" Waldorf Astoria was constructed and opened at its present location with much ceremony as a playground for the ruling classes in 1931, in the midst of the
Lies about Iraq and Atta [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- By Bill Blum ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- Hello, is there anyone out there who's not yet totally cynical about US foreign policy and the propaganda that accompanies it? For months we've been told that Mohamed Atta, the alleged ringleader of the September 11 attacks, had met an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague in April, with all the ominous implication of Iraqi involvement in the attack that this story carried, along with the implied threat of US retaliation against Iraq. Well, in case you missed it, the NY Times reported on page B6 of its October 20, 2001 issue that Czech officials said they had been asked by Washington to comb their records to determine whether Mr. Atta met with an Iraqi diplomat or agent here. They said they had told the United States they found no evidence of any such meeting. ... Petr Necas, chairman of the parliamentary defense committee, said, 'I haven't seen any direct evidence that Mr. Atta met any Iraqi agent'. Well, that would seem to have put an end to that. All the American officials who have been hungering for a chance to further devastate the people of Iraq would have to find another pretext. Then, on October 27, the Times reported that: Speaking at a news conference in Prague, the Czech interior minister, Stanislav Gross, said that Mr. Atta met Mr. Ani, an Iraqi diplomat identified by Czech authorities as an intelligence officer, in early April. What's going on here? Said the Times: Mr. Gross and other Czech officials suggested earlier this month that while there was evidence that Mr. Atta had visited Prague, there was none he had actually met with Iraqi agents. It was unclear what prompted them to revise their conclusions, although it seemed possible that American officials, concerned about the political implications of Iraqi involvement in terror attacks, had put pressure on the Czechs to keep quiet. Part of the second sentence indicates that the Times writer was a bit confused inasmuch as it's been US officials trumpeting alleged Iraqi involvement, but that's neither here nor there. What's important is the claim that the first announcement by the Czech government may have induced US officials to put pressure on the Czechs to revise that claim. If the NY Times can express such unusual cynicism about US foreign policy, who are we to not have our doubts? ---End Message---
Re: Richard: On Latvia ( or: Why I hate Gorby) [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Oh, I really don't know if this is going to do any good. Richard (Knox) and Herb, and I am out of this . Perhaps it's been an edifying experience, but "Asterion" is right, we'd better spend our time on the struggle. do I see everyone rising to the bait, so I henceforth join Barry in ignoring your taunts and manipulations. . I do wish you'd stop re-writing history, and get off that knee jerk anti-Sovietism that seems to define your ideologies. Course, Rich you have that personal experience thing going, so that explains a lot. I am going to ignore your ad hominem insults , Richie. I am sending you an excellent piece by Dierdre Griswold, editor of Workers World Newspaper, which might clarify things on the Soviets in Afghanistan. Or not. Some people don't want things clear. And Richard and Herb? There is no "Third Way." It's socialism or barbarism. This isn't a multiple choice world. Two choices, ond one is bad and the other is better. In the today's ex-USSR and in today's Afghanistan: Barbarism. Brought to you by the Barbarians Inc. Headquartered in Washington D.C. (Branch offices in London and Bonn etc) For your edification: The Pentagon puts out what it calls country study books on almost every country in the world. They are updated every few years. These books contain basic information for the use of U.S. personnel traveling or working abroad. There's nothing classified in them. They're available in most libraries. "Afghanistan--a Country Study" for 1986 has of course the anti-communist line expected of a Pentagon publication. But it also contains much useful information about the changes instituted by the Afghan Revolution of 1978. Freeing women and peasants Before the revolution, 5 percent of Afghanistan's rural landowners owned more than 45 percent of the arable land. A third of the rural people were landless laborers, sharecroppers or tenants. Debts to the landlords and to money lenders "were a regular feature of rural life," says the U.S. Army report. An indebted farmer turned over half his crop each year to the money lender. "When the PDPA took power, it quickly moved to remove both landownership inequalities and usury," says the Pentagon report. Decree number six of the revolution canceled mortgage debts of agricultural laborers, tenants and small landowners. The revolutionary regime set up extensive literacy programs, especially for women. It printed textbooks in many languages--Dari, Pashtu, Uzbek, Turkic and Baluchi. "The government trained many more teachers, built additional schools and kindergartens, and instituted nurseries for orphans," says the country study. Before the revolution, female illiteracy had been 96.3 percent in Afghanistan. Rural illiteracy of both sexes was 90.5 percent. By 1985, despite a counter-revolutionary war financed by the CIA, there had been an 80-percent increase in hospital beds. The government initiated mobile medical units and brigades of women and young people to go to the undeveloped countryside and provide medical services to the peasants for the first time. Among the very first decrees of the revolutionary regime were to prohibit bride-price and give women freedom of choice in marriage. "Historically," said the U.S. manual, "gender roles and women's status have been tied to property relations. Women and children tend to be assimilated into the concept of property and to belong to a male." Also: "A bride who did not exhibit signs of virginity on the wedding night could be murdered by her father and/or brothers." The revolution was challenging all this. Young women in the cities, where the new government's authority was strong, could tear off the veil, freely go out in public, attend school and get a job. They were organized in the Democratic Women's Organization of Afghanistan, founded in 1965 by Dr. Anahita Ratebzada. Ratebzada's companion, Babrak Karmal, was one of the young revolutionaries who had formed the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan in that same year and would later become president of the country. Repression and revolution A revolution was literally thrust upon this young party in 1978. The reactionary government of Mohammad Daoud, which was close to both the shah of Iran and the United States, arrested almost the entire leadership of the PDPA on April 26, 1978. There had been a huge funeral procession just a week earlier for a murdered member of the party, and the progressive masses in Kabul saw the new arrests as an attempt to annihilate the party just as the military junta had done to the workers' parties in Chile in 1973. An uprising by the lower ranks of the military freed the popular party leader, Nur Mohammad Taraki--the soldiers actually broke down his prison walls with a tank. Within a day, Daoud was overthrown and a revolutionary government proclaimed, headed by Taraki. This uprising of the soldiers and the city masses, many of them low-paid
Re: From Lennon to Lenin : on culture in the movement(WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] [WWW
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- I almost deleted this. Then I read it and sent it on to a bunch of folks. Barry, did you write this? It would be nice to have a discussion about culture and the movement. I was a folksinger in the 1960s, and formed some groups in the 1970s, and wrote a lot of songs in the 1980s. (inspired by the Reagan et al. The question of whether the revolution needs music and dancing is not just one for anarchists. (Emma Goldman said, "If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution.") It is a question for Leninists too. Maybe not proper for STOPNATO, but with demonstrations coming fast and furious these days, songs and music can really liven up the crowds. The most exciting part of the Washington Demo on Sept. 29 was the moment in the march when the masses turned and saw thousands coming up the hill behind us and a chant leader called out a very complicated,dancy sort of chant: Black, Latino, Arab Asian and White No racist wars Home or abroad Defend our civil rights. We learned it and shouted it out and danced to it. It was one of the most powerful moment sI have experienced in years of demonstrating. And years before, in a NYC Mumia march, me and the strangers near me took up a musical version we invented on the spot from the chant, "Brick by Brick, Wall by Wall, Wr're gonna free Mumia Abu Jamal." We harmonized and played the soda cans we found with pens and sticks; we played on street signs as we passed them, and it carried us along. The French sing, the Latin Americans sing, the Africans sing. The uptight attitude about music has to break here, and more musicians need to make up crowd songs, easily sung, exciting songs. (NOT "All we are saying, is give peace a chance," though in September after the 11th, that was radical since to sing that was daring in NYC.) Youth is listening to music constantly, it is in their ears, on their radios, blasting out of their windows. But that is just passive. There needs to be a new effort to get music out; it isn't counterrevolutionary to bring music back into the movement. It was intrinsic to every struggle before now. It was the LISTENING passively, it was the bourgeoisification, the taking of the music BUSINESS by capitalism that was destructive. The people can take it back if the musicians will become part the people, not stars participating in the commodification of culture. Heather Cottin ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: Richard: On Latvia ( or: Why I hate Gorby) [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- The Marxist were imposing western values on the people of Afghanistan? Medical care, food distribution, education and female equality are western values? I'm not a cultural relativist, either. Silly me. I think addressing the economic and social problems which plagued one of the most impoverished nations on earth was a good idea. Go figure. ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: Richard: On Latvia ( or: Why I hate Gorby) [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- In a message dated 1/12/02 10:10:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a starting point - whether you favor anyone from the set Stalin-Putin over Gorbachev? yes. Im also curious whether you view him as better or worse than Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Thatcher, Blair. He's friends with them now, isn't he? He's perfectly comfy with them. He is now one of them, but without a nation to rule. He gave his country to them. They liked that. It fit nicely into their plans to own the vast resources of the USSR and to take the Third World without interference from pesky Revolutionaries who could get outside help. Nothing wrong with helping a friend in need, is there? Sending tractors to Cuba, training African doctors in Bulgaria, providing military assistance to Vietnamese to help fight agaisnt the the nation that was trying to "bomb them back to the stone age?" That wasn't a good idea? What is your vierw on freedom and dignity during the Stalin - Brezhnev period? Better than now. And lastly - was it the obligation of the Russians to continue the struggle for the rights of the people - when the people of all the wealthy countries refused to help them? Now whatever do you mean by this? That the people in the USSR should have refused to help the people in the Third World because the people in the US etc weren't helping them??? The capitalist countries take the taxes of their peole and use them to oppress the people in the Third World. The people here think they are "helping" the people in Afghanistan by bombing them. They were told they were "helping" the Vietnamese, and the US government killed over 3 million people in that land, leaving 1/6 of the land with poisoned craters of the helping bombs. People here were told we helped the Koreans, and 5 1/2 millions there were killed. Anywhere the US bombs or sends in troops is called "helping." Read Felix Green's The Enemy. Read Bill Blum's Rogue State. READ EVERYTHING MICHAEL PARENTI EVER WROTE!!! From your comments I gather you live in a country where people are allowed to express negative opinions about their government. Iam a citizen of the US; I will use my freedom of speech as long as I can. The Bush administration would use its Patriot Act to shut people up. It is important not to be afraid. The movement is not. Perhaps some people here, or maybe most people here are fearful about using freedom of speech, but I think that self-defeating. It won't last. I am part of the International Action Center. We have been "out there" expressing freedom of speech and opposing the policies of the state and federal governments for some time. There's something happening, and fearfulness about using one's freedom is diminishing. Richard. There is a foreign policy crisis. There is a world economic crisis. (now, heh heh, thanks to Enron, the Carlyle Group and Richard Butlerr and some dandy French writers) there's a Constitutional CrisisThe US is the superpower, but it is not invincible. Stop fussing about "Stalin to Breznev." If you are alone, find yourself a movement. If you are really and genuinely held back by the issues you are asking me about, I think you will be stymied. That would be a shame, because everyone has to get a move on. Time's a-wasting. My personality isn't very easily repressed. I tried. I was a child in the McCarthy era, and kept quiet, and many were silent and fearful. Now I am older and realize that fear and silence only allow the oppressors to triumph. Your pal, Heather ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: Richard: On Latvia ( or: Why I hate Gorby) [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- In a message dated 1/12/02 11:17:07 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: . In my experiences schools in the First World are institutions funded by blood money to indoctrinate children into acceptance of the class system. That's true, but most teachers are not very conscious. If they are indoctrinating kids, they are doing it out of an honest, if mistaken idea that what they are doing, the system they are defending is good. They really don't know any better. The money's not too good, but they are workers and they work pretty hard. I don't put them in the same catagory as a former Soviet leader who plays footsies with the imperialists. He knows better. But then the money is good. Needless to say, in my 34 years in the classroom I haven't been engaged in an effort "to indoctrinate children into acceptance of the class system." HC ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: Richard: On Latvia ( or: Why I hate Gorby) [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Richard, They (before-Gorbachev leaders in the USSR) were for socialism. Can you imagine them all taking money today from the bourgeiosie and saying nothing about the death of socialism in the USSR? I guess I can't. I am passionately on the side of the working class around the world. Those who oppose it or who lend themselves to defending capitalism are the enemies of the children of the world, they are the enemies of freedom and dignity. I cannot imagine anyone who I respect working consciously for the foundations and think tanks taking blood money to live and "work," as Michial Gorbachev does. He is a class enemy. If he were not, he'd be criticising everything; poverty, the wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, the World Bank, the IMF, WTO. He's be organizing Russians to take back their nation by force of arms from the felons who are destroying it. He's be in the streets of Moscow and (I hate this name) St. Petersberg (Leningrad, for goodness sake, LENINGRAD!!), with the workers, on strike, looting the food stores, defying authorities. Organizing, fighting, agitating. He'd be telling the world that the USSR came to the aid of the Marxist government in Afghanistan because the US and Pakistan was supporting the feudal brutal Mujahadeen. He'd be saying that that government gave women freedom, educated the children, was trying to bring Afghanistan out of the 7th century. And the US, in its most expensive CIA contra war EVER destroyed it.supporting the Taliban and the Northern alliance and the heroin trade. Gorbachev would talk truth. Silence. he is silent. I don't know who you are, Richard, but you must remember the part in John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World in which a revolutionary soldier stopped a bourgeois group from promenading across a bridge and walking past the building that housed the Bolshevik government. When they asked to pass, he refused them, saying that either you were with the proleatiat or the bourgeoisie, and the only people who could pass were with the proletariat. Or do you know the US labor song, Which Side Are you On? That is what this is about. This isn't about whether you think it was nice to have Glastnost or Peristroika, it is about how these policies helped lead to the destruction of the USSR and led to the wholesale death of the Soviet people. And the end of revoulionary movements everywhere. This temporary cessation of the foward movement of the working class will have cost several hundred million lives around the globe by the time the workers of the world finally organize revolution. Under socialism ,one can't afford to have well-intentioned policies. One must fight agaisnt bourgeois tendencies and resist the imperialists who are always going to try to annihilate socialism. That cretin Fukayama talked about an end to histroy. The Enlightenment was stopped. Capitalism won, all was ducky for the rich. It was not; but in the 1980s and 1990s capitalism spread around the world like a terrible scourge and the revolutionary immune system that was found WHILE THE USSR WAS STILL EXTANT was destroyed. Now that the capitalist system is globally tanking, now that the overproduction in every nation is choking the economies, now that the only real profits can be found in war, now the working class will be waking up. In Argentina, the left has put aside their differences and is talking and working together. In the US, young people are joining together to fight for civil liberties and agaisnt war. These are small, but indicative developments. Are you familiar with the Turner Thesis? This is the final appication of it. The US has rub out of frontiers, the capitalists can't invest many more places, the system has really outlived its usefulness, and Gorbachev isn't on the same page as those who know this. He worries about pollution. That's nice. So does the Sierra Club and the Boyscouts, but they aren't on the side of the working class, and neither does that "great leader" you admire. Heather I will stop. ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: Richard: On Latvia ( or: Why I hate Gorby) [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- I am in the middle of grading 104 term papers so I can't answer all your questions, but I wanted to explain why Gorbachev is so odious to me. As for Yeltsin and Putin, they were not the heads of the Soviet Union. (As for Yeltsin. I'd dance on his grave. And Putin let Yugoslavia die whle Russia disintegrated.) They were capitalist stooges of Russia. They are beneath contempt. But a man who still has support from the Left, Gorbachev needs to be seen in this context: In October of 1996, Tom Brokaw said on MSNBC: "The former President of the Soviet Union of course was a courageous, far-seeing prophet whose reforms set in motion the collapse of the Soviet dictatorship and the end of the Cold War." And what is he (now) doing? He heads up a think tank, the Gorbachev Foundation, which moved to Northeastern University in Massachusetts after leaving its headquarters at the Presidio ( A Former Military Base ) in San Francisco. Who's funding him? Who is providing the limos and money and stuff? And how much do you hear from your hero about the anguish of Russia and the immiseration of the people of the republics of the former Soviet Union? Any words of support for the hungry, homeless, jobless, and sickly people whose economic system has been destroyed by capitalism? If he is a communist or a socialist? has Had Gorbachev a heart or courage or outrage, he might be saying something about the destruction of the medical, educational, housing, cultural, industrial, and agricultural systems of his homeland. But no. Heard any of that from him since 1990? Is he publicly wringing his hands as infant and maternal mortality rates soar, women and girls are forced to sell their bodies, residents of the world's second greatest spource of petroleum and natural gas, and THE major coal producer of Europe shiver and freeze to death in their homes? No, he would not bite the hand of the international bourgeiosie who feeds and clothes him in 1000 dollar suits and pays him thousands to deliver speeches on world federalism or some such policy-wonkish nonsense. "How do you rate him vs Stalin, Khruschev, Brezhnev, Andropov, the other old guy, " You redbating me? I never was anti -Soviet, it's a trap and ultimately leads to opposition to socialism. I always knew that socialism was better for the people of those republics and the world than capitalism. Now the whole world can know it too. Liberals choose not to. Conservatives are laughing all the way to the bank. The death of the USSR has spelled death to millions not only in the former USSR but in the Third World.. No revoultionary struggle can find succor from the powerful nation which provided support, however paltry, for their movements of national liberation. That Gorbachev chooses not to make any reference to this in his speeches or statements is significant too. "To me - saying that the US helped destroy the USSR is like saying that Hitler helped contribe to poor mortality statistics for Jews Russians Gypsies and Communists." But this is a more significant point than you indicate. I suggest you read Sean Gervasi's seminal article on the destabilization of the USSR in the winter 1991-2 issue of Covert Action Magazine. And the Right Wing here is now gloating about US efforts to overthrow the USSR; so now they are admittting their role; read Peter Schweizer's Victory. See, the thing is, the myth that socialism didn't work was the way that the ideological spinmeisters manipulated millions to believe that socialism is passé. (They use the anti- Stalinism stuff to "prove" this as well) But the fact that the USSR was destabilized is not generally known. Hence my intense hatred of Gorbachev. He participated in his nation's demise and then left with some cushy capitalist backing. If he is back in Moscow, he is living well and feeling no pain, remorse, or responsibility. Sitting pretty, one might say. Was he an agent of the US? I don't know, but Gorbachev's function was to prepare the final solution to the Soviet problem for the USA and imperialist nations. It doesn't matter if he was a plant, he did the job. And he placed himself clearly on the side of the capitalists henceforth. And there he remains. Heather ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
1993 LATimes on oil in Somalia and US oil corps [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Copyright 1993 The Times Mirror Company Los Angeles Times January 18, 1993 THE OIL FACTOR IN SOMALIA; FOUR AMERICAN PETROLEUM GIANTS HAD AGREEMENTS WITH THE AFRICAN NATION BEFORE ITS CIVIL WAR BEGAN. THEY COULD REAP BIG REWARDS IF PEACE IS RESTORED . By MARK FINEMAN DATELINE: MOGADISHU, Somalia Far beneath the surface of the tragic drama of Somalia, four major U.S. oil companies are quietly sitting on a prospective fortune in exclusive concessions to explore and exploit tens of millions of acres of the Somali countryside. That land, in the opinion of geologists and industry sources, could yield significant amounts of oil and natural gas if the U.S.-led military mission can restore peace to the impoverished East African nation. According to documents obtained by The Times, nearly two-thirds of Somalia was allocated to the American oil giants Conoco, Amoco, Chevron and Phillips in the final years before Somalia's pro-U.S. President Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown and the nation plunged into chaos in January, 1991. Industry sources said the companies holding the rights to the most promising concessions are hoping that the Bush Administration's decision to send U.S. troops to safeguard aid shipments to Somalia will also help protect their multimillion-dollar investments there. Officially, the Administration and the State Department insist that the U.S. military mission in Somalia is strictly humanitarian. Oil industry spokesmen dismissed as absurd and nonsense allegations by aid experts, veteran East Africa analysts and several prominent Somalis that President Bush, a former Texas oilman, was moved to act in Somalia, at least in part, by the U.S. corporate oil stake. But corporate and scientific documents disclosed that the American companies are well positioned to pursue Somalia's most promising potential oil reserves the moment the nation is pacified. And the State Department and U.S. military officials acknowledge that one of those oil companies has done more than simply sit back and hope for pece. Conoco Inc., the only major multinational corporation to mantain a functioning office in Mogadishu throughout the past two years of nationwide anarchy, has been directly involved in the U.S. government's role in the U.N.-sponsored humanitarian military effort. Conoco, whose tireless exploration efforts in north-central Somalia reportedly had yielded the most encouraging prospects just before Siad Barre's fall, permitted its Mogadishu corporate compound to be transformed into a de facto American embassy a few days before the U.S. Marines landed in the capital, with Bush's special envoy using it as his temporary headquarters. In addition, the president of the company's subsidiary in Somalia won high official praise for serving as the government's volunteer facilitator during the months before and during the U.S. intervention. Describing the arrangement as a business relationship, an official spokesman for the Houston-based parent corporation of Conoco Somalia Ltd. said the U.S. government was paying rental for its use of the compound, and he insisted that Conoco was proud of resident general manager Raymond Marchand's contribution to the U.S.-led humanitarian effort. John Geybauer, spokesman for Conoco Oil in Houston, said the company was acting as a good corporate citizen and neighbor in granting the U.S. government's request to be allowed to rent the compound. The U.S. Embassy and most other buildings and residential compounds here in the capital were rendered unusable by vandalism and fierce artillery duels during the clan wars that have consumed Somalia and starved its people. In its in-house magazine last month, Conoco reprinted excerpts from a letter of commendation for Marchand written by U.S. Marine Brig. Gen. Frank Libutti, who has been acting as military aide to U.S. envoy Robert B. Oakley. In the letter, Libutti praised the oil official for his role in the initial operation to land Marines on Mogadishu's beaches in December, and the general concluded, Without Raymond's courageous contributions and selfless service, the operation would have failed. But the close relationship between Conoco and the U.S. intervention force has left many Somalis and foreign development experts deeply troubled by the blurry line between the U.S. government and the large oil company, leading many to liken the Somalia operation to a miniature version of Operation Desert Storm, the U.S.-led military effort in January, 1991, to drive Iraq from Kuwait and, more broadly, safeguard the world's largest oil reserves. They sent all the wrong signals when Oakley moved into the Conoco compound, said one expert on Somalia who worked with one of the four major companies as they intensified their exploration efforts in the country in the late 1980s. It's left everyone thinking the big question here isn't
Re: Richard: On Latvia [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- On Gorbachev. I see him as the man who sold out the USSR. The tool. He's collecting big bucks now in some US think tank , living a bourgeois life and and feeling no pain. But his countrymen and women are dying of hunger, cold and hardship. Yes, the US helped destroy the USSR, but Gorbachev was part of the problem, not part of the solution. He may even have been someting else. . . ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Fwd: Secret US Plan for Iraq War [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- The Observer Deember 2, 2001 SECRET US PLAN FOR IRAQ WAR Bush orders backing for rebels to topple Saddam Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver America intends to depose Saddam Hussein by giving armed support to Iraqi opposition forces across the country, The Observer has learnt. President George W. Bush has ordered the CIA and his senior military commanders to draw up detailed plans for a military operation that could begin within months. The plan, opposed by Tony Blair and other European Union leaders, threatens to blow apart the increasingly shaky international consensus behind the US-led 'war on terrorism'. It envisages a combined operation with US bombers targeting key military installations while US forces assist opposition groups in the North and South of the country in a stage-managed uprising. One version of the plan would have US forces fighting on the ground. Despite US suspicions of Iraqi involvement in the 11 September attacks, the trigger for any attack, sources say, would be the anticipated refusal of Iraq to resubmit to inspections for weapons of mass destruction under the United Nations sanctions imposed after the Gulf war. According to the sources, the planning is being undertaken under the auspices of a the US Central Command at McDill air force base in Tampa, Florida, commanded by General Tommy Franks, who is leading the war against Afghanistan. Another key player is understood to be former CIA director James Woolsey. Sources say Woolsey was sent to London by the hawkish Deputy Defence Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, soon after 11 September to ask Iraqi opposition groups if they would participate in an uprising if there was US military support. The New York Times yesterday quoted a senior administration official who admitted that Bush's aides were looking at options that involved strengthening groups that opposed Saddam. Richard Armitage, the Deputy Secretary of State, said that action against Iraq was not imminent, but would come at a 'place and time of our choosing'. Washington has been told by its allies that evidence it has presented of an Iraqi link to 11 September is at best circumstantial. However, US proponents of extending the war believe they can make the case for hitting Saddam's regime over its plan to produce weapons of mass destruction. A European diplomat said last week: 'In the past week the Americans have shut up about Iraqi links to 11 September and have been talking a lot more about their weapons programme.' The US is believed to be planning to exploit existing UN resolutions on Iraqi weapons programmes to set the action off. Under the pre-existing 'red lines' for military action against Iraq - set down by Washington and London after the Gulf War - evidence of any credible threat from weapons of mass destruction would be regarded as sufficient to launch military strikes along the lines of Operation Desert Fox in 1998, when allied planes made large-scale strikes against suspected Iraqi weapons complexes. Opposition by Blair and French President Jacques Chirac may not be enough to dissuade the Americans. One European military source who recently returned from General Franks's headquarters in Florida said: 'The Americans are walking on water. They think they can do anything at the moment and there is bloody nothing Tony [Blair] can do about it.' Bush is said to have issued instructions about the proposals, which are now at a detailed stage, to his Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, three weeks ago. But Pentagon sources say that a plan for attacking Iraq was developed by the time Bush's order was sent to the Pentagon, drawn up by Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, chairman of the joint chiefs General Richard Myers, and Franks. The plan is to work with a combination of three political forces: Kurdish rebels in the north of Iraq, radical Sunni Muslim groups in and around Baghdad, and, most controversially, the Shia opposition in the south. The most adventurous ingredient in the anti-Iraqi proposal is the use of US ground troops, Pentagon sources say. 'Significant numbers' of ground troops could also be called on in the early stages of any rebellion to guard oil fields around the Shia port of Basra in southern Iraq. ---End Message---
Fwd: This is Peace? NATO's Balkan Occupation [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- International Action Center 39 W. 14 Street, #206 New York, NY 10011 (212) 633-6646 www.iacenter.org TO CHALLENGE THE US/NATO OCCUPATION OF THE BALKANS, THE TRUTH MUST BE KNOWN Dear Friend, We need your help. The outrageous demonization that the wars of the past decade in the Balkans are the fault of the Serbian people and their leaders must be answered. Our second book on the decade of wars that dismembered Yugoslavia is ready to go to the printers. This well-researched and documented book, 'This is Peace? NATO's Balkan Occupation,' has involved hundreds of hours of work by a dedicated staff of volunteers. Now we are depending on your support. Four years ago the International Action Center published 'NATO in the Balkans.' That book proved to be a powerful tool for informing the public about US war plans in the Balkans. It went into three printings, was translated into Serbian and Greek, and sections of it appeared in publications in Italian, Spanish, Dutch, French, German and Russian. Our new book, 'This is Peace? NATO's Balkan Occupation,' fills a great void. There is no truthful record published in the US of NATO war crimes in the bombing of Yugoslavia. No one has exposed the illegal kidnapping and detention of President Slobodan Milosevic by the US-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal on Yugoslavia or the crime of NATO occupation of the entire region. The truth needs to be told. The US/NATO attack on Yugoslavia was truly the foot in the door, as the late Sean Gervasi pointed out in 'NATO in the Balkans.' It has led to yet another US war, this time in Afghanistan. As the United States military moves deeper into Central Asia, once again keeping the truth about this new war from the people of the United States, we must not forget the lies and aggression in Yugoslavia. Over 30 of the most courageous and articulate voices opposing US/NATO war crimes during and after the bombing of Yugoslavia have contributed to 'This is Peace? NATO's Balkan Occupation.' This 360-page book details the media campaign that hid the brutal destruction of Yugoslavia in the 79-day NATO war. The 20-page photo section clearly shows the civilian targets. The historical record of the People's Tribunals held in the United States and Europe charging NATO with war crimes are included in this volume along with the US funding and control of the International Criminal Tribunal based at The Hague. You know how important it is that there be an accurate record of these crimes. You know how difficult it is to live knowing the truth, but unable to get it out. 'This is Peace? NATO's Balkan Occupation' will enable activists and scholars here and abroad to understand what is at stake. NATO occupation is no solution for any of the peoples in the region. The prospect for a common struggle against outside domination and the thugs who have sold out to the multi-national corporations will be aided by the knowledge this book has to offer. You can do something important. You can help the International Action Center publish 'This is Peace? NATO's Balkan Occupation.' Please help to sponsor the printing and distribution of this vital work, which will be available both in English and in Greek by February 2002. The Serbian edition will be available soon after. The budget for this book is modest because our labor is voluntary, but we need to raise $25,000 to do a first press run. You can have your name listed as one of the people who made this book possible. Donors of $1,000 will be featured in the book as sponsors. Contributors of $100 or more will be thanked in print as well. You will also receive two copies of the book that can be given to a library, school, journalist, elected official or whoever you choose. In order to have your name listed in the acknowledgements we must hear from you by December 31. You can make a tax-deductible donation by writing your check to People's Rights Fund/NATO Book II. Your help has been decisive in the past. Please ensure that the truth about Yugoslavia is documented for the 21st century and for future generations. Your contribution will enable this to happen. With enduring appreciation for your generosity and commitment, Brian BeckerHeather CottinSara Flounders Gloria La Riva Milos RaickovichNadja Tesich This is Peace? NATO's Balkan Occupation The war in Yugoslavia signalled the start of US strategy to move into Eastern Europe and beyond How
Fwd: Rebuilding Afghanistan? [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ ---BeginMessage--- Rebuilding Afghanistan? by William Blum U.S. Meeting Envisions Rebuilding Afghanistan read the headline in the Washington Post of November 21. After a one-day meeting in Washington of leaders from two dozen nations and international organizations, US and Japanese officials said they had developed an action program for the long-term rebuilding of the war-ravaged country. This should throw another log on the feel-good-about-America fire that's been warming the frazzled citizenry since September 11. But like much of that fuel, there's likely a lot more propaganda here than substance. It's a remarkable pattern. The United States has a long record of bombing nations, reducing entire neighborhoods, and much of cities, to rubble, wrecking the infrastructure, ruining the lives of those the bombs didn't kill. And afterward doing nothing to repair the damage. On January 27, 1973, in Paris, the United States signed the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam. Among the principles to which the United States agreed was the one stated in Article 21: In pursuance of its traditional policy [sic], the United States will contribute to healing the wounds of war and to postwar reconstruction of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam [North Vietnam] and throughout Indochina. Five days later, President Nixon sent a message to the Prime Minister of North Vietnam in which he stipulated the following: (1)The Government of the United States of America will contribute to postwar reconstruction in North Vietnam without any political conditions. (2)Preliminary United States studies indicate that the appropriate programs for the United States contribution to postwar reconstruction will fall in the range of $3.25 billion of grant aid over 5 years. Nothing of the promised reconstruction aid was ever paid. Or ever will be. During the same period, Laos and Cambodia were devastated by US bombing as unrelentlessly as was Vietnam. After the Indochina wars were over, these nations, too, qualified to become beneficiaries of the America's traditional policy of zero reconstruction. Then came the American bombings of Grenada and Panama in the 1980s. There goes our neighborhood. Hundreds of Panamanians petitioned the Washington-controlled Organization of American States as well as American courts, all the way up to the US Supreme Court, for just compensation for the damage caused by Operation Just Cause (this being the not-tongue-in-cheek name given to the American invasion and bombing). They got just nothing, as did the people of Grenada. It was Iraq's turn next, in 1991: 40 days and nights of relentless bombing; destruction of power, water and sanitation systems and everything else that goes into the making of a modern society. We all know how much the United States has done to help rebuild Iraq. In 1998, Washington in its grand wisdom fired more than a dozen cruise missiles into a building in Sudan which it claimed was producing chemical and biological weapons. The completely destroyed building was actually a pharmaceutical plant which was producing about 90 percent of the drugs used to treat the most deadly illnesses in this desperately poor country. The United States effectively admitted its mistake by unfreezing the assets of the plant's owner it had frozen. Surely now it was compensation time. But as of October 2001, nothing had been paid to the owner, the government, or those injured in the bombing. The following year we had the case of Yugoslavia; 78 days of round-the-clock bombing, transforming an advanced state into virtually a pre-industrial one; the reconstruction needs were breathtaking. Two years later, June 2001, after the Serbs had obediently followed Washington's wishes to oust Slobodan Milosevic and turn him over to the kangaroo court in the Hague that the US had pushed through the Security Council, a donor's conference was convened by the European Commission and the World Bank, supposedly concerned with Yugoslavia's reconstruction. It turned out to be a conference concerned with Yugoslavia's debts more than anything else. Serbian premier Zoran Djindjic, regarded as highly pro-Western, said, in a July interview with the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, that he felt betrayed by the West. It would have been better if the donors-conference had not taken place and instead we had been
Fwd: [WW] A new virus (masquerades as a vote for peace) [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ A new virus is spreading by email that masquerades as a chance to vote for peace. Please do not fall for this virus and attempt to vote for peace. (You can vote for peace by attending the rally in D.C. on the East Coast and San Francisco or Los Angeles on the West Coast on Sept. 29. See http://www.internationalanswer.org for details.) Here's a description of the virus: Vote arrives in an in-box with the subject line Peace between America and Islam. The body text of the e-mail reads Hi. Is it a war against America or Islam? Let's vote to live in peace. Included in the e-mail is an attached document called WTC.exe. When the attachment is double-clicked, the computer is infected. Here's a link to a report on the virus: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/09/24/010924hnvote.xml?0924alert -- This message is sent to you by Workers World News Service. To subscribe, E-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, E-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send administrative queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Those 4000 Israelis? [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Still waiting for confirmation or denial of the story. Did they or did they not go to work at the wtc on Sept. 11? - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: [Iraq] Fw: [iac-disc.] israeli connection (fwd) [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Please look into this. Is this true? This is too big a thing to have "out there." Too big a post-Sept.11 "hoax," and worse than the Palestinian/Brazilian TV hoax about the people dancing in glee to pass around irresponsibly. Who can reliably check this out? There are other strange things: 1. The passport of one hijacker miraculously made it through the crash, conflagration, and building collapse to float conveniently down intact to be picked up by a passer-by. 2. One of the bags allegedly not loaded on the Boston plane had a Koran and a fuel calculator and "how to fly" instructions. How convenient. The only piece of baggafe that didn't get loaded was this incriminating evidence pointing to an Islamic perpetrator. The pilots knew very well how to fly. Very well, they were all incredible, especially the one that flew into the Pentagon, clipping the tops of the lightpoles as they flew unerringly toward their target. Heather - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
PLEASE SIGN THIS CALL AND SEND TO IAC ASAP [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Dear Friend of peace and foe of injustice. The International Action Center is putting out this call, and would like all people of conscience who agree with it to sign it immediately. Please do so if you can. We are calling for an international and overwhelming response as an answer to the war frenzy and vicious xenophobia sweeping the U.S. since the terrible events of September 11. Please join us. Thank you, Heather Cottin (for the IAC) A Call to Join a New Anti-War Coalition: International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War End Racism) Please join us in signing this call: Our most heartfelt sympathies and condolences are with all those whose loved ones were lost or injured on September 11, 2001. At this moment, we would all like to take time to reflect, to grieve, to extend sympathy and condolences to all. But we believe that we must do more. We must act now. We are assembling International A.N.S.W.E.R. to call for worldwide rallies against war and racism. On September 29, there will be a national march and rally at the White House in Washington DC, as well as marches on the West Coast of the U.S. and around the world. We call on all people of conscience and progressive organizations to take up this call and organize rallies around the world. We join with people all over the world who condemn the horrific killings of thousands of innocent civilians on Sept. 11th . But unless we stop President Bush and NATO from carrying out a new, wider war in the Middle East, the number of innocent victims will grow from the thousands to the tens of thousands and possibly more. A new, wider U.S. and NATO war in the Middle East can only lead to an escalating cycle of violence. War is not the answer. We must also act against racism. Arab American and Muslim people in the United States, in Europe and elsewhere, as well as other communities of color, are facing racist attacks and harassment in their communities, on their jobs and at mosques. Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism is a poison that should be repudiated. The U.S. government is attempting to curb civil liberties and to create a climate in which it is impossible for progressive people to speak their mind. The Bush administration is attempting to take advantage of this crisis to militarize U.S. society with a vast expansion of police powers that is intended to severely restrict basic democratic rights. On September 29, tens of thousands of people had planned to demonstrate against the Bush administration's reactionary foreign and domestic policy and the IMF and World Bank. In light of the current crisis, with its tragic consequences for so many thousands of people, we have refocused the call for our demonstration to address the immediate danger posed by increased racism and the grave threat of a new war. We call on people to demonstrate around the world on that day. Now is the time for all people of conscience, all people who oppose racism and war to come together. If you believe in civil liberties and oppose racism and war, demonstrate on September 29 in front of the White House and around the world. October 12-13 will be International Days of Action Against War and Racism. We urge all organizations internationally to join together at this critical time and take action. Initial Signers: Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Auxiliary Bishop, Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit Samia Halaby, Al-Awda Palestine Right of Return Coalition Barbara Lubin, Exec. Director, Middle East Children’s Alliance Rev. Lucius Walker, Pastors for Peace Teresa Gutierrez, Co-Director, International Action Center Nania Kaur Dhingra, Sikh Student Organization, George Washington University Michele Naar-Obed, Plowshares activist, Jonah House, Baltimore Pam Africa, International Family Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal Nino Pasti Foundation, Rome, Italy Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Nicaragua Network Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild Tom Hanson, Mexico Solidarity Network Kriss Worthington, Berkeley City Council Leonora Foerstal, Women for Mutual Security Njeri Shakur, Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement Michel Shehadeh, Los Angeles 8 Case Respondent Vieques Support Campaign Ray LeForest, Labor Organizer, 1707 AFSCME Arab Cause Solidarity Committee, Madrid, Spain Korea Truth Commission Congress for Korean Reunification Michel Collon, Belgium Anti-War Journalist Elmar Schmaehling, Retired Admiral, German Navy Struggle Against War Coalition, Italy Italian Tribunal on NATO Crimes in Yugoslavia International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War End Racism) National Office: 39 W. 14th St., Suite 206, NY, NY 10011 (212) 633-6646 Washington DC Office: 1247 E St. SE, Washington DC 20003 U.S.A. (202) 543-2777 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Web: www.iacenter.org - This Discussion List is
Re: email address phone number for Barbara Lee [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
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Peace Rally in New York reported as M [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
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New York Peace Vigil Misrepresented Deliberately by Media [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Carrying signs that said "Peace Not Vengeance" many thousands of New Yorkers met last night in Union Square park to urge a policy of peace and understanding. They stood against the xenophobia that is sweeping the country, the hatred and war fever cynically manipulated by the government and the press, and they stood with the thousands of people who have been intimidated and harassed because they are Moslem or people of color thought to be Moslem. Overhead the military jets pierced the skies over the quiet city. The crowd sang, "Give peace a Chance." At another vigil earlier in the afternoon, the crowd sang, "Imagine." In New York the desire is for peace, not war. But NBC, CBS ABC all reported the Union Square Vigil as if it were a rally for the USA, for mourning the victims, but not a call fro peace. This is deliberate distortion, engineered to drum up war fever. The images of people calling for peace with signs and songs was disregard by the press, and the media represented the vigil as a patriotic outpouring of nationalism and Americanism. - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: Open Letter to the GCP [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Dear Comrades, Please explain what this means. I do not understand it the references. It seems significnat, but it isn't clear what it is about. Sorry to be so confused. HC - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: War is a Racket! Smedley Butler on interventionism [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Smedley Butler also foiled the fascist conspiracy to take over the US in 1934. One of the leading conspirators in it was the lawyer who took Segregation's side in the Brown v. Bd. of Ed case in 1953-4, John Davis. Wall Street was heavily involved, including leading bankers. The ruling class tried organizing an army out of the Veterans of Foreign wars. They thought that Butler would support a right wing coup; he had spoken on behalf of trhe Bonus Marchers in 1931. They thought he was a dumb populist. Butler was disgusted by the idea of a fascist takeover, and he revealed their plot. - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: call for D.C. march: 'Global justice' [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Dear Bill, One of the implications of your post of the Wheeler article is that the IAC is planning "separate" activities, and Wheeler makes that seem somewhat divisive. The Global Justice Week of Action is one of several protests scheduled against the World Bank/IMF annual meeting. The Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ) and the International Action Center (IAC) are also planning their own week of separate, though overlapping, activities. Nothing could be further of the truth, and in fact, IAC put in requests for all the anti-IMF/World Bank "Beat back Bush" September demonstration permits last year, which is the only way these could have been secured. The many organizations participating in these days of protests are working in accord with each other, but IAC has been, as the NY Daily News put it, "The center of the Revolution." It is exciting and proof that the workers are pushing the major labor union to the left that the AFL-CIO is participating. But the IAC has been organizing all summer, especially in DC, and all over the country in almost two dozen centers, many of them newly organized, to gear up for the "Surround the White House" protest for September 29th. Note that the IAC, since this is going out on the STOPNATO listserv, was for the most part the only organization which supported Yugoslavia's right to sovereignty, explained how the US was destabilizing the state and attacking Yugoslav socialism, and organized the two tribunals held in New York in 1999 and 2000 about Yugoslavia. Although the Serb community in the US enabled him to speak at their meetings, the only left organization which provided an opportunity for my late husband, Sean Gervasi was the International Action Center. They published his work on Yugoslavia when other publishers refused. IAC stood alone as a multi-issue national organization that has consistently been against NATO expansion. STOPNATO has a special debt to this organization. It is not a divisive group. (The IAC is about to publish another work on NATO expansion and needs funds to do so, and STOPNATO subscribers could help with contributions for this endeavor. Go to IACenter.org for further details.) In solidarity, Heather Cottin - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: JUST A MORAL OBLIGATION [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - Rich, Go to the link. Sadly, it is just a new group of people in the Balkans who thought they could be left undisturbed by the rampages of the US government and NATO. (good sources there, though, it is well done, the webpage). As they calmly went about their Macedonian independent business for the past 10 years or so, many of the people of Macedonia may have thought they would be safe from NATO machinations . Now, they are learning the truth. The same forces that broke up Yugoslavia and the liars who talk out of two sides of their mouths are coming after them. To paraphrase Niemoeller, They came for the Slovenians but I wasn't a Slovenian, so I didn't speak out, and they came for the Croatians but I wasn't a Croatian so i didn't speak out, and they came for the Bosnians, but I wasn't a Bosnian so i didn't speak out, and they came for the Serbs (they ALWAYS came for the Serbs) and I didn't speak out., And now when they came for the Macedonians (and make no mistake it will be the Greeks, next, in Chimeria, as the fascists among the Albanians call it), there was no one left to speak out. So many of the Yugoslav people in the US and Canada are and were conservative and anti-socialist, that they never really understood why the US/NATO went after their country. It is infuriating, but that is a major part of the problem. So many are bewildered and depressed and confused by the events of the last 12 years. They see the connection with oil and resources, pipelines and cheap labor of the east, but they don't REALLY get it, because they may not have opposed US policy toward the rest of the world or may have been beneficiaries of the system which exploits others. The Anti-Globalist movement needs to take this on. To oppose NATO expansion is a priority that has to make the links with anti-imperialist struggle and the anti-Militarist struggle. It's coming. Some of the youth see it. We are all trying to clarify it. I am optimistic! Regards, Heather - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Fwd: [WW] Zastava plant: Workers vs. privatization [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK - - This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^ - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 16, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - ZASTAVA PLANT: WORKERS VS. PRIVATIZATION Thousands of workers at the Zastava plant in Kragujevac, Yugoslavia, brought traffic to a halt July 19 when they rallied to protest plans to privatize their factory, the biggest in Yugoslavia. Tens of thousands face losing their jobs. Sometimes all the currents of globalism converge on one factory, one town, one country. In 1999, when NATO bombed Yugoslavia for refusing to give up socialism and knuckle under to imperialism's military domination, the huge Zastava factory was one NATO target. The auto plant produced the Yugo automobile, weapons, and airplanes for the national airline, JAT. When NATO attacked Zastava, the workers in the city of Kragujevac went to their factory and protected it with their bodies. Many were injured in the NATO bombing. They considered it their factory--not just a place of work but their property. Under the Socialist Party-led Milosevic government, by law workers were allocated 60 percent of the shares in the factory. The state controlled the other 40 percent. When the new government of Vojislav Kostunica and Zoran Djinjic took power after the October 2000 coup, the first thing it did was privatize state property. Seventy percent of the Zastava shares were to be sold to private investors. Of course, the U.S. government and its representatives knew Yugoslavs would resent the privatization schemes because they would cost jobs. The AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy helped create Nezavisnost, a labor union friendly to an International Monetary Fund restructuring plan. More than one labor union represents the Zastava workers. But most of the workers were in the left and socialist Trade Union Confederation of Serbia. After the DOS-NATO coup, Djindjic promised that no worker would be fired; DOS cheated workers and workers now feel abused, said Darko Nadic, writing from Yugoslavia. DOS refers to Democratic Opposition of Serbia, the public relations name created for the right wing. Downsizing the Zastava factory will hit the left union members hardest. The DOS/NATO government is selling off the country's most valuable state-owned assets, according to Privatization Minister Alexsandar Vlahovic. With the cash from these sales, the government will compensate the pre-1945 owners of these properties--which would include Nazi collaborators. OPAH, a pro-privatization Yugoslav investment consultant firm, acknowledges that 27 percent of the Yugoslav work force is unemployed because of the bombing of Yugoslavia's industry and the privatization program. For Zastava, globalization means NATO bombs, the IMF, privatization, downsizing, unemployment, cheap labor, union busting and anti-worker governments. Despite attempts by company unions to sell out the workers, Zastava now displays one more hallmark of globalization: resistance. --H.C. - END - (Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For subscription info send message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.workers.org) -- This message is sent to you by Workers World News Service. To subscribe, E-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, E-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send administrative queries to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
