[PEN-L:11080] Re: Korean war

1997-06-30 Thread Michael Perelman
On a personal note, my mother's cousin, who is now in his 90s, was an army doctor who ran hospitals in Asia and a personal fried of Eisenhower's son. Perhaps for this reason, he was part of a committee to decide whether to drop an atomic bomb on N. Korea. The reason the army refrained from

[PEN-L:11078] Re: U.S. Must Withdraw From the Korean Pe

1997-06-30 Thread James Michael Craven
Gordon Taylor wrote: Do those who of you who think the South is a military threat to the North also think that the South started the war back in 1951? (perhaps anyone who would beleive that also doesn't beleive the Holocaust happened.) Response: Perhaps take a look at I.F. Stone's

[PEN-L:11076] inter-imperialist rivalries (III)

1997-06-30 Thread James Devine
Bill Burgess writes: Of course, but I don't think Lenin's *basic* notion of an age of imperialism (characterized by imperialist competition rooted in overproduction, and a general division between oppressed and oppressor nations) is so far off, even today. My point (developed in a longer

[PEN-L:11074] UN Human Development Report 1997: Marginalization Of Majority Of World's People

1997-06-30 Thread Shawgi A. Tell
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) was released this month. The facts it presents underscore the marginalization of the vast majority of the world s people and the increasing polarization between rich and poor, both amongst nations and within them. These facts are an indictment of the

[PEN-L:11072] New Party-- Positions Available

1997-06-30 Thread Matt Zeidenberg
New Party Positions Available The New Party is a new progressive political party that has won 2/3 of its first 200 races in ten states. In cities across the country, the New Party is working with local community organizations, unions, environmental organizations and issue groups to recruit,

[PEN-L:11069] Re: Nike hullaballoo in Vietnam

1997-06-30 Thread Doug Henwood
jf noonan wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you read all of Young's comments, he never addresses the core of the issue--the wages paid do not purchase any reasonable standard of living. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I heard a brief interview with him on NPR's

[PEN-L:11068] Re: inter-imperialist rivalries

1997-06-30 Thread Shawgi A. Tell
Greetings, On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, James Devine wrote: In one of Shawgi's postings, we read the following: The fact, however, is that the European Union, its member countries, and the U.S. have sharp contentions amongst themselves, not to mention the Russian Federation. The sharpening

[PEN-L:11066] Re: Nike hullaballoo in Vietnam

1997-06-30 Thread jf noonan
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you read all of Young's comments, he never addresses the core of the issue--the wages paid do not purchase any reasonable standard of living. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I heard a brief interview with him on NPR's _Morning Edition_ last

[PEN-L:11067] inter-imperialist rivalries

1997-06-30 Thread James Devine
In one of Shawgi's postings, we read the following: The fact, however, is that the European Union, its member countries, and the U.S. have sharp contentions amongst themselves, not to mention the Russian Federation. The sharpening rivalries amongst them and the other economic powers pose the

[PEN-L:11075] U.S. Must Withdraw From the Korean Peninsula

1997-06-30 Thread Shawgi A. Tell
U.S. imperialism is using the current food shortage in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as a justification to escalate its aggressions against the government and people of the DPRK. U.S. Defence Secretary William Cohen recently told the Senate Defense Committee that a possible DPRK

[PEN-L:11079] Korean war

1997-06-30 Thread James Devine
The following looks like a better book on the origins of the Korean War than the somewhat journalistic book by I.F. Stone. In desperate brevity, Cumings argues that there was already a full-scale civil war going on on the whole Korean peninsula before the "North Korean Invasion," which was simply

[PEN-L:11077] Re: U.S. Must Withdraw From the Korean Penninsula

1997-06-30 Thread Gordon Taylor
A few questions: How many people actually beleive that North Korea's intentions toward the South have, are, and will be, benign. Although South Korea's "democracy" is highly flawed and corrupt, does anyone beleive that a takeover by the North would usher in increased freedom or a higher