Re: Nation Magazine

2003-03-02 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 3/1/03 11:22:42 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just posted an article on Marxmail which tries to come to grips with the Nation Magazine's well-publicized clashes with a wing of the antiwar movement: I read your piece Lou and at the end you state:

Natural gas in Iraq

2003-03-02 Thread soula avramidis
Did you know that According to OAPEC, OAPEC members have 29.3% of world gas reserves second to the CIS,the CIS at 32%. Iraq has about 3500 billion cubic meters of reserves but its production is about 5 billion cubic meters and its production to reserve ratio is about 700 the lowest in the arab

solidarity with muslim peoples

2003-03-02 Thread Chris Burford
I would suggest one of the key issues in internationalism is solidarity with muslim peoples. The brave demonstrations and votes in Turkey against war despite many inducements to national and sectional interests, are a good occasion to highlight this theme. Part of the euro-centric tradition

Re: Re: re: Sen on Famine

2003-03-02 Thread soula avramidis
If sen's argument was formal then one oddity as it is, wouldinvalidate his argument. if it was a general observation then that does not constitute theory since it does not explain moving from one state of things to another. it would be merely a descriptive of the general, and that is no theory.

Re: solidarity with muslim peoples

2003-03-02 Thread soula avramidis
I could not agree more with this espaecially that capital uses past conflicts to fuel new ones in cemneting its rule over the planet. i think many would say it is about information about the "other" since islam in the general or abstract does not exist. particular emphasis has to be paid to the

unilateralism slips in US

2003-03-02 Thread Chris Burford
Tonight the BBC Panorama programme will be quoting a poll they commissioned in the US by NOP (sample presumably random and adjusted demographically etc = 1102) 44% want a unanimous UN mandate before war in Iraq 31% (only) would support going to war in Iraq without a UN mandate. The greatest

Re: US dept of Dirty Tricks

2003-03-02 Thread Bill Lear
On Saturday, March 1, 2003 at 20:02:06 (-0600) k hanly writes: Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key Security Council members ... Hmm, how deep will the NY Times, Washington Post, Fox News, and CNN bury this one?

Re: Re: Re: re: Sen on Famine

2003-03-02 Thread ravi
soula avramidis wrote: If sen's argument was formal then one oddity as it is, wouldinvalidate his argument. how many accepted theories would stand up to this rigourous test, especially as we move away from the hard sciences? --ravi

Re: Re: Re: re: Sen on Famine

2003-03-02 Thread andie nachgeborenen
I may be too ideolological but i have always ridiculed Sen's notion of democracy as some form of neo liberal hogwash. Neoliberalism puts no particular value on democracy. democracy without working class rule appears in his writing as some abstarct freedom notion devoid of real substance. Not at

Question for Gene Coyle

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Perelman
How much damage did the California energy crisis do to the current state budget deficit? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

It's not over in Turkey

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Perelman
The Turkish government says that it will try again. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/international/worldspecial/02CND-POLI.html -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Deja Vu All Over Again

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Hoover
Good Morning America World News Tonight 20/20 Primetime Nightline WNN This Week November 7, 2001 HOMEPAGE NEWS SUMMARY US INTERNATIONAL MONEYScope WEATHER LOCAL NEWS ENTERTAINMENT ESPN SPORTS SCI / TECH POLITICS HEALTH TRAVEL

Re: It's not over in Turkey

2003-03-02 Thread Sabri Oncu
Michael: The Turkish government says that it will try again. It is possible that they wil try again. But if they try it again, we will fuck them. I got the news about the Turkish vote from my father-in-law, who is one of the most apolitical persons you can imagine. Both of my in-laws were

ALERT: CampusTruth.org's Anti-Palestinian Propaganda

2003-03-02 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Dear Activists: CampusTruth.org has been conducting a blatant anti-Palestinian propaganda campaign nationwide, placing ads in campus newspapers; recently, its half-page advertisements were placed in the _Lantern_, the student newspaper of the Ohio State University. If you have not seen the

the ongoing war, udate

2003-03-02 Thread Ian Murray
Allies bomb key Iraqi targets · 'Undeclared war' enters new phase · Missile systems hit · Rocket launchers destroyed Nicholas Watt, Richard Norton-Taylor, and Suzanne Goldenberg in Baghdad Monday March 3, 2003 The Guardian Britain and the United States have all but fired the first shots of the

war and the market state

2003-03-02 Thread Ian Murray
Banging the drum for the market state is a loser if voters listen to a different music Larry Elliott Monday March 3, 2003 The Guardian George Bush had something of a hell raising youth, but he was probably a bit too old for the release of the first Ramones album in the summer of 1976.Pity. Line

[Fwd: solidarity with muslim peoples]

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Perelman
g kohler asked me to pass this on in response to Chris Burford wrote 02 March 2003 I would suggest one of the key issues in internationalism is solidaritywith muslim peoples .. snip Arab countries (a subset of Muslim peoples) have, on average, very high unemployment - another reason for

Re: Re: It's not over in Turkey

2003-03-02 Thread Paul Zarembka
Sabri, Was this vote confidential? I recall that the last one on base construction was confidential. Also, is the Turkish military being weakened now because of yesterday's victory, and could political persecution be expected to decline? Thanks, Paul

NY Times on expanded US strikes

2003-03-02 Thread k hanly
Here is a litte more detail on what Ian posted earlier. Lets face it. For Iraq self-defence is illegal. For the US aggression and violation of the UN charter is self-defence and in accord with UN resolutions. Cheers, Ken Hanly

Re: NY Times on expanded US strikes

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Perelman
Firing on the missles is good. Probably not to many people got killed and it will hurt the US chances in the UN. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: It's not over in Turkey

2003-03-02 Thread Sabri Oncu
Sabri, Was this vote confidential? Yes, it was. I recall that the last one on base construction was confidential. Also, is the Turkish military being weakened now because of yesterday's victory, I would say yes but this is my personal view. and could political persecution be expected to

Re: Re: NY Times on expanded US strikes

2003-03-02 Thread k hanly
It is good that nations are not allowed to defend themselves in the face of an imminent aggressive threat? So it is good that Iraq's right of self defence is nullified because it might mean the US chances are less in the UN? But the US will attack anyway. As Bush put it the UN is irrelevant if it

corporatizing the military redux

2003-03-02 Thread Ian Murray
Support U.S. Forces in Persian Gulf Thousands of Private Contractors Support U.S. Forces in Persian Gulf By Kenneth Bredemeier Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, March 3, 2003; Page E01 From his office across the street from the Fair Oaks mall in Fairfax County, Eugene C. Renzi oversees a

more feedin' at the federal trough

2003-03-02 Thread Ian Murray
washingtonpost.com FEDERAL CONTRACTS States News Service Monday, March 3, 2003; Page E04 CACI International Inc. of Arlington won a $103 million contract from the Navy to support the Navy's Enterprise Maintenance Automated Information System Data Center operations. Hensel Phelps Construction

from the 'new economy' to the redundant economy

2003-03-02 Thread Ian Murray
[New York Times] March 3, 2003 New Economy Recedes in Pacific Northwest By TIMOTHY EGAN SEATTLE, March 2 - When President Bill Clinton came to Seattle 10 years ago as the host of a Pacific Rim economic summit, this city was his stage and his symbol. Looking to the next century, he held Seattle

The democratisation of world politics

2003-03-02 Thread Chris Burford
Perhaps only an issue as stark as war or no-war could do it. Perhaps the level of public concern is higher in countries like Britain and Turkey who are crucial swing allies of the US war plans. But perhaps it is also the technical advances in communications since the gulf war. From where I

Re: [Fwd: solidarity with muslim peoples]

2003-03-02 Thread Chris Burford
g kohler asked me to pass this on in response to From: g kohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: solidarity with muslim peoples Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 16:11:04 -0500 Dear Professor Perelman, Could you please forward this to pen-l? Thank you. Gernot Köhler Chris Burford

Horns and Halos

2003-03-02 Thread Louis Proyect
Co-directed by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky and now showing at Cinema Village in NYC, Horns and Halos is the best documentary I have seen since Startup.Com, with which it shares some important aspects. Both films revolve around doomed projects: in one instance, a typical dot.com that

Please write to the Turkish MPs

2003-03-02 Thread Sabri Oncu
I received this through a network of antiwar Turkish activists residing in the US. What is belwo is apparently a draft but better than nothing at the moment. Best, Sabri +++ please circulate Hi everyone, Something really unexpected happened in Turkey. As hundred thousand people