"State of the Ruling Class"
Laurie Garrett
[Laurie Garrett of Newsday sent this email to a bunch of her friends.
It got around. Then it got loose. Reportedly she is quite steamed
about it, as well she might be. It's been circulated to thousands
already.
Laurie Garrett is the only writer ever to
Voice of the dark corners
By Fidel Castro
The Guardian (UK)
March 6, 2003
These are hard times we are living in. In recent months, we have more
than once heard chilling words and statements. In his speech to West
Point graduating cadets on June 1 2002, the United States president
declared: "Our
The holes just "discovered" by UN inspectors in the electric fencing along
a number of sections of the Iraq-Kuwait border, some as big as 300 yards,
may have a significance on several levels.
Illegal incursion into the DMZ by zealous US forces, wanting to explore the
barriers on the other side
This week the interventionist trends have carried a number of stories of
links between Saddam and Stalin. It is not clear whose reputation is
supposed to be more insulted by this association. The links seem to rest on
a few positive remarks by Saddam about Stalin, plus his policy of internal
r
- Original Message -
From: "Ian Murray"
Subject: [PEN-L:35339] the political ecology of megaprojects
> Megaprojects and Risk
> An Anatomy of Ambition
> Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, Werner Rothengatter
Hey I can do free chapters too, on the worst megaprojects in Africa: Lesotho
Highland
Hi everyone,
With the economy continuing its downward spiral and today's depressing jobless figures - here's a piece I wrote for the current issue of Dollars and Sense, hopefully balancing the bad with the good. Your comments would be most welcome.
Best,
Nomi
Dollars & Sense
March-April 2003
W
Please circulate widely. Though the ad doesn't say so, ability to
teach History of Economic Thought and to collaborate in
interdisciplinary social science courses will be a big plus.
Feel free to contact me with questions.
Ellen Frank
The Management and Economics Department invites applicati
Money and happiness
The evidence is clear: our wellbeing depends on cooperation and the public
good, not personal enrichment
Polly Toynbee
Friday March 7, 2003
The Guardian
When God died, GDP took over and economists became the new high priests.
That has been the story of the last century, with
Whoa! Shiver me timbers. Quickly skimming through Richard Layard's second lecture of
three I am getting the impression that he is
inadvertently stumbling over insights that the turn of the last century Cambridge
economists took as axiomatic. That is before the
ban on comparing utilities came into
Perhaps the moment will be more correctly identified as next Tuesday, when
the SC votes formally on the UK proposal giving a cutoff of 17th March.
Perhaps it is just conceivable they can bully or cajole a majority in order
to have it vetoed. But really the US under Bush has squandered its hegemo
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030307-092710-3308r
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901
EURASIA INSIGHT March 7, 2003
HISTORICAL FACTORS INFLUENCE TURKEY'S STANCE ON IRAQ WAR
Igor Torbakov: 3/07/03
A EurasiaNet Commentary
The Turkish parliament's reluctance to accept US troop deployment reflects
widespread concern among the country's governing class about the merits of
overhauling t
>From Times on Line March 8 cheers, k hanly
'Bribes' pushing UN waverers into support for war
By Richard Beeston, Michael Dynes, Zahid Hussain and David Adams
THE centre of gravity in the UN Security Council appeared to be moving
significantly towards Britain and the United States last nigh
From the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,910113,00.html
Another embarrassing defeat for the postmodernist approach to world
governance rather than some sort of due process.
Chris Burford
London
- Original Message -
From: "Chris Burford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:10 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:35362] "UK nuclear evidence a fake "
> From the Guardian
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,910113,00.html
>
> An
At 2003-03-07 18:23 -0800, you wrote:
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030307-092710-3308r
I note the passage:
For the Iraqi Army and totalitarian civilian regime shows no sign of
cracking and coming apart. Not even close. There has been so far a handful
of defectors to the United
16 matches
Mail list logo