At 2003-03-11 03:41 -0500, you wrote:
At 7:57 AM + 3/11/03, Chris Burford wrote:
Blair's tactics towards public opinion seem to be almost masochistic
It makes sense that the Bush junta believed it's in their interest to
invade Iraq, thought and still think that they can get away with it, and
i guess i am going to miss the march 22 anti-war march in nyc,
but perhaps i can find something equivalent in bangalore. in
the five years since i was here last, globalisation seems to
have sped up. the class divisions in india are so stark and
cruel, which should not surprise me, and it is
There's another, less optimistic construction that can be put on this: Rumsfeld's
happy little blunder was not a blunder but a
staged gesture to confirm the Mandelson scenario of arrogant unilateralists v. noble
multilateralists and rally sympathy for poor,
beleagured good cop Tony Blair. The
When most of the world population is against going to war without a UN
resolution it is interesting that a US representative sees France as
isolating themselves by taking the same position. Only in the USA you say.
Thank goodness.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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From: Sabri Oncu
From the CASI list. I doubt that Ashcroft would approve of freedom
kissing!
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Use www.cafe-uni.co.uk as your window on the world's news.
Read the world's view of current events focussing on the Middle East.
Use the noticeboard to announce your events.
American Politics
Title: three items
from today's SLATE on-line summary of major US newspapers:
In a story that's sure to warm the hearts of conspiracy theorists
everywhere, a frontpage LA [TIMES] piece begins, Maybe it's a
coincidence, but American and British oil companies would be
long-term
From the CASI list. I doubt that Ashcroft would approve of freedom kissing!
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Time for the Queer Left to organize a French kiss-in against the war.
--
Yoshie
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Symposium Series
From Bad Business to Broke Employees:
The moral and policy implications of recent corporate scandals and
the stock market decline
What has gone wrong in corporate accounting? Why are these activities
coming to light now? Is this merely a
Posted on Mon, Mar. 10, 2003
The neighborhood groups are one facet of a grass-roots peace movement that
has no single leader, headquarters or hierarchy. Rather, it exemplifies the
sort of decentralized network that social theorists call 'heterarchies,'
said Linda Jean Kensicki, an assistant
[BBC]
European shares crash
European shares have tumbled again, with London shares closing at their
lowest level since May 1995.
Paris stocks plummeted to levels a little over one third what they were at
their September 2000 peak.
And Germany is now in the grips of a market downturn worse than
What was Rumsfeld's blunder?
Joanna
joanna bujes wrote:
What was Rumsfeld's blunder?
He said the U.S. might attack Iraq without the UK. Was it a blunder,
or did he really mean it?
Doug
NY Observer
March 12, 2003|9:37 AM
Bush Eats the Press
by Michael Crowley
Sam Donaldson is long gone from the White House beat, but as he watched
President George W. Bushs prime-time press conference on Thursday,
March 6, the wild-browed shouter they nicknamed Leather Lungs itched.
Mr.
NY Times Op-Ed, Mar. 12, 2003
I Vant to Be Alone
By MAUREEN DOWD
It will go down as a great mystery of history how Mr. Popularity at Yale
metamorphosed into President Persona Non Grata of the world.
The genial cheerleader and stickball commissioner with the gregarious
parents, the frat
NY Times, Mar. 12, 2003
Student's Suicide Leads Czechs to Bout of Soul-Searching
By PETER S. GREEN
PRAGUE, March 10 Nothing marked Zdenek Adamec's life so much as his
leaving it. An introverted 18-year-old with straight A's and no friends,
he led a remarkably unremarkable life.
He lived with
Title: War Mar 18?
News Update
fromCitizens for Legitimate Government
March 11, 2003
http://www.legitgov.org/
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
Israeli
monitor intercepts order: War starting on March 18 --The U.S. military has been ordered to
launch a war against Iraq on March
French Fries Get New Name in Congress
What's the new name for a French kiss in congress, a bush-licking?
Posted on PubRadio by Sue Schardt, and reposted to the Nation
Federation of Community Broadcasters forum
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Thought some of you might be interested in these candid remarks from
investigative reporter Sy Hersh (writes for the New Yorker...appears
frequently on
Tuesday evening, London
Today Tony Blair side-stepped the challenge at question time in the House
of Commons with the strong-sounding but actually ambiguous statement that
what the British forces in the Middle East would do, would be legal.
Likewise the Bush administration affirmed they would
And according to this story, Perle is threatening to sue Hersh for libel -- England
where the libel laws put a severe onus of proof
on the defendent
http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMailType=text/htmlPath=NYS/2003/03/12ID=Ar00200
Tom Walker
604 255 4812
Activists in Baghdad brace for consequences of war
By GREG BARRETT
Gannett News Service, March 12, 2003
WASHINGTON - If the invasion that the Pentagon has dubbed Operation
Shock and Awe commences, Charlie Liteky is unlikely to feel either.
He expects the United States to bomb Iraq. He expects
Turkish fury as Kurdish leader's trial ruled unfair
Andrew Osborn in Brussels, Jonny Dymond in Istanbul and Owen Bowcott
Thursday March 13, 2003
The Guardian
Turkey came under intense pressure yesterday to retry its most prized
prisoner - the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan - after the
and a crisis of international law too:
http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol4/No1/art1.html#TopOfPage
Blair is plunging Britain into a crisis of democracy
Threat of war has created an unprecedented globalisation of public opinion
Seumas Milne
Thursday March 13, 2003
The Guardian
This has already
Title: Interesting take
Waging Peace through Dialogue
Dr. Robert Muller, former assistant secretary general of the United
Nations, now Chancellor emeritus of the University of Peace in
Costa Rica was one of the people who witnessed the founding of
the U.N. and has worked in support of or inside
Title: Kucinich rebuts Post
http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=15359
Obviously Oil
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, AlterNet
March 11, 2003
Viewed on March 12, 2003
Editor's Note: Although Dennis Kucinich was aggressively
attacked by Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen for suggesting
that
Quoth Doug,
He said the U.S. might attack Iraq without the UK. Was it a blunder,
or did he really mean it?
I think it was the PNAC mob's knickers showing through. In their ideal
world, Uncle Sam would go this alone. Any sharing of the hard yards
might lead to pressure for complicated
... hadn't finished ...
Quoth Doug,
He said the U.S. might attack Iraq without the UK. Was it a blunder,
or did he really mean it?
I think it was the PNAC mob's knickers showing through. In their ideal
world, Uncle Sam would go this alone. Any sharing of the hard yards
might lead to
At 5:09 PM +1100 3/13/03, Rob Schaap wrote:
It didn't help poor Tory Blur, either. There he is strutting the
world stage, being all relevant and stuff, and now it transpires the
US don't care either way.
I picture political cartoonists in the UK and elsewhere drawing
pictures of Rumsfeld
Perfidious, Ottawa stabs Paris in the back
* 12 Mar 2003 23:57
Canada urges France to reconsider U.N. veto threat
By David Ljunggren
OTTAWA, March 12 (Reuters) - Canada urged France on Wednesday to
reconsider its threat to veto any U.N. resolution that authorizes the
use of force
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