IRAQ CRISIS: US starts worrying about Turkey's own agenda
By Stephen Fidler
Financial Times; Mar 17, 2003
Turkey has over the past week shifted from being a source of
frustration in Washington to a cause of the deepest concern.
"Enough is enough," said one senior State Department official,
descr
=Yes, and the Chicago Cubs are going to win the World Series this year.WOW, i am making my bets early. no need to make this leap of faith, i was simply being modest, human rights are for the living not for the dead so to speak. i mean the argument was that the UN is not of itself
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> the article cited below makes for positive law, similar to positive
eco
the article cited below makes for positive law, similar to positive economics it laissez faire law.
all analytically is undetermined, all in reality is overdetermined. contradictions pile up in thought only, in real life they get resolved.
Ian Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Big Banks In the Mood To Acquire
By Nicholas Johnston
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 17, 2003; Page E01
Within days last fall, M&T Bank Corp. said it would buy Allfirst Financial
Inc. for $2.8 billion and BB&T Corp., the Winston-Salem banking giant,
agreed to buy Wheaton's Equitable B
The potential iraqi opposition economist in the pro american iraqi governemnt wrote a paper that was never published in which he says that it was not the war and the embargo that are killing people in iraq, it was sadam's money supply policy, too loose.Do you Yahoo!?
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>From bombs to beggar-my-neighbour
Larry Elliott
Monday March 17, 2003
The Guardian
As the world's financial markets showed with startling clarity last week,
the long term has ceased to exist. The short-term is the next nano second,
the medium term is the next minute and the long term is what mig
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MARKET WATCH
>From WorldCom, an Amazing View of a Bloated Industry
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
[snip]
Thanks to WorldCom,
Just as an aside, the kuwaiti stock market has been heating up for the last few years because of exess liquidity from iraq, the money is in compensation for the 1990 war, 25% of the the oil for food, nearly all of which goes to kuwait.Do you Yahoo!?
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MARKET WATCH
>From WorldCom, an Amazing View of a Bloated Industry
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
VER since WorldCom toppled into bankruptcy last summer, the company has
been teaching stunned investors one lesson after another. Not only have
we learned how easy it is to cook up a monumental accounting sc
> Throughout the 1960s and 70s nothing like this
> ever happened on the Upper East Side, as far as
> I know. Not only were there vigils in our
> neighborhood, but all around the city. I was also
> informed that the churches were having 7pm peace
> services. All in all, a sign of the times.
And thi
I just returned from a candlelight vigil consisting of about 50 people 2
blocks from my apartment building. This in itself is not so significant.
What is significant is that this gathering took place on Park Avenue and
92nd Street in the midst of the most wealthy neighborhood in NYC and
perhaps
>From dailytelegraph, Money, (UK)
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Yamani: US wants to privatise Iraqi oilfields
By Mary Fagan (Filed: 16/03/2003)
The US is examining ways of privatising the Iraqi oilfields, according to
Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the former Saudi oil minister.
Speaking to The Telegraph, Yam
> "Devine, James" wrote:
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> Napoleon's Blunders
> A tale of preemptive strikes gone wrong
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> By Margaret Atwood
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> Napoleon was a brilliant soldier who rose like a bubble during a time
> of unrest and bloodletting, won many battles and was thus able -- like
> Julius Caesar -- to g
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Good question, and good answer.
Yes the question is a proxy for the desire to play an honourable
imperialist role but not at the dictate of Bush.
The UK has shifted in its imperialistic expectations. There is no
backlash against negotiating with the IRA. The population is used to
terrorism. It
Over the past two years, I've limited my attendance to the Socialist
Scholars Conference to Saturday sessions so these notes are based on only a
partial view. That being said, the character of the event this year was
marked indelibly by the impending war with Iraq. This meant specifically
that
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0316-01.htm
Published on Sunday, March 16, 2003 by the Associated Press
American Woman Peace Activist Killed by Israeli Army
by Ibrahim Barzak
Seth Sandronsky
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0316-01.htm
Published on Sunday, March 16, 2003 by the
The legality issue is an excuse for giving into popular revuksion against the war without saying that is what they are doing, obviously. jks
k hanly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why is the legality of the issue such a big concern in the UK. I can seethat there is the possibility of trials before the
Title: Bush is looking Nappy
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-atwood16mar16,1,5974439.story
Napoleon's Blunders
A tale of preemptive strikes gone wrong
By Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood won the Booker Prize for her novel "The Blind Assassin." Her latest book, "Ory
Some sources claim the microwave bomb is not ready to use. One would think
it should be banned because of its effects on civilians, life support
machines, all sorts of essential electronic infrastructure, pacemakers, and
on and on...
It has also been pointed out that it will make communi
Why is the legality of the issue such a big concern in the UK. I can see
that there is the possibility of trials before the International Criminal
Court but this seems quite remote and unlikely. Bush seems to be able to lie
about 1441 claiming it gives legal authority for the invasion without much
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>according to Marx, commodity exchange and thus commodity production is as
>old as the hills, though I don't know if he thought in terms of 8000 years
>ago and Australian natives.
>
>"In order that this alienat
Title: Pledge of Allegiance revised
According to rumors, following the advice of Attorney General John Ashcroft, President Bush has accepted a revision of the "Pledge of Allegiance," to settle the current controversy:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the
Title: Parecon in the News!
[from the entertainment section of the L.A. TIMES!]
http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/suncal/cl-ca-donnegan16mar16.story
STYLE & CULTURE
His economic plan: Start from scratch
Capitalism not working for you? Michael Albert may be tilting at w
How to brake the bonds of arab patriarchial society in the fight against colonialism?
if the the war takes a tad longer than expected, the economic crisis in the arab world worsens, ad hoc protest movement organise, then, it would be impossible through the same system of patriarchial articulation
Thanks Eugene!
H
How to brake the bonds of arab patriarchial society in the fight against colonialism?
if the the war takes a tad longer than expected, the economic crisis in the arab world worsens, ad hoc protest movement organise, then, it would be impossible through the same system of patriarchial articulation
The Two Towers of the conventional wisdom (over-emphasis on expectations and nationalism/neo-liberalism) distract the observers from the fundamentals that are amiss, i.e., for the US low profit rates, high corporate debt, unused capacity, high consumer debt, a housing bubble, a large deficit on
In the course of a fluent interview this morning, Gordon Brown dropped the
information that both he and Tony Blair favoured a trust fund for Iraqi
oil. thereby allegedly removing any suspicion that the war is for the sake
of oil.
It sounded like a bit of quiet skirmishing with the Bush administ
Commentators assume that Clare Short will be joined in resigning by Robin
Cook, former secretary for Foreign Affairs, and now Leader of the House of
Commons. Cook is a europhile and in favour of proportional representation
and dialogue with the Liberal Democrats so he is not in the ascendant any
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