Dear PEN-L:
I'm vindicated! In one of the greatest unwritten articles of my career, I
stated in the early 1980s that after the massive cuts in taxes and
unemployment benefits (by taxing them) by the Reagan Administration, the
next recession would be a doozy. (Doozey is defined by the NBER as a
March 31, 2003
PEN-L:
Greetings. In an effort to communicate beyond the anti-war choir, I got the
editorial letter below in the March 28 edition of the Sacramento Business
Journal.
http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2003/03/31/editorial3.html
Seth Sandronsky
Title: RE: [PEN-L:36323] Americans only recognise stars and stripes
Ironically, given the title, I've heard that US troops do not display the stars and stripes openly, since they don't want to be seen as conquerors.
Jim
Could someone help me to locate the email with an attached power point
file about the economic cost of the first Gulf war, oil, etc.? I think
I read it in PEN-L within last 10 days or so. Thanks.
E. Ahmet Tonak
Professor of Economics
Simon's Rock College of Bard
84 Alford Road
Great
Here is a sample of the type of civilian casualty photos
shown on Aljazeera.
http://www.aljazeera.net/news/arabic/2003/3/3-22-26.htm
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Title: the limits of free speech.
March 31, 2003
NBC News Fires Arnett Over Iraqi TV Interview
By JIM RUTENBERG/ N.Y. TIMES
NBC News today fired Peter Arnett, a correspondent based in Baghdad, saying it was wrong for him to have given an interview with the state-run Iraqi TV in which he said
This is from the CASI discussion list.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Dear List
It seems that the US and UK government are still claiming that the 28 March
bombing of Shu'ala marketplace, which is being reported as having killed 62
peope, could have been the result of malfunctioning Iraqi air defence
Title: RE: [PEN-L:36323] Americans only recognise stars and stripes
Well other symbols are OK.
Published on Saturday, March 29, 2003 by the Guardian/UKUS Army's
Desert Filling Stations Add Fuel to Fireby Oliver Burkeman in
WashingtonIn a war where public perceptions are arguably as important
Almost nothing is said about this. It is against the Geneva convention and
would set a precedent. No doubt the US wants to determine the extent of its
non-lethality. The Russian experience should give them some idea.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Title: RE: [PEN-L:36341] The first market missile
hey, the office building where I work was sold to us by Raytheon (which also produces high-tech landmines, BTW). It makes a fellow proud to be an Amurrican.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Margolis is a military analyst. He often appears on CBC (Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation). Margolis holds the distinctly minority position
that the Iranians gassed the Kurds at Halabajah though he admits that
Hussein used chemical weapons against them elsewhere.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
March 30,
As you may remember, I had kept bringing this over and over. To
better understand what I meant, just look at the peoples of Iraq.
Their behavior is hardly westernly rational. No Von
Neuman-Morgenstein utility function can explain their behavior
and their strategy is definitely not a Nash
You're talking waaay over my head. They're defending their country against
a foreign aggressor. As one Iraqui man put it We can't take this colonial
stuff anymore.
The pundits may need jargon; do we? What the Iraquis are doing seems
absolutely rational as was the behavior of the Russians at
*** FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION ***
To the Editor:
The Spectator, now for the second time in less than a year, has
succeeded to quote me in a remarkably decontextualized and inflammatory
manner. In Margaret Hunt Gram's report on the faculty teach-in against
the war in Iraq (3/27/03), I am
You're talking waaay over my head. They're defending
their country against a foreign aggressor. As one
Iraqui man put it We can't take this colonial stuff
anymore.
The pundits may need jargon; do we? What the Iraquis
are doing seems absolutely rational as was the behavior
of the Russians
A Yougov internet poll for the Daily Telegraph today shows a fall in the
proportion ov those supporting the war from 59% four days ago to 52%. (Tony
Blair had a surge of support for the war after it was announced.) Most
expect the war to last months. The proportion against the war is only 26%
Score exactly evens in the number of British troops killed in action
5 by the Iraqis
5 by the US.
Today one of the British soldiers said somewhat bitterly of a US pilot who
killed the comrade in his patrol, I believe he was a cowboy. He had just
gone out on a jolly.
As recently as January
Title: Billy Bragg
The Price Of Oil
Voices on the radio
tell us that we're going to war
those brave men and women in uniform
they want to know what they're fighting for.
The generals want to hear the end game
the allies won't approve the plan
but the oil men in the white house
they just
Reuters
Boeing, Bell get $192 mln for further Osprey work
Monday March 31, 5:47 pm ET
WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy on Monday said it had
awarded a $192 million contract to Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA - News) and
Textron Inc.'s (NYSE:TXT - News) Bell helicopter unit for further work
on
Title: RE: [PEN-L:36356] kill people and win more money
these folks seem like they're nothing but allies of the Great Satan, Saddam himself, since they're so effective at wasting US taxpayer dollars and killing Marines.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Former French Oil Chief Says Company Paid Millions to Political Parties
By Pierre-Antoine Souchard
The Associated Press
Tuesday, April 1, 2003; 12:00 AM
PARIS -- The former president of Elf Aquitaine testified Monday that the
French oil giant paid about $5 million to French political parties
Downing Street had Andrew Marr, the BBC's lead political correspondent
comment on the warnings given by the US government to Syria and Iran.
Within the last 12 months Britain had the Queen meet the Syrian president,
and the UK foreign minister, Jack Straw has put a lot of work in on Iran.
Marr
Title: pray for our leaders
Matt Bivens (http://www.thenation.com/outrage/) writes:
Before this Administration came along, it was hard to imagine that something as intensely personal and private as a man's prayer before going into battle could be appropriated in a business-like fashion.
Devine, James wrote:
Friday's prayer cuts to the chase: Pray that the President and his
advisers will recognize their divine appointment ... It includes
some helpfully illuminating scripture, Romans 13:1: Every person is
to be in subjugation to the governing authorities. For there is no
Not to mention that divine appointment shit. Is that what happens when
you don't actually get elected?
Will they suspend the next election and just bring out the anointing oil?
Motherfuckers.
Joanna
At 06:47 PM 03/31/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Devine, James wrote:
Friday's prayer cuts to the
I've just added three shows to my radio archive
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html:
* March 27, 2003 DH on politics and economics of war * contributors
to Implicating Empire, on war, globalization, fundamentalism, and
legitimacy: Heather Gautney (co-editor), Pete Bratsis, Michael
So French politicians are also pretty inexpensive.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Halliburton Co. has been awarded a $9.7 million
contract to build an additional 204-cell detention camp at the U.S. naval
base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to hold additional suspected al Qaeda and
Taliban prisoners, the Pentagon said on Friday.
The move will expand the
US wages divide is wider than ever
David Teather in New York
Tuesday April 1, 2003
The Guardian
The gap between the earnings of America's chief executives and its average
workers was wider than ever last year. This was despite a fall in profits
and share prices and the cautionary tales of excess
Battlefield Is A Showcase for Defense Firms
Arms Exporters Could Thrive On Televised Success in Iraq
By Renae Merle
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 1, 2003; Page E01
When the war in Iraq winds down, the U.S. defense industry is likely to
launch a major new offensive to sell its
Arnett, one of the few US correspondents left in Baghdad, has been signed
up to report for the fiercely anti-war Mirror Group of papers, in the UK.
Unfortunately their web-site is not very good but he will still have an
impact on perceptions within the countries of the hegemonic coalition.
Cracks are appearing between British and American commanders which have
serious implications for their future operations in Iraq.
Senior British military officers on the ground are making it clear they
are dismayed by the failure of US troops to try to fight the battle for
hearts and minds.
CounterPunch
March 31, 2003
Slaughter at the Bridge of Death
US Marines Fire on Civilians
By MARK FRANCHETTI
Nasiriya, Iraq.
The light was a strange yellowy grey and the wind was coming up, the
beginnings of a sandstorm. The silence felt almost eerie after a night
of shooting so intense it hurt
Analysis
Advisers Split as War Unfolds
One Faction Hopes Bush Notes 'Bum Advice'
By Glenn Kessler and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, March 31, 2003; Page A01
The first 11 days of the war have brought back with a vengeance the deep
splits that have long existed within the Bush
The New Yorker, April 7, 2003
OFFENSE AND DEFENSE
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
The battle between Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon.
(clip)
Perhaps the biggest disappointment of last week was the failure of the
Shiite factions in southern Iraq to support the American and British
invasion. Various
What do you get when you insert the classic elements of a hood trying to
go straight story into the backdrop of Argentina's economic collapse? The
answer is A Red Bear (Un Oso Rojo), a film that is far more engaging
than the average neo-noir flick out of Hollywood.
It evokes a thousand other
Jimmy Breslin
Blood Remains On the Hands
NY Newsday, March 30, 2003
The least blood, a small squirt when removing a needle, two drops,
that's all, no more than two drops, and suddenly it is everywhere. It
remains after all. Wipe and it returns. Look about and it is in two and
three places.
This from an LA media group...
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Hi. The item below in the first of many emails I'm starting to open.
I just turned on the radio and hear Amy Goodman announcing that
Peter Arnett has JUST been fired by NBC for giving this interview.
She's now interviewing Jerry Quickly
Paul Berman, who was the subject of a billing and cooing Ellen Willis
piece in salon.com that I commented on recently, has an op-ed article in
today's NY Times.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/31/opinion/31BERM.html)
Picking up where he left off in the 1980s as an apologist for the
Nicaraguan
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