Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:13:21 -0500
From: Paul Kneisel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: News On the War: #3
Pentagon downed Web site, Al-Jazeera editor says
Graeme SMith (GLobe & Mail)
March 29, 2003
For journalists inside the Al-Jazeera newsroom in Doha, Qatar, it was
obvious who attacked their Web site t
This story from yesterday's Guardian is still very interesting, valuable
for anti-imperialist struggles, and evidence of potential fierce
conflicts within the US regime and the hegemonic camp. Sourced from
Kurdish areas, one could guess it has been leaked from US briefings to
Kurdish leaders to e
Robert Fisk wrote,
>Because I rather think that this war's
>foundations were based not on military planning but on
>ideology.
I would be hard pressed to identify the 'ideology' at the foundation. I think it would
be more useful to describe the guiding
motivation as an 'aesthetic', in a pseudo-Wa
Dear Friends,
For some time, there has been a lot of confusion outside
Venezuela about what exactly has been happening there. How could
progressives and trade unionists support the Venezuelan government
despite its support of the poor through land reform and income
redistribution and its
House, Senate Panels OK $80B War Spending
Wednesday April 2, 2003 5:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House and Senate Appropriations committees approved
similar bills Tuesday containing nearly $80 billion for initial costs of
the war with Iraq and other anti-terrorism efforts, including aid for the
na
[obviously the guy hasn't read William Appleman Williams]
Emperor George
What has become of American values and idealism? All swept away in this
thoroughly un-American war
Jonathan Freedland
Wednesday April 2, 2003
The Guardian
This war is un-American. That's an unlikely word to use, I know: it
I'm a university student just starting to look into various schools of
thought and at the moment I'm researching feminist thought and got referred
here.
Anybody know any events, situations, etc. in the range of 10 - 75 years or
so ago that ended or were handled badly in the hands of the mainstr
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=392756
Robert Fisk: The monster of Baghdad is now the hero of
Arabia
This is now a nationalist war against the most obvious
kind of imperial power
01 April 2003
So it's a "truly remarkable achievement'', is it?
General Tommy Franks
Summary
The entire city of Basra's water supply was cut last Friday (affecting some
1 million people). For a heavily populated third world city in the desert,
no water (and thus also no sanitation with the resultant epidemics) can
lead to tens of thousands of deaths. This is what happened in 1
From: Steven Hill, Center for Voting and Democracy
Re: AB 1039 -- a California bill that would allow general law cities
and counties a "home rule" option of using different electoral
systems (like instant runoff voting)
Dear California IRV/PR activists,
As many of you already know, Assemblywom
I would appreciate being pointed to some data on US real income, 1993-2002
for production and production-related labor.
Many thanks.
Larry Shute
Laurence Shute, Emeritus Professor
Department of Economics Voice: 909-869-3850
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
mailto:[EMAIL PR
April 1, 2003, 3:07PM
Strike in Nigeria called off, knocking down oil prices
Reuters News Service
NEW YORK - Oil prices fell 4 percent today as Nigerian unions called off a
planned general strike, raising hopes that oil production halted there by
recent ethnic clashes might soon restart.
The move
- Original Message -
From: "Forstater, Mathew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 2:33 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:36386] RE: Re: WSJ - "Is This A Great Country?"
> The insane aspect of this, which I suppose is obvious to everyone here,
> is that they are c
With my post I was hoping to encourage a discussion -- and get an answer
-- of how to make clear to the vast majority that their dreams of being
rich will never be realized. Any help?
Gene Coyle
Forstater, Mathew wrote:
The insane aspect of this, which I suppose is obvious to everyone here,
is
Forstater, Mathew wrote:
The insane aspect of this, which I suppose is obvious to everyone here,
is that they are celebrating a world in which people hold on stubbornly
to fantasies of material prosperity, even though it is clear that for
the vast majority the dreams will never be fulfilled. What'
The insane aspect of this, which I suppose is obvious to everyone here,
is that they are celebrating a world in which people hold on stubbornly
to fantasies of material prosperity, even though it is clear that for
the vast majority the dreams will never be fulfilled. What's to
celebrate?
-Ori
Oil, Weapons and Capitalism
This is an invitation to PEN-L members to listen to an interview with
Jonathan Nitzan, author with Shimshon Bichler of The Global Political
Economy of Israel (Pluto Press, 2002). Nitzan elucidates the political
economic interests motivating the war against Iraq, as wel
At 09:31 AM 4/1/03 -0800, Eugene Coyle wrote:
An item from April 1 2003 WSJ editorial page suggests something the
Left needs to deal with:
The author left out what is probably most important for understanding the
poll: It asked people what they thought "being rich" actually meant. Not
surprisi
Eugene Coyle quoted the WSJ:
Class-war rhetoric may work in the more socially and financially
immobile cultures of Europe
Nice try, but not true. There's not much difference in mobility
between the U.S. and Europe.
Doug
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From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> the WSJ writes: >Few Americans see a rich person when they look in the
> mirror, but nearly
> a third see a rich person when they look into a crystal ball. That's the
> striking result of a Gallup poll that goes a long way
Title: RE: [PEN-L:36379] WSJ - "Is This A Great Country?"
the WSJ writes: >Few Americans see a rich person when they look in the mirror, but nearly
a third see a rich person when they look into a crystal ball. That's the
striking result of a Gallup poll that goes a long way to explaining why
An item from April 1 2003 WSJ editorial page suggests something the Left
needs to deal with:
REVIEW & OUTLOOK
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Is This a Great Country?
Few Americans see a rich person when they look in the mirror, but nearly
a third see a rich person when they look into a crystal ball. That's the
Title: civilian deaths in Iraq
[I've been thinking for awhile that though the idea of "embedding" journalists in military units seems brilliant at first sight (since it encourages a worms-eye view of the war, missing the big picture (to be filled in with Pentagon briefings) and the Stockholm s
Title: in case you were wondering about the _causus belli_
[what do you bet that Rupert Murdoch's Fox news didn't and won't report this?]
Search for smoking gun draws a blank
US and Britain's case for war undermined by special forces' failure to find illegal arms at 10 suspected sites
Nich
Pentagon's chief weapons buyer retiring
Reuters, 03.31.03, 9:35 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, Edward "Pete"
Aldridge, will retire in May after about two years on the job, the Defense
Department said Monday.
In a statement, Aldridge, 64, said he was retiring as u
The Daily Mirror
THIS WAR IS NOT WORKING
Apr 1 2003
By Peter Arnett
I am still in shock and awe at being fired. There is enormous
sensitivity within the US government to reports coming out from Baghdad.
They don't want credible news organisations reporting from here because
it presents them wit
Your lines on "Un oso rojo" were great, Lou! Yes, the "all money is
stolen" rejoinder makes a lot of sense here, as well as the robbery with
the national anthem as an audio background.
BTW, Julio Chávez is one of our best actors, a most versatile and
serious performer who hasn´t as yet been swa
Marine who said no to killing on his conscience
Fighting not to fight
Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Tuesday April 1, 2003
The Guardian
The first American conscientious objector from the Iraq war will
give himself up at a marine base in California this morning. He
said he believed the war was "i
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