retiring in the USA

washingtonpost.com Mismatches That Could Be Sending Your Benefits Into Limbo By Rita Zeidner Sunday, July 6, 2003; Page B02 What's in a name? Plenty, if it prevents you from collecting your hard-earned retirement benefits. Yet that is precisely the fate that awaits millions of unwitting workers w

Turkey-US-Iraq

July 6, 2003, 1:25AM U.S. forces detain Turkish special forces in northern Iraq Associated Press ISTANBUL, Turkey -- The United States seized 11 Turkish special forces in a raid in northern Iraq, but released several Saturday after vigorous protests from the NATO ally. The detentions threatened

Argentina: struggling for the emergence of workers control

[NY Times] July 6, 2003 Workers in Argentina Take Charge of Abandoned Factories By LARRY ROHTER BUENOS AIRES, July 5 - The workers at the IMPA aluminum plant here all can remember when their company was privately owned, and a few veterans even recall when it was the property of the state. But t

China: corporatization

Wealth Grows From Seed Money in China Friends in High Places Helped Entrepreneur Launch Lucrative Pay-Phone Business By Peter S. Goodman Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, July 6, 2003; Page A01 CHENGDU, China -- Eight years ago, He Ran was a manager at a state-owned shipping company with a

secret history of the magna carta

Another excellent piece by Peter Linebaugh http://bostonreview.net/BR28.3/linebaugh.nclk -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

criminal syndicates

http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/ccrreport.pdf For Immediate Release For More Information Thursday, July 3, 2003 Contact: Russell Mokhiber (202) 737 1680 DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS AWASH IN FUNDS FROM CORPORATE CRIMINALS, REPORT FINDS

Re: Hit men movies

trench coat and shades that chow-yun fat wears in john woo's 'a better tomorrow' *borrowed* from melville's film... michael hoover Speaking of hit men movies, I just watched Jim Jarmusch's "Ghost Dog" on video. Very obviously influenced by "Le Samourai" but not to be taken seriously. Every frame c

Re: Hit men movies

trench coat and shades that chow-yun fat wears in john woo's 'a better tomorrow' *borrowed* from melville's film... michael hoover >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/03/03 02:16PM >>> I had selected Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 "Le Samouraï" and Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai's 2001 "Fulltime Killer" pretty mu

Re: Howard Dean: "Now That We're There We Can't Leave"

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/03/03 12:15PM >>> Dean is presentable and has no identification so far except resistance to the war. He's probably not to the left of John Kerry, but his war stance makes him appear so. In short, he relative popularity suggests that an articulate, presentable candidate wi

Bush Escapes Fall of Constitution in Philly and Waxes Militaristic at Wright-Pat

Well, folks, the hastily-organized Dayton protest against Bush was a bust -- small numbers of dedicated activists from outside of Dayton who endured heavy traffic in search of Dayton protest organizers and activists almost melted down in oppressive heat (the hottest day so far in Dayton this year).