SF Greens Mayoral Forum: Democrats, Demo-Greens, Greens
by Gina Alvarez
On 8/14 the Green Party of San Francisco held its Mayoral forum at the Park
Library in the Haight-Ashbury. The event featured polite applause, soft
questions and a small crowd of Democrats and Demo-Greens conspiring to
For some interesting reflections on the politics of cars and traffic, see
the books by German PDS leader Winfried Wolf. I think however only his book
Car Mania has been translated into English...
J.
(The following commentary will be broadcast next week on Latino USA-NPR)
My evil twin
by Guillermo Gómez-Peña
For 20 years I was a US resident alien and the fact that I was one of the
best known Latino performance artists in the country, didn't exonerate me from
having to show my stinking
(George Frederickson's name came up on the Science for the People mailing
list. He is a historian at Yale who specializes in the study of racial
oppression. I am replying to a reference to his latest book, a history of
racism. I would imagine that it is very much worth reading.)
institutional and
It's amazing how the 1950s Cold War rhetoric has come back with a vengeance (along
with Reagan-era Cold War rhetoric). The Dulles brother also talked of liberating the
enemy.[*] The big change is that the USSR has been replaced by a terrorist phantom.
People in the US interpret Bush's rhetoric
full report at:
http://www.usitc.gov/pub3621/pub3621_main.html
August 12, 2003
News Release 03-077
Inv. No. TA-2111-1
ITC ISSUES REPORT ON IMPACT ON THE U.S. ECONOMY OF FIVE TRADE AGREEMENTS
ENACTED OVER THE LAST 25 YEARS
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued its report The
http://www.druid.dk/conferences/summer2003/Papers/BONACCORSI_ROSSI.pdf
Jim writes:
[*] It's possible that the neo-cons assumed that it would be easy to run
Iraq after the conquest -- oops, I mean liberation -- because the
countries of Eastern Europe were relatively easy to run after the fall of
the USSR.
I have a different take on this. Occupying Iraq really should
Rescher's objection to syncretism in metaphilosophy stems from his belief
that because of its readiness to embrace all different answers to a given
question, it is bound to hold contradictory answers. But this, according to
Rescher, is not rationally acceptable. It is tantamount to destroying the
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/paraconsistency/
(From the latest issue of Harper's, the finest mass circulation magazine in
the USA, which is edited by Lewis Lapham--a patrician radical with a
sensibility much like Gore Vidal's. Like the Nation, it got its start as a
Radical Republican/abolitionist publication in the 1860s. Unlike the
Nation,
[Federal Register: August 18, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 159)]
[Notices]
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Paul:
The U.S. needed to make compromises - BUT with groups that were ready to do
it. International elites required some slice of the pie and minor seats at
the table. Many, Iraqi Sunni Bathists and many of their guerilla
supporters in the small units now active) could likewise be accommodated
Monday, August 18, 2003, 11:49 A.M. Pacific
Black Sea wheat casts a shadow here
By Alwyn Scott
Seattle Times business reporter
When drought struck the Midwest last year, Chris Lyle thought he would
finally make a decent profit growing wheat in Eastern Washington.
Less grain from states like
Don Quixote, to raise the diversion, never minded his meat, but, inspired
with the same spirit, that moved him to preach so much to the goatherds, he
began to hold forth in this manner:
'Certainly, ladies and gentlemen, if we rightly consider it, those who make
knight-errantry their profession,
Greg Palast writes:
Californians have found the solution to the deregulation disaster:
re-call the only governor in the nation with the cojones to stand up to
the electricity price fixers. And unlike Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gov.
Gray Davis stood alone against the bad guys without using a body
No, not the same Gray Davis, it is the other Gray Davis, or maybe the
other Gray Davis, or maybe the Gray Davis Gray Davis now wishes Gray
Davis had been.
Gene Coyle
Devine, James wrote:
Greg Palast writes:
Californians have found the solution to the deregulation disaster:
I THINK I see your point (hard to tell with internet communication) and it
is helpful. Let me be clear(er):
1) Occupying Iraq should have been easy IF the goals are conventional
Bush I/Clinton type goals (get rid of Saddam and replace him with a
government more typical of friendly oil-rich
Aug 18th WSJ on the blackout
I often compliment Rebecca Smith of the WSJ on her coverage of the
electric power industry. She
wrote the front page blackout story on Monday, August 18th but not up
to her usual standard.
There is a hint of a perspective in the fourth paragraph where
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From: Eubulides [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One aspect of that nervousness can be seen in the attempts by the US
Justice Dept. to stop any and all lawsuits using the Alien Tort Claims
Act. They're terrified of the future of global environmental law and, as
any social
I guess I was being a little facetious. At the risk of inciting boredom, as
you know, Goldstein was modelled on Leon Trotsky, and Orwell himself
basically had this idea that, although Trotsky was vastly preferable to Big
Brother Stalin, he was in a sense tainted with the same brush. This is
Palast said that Davis tried to hire him when D. was Brown's chief of
staff.
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 03:15:38PM -0700, Eugene Coyle wrote:
No, not the same Gray Davis, it is the other Gray Davis, or maybe the
other Gray Davis, or maybe the Gray Davis Gray Davis now wishes Gray
Davis had been.
louis == Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
louis (From the latest issue of Harper's, the finest mass circulation
louis magazine in the USA, which is edited by Lewis Lapham--a patrician
louis radical with a sensibility much like Gore Vidal's. Like the
louis Nation, it got its start
Can anyone recommend some good work on political
economy of, or from, India?
-Mike
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Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
The question could be raised, why would Orwell as political analyst resort
to fiction to make his socialist political viewpoint clear ? Apparently,
because he felt that the truth resided only in the heresies, and that there
was no possibility of rationally debating with
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