Bit of pocket money

Donors to pledge $2 billion for Iraq Wednesday 15 October 2003, 2:19 Makka Time, 23:19 GMT About two billion dollars is expected to be pledged for Iraqi reconstruction at a donors conference in Madrid later this month, a UN official has said. Julia Taft, assistant administrator of the UN

Please support grocery workers' strike (and locked-out status)

Friends: The baggers, deli clerks, cashiers, and other employees at Vons/Pavillion (owned by Safeway), Ralphs (owned by Kroger), and Albertsons are on strike, as of Saturday night, and would appreciate your not crossing their picket line. [Two of the companies locked out their employees in

what's going on

A week or so ago, the media appeared to be ready to make a few meek efforts to peck at the Bush administration. Bush's guys make a lame public relations effort and everyone backs down, including the Dems. Is it that they fear that the economy might pick up, giving Bush more credibility? Or are

Re: what's going on

On Wednesday, October 15, 2003 at 10:11:19 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes: A week or so ago, the media appeared to be ready to make a few meek efforts to peck at the Bush administration. Bush's guys make a lame public relations effort and everyone backs down, including the Dems. Is it that they

Re: climate change

--- Eubulides [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unnatural disasters ** Global warming is caused by the need of a certain group of people to market the carbon based fuels they own in order to make profits. The conception that we have no choice but to

Iraq spending bill has legislators in a bind

Iraq spending bill has legislators in a bind 15.10.2003 [15:09] Washington -- Congress plans to act this week on President Bush's $87 billion emergency spending bill on Iraq, giving an odd coalition of liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans a final shot at turning $20 billion in

Re: what's going on

My analysis is that the media people are bored. They are bored, because within the framework of censorship and editing that they operate under (God Bless America, defender of the free world !), they just get to do all these boring stories about the fight against terror, how the US government can

global corruption alive and well

http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/ Global Corruption Report 2003 covering worldwide corruption from July 2001 to June 2002 [Report available as pdf file] http://www.transparency.org/ [For more info] To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules

Lester Rodney

Village Voice, October 15 - 21, 2003 Commie Columnist Lester Rodney's Fight for Jackie Robinson The Best Red Sportswriter by Allen Barra For nearly a quarter of a century, Lester Rodney was the sports columnist and sports editor for The Daily Worker, the largest and most influential Communist

Immigrant contract labor in Iraq

[ Presenting plain-text part of multi-format email ] Published on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 by the Financial Times/UK Contractors in Iraq Accused of Importing Labor and Exporting Profit by Nicolas Pelham US sub-contractors are importing cheap migrant labor from south Asia to Iraq, despite high

Letter to Richard Bernstein

Dear Vera List Professor and Dean Richard Bernstein, The first and last time I saw you was at a New School Graduate Faculty open house about 7 years or so ago. I went down there with the hope that I might re-enroll in the philosophy department and complete a Ph.D program that I began in 1965.

Re: Please support grocery workers' strike (and locked-out status)

So does this mean boycott Safeway too? Joanna Devine, James wrote: Friends: The baggers, deli clerks, cashiers, and other employees at Vons/Pavillion (owned by Safeway), Ralphs (owned by Kroger), and Albertsons are on strike, as of Saturday night, and would appreciate your not crossing their

where's the beef?

EU revives row over hormone beef ban Andrew Osborn in Brussels Thursday October 16, 2003 The Guardian The European commission reopened one of the most damaging recent disputes with the US yesterday when it insisted that North American hormone-treated beef is dangerous to human health and will

FTAA: terms of trade?

http://www.ftaa-alca.org/ftaadraft02/eng/draft_e.asp FTAA - Free Trade Area of the Americas Second Draft Agreement http://www.ftaa-alca.org/alca_e.asp [home]

Onion on Calif Elections

See http://www.theonion.com/3940/wdyt.html Joanna

frontiers of privatization

http://www.feer.com PRIVATIZATION Hong Kong's Big Sell-Off By Joel Baglole/HONG KONG Issue cover-dated October 23, 2003 Spurred by persistent budget deficits and unable to find alternative sources of revenue, the government has announced a far-reaching divestment programme that could generate