[When UN cops arrested a union activist in East Timor a few weeks ago, I
made a comment about how even the occupiers of Iraq hadn't stooped that
low --- apparently I was wrong.]
IRAQ: Workers resist US ban on unions
BY ALAN MAASS
* * * *
More than half a year after Saddam Hussein's government
Not to inundate PEN-Lers with Living Room shows, but
we just did a program on this topic that people might
find interesting.
http://www.livingroomradio.org
Wed 10.29.03| Trade Unions in Iraq
As the US seems intent on privatizing and fleecing the
Iraqi economy, what's the situation of Iraqi
unfortunately not. Here in LA, there's a talk radio show called Left,. Right,
Center with a leftist (Bob Scheer), a centrist (Matt Miller), and a righist
(David Frumm). Unfortunately, though he's wrong about nearly everything, Frumm seems
the most cogent intellectually. (Oh yes, Arianna
of course, some leftists aren't intellectually cogent, while some rightists are so
(without being right about what's going on in the world).
Jim
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ironically, this could raise the ratings of the TV movie...
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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of course, some leftists aren't intellectually cogent, while some
rightists are so (without being right about what's going on in the
world).
Jim
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And vice versa.
Friday, November 7, 2003
Pentagon finalizes Boeing tanker deal
Accord keeps alive Everett's 767 line
By CHARLES POPE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon finalized a landmark deal yesterday allowing
the Air Force to acquire 100 aerial refueling tankers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3248803.stm
Widow leaves US radio $200m
US National Public Radio (NPR) has inherited what is believed to be the
largest single donation bequeathed to an American cultural institution.
NPR was left more than $200m by Joan B Kroc, the philanthropist widow of
I understand that the network is changing its name to KrocPR.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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From: ravi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 9:47 AM
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Subject:
What if that kind of money had gone to WBAI type stations? Instead it goes to the better-safe than sorry set. . .preening liberals with somnolent voices inculcated with a vicious streak of self-censorship. . .
Brian McKenna
Too bad she didn't listen to Pacifica.
ravi wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3248803.stm
Widow leaves US radio $200m
US National Public Radio (NPR) has inherited what is believed to be the
largest single donation bequeathed to an American cultural institution.
NPR was left more than
Brian McKenna wrote:
What if that kind of money had gone to WBAI type stations?
i have great respect for the folks at WBAI, but i would like to add the
criticism (that i have voiced before on this list) that i am not sure
any additional money would be spent by WBAI in any more productive a
I don't want to single anybody out, but there have been a whole slew of
one sentence posts to PEN-L for what seems like weeks now. I understand
that most fulltime professors look at listservs as a break from more
serious work like writing articles that they can read to each other at
annual
it's the quality of sentences that counts, not the quantity.
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From: Louis Proyect [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 11/7/2003 10:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: [PEN-L] One sentence posts to PEN-L
Devine, James wrote:
it's the quality of sentences that counts, not the quantity.
Or, as Lou Reed once said, my day beats your week.
...and I have to admit, I'm irritated by this desire to control
discourse before you hear what someone has to say. There's something
light-hearted about brief interchanges -- I don't mind them.
Joanna
Devine, James wrote:
it's the quality of sentences that counts, not the quantity.
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Carroll Cox wrote:
I don't know as much as I should about details of the Philippine War
pursued by McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft. Did they use anything like
strategic hamlets in that war?
Yes. They called them protected zones. Comparatively, that is, in the
sense that
I was just watching TV with Youssef, and I saw a commercial which announced
there was now a new kind of chewable Vitamin tablet on the market, which you
can take without a drink of water, and it showed women in various situations
putting it in their mouths. Meanwhile, the Dutch prime minister
I'll second the compliment -- But, Sasha, please tell us before
the shows. I often don't think of trying to catch a show when it would
be possible.
Gene Coyle
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Sasha:
Not to inundate PEN-Lers with Living Room shows, but
we just did a program on this topic that
Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke
At the Global Economic and Investment Outlook Conference, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
November 6, 2003
[snip]
The current account deficit, now close to 5 percent of U.S. GDP, reflects both U.S.
economic weakness and U.S. economic
Dear Norman Solomon,
Have enjoyed your media critiques ever since you were with FAIR back in
the 1980s. I also encourage everybody reading this email to check out
your Institute for Public Accuracy website at: http://www.accuracy.org/.
I don't want to sound like an ingrate, but your latest
Friday 07 November 2003, 20:50 Makka Time, 17:50 GMT
Men in battle-fatigues have raided the Moscow headquarters of billionaire
investor George Soros. Yekaterina Geniyeva, president of Soros's Open
Society Institute, said the attackers took away all of its documents in the
climax to a long-running
(Flashback to 2002:) THE SERIOUS concern of the US Administration about
business and investor protection is shown by the fact that the President, Mr
George Bush, took time off from his global preoccupations to issue a
10-point corporate governance plan. This is significant. The US
Administration
President George Bush is not quite sure how much he is worth - putting his
assets at the end of last year between £5.4 million and £13.5 million. Vice
President Dick Cheney is even more unsure - valuing his assets at between
£11.7 million and £53 million. The figures came in annual financial
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