Umm Qasr -- From National Pride to War Booty

Umm Qasr -- From National Pride to War Booty By David Bacon CorpWatch December 15, 2003 In 1958, Iraqi nationalists and radicals threw out the king imposed on them by the British after World War One. Over the next five years of relative freedom and democracy, Iraq began putting together a

Re: Question re basics

Joanna Bujes wrote: What's tougher than that is to be able to stop thinking while remaining conscious and highly sensitive. (not claiming to have achieved that myself...) I once heard a sport psychologist calling this state of mental awareness being uptime. I would call it being outside -- i.e.,

Tad Szulc

Tadeusz (Tad) Witold Szulc (pronounced Shultz) was born in Warsaw on July 25, 1926, the son of Seweryn and Janina Baruch Szulc. His parents left Poland for Brazil in the mid-1930's, but kept Tadeusz in a Swiss boarding school, Le Rosey. He rejoined his family in 1941, and studied at the

Re: Question re basics

What's tougher than that is to be able to stop thinking while remaining conscious and highly sensitive. (not claiming to have achieved that myself...) That's true. A lot of Buddhist-type spiritual culture is about that, about clearing the mind of thoughts that bedevil it. I suppose mental

Re: Question re basics

I don't think the argument is that we need to stop thinking. I think the argument is that since thought is a form of calculation (the equal, the more, the less) based entirely upon memory, we should be very aware of what we apply it to and whether we are applying it appropriately. Using thought to

Re: Question re basics

Hi Joanna, You wrote: Using thought to choose a lover or determine how we interact with our friends or our children is not appropriate. I couldn't disagree more strongly with you there, that's boring, and I guess that's why you and I are incompatible, but I suppose it depends what you mean by

Work Against Efforts to Restart Iraqi Oil Fields

Saboteurs, Looters and Old Equipment Work Against Efforts to Restart Iraqi Oil Fields 15.12.2003 [09:49] Sunday 14 December 2003 BAYJI, Iraq - Hussain Khalaf Tuma's mood was as foul as the smoke belching from the oil refinery a mile away. Cradling an AK-47 and dressed in a ragged

Palast on Saddam

Greg Palast - 12.15.03 - Former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein was taken into custody yesterday at 8:30 p.m. Baghdad time. Various television executives, White House spin doctors and propaganda experts at the Pentagon now wrestle with the question of whether to claim PFC Jessica Lynch seized the

Re: Question re basics

Disappointing. The nagging natter. I sent the original message in this thread, asking for help with a problem raised by Sweezy, and look where it's come to. Ralph - Original Message - From: Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 7:08 AM

new radio product

After a few weeks' delay, some fresh additions to my radio archive http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html: December 11, 2003 Steffie Woolhandler of Physicians for a National Health Program on the Medicare reform bill * Robert Pollin, author of Countours of Descent, on the Bush

correction on radio product

Apologies on the mischaracterization of Robert Pollin's topic - it's the 1990s boom and after, not the Bush revolution in foreign policy http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html. Doug

PowerPoint Makes You Dumb

Short, short article in the New York Times, but it is very nice, especially for those of you who are not fans of powerpoint. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/magazine/14POWER.html In August, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board at NASA released Volume 1 of its report on why the space

Re: PowerPoint Makes You Dumb

And it does. Make you dumb, I mean. Designed for salespeople pitching products, advertising previews, Powerpoint's use in technical/analytic presentations is the destruction of content by form. Preparing for a conference on railroad operations, the corporate communications department tried to

Re: Umm Qasr -- From National Pride to War Booty

Is that a misprint? 500 billion seems a lot! Cheers, Ken Hanly When longshore workers and popular organizations protested the $500 billion deal, US Ambassador Mary Ann Peters threatened that US investors would boycott the country if the contract didn't go through. - Original Message -

Japan, Russia, pipeline

Russian prime minister discusses pipeline The Japan Times: Dec. 16, 2003 By KANAKO TAKAHARA Staff writer Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov called Monday for Japan's cooperation in developing oil in eastern Siberia that would supply a planned pipeline linking the region with Japan -- or

Re: Umm Qasr -- From National Pride to War Booty

Thanks for pointing that out. It should read $500 million. Now had it been Halliburton... Sasha --- k hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that a misprint? 500 billion seems a lot! Cheers, Ken Hanly When longshore workers and popular organizations protested the $500 billion deal, US

trade talks stalemate

WTO admits stalemate has scuppered relaunch of Cancún trade talks Negotiators still struggle to find compromise Larry Elliott Tuesday December 16, 2003 The Guardian A formal relaunch of the stalled global trade talks was deferred for at least two months yesterday after the World Trade

Re: Question re basics

I sent the original message in this thread, asking for help with a problem raised by Sweezy, and look where it's come to. As regards monopolisation, Ernest Mandel gave an orthodox Marxist reply to Sweezy in a number of articles and books. For the empirical data, see www.euromonitor.com, they