Re: Yassin assassination

2004-03-24 Thread joanna bujes
soula avramidis wrote: Zionist colonialism represents the ugliest face of modern imperialism, far worse than apartheid south Africa. but in all it remains part and parcel of the broader imperial agenda and its principal agent in the middle east. killing yassin has two implications.. I got to the

Re: Yassin assassination

2004-03-24 Thread soula avramidis
In lefty and other lefty palestinian literature, zionism which has a broader scope than israel, is capable through israel still to inetervene where the the US and other imperialist find it diffcult to do in the third world. for instance its relationship to south africa during apartheid,to eritria

Re: 2008, or After Bush

2004-03-24 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/23/2004 2:04:46 AM Who will be the Republican presidential candidate in 2008? -- Yoshie bush family plan having jeb precede dubya went awry when former lost 94 florida governor election, latter was pushed to fore (and given access to daddy's rolodex) after he was elected

one to watch

2004-03-24 Thread Dan Scanlan
Title: one to watch from http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/mar2004/meji-m24.shtml Citing killing of civilians, lies: US soldier refuses to return to Iraq By Jeff Riley 24 March 2004 A Florida National Guard soldier returned to his base of deployment at Fort Stewart, Georgia, to face charges

Operation Backfire

2004-03-24 Thread Marvin Gandall
The Pakistani army has been mauled and the Musharraf government is risking civil war in its failed attempt to capture Ayman al-Zawahiri in the Pashtun tribal region, reports todays Asia Times. American and Pakistani officials boasted last week that they had trapped a high value target, understood

Re: The Market as God

2004-03-24 Thread W.R. Needham
Title: Re: The Market as God Here is an earlier piece: HE GLOBAL MARKET DOCTRINE: A STUDY IN FUNDAMENTALIST THEOLOGY John McMurtry College of Arts Department of Philosophy University of Guelph http://economics.uwaterloo.ca/needhdata/McMurtry-2.html Struck by a 5minute BBC radio slot this

Walmart

2004-03-24 Thread Michael Perelman
This last weekend I participated in a forum on Wal-Mart. A large number of Wal-Mart workers showed up to vigorously defend their employer. They were obviously working-class people and not professional spokesman. Several mentioned their salaries. I responded that given their obvious

Re: 2008, or After Bush

2004-03-24 Thread Carrol Cox
Michael Hoover wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/23/2004 2:04:46 AM Who will be the Republican presidential candidate in 2008? -- Yoshie bush family plan having jeb precede dubya went awry when former lost 94 florida governor election, latter was pushed to fore (and given access to daddy's

American flags

2004-03-24 Thread Louis Proyect
Last night as I watched coverage of the Bipartisan Commission on terrorism chaired by Bob Kerrey, the war criminal ex-Senator who currently runs the New School University with an iron fist, I was bowled over by the garish, rhinestone-studded American flag on Madeleine Albright's jacket. This

Re: American flags

2004-03-24 Thread Robert Scott Gassler
I walk around Brussels every day and see the American flag on sweatshirts worn by Bulgarians and other items of clothing worn by people who could be Arabs for all I know. Someone once told me that the French all cry when they sing their national anthem, whether they are leftists or rightists.

Re: American flags

2004-03-24 Thread Louis Proyect
Robert Scott Gassler wrote: How about we defuse the whole issue by all wearing American flags on our lapel? I have one I'll wear on my trip to the States in a couple of weeks. If anyone asks about it, I'll mention the struggle for freedom and democracy for all peoples, the proud leftist tradition

Coomentary on Interim Iraq Constitution

2004-03-24 Thread k hanly
March 22, 2004 ~~~ Introducing two new commentaries from Foreign Policy In Focus The Iraqi Constitution By Phyllis Bennis The signing of the interim Iraqi constitution by the Governing Council represents a significant step in U.S. efforts to legitimize

Re: Yassin assassination

2004-03-24 Thread Devine, James
Joanna writes: It's funny how certain historical patterns repeat. It seems like the Jews wound up playing a similar role in Poland -- doing the dirty work for the landed artistocracy who could not dirty its hands with collecting rents, exploiting the serfs, etc. ...but could use the jews as its

Re: Yassin assassination

2004-03-24 Thread joanna bujes
Devine, James wrote: Jews have also played roles that were banned by the dominant religion (as with money-lending in medieval Europe), which is not exactly the same thing as being agents of the ruling class. (Jewish money-lenders weren't all like the Fuggers; they lent to the working classes,

Syposium: Dutch Identity: Vices and Virtues of Bourgeois Society

2004-03-24 Thread altug yalcintas
SYMPOSIUM: DUTCH IDENTITYVIRTUES AND VICES OF BOURGEOIS SOCIETYThursday May 6th / 2:00 - 6:15 h pm / Forum room, M-building, Woudestein, Erasmus University Rotterdam http://www.eur.nl/studium/algemeen/bourgeoisenglish.html How bourgeois was and is Dutch society? How bad is being bourgeois

Cuban media

2004-03-24 Thread Louis Proyect
In today's Counterpunch (March 24, 2004), there's an interesting article by Benjamin Dangl and April Howard on the Cuban media, which originated on their website: http://www.upsidedownworld.org. Howard is a student at Bard College, my alma mater. No doubt she made the acquaintance there of Ali

Bush's budget policies

2004-03-24 Thread Joel Wendland
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/impact04/index.html?em I wonder how much Bush's proposals for more huge tax cuts for the rich, huge increases in military and intelligence spending, a fatih-based intiatives, and otehr cororate giveaways will impact public spending on local and state programs,

frontiers of fictitious capital

2004-03-24 Thread Perelman, Michael
PAGE ONE How Cuts in Retiree Benefits Fatten Companies' Bottom Lines Trimming a Health-Care Plan Creates Accounting Gains, Under Some Arcane Rules A Shield Against Rising Costs By ELLEN E. SCHULTZ and THEO FRANCIS Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL March 16, 2004; Page A1 The loud

Re: More on LNG

2004-03-24 Thread Michael Perelman
I had my realized before your last message that so much was being imported. How expensive is the liquefaction and then transportation of the natural gas? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

More on LNG

2004-03-24 Thread Eugene Coyle
Natural gas supplies are tight in the USA. Why? A discussion I'll duck today. But supplies are tight. Fortunately for the big oil companies, they have huge gas fields shut-in around the world, in places where the domestic demand is trivial. If only they could sell that gas in the USA!! It is

John Gulick on Insurgent Chinese Workers and Peasants

2004-03-24 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
* This essay is from Confronting Capitalism, a new collection from Softskull edited by Eddie Yuen, George Katsiafikas and Daniel Burton Rose and to be published in the coming months. Insurgent Chinese Workers and Peasants: The 'Weak Link' in Capitalist Globalization and U.S. Imperialism (1)

Re: frontiers of fictitious capital

2004-03-24 Thread Mike Ballard
Wage-slaves create the profits. They're more productive every year. Now, watch them being thrown out on their rears. Set up your rocking chairs near your graves and wait for the inevitable slip. Seems we are still a nation of Mr. Blocks.

Re: American flags

2004-03-24 Thread Mike Ballard
--- Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The flag is ubiquitous ... I remember seeing a sea of red flags and people with Mao buttons pinned to their jackets back, waving plastic coated Red Books. Ah thsoe heady daze of the Great

Nader Begins Push to Qualify for State Ballots

2004-03-24 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
* Nader Begins Push to Qualify for State Ballots Wed Mar 24, 2004 01:43 PM ET By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ralph Nader's wild-card presidential bid is gearing up over the next few months for its biggest challenge -- navigating a maze of local

Re: More on LNG

2004-03-24 Thread Mike Ballard
--- Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Natural gas supplies are tight in the USA. Why? A discussion I'll duck today. Eugene, Grant...anybody? Is LNG the same as what's being promoted in Australia as LPG? So as when we run low on petrol (peak oil), we can sell zeez nice

Kerry Wants Muslim-Speaking Troops

2004-03-24 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
* July 15, 2003 Intermediate Roman Catholic Americans are blessed to have a highly intelligent crop of candidates to choose from in the upcoming presidential race. President Bush's mental prowess is well known and needs no further examination here (at least for today). But Democrats are

Re: The Market as God

2004-03-24 Thread Mike Ballard
--- W.R. Needham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is an earlier piece: THE GLOBAL MARKET DOCTRINE: A STUDY IN FUNDAMENTALIST THEOLOGY John McMurtry College of Arts Department of Philosophy University of Guelph http://economics.uwaterloo.ca/needhdata/McMurtry-2.html

Re: Nader at 12% says Oz

2004-03-24 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
What is this guy's programme? http://www.votenader.org/issues/index.php -- Yoshie * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * Calendars of Events in Columbus: http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html, http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php, http://www.cpanews.org/ * Student