Just a quibble. Kag writes:
And a blow for Russia, too. You can't call Russia a democratic state, but at
least we don't deny a third of our citizens their rights, like Latvia.
Russian national politics holds a contradictory position, between liberal
declarations of equality and the daily
* In Army Survey, Troops in Iraq Report Low Morale
By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 26, 2004; Page A18
A slim majority of Army soldiers in Iraq -- 52 percent -- reported
that their morale was low, and three-fourths of them said they felt
poorly led by their
It is reported that The U.S. economy added 308,000 jobs in March,
almost three times economists' expectations and the biggest gain
since April 2000 (at
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=1103sid=af7UQQHr5kYsrefer=news_index).
About half of the new jobs in March are the results of the CES
Marvin Gandall wrote:
Carrol Cox wrote: I still think that it is really not possible to both
support Kerry and continue to build the anti-war movement. It is essential
that we keep front and center that Kerry will be a more dangerous imperial
warrior than Bush.
I don't want to speak for Carrol but
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
almost three times economists' expectations and the biggest gain
since April 2000 (at
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=1103sid=af7UQQHr5kYsrefer=news_index).
About half of the new jobs in March are the results of the CES Net
Birth/Death Model adjustment (and
(When Milan Rai wrote in favor of a benign UN occupation of Iraq based
on recent polls, he was operating on a flawed premise that has not yet
been noted. While it is true that the antiwar movement has no business
favoring imperialist occupation under any circumstances, the question of
the value of
Separate first-hand accounts in todays Guardian and Financial Times
describe why the movement led by Moqtada al-Sadr is attracting support from
Iraqis, particularly among the most oppressed.
The Guardians Rory McCarthy says the Sadrists, led by the younger
generation of Shia clerics, have
Who could've guessed that the United States seems on the verge of unifying the people
of Iraq? How many of us has spoken of the dangers of Civil War.
Who could've guessed the decisive (temporary?) influence of gas prices on the public
mood? Maybe it is about oil after all?
--
Michael
Jedgar says: if i may be allowed to invoke this stodgy ole' bearded guy, although in
this instance - '18th brumaire' - he's at his most postmodern (after
all, gotta try to make marx fashionable)...
I know that Michael is (probably) kidding, but what Marx is doing in the Brumaire bit
is working
CC writes: ... I still think that it is really not possible to _both_
support Kerry _and_ continue to build the anti-war movement.
I would bet that a lot of people in the anti-war movement will continue to build that
movement -- but then, in the privacy of the voting booth, vote for Kerry.
A
Marvin Gandall wrote:
Carrol Cox wrote: I still think that it is really not possible to both
support Kerry and continue to build the anti-war movement. It is essential
that we keep front and center that Kerry will be a more dangerous imperial
warrior than Bush.
k hanly wrote:
Kerry opposes the NMD system and that at least is a big plus compared to
Bush.
There will _always_, in every election as far as the eye can see, be a
big plus (or several) for the DP candidate. So arguing on this basis
for Bush is _also_ arguing for an endless subordination of
* Daschle Gets His Own Nader
By Brian Faler
Monday, April 5, 2004; Page A04
Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) has what some Democrats might call a Ralph
Nader problem.
The Senate minority leader, who was already facing a tough reelection
fight this year, must now contend with a Native American
I'd be surprised if we find we have substantial disagreements about US
foreign policy. It's broadly bipartisan, and when there are deviations from
the consensus, as in the Iraq adventure, the adventurists are reined in.
Iraq was a Republican adventure, while the original one, Vietnam, was
presided
Marvin Gandall wrote:
Having said that, the greater propensity for military adventurism does lie
with the Bush administration, because it is more ideological and, as Iraq
showed, therefore more willing to deviate from the consensus. With this in
mind, my point to Carrol was that he wouldn't get
I'd just finished conceding your point that Germany 1932 and the US 1936
weren't a proper comparison, when you fed us this zinger: The decision of
the CPUSA to support Roosevelt, in fact, was as disastrous as the failure of
the KPD to oppose Hitler. The Civilian Conservation Corps as disasterous
A NEW PROGRESSIVE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STRATEGY: AIKIDO ACTIVISM
Traditional capitalism segments For Profits from Not for Profits with one result
being excess on both sides:
- For Profits aim for maximal profits while often ignoring social and environmental
consequence (responsibility)
- Not
Marv writes: It's why unions prefer facing liberal rather than
reactionary employers; the former better understand the relationship between
their firm's objectives and a stable environment, and are prepared to make
concessions at the margin in order to realize this.
I've heard otherwise. One
Marvin Gandall wrote:
You place too much of a burden on the CPUSA and left, in general, for the
disaster of '36, which served to tie 'the left' in the US permanently to the
DP. In fact, both the CP and SP would have liked the workers to move past
the DP to join them; their orientation to the New
JKS writes:
Ages ago I went to one of those Rethinking Marxism
conferences at UMAss Amherst, got into a conversationw
itha Resnick Wolff student about someone, I forget
what, but it was a or involved a question of empirical
fact that I didn't know the answer to. So I suggested
taht to find
Bremer described al-Sadr on Tuesday as a guy who has a fundamentally
inappropriate view of the new Iraq.
He believes that in the new Iraq, like in the old Iraq, power should be to
the guy with guns, Bremer said. That is an unacceptable vision for Iraq.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
* Tuesday, April 6th, 2004
Iraq Intifada: U.S. Faces New Resistance Front As Shiites Join Armed Uprising
Listen to: Segment:
http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2004/april/audio/dn20040406.raproto=rtspstart=7:53.87
. . . AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to As'ad AbuKhalil, professor of
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