Sun, June 27, 2004
Beheadings vowed
Iraq terrorists kidnap Turks
By AP
BAGHDAD -- Militants loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said yesterday they have
kidnapped three Turkish workers and threatened to behead them in 72 hours,
heightening tension as President George W. Bush visited Turkey. In new
Clash ahead of Bush visit to Turkey
Saturday, June 26, 2004 Posted: 9:41 PM EDT (0141 GMT)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkish police fired tear gas as more than 100
left-wing demonstrators hurled rocks and used sticks to try and break down a
police barricade during a protest Saturday ahead of U.S.
Rumsfeld allowed himself to be interviewed on the David Frost programm
on BBC1 this morning, and appeared to display an unusual degree of
uncertainty.
He seemed to attempt to redefine it not as a war against terrorism,
because terror is only one method he said, but as a global insurgency,
among
Danforth's appointment to be US representative at the UN has
intervention in Sudan written all over it.
But the model is probably going to be by multi-lateral consensus
making rather than by US military hegemonism blasting the
infrastructure of local militia from 30,000 feet.
Chris Burford
While left wing electors in the US pose what seems to me to be the
wrong question - whether Kerry is the lesser evil to Bush - does
anyone notice how much the shape of the beach is shifting under the
pressure of events?
(I am referring to the consumerist model of the bourgeois two party
system as
I agree that it is more complicated, but I can't see why Putin's approach gives
a
more satisfactory explanation. When I was in France, they had terrorist attacks
quite frequently -- 1979 -- but the French both repressed AND accomodated
resistence
forces. France is not great, but it seems a step
Dammit, answer my question. What should Russia's reaction have been two armed
incursions by jihadi gunmen? Sit there and take it? Write them letters? Dear Mr.
Khattab, we think you are a big meany. Cut it out.
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Such demands usually are counterproductive and can raise hackles rather
than the level of discourse.
Chris Doss wrote:
Dammit, answer my question. What should Russia's reaction have been two armed incursions by
jihadi gunmen? Sit there and take it? Write them letters? Dear Mr. Khattab, we think
I don't know if this qualifies as a true chronology since it compresses so
many years and developments into single paragraph synopses of decades.
In any case, I think we need to see much more detail on the 1917-1929
period-- proposals, programs, debates, conflicts specifically re Bolsheviks
and
In any case, I think we need to see much more detail on the 1917-1929period-- proposals, programs, debates, conflicts specifically re Bolsheviksand Chechnya.---
Near as I can tell, the Bolshies had a problem with Chechen raiders. Kind of like today. :)
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And going forward, is there any
Hey, I did manage to find something in English on the Chechen economy in 2002 by Mikahil Delyagin. (Delyagin is a left-wing quasi-Keynesian economist who looks kind of like a chipmunk.)
How the Chechen Economy Works
Today Russia continues to deliver to Chechnya gas and electricity free of
It only touches on economics in passing, but there is a good general piece on the situation here: http://www.google.ru/search?q=cache:P_qzh9htAKcJ:www.ecoi.net/pub/mv121_chya-bg2000-iskandarian.pdf+chechnya+economy+statisticshl=ruie=UTF-8inlang=rusartesian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And going
Chris Doss wrote:
Hey, I did manage to find something in English on the Chechen economy in
2002 by Mikahil Delyagin. (Delyagin is a left-wing quasi-Keynesian
economist who looks kind of like a chipmunk.)
With Delyagin prefacing his article with the following hawkish rant, I
would tend to take what
Thanks.
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Chris
Doss
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Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Chronology of
Russian-Chechen relations -- part two
It only touches on economics in passing, but there is a good general
piece on
Always carry a shaker full.
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Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 7:02 AM
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Chris Doss wrote:
Hey, I did manage to find something in English
I doubt he wrote the intro. It looks like standard Russian copy editing -- add the most hyperbolic preface possible. sartesian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Always carry a shaker full.- Original Message -From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004
Well at least Bremer didnt outlaw headscarves in school.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
BAGHDAD, June 26 -- U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer has issued a raft of
edicts revising Iraq's legal code and has appointed at least two dozen
Iraqis to government jobs with multi-year terms in an attempt to promote
Read the Delyagin.Must say that
if Delyagin is a "left-winger,"the right wingmustbe
tothe right ofJohn C. Calhoun and Albert
Speers.
The information provided by Delyaginquite is
the result of the deconstruction of the economy, itswarlordization, and
bears striking similarities to
In a message dated 6/26/2004 10:57:22 PM Central Standard
Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Under
Stalinist state-capitalism, however, monstrous crimes were committed against
the nationalities, including the mass deportation of the entire Chechen
population. This is ethnic cleansing on
Delyagin is a friend of Kagarlitsky, isn't he? I mean left-wing in the economic sense of the term -- he's in Rodina, which is sort-of Keynesian economically and nationalist. (This is usually what "left" means in Russia.)
Afghanistan is a close parallel -- destruction of infrastructure accompanied
In a message dated 6/27/2004 8:45:43 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In
1997 Russia allocated to Chechnya 963 billion non-denominated roubles
(including 88 billion roubles as transfer payments, 300 billion roubles as
payment of pensions by the Russian Pension
Chris Doss wrote:
Delyagin is a friend of Kagarlitsky, isn't he? I mean left-wing in the
economic sense of the term -- he's in Rodina, which is sort-of Keynesian
economically and nationalist. (This is usually what left means in Russia.)
Rodina means motherland. It is a nationalist party. Of course
OK. Different left than here, fair
enough.
Brother Melvin begins the process of properly
framing the critical questions. We have a condition of economic, social
deconstruction, devolution, where the centrifugal forces part and parcel of
interrupted, confined Russian Revolution, overwhelm
On a related note, I don't think it was the _cause_, but it is true that both the military and the people fighting them benefit financially from prolongation of hostilities. (The former get access to all the $$ going into Chechnya, and the later get $$ from Islamic fundies abroad.)
---
There is
In any case, I think we need to see much more detail on the 1917-1929period-- proposals, programs, debates, conflicts specifically re Bolsheviksand Chechnya.---
BTW, when the Bolshies were talking about national self-determination inside Russia, weren't they mainly talking about developed
In a message dated 6/27/2004 9:54:39 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brother Melvin begins the process of properly
framing the critical questions. We have a condition of economic, social
deconstruction, devolution, where the centrifugal forces part and parcel of
--- BTW, when the Bolshies were talking about national
self-determination inside Russia, weren't they mainly talking about
developed nations like Ukraine or Georgia? Did they write much on
peoples like the Chechens, Avars, Chukchi, Chuvash, Ingush, etc.? There
are over 100 distinct
FYI --
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-galbraith27jun27,1,545350.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
POLITICS
Keeping It Real for the Voters
If you look past misleading labels, you'll see genuine issues.
By James K. Galbraith
James K. Galbraith is chairman of Economists
40,000 protest Bush in Turkey
Sunday, June 27, 2004
Posted: 12:42 PM EDT (1642 GMT)
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Turks
chanting anti-Bush slogans demonstrated against the
president's visit to their country on Sunday and a
NATO summit.
Bush is unpopular in Turkey, where the
In a message dated 6/27/2004 12:12:11 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
---
BTW, when the Bolshies were talking about national self-determination
inside Russia, weren't they mainly talking about developed "nations"
like Ukraine or Georgia? Did they write much on
One of the controversies about the attacks on the former Yugoslavia
were the allegations that the European Union particularly Germany
accelerated the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the process of ethnic
cleansing by early recognition of Croatian independence.
Although the story below dates back
WSJ June 25, 2004
An Indian Paradox: Bumper Harvests and
Rising Hunger
The World Has Enough Food, But Poor Can't Afford
It;
...The world is producing more food than ever as
countries such as India, China, and Brazil emerge as forces in globla
agriculture. But at the same time, the
I am not sure about the tides, but in response to Chris's post below, I have
been struck by the apparent popularity and political positioning of a new radio
network in the United States, Air America. This network has a series of radio
programs that define themselves as being on the left. In fact
---
BTW, when the Bolshies were talking about national self-determination
inside Russia, weren't they mainly talking about developed "nations"
like Ukraine or Georgia? Did they write much on peoples like the
Chechens, Avars, Chukchi, Chuvash, Ingush, etc.? Thereare over 100
I cannot remember a time with so many left documentaries getting screen
time -- even ignoring Michael Moore. Supersize this, control room, the
corporation
Maybe our time is coming. And then, maybe not.
Michael
A significant constituency on the left has materialized in recent years,
propelled by anti- (alter-) globalization actions, mobilizations
against the Iraq war, etc. This demographic has been discovered by the
entertainment industry, which is ready to sell to them. To say this is
not to denigrate
I am sorry. I thought it was because of our revolutionary work on
pen-l.
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter
Dorman
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 2:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Bush's rapid shifting of position
A significant
Just spoke to my chess partner. He said that our mutual friend, who
lives in Newt Gingrich's district, just went to see Farenheit 911. The
audience was filled with the kind of people who vote for him, country
club Republicans. Not only was the theater packed, the film got a
standing ovation
Perelman, Michael wrote:
I cannot remember a time with so many left documentaries getting screen
time -- even ignoring Michael Moore. Supersize this, control room, the
corporation
Maybe our time is coming. And then, maybe not.
Several points.
1. Influencing people (which is what
In a message dated 6/27/2004 4:50:22 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In other words when the genocidal wars of extermination was
launched against the Indians and after their brutal conquest there did not
exist a petty bourgeoisie, a bourgeoisie or a proletariat as
Michael:
I am sorry. I thought it was because of our
revolutionary work on pen-l.
No Michael!
It was because of the revolutionary work of Bush and
the neocons, not that the democrats did and will do
any better.
Here is what Michael Ignatieff says in the below New
York Times Magazine
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