Spot the contradictions in this. How compatible are Straw's four "key
principles"? Interesting development of the UK's efforts to keep the
initiative as regards the "coalition" agenda.
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West must help rebuild 'failed states', says Straw
Matthew Tempest, political correspondent
Monday Octo
[was "Very informed opinion"]
Carl Remick writes of Hugo Young:
What a carnival of conflation this column is. It seems to me that it's
the
UK, not Europe, that feels such a desperate need to "mean something ...
"to
matter to itself."
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It's merely a reflection of the carnival of conflat
I tried sending this, and a few other messages, yesterday, to no avail.
I apologise if it pops up again later, but there are certainly technical
issues concerning why the list should be so quiet just now.
=
Mark Jones wrote:
US hegemony was built in the 20th century on
European fragmentatio
Chris I owe you an apology. I looked up your references below to Hardt and
Negri and was genuinely surprised that I should be echoing their logic, in
passing I also read some other interesting points they raise.
What can I say except that they come at things from an angle which I find
strained
Please do not consider me in anyway with Hardt and Negri who's book I have
not read and from my browsing of it find little reason to ever do so. I
thought all I was stating was classic Historical Materialism as developed
by Lenin (on which we may well disagree without bringing in extraneous
as
Not only do we not see a single untied International Capitalist class;
in the U.S. at least we do not see a single united U.S. capitalist
class. To make a simple minded argument -- if capitalists were
completely united, we would already be in concentration camps.
Chris Burford wrote:
> At 26/
At 26/09/01 00:19 +0800, Greg wrote:
Was it not Lenin in Imperialism the Highest
Stage of Capitalism who noted the emergence of some then
"unstable" international cartels as precursors of the next
stage? I trust no one has missed the fact that this form of combine is
now both stable and plentiful
I am new to this list and may well be covering old ground, but having seen
Mark A Jones' posting of 25 September 2001 12:57 UTC I felt the urge to
subscribe and reply.
If anything has demonstrated the how far Marxism has been left behind by
social developments this last two weeks has shown us
At 25/09/2001 09:02, Michael Keaney wrote:
Penners
Previous posts with this and other subject headings have broached the
subject of Britain's dilemma vis a vis the US and the EU.
I've been following with great interest these postings by Michael
Keaney. One of the reasons why the talk about "Empi
Penners
Previous posts with this and other subject headings have broached the
subject of Britain's dilemma vis a vis the US and the EU. Interesting
that the Liberal Democrats, Britain's third party and positioning itself
as the future opposition, given the likely further decline of the punk
Thatc
Rob Schaap wrote,
>The politics of floating signifiers, for mine.
& dem bones is fossils.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
Writes Michael:
"... And while the focus of this mainly British-sponsored effort is primarily
European, of course other similarly-minded folks (as Dubya would say)
are welcome to join ..."
Mark Latham: ex-Whitlam staffer, research contributor to *The Whitlam
Government 1972-1975*, self-styled La
Mandelson back as think-tank head
Kamal Ahmed, political editor
The Observer, 9 September 2001
The champagne corks at high-powered parties have not been popping with
quite the same regularity for Peter Mandelson since he resigned from the
Government. But the gentle rehabilitation of the former
Europe's unilateralist leaders:
Jeffrey Gedmin finds that while Europeans profess a love for
multilateralism they do not practise what they
preach
Financial Times, Aug 22, 2001
By JEFFREY GEDMIN
Assertions about George W. Bush's unilateralist tendencies are turning
to caricature - and a dangero
Michael the K wrote:
>. But the "public" sector, so called, is in deep crisis owing to
>systematic starvation of investment that predates Thatcher but was
>intensified by her, and has continued up to now. Another of Judt's
>musings that I could not understand was his waxing lyrical over
>"swinging
Martin Brown wrote:
There are also prominent signs in all the rail stations warning
customers that any
loss of temper or out-burst against a member of the rail staff will be
treated as a criminal offense and prosecuted to the maximum extent of
the
law. This seemed odd to me at the service seeme
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Date: Monday, August 20, 2001 6:33 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:16073] Britain/US split?
>Penners
>
>The following is extracted from a reasonably insightful and interesting
>article by Tony Judt in the New York Review of Books, entitled "'Twas a
>Famous Victory&
cellent, at least
by U.S. standards. Have these signs always been posted, or is this a recent
symptom of the rail crisis?
-Original Message-
From: Michael Keaney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 9:22 AM
To: PEN-L (E-mail)
Subject: [PEN-L:16073] Britain/US split?
Pe
Penners
The following is extracted from a reasonably insightful and interesting
article by Tony Judt in the New York Review of Books, entitled "'Twas a
Famous Victory". It gives another perspective on the dilemma facing the
British state that Mark Jones highlighted several months back. I'm not
so
Mark Jones writes:
It was always (in less neurotic times) the
American consensus that Britain should be well inside the Euro gates,
like
any proper Trojan horse ought. Pulling the British satrapy out of Europe
seems an awesome change of strategic direction, one with momentous
implications.
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At 20/08/2001 12:24, Michael Keaney wrote:
>Penners
>
>Way back on 25 May, Mark Jones wrote:
>
>"Norman Tebbit seems to think, along with Margaret Thatcher, that
>political
> salvation for the Tories lies in strengthening the 'Special
>Relationship',
> and prioritising Britain's US con
Penners
Way back on 25 May, Mark Jones wrote:
"Norman Tebbit seems to think, along with Margaret Thatcher, that
political
salvation for the Tories lies in strengthening the 'Special
Relationship',
and prioritising Britain's US connection over Brtiain's
relationship with
Europe.
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