Trend towards economic terrorism

2004-04-02 Thread Chris Burford
The reports this morning of scares on the rail network in Spain and in the USA suggest further developments towards economic terrorism in contrast to the political excitatory terrorism of gestures like 9/11. In the London last Thursday week the underground (tube) system was badly affected

Re: Economic terrorism

2004-03-09 Thread Chris Burford
lpolitik it makes sense to negotiate. Chris Burford - Original Message - From: "Paul Baer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:05 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Economic terrorism > The first-order answer seems pretty

Re: Economic terrorism

2004-03-09 Thread Paul Baer
y, imputed, etc., of economic terrorism. If we were to view the strategic choices made by the US as strictly a matter of achieving energy security in the most cost-effective way, the decisions made were/are clearly nonsensical. For less money we could simply enlarge our strategic petroleum reserve to buf

Re: Economic terrorism

2004-03-09 Thread Peter Hollings
d all the other initiatives stretching all the way east to the Philippines and north to Mongolia, we're probably spending over $100 billion/year. And these costs are probably dwarfed by all the different costs, real, opportunity, imputed, etc., of economic terrorism. If we were to view the st

Re: Economic terrorism

2004-03-09 Thread Michael Perelman
Interesting. The Irish had specific demands. What are Al Quaida's? Some we know, but just getting out of Saudi Arabia and giving some land to Palastine would not likely be enough -- even if there were a strong political base that the group represented. Economic terrorism is probably effe

Economic terrorism

2004-03-08 Thread Chris Burford
For the first time Sunday I heard a British government minister refer to economic terrorism in connection with Al Qaeda. This was David Blunkett Home Secretary saying, as I caught it, "the more they can destabilise our economy and the world economy the better it will be for their inte

Economic terrorism

2003-09-22 Thread Louis Proyect
ador of the European Union to come out here so she can see what their subsidies are doing to us," Planchon said on his ranch, fields of clover cut through with shallow streams. "We call it economic terrorism, because they've wiped out more people with their subsidies than w

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Economic Terrorism---Michel Chossudovsky

2001-05-11 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Brad, > Why should pointing out that there are apologists for the > would-be-genocidal neo-fascists of Serbia cause "trouble"? It seems > to me that people need to hear *more* about "ethnic > cleansing"--whether by the Serbian government, the Croatian > government, Kosovar Albanian guerrill

Re: Re: Economic Terrorism---Michel Chossudovsky

2001-05-11 Thread Louis Proyect
>Why should pointing out that there are apologists for the >would-be-genocidal neo-fascists of Serbia cause "trouble"? It seems >to me that people need to hear *more* about "ethnic >cleansing"--whether by the Serbian government, the Croatian >government, Kosovar Albanian guerrillas, or others-

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Economic Terrorism---MichelChossudovsky

2001-05-11 Thread Brad DeLong
>You are correct. This is absolutely flame bait. We do not need >this here. We >have been over this many times. Please do not even bother refuting this >message. Why would you even bother to put something on that you >know is almost >certain to cause trouble? > >Michael Pugliese wrote: > >>

Re: Re: Re: Re: Economic Terrorism---Michel Chossudovsky

2001-05-09 Thread Michael Perelman
er being > > > replaced by local ones, the magazine said, adding that the bodies > > > were loaded on to another truck with Belgrade plates and driven away > > > to an unknown destination. > > > > > > The original truck was transported to a training center for > > > special police in a nearby v

Re: Re: Re: Economic Terrorism---Michel Chossudovsky

2001-05-09 Thread Michael Pugliese
n in a nearby orchard, > > the magazine said. > > > > ****** > Ian Williams > 235 East 49 St #1A > New York NY 10017 > 212 593 3407 > Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The preceding is a personal opinion. Try not to post more than dai

Re: Re: Economic Terrorism---Michel Chossudovsky

2001-05-09 Thread Louis Proyect
> Strange bedfellows dept. Chossudovsky and Jared Isreal are cited in the >newsbriefs section of the latest issue of The New American, the magazine of >the far right mainstay in the USA, the John Birch Society. Two pgs. before, >Gerhard Schroeder is identified as a Marxist (!) but, not Chossudov

Re: Economic Terrorism---Michel Chossudovsky

2001-05-08 Thread Michael Pugliese
Strange bedfellows dept. Chossudovsky and Jared Isreal are cited in the newsbriefs section of the latest issue of The New American, the magazine of the far right mainstay in the USA, the John Birch Society. Two pgs. before, Gerhard Schroeder is identified as a Marxist (!) but, not Chossudovsky.

Economic Terrorism---Michel Chossudovsky

2001-05-08 Thread Ken Hanly
This is long, but interesting and no doubt debatable in places. Cheers, Ken Hanly In Yugoslavia, the IMF has become the steadfast financial bureaucracy of the Western military alliance, working hand in glove with NATO and the US State Department. ECONOMIC TERRORISM by Michel