business as usual?

2004-07-14 Thread Devine, James
THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ Advocates of War Now Profit From Iraq's Reconstruction Lobbyists, aides to senior officials and others encouraged invasion and now help firms pursue contracts. They see no conflict. By Walter F. Roche Jr. and Ken Silverstein Times Staff Writers July 14, 2004/L.A. TIMES WASHIN

Business as usual for intelligence torturers

2004-05-07 Thread k hanly
Bush sickened, but suspects still at work By Marian Wilkinson, Herald Correspondent in Washington May 8, 2004 Page Tools Email to a friend Printer format Standing in the Rose Garden at the White House, President George Bush declared that the graphic photographs of US military guards abusing Iraqi

Krugman on Business as Usual

2002-10-22 Thread Bill Lear
Business as Usual By PAUL KRUGMAN NY Times, Oct. 22, 2002 The mood among business lobbyists, according to a jubilant official at the Heritage Foundation, is one of "optimism, bordering on giddiness." They expect the elections on Nov. 5 to put Republicans in control of all three b

[PEN-L:5726] Re: Business as usual

1999-04-21 Thread Michael Perelman
Did they not also break the boycott of the military gov't of Haiti? Eugene Coyle wrote: > Today's NY Times reports re NATO that > > "As a sign that the allies are serious about blocking any futher > oil, Texaco announced today that it would no longer ship gasoline to > Montenegro. > Texa

[PEN-L:5703] Business as usual

1999-04-21 Thread Eugene Coyle
Today's NY Times reports re NATO that "As a sign that the allies are serious about blocking any futher oil, Texaco announced today that it would no longer ship gasoline to Montenegro. Texaco said in New York that it made such a shipment of 65,000 barrels on April 10th, nearly three weeks

[PEN-L:12534] Non-business as usual?

1997-09-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am amazed at the lack of interest shown by all, not only the list's indefatigable anthropologists, in the UN's easy acceptance of a billion dollars from a media tycoon whose further ambitions are likely not limited even to this solar system. I always assumed, without any coaching from the mi

[PEN-L:10262] Re: Business as usual

1997-05-21 Thread Tom Walker
Sid and Valis, You're both right. Dante casts Pope Celestino V's self-avowed 'neutrality' as hypocritical. Pope Celestino V, who resigned in 1294 - "the great refusal." Inferno, Canto III, line 58 When I had recognized a few of them, I saw and knew the shadow of that man Who out of cowa

[PEN-L:10260] Re: Business as usual II

1997-05-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[D Shniad:] > Nope. It's those who strike a neutral stance at a time of fundamental > crisis among conflicting value systems. > > Am still awash in existential nausea brought on by the State Dept's > > appalled discovery, after 32 years of wedded bliss, that Mobutu is > > one evil dude who sho

[PEN-L:10252] Re: Business as usual

1997-05-20 Thread D Shniad
Nope. It's those who strike a neutral stance at a time of fundamental crisis among conflicting value systems. > > Am still awash in existential nausea brought on by the State Dept's > appalled discovery, after 32 years of wedded bliss, that Mobutu is > one evil dude who should have been hung o

[PEN-L:10240] Business as usual

1997-05-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Am still awash in existential nausea brought on by the State Dept's appalled discovery, after 32 years of wedded bliss, that Mobutu is one evil dude who should have been hung out to dry in the Sixties. In Dante's Inferno, isn't it the hypocrites that rate the hottest spots?