Ha'aretz [Jerusalem]/April 28, 2004
Remember Falluja
By Orit Shohat
During the first two weeks of this month, the American army committed
war crimes in Falluja on a scale unprecedented for this war. According
to the relatively few media reports of what took place there, some 600
Iraqis
Remember when folks in the US were building fallout shelters?
They call 'em "spider holes" in Iraq.
http://www.nationalphilistine.com/baghdad/index2.html
Title: remember the economy?
While our splendid little war is going swimmingly in central Asia, it's easy to forget the US economy:
March 24, 2003/New York TIMES
Skeptical Economic View Takes in More Than Iraq
By DAVID LEONHARDT
With the battles having begun in Iraq, the United S
Title: good stuff to remember
Saddam and
Corporate America
The Bush Administration Would Rather You Didn't Know
By Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice 1/9/03
When Iraq presented its weapons declaration to the United
Nations last month, the Bush administration immediately attacked the
repo
Nearly 40 million people are facing famine in Africa and the rest of the
world is forced to focus on "possible" geopolitical realignments that the
US doesn't fancy. Have we lost our minds? Is it a forlorn hope that
people matter too?
Diane
At 07:33 PM 2/12/2003 -0800, you wrote:
An assault
An assault on poverty is vital too
It's simple - we have to double aid to halve global suffering
Gordon Brown
Thursday February 13, 2003
The Guardian
In Africa the struggle that matters is the struggle for survival. With 14
million men, women and children in sub-Saharan Africa facing desperate fa
Istanbul Independent Media Center
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Original article is at
http://istanbul.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/131.php
What will the Turkish Government remember as it votes on the war
this week?
by Ayse Gul Altinay Wednesday February 05, 2003 at 12:59 AM
Last week
Administration putting forward new proposals to reduce global steel capacity
By Martin Crutsinger, Associated Press, 9/9/2002 16:58
WASHINGTON (AP) The Bush administration called Monday for the elimination
worldwide of most government subsidies to steelmakers as part of a comprehensive
effort to
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>>On April 28th 1987, Ben Linder was out doing his job: taking water
>>measurements on wier he had built, to determine the potential for small
>>hydroelectric plant development in norther Nicaragua.
>
>Tom W. adds:
>
>I remember.
Me too. I remember a picture of
Yes, I remember attending a memorial service for your pal in the late 80's
held at the Pitt school of engineering.
Two things that I recall from that memorial meeting. One was slides of the
little hydro station your friend had built. The other was a slide of an
ancient gentleman fro
Tom L. notes:
>Tomorrow, April 28th is workers memorial day. Workers Memorial Day is
dedicated
>to the people who get killed and injured everyday on the job.
On April 28th 1987, Ben Linder was out doing his job: taking water
measurements on wier he had built, to determine the potential for smal
he had built, to determine the potential for small
>hydroelectric plant development in norther Nicaragua.
Tom W. adds:
I remember.
regards,
Tom Walker
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm
Doug Henwood writes 9/12:
> "democracy" only works when all life's interesting questions are
assumed away and the rule of capital is secure.
The first half seems reasonable, if overstated -- much depends on what
one specifies as "interesting," doesn't it? -- but how did _capital_ get
Doug: I remember Chile well. Do you remember, as I do, demonstrating
against the coup? It occurs to me that the experience of Chile (in the
sense of the different "lessons" that radicals drew from Allende and the
Pinochet coup) was influential in many people's radicalization and
Bill Mitchell reminded us about the Chilean coup of 1973. Along those
lines, we can savor the following remark from Richard Feinberg, the former
executive vice president of the Overseas Development Council who now works
at Clinton's National Security Council: "If a society fundamentally
disagrees
Santiago - September 1973 - on this day
remember what capitalists do when the going gets really tough for them.
american imperialism at its best. don't ever kid anyone that we have democracy
in the west (plus east i suppose now) as long as we have capitalism.
kind regards
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