[PEN-L] Oil company rot in Equatorial Guinea

2004-12-18 Thread Louis Proyect
(An article by Ken Silverstein, who founded Counterpunch a few years ago, before taking a job with the Los Angeles Times.) LA Times, December 18, 2004 Oil Firms' Rich Concessions to Tainted African Ruler Probed By Ken Silverstein, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Six years ago, the president of

Re: [PEN-L] economics and class struggle behind legal victory.

2004-12-18 Thread g kohler
From: Chris Burford Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 . . . snip As for working people - working class and self-employed workers on the land - a more radical agenda of human rights is to their advantage, but there is a downside in that it ultimately tends to emphasise atomised individualised rights, . . .

[PEN-L] Trotsky quote query

2004-12-18 Thread Chris Doss
Hi, Does anybody know where the following quotes come from in Lev Davidovich's corpus? They are from my (Russian) copy of Trotsky: Mify i Lichnost', which, like most Russian books unfortunately, hos no footnotes. The translations are by me, so they won't correspond literally with the standard

[PEN-L] Seymour Melman

2004-12-18 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, December 18, 2004 Seymour Melman, 86, Dies; Spurred Antiwar Movement By JENNIFER BAYOT Seymour Melman, a Columbia University scholar who helped galvanize the antiwar movement from the 1950's on with analyses of the social costs of military spending, died on Dec. 16 at his home in

[PEN-L] Call for papers: UNU-WIDER Jubilee Conference

2004-12-18 Thread Eubulides
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[PEN-L] quotation du jour

2004-12-18 Thread Devine, James
history is just old spin -- John O'Farrell Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine Britain: a rough guide John O'Farrell Friday December 17, 2004 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk 'Excuse me, have you got any of those handy new government booklets explaining

[PEN-L] new frontiers in socializing risk and money laundering

2004-12-18 Thread Eubulides
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1374599,00.html Second guarantee for BAE revealed David Leigh and Rob Evans Thursday December 16, 2004 The Guardian The government has given a second secret financial guarantee to BAE Systems for a Middle East arms deal. BAE is selling Hawk warplanes