[PEN-L] Thomas Brown and the bastard Piscataways

2005-02-18 Thread Louis Proyect
We make our debut in the far west, where the snowy mountains look down upon us in the hottest summer day as well as in the winter's cold; here where a few months ago the wild beasts and wilder Indians held undisturbed possession - where now surges the advancing wave of Anglo Saxon enterprise and

[PEN-L] union calls for US withdrawal from Iraq

2005-02-18 Thread Devine, James
Leave our country now From the first days of the US-British invasion of Iraq, oil workers have resisted foreign occupation Hassan Juma'a Awad Friday February 18, 2005 The Guardian We lived through dark days under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. When the regime fell, people wanted a new life: a

[PEN-L] Israeli conquest = peace?

2005-02-18 Thread Devine, James
[there's some truth to this article. But what it describes is not a peace process but an Israeli conquest, including the replacement of Arafat with a more malleable Palestinian leader. It will likely produce a bunch of bantustans. The last time that was tried, it didn't lead to long-term peace, if

[PEN-L] Forwarded from Jim Craven

2005-02-18 Thread Louis Proyect
Warning: More Hate Speech from W. Churchill By MICKEY Z http://www.counterpunch.org/mickey02072005.html Alert O'Reilly...send word to both the limo liberals and the Soldier of Fortune crowd...Pataki, Zahn, and Hannity take note...we have another repugnant quote from W. Churchill: I do not

Re: [PEN-L] Thomas Brown and the bastard Piscataways

2005-02-18 Thread Louis Proyect
Thomas Brown wrote: Are you inviting me to join your list for a discussion? If not, please don't send me any more of these. yrs, t Look, Thomas, I cc you when I write an attack because I see it as a courtesy, even though you surely don't like what you hear. I only found out by accident that Ralph

[PEN-L] crumbling NATO - growing Empire?

2005-02-18 Thread Chris Burford
An article in today's International Herald Tribune presents a highly complex picture of why NATO appears to be losing momentum, as the USA and Europe skirmish for areas of influence. http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/18/news/allies.html Despite close overlap in the membership of NATO and the EU

[PEN-L] Ida B. Wells

2005-02-18 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWwells.htm

Re: [PEN-L] Indexing Social Security benefits

2005-02-18 Thread Doug Orr
I had wanted to respond to this thread immediately, but I was caught up, quite literally, in the Ward Churchill thread. EWU had invited him to speak here in April, but after Hamilton College, our President dis-invited him, our faculty Senate voted unanimously to re-invite him, Bill O'Reilly

Re: [PEN-L] Indexing Social Security benefits

2005-02-18 Thread Devine, James
At the risk of entering the discussion after all interest has past, I will offer an explanation of what the shift from wage indexing to price indexing that Bush is proposing means. Is it Bush who proposes this, Doug? Or some GOP Congresscreep? Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web:

Re: [PEN-L] Indexing Social Security benefits

2005-02-18 Thread Doug Henwood
Doug Orr wrote: So the bottom line is, something that is made to sound like an innocuous change in the index used, would utterly destroy the ability of Social Security to provide even the most basic level of retirement benefits. Of course that's the point - to transform SS into a very basic

Re: [PEN-L] Indexing Social Security benefits

2005-02-18 Thread Doug Orr
Bush steadfastly refuses to actually propose anything. He mentions ideas in his speeches, but he still has not sent anything concrete forward to Congress or anyone else. Bush himself has mentioned this idea in at least one of his speeches. He is floating lots of trial balloons to see which ones

Re: [PEN-L] Indexing Social Security benefits

2005-02-18 Thread Doug Henwood
Doug Orr wrote: Bush steadfastly refuses to actually propose anything. He mentions ideas in his speeches, but he still has not sent anything concrete forward to Congress or anyone else. Bush himself has mentioned this idea in at least one of his speeches. He is floating lots of trial balloons

Re: [PEN-L] Indexing Social Security benefits

2005-02-18 Thread Max Sawicky
Is it Bush who proposes this, Doug? Or some GOP Congresscreep? Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Nobody has formally proposed a switch to wage indexing. The Bushoids have talked this and a number of options, but have evaded endorsing any in particular thus far. See below:

[PEN-L] Forwarded from John Cox

2005-02-18 Thread Louis Proyect
I am on the steering cmte. of the Historians Against the War, which just released this statement: Historians Against the War (HAW) deplores the current effort by the Governor of Colorado and some members of the University of Colorado's Board of Regents to dismiss Prof. Ward Churchill, apparently

[PEN-L] voodoo economics 2005

2005-02-18 Thread Eubulides
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U5311148A or http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/17feb20051700/www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/ 2005/2005_erp.pdf 2005 Economic Report of the President

Re: [PEN-L] Indexing Social Security benefits

2005-02-18 Thread Michael Pollak
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Doug Orr wrote: At the risk of entering the discussion after all interest has past, No worries of that! BTW, if other people haven't seen Doug Orrs's article on social security in the December _Dollars Sense_, it's excellent: http://www.dollarsandsense.org/1104orr.html I will

[PEN-L] Intifada in Lebanon

2005-02-18 Thread Chris Burford
The term used was Intifada for Independence http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1categ_id=2article_id=12818 Opposition demands 'intifada for independence' Interestingly a Google search for Lebanon and intifada takes you immediately to an article back in April 2000 by the Middle East