[PEN-L] take your cue from the Near East

2005-09-30 Thread soula avramidis
With the investigation into Hariri's murder progressing, the situation in the whole of the Near East is becoming more tense. Syria is trying to sell out completely, give up on the Palestinian radical movements, Hizbollah and collaborate fully on Iraq in a low tone clandestine matter. But it seems

[PEN-L] the FSC case at WTO redux

2005-09-30 Thread Autoplectic
[Full report of the case @ ] The Times October 01, 2005 WTO rules that US tax concession breaks law >From Rory Watson in Brussels THE European Union has been given a

[PEN-L] Anna Burger to Head Breakaway Labor Group

2005-09-30 Thread Charles Brown
Anna Burger to Head Breakaway Labor Group By Thomas B. Edsall The Washington Post Tuesday 27 September 2005 Coalition hopes to reverse setbacks and organize more women and minorities. Anna Burger, a longtime organizer and political strategist, will chair the Change to Win C

[PEN-L] Pius have immediate release

2005-09-30 Thread Charles Brown
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[PEN-L] new radio product

2005-09-30 Thread Doug Henwood
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Re: [PEN-L] my new book

2005-09-30 Thread paul phillips
Go to Pluto's website. It has a description of the work complete with the table of contents. However, the title on the website is Manufacturing Discontent, not Dissent. Paul Phillips Mohammad Maljoo wrote: Michael Perelman wrote: <> Today I received Pluto Press Newsletter in which there was

Re: [PEN-L] my new book

2005-09-30 Thread Mohammad Maljoo
Michael Perelman wrote: <> Today I received Pluto Press Newsletter in which there was a link to _Manufacturing Dissent_, even though the URL was not correct and merely showed a book by John Holloway. As well, I was unable to find it in internet. Is it possible to have its table of contents in p

[PEN-L] Venezuela abandons the USD

2005-09-30 Thread michael a. lebowitz
Chavez: Venezuela moves reserves to Europe SEP. 30 1:50 P.M. ET Venezuela has moved its central bank foreign reserves out of U.S. banks, liquidated its investments in U.S. Treasury securities and placed the funds in Europe, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday. "We've had to move the i

Re: [PEN-L] Divorce rates by age of marriage, adjusted by income?

2005-09-30 Thread Doug Henwood
Bill Lear wrote: Does anyone here know where I can find such stats? Bill Oodles of stuff here: . Doug

Re: [PEN-L] Bill Bennett racism

2005-09-30 Thread Jim Devine
they were both very young. On 9/30/05, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I asked Janis sister about Bennett. How could she go out with a creep like > that? She did > not think it was a big deal. -- Jim Devine "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let peop

Re: [PEN-L] Bill Bennett racism

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Perelman
I asked Janis sister about Bennett. How could she go out with a creep like that? She did not think it was a big deal. On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:26:06AM -0700, Jim Devine wrote: > On 9/30/05, Michael Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/30/05 10:55 AM >>> > > Bill Ben

Re: [PEN-L] Bill Bennett racism

2005-09-30 Thread Doug Henwood
Jim Devine wrote: > Yes, what Bennett actually said was: "I bet you could abort every black baby ..." Carl it's really a bad sign of the political mood of this country if the creep actually thought he could say such a thing. Either that, or it's a sign of the _hubris_ of our ruling cliqu

Re: [PEN-L] Bill Bennett racism

2005-09-30 Thread Jim Devine
> Yes, what Bennett actually said was: "I bet you could abort every black > baby ..." > > Carl it's really a bad sign of the political mood of this country if the creep actually thought he could say such a thing. Either that, or it's a sign of the _hubris_ of our ruling clique. -- Jim Devine "Seg

Re: [PEN-L] Bill Bennett racism

2005-09-30 Thread Carl Remick
From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 9/30/05, Michael Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/30/05 10:55 AM >>> > Bill Bennett was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of HEW > <> also, he deserves _some_ credit for dating Janis Joplin a few times. Poor Janis. That must

Re: [PEN-L] cooper on the march

2005-09-30 Thread Carrol Cox
Louis Proyect wrote: > > > This guy is rapidly morphing into another Christopher Hitchens. Yes. And he is more of a loss for the left than Hitchens was; his articles on Chile some years ago were first rate. Carrol

Re: [PEN-L] cooper on the march

2005-09-30 Thread Carrol Cox
Jim Devine wrote: > > > If the rallies get large enough, the politicians will come _despite_ > the ANSWERites. Yes, with a qualification. The large rallies are necessary first of all to energize local organizers, and the large rallies will themselves begin to have a direct effect on politicians (a

Re: [PEN-L] cooper on the march

2005-09-30 Thread Louis Proyect
Marc Cooper's basic point on last Saturday's anti-war march (http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/45/dissonance-cooper.php) is that because it was dominated by those sectarian ANSWER people (the Party for Socialism and Liberation, not the Workers World Party as in olden days) it didn't attract Democrati

[PEN-L] Divorce rates by age of marriage, adjusted by income?

2005-09-30 Thread Bill Lear
Does anyone here know where I can find such stats? Bill

[PEN-L] cooper on the march

2005-09-30 Thread Jim Devine
Marc Cooper's basic point on last Saturday's anti-war march (http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/45/dissonance-cooper.php) is that because it was dominated by those sectarian ANSWER people (the Party for Socialism and Liberation, not the Workers World Party as in olden days) it didn't attract Democratic

Re: [PEN-L] Bill Bennett racism

2005-09-30 Thread Jim Devine
On 9/30/05, Michael Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/30/05 10:55 AM >>> > Bill Bennett was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of HEW > <> also, he deserves _some_ credit for dating Janis Joplin a few times. He's also a good counterexample to the ideal of the "philosopher

Re: [PEN-L] Bill Bennett racism

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Hoover
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/30/05 10:55 AM >>> Bill Bennett was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of HEW <> erratum: bennett was secretary of education in second reagan term, carter had essentially divided dept of health, education, & welfare into 2 depts - education & health & humans services, benn

[PEN-L] Bill Bennett racism

2005-09-30 Thread Louis Proyect
(Bill Bennett was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of HEW. He is a disgusting hypocrite preaching about "family values" who was revealed to be a compulsive gambler recently.) http://mediamatters.org/items/200509280006 Media Matters exposes Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country,

[PEN-L] U.N. = U.S.

2005-09-30 Thread Louis Proyect
Within the broader antiwar movement in the United States, more moderate voices have raised the idea of substituting United Nations troops for the Anglo-American occupation forces in Iraq. This gesture supposedly would constitute a blow against the “unilateralism” that inspired the war and would

[PEN-L] Why I Was Smiling and Hurricane Rita

2005-09-30 Thread Charles Brown
Why I Was Smiling and Hurricane Rita By Cindy Sheehan Tuesday 27 September 2005 I had a huge grin on my face when I was getting arrested yesterday. I have received a lot of flak for smiling. Apparently I am not supposed to smile, but I had some really good reasons for doing so. F

[PEN-L] Boycott despair, it is American manufactured

2005-09-30 Thread soula avramidis
According to one nameless source, today there is one sign all over Arab world it says: "Boycott despair, it is American manufactured."   Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.