Re: [PEN-L] Polish archbishop quits over communist links

the priest in my friend's village, he now tells me, used to divulge the confessions of the women in his parish after a couple of drinks. when he found that the audience liked what he said, he was asking the women for more details so as to liven the sunday lunch. It got to a point he said when

[PEN-L] A New Venezuela Blog

A new Venezuela blog: http://www.borev.net/ -- Yoshie http://montages.blogspot.com/ http://mrzine.org http://monthlyreview.org/

Re: [PEN-L] Polish archbishop quits over communist links

I am just back from Poland. Obviously this was major news in the Polish press. The politics of the resignation is rather interesting. The witch hunt for informers had died down for a number of years but the current highly-reactionary regime has revived it. As the exposure of the background of

[PEN-L] Raimondo on Defunding the Iraq war

Defund the War The Democrats say they can’t – and won’t by Justin Raimondo The twisting and turning, the double- and –triple-talk, the obfuscation and evasion – is there any limit to the Democrats’ duplicity when it comes to ending the Iraq war? Apparently not. Listen to newly-installed Speaker

Re: [PEN-L] Raimondo on Defunding the Iraq war

On 1/8/07, ken hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Defund the War The Democrats say they can't – and won't by Justin Raimondo The twisting and turning, the double- and –triple-talk, the obfuscation and evasion – is there any limit to the Democrats' duplicity when it comes to ending the Iraq war?

[PEN-L] Our Daily Bread

Last night Turner Classic Movies (TCM), a cable station that features vintage films, aired Our Daily Bread, a film that I had heard about but never saw before. Directed by silent film veteran King Vidor who worked into the late 1950s, it is the story of unemployed men taking over a Midwest farm

[PEN-L] Saddam genocide charges dropped

://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/08/saddam-refuses-to-enter-plea-as-iraqi.php [JURIST report] have been entered for all defendants. AP has more http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070108/D8MH0V480.html.

Re: [PEN-L] Raimondo on Defunding the Iraq war

ken hanly wrote: Defund the War The Democrats say they can’t – and won’t by Justin Raimondo The Administration does not have to pay any attention to Congress’ attempt to guide the administrative conduct of the war. Once Congress gave its consent for military action, it literally did not

[PEN-L] Chavez plans to nationalize telecom and power

January 8, 2007 Chavez: Will Nationalize Telecoms, Power By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:21 p.m. ET CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced plans Monday to nationalize the country's electrical and telecommunications companies, calling them ''strategic sectors''

[PEN-L] Jesse Lemisch reminiscences about Yale

http://hnn.us/articles/33300.html -- www.marxmail.org

[PEN-L] Europe, US Squeeze Iran on Nuclear Plans

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8899bc32-9f5e-11db-9e2e-779e2340.html Europe, US squeeze Iran on nuclear plans By Daniel Dombey in London and Gareth Smyth in Tehran Published: January 8 2007 21:28 | Last updated: January 8 2007 21:28 Western Europe and the US are seeking to ratchet up pressure on

[PEN-L] U.S. Strike in Somalia

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010801635.html U.S. Strike in Somalia Targets Al-Qaeda Figure By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 9, 2007; A11 A U.S. Navy AC-130 gunship attacked suspected al-Qaeda members inside Somalia on