Re: [PEN-L] PLO and Palestine

Yoshie wrote: In the case of the ANC, it accomplished the most immediate and important goal of national liberation: the end of Apartheid. (The FSLN didn't face an apartheid problem comparable to what the South Africans did and what the Palestinians still do.) Fatah has not. Ceasing to be a

[PEN-L] Israel Transfers $100 Million to Abbas

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/world/middleeast/19cnd-mideast.html January 19, 2007 Israel Transfers $100 Million to Abbas By GREG MYRE JERUSALEM, Jan. 19 — Israel transferred $100 million in tax revenues to the office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as part of a plan to

[PEN-L] Rebuke in Iran to Its President on Nuclear Role

The bourgeoisie, who couldn't care less about sovereignty, are the weakest link in Iran. -- Yoshie http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/world/middleeast/19iran.html January 19, 2007 Rebuke in Iran to Its President on Nuclear Role By NAZILA FATHI and MICHAEL SLACKMAN TEHRAN, Jan. 18 — Iran's

[PEN-L] Nothing but the Oil Truth

NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN Nothing but the oil truth By Munir Daair Special to Gulf News 01/18/07 Gulf News -- -- The coin finally dropped. Stealthily, but we heard it loud and clear. It dropped while we were busy scratching our heads trying to figure out what plan America's current great

[PEN-L] Arash Norouzi explains the wiped off the map controversy

Arash Norouzi, co-founder of the Mossadegh Project (http://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/, which incidentally has really cool no iran war t-shirts), is no apologist for Ahmadinejad or the Iranian government, as the last paragraph of this article makes clear: 'Iran's President has written two rather

Re: [PEN-L] Arash Norouzi explains the wiped off the map controversy

On 1/19/07, Robert Naiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This article carefully explains several aspects of the controversy, including the original birth of the mistranslation (IRNA, not Western media), Iran really needs better translators! Of course, it could be argued that after the Holocaust

[PEN-L] Charles Murray: Aztec culture inferior to Greek culture

Charles Murray had an editorial in yesterday's WSJ titled Aztecs v Greeks: http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.25474/pub_detail.asp He makes some delightful observations as: -snip Because giftedness is not to be talked about, no one tells high-IQ children explicitly,

[PEN-L] data question

I only have a few days to prepare the final copy of my new book for the publisher. I now have the title: The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great Depression I would've left out economic ideology, but I had to fight hard and to

Re: [PEN-L] data question

If you go to http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/outside.jsp?survey=le this is a Bureau of Labor Statistcs site that will allow you to obtain median weekly earnings for full time employment ages 16-24 from 2000-2006. On 1/19/07, Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only have a few days to prepare

Re: [PEN-L] data question

AFAIK (no expert disclaimer), the standard source is: BLS, CPS (Current Population Survey) Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by selected characteristics Table 37 They let you construct your own tables at: http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpswktab1.htm [ -

[PEN-L] Just Foreign Policy News, January 18, 2007

Just Foreign Policy News January 18, 2007 http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/newsroom/blog/ Ask your Representative to Co-Sponsor the DeFazio and Jones Iran War Powers Resolutions Representative DeFazio (D) and Representive Jones (R) have introduced resolutions re-affirming that President Bush

[PEN-L] Lebanon Opposition to Call General Strike

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR2007011901209.html Lebanon opposition to call general strike By Laila Bassam Reuters Friday, January 19, 2007; 5:28 PM BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's opposition will call a general strike next week, stepping up a campaign to topple

[PEN-L] Democrats Warn Bush Not to Attack Iran

Democrats are finally making themselves useful to the nation, but their statements are far from reassuring, given that they are so easily persuaded to give the POTUS a congressional authorization for war, and the POTUS is probably hoping to provoke Iran into a military engagement that he can

Re: [PEN-L] Democrats Warn Bush Not to Attack Iran

I think the only thing the Democrats want is plausible deniability as to their complicity. My predisposition is to make a sweeping prediction that Bush would never invade Iran because he'd have someone around him who could see that there'd be no way to get out of it easily. I made that

[PEN-L] Fed Chief Warns That Entitlement Growth Could Harm Economy

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/business/19fed.html January 19, 2007 Fed Chief Warns That Entitlement Growth Could Harm Economy By STEVEN R. WEISMAN WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 — Warning against complacency over the federal deficit, Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, said Thursday that

Re: [PEN-L] Democrats Warn Bush Not to Attack Iran

On 1/20/07, Mark Lause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the only thing the Democrats want is plausible deniability as to their complicity. My predisposition is to make a sweeping prediction that Bush would never invade Iran because he'd have someone around him who could see that there'd be no

Re: [PEN-L] Democrats Warn Bush Not to Attack Iran

On 1/20/07, Leigh Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Rep. Walter Jones has introduced a resolution stating that Absent a national emergency created by attack by Iran, or a demonstrably imminent attack by Iran, upon the United States...the President shall...receive