Hmm, "Popular Demon, Sadaam Hussein..." See a book by Patrick
Cockburn, a brother of Alex Cockburn on Iraq and Hussein, "The
Resurrection of Sadaam Hussein." "Samir al-Khalil aka Kenan Makiya
book, "republic of Fear, blurbed by left historian, Michael Rogin.
Khalil is an Iraqi exile, ex-Trotskyist of the USFI, the Ernest
Mandel Trots. Lotsa detail on Iraqi Ba'athist regime repression
of the Kurds and the Iraqi Communist Party. Michael Pugliese---
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>From: William Meecham <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: 1/23/02 10:11:06 AM
>

>There is an analysis that 9-11 was the work of relative amateurs
rather
>than a far flung master organization.  That does seem likely
and points to
>the helplessness of a modern techno state in the face of determined
and
>not totally unreasonable, hatred.
>
> > >
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>>
>> Cry for us, Enron-Tina
>> by Frank Scott
>>
>>
>>
>> While sincere Americans were  waving flags , Washington was
picking
>> their pockets to fill the coffers of corporate capital. At
the same
>> time, this  government has been hysterically destroying the
>> constitutional  freedoms that make America, with all its moral
flaws, a
>> worthwhile dream of democratic possibility. Most elected officials,
with
>> the cooperation of mass media acting as a propaganda  wing
of the state,
>> have united in a frenzy of thoughtless action alleged to fight
terror
>> elsewhere, but really create it within our midst.
>>
>> During this orgy of mass financial looting and frenzied civil
liberties
>> theft , the economic horrors of a multi-billion dollar corporation,
>> Enron, and a multi-multi billion dollar nation, Argentina,
havent been
>> closely examined. They reveal more about what might ruin our
future than
>> present fears about retail terrorism practiced by dark-skinned
amateurs
>> , in contrast to the more common wholesale terrorism practiced
by
>> light-skinned professionals.
>>
>> The capital theft at Enron may eventually lead to individual
>> prosecutions, but personal crime is only a small part of this
case. If
>> we allow the soft shoes and weak spines of  official opposition
to be
>> the only response to the  cowboy boots and cow-pie brains
 of this
>> administration, we will gain nothing. Some satisfaction for
the craven
>> cowards who called Bush a moron on 9/10, but made him a dictator
after
>> 9/11, will simply mean personal vengeance enacted against
the mental
>> minimalist president and his crew of power-mad petro-greasers.This
kind
>> of small time , short term  politics  wont  protect us from
the
>> big-time,  long term threat .
>>
>> It is our capital fundamentalism , and well as our chemically
dependent,
>> petroleum addicted energy policy that lie at the root of the
Enron
>> corporate fiasco. The complicity of many within the Bush gang
 is only a
>> sideshow; a focus on their behavior that misses the larger
deregulatory
>> horror responsible for this mess amounts to sending pretzels
to the
>> white house as a way of opposing the president.
>>
>> While it was mainly a conduit for Republican funding,the cabal
of energy
>> and financial thieves at Enron  dumped off money to the other
wing of
>> our  corporate political mafia and its henchmen , like Joe-God
>> Leiberman, when it saw the  need for a little help from more
than one
>> criminal gang.
>>
>> And the national disaster of  Argentina has been the story
of everything
>> supposedly right about the triumph of deregulated capital
becoming
>> everything that is wrong with the disaster of unregulated
capital. IMF
>> policy, which means U.S. free market fundamentalism , was
supposedly
>> working like a charm in Argentina. Sure, until the drugs wore
off. Then
>> the invasion of foreign capital and the destruction of national
currency
>> became a living nightmare of unemployment, poverty, food riots
and bank
>> chaos.
>>
>> Now, while thousands suffer the systems losses at Enron, millions
>> suffer the  systems deprivations in Argentina, and billions
worldwide
>> are threatened by further breakdowns in global capitalism.
But there is
>> some hope for Argentina;  many of its people have shown  they
will no
>> longer tolerate the  nonsense that created their problems.
The new,
>> temporary government is withholding payments on foreign debt,
which
>> numbers even more billions than the old paper value of Enron.
This could
>> be a  signal to other nations  impoverished by capital to
fight back.
>> And even we Americans show some signs of waking up reality.
>>
>> Business flacks tell us consumer confidence is  increasing,
but this may
>> be because consumers  realize what Argentineans finally understand
;
>> they will never be able to pay their debts, which will outlive
them, and
>> they  cant be prosecuted for incurring them if their debtors
 robbed
>> them in the first place, and they band together to get more
power than
>> those to whom they allegedly owe the money .
>>
>> It is the systems total dependence on waste, pollution, deregulation
>> and debt that is most dangerous, and is the point at which
 Enron and
>> Argentina  offer lessons. This is how things work; for the
unprincipled
>> minority investors, and  against the  majority from whom they
draw the
>> interest they call profit, which is that majoritys loss.
>>
>> But awareness must come at a faster pace. More victims are
sought in  an
>> endless war against them, with dreadful Democrats like presidential
>> wannabee Leiberman joining the  chorus that sings for murder
as the only
>> way to stop more murder. The popular demon, Saddam Hussein,
looms large,
>> as both American and Israeli  vampires of war thirst for more
blood,
>> having whetted their appetites with Afghanistans powerless
Taliban and
>> Palestines defenseless citizens.
>>
>> International corporadoes desire a global empire under the
total control
>> of gas guzzling, environmentally destructive  western civilization,
in
>> its most anti-democratic , fundamentalist form.
>>
>> The  perverse, greedy onanism of modern  capital is so focused
on its
>> private parts that it denies the larger body of society, which
is
>> composed of  people in numbers far beyond the minority of
investors and
>> corporations on whose selfish interest its goals are focused.
It is that
>> majority which is kept divided by manipulation and teachings
that claim
>> all power to the individual, while robbing those individuals
through
>> governments controlled by wealth ,  which collect taxes  to
 fill the
>> pockets of their owners; the minority corporadoes.
>>
>> The financial interests which profited from the  crimes of
Enron are the
>> same ones which got fat sucking Argentina dry. And the workers
at Enron,
>> the citizens of Argentina and ultimately all of us are the
ones who will
>> pay. The neo-liberalism of the past thirty years that returned
to
>> primitive capitals attack on public service  government, with
all power
>> placed in the market under private control, has brought Enron
and
>> Argentina  to near or total ruin. But more importantly, that
>> unregulated, debtor creating system threatens all people,
every nation
>> and the planet itself if it is not brought under democratic
control.
>> Today Enron-Tina; tomorrow, us?
>>
>> Copyright (c) 2002 by Frank Scott. All rights reserved.
>>
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