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Capital s Punishment
by Frank Scott
We begin the year with war , its death and financial tolls soaring, and whispers of Democratic disagreement rising to a crescendo of murmurs. When one called for immediate troop withdrawal , party leaders explained why we must continue the bloodbath , but in a more liberal way. And that s the good news.
Bush of course lost the vote (by about half million). And in fact he got about 16% of the vote: 2/3 of the people are registered half of those vote, and Bush got less that half of those. w> > COASTAL POST > (415)868 1600 FAX (415) 868 0502 > P.O. Box 31 > Bolinas CA 94924 > http://www.coastalpost.com > email: [log in to unmask] > January, 2001 > > > > > > > 2001: A Race Odyssey? > by Frank Scott > > > The new year begins with a relatively unpopular president, and a need > to rethink our economic
in the bible jesus tells us if we say to this mountain, "Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea," and believe that it will come to pass, it will. i didn't quite understand "sea" but after connecting it to "worship God in water and sprit," with water meaning truth, i concluded that that "mountain" will eventually drown in our struggle to find the truth we are seeking.
recently i learned what the scientific method is much to my sursprise...so this morning i will present some facts for you consideration and to support what frank scott has posted.
the following is a partial list of our presidents, this list has a specific message that requires you to not just explain what these facts are but rather to seek out its "blood and flesh," namely, what the words are about.
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Legal Crimes
by Frank Scott
"It is better to suffer a great wrong than to have recourse to the much greater wrong of the law." --Charles Dickens
We are taught to be proud that we are a nation of laws, and that no one is above the law, no matter how much wealth or power that person may possess. While there are occasional examples of this equality , exalted by those who make the laws and benefit most from them, the
In a message dated 11/21/00 2:05:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
> A boring race between a biogenetic pro-government drone and an > intellectually challenged anti-government clone was transformed into an > exciting vote count, for a while . Democrat William Daley complained > about voting irregularities. He is the son of Chicago mayor Richard > Daley, who created affirmative action programs for zombies, featuring > an annual parade of footprints from the cemetery to the ballot box on > election day.
In fact Gore has already won, and it would be so recognized in any other country in the world. w > > COASTAL POST > (415)868 1600 FAX (415) 868 0502 > P.O. Box 31 > Bolinas CA 94924 > http://www.coastalpost.com > email: [log in to unmask] > December,2000 > > > Who Cares? > > > The permanent campaign has become the eternal vote count, creating > equal amounts of hysteria , hilarity, boredom and disgust. Americas > short attention span is being sorely tested by our closest presidential > election, which has become a battle between the ruling party's hired >
>In fact Gore has already won, and it would be so recognized in any other country in the world.
Now there's a convincing argument--he won because you say he has, and because you say that everybody else would say so. Why have an election at all, then--let's all just let you, in your infinite wisdom, decide whom the people would vote for...
I presume you base your observation on the premise that Gore has won the majority of the Popular vote?
I think this would make him the winner under an English-style "first-past-the-post" system if the USA was considered one huge electorate. If you considered each of the states an individual electorate then you would need to count the popular vote in each of the states, award the state to the candidate with the biggest popular vote then count up the number of states won by each candidate. You would then have your winner, who would not necessarily be the
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:42:47 +1100 that most illustrious and gifted writer of our times "Siviour, Craig" <[log in to unmask]> did eloquently compose:
> Hi William, > > I presume you base your observation on the premise that Gore has won the > majority of the Popular vote? > > I think this would make him the winner under an English-style > "first-past-the-post" system if the USA was considered one huge electorate. > If you considered each of the states an individual electorate then you would > need to count the popular vote in each of the states, award the state
>I presume you base your observation on the premise that Gore has won the >majority of the Popular vote? > >I think this would make him the winner under an English-style >"first-past-the-post" system if the USA was considered one huge electorate.
Craig,
Actually, that's not strictly true. Each seat in the U.K. is contested on a first-past-the-post basis but the overall election 'result' is based on the number of seats won by the parties. The leader of the party which gains the most seats, or heads a coalition of parties which together control over 50% of the seats, becomes the
>Democrat William Daley complained about voting irregularities. >He is the son of Chicago mayor Richard Daley, who...
Frank,
To make the point that electoral fraud has a long history in the USA is fully understandable. To point out that this fraud has not been the exclusive pursuit of one particular party is also justifiable and pertinent. But to simply regurgitate the Republicans' shabby and spiteful insinuation is a sloppy moment in your otherwise excellent and erudite column.
in the author's utopia, if "the consumer is not king" in setting social priorities, then who is?
thank you for your response.
norm
The permanent campaign has become the eternal vote count, creating > > equal amounts of hysteria , hilarity, boredom and disgust. Americas > > short attention span is being sorely tested by our closest presidential > > election, which has become a battle between the ruling party's hired > > shysters. > > > > The nations richest lawyers have lined up at the financial feeding > > trough for a litigation frenzy that may last until
This question seems to imply the assumption of the wisdom of the market. This, of course, means that whenever there is a willing buyer and a willing seller, that the best of all worlds prevails and that the supremacy of the market should not be interfered with. In practical terms, what this means is that those with excess money can purchase a spare kidney or an eye or an ear (etc.) from those without the money to feed their children or buy them life saving health care. It means similarly, that those without money should be entitled to buy sexual
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The Terrorism of Race and Poverty
by Frank Scott
The world s most over developed military power is its most under developed nation in matters of real human security. Almost maniacally prepared for terrorist attack by material forces , it was unprepared for the terrorist attack by an immaterial Intelligent Designer . But along with the horrors of a natural disaster on America s Gulf Coast, we witnessed the unnatural disaster of our nation s disregard for some of its people.
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Operation Wake Up
by Frank Scott
Our murderous foreign policy led to the tragedy of 9/11, and its ramifications continue. The taking of innocent life in Iraq has caused the taking of innocent life in Spain and England. But still, the impenetrable blobs that lodge between the ears of our leaders send messages to their lips to repeat incantations about war on terror, mindless that they are responsible for terror s origin, perpetuation and growth.
With regard to the Fathers, in fact the Capitol building was built by slaves, including the statuary. This resonates with the use of Fascist background German architect to build the new WWII monument, slavery forever. w > > COASTAL POST > (415)868 1600 FAX (415) 868 0502 > P.O. Box 31 > Bolinas CA 94924 > http://www.coastalpost.com > email: [log in to unmask] > August,2001 > > > Him, or Us? > > "He is totally an asshole." > > Japanese Foreign Minister, Mikako Tanaka, describing President Bush. > > The above wisdom from the east entered our consciousness during the > media
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One Nation, Indivisible
by Frank Scott
The holiday shopping frenzy will have trouble exceeding last months exercise in cosmetic democracy. Our national election produced nearly four billion dollars for the economy, and that was its high point. Our worst president beat his worst opponent , and while a few still claim votes were stolen, a majority safely assumes that as usual, it is unrepresented.
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Democracy? Yeah, right
by Frank Scott
The attacks on civil liberties that began after 911 have served to mask the longer range assault on their practice in America. An electoral process dominated by minority wealth is the antithesis of democracy, but it has been the reality of Americas dictatorship of the rich much longer than the present court appointed regime has existed. Perhaps no abuse of that heralded practice in modern times has been more blatant than the current anti-democratic aggression
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The Wall: There, and Here
by Frank Scott
The tragedy of Palestine would be impossible without historys greatest job of mind management . Lincoln was wrong; you can fool most of the people, most of the time. The physical apartheid wall in Israel is possible only because of a mental apartheid wall in American consciousness.
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Immorality Plays
by Frank Scott
What could be worse than the recent orgy of worship for a dreadful, dead ex-president ? Is it the orgy of market hype for the memoirs of a dreadful, living ex-president?How about the inability of supposed political opposition to deal with the most dreadful president of all, who has transformed the executive chamber into an Office of Homeland Deceit and Stupidity?
Fifty years after the historic Brown v Board decision, its about time we really confront the crippling issue of slaverys impact on America. Race relations have changed and progress has resulted from the great civil rights movement empowered, in part, by that supreme court decision. But it is foolish to believe that weve become a color-blind, equal opportunity society now, as some of the sanctimonious, if not overtly racist political camp would claim.
Reparations for slavery similar to the Marshall plan sounds good but then that wouldn't be in the interests of capitalists as it was in Europe. That being said, any slavery reparation program would not be ecumenical. Before and during slavery, the people who were already in America lost people and land that would now be worth billions of dollars. All working people should be demanding reparations in the form of healthcare, decent wages and a party for their own interests, instead of trying to put a square peg in a round hole.
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The problem is war , not warriors by frank scott
Photos showing an affirmative action group of Americans treating their Iraqi captives as inhuman sex toys have shocked some, leading to angry charges and countercharges. This wartime prison porn has been deemed intolerable by our leaders, and many well intentioned followers, while the serial killings of normal warfare remain unquestioned by both groups. Low level scapegoats will be punished, but the high level murderers most responsible are likely to be untouched by
Bravo coastal post. Re taxes on the people--I know you recognize that the huge SS tax is part of the tax burden (our betters insist, improperly that it be included in the general fund). This SS tax increase under our newly sainted ex-pres, led to a major shift of tax burdern from the wealthy to the other 99% of us. wcm > > COASTAL POST > (415)868 1600 FAX (415) 868 0502 > P.O. Box 31 > Bolinas CA 94924 > http://www.coastalpost.com > email: [log in to unmask] > June, 2000 > > > > The End or The Beginning? > > During
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Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest
by frank scott
"The greatest rule of safety is justice, and stopping injustice and aggression. Oppression kills the oppressors... The situation in occupied Palestine is an example. What happened on 11 September (NY) and 11 March (Madrid ) is your commodity returned to you."
Richard Clarke, Karen Kwiatowski and Paul O'Neill constitute the smoking gun. There is no longer any question that the Bush administration made up it's reason for attacking Iraq out of whole cloth. The division in the American people is now between those who believe attacking a sovereign country that poses no threat and causing massive innocent death is a crime; and those who say, "So what, the filthy Arabs had it coming because they don't like us, and besides, they have oil."
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The Marriage Business
by frank scott
Just as gays and lesbians develop a middle class and conservative values which not only accept, but desire marriage and family, a reactionary movement would deny them. In trying to stop unavoidable change , fundamentalism will ultimately fail. Though the aging process makes it seem desirable - and the cosmetic industry profits greatly from that desire - time cannot be stopped. Nor can the changes it brings that are both personal, and social.
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Vote Kucinich: Impeach Bush
by Frank Scott
we were almost all wrong...
David Kay, CIA Weapons Inspector
Almost? Well, they did spell Iraq correctly. The lunacy of this administration is matched by the blundering of our unintelligence services. Most of the world could have told both sectors of the empires ruling cartel that they were wrong, or just plain liars.
The connection between NASA and the military is overdue. We are informed (first time) that the orbiter is a Military (not civilian) vehicle.
At 05:07 PM 2/24/03 -0800, you wrote: > COASTAL POST >(415)868 1600 FAX (415) 868 0502 >P.O. Box 31 >Bolinas CA 94924 >http://www.coastalpost.com >email: [log in to unmask] >march, 2003 > > > >Can The Worst Bring Out The Best? > >by Frank Scott > >" He is the worst president in all of American history." Helen Thomas > > >Removing the historic burden of incompetence from the shoulders of >Reagan, Clinton and others, the outspoken woman says what most
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Capital Punishment
by Frank Scott
The primitive American welfare state that followed the great depression of the 1930s, and was extended by the great society of the 1960s, served to thinly mask the worst aspects of uncontrolled capitalism. These had nearly brought the nation to revolution during the most miserable economic chaos, and for more than generation, Band-Aids applied to the worst wounds stopped some of the systems bleeding. But that mutated welfare state has since been under steady assault ,
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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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--- Original Message --- >From: William Meecham <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Date: 1/23/02 10:11:06 AM >
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2004: Resolve to Evolve
by Frank Scott
We have evolved to a much higher life form than our hunter-gatherer ancestors . They hunted for meat and gathered vegetation; we hunt for money and gather merchandise . Progress.
But a new year arrives, and we may be poised for a more highly evolved focus. Like, maybe, hunting for democracy, and not just money, and gathering as citizens, and not just consumers. Are we ready? Not if our mind managers have their way.
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Shopping for Democracy?
by Frank Scott
Commissars of capital hope that the annual celebration of consumption will soon reach its peak. Our economy is supposedly rebounding, though the jobs creation rate of the last quarter would have to be maintained for at least five years to simply get back the more than two million jobs our economy has lost. But ministers of the mall preach that the holy shopping spree is needed to make everyone prosperous again.
------- Forwarded message ------- From: Kevin Robert Dean <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [lbo-talk] The Chom-per on Charlie Rose Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 05:25:28 -0500
> Chomsky on Charlie Rose show (MP3 11.97 MB) > > http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=8131 > > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk >
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Start Making Sense
by Frank Scott
California replaced a very unpopular political hack who represents the rich, with a very popular unpolitical hack who represents the rich. So? The recall sent a message to the political establishment, but whether its understood is questionable. The same gang that jumps to attention at any demand from wealthy lobbies is inclined to totally disregard demands made by ordinary voters.
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After the Vote
by Frank Scott
A minority of the electorate will have chosen a president who serves wealth , empire and israel. Whether victory was by landslide or court ruling, it will make no difference to those being killed in iraq, Palestine, Colombia, Haiti and all the other places where the empire is trying to crush its resisting subjects.
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Fear of Democracy
by Frank Scott
At the recently failed WTO meetings, the poor south told the rich north to buzz off. In diplomatic language, of course. Whether the global majority living under the reign of capital will succeed in its struggle against the ruling minority is a matter of hope for most, but terror for others.
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Recall and Impeach
by Frank scott
The political establishment is having fits over the recall effort in California. It is in danger of losing control of the process , and we owe it all to a rich right winger . Is the anti-democratic system moving
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Impeach Bush by frank scott
The danger posed by this court appointed regime is beyond that of any recent administration. It needs to be dealt with accordingly, and long before the 2004 election.
The outrageous lies that gained support for the war on iraq were obvious to most of the world, and a substantial minority of Americans. Still, only now are establishment sources beginning to question those ridiculous tales.
Pinter blasts 'Nazi America' and 'deluded idiot' Blair
Angelique Chrisafis and Imogen Tilden Wednesday June 11, 2003 The Guardian
The playwright Harold Pinter last night likened George W Bush's administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, saying the US was charging towards world domination while the American public and Britain's "mass-murdering" prime minister sat back and watched. Pinter, 72, was at the National Theatre in London to read from War, a new collection of his anti-war poetry that had been published in the press in response to events in Iraq.
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[In August of 1994 Chomsky was asked some general questions about Cuba on a Z magazine forum. His answer seems to me not only accurate but even prescient, with reference to recent events there and in our new satrapy of Iraq. --CGE]
The questions you raise are too broad, and too important, to be addressed in a letter. As to what I think is going on -- pretty much what has been going on in the past. I've outlined what I think in recent publications, for example, in a chapter of a book "Year 501" published last year. I also
Statement to the World by Many Authors; May 02, 2003
To the conscience of the world
The international order has been violated as a consequence of the invasion against Iraq. A single power is inflicting grave damage to the norms of understanding, debate and mediation amongst countries. This power has invoked a series of unverified reasons in order to justify its invasion.
Good. Glad to see it. First I heard about it. It didn't get as much play as their knocking of Cuba for the executions. Too bad they didn't emphasize this stance when they did the knocking. Thanks.
"C. G. Estabrook" wrote:
> ZNet | Central American And Caribbean > > Statement to the World > by Many Authors; May 02, 2003 > > To the conscience of the world > > The international order has been violated as a consequence of the invasion > against Iraq. A single power is inflicting grave damage to the norms of > understanding, debate
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Empire of a Racist God by frank scott
Americans fear another terrorist attack here in the USA , almost guaranteed by the policies of our court appointed regime. The potential attackers are seen as fundamentalist fanatics, but the most dangerous holy warriors are in our own governing cult . These zealots are an alliance of true believers whose schemes are predicated on their total faith in a god they claim to know, personally. This god represents them, and they represent him, as specially
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Noam Chomsky, University Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founder of the modern science of linguistics and political activist, is a powerhouse of anti-imperialist activism in the United States today. On March 21, a crowded and typical - and uniquely Chomskyan - day of political protest and scientific academic research, he spoke from his office for half an hour to V. K. Ramachandran on the current attack on Iraq.
Chomsky had an opportunity--several, actualy--but especially when he was asked about the media, to bring up the question of Cuba and the administration/media (National Public Relations I call it) drive to whip up animosity toward Cuba as lying on the "axis of evil," etc. But Chomsky said nothing. His main posture seems to be to look backward and wring his hands while moaning. When he looks forward, it's only to repeat the big-picture critique that we know well in the abstract andhave heard often.
A comment as uninformed as it is offensive. Apparently you haven't read the statements he's signed on the matter ("Statement of Conscience" and "GDP Statement" <http://www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm>), as well as much earlier material. --CGE
On Mon, 19 May 2003, John Woodford wrote:
> Chomsky had an opportunity--several, actualy--but especially when he > was asked about the media, to bring up the question of Cuba and the > administration/media (National Public Relations I call it) drive to > whip up animosity toward Cuba as lying on the "axis of evil," etc. But > Chomsky said nothing. His main posture seems to be
I went to the site you listed and wasted minutes of eyeball power trying to figure out where the statement is hidden. But couldn't find it. If I have mischaracterized his views, it only goes to show that to be effective, such views need to be advanced at the time when they might have some impact, and not be doled out to select audiences at opportune(istic) times.
Are you really saying that he should issue a statement of support for the world's longest serving dictator?
----- Original Message ----- From: John Woodford <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 10:43 am Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] CHOMSKY: IRAQ AS TRIAL RUN
> I went to the site you listed and wasted minutes of eyeball power > trying to > figure out where the statement is hidden. But couldn't find it. > If I have mischaracterized his views, it only goes to show that to be > effective, such views need to be advanced at the time when they > might
And I'm not sure this comment is worth answering. The statements were widely publicized and are available under these titles at the ZNET site. To refer to them as "doled out to select audiences at opportune(istic) times" is really silly. But I'll post them anyway.
On Wed, 21 May 2003, John Woodford wrote:
> I went to the site you listed and wasted minutes of eyeball power > trying to figure out where the statement is hidden. But couldn't find > it. If I have mischaracterized his views, it only goes to show that to > be effective, such views
I'm saying Chomsky et alia should strongly and frequently condemn US machinations and threats against Cuba, the embargo, the limitations on travel to Cuba, and the categorization of Cuba as an evil state that presents a terror threat against the USA. Then he/they can knock Cuba's non-democratic characteristics to his heart's content. What he should avoid doing is adding the Bush junta's and National Public Relation's attempts to prepare the grounds for assassination, invasion, and other assaults on Cuba. In other words, what I'd like to see is thorough and consistent anti-fascism.
> From the New Criterion: > > The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky > by Keith Windschuttle > > > > > There's a famous definition in the Gospels of the hypocrite, and the > hypocrite is the person who refuses to apply to himself the standards > he applies to others. By that standard, the entire commentary and > discussion of the so-called War on Terror is pure hypocrisy, virtually > without exception. Can anybody understand that? No, they can't > understand it. Noam Chomsky, Power and Terror, 2003 > > Noam Chomsky was the most
Michael Pugliese wrote: > > ------- Forwarded message ------- > > > From the New Criterion: > > > > The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky > > by Keith Windschuttle > >
[More ...] > > Noam Chomsky was the most conspicuous American intellectual to > > rationalize the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
When Windschuttle writes rationalize, dores he mean explain, or does he mean justify? If he means explain, why doesn't he write explain, since explain is a better word. If he means justify, then his essay is balderdash, since Chomsky didn't try to justify
I have written a review of his book, Killing of History, some time ago, and it was a murder of good taste in h-science. A war against po-mo nonsense in the name of pre-Rankeian empiricism. A vulgar display of the worst conservatism in historical science. Which is a pity, because he made some valuable contributions to a resistance against po-modernism in social sciences.
What a pleasure to read someone whose ever sentence makes you say, 'hooray'! Petras's piece needs to be sent far and wide on the Internet so we can expose this virulent flaw in our "left" poseurs.
Andrej Grubacic wrote:
> Guy is a neolith like conservative. > > I have written a review of his book, Killing of History, some time ago, > and it was a murder of good taste in h-science. A war against po-mo > nonsense in the name of pre-Rankeian empiricism. A vulgar display of the > worst conservatism in historical science. Which is a pity,
Thought this would be of interest, especially as it comes from one of the world's leading genocide scholars.
From: Rudy Rummel <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 07:56:13 -1000 To: H-NET List on the History and Theory of Genocide <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Three Cheers
[log in to unmask] wrote: > > Thought this would be of interest, especially as it comes from one of the > world's leading genocide scholars. > >
I'm not sure of what the criteria are for being "one of the world's leading genocide scholars," but from this article Rummel seems more like a small time thug than a leading scholar of anything.
What was--to pick just one example from the 20 countries or so the USA has bombed since WWII--the US assault on Indochina if it wasn't democide? To those 2,000,000 or so deaths, add those from the US-sponsored repressive regimes and "contra" groups, and the people who have died from malnutrition and other health problems thanks to US embargoes and other hostile trade practices, and what will the tally be then? Maybe Genocide Scholar Rummel will do the calculations.
<URL: http://csf.colorado.edu/pen-l/jun99/msg01982.html > < < < Date > > > | < < < Thread > > > [PEN-L:9476] Rummel dismantled on alt.politics.socialism.trotsky by Louis Proyect 22 July 1999 00:24 UTC
Would it surprise you to learn that I have downloaded and printed the online version of Dr. Rummel's tome, Lethal Politics? I don't know if it is the same as the printed version, but I assume, since it is linked to his academic website, that old Doc Rummel wouldn't have allowed it to go up if it didn't reflect the substance of his printed work. I haven't read the
. Here at U of Michigan, the Bush Junta has tried to prevent an expert in LAtin American history from traveling to Cuba. First forcing her travel agent to cancel the itinerary. But when she fought back, they caved in--then pressed her to meet with agents after her return so they could get info on the people she met. She says she won't. That is the way these recent "dissidents" were organized, funded and set about their jobs in Cuba. Right at a time the junta needs to invent other boogie men to attack in the name of "freedom." Let's
John Woodford wrote: > > Let's see if the big names who signed the > anti-Cuba statement not just condemn verbally but RESIST BY DEFYING the > efforts to curtail scholarly trips by US citizens to Cuba. When has any of > them done anything that takes courage? The Black journalist William Worthy > in the 1950s-60s had more guts than the disgusting lot of 'em.
The drivel I refer to is the defense (or something--the whole rant is rather incoherent) by F Leon Wilson imputing some significance to a racist forgery.
Jonathan Julius Dobkin wrote: > > The drivel I refer to is the defense (or something--the whole rant is > rather incoherent) by F Leon Wilson imputing some significance to a > racist forgery. > > What the hell are you talking about?!
The whole thing is a jolt. It had never occurred to me in my whole life (73 years) that anyone would take that forgery seriously. It should be no more necessary to argue that fact than to argue that the earth is round. But then about 50 years ago when my father was teaching in a rural
Are you suggesting that we take this shit seriously? Hey, why not drag out Mein Kampf? At least that was a REAL statement of belief & tactics (however insane), not a total forgery.
Cuba Controversy <http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=41&ItemID=3534>
by Michael Albert; April 28, 2003
A controversy has arisen on the left in the U.S. about recent events in Cuba. The Cuban government has enacted draconian legal measures against opponents. The U.S. government, having provoked the situation by decades of machinations including recent acts, will very likely use the events to justify further intervention against the island's people.
Campaign for Peace and Democracy Statement Protesting Repression in Cuba
Please join Michael Albert, Stanley Aronowitz, Eileen Boris, Robert Brenner, Noam Chomsky, Joshua Cohen, Mike Davis, Haroldo Dilla, Manuela Dobos, Ariel Dorfman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Samuel Farber, Janeane Garofalo, Barbara Garson, Adam Hochschild, Doug Ireland, Naomi Klein, Jesse Lemisch, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Nelson Lichtenstein, Grace Paley, Katha Pollitt, Edward Said, Ellen Schrecker, Stephen Shalom, Adam Shatz, Immanuel Wallerstein, James Weinstein, Naomi Weisstein, Cornel West, Reginald Wilson, Howard Zinn and others in signing this statement against repression in Cuba from the Campaign for Peace and Democracy (how to add your name,
I have a copy of The Protocols of Zion and in view of recent wars/events and disclosure regarding Israel, Jews and Anti-Jews; it has generated many questions regarding Judaism and The Protocols of Zion.
What is the history of The Protocols of Zion and does any of our current events give credence to that work?
They were a forgery of some of the nuttier anti-semites of the early 20th century. The forgery was exposed so long ago that it is as pointless to look up the details as it is to bother to prove that the earth is round.
The chief ideological support of zionism is the charge that anti-zionism is the same as anti-semitism. All playing around with anti-semitic material is really an attack on the Palestinians and a defense of Israel.
It is hard for me to believe that a presumably intelligent and otherwise well-informed person (evidence: being on the Chomsky list) could ask such questions. It is well known and well-established that the Protocols are a forgery that after many years of having been totally discredited, are once again in circulation due to the resurgence of antisemitism. What I find most amazing and disturbing is the question you pose, "[D]oes any of our current events give credence to that work?" The implication is the rubric of the most virulent antisemites, those who even deny the Holocaust, that a tiny minority
Norman Cohn, "Warrant for Genocide: the Myth of the Jewish World- Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Standard work on the Protocols.
Protocols of the Elders of Zion <URL: http://www.sullivan-county.com/identity/protocols.htm > From SkepDic.com
"The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. They fit it now." --Henry Ford, 2-17-21, whose newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, cited the Protocols as evidence of an alleged Jewish threat until at least 1927
Did you answer the question or did you start spouting pointless rhetoric?
Does the question of The Protocols of Zion authenticity or forgery (an interesting choice of words) really make a difference when people begin to compare world events to what is written in The Protocols of Zion?
Does the fact that The Protocols of Zion have been totally discredited, by an expert source stop the open questions and grave discussions?
"F. Leon Wilson" wrote: > > L. Levitt: al; > > Really? > > Did you answer the question or did you start spouting pointless rhetoric? > > Does the question of The Protocols of Zion authenticity or forgery (an > interesting choice of words) really make a difference when people begin to > compare world events to what is written in The Protocols of Zion?
URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi- bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/21/MN66069.DTL > ...The Israel office boasted an unusually large pile next to the > shredder. The documents on the bookshelves included position papers from > respected think tanks such as the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies in > Tel Aviv and the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut, as well as a > dog-eared copy of the Protocols of the Meetings of the Elders of Zion, a > fraudulent
> -----Original Message----- > From: The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Carrol Cox > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 9:43 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] The Protocols of Zion > > > "F. Leon Wilson" wrote: > > > > L. Levitt: et al; > > > > Really? > > > > Did you answer the question or did you start spouting > > pointless rhetoric? > > > > Does the question of The Protocols of Zion authenticity or > > forgery (an interesting choice of words) really make
>At 03:27 AM 04/28/2003 -0400, llevitt wrote: > >It is hard for me to believe that a presumably intelligent and otherwise >well-informed person (evidence: being on the Chomsky list) could ask such >questions. It is well known and well-established that the Protocols are a >forgery that after many years of having been totally discredited, are once >again in circulation due to the resurgence of antisemitism. What I find >most amazing and disturbing is the question you pose, > >"[D]oes any of our current events give credence to that work?" The >implication is the rubric of the most virulent antisemites, those
"...imputing some significance to a >> racist forgery..."
granted it is racist, and rather infantile, but what is the forgery? if someone falsely signs a document, they are forgers, but the document, not the signature, is the problem here...someone please explain the importance of always including the word forgery - as though the thing were true, but falsely signed..???
Forgery can refer to creating a document and assigning that document to some other source. For example, in the 18th Century there was the famous forgery of Ossian, supposedly an ancient celtic writer discovered by the man who in fact had written it. Also shakespeare plays have been forged: The forger would pretend to have discovered a elizabethan ms. containing a hitherto unknown play by Shakespeare. And so for th and so on. The Protocols claimed to be documents handed down in Jewish tradition. So they were forgeries. The word has many other senses than that in the sense of
Maybe F. Leon is just playing devil's advocate to get us to talk about it. I am on another list with him and the topic came up. On the other list it seemed as though some did believe the protocols to be the truth. If intelligent people believe the "drivel" then something is terribly wrong and it should be discussed.
Linda Dionne wrote: > > Hi Carrol, > > Maybe F. Leon is just playing devil's advocate to get us to talk about it. > I am on another list with him and the topic came up. On the other list it > seemed as though some did believe the protocols to be the truth. If > intelligent people believe the "drivel" then something is terribly wrong > and it should be discussed.
> Hi Carrol, > > Maybe F. Leon is just playing devil's advocate to get us to talk about it.
Really, I was only asking the question being put forward in the other discussion forum.
I do have a copy of The Protocols of Zion and several other "underground" publications, but does owning books mean that you believe and/or advocate those ideas?
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Lies and other Market Forces
by Frank scott
"The size of the lie is a factor in causing it to be believed, for the masses are in their hearts more easily deceived than consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one."
Alternative Press Week in Review Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream www.altpr.org A weekly roundup of news, essays and other items of interest. March 9, 2003
Carnival of Chaos http://carnival_of_chaos.tripod.com/
Nice collection of satirical posters http://winstars.free.fr/english/bush.html
Code Pink: The Day in Pictures http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/03/09/7188754
This Modern World: Loyal American's Guide to War Preparedness http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=14583&CFID=5637159&CFTOKE N=4196682
Website of the Week http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
INCOMING! - A short list of some of the more interesting items received at the Alternative Press Review office this week.
Alternative Press Week in Review www.altpr.org A weekly roundup of news, essays and other items of interest. February 24 - March 2, 2003
http://www.time.com/time/europe/gdml/peace2003.html Poll: US Biggest Threat to Peace TIME asks which country really poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003. The results as of 3/1/03: North Korea 5.6% Iraq 6.7% United States 87.7% Total votes cast: 626,296
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Can The Worst Bring Out The Best?
by Frank Scott
He is the worst president in all of American history. Helen Thomas
Removing the historic burden of incompetence from the shoulders of Reagan, Clinton and others, the outspoken woman says what most spineless men of the press cannot bring themselves to utter. She represents the best in American media, and contrasts with the worst, which repeat lies, avoid truth and act as lap dogs for leadership .
go to: http://wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/02032003 & look for the 3rd segment, labelled "Gore Vidal" (& then click on the "listen" button, obviously!)
The blurb describing this interview says: "National Book Award winner Gore Vidal examines President Bushs foreign policy and the history of Americas imperial ambitions, from WWII to the present, Dreaming War: Blood For Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta."
I'm losing patience with my neighbours, Mr Bush Terry Jones Sunday January 26, 2003 The Observer
I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's running out of patience. And so am I! For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover what. I've been round to
In November, Kurt Vonnegut turned 80. He published his first novel, Player Piano, in 1952 at the age of 29. Since then he has written 13 others, including Slaughterhouse Five, which stands as one of the pre- eminent anti-war novels of the 20th century. As war against Iraq looms, I asked Vonnegut, a reader and supporter of this magazine, to weigh in. Vonnegut is an American socialist in the tradition of Eugene Victor Debs, a fellow Hoosier whom he likes to quote: As long as there is a lower class, I
Many people feel that the anti-war movement on Viet was a serious part in getting the US power to admit defeat; Kurt I agree with everything you say except that that anit-war was a cream pie.
At 11:47 AM 1/29/03 -0500, you wrote: >http://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=38_0_4_0 > >Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#*!@ > >By Joel Bleifuss > >In November, Kurt Vonnegut turned 80. He published his first novel, >Player Piano, in 1952 at the age of 29. Since then he has written 13 >others, including Slaughterhouse Five, which stands as one of the pre- >eminent anti-war novels of the 20th century. >As
WCM wrote: > > Many people feel that the anti-war movement on Viet was a serious part in > getting the US power to admit defeat; Kurt I agree with everything you say > except that that anit-war was a cream pie. >
It is known from memoirs of Nixon administration figures that the Moratorium of November 1969 led Nixon to cancel tentative plans to use nuclear weapons against the Chinese installations in North Vietnam. So the movement definitely did crontribute to stopping the _expansion_ of the war in catastrophic directions. But it was not the anti-war movement but the
Many feel that the effect of the anti-war movement was of greater importance in stopping the war. I think we all know that there is a strong following for that in my view proper conclusion. In a related matter the fragging of officers in Viet Nam was certainly another important factor in the opposition. Though most would not approve, even such extreme opposition IS important. Let's not defeat our cause with undue pessimism.
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Capitalist Affirmative Action by Frank Scott
The injustice of American racism is wedded to the injustice of capitalism, under which profit rules mean that a minority wins, at the expense of a majoritys loss. Among the majority of losers, due to our nations early history of wealth creation based on slave , and not just wage labor , are a high percentage of blacks.
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Dinosaur Empire
by frank scott
The intellectually challenged shut-ins who run the empire and report its news would make a fascist blush. The white house gang tells the world that it will do whatever it wants, whenever it wants, spitting in the face of international sovereignty . Washington houses the most dangerous collection of warhead lunatics in the world, but Iraq must submit to a degrading national strip search, for weapons of mass destruction.
If this is acceptable behavior, why don't these groups just send a mass mailing of the original letter to all the newspapers they can? Or why don't those sending in the letter over their own names mention in a PS that this is not an original letter, but merely a prefabricated one passed along word-for-word?
Hey folks, here's a fun experiment you can try! Just put the following line into Google's search window ("google it" as the kids say nowadays):
"genuine leadership" "Contrary to the class warfare rhetoric"
Now see all the virtually identical letters to the editor, in papers across the country, supposedly from different people, hailing Bush's economic plan for its benefits to the middle class. What an amazing coincidence that they all independently wrote the same letter!
"Our side" uses boilerplate to aid and facilitate letter-writing campaigns. So it's no coincidence, not untoward, and not to be sneered at that the right does the same. They are involved in their causes, no matter how wrongheaded we may think them, and disciplined. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jonathan Julius Dobkin To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:09 PM Subject: [CHOMSKY] Astroturf: identical pro-Bush letters to the editor
[ This is an excerpt from the press briefing at the White House on Monday June 6th, from the transcript at the official White House webpage http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030106-1.html ]
12:35 P.M. EST
MR. FLEISCHER: Good afternoon and happy New Year to everybody. The President began his day with an intelligence briefing, followed by an FBI briefing. Then he had a series of policy briefings. And this afternoon, the President will look forward to a Cabinet meeting where the President will discuss with members of his Cabinet his agenda for the year. The President is going to focus on economic growth, making
One important element was missing from Ariel Sharon's speech to the Israeli nation this week: an offer to resign. Like his old enemy, Yasser Arafat, the Likud prime minister is now overwhelmingly part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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Fear Year
by Frank Scott
We begin the new year as we ended the old ; preparing for an assault on innocent iraqis, calling it war, as though involving equal military powers. The major context, and not a subtext of this manufactured crisis is that light skinned dominators make murderous and impossible demands on darker skinned subjects. Western history marches on.
The Iranian government may be draconian, but the internet remains uncensored, writes Ben Hammersley
Thursday February 21, 2002 The Guardian
Meeting girls is easy this way," said Amir, as he continued typing, "You can be relaxed no worries."
Amir, manager of my guesthouse, and local scoundrel, is one of the 1.3m internet users in Iran. This figure has risen from just 2,000 users five years ago.
FBI accused of dragging its heels after former government worker is questioned twice over attacks
Oliver Burkeman in New York Wednesday February 20, 2002 The Guardian
The FBI has a suspect for last year's anthrax attacks, but is "dragging its heels" because he is a former government scientist familiar with secret state-sponsored research, a leading American expert on biological warfare said yesterday.
By GAY ALCORN UNITED STATES CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON Thursday 21 February 2002
Families of Australian David Hicks and two British citizens detained as suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba yesterday filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the US holding prisoners indefinitely and without laying charges.
It is the first lawsuit on behalf of individuals imprisoned on the American naval base. Lawyers for the three men said that Hicks, 26, of Adelaide, and Asif Iqbal, 20, and Shafiq Rasul, 24, from Britain, were not terrorists.
Continuing the current trend of large-scale mergers and acquisitions, it was announced today at a press conference that Christmas and Hanukkah would merge. An industry source said that the deal had been in the works for about 1300 years. While details were not available at press time, it is believed that the overhead cost of having twelve days of Christmas and eight days of Hanukkah was becoming prohibitive for both sides. By combining forces, the world will be able to enjoy consistently high- quality service during the Fifteen Days of Chrismukah, as the new holiday is being called. Massive layoffs
This week on Realistic Utopia, we present the annual Chaos Day lecture by anarchist philosopher Peter Lamborn Wilson.
Since 1985, Peter Lamborn Wilson has given a talk shortly before the winter solstice as part of the Libertarian Book Club's monthly Anarchist Fora, and on in his 18th annual talk (Dec 10 2002) he spoke on anarchist spirituality. Mostly he concentrated on christian anarchism, on the theory that Christianity, is the religion most American anarchists grew up with and therefore "the religion we hate the most" and the one which presents the greatest challenge for him to find good things about.
[From the Dec. 9, 2002 edition of World War 3 Report] http://ww3report.com/#palestine15
15. REFUSENIKS GET FORCED LABOR
Yonatan Ben Artzi and Uri Ya'acobi, two young men who both already served five consecutive prison terms for refusing to be drafted into the Israeli army, were sentenced for the sixth time Dec. 8, and received respectively 35 and 28 days in Military Prison-4. Ben Artzi will at the end of this period come close to half a year in prison. No community service has been allowed for these conscientious objectors; instead they face military prison with its short nights and its long
"I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
Gore Vidal Says Oil Thirst Behind Bush Policies - November 05, 2002 By Roberto Bonzio
MILAN, Italy (Reuters) - Controversial U.S. author Gore Vidal said Tuesday President Bush organized last year's invasion of Afghanistan to gain control of nearby oil and natural gas resources rather than to fight terror.
"We know what they want. They want Caspian oil," the outspoken writer told Reuters in a telephone interview from Rome. "Every important player in the administration is from the oil and gas business, mostly Texas."
America's most controversial writer Gore Vidal has launched the most scathing attack to date on George W Bush's Presidency, calling for an investigation into the events of 9/11 to discover whether the Bush administration deliberately chose not to act on warnings of Al-Qaeda's plans.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:00:17 -0500 (EST) From: I. Ron <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Draw your own conclusion
For Immediate Release: October 24, 2002
US GOVERNMENT PLANNED SNIPER ATTACKS PENTAGON PLANNED TO CARRY OUT SNIPER ATTACKS IN DC AND MIAMI
On April 24, 2001 the Baltimore Sun and ABC News reported on a shocking, declassified Pentagon document, titled Operation Northwoods. In Operation Northwoods the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for hijacking jet airliners, attacking US military bases, blowing up US ships and wounding civilians in Miami, Florida and Washington,
This week & next week on Realistic Utopia, Rev. Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping preaches in the Pit of Hell itself (a.k.a. Times Square) against the evil multinational corporations & their logos, as the U.S. government launches its sales campaign to get us to buy a new war (or is it a used war they're selling?)
[from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting www.fair.org/extra/0210/inspectors.html & thanks to WW3 Report (www.ww3report.com) for passing this along. This is straight out of 1984--it's frightening how the major media have all fallen into step with the government's lies. -Jay]
What a Difference Four Years Makes
Why U.N. inspectors left Iraq--then and now
The U.N. orders its weapons inspectors to leave Iraq after the chief inspector reports Baghdad is not fully cooperating with them.
It is indeed frightening when a regime sees war not as a dirty means to an end but as something approaching a duty. This is very rare in history -- the most obvious precedent is Nazi Germany, where the destruction of war was seen as cleansing and a fitting overture to the thousand-year Reich.
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USrael vs Democracy by Frank Scott
This is written before election day, but it can be assumed that a fanatic minority of judeochristians still control their rogue government, USrael, while a fanatic minority of muslims still control their rogue non-government, Al Quaida. These two fundamentalist groups threaten all of humanity, but its important to understand that the government is the greater threat, and is in fact the creator of its NGO enemy .
Jewish and Palestinian Bereaved Parents Forum for Peace- Sat. 1... Please spread the word about this speaking tour featuring a courageous group working for a just resolution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Brit Tzedek v'Shalom/Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace and Society for the Advancement of Judaism present an evening with Palestinian and Jewish members of The Parents Circle Bereaved Families on Both Sides of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
When Iraq agreed to allow weapons inspectors back in , it briefly spoiled the bloody plans of the American government's serial killers. But ridiculous reasons to disregard Iraqi attempts at reason are being created every day. Before we hear that Saddam plans to molest our children at day care centers, spread pancake syrup on our highways and put chewing gum in all our cash registers, we need to consider that in just a month, we will be asked to participate in what has become the most hypocritical process of electoral democracy ever devised.
"In order to provide those benefits, any successful movement will need to provide its members considerably more pleasure than pain. One of the main reasons that the left is so dull is its emphasis on self-sacrifice to the exclusion of pleasure, and its use of guilt as a means of manipulation; many leftist groups are outright puritanical, and even the most enlightened usually treat pleasure as something frivolous, as something
The US weapons inspection proposal is tantamount to occupation. Yet try looking in George Bush's back yard, writes Kenneth Davidson.
So now we know. Last week the New York Times and the Guardian newspapers carried well-timed and well-informed leaks of the American draft of the proposed United Nations Security Council Resolution ostensibly governing the operations of UN weapons inspectors in Iraq.
Barbara Garson: She really looked around the world to see how money and Globalization affect the lives of people and she'll be telling us about it and answering our questions for the October Anarchist Forum, October 8 - 7:30 PM at the Brecht Forum.
On Tuesday, October 8, at 7:30pm, the Libertarian Book Clubs Anarchist Forum welcomes the author of the hit antiwar satirical play MacBird!, Barbara Garson, who will talk about what she saw and learned pursuing her $65,000 book advance around the world from upstate New York to Thailand. Conversing with fishermen in Malaysia and laid off workers
Published on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 in the Toronto Globe & Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com
The Day the Empire Struck Back by James Laxer
Make note of Sept. 20, 2002. Historians will surely mark it as a seminal moment in our new century. On that date, an old debate ended and a new one began.
For the past decade, analysts have been debating the question of whether the United States would follow the course of former powerful states such as Britain and Rome and proclaim itself an empire. In George W. Bush's National Security Strategy, submitted to the U.S. Congress on Sept.
[I'm forwarding this announcement from Rev. Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping; if you're not familiar with his work, check out revbilly.com. -Jay]
Your humble Reverend and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir will sing at the military recruitment island in Times Square from 1 to 5 PM this Sunday, September 29th. We are worshipping there to aid and abet a feature doc entitled "Knock-Off - Revenge on the Logos" by film-maker Katharina Weingartner.
What our MPs think about going to war against Iraq
Melbourne Age Date: September 22 2002
Members of parliament last week debated Australian involvement in a war against Iraq should the United States request Australia's participation. This is what some of them had to say.
Alexander Downer, Foreign Minister
"A nightmare for the international community would be for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to find their way into the hands of terrorist organisations."
On September 11, 2002, Kurt Vonnegut and Malachy McCourt were among the speakers at St Matthew's Church on 10th St & 2nd Ave in Manhattan, at an anniversary evening with Rev Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir in honor of peacemakers. Kurt Vonnegut said this:
Dearly beloved; the text tonight is from the gospel of Matthew. "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God."
What message is sent to countries like Iraq when America and Australia ignore international law, asks Malcolm Fraser.
The debate about Iraq cannot be divorced from the world we are seeking to build. Since the "war against terror" began a year ago, too many have acted as though they have forgotten what we in democracies stand for. Nelson Mandela cut to the heart of the matter at the Johannesburg Earth Summit when he said he opposed a unilateral attack on Iraq as a breach of international law.
The British in Palestine, 1945-48 A Conveniently Forgotten Holocaust
by Robert Fisk The Independent
In the years that followed the Second World War, Lord Beaverbrook's old Sunday Express would regale its readers with the secret history of the 1939-45 conflict: "What Hitler would have done if England was under Nazi occupation"; "How Ike almost cancelled D-Day"; "Churchill's plans for using gas on Nazi invaders." Often--though not always--the stories were true. After war come the facts. It's not so long ago, after all, that we discovered that Nato's mighty 1999 blitz on Serbia's army netted a total
If you guys can cope with the occasional biblical reference and the detail, you will find this to be a devastatingly accurate account of what will bring the US down if nothing else does.
Copyright 2001 Final Diagnosis: Environmental Toxic Pathway Analysis and Immune System Cytokine Modality Provide Key Insight into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Mechanism and Etiology of Varied Pathogen Driven Illnesses.
Saddam Hussein gets away with murder because of inadequate international law, writes Geoffrey Robertson.
States that wage 21st century wars must not only win them on the battlefield: they are expected to win, subsequently, in the courtroom, by proving the enemy guilty of some international crime. Since this is a necessary (although not necessarily sufficient) precondition for a just war, it behoves those who urge an invasion of Iraq to explain what they propose to do to Saddam Hussein when they capture him.
Well the mass media haven't been very helpful in getting out the Word, So........
The Anarchist Forum on Tuesday, September 10, 7:30PM, at the Brecht Forum will be an open discussion of what has happened in the year since 9/11 and what needs to done about it. We seem be entering a world that brings back the old spirits of imperial control and the tactics of J. Edgar Hoover, but linked with new electronic tools and hyped up public relations. We need to develop effective responses to the newly charged oppressing world and to do that open, thoughtful discussion is
On September 9, 1922 Mustafa Kemal's army set fire to Smyrna. In the days and weeks that followed, over 100,000 Greeks and Armenians were killed and 2 million Greeks were expelled from Asia Minor, where their ancestors had lived for three thousand years. During this ethnic cleansing the western powers either did nothing or else abetted the atrocities, acting in the interests not of the victims, but of oil companies.
What Americans have learnt - and not learnt - since 9/11
Date: September 7 2002 The Melbourne Age
Endless war poses a far greater danger to the United States than perceived enemies do, writes Noam Chomsky.
September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the United States Government does in the world and how it is perceived.
This is as usual, very well put, below; we have more or less just ended a decades long period of warfare, at various levels (aka cold war). The Bushes are attempting to institute Cold War II , on 'terrorism';in fact in part warfare on dissidents and rebel forces. Those are mainly anti-capitalist, often Socialistic. It changes but it remains the same.
On Friday, August 23, the 75th anniversary of the executions of Sacco & Vanzetti was marked with a rally in Union Square Park which was not only a commemoration but also a demonstration against the continuing evils of government in general and especially against the death penalty and the rounding up of immigrant scapegoats, both of which continue to blight our society in 2002 as they did in 1927.
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The Degradation of Democracy by Frank Scott
The anniversary of 911 nears, and there will be heartfelt memorials commemorating the dreadful day, but productions suitable to terrorism theme parks may be more common. Far deadlier than that one day performance, which will fast be forgotten, is the longer range performance potential of an intellectually disabled regime, presiding over a structurally disabled system.
Australian police and security agencies have spent $745,000 investigating al Qaeda suspects Mamdouh Habib and David Hicks who are being held in a US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Some details of the costs emerged in written answers provided by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the Australian Federal Police to questions asked by the opposition's acting justice spokesman, Joe Ludwig, during Senate hearings earlier this year.
By Louise Dodson Chief Political Correspondent Canberra
The Howard Government has given its first public assessment of when the United States might attack Iraq, saying a strike is not likely before next year.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has also signalled that any Australian contribution would be very limited.
US acting like Star Chamber, says judge By David Rennie in Washington
The Daily Telegraph-UK (Filed: 15/08/2002)
A judge has compared the Bush administration's actions over the detention of an alleged Taliban fighter with those of medieval monarchs.
Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was in custody at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba, was transferred to a military prison in Virginia after he told authorities he was born in America. He has been held incommunicado ever since.
Bush anti-corruption chief accused of account fraud By Simon English in New York
The Daily Telegraph-UK (Filed: 15/08/2002)
President Bush's efforts to clean up corporate America were dealt an embarrassing blow last night when the man charged with leading his new anti-corruption task force was sued for alleged fraud.
Larry Thompson, who is also deputy attorney general, was accused of dubious accounting practices and insider trading while on the board of Providian, a credit card issuer that also operates in Britain.
well, now that a study has been done, maybe some of us will have an easier time, "seeing" reality?? fs...
fyi:
University of Washington 16-Aug-02
Newsmagazines Downplayed Opposition Voices After Sept. 11 Library: LIF-SOC Keywords: MEDIA POLITICS COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY NATIONALISM
Description: Journalists covering the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath were unwittingly complicit to government and military communication strategies to rally public support, according to findings by University of Washington researchers. (Meeting: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication)
This was a really interesting exchange between Greg Sheridan and Labour MP George Galloway on Australian TV last night. Galloway doesn't know who Sheridan is, but we locals do. For decades Sheridan has been Australia's most ardent media champion for the Indonesian dictatorship. He defended the Indonesian military occupation of East Timor to the very last. Public opinion in Australia was virtually unanimously in favour of the Australian intervention in East Timor, but Sheridan ranted against the Howard government on that issue. Basically, he's on the right-wing fringe of Australian politics.
This is a recipe for global turmoil and endless war
Britain must respond to the shift signalled by Saddam Hussein
George Galloway Monday August 12, 2002 The Guardian
Saddam Hussein raised a dyed black eyebrow when I asked him last week in an underground bunker in Baghdad if he'd seen the picture of the British Foreign Office minister, Mike O'Brien, kissing Colonel Gadafy under the canvas on a Mediterranean beach. As well he might. Here was the ultimate example of preferring jaw-jaw to war-war, in Churchill's famous phrase. In the not too distant past, Gadafy armed and financed terrorists
The row over Australia's threatened wheat exports to Iraq has developed into a political brawl, with Opposition Leader Simon Crean telling a "hot-headed" Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to calm down and the Federal Government accusing Labor of taking Saddam Hussein's side.
Iraq's senior representative in Australia, Saad Al Samarai, has for the first time threatened to cut all Australian wheat imports, worth more than $800 million a year, in retaliation for Australia's support of US plans to launch a possible invasion.
Called to the bar... with a burning desire for justice
They defend dissidents and terror suspects - and these dynamic young lawyers came of age last week with two landmark victories
Marin Bright Sunday August 4, 2002 The Observer
A group of barristers met up after work at a pub off London's Gray's Inn Road last Thursday to celebrate the 'end of term'. Similar gatherings were taking place all across the Inns of Court, London's legal district, as the profession prepared for its extraordinary 'long vacation' that lasts until October. But the group downing beers in the Duke of
The lawyer for a Sydney man who is being held in a US prison in Cuba on suspicion of being a Taliban member says he may apply to have his client's case heard in the Cuban court system.
A US Federal Court judge has ruled that Adelaide man David Hicks cannot have his case heard in a US court because the prison camp is not under US jurisdiction.
this comment by president birdbrain, on the senate welfare bill, has been nominated for dumbest quote of the century...I think it's too early, but ....
"Under the way they're kind of writing it right now out of the Senate Finance Committee, some people could spend their entire five years there's a five-year work requirement on welfare going to college," Bush said.
frank scott wrote: > > this comment by president birdbrain, on the senate welfare bill, has > been nominated for dumbest quote of the century...I think it's too > early, but ....
Dumb thing to say, yes, but, when you think about it in the context of the rumors of how he spent his own college years, you can see why it makes sense to him.
This week Realistic Utopia presents footage from the Living Theatre's March 2001 workshop held to teach the anti-death penalty street theatre protest "Not in My Name," along with scenes from the play itself as performed in Times Square and at a community garden on the lower east side.
Free workshops are held once or twice a year to teach new participants to perform this play (no performing experience required); to register for the next workshop leave a message at the Not in My Name hotline (212-969-8905) and you will be contacted when the workshop is scheduled. The next performances of
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Serious points first. Eric Margolis, as some googling will show, was a supporter of the CIA backed anti-Soviet mujahadeen in Afghanistan in the 80's. Some exemplar of political judgement, eh? That piece was a perfect example of what the tiresome neo-cons call moral equivalence. Bush is a thug. Sharon and Saddaam too. In the psywar for public opinion, unless one is satisfied reaching those already convinced of the evils of the Us Empire, pieces like the glib Margolis will convince no one. From Dobkin's p.s. I gather he thinks there was a virus in the URL in the, "Chomsky Sucks,
Lots of people watch The Simpsons in their Colville trailer homes cuz there's no decent work thanks to decades of overcutting and corporate robbery. Watching the Simpsons means nothing but time on the couch, not cuz the Simpsons are funny. Sharon is Bush' thug, puhleeze. E-list activism doesn't mean that much as it is, and so I recommend to Mr. Pugliese and other cy-activists that 2 milliion prisoners need a little more than smug self-righteousness and endless criticism of the sad ol left. "The left ain't shit" should make everyone a little more somber cuz the Bushmobile
michael pugliese wrote: > And, that piece, meant in humour, did reveal exactly what > it's punk rocker author intended. Y'all Chomskyites need to exercise > some of that funny bone and laugh a bit at your earnestness and > over serious mien. Do you even watch The Simpsons?
Which piece are you saying was meant in humor? The one titled "Gnome Chomsky Communist, Sociopath, Dingleberry" was certainly not meant as humor. My sense of humor is quite sound, although I've been living in Norway for a long time. I still laugh whenever I read something funny.
Interesting article about Horowitz, Chomsky and the neo-cons. http://www.antiwar.com/orig/carson1.html Joseph Stromberg mentioned in the above is a Libertarian who pays attn. to left theory, has an article in a recent, "Critical Review, " on neo-marxist state theory. On antiwar.com he has written on William A. Williams,Gabriel Kolko and Corporate Liberalism. (Useful critique of that approach by Fred Block in his book of essays, http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/452_reg_print.html Michael Pugliese
"My heroic, democratic and peace-loving Iraqi brothers - it's time for a 'regime change' in Washington!"
By ERIC MARGOLIS -- Contributing Foreign Editor, Toronto Sun.
American President George Bush has been demanding a "regime change" in "evil" Iraq, which he plans to invade. Saddam Hussein's possible reply, from Baghdad:
"My fellow Iraqis, it's time for a 'regime change' in the United States. President George W. Bush must go!
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Another World is Necessary by Frank Scott
In America , God fearing patriotism - the kind that supports war -has always dominated god loving patriotism - the kind that supports peace - and recent hysteria over pledging allegiance to the god of fear only indicates once again that we have big problems. Unfortunately, they arent simply our rituals of regimentation, but more the actions of our disabled political economy . The rituals serve to take our minds off that reality, and
The first linking of a gene to language could speed our understanding of this most unique and most controversial of human abilities. 4 October 2001
JOHN WHITFIELD
Language problems run in the 'KE' family. Members of several generations speak "as if each sound is costing them their soul", one researcher has said. They struggle to control their lips and tongue, to form words, and to use and understand grammar. "To the naive listener, their speech is almost unintelligible," says geneticist Anthony Monaco, of the University of Oxford in England.
Plan to Keep Israeli Arabs Off Some Land Is Backed
July 9, 2002 By JOEL GREENBERG
JERUSALEM, July 8 - A cabinet vote endorsing a bill that would bar Israeli Arabs from buying homes in Jewish communities built on state land caused an uproar here today, with critics in and outside the government calling it racist.
On Sunday the cabinet voted, 17 to 2 with one abstention, to support the bill submitted by Rabbi Haim Druckman, a lawmaker from the rightist National Religious Party.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation LATELINE Late night news & current affairs
TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT LOCATION: abc.net.au > Lateline > Archives URL: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/s598174.htm
Broadcast: 3/7/2002 Aust could be terrorist target: US ambassador The United States says two Australians suspected of being Al Qaeda operatives will remain in prison until the campaign against terrorism ends. The US ambassador to Australia says there's ample evidence David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib were involved in activities in Afghanistan. And the ambassador also believes Australians are still too complacent about terrorism.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation LATELINE Late night news & current affairs
TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT LOCATION: abc.net.au > Lateline > Archives URL: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/s597036.htm
Broadcast: 3/7/2002
UN mission likely to leave Bosnia
Dr Nicholas White, the Balkans program director with the International Crisis Group in Brussels, tells Tony Jones that if there's no compromise in the rift between the US and its European allies, "the United Nations mission in Bosnia will simply have to pack up its bags and leave".
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U.S. vetoes Bosnia mission to protest new world court
By MARCUS GEE Monday, July 1, 2002 - Page A1
Showing once again that it is willing to defy international opinion and go it alone in the world, Washington tried to pull the plug last night on the UN-mandated peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, fearing that U.S. soldiers might be arrested by the new international criminal court.
In a message dated 7/3/02 5:11:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
> "The U.S. is trying to cripple the child at birth, and that is > certainly taking away from the tremendous sense of achievement > that Canada and other world democracies deserve for this truly > historical achievement," said William Pace, head of the Coalition > for an International Criminal Court. > >
Europeans wait in vain for Bush to back the International Criminal Court
Date: July 3 2002
By Matthew Engel
As the international criminal court quietly became a reality in The Hague, European diplomats tried to stay optimistic that America would eventually stop sulking and join in its operation. But the US absence is seen by analysts in Washington as something far deeper than an aberration by the Bush administration, but instead reflects a strand in American political philosophy that can be traced to George Washington.
This week Realistic Utopia will include a performance of the Living Theatre's anti-death penalty street theatre protest "Not in My Name."
Also this week: the ongoing corporate crime wave.
And: It's that time of year again--we're coming up on July 4, when we all celebrate the fact that we live in a democracy where leaders are freely elected and not appointed--oh, right, that's no longer true... Well, anyway, at least we live in a free country where people can't just be locked up at the whim of the government, without even a semblance of due process and--no, wait a minute,
Remaining U.S. CEOs Make a Break for It - Band of Roving Chief Executives Spotted Miles from Mexican Border
San Antonio, Texas - June 27, 2002 Unwilling to wait for their eventual indictments, the 10,000 remaining CEOs of public U.S. companies made a break for it yesterday, heading for the Mexican border, plundering towns and villages along the way, and writing the entire rampage off as a marketing expense. They came into my home, made me pay for my own TV, then double-booked the revenues, said Rachel Sanchez of Las Cruces, just north of El Paso. Right in
[note: I found this at groong.usc.edu, a very useful alternative news source which I highly recommend. "Groong," in case you're wondering, is Armenian for "crane"--the bird which symbolizes the Armenians--but the website has news of all parts the world, not just Armenian-related news. -Jay Dobkin]
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BOOK REVIEW: The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo, by Noam Chomsky (Monroe, Maine: 1999, Common Courage Press) December 1999
Chomsky ignores lessons of wars in Kosova
By Peter Hudis
There once was a time when the radical critic, faced with rape camps and mass killings against an ethnic minority, could be counted on to attack the offending regime, expose the complicity of the Western powers, and extend solidarity to the victims of oppression. But no more-at least judging from Noam Chomsky's latest book on the war in Kosova.
The attack on Yugoslavia follows the familiar anti-socialist bent of late capitalism and is suspect on other counts. As a result many will not take corporate media reports of atrocities as Holy Writ.
At 08:05 AM 6/17/02 -0700, you wrote: >http://www.newsandletters.org/Issues/1999/Dec/12.99_chomsky.htm > >BOOK REVIEW: >The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo, by Noam Chomsky (Monroe, >Maine: >1999, Common Courage Press) >December 1999 > > > >Chomsky >ignores lessons of wars in Kosova > > > >By Peter Hudis > >There once was a time when the >radical critic, faced with rape camps and mass killings against an ethnic >minority, could
Starbucks the target of Arab boycott for its growing links to Israel.
BEIRUT -- Across five Arab states a new and closely co-ordinated campaign to boycott American goods is being launched, with Starbucks coffee shops their primary target, but with Nestle, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson and Burger King outlets also on the list.
A Host of Legal Questions on U.S. Action in Bomb Case
June 11, 2002 By ADAM LIPTAK
For a nation still finding its way in the fight against terrorism, the case of Jose Padilla, also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir, poses a host of legal questions and contradictions.
Mr. Padilla, who is accused of planning to explode a radioactive device, is an American citizen. He has been in custody since May 8 but has not been charged with a crime. He is, instead, being held as an "enemy combatant."
Published on Wednesday, June 5, 2002 in the Madison Capital Times
Cheney's Money Has Roots in Evil by Dave Zweifel
Our president has made it abundantly clear that Iraq's Saddam Hussein is the ringleader of what he calls the axis of evil.
Whether that's indeed the case is something that undoubtedly will play out during the coming months as the United States continues its war on terrorism.
In 1960, International PEN, an organisation that represents writers worldwide, set up a "Writers in Prison Committee" in response to mounting concerns about attempts in many countries to silence writers.
Every six months, the committee produces a booklet that documents the cases of writers who have been threatened, imprisoned, tortured, beaten, exiled or assassinated for their contrary views.
Monday nights at midnight on the web at www.mnn.org (requires Quicktime, which is downloadable for free at www.mnn.org) & on channel 34, Manhattan public access TV
This week (midnight Mon. June 3 going on Tues. June 4): Judith Malina, Hanon Reznikov, & Ira Cohen reading at the Pink Pony on Weds, May 29, 2002.
Noam Chomsky will Debate William Bennett on CNN, Paula Zahn's morning show 5:20am pacific time, 8:20am eastern standard time. Here's a transcript!!
CNN Debate on "Terrorism" Chomsky v. Bennett [CNN Transcript, May 30, 2002]
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: They are two best selling authors with two very different takes on terrorism. In his book, "9-11," Noam Chomsky accuses the United States of being a terrorist state. He says the war in Afghanistan is wrong, states that in recent history, America has committed acts of terrorism, and maintains that America's foreign policy is hypocritical.
There was a very long discussion of the debate on lbo-talk, which has searchable archives. If you start with the followign URL and move around you should be able to get its flavor.
The first casualty of war is precision. I offer an example from this newspaper last Sunday. This comes from the story about a bunch of Australian soldiers who had to be rescued by the Poms - oh the bitter humiliation - in Afghanistan last week.
Amnesty International today condemned the very governments which had set up human rights statutes for undermining them in the name of anti-terrorism measures after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
Launching its annual report on human rights around the world, the organisation said governments fearing terrorism have been "increasingly sidelining human rights in name of security" and claimed that democracies, rather than dictatorships, had been taking the lead in curbing civil liberties.
This story is weird and tragic. Its about an Australian disability pensioner who the US government is holding hostage in Cuba. His family recently had their pension payments cut, on the basis that he had exceeded the time he was permitted to remain outside the country. The fact that he has been kidnapped and is being held against his will by a foreign power is apparently no excuse. Obviously he can't be sent back, because the US has made it a condition that they won't send anyone back to their own country unless that country imprisons them, but he has
this is a ghastly event, by whose leave does the US convict citizens of other countries under their laws. The arrogance of the Bush usurper leaves on gasping.
> > This story is weird and tragic. Its about an Australian disability pensioner who the US government is holding hostage in Cuba. His family recently had their pension payments cut, on the basis that he had exceeded the time he was permitted to remain outside the country. The fact that he has been kidnapped and is being held against his will by a foreign power is apparently no excuse. Obviously he
If Australian officials had visited America's terrorist prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a few weeks ago, they would have found open-air, cage-like cells hurriedly built to hold hundreds of men captured during the war in Afghanistan. Camp X-ray, as it was called, had a decidedly temporary feel.
Why has the FBI investigation into the anthrax attacks stalled? The evidence points one way
George Monbiot Guardian
Tuesday May 21, 2002
The more a government emphasises its commitment to defence, the less it seems to care about the survival of its people. Perhaps it is because its attention may be focused on more distant prospects: the establishment and maintenance of empire, for example, or the dynastic succession of its leaders. Whatever the explanation for the neglect of their security may be, the people of America have discovered
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Affirmative Action Means Democracy by Frank Scott
"Back during slavery...There were two kinds of Negroes. There was that old house Negro and the field Negro. And the house Negro always looked out for his master. When the field Negroes got too much out of line, he held them back in check. He put 'em back on the plantation. Malcolm X
James Baldwin, from a 1972 essay (reproduced in "Malcolm X: As They Knew Him," ed. David Gallen, 1992):
"The others were discussing the past or the future, or a country which may once have existed, or one which may yet be brought into existence--Malcolm was speaking of the bitter and unanswerable present. And it was too important that this be heard for anyone to attempt to soften it.It was important, of course, for white people to hear it, if they were still able to hear; but it was of the utmost importance for black people to hear it,
"Back during slavery, when Black people like me talked to the slaves, they didn't kill 'em, they sent some old house Negro around behind him to undo what he said....There were two kinds of Negroes. There was that old house Negro and the field Negro. And the house Negro always looked out for his master. When the field Negroes got too much out of line, he held them back in check. He put 'em back on the plantation.
The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, had advance warning of last month's coup attempt against him from the secretary general of Opec, Ali Rodriguez, allowing him to prepare an extraordinary plan which saved both his government and his life, an investigation has revealed.
Mr Rodriguez, who is Venezuelan and a former leftwing guerrilla, telephoned Mr Chavez from the Vienna headquarters of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, of which Venezuela is an important member, several days before the attempted overthrow in April.
I am planning the balance monographic interdisciplinary study "The Right to Educational Self-defence in Postsoviet Ukraine". Its goal is to study the realization state of the right to knowledge freedom and scientific research, problems of equal access to education in different aspects, in particular rights to receiving scientific degrees.
I am interested in generalizing works and statistics of giving scientific degrees in different countries.
The Guardian (London) Saturday May 11, 2002 NOAM CHOMSKY
The US presents itself as the peace-broker in the Middle East. The reality is different
A year ago, the Hebrew University sociologist Baruch Kimmerling observed that "what we feared has come true - War appears an unavoidable fate", an "evil colonial" war. His colleague Ze'ev Sternhell noted that the Israeli leadership was now engaged in "colonial policing, which recalls the takeover by the white police of the poor neighbourhoods of the blacks in South Africa during the apartheid era". Both stress the obvious: there is no symmetry between the "ethno-national groups"
This slur of anti-semitism is used to defend repression
Ending Israel's occupation will benefit Jews and Muslims in Europe
Seumas Milne Thursday May 9, 2002 The Guardian
Since the French revolution, the fates of the Jewish people and the left have been closely intertwined. The left's appeal to social justice and universal rights created a natural bond with a people long persecuted and excluded by the Christian European establishment.
(A remarkably candid essay -- "The Future of War and the American Military," in the May/June issue of Harvard Magazine, openly calls on the U.S. to plan for "imperial wars." Written by Stephen Peter Rosen, a former NSC and Defense Department staffer who now has an endowed full professorship.)
Published on Wednesday, April 10, 2002 by CommonDreams.org Please, Dad, Tell Me: How Do I Stop Being Complicit? by Sarah Shields
Dear Dad, It was an enormously heavy responsibility you raised me with. You taught me that the Jews have been oppressed for centuries. You taught me that the holocaust could only happen because the Germans were silent. You taught me that Jews must never, never, never be silent when injustice occurs, because our silence makes us complicit.
A sad comment; the land of the Palistinians is being occupied, sometimes brutally. This reciprocal war can only be stopped by Israel leaving the occupied territories (including the 'settlements') You probably already sense this.
> > Published on Wednesday, April 10, 2002 by CommonDreams.org > Please, Dad, Tell Me: > How Do I Stop Being Complicit? > by Sarah Shields > > Dear Dad, > It was an enormously heavy responsibility you raised me with. You > taught me > that the Jews have been oppressed for centuries. You taught me that > the > holocaust could only happen because
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The AFL-CIO's role in the Venezuelan coup
By Bill Vann 3 May 2002
An agency directed by the AFL-CIO trade union federation played a key role in funding and advising those who organized the recent abortive military coup attempt in Venezuela. The AFL-CIO's role in the US-backed plot underscores the fact that even as the union apparatus becomes increasingly irrelevant as a significant factor in American politics and the lives of US workers, it continues to conspire against the democratic rights and class interests of workers internationally.
The American President has a singular view of democracy. After all, look what happened in Florida
Observer Worldview
Terry Jones Sunday April 21, 2002 The Observer
After last weekend's shocking events in Venezuela, in which President Chavez was ousted in a free and fair democratic coup, only to be returned to office two days later on what seems to have been little more than the whim of the people, the leaders of the Free World have clearly been forced to reconsider the nature of democracy.
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The Judeo-Christian Menace by Frank Scott
We are supposedly in a struggle with an Islamic world bent on taking over the west. This, according to pundits , government figures, and other bigots who use the worst racial and religious slanders, reducing more than a billion human beings to hordes of terrorist madmen. But where does the madness originate, and which religious doctrines are at the root of the savagery that grips our world?
Imagine the 43rd Presidency without Osama bin Laden, the year 2001 with an uneventful
September 11.
It's January 2002, one year after Bush's controversial inauguration, and the White House is a shambles. Having passed the tax bill that was the only rationale for his Presidency in the eyes of his financiers, George W. Bush is in deep doo-doo. The post-New Economy recession is in full swing, and working Americans have discovered to their dismay that the $300-$600 rebates they received back in 2001 will cover a couple of heating bills and winter clothes for
michael pugliese wrote: > > http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no10/berube.html > > Nation and Narration > > Michael Berube > > Imagine the 43rd Presidency without Osama bin Laden, the year > 2001 with an uneventful September 11. > > [...very big snip...] > But when the narrative of the attacks became more complex, the > Chomskian left did not.
That's because the "Chomskian left" was already based on what was to the writer the "more complex" narrative. The Chomskian left is in fact Noam Chomsky. If someone else is a member of the Chomskian left, it is because his or her view coincides
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Note, below, the foundations of Zionism as outlined by Theodor Herzl, whose dictates were directly taken into account in the establishment of the modern state of Israel. Do you suppose what is written below has anything to do with capitalism? -- david
[log in to unmask] wrote.. >Would you, Bob, and David please send your messages only to each other. Your >email addresses come with your messages, When I see your names, I delete >your messages without reading them, as I'm sure many others on this list do. >It is intrusive, inconsiderate, and an abuse of the freedom of the list for >you to send your messages to the entire list. I would think some have signed >off the list because of it. So, please. >
...for two people to communicate effectively, when they use a word, they must both use the same meaning of the word.
David Griffin wrote: > > In a message dated 4/7/2002 5:16:49 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] > writes:
Could you change your mailer so it writes "Martin wrote:" or something like that? We don't need to know the date and time and the time zone and my email address. If you can't change your mailer, then just edit the text yourself.
(I'd originally sent this earlier this morning, but since it didn't go through then, here it is now)
Come on, David. You know perfectly well what I was saying, and that there was no personal criticism of you, your mother, or your grandmother implied. You used the first person singular and I merely replied in the same vein. Might I have said it differently? Of course. But for you to take offence here, is like me taking offence at someone saying "white people like you (which I admittedly am, as you are admittedly Jewish) committed horrendous crimes against African Americans"
Published on Sunday, February 8, 1998 in the Orlando Sentinel Pop Quiz on the Middle East by Charlie Reese
Question: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? Answer: Israel. Q: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections? A: Israel.
Q: Which country in the Middle East seized the sovereign territory of other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions? A: Israel.
Tuesday is Holocaust Day in Israel: and the anniversary of a 1948 massacre that triggered the Palestinian refugee crisis at the heart of today's conflict. Robert Fisk meets an Auschwitz survivor living at the site of the atrocity
By Robert Fisk 07 April 2002
"I will show you my museum," Josef Kleinman says, and scampers into a back room. He returns with a faded old khaki knapsack. "This is the shirt the Americans gave me after I was freed from Landsberg on 27 April 1945." It is a crumpled, cheap check shirt
Its not my comment, David. That's the way it came to me..
Bob
David Griffin wrote.. >In a message dated 4/7/2002 1:04:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] >writes: > > >> 'Jews may not want to look at this' >> > >Is that kind of like "Blacks may not want to use the white water fountain"? > >-- David > >
David Griffin wrote: > > examine Theodor Herzl's-- considered the "father of Zionism"-- plan for a > Zionist state. If you like, go on to examine the entire text at: > > http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/6640/zion/judenstaadt.html > > Is the plan for a Zionist state a religious one or an economic one? Why or > why not?
Neither. Or rather, the plan is the answer to the "Jewish question."
In a message dated 4/7/2002 10:42:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
> Neither. Or rather, the plan is the answer to the "Jewish question." > > "Are we to 'get out' now and where to?" > > And he asks the Jewish question because he sees that Jews are victims of > anti-semitism. He wants to create a Jewish state so that Jews can > finally escape anti-semitism. It is meant to be a state where there is > no anti-semitism.
David Griffin wrote: > > martin writes: > > > Neither. Or rather, the plan is the answer to the "Jewish question." > > > > "Are we to 'get out' now and where to?" > > > > And he asks the Jewish question because he sees that Jews are victims of > > anti-semitism. He wants to create a Jewish state so that Jews can > > finally escape anti-semitism. It is meant to be a state where there is > > no anti-semitism. > > And please explain the results of this history today, as it relates
just a reference point here: the definition of "historical materialism" from the marxists archive. Note in particular the place of the term "religious" vis-a-vis the state. -- david
Historical Materialism
"This conception of history depends on our ability to expound the real process of production, starting out from the material production of life itself, and to comprehend the form of intercourse connected with this and created by this mode of production (i.e. civil society in its various stages), as the basis of all history; describing it in its action as the state, and to explain all the different theoretical products
David Griffin wrote: > > just a reference point here: the definition of "historical materialism" from > the marxists archive. Note in particular the place of the term "religious" > vis-a-vis the state. -- david >
That "definition" of historical materialism is better than I would have expected, and as a provisional and tentative beginning one could do a lot worse. One could also do better, and I would strongly urge that no one decide either to accept or to reject historical materialism on its basis. There are a number of what, from recommendations I have seen, are excellent contemporary
Thanks for your comments on the definition of historical materialism as laid out on the Marxists archive. But the goal here was not to provide an 'adequate definition' or something of the sort. I decided to post this definition-- which, you are right, is elementary-- as a result of a conversation we had been having about Zionism wherein some of the participants were solely within the realm of idealism, to the point where the arguments were abstractions of abstractions. So, the goal was actually to illustrate that there was an alternative to idealism, namely, historical materialism.
>In fact, rereading the definition more carefully, the first long clause >appears increasingly incoherent:
The definition is fairly impenetrable. I gather the point the writer is trying to make there is that being able to understand the essential economic relations in any system, how "surplus is pumped out of the direct producers" as you put it, is a prerequisite to grasping the principles of historical materialism.
David Griffin wrote: > > > p.s. if you get a chance could you post the section in "Poverty of > Philosophy" to which you are referring (or a way to get to it)? >
I was out of town for four days and am just catching up with my mail -- or almost, because I'm leaving again tomorrow. I'll try to expand on your post (with which I mostly agree) when I return from Washington, D.C. next week.
Sorry-- I know where "Poverty of Philosophy" is. But, in particular, I was wondering if you could refer me to the specific quotation you were mentioning in your last email.
-- David
In a message dated 4/18/2002 8:33:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
> I was out of town for four days and am just catching up with my mail -- > or almost, because I'm leaving again tomorrow. I'll try to expand on > your post (with which I mostly agree) when I return from Washington, > D.C. next week. > > You will find Poverty of
I was away again this last weekend at the Washington Demo and am still therefore catching up. I haven't gotten around yet to rereading the earlier posts in this thread (including my own) but will try to in the next week. GI is a fascinating work which I ought to reread, but there is also some reason to regret that the mice did not do a better job of criticism. :-) It is dangerous to use it without putting it through the filter of his later work, particularly POP, Grundrisse, & Capital I. And it seems to me that one
