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16 Leninism -- rank: 1000

important debate and a sign of the maturity that this debate is taking place now at the time of dramatic political tasks, seriously and without flaming. but 3 points 1) anyone who wishes to identify themselves explicitly as Leninist surely will have read State and Revolution. I do not notice any mention of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" in the list of features of Leninism. That is unfortunate because the term "Leninism" may be used ambigously in contrast to Stalinism o ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Mar 27 00:31:49 PST 2003

17 "Stalingrad" -- rank: 1000

That word again! The official Downing steet statement on the Blair Bush meeting is that it is about the Middle East, post Saddam Iraq, and relations with the Arab nations. BUT The BBC reporter at the invading HQ, in Qatar, has a news story alleging a debate within the Pentagon with retired US generals questioning Rumsfeld's view that it is possible to win this war with many fewer troops than the Gulf War. AND the BBC reporter in the USA (Whashington?) this morning admitted that the talk about p ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 26 23:50:23 PST 2003

18 FT readers against the war -- rank: 1000

In an opinion poll released yesterday, support for the war in Britain had shot up to (I quote from memory) 54% against about 30% against. So Blair's gamble that people would rally round the war, even without UN approval, has been proved correct. Possibly they big show of a full transparent debate provided the moral equivalent of that sense of due process. However the poll was taken at the weekend before the mounting troubles of the campaign. One detail was interesting, although the base numbers ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 26 01:11:02 PST 2003

19 Fwd: coalition close to crisis -- rank: 1000

>Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:49:58 +0000 >To: PEN-L >From: Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> >Subject: coalition close to crisis > >BBC2's news late night flagship announces that Blair is to fly to meet >Bush. No explanation or spin given. An assumption that it will be >presented as a routine update. BUT BUT BUT > >In another exceptionally well informed briefing of the military position, >so good that it seems likely the British government is using it t ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 24 16:59:31 PST 2003

20 Brave black frags officers -- rank: 1000

London 8:45am For legal reasons it may perhaps be easier for me to post this than a citizen of the US. This morning the BBC handled without comment as a technical matter with a brief clip of a black soldier being led away. The incredible mystery from 11pm last night London time, of how 7-8 leaders of a US division could have a grenade rolled into their tent at 2 am, became revealed. Last night there was helpless speculation that this must have been the work of the terrorist group Al Ansar suppos ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 23 07:33:15 PST 2003

21 IDS prays for British army -- rank: 1000

This is the signal that Blair has decided to go to war >The leader of the British opposition, Iain Duncan Smith, met Mr Blair on >Thursday morning and said he had been told a "second resolution is now >probably less likely than at any time before". > >Mr Duncan Smith reported the prime minister as blaming the "intransigence" >of France in rejecting Britain's efforts to find a compromise second UN >resolution.. > >"That, and to a lesser extent t ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 13 06:36:10 PST 2003

22 Russia tries to steady dollar! -- rank: 1000

Yes, seriously. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2467712,00.html >Sunday March 9, 2003 11:10 PM > >MOSCOW (AP) - The finance minister urged Russians not to shift their >savings out of dollars Sunday, saying there is no need to worry about the >U.S. currency falling dramatically despite recent declines. > >Russia is the biggest dollar economy outside the United States, and by >some estimates its citizens have tucked away as much as $40 billion in >mat ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 10 00:01:42 PST 2003

23 "N Korea might accept inspections" -- rank: 1000

>under the auspices of a new bilateral understanding with the United States. After the contempt shown in the Security Council yesterday by the US and UK, the rest of the international community will completely understand this condition. Chris Burford London

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Date:	Fri Mar 7 23:41:10 PST 2003

24 "No legal case for Iraq attack" -- rank: 1000

>No case for Iraq attack say lawyers > >Michael White and Patrick Wintour Friday March 7, 2003 The Guardian > >Tony Blair last night faced fresh pressure to abandon the threat of war >against Iraq when 16 eminent academic lawyers warned him that the White >House doctrine of "pre-emptive self-defence" has no justification under >international law. > >Not only do all the UN security council's existing resolutions on Iraq - >including 1441 passed unanimous ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 7 00:02:05 PST 2003

25 Gallup poll -- rank: 1000

But the poll is not asking how support varies depending on whether the UN backs it or not. >Gallup on War: Pretty much the same > >From: Kevin Robert Dean (qualiall at union.org.za) >Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 00:33:30 EST Why has Daschle decided to tilt his hand now and suggest that the timing of the war may not be right? I note the strongly increasing proportion of those who put the war as their strongest anxiety. Why has Bush had to address the nation in what comes over on the BBC re ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 6 23:51:24 PST 2003

26 economic terrorism -- rank: 1000

I notice that Pakistani authorities are already proudly announcing that the leading Al Qaeda suspect is giving information - about planning attacks on economic targets in the USA and middle east. They should not boast. In fact their US masters, if they are wise, will keep very quiet about it, and will shut them up. Late finance capitalism cannot be protected against economic terrorism. Why is Tony Blair having to negotiate today with the surrogates of the IRA? Bush does not yet realise that it i ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 4 00:30:59 PST 2003

27 Next in the "movement" -- rank: 1000

>Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 17:08:33 -0800 >From: "Ian Murray" <seamus2001 at attbi.com> >Subject: Re: re Next > >C'mon Chris, the issue is not issues, but the institutions! >IMF/WB/WTO/Federal Reserve/Treasury/Pentagon and the materiality/practices >that are constitutive of their contestable and unstable legitimacy. > >Ian >Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 20:52:21 -0500 >From: Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org> >Subject: Re: re Next > > >Movemen ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 4 00:22:30 PST 2003

28 re Next -- rank: 1000

> >From: Max B. Sawicky (sawicky at bellatlantic.net) >Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 09:22:57 EST > > >What we do until the shooting starts is plain enough: more of >the same. > >But the next question is what to do after it starts, while >fighting is going on. > >And the question after that is what to do, supposing there >is a cakewalk for the U.S. military, followed by a volatile >Afghanistan-type situation. My preference is for something broader than a peace ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 3 16:54:32 PST 2003

29 to the wire in Turkey! -- rank: 1000

>The government's resolution was not able to get the simple majority vote >in the parliament; hence it was rejected. Out of 534 parliamentarians >only 264 supported the resolution when at least 268 supporters were >needed --251 opposed, 19 abstained. > > >As the parliament was in this 5 hour, rather turbulent closed session, >hundreds of thousands of anti-war protesters were on the streets of Ankara. Congratulations on the courage and perseverance of those inside and ou ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 1 10:32:39 PST 2003

30 [lbo-talk] Born in the eye of the FBI - red diapers -- rank: 1000

>It is 50 years since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed as spies. >Their son Robert was just one of the 'red diaper' babies - children of >communists, targets of McCarthy. Gary Younge tracks them down Guardian article http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,970822,00.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20030608/f2bf3301/attachment.htm>

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Date:	Sun Jun 8 02:27:48 PDT 2003