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166 Wall Street fall -- rank: 1000

Monday Wall Street fell only 7 plus %. Perhaps a bit less than would bring it level with the average fall in other exchanges since Sept 11th. But at what scale of intervention? Has anyone seen an informed estimate of the full scale of the intervention? (No blind hand here - shadowy yes) And how will the scale of this intervention be discounted in days and weeks ahead? Are we just about to see another twist in the recessionary spiral with an investment strike in the airline industry? And how much ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Sep 17 16:11:32 PDT 2001

167 Doves ascending -- rank: 1000

This morning the media in London suggest to me that doves are starting to rise.. Most important of all, Blair's government appears to have persuaded the rabble-rousing mass circulation Sun, (owned by Murdoch) to carry a front page with him on it, calling for patience and calmness. He has given an interview with CNN calling for - perhaps a significant new code word - dismantling the machinery of international terrorism, (but that when the targets are accurately identified Britain will be a full m ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Sep 16 23:16:43 PDT 2001

168 Hawks and Doves [was DeLay advises caution] -- rank: 1000

At 16/09/01 10:54 -0500, Peter wrote: >But one influential lawmaker warned that proposals to unleash intelligence >agencies should be carefully considered. > >Representative Tom DeLay of Texas, the majority whip, said that while the >C.I.A. should beef up its human intelligence gathering ability, officials >should not move rashly to lift the ban on assassinations. > >The nation is understandably "a little panicky," Mr. DeLay said. But he >added, "I think ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Sep 16 16:01:00 PDT 2001

169 Appeal to non-US citizens -- rank: 1000

We can help overcome the insularity of the US press, which today is inserting free Stars and Stripes in their editions. I urge non-US citizens to forward reports of reactions in other countries that are different to the prevailing bellose reaction of the US establishment. In particular we must support the brave campaigners for peace and justice in the US by letting them know that their actions may get reported abroad even if they are ignored or belittled in the USA. I attach a report in the Lond ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Sep 16 12:08:28 PDT 2001

170 Appeal to US citizens -- rank: 1000

Please do not lose hope because you feel isolated. You are not. The slogan "Peace and Justice" sounds by far the best compromise so far, and enables people to put a wider persective. Please we my parallel letter, "Appeal to non-US citizens" for evidence of how valuable well judged alternative perspectives may be because they will get reported in Europe even if they do not get reported in the USA. This is vital restraints are to be put on blind US retaliation, assuming there i ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Sep 16 05:09:55 PDT 2001

171 Favourable report of NY demonstration -- rank: 1000

Saturday morning the BBC had a favourable report of a demonstration for peace with justice in New York. People were reported to be arguing strongly, but the humanitarian side came over well. One women observed quietly and persuasively that they were being told that America was angry, but the emotion she had felt was sadness, and that was the emotion most of those she knew had felt. People were interviewed receiving counselling in a bookshop. The BBC reporter who had just got to New York, reporte ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Sep 15 15:57:20 PDT 2001

172 And now the attacks on Kabul -- rank: 1000

At 11/09/01 18:40 -0400, you wrote: >According to Bush, this isn't the handiwork of the US. > >-- Luke The Guardian has this interesting report >US 'not attacking Afghanistan' > >Special report: terrorism in the US > >Staff and agencies Wednesday September 12, 2001 > >A US official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said in Washington >that the United States is not attacking Afghanistan as of 6pm (22.00 GMT) >Tuesday. > >He said the fighting in Kab ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Sep 11 16:46:02 PDT 2001

173 And now the attacks on Kabul -- rank: 1000

and where else...? But as James Rubin has just said on BBC, the USA can no longer think it is immune from the outside world, (militarily, politically, or economically) And Tony Blair, has just loyally stepped into the vacuum while Bush is preoccupied, making strong statements, telephoning Schroeder and Jospin, and Putin. Probably approving the attacks on Kabul, but with a sub-agenda, how to play off the USA and Europe, and contain the USA's wilder excesses. There will be a price for this. Chris ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Sep 11 15:15:22 PDT 2001

174 US revenge attacks. -- rank: 1000

At 11/09/01 15:04 -0400, you wrote: >I've spent the better part of the past couple of hours scrolling through >online discussion lists, and I must say the mood is very ugly. The screaming >for Palestinian and Afghani blood is deafening. I read one who said that all >"good" Americans should enthusiastically give up many of their civil >liberties to aid the now even Holier War on Terror. I've seen calls for >Jesse Jackson to be hanged for treason. Detention camps for &q ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Sep 11 14:26:25 PDT 2001

175 Us record of retaliation -- rank: 1000

London is used to terrorism. I do not want to appear unsympathetic and I cannot guess exactly what it may be like for progressive people in the USA at present. Presumably one of the dangers is that you will all feel bound to go to memorial services and find it somehow disloyal to say what an appalling record the USA has had in the middle east. The danger of terrorism is that it may disorientate the progressive side more than the reactionary side. So in the hope that it helps to keep focussed, he ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Sep 11 13:54:29 PDT 2001

176 Monbiot: Captive State - review -- rank: 1000

Captive State: the Corporate Takeover of Britain George Monbiot (Pan, £7.99) http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4252313,00.html Chris Burford

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Sep 10 13:51:38 PDT 2001

177 Spirituality and humanism -- rank: 1000

On another list it has been suggested that a concern with spirituality is not necessarily incompatible with a naturalistic or materialist outlook, and reference has been made to the Humanist Association. I rather agree with this. Spirituality refers to the important emotional and cognitive processes within and between people in a social organisation, reconciling their own identity with that of the group in which they live, and move, and have their being. It is inconceivable that human society c ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Sep 9 07:25:05 PDT 2001

178 "America loses taste for 'zero tolerance'" -- rank: 1000

Can this really be true? Is the fascist tendency in US civil society on the retreat, even in Texas, under the presidency of G.W. Bush?? http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,548903,00.html Chris Burford London

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Sep 8 23:47:35 PDT 2001

179 More inter-imperialist friction - Microsoft -- rank: 1000

Bush's soft line towards Microsoft has now become yet another casus belli in the emerging inter-imperialist rivalry between Europe and the USA. Hear these ringing words below from the progressive champions, the Guardian. While the Guardian is not read by many finance capitalists, it contributes actively to the acceptable ideology that shapes and sustains the state structures. The material issues of money are there. The ideological issue is there. This could (not necessarily) be an area of much m ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Sep 8 02:33:07 PDT 2001

180 Former Nepali PM blames Palace, India for coddling Maoists -- rank: 1000

At 07/09/01 14:34 +0200, you wrote: >Bizarre! But perhaps not so bizarre despite a sceptical comment from Ulhas on another list. (Let me say that I appreciate the range of contributions of both Johannes and Ulhas, despite in turn, obviously having some political disagreements.) For two months I have kept to myself an even more bizarre but just credible personal communication. In an informal break over coffee at a multidisciplinary meeting, a youngish stereotypically English woman said that s ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Sep 8 00:35:28 PDT 2001