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226 anti-war aims -- rank: 1000

At 09/10/01 11:11 -0700, you wrote: >Forward Into The Past: US War Aims >VIJAY PRASHAD > >< http://www.outlookindia.com > >[snip] >The US Left needs to speak out not only against the war, but also >against the slowly formulated war aims, and certainly against the >restoration of "stability" in the name of capital. The Northern >Alliance is not "at least better" than the Taliban, as liberals want >to believe: they are as bad for the people o ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 9 16:36:30 PDT 2001

227 Norwegian Demonstrations -- rank: 1000

>>>>> The Antiwar Network in Oslo called for a demo outside the Foreign Ministry at 1700 on Day X. The turnout was very good on the short notice. State TV NRK estimated 1500, old pessimist comrades est. 800. The truth is probably in-between there. Oslo has a pop. of 450,000, so it compares well with London's reported 1500-2000. There were many from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine etc. present. Also many unorganized youth. Speeches from an Afghanistani Refugee, Akthar Chaudry (Soc ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 9 15:56:17 PDT 2001

228 oct8 Berkeley rallies-two of them -- rank: 1000

Important to hear reports of anti-war demonstrations. In the UK last night the serious analytical programme Newsnight was noting that the US government is talking about a series of actions not just limited to Afghanistan and asking what have we (UK) got ourselves into? Now that the USA is in attack mode it will be hard to defend the line against expansion of aggression and retaliation. The nature of the peace movement is therefore very important. There is no point in just making gestures to diss ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Oct 8 22:41:30 PDT 2001

229 The last Christian crusade against Islam? -- rank: 1000

London Time 7:30 am At 04/10/01 07:20 +0100, I wrote: >Russia to join the attack against Afghanistan? >And despite the fact that Afghanistan has defeated all imperialist >invasions, it could still be too tempting to consider that it would >succumb to a simultaneous invasion of three imperialist powers. > >Evidence?? > >Last night London time, my suspicions were aroused by the fact that a >latest news item on the Guardian site on Blair's secret trip, had been >pulled ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 5 23:29:03 PDT 2001

230 Lenin on terrorism and mass struggle -- rank: 1000

Speech at the Congress of the Swiss Social-Democratic Party, November 4, 1916 [...] Permit me to say a few words on another point which is being very much discussed these days and on which we Russian Social-Democrats are particularly rich in experience, namely, the question of terrorism. We have no information yet about the Austrian revolutionary Social-Democrats. We know that there are revolutionary Social-Democrats in Austria, but information about them is very meagre anyway. Consequently, w ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 5 21:53:14 PDT 2001

231 Britain makes 42 -- rank: 1000

At 04/10/01 19:37 -0500, you wrote: >Michael Perelman wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:01:16PM +0100, Chris Burford wrote: > > > Britain, despite all the gestures of solidarity with the USA, has just > > > become the 42nd state > > > > At first I thought that Chris made a mistake. Blair would have to become > > governor of the 51st state. One of the reasons why the USA is so opposed to the idea of an International Criminal Court is that it ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 4 23:48:01 PDT 2001

232 Britain makes 42 -- rank: 1000

Britain, despite all the gestures of solidarity with the USA, has just become the 42nd state to sign the Rome Treaty to set up an International Criminal Court, which the USA opposes. Supporters predict that the total will reach the 60 threshold by 2002, needed to set up the court. This illustrates the complex processes whereby the WTC bombings have accelerated the emergence of global governance. Chris Burford London

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Date:	Thu Oct 4 13:01:16 PDT 2001

233 The last Christian crusade against Islam? -- rank: 1000

Russia to join the attack against Afghanistan? At 03/10/01 21:55 -0700, you wrote: >[The Independent] >The high price we must pay for Russia's help >04 October 2001 > > >Putin calls on Nato to make space for Russia >President Vladimir Putin of Russia has stunned everyone with the >extent of his support for the coalition against the Taliban. Anyone >who remembers the Kremlin's tantrums over Nato's air war in Kosovo >will wonder whether we are dealing with the same co ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Oct 3 23:20:18 PDT 2001

234 Enron and financial regulation -- rank: 1000

>The markets Enron helped to create will endure, but probably without >Enron. It will be interesting to see whether participants in them continue >to resist regulation as much as they have in the past. IHT Nov 30 http://www.iht.com/articles/40466.htm Chris Burford

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Date:	Thu Nov 29 23:23:36 PST 2001

235 massacre - "things that no one else wants to do" -- rank: 1000

The late Mike Spann's father quotes him as having said, "Somebody has got to do the things that no one else wants to do." As a member of the CIA he was a loyal American, his father said. So far this is undoubtedly true as a necessary part of the exercise of power by any state. A state has to have recourse to secret and violent methods. War is violent and atrocities occur. But the right of the US to act as policeman to the emerging Empire is under attack because of a more detailed repor ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Nov 28 22:48:52 PST 2001

236 Brit politics shift centre of gravity -- rank: 1000

For two decades British two party politics have been imprisoned by populist rhetoric from the Conservative party about reducing taxes, while Britain struggled to maintain its competitive economic position in the world. New Labour has been almost flagrantly opportunist in adapting to this pressure for lower taxes, but the scale of the the Conservative Party's second massive electoral defeat has forced it to reposition its ice cream stall on the two-party tourist beach. The divisive two party skir ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 23 00:07:35 PST 2001

237 Business bribery [Democracy and the nation state] -- rank: 1000

At 19/11/01 16:28 +0800, you wrote: >*The laws of fraud and criminal negligence are applicable to companies in >the form of their directors having criminal liabilty - we should not allow >them to employ their "get-out-of-jail" card which in effect by the >non-prosecution they enjoy. How easily could we enforce transparency of business interconnections - holding and daughter companies etc? After all if it is needed to stop the financing of terrorism it could be needed to sto ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 21 00:03:56 PST 2001

238 Government of administrators -- rank: 1000

Hugo Young in the Guardian on the Blair government 20.11.01 >If cabinet government is dead, it's in part because cabinet ministers have >seldom been more feeble. Few of the present lot can hack it as politicians >who count. No modern government has contained ministers more puppet-like, >more politically anaemic, more lacking in self-respect, or more cravenly >submissive to the leader who has supplanted - in their minds as much as >his - argument or belief with loyalty to himsel ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 20 22:46:12 PST 2001

239 Business bribery [Democracy and the nation state] -- rank: 1000

At 19/11/01 09:27 +0800, you wrote: >Chris it only occurred to me recently how simple (simple to change, >perhaps not so simple to practically control) it would be to stop >companies corrupting political life. > >Everytime it comes up, usually in the form of contributions, it is >discussed in terms of having registers and all sorts of complex mechanisms >which we know will not work. Yet the solution is simple enough - change >the public companies act, specify in the dire ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 22:46:22 PST 2001

240 Democracy and the nation state -- rank: 1000

At 18/11/01 15:45 +0800, you wrote: >Changing the face of democracy does not in itself deliver proletarian >power, but I cannot see in a modern state how that power can be successful >without struggling to redefine in class terms what constitutes democracy - >one part of this is raising simple arguable reforms for a better >democratic constitution. > >Greg Schofield >Perth Australia and >There are reforms such as multiple representative electorates, >preferential an ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 08:16:40 PST 2001