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25381 Afg to raise $200m -- rank: 1000
[A $550 million national budget is amazingly tiny. $125m on education for a country with a pop of 27m (according to the World Bank's latest) - that's less than $5 a person. The entire budget is about $20 a person. Glad to see the U.S. stepping up to fund reconstruction and development.] Financial Times - March 20, 2003 WORLD NEWS: Afghanistan to raise $200m in revenue By Judy Dempsey in Brussels Afghanistan intends to raise $200m (¤188m, £128m) of domestic revenue to support its $550m annual bud ...
Document Size: 7106
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 14:26:08 PST 2003
25382 CCR on shock & awe: war crime -- rank: 1000
"SHOCK AND AWE" COULD LEAD TO WAR CRIMES PROSECUTIONS AGAINST U.S. SAYS INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS Pentagon Official Warns of "Hiroshima" Effect International Criminal Court Jurisdiction Can be Invoked For Attacks Launched from British Base in Diego Garcia New York, March 21st, 2003 - U.S. officials involved in military operations against Iraq could be liable for war crimes prosecution for the planned massive military attack, "shock and awe" lawyers associat ...
Document Size: 8415
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 13:56:40 PST 2003
25383 Mises on war & peace -- rank: 1000
[The Ayn Rand Institute is vehemently prowar; the von Mises gang ain't.] Mises on War By Ludwig von Mises Waris harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys. (Socialism, p. 59) The market economy involves peaceful coopera ...
Document Size: 7921
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 12:38:08 PST 2003
25384 bodycounter -- rank: 1000
<http://www.iraqbodycount.net/>
Document Size: 4360
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 12:27:39 PST 2003
25385 Bush gets clipped, BBC apologizes -- rank: 1000
Washington Post - March 21, 2003 We Begin Combing in Five Minutes! By Lloyd Grove The White House is vowing a strong retaliatory response after the BBC aired live video of President Bush getting his hair coiffed in the Oval Office as he squirmed in his chair and practiced on the teleprompter minutes before Wednesday night's speech announcing the launch of military operations against Saddam Hussein. The British network broadcast 1 minute and 37 seconds of presidential primping to hundreds of mill ...
Document Size: 6807
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 12:23:47 PST 2003
25386 Victoria's real secret -- rank: 1000
[an interruption of war news, this from Carrie McLaren of StayFree <http://www.stayfreemagazine.org>] >WHAT IS VICTORIA'S SECRET? > >I recently had the pleasure of sitting in on a "contagious media" >course taught by Jonah Peretti, co-creator of the very fine >BlackPeopleLoveUs.com. As part of a class project, some of his >students presented this site, which some of you may appreciate: >http://www.whatisvictoriassecret.com > >If you're looking for photo ...
Document Size: 5389
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 12:19:23 PST 2003
25387 more idiocy -- rank: 1000
eric dorkin wrote: >I agree, but the real point is that it was not as if the Networks >didn't know there was donna be a war in an arabic speaking >nation.....good business sense would have all of them with (some) >arab speaking reporters trying to break stories...given that they >have had six months run up time for this war....tsk, tsk, tsk, The NY Times has had only a handful of fluent Russian speakers in its Moscow bureau for years & years, and Moscow has long been an import ...
Document Size: 5017
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 12:13:56 PST 2003
25388 Thank God for the death of the UN - Richard Perle -- rank: 1000
Richard Perle wrote: >the chatterbox on the Hudson It's not on the Hudson, it's on the East River. Guess the only parts of the map he knows are the ones he wants to take over. Doug
Document Size: 4822
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 11:55:28 PST 2003
25389 lbo-talk-digest V1 #7600 -- rank: 1000
Quenby Alclaire wrote: >that line of thought only demonstrates what a 'soft target' >Iraq is. And if Iraq had all those nasty weapons, wouldn't they have used some by now? Doug
Document Size: 4584
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 11:24:33 PST 2003
25390 American Counter-Narratives -- rank: 1000
Kelley wrote: >Edward Said, "The Other America" >http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/630/focus.htm This guy is such a treasure. Every time I start despairing about the U.S., I should think about how it did attract Said and allow him to flourish. I have to keep reminding myself not to accept the dominant version of the Real America. It's so much more varied and complicated than that. Doug
Document Size: 4887
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 09:36:32 PST 2003
25391 Freepers in NYC -- rank: 1000
The Freepers are holding a prowar rally in Times Square - B'way & 42nd, to be precise - this Sunday at noon. Can't wait to see who shows up! Doug
Document Size: 4447
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 09:30:55 PST 2003
25392 public opinion -- rank: 1000
[from the AAPOR list - no one seems to have correlated war support with the erroneous belief that SH was behind 9/11, but it's undoubtedly high] It appears that a slight majority of those polled do believe that Saddam was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll. Latest: March 14-15, 2003. N=1,007 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3 (total sample). "Do you think Saddam Hussein is involved in supporting terrorist groups that have plans to attack the United States, or not?&quo ...
Document Size: 5814
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 09:27:59 PST 2003
25393 more idiocy -- rank: 1000
andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > To be fair to Jennings, he probably meant that few American reporters >speak Arabic, not that few people in the world speak it. Which is the >scandal of most U.S. reporters abroad - they barely speak the >language of the target country (even in Canada, probably!), > >You mean French or English? English. That was a joke. Though NYT reporter James Brooke was covering Canada from Denver for a while a few years ago, because the Times balked at the ...
Document Size: 5009
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 09:25:21 PST 2003
25394 war demographics -- rank: 1000
<http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030314-022023-3781r> Analysis: Which American groups back war? By Steve Sailer UPI National Correspondent From the Washington Politics & Policy Desk Published 3/20/2003 1:23 PM LOS ANGELES, March 20 (UPI) -- Now that war has started, support by the American public for an invasion of Iraq can be expected to rise among all groups. But what segments of the public have been the strongest and most consistently supportive of a pre-emptive attack? Just a ...
Document Size: 11572
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 09:16:46 PST 2003
25395 Hitch in the Mirror -- rank: 1000
Dennis Perrin wrote: >Our humble neocon speaks. > ><<http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12761186&method=full&siteid=50143>http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12761186&method=full&siteid=50143> > >Dig the closing graph: > >"But, within a short while, that hideous visage will be nowhere to >be seen. And we will be asking ourselves what we ought to have asked >long ago: Not why did we end up fighting ...
Document Size: 5575
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Mar 21 09:07:00 PST 2003
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