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25456 UNCTC memorial site -- rank: 1000

[The UN Centre on Transnational Corporations was snuffed over an extended period during the Reagan and Bush I years because the U.S. right saw it as a nest of Bolshies. It wasn't exactly, but it was quite critical of TNCs. At first it was pared back and its message weakened, and in the early 1990s it was merged into UNCTAD's operations in Geneva. About all that remains are the annual World Investment Reports, which quantify cross-border investment flows.] From: Harris Gleckman [mailto:gleckman a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 12 09:29:41 PST 2003

25457 Mother Of All Bombs -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >>The MOAB is guided by global positioning satellites, an Eglin spokeswoman >>said. It spreads a flammable mist over the target then ignites it, producing >>a highly destructive blast. > >And voila! Freedom toast. Sorry if it's a bit burnt. As reporter Thom Shanker helpfully explained in today's NY Times: >Officials said they were unaware if the name MOAB was chosen for a >biblical reference. According t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 12 15:21:45 PST 2003

25458 Hersh on the war -- rank: 1000

Harvard Crimson - March 12, 2003 Goldsmith Award Winner Criticizes Bush Administration By MATT J. AMATO and SETH H. ROBINSON Crimson Staff Writer Journalist Seymour Hersh denounced the Bush administration's approach to Iraq last night after accepting the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum. About 250 people attended the event, at which eight journalists from the Boston Globe won the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 12 15:04:43 PST 2003

25459 Taibbi: dump 'em into the ocean -- rank: 1000

[Under new ownership and editorship, NY Press has apparently dumped Alexander Cockburn and Christopher Caldwell as columnists, and added Matt Taibbi. I'll miss Caldwell, but it's great to look forward to regular does of Taibbi. Now if we can just get him to prepare another horse semen pie!] New York Press - March 12, 2003 Cage Match Matt Taibbi Cleaning the Pool The White House Press Corps politely grabs its ankles. After watching George W. Bush's press conference last Thursday night, I'm more c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 12 12:29:57 PST 2003

25460 me @ SDSU -- rank: 1000

<http://ethics.sdsu.edu/symposium.html> Symposium Series From Bad Business to Broke Employees: The moral and policy implications of recent corporate scandals and the stock market decline What has gone wrong in corporate accounting? Why are these activities coming to light now? Is this merely a transitory crisis or symptomatic of a deeper malaise in American business? What are the solutions? Monday, March 17, 2003, 7:00pm Auditorium, Aztec Athletics Center, on 55th St. directly across from ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 12 09:12:37 PST 2003

25461 CBS: Brits backing out? -- rank: 1000

CBSNews.com - March 11, 2003 Brits Backing Out? (CBS) Sources tell CBS News that Great Britain - America's closest ally - may find it politically impossible to commit its military to a U.S.-led attack on Saddam Hussein. And that could force the United States to go it alone in Iraq. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld hinted as much Tuesday. "To the extent that they are able to participate that would obviously be welcomed. To the extent they are not, well, there are workarounds," Rumsf ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 11 16:51:22 PST 2003

25462 US to go in without UK? -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - March 12, 2003 Rumsfeld: US may have to launch war without Britain By Rupert Cornwell in Washington, Paul Waugh and Mary Dejevsky America has suggested for the first time that Britain may have to reduce its role in a war against Iraq - or not take part at all - because of Tony Blair's political difficulties. Asked whether the US would go to war without Britain or with Britain playing a smaller part than planned, Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, said Britain's sit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 11 16:29:52 PST 2003

25463 fun with google -- rank: 1000

At 5:29 PM -0500 3/11/03, PROGRESSIVE REVIEW wrote: >CYBER TRICK OF THE DAY > >1. Go to Google and type in "French military victories" >2. Click on I'm Feeling Lucky

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 11 16:09:51 PST 2003

25464 warehousing corpses -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - March 9, 2003 Industrial-scale mortuaries being sought for mass terror fatalities By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Ministers are secretly scouring the country for mortuaries to take thousands of civilian bodies from a terrorist attack after war breaks out with Iraq. David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, has appointed one of Britain's leading coroners to spearhead the search for huge temporary mortuaries, such as aircraft hangers. Richard Sturt, who retired as the East Ke ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 11 16:08:00 PST 2003

25465 vote on bbc for france... -- rank: 1000

steve philion wrote: >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2841913.stm "Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion." Isn't that helpful - indicative of what? Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 11 16:04:46 PST 2003

25466 freedom fries hit the House -- rank: 1000

French Fries Get New Name in Congress By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 11:22 a.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- House cafeterias will be serving fries with a side order of patriotism Tuesday with a decision by GOP lawmakers to replace the ``French'' cuisine with ``freedom fries.'' ``This action today is a small but symbolic effort to show the strong displeasure of many on Capitol Hill with the actions of our so-called ally, France,'' said Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Administration Commit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 11 13:15:42 PST 2003

25467 under contract to the death machine -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 11, 2003 Department of Defense Awards Grants to Support Research Equipment at 75 Colleges By SARAH J. REESE The U.S. Department of Defense announced Friday that it plans to award $27-million in grants to support defense research at 75 colleges and universities. The awards will finance equipment to be used in current or future research. The department anticipates that the awards will range from $50,000 to $665,000, with an average of $215,000. The ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 11 13:02:32 PST 2003

25468 ANSWER envy -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The USG and the NKG both suck. Beyond that, there's no thought, no action. And you would suggest...? Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 11 13:00:45 PST 2003

25469 The US has lost the war -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >This nation, the US, is now the wrongest it has ever been. Wronger than when we killed 3 million Indochinese? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 11 12:43:12 PST 2003

25470 Julius Jacobson dead, March 8, 2003 -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:38:27 -0800 To: trotsky-project at lists.village.virginia.edu From: Tom Condit <tomcondit at igc.org> forwarded message from David McReynolds: I found out this morning that Julius Jacobson died on Saturday. There should be some note in the NY Times - not sure who is handling that. Julie, whom I knew from the late 1950's when I moved to New York City, had been a close associate of Max Shachtman and was the editor the theoretical journal of the trotskyist Independen ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 11 11:26:50 PST 2003