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61 Ground war - aerial war -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall (marvin.gandall at sympatico.ca) Date: Thu Feb 13 2003 - 16:48:56 EST : >The advance units are in now because, unlike the 1991 Gulf War, military >planners don't want the ground assault to wait until after a prolonged air >offensive; they want a swift ground occupation of most of the country to >undercut antiwar sentiment, and to secure major oil fields. Interesting if anti-war sentiment could have the tiniest effect on this war. Opposition to the imperialist cynicism ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 14 00:02:33 PST 2003

62 US public backs Bush to go it alone -- rank: 1000

provided the UK is on board ... .. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,893824,00.html But public opinion in the UK will only endorse UN action and is hostile to the very name of Bush. Blair has some particularly skifull acrobatics to perform. Chris Burford London

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63 UK: US more of a threat than Iraq -- rank: 1000

>LONDON, England (CNN) -- The British public believes the United States and >North Korea are bigger threats to world peace than Iraq, a survey released >on Tuesday shows. > >Despite the global drama surrounding Iraq, three out of four Britons no >longer see it as a major danger, according to the Channel 4 News poll. > >The percentage of people who see Iraq as a threat has fallen to 23 percent >from 40 percent in November. > >Meanwhile, concern over North Korea, w ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 12 00:41:59 PST 2003

64 US hegemonic decline. -- rank: 1000

Doug Mon Feb 03 2003 quoted >But if all of these be ingredients, there is no doubt that 9/11 was the >significant catalyst, despite its coming more than a year after several of >these economic and financial trends experienced their peaks. In the >aftermath of 9/11 it became apparent to George Bush and the Washington >defense establishment that future conflict would perhaps be not only near >perpetual, but of a nature quite different from Desert Storm over a decade >ago. Whil ...

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65 periphery and global capitalist system [was: Putin and the left} -- rank: 1000

At 30/01/03 15:47 +0300, Chris D forwarded: >Rossiiskiye Vesti >No. 2 >January 2003 >[translation from RIA Novosti for personal use only] >PUTIN SHOULD RELY ON A DEMOCRATIC LEFT BLOC >Mikhail DENISOV, Viktor MILITAREV > The economic system created in Russia is a trap. ..... This system >does not have self-improvement facilities because it is part of >the global capitalist system, which prevents the periphery from >reaching the standards of income comparable to ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 29 23:54:14 PST 2003

66 Digital dilemmas -- rank: 1000

At 26/01/03 13:35 -0500, you wrote: >jimmyjames at softhome.net wrote: > >>a series on the Internet and the economy. >> >>http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_id=1534303 >> >>"Despite the dotcom boom and bust, the computer and telecommunications >>revolution has barely begun. Over the next few decades, the internet and >>related technologies really will profoundly transform society, argues >>David Manasian." > ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 26 15:26:20 PST 2003

67 International health experts on Iraq -- rank: 1000

British Medical Journal press release INTERNATIONAL HEALTH EXPERTS CALL ON BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TO CONSIDER HEALTH IMPACTS OF WAR ON IRAQ (Open letter to Tony Blair: Call to prevent escalating violence) http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7382/220 A war on Iraq would have disastrous short, medium and long-term social and public health consequences ? not just for Iraq, but internationally, argue 500 signatories of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in an open letter to Tony Bl ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 24 23:47:35 PST 2003

68 nicotine, tobacco and law -- rank: 1000

>It is not a coincidence that cigarettes have so far managed to escape >regulation. Soon after taking office, the former United States Surgeon >General Everett Koop discovered that tobacco "is considered neither a food >nor a drug nor a cosmetic; therefore it is a unique substance, virtually >outside regulatory control."4 The reason for the cigarette's unique legal >status, at least in the United States, is that Congress made sure to >insert a clause that specifica ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 19 02:46:49 PST 2003

69 German "Decent Conduct" in business -- rank: 1000

Frankfurter Allgemeine English Weekly edition http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/default.asp Decent conduct By Anke Bryson Those who thought the Anglo-American model of corporate governance was superior to the German model thought again when Enron blew up. Now, after more than a year of soul-searching, a U.S. commission is proposing a change that would give U.S. corporate governance a distinctly German element: the separation of chairman and CEO. Not that long ago, many believed a combinatio ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 19 01:24:55 PST 2003

70 Direct action against war in UK? -- rank: 1000

Penetrating comment article in today's Guardian by Seamus Milne >Direct action may become a necessity > >The UN is being used as a fig leaf for war in the face of world opinion > >Seumas Milne Thursday January 16, 2003 The Guardian > >If anyone could sell George Bush's planned war of aggression against Iraq, >surely it should be Tony Blair, a politician whose career has been built >on his ability to smoothtalk his way out of a crisis. He has been >straining every ne ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 15 23:46:03 PST 2003

71 TOWARD A MAXIMUM ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT -- rank: 1000

At 14/01/03 20:40 -0600, Carrol Cox wrote: >The young woman who broke apart >the local SDS back in 1969 by joining the Weatherman got her arm broken >during the Days of Rage. The last time I saw her, she was passing >through town from east to west and consulting an astrology guide to see >what bus she should take. I wonder if Chuck0 will end up in astrology or >the Baptists? :-) I object to this way of arguing by trading in personal contempt. (I have not been following this par ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 14 22:40:07 PST 2003

72 Death penalty and class -- rank: 1000

At 13/01/03 10:18 -0600, Carrol Cox wrote: >Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > > > > On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 02:08 AM, Chris Burford wrote: > > > > > While I am critical of leftists who refuse as a matter of principle to > > > see that the Democrats may at times be more progressive than the > > > Republicans, in order to break out of tailing behind one party, it is > >This language of "more or less progressive," more or less to the lef ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 13 13:40:07 PST 2003

73 Death penalty and class -- rank: 1000

I was wondering about the lack of reference on this list to George Ryan's dramatic decision to pardon all Illinois prisoners on death row. Apologies if I missed something. The story played strongly in the news media in the UK, where the intelligentsia is against the death penalty, even though the majority of the population probably still report it (they have given up doing polls). The death penalty also separates Europe from the USA. It places the USA in the same league as China, and I am not su ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 13 00:08:30 PST 2003

74 A Wall of money? -- rank: 1000

Isa it true that there is over a trillion dollars waiting to move onto Wall Street when investors are convinced the time is right? Where does it come from? Chris Burford London

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Date:	Fri Jan 10 00:10:28 PST 2003

75 Racism is a public health issue -- rank: 1000

Racism is a public health issue (Editorial: Racism and health) http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7380/65 Racism may be important in the development of illness and countering it should be considered a public health issue, argues a senior psychiatrist in this week's BMJ. Studies in the United States report associations between perceived racial discrimination and high blood pressure, birth weight, and days off sick. In a recent study from the United Kingdom, victims of discrimination were more li ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 9 23:47:15 PST 2003