Year: 2005

2005-06-18 Richard Moore Hi folks, I’ve started a blog on Blogspot called “Harmonization”. You are welcome to join in and comment: http://harmonization.blogspot.com/ rkm

2005-06-17 Richard Moore Friends, I usually don’t post items to this list two days in a row. I like to give people time to look at material before sending more out. But so many stories are breaking these days that it’s hard to hold back. I’ll give you a relatively short article today, and tomorrow … Read more

2005-06-16 Richard Moore Friends, In the superb article below, William Engdahl gives us the Big Picture of today’s geopolitics, and the all-important role of currency-hegemony in world affairs. We’ve seen other treatments of some of these issues, but Engdahl brings a deeper historical perspective, in a very clear writing style. Not only does he explain … Read more

2005-06-14 Richard Moore Friends, I often find that people’s questions and comments create a space in which it becomes easy to explore certain ideas. The question creates a focus, and that focus somehow facilitates a coherent line of thinking. Stephanie’s comments, below, provide the inspiration for some thoughts on the nature of propaganda, the question … Read more

2005-06-12 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: Jim Macregor (Scotland) Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 04:23:24 EDT Subject: Fwd: Permanent brain damage of George W. Bush? To: •••@••.••• Richard, If this info on depleted uranium is correct, we are in deep shit! jim —<downloaded>— http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/printer_17578.shtml United States DU: A Scientific Perspective/ An Interview With LEUREN MORET, Geoscientist … Read more

2005-06-11 Richard Moore ——————————————————– http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/060905I.shtml Washington Worries about the European Crisis By Véronique Soulé Libération Thursday 09 June 2005 On a trip through the EU, Bush’s emissary makes himself the champion of a Europe “able to work with the United States.” “There is no pleasure, secret or otherwise,” on the American side, over Jacques Chirac’s … Read more

2005-06-09 Richard Moore Friends, I found the text of the proposed constitution at: http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/CM6429_Treaty.pdf An html version is at: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:GN7A_quK998J:www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/CM6429_Treaty.pdf+EU+Constitution:+final+version&hl=en Here are two excerpts which relate to neoliberalism: The European System of Central Banks shall be governed by the decision-making bodies of the European Central Bank. The primary objective of the European System of Central … Read more

2005-06-08 Richard Moore Friends, Thanks go to Stephanie McDowall, of British Columbia, for bringing this next article to my attention. Unlike the first article we looked at, also from the BBC, this one seems to be quite objective, and therefore more informative. The writer, for example, makes no attempt to tell us what we should … Read more

2005-06-05 Richard Moore Friends, In yesterday’s posting, I argued that the BBC article was trying to downplay the real reason for the No vote, which I characterized as being the neoliberal economics issue. I’d like to apologize for over-simplifying the situation – I wrote that piece late at night. There are many other important issues, … Read more

2005-06-03 Richard Moore Friends, I see great hope in the recent rejection of the proposed EU constitution by the people of France and Holland. I have also been watching with considerable interest how these developments are being reported in various media outlets. It seems to me that this can provide us with very useful case … Read more