2004-05-31 Richard Moore ___________________________________________________________ GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION : WHY WE NEED IT AND HOW WE CAN ACHIEVE IT (C) 2004 Richard K. Moore Part II : THE STORY OF AMERICA ________________________________________________________ Chapter 5: 1945-2001: PAX AMERICANA AND COLLECTIVE IMPERIALISM * The postwar regime: Pax Americana and Bretton Woods As mentioned in the closing of the previous … Read more
2004-05-27 Richard Moore Friends, The below items are all from mainstream channels in the US or UK during the past week. The URLs are given for the full articles, along with the first few paragraphs giving the main conclusions. The neocons must feel like Noah when the flood began, except that they may be doubting … Read more
2004-05-27 Richard Moore ——————————————————– From: “Chris Shaw” To: •••@••.••• Subject: RE: More media indicators of coup… Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:47:37 -0700 Hard to be sure, overall, but I have some ardent Bush/war supporters in my extended family in Ohio. They still seem to support the insanity, but have drifted over into mysticism in … Read more
2004-05-25 Richard Moore ___________________________________________________________ GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION : WHY WE NEED IT AND HOW WE CAN ACHIEVE IT (C) 2004 Richard K. Moore Part II : THE STORY OF AMERICA ________________________________________________________ Chapter 4: 1650-1945: THE RISE TO GLOBAL DOMINANCE * 1650-1776: Colonial prosperity and the movement for independence The British colonies in America were largely self-governing. … Read more
2004-05-23 Richard Moore ——————————————————– Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 19:24:18 -0400 (EDT) From: •••@••.••• Reply-To: •••@••.••• To: •••@••.••• Subject: Re: about those torture photos… Thanks, Richard! For putting into words, with URLs no less, what a number of us have been intuiting. ——— Fred, The photos had been bothering me from the beginning, and I … Read more
2004-05-21 Richard Moore Friends, In our previous posting, I theorized that a power struggle is going on at the highest levels of the US establishment. I was led into that investigation by the unusualness of the torture photo publication, and the rapid sequence of developments that followed. As I reviewed current news items, the case … Read more
2004-05-19 Richard Moore Friends, When I first saw those torture photos, with the grinning female GI, I knew something unusual was coming down. The torture itself was of course not news. We’ve already seen numerous reports of prisoners being tortured, beaten to death, and murdered in Iraq and Afghanistan. I’ve published some of those and … Read more
2004-05-17 Richard Moore GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION: WHY WE NEED IT AND HOW WE CAN ACHIEVE IT ________________________________________________________ Chapter 3: ENVISIONING A TRANSFORMATIONAL MOVEMENT Some necessary characteristics of a transformational movement ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I think it is self evident that radical transformation can only be accomplished by some kind of mass movement. The current regime is both unwilling … Read more
2004-05-15 Richard Moore Friends, Below is the draft outline of my book in progress. Drafts of the Introduction and first two chapters have already been posted to the cyberjournal lists. Drafts of the remaining chapters will be posted to those lists and also to awpd and activ-l. You are welcome to forward this material to … Read more
2004-05-14 Richard Moore GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION- WHY WE NEED IT AND HOW WE CAN ACHIEVE IT ________________________________________________________ Chapter 2: ENVISIONING A TRANSFORMED WORLD In order to explore the possibilities for a new world system, it is necessary to have some kind of value system or criteria by which to evaluate the possibilities. The value system I … Read more