[lbo-talk] RE HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT:

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Mon Nov 3 13:19:35 PST 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>


> 1) Venezuela produces oil, and is very close to the U.S. It's not a
> very poor country, either.
>
> 2) Natural resources aren't as central to economic life as they used
> to be. There are many sources for most, and most are in oversupply.
>
> 3) On a lot of these issues, the state takes the lead. As far as I
> know, the oil industry was not enthusiastically behind the war on
> Iraq, for example.
>
> Doug

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Methinks the people at the Ecological Society of America would disagree quite vehemently with your second assertion.

Ian



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