[Peace] Program note

[C. G. Estabrook]

For a spirited discussion of the world's fourth largest economy (with cleavage) 
   and its relation to the American drive for world hegemony, join Ron Szoke, 
David Johnson, and Carl Estabrook for "News from Neptune" on Urbana Public 
Television tonight at 7pm, cable channel 6.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Our Nato ally
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:21:30 -0500
From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
To: peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>

	"Meine Ruh' ist hin, mein Herz ist schwer,
	Ich finde sie nimmer und nimmermehr..."

= one of the few bits of German verse (from Faust) I remember, and it seems to
fit this peculiar summer of our discontent. (Frank Rich, who's about my age,
would seem to think so too, judging from his column in yesterday's NYT.)  So I'm
appending a long and difficult but quite brilliant analysis of German politics
on the eve of their election.

Germany is perhaps even more important than the UK to the US neo-colonial war
against the Middle East. (US planners say that the UK -- with 200+ dead in AfPak
-- is important only because a real political debate in the UK about the war
there might awaken the US public.) ...

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	New Left Review 57, May-June 2009
	PERRY ANDERSON: A NEW GERMANY?

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