On 2016/01/20 12:01 AM, Robert Naiman wrote:
... Reckonings; A Real Nut Case http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/19/opinion/reckonings-a-real-nut-case.html
And a few weeks after that ridiculous attack, he went after Ralph Nader: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/23/opinion/reckonings-saints-and-profits.html ... and he used a very weak argument, namely that Nader condemned "South Africa's new Constitution, the one that ended apartheid, because -- like the laws of every market economy -- it grants corporations some legal status as individuals."
Here's an excellent rebuttal by Ed Herman (disclosure - a former teacher of mine, and at age 90, still going strong): https://zcomm.org/zcommentary/the-hack-strikes-again-krugman-on-nader-by-edward-herman/
The story, dating to 1996, was related in the Nader-affiliated /Multinational Monitor /here, halfway down: http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm1196.03.html
I'm still sore about losing that one; I was arrested in July 2010, at the World Cup's Fan Fest park on the Durban beachfront, handing out anti-xenophobia leaflets. The single most democratic space in our country, this beachfront - which Sepp Blatter had in effect privatized for a month - was regularly visited by 50,000 people. The corporate power of FIFA to declare that I was "ambush marketing" for a rally the next day, trumped my rights of political freedom and association. More on the case, here: http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category.php/features/65767
Phansi, Paul Krugman, phansi (as they say here about political rascals)
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