I think you're being a bit unfair to Ulhas. For example, if you notice in the last week or so since I wrote to him, the information he is business sending to the list has been far more focused. I don't agree with some of his politics, but I haven't seen anything egregious in what he's written. The one thing I can say is that the new UN report that shows an upsurge in Indian malnutrition hardly bodes well for future health outcomes.
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 07:51:35PM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote: > >This Ulhas has the interesting old habit or agenda of finding out and > >posting anything negative about Cuba he can find in the mainstream > >pro neo-lib > >press, especially from John Pearson's Reuters. Weird! > >CS > > It is called trolling. Five years ago when he first appeared on LBO-Talk, > Marxmail and PEN-L, he used to pay lip-service to Marxism. Now it is all > Thomas Friedman. I almost expect Ulhas to start talking in six-month time > frames. The reason I filter him out is that it utterly impossible to have a > serious debate about socialism versus capitalism, which an honest defender > of the capitalist system would be interested in. Instead it is the endless > references to increased cell phone usage in Uttar Pradesh or a new airport > in Madagascar. Thank god for filters. I only wish people wouldn't waste > time trying to explain why Cuba's economy is superior to India's. He is > mainly interested in cell phone usage rather than infant mortality, etc. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
