Yeah, his brother Bobby was counsel for Joe McCarthy in the 50s.
> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:28:28 -0700
> From: davidrai...@yahoo.com
> Subject: [Marxism] Teddy
> To: t...@hotmail.com
>
> Anyone know of any reliable exposes of Kennedy's history? I could use some
> ammunition with the Kennedy i
Yeah, I remember going to the Amtrak counter at Union Station in DC circa 1979,
where Amtrak occupied a small portion of the old palatial train station built
circa 1908. and having this lady tell me that in 1950 they had a passenger
train leaving the station every three minutes whereas then the
Jim Farmelant wrote:
///I think that Louis Proyect had gotten closer to an answer when he
posted on Ted Kennedy's early championing of deregulation in trucking
and transportation.
I recall also when Ted Kennedy was featured on the evening news shortly
before the US "recognized" China, coming
Recently, we have been gifted with a piece of bad and unreliable
journalism by a Daniel Kotzer. I said that this "leftist" piece was
garbage and promised to give some hints on this Kotzer.
Child of a well to do "left-liberal" (in fact, Stalinist
anti-Peronist) family in Tucumán. Accountant by the
FDR had the advantage of Obama. Hoover's crash came at the start of
his administration and you had three years and change of his fumbling
about trying to stabilize an economy in a nose dive. That means a
crucial period of agitation and organization in 1929-33 that gave the
incoming administraiton
Yes, but the actual deregulation of the airline industry, initiated by
Carter near the end of his one and only term, and the deregulation of
trucking, had little impact on Amtrak.
Amtrak originated as a government corporation, "owned" less than more, by
the government and member railroads. M
A member of DSA's Boston local wrote a good piece:
http://theactivist.org/blog/kennedys-sins-against-labor
Socialist Worker also ran a good article about RFK around a month ago.
And this one about Ted
http://socialistworker.org/2009/08/28/myth-of-the-liberal-lion
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Da
> I leave to Michael Perelman the working
> out the political economy of that). Proyect
> has pointed out how unions in trucking
> and the airlines were devastated by deregulation.
> So that is something that has to be taken
> into account when assessing Ted Kennedy's
> political record.
Here is
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:34:35 EDT midhurs...@aol.com writes:
> His father was a bootlegger and an enemy of Roosevelt who made him
> the US
> ambassador to Britain out of the way of American politics
> He therefore had an insane drive to get his sons elected president
> Edward Kennedy originally
Fact is, no one is protesting the wars any longer other than this
dedicated woman and a few around her, and as Eli says, the few in SF.
AFP has published the article below but US megamedia haven't picked it
up, although I'm sure Sheehan has tried. And the writer of the CPunch
article correctly
No flies on me, huh professor? at least when it comes to reading between the
lines... and railroads.
Hard to believe that I'm the first one to notice it. I actually thought you
were semi-laughing up your sleeve when writing the chapter, like you were
saying "Pay no attention to my right hand"
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:40:45 EDT midhurs...@aol.com writes:
> I am beginning to fear that Obama is being drowned by the forces of
>
> reaction and cannot deal with them as FDR did
> I hope I am not being too gloomy
> George Anthony
>
FDR was able to deal to deal with
the forces of reaction an
Yes, but this was an article written from an antiwar libertarian
perspective more than anything...
ML
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I am beginning to fear that Obama is being drowned by the forces of
reaction and cannot deal with them as FDR did
I hope I am not being too gloomy
George Anthony
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/29/post/print.html
The Washington Post's Cheney-ite defense of torture
The leading neocon newspaper uses anonymous sources and deceitful tactics to
suggest that torture saved lives. Glenn Greenwald
Aug. 29, 2009 |
If anyone ever tells you that they
His father was a bootlegger and an enemy of Roosevelt who made him the US
ambassador to Britain out of the way of American politics
He therefore had an insane drive to get his sons elected president
Edward Kennedy originally supported the Vietnam war, but like McNamara saw
it was a loser
George
Anyone know of any reliable exposes of Kennedy's history? I could use some
ammunition with the Kennedy idolaters here in Boston.
"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of
mine."
Che
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In light of the discussion about who predicted the Depression, I thought
that I would post the first chapter of The Confiscation of American
Prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next
Great Depression
http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/confiscation-of-
First of all Michael Yates was NOT my editor. He was much more, guiding me
and focusing my writing.
Second, David is the first reader to notice that I was trying to use Marx
without invoking him. I was trying to show that although Marx can be read
very deeply, on some levels, his theory is co
As the editor or Michael Perelman's fine book, Railroading Economics, I was
pleased to see
Artesian's perceptive gloss. I definitely give him an A+!! Thanks, I learned
some things from your comments.
It was good to see a person with a ton of real world experience in the railroad
industry bri
Eli, yes, that was the first thought I had as well, the mealy mouthed
tribune of liberalism-poising-as-radicalism CouterPunch decrying the
lack of support of Cindy's one-person campaign of the coast of New
England. Oh plzzeee! What utter crap. I love Cindy, worked on her
campaign here in SF
Dear Professor Perelman:
I have finished the first three chapters of your book Railroading Economics.
I quite enjoyed your analysis of the history of "economics," and its more or
less consistent functioning as an ideology rather than concrete analysis.
The analysis you provide of the impact of
Nothing like a website (CounterPunch) which as far as I know has never done a
damn thing to PROMOTE antiwar demonstrations, or, in many cases, especially
those organized by ANSWER, to even acknowledge their existence, finding it
appropriate to publicize articles criticizing the lack of such dem
Contemporary United States Racism and Related Maladies [some informed thoughts]:
Note by Hunter Bear [8/29/09]:
These particular sentences of mine are simply a few comments on the "Town
Meetings" situation and associated dimensions. They're followed by a website
Link of ours -- embracing two co
Editorial / Financial Times, August 25 2009
When Barack Obama told Israel that “part of being a good friend is
being honest”, the country’s political elites got an inkling that
decades of double-talk on the conflict with the Palestinians were
over. In his June 4 speech at Cairo University he spel
S. Artesian wrote:
> I'm so confused. Is this the right list?
yes, for the next few days
chchchchchchanges
Les
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From: "ehrbar"
To: "David Schanoes"
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 1:29 PM
Subject: [Marxism] Reverting to lists for now.
>
> It seems now that the problem with lists has been fixed.
> Therefore let's revert to the old ema
It seems now that the problem with lists has been fixed.
Therefore let's revert to the old email addresses on lists.
We will migrate to degrowth very soon, but there is still
some setup to be done. Therefore I will shut down mailman
on degrowth and also on my home server for now, let's go back
to
Full at http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org. Comments welcomed.
"Control is the Name of the Game"
The writer William Burroughs made the theme of “control” central to his work.
He spent most of his life obsessed with the idea that he was under the
insidious control of outside forces
/The Silence of the Antiwar Movement is Deafening/
Cindy Sheehan's Lonely Vigil in Obamaland
By JOHN V. WALSH
CounterPunch
http://www.counterpunch.com/walsh08262009.html
August 26, 2009
Cindy Sheehan will be at Martha's Vineyard beginning August 25 a short
way from Obama's vacation parad
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