Re: [Marxism] Long posts not allowed??

2009-09-02 Thread Ambrose Andrews
Patrick Bond wrote: I'm voting, as usual, for full posting of articles - copyrights be damned. I agree, generally the burden of requiring *interactive* getting (by web) of things in the context of poor connectivity is greater than the burden of getting a large amount of redundant, but easily

[Marxism] G20 Protests in Pittsburgh

2009-09-02 Thread Greg McDonald
full: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090831_hedges_pittsburgh_g20_defiance/ Go to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire Email this item EmailPrint this item PrintShare this item... Share x BlinkList this item BlinkList del.icio.us this item del.icio.us Digg this item Digg

Re: [Marxism] Long posts not allowed??

2009-09-02 Thread Michael Karadjis
If this is some kind of plebescite, then I also cast my vote very strongly with Patrick, for the inclusion in most cases of full text of an article rather than just an url. Frankly, sending mere urls are a waste of good comrades' time, and I agree that this is much more a problem for comrades

Re: [Marxism] Long posts not allowed

2009-09-02 Thread Fred Feldman
Les wrote: 2009/9/1 Les Schaffer schaf...@optonline.net: i can think of two or three solutions to this problem... 1. a separate companion list for news and forwards From my standpoint, this proposal is utterly without value. My comments on the list often, and even usually take the form of

[Marxism] New videos uploaded to Direct Action Films

2009-09-02 Thread Roberto Jorquera
Hi All Please find below links to new videos uploaded to Direct Action Films Jaime Gajardo - Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Chile http://www.youtube.com/user/directactionfilms#play/all/uploads-all/2/6wMnC-wflXg Heryck Rangel - Part 2

Re: [Marxism] Long posts not allowed

2009-09-02 Thread S. Artesian
I don't really see a problem with the long posts. Yesterday, for example, DNRath posted a simply extraordinary, and long, article on shipbreaking in India. The list will be poorer without these types of contributions. Speaking of contributions, several days ago in discussing railroads and

[Marxism] Widely Proclaimed Uptick

2009-09-02 Thread S. Artesian
New Orders New orders for manufactured durable goods in July increased $7.8 billion or 4.9 percent to $168.4 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau announced today. This was the third increase in the last four months and the largest percent increase since July 2007. This followed a 1.3 percent June

Re: [Marxism] China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-02 Thread S. Artesian
So here we have LW's reasons to be cheerful. The Chinese nation is being strengthened, it is recovering from the Japanese invasion. It is throwing off the legacy of imperialist domination. And how is it doing this? Did China do these things in the period 1949-1979, when it was considered

Re: [Marxism] Even Japan? Re: China's high speed rail plans

2009-09-02 Thread Nestor Gorojovsky
Well, S. Artesian, I don´t understand what you say here below, so that I can´t tell you if I agree with it or not. Anyway, I can only say that there WAS a Morgenthau plan for Germany. And that it was eventually discarded. S. Artesian escribió: And while we're at it, while we're passing out

[Marxism] Econ Rebounding?

2009-09-02 Thread brad bauerly
I think the boost in the US, looking at the new orders in transportation, is probably a one-off event based on the 'cash for clunkers' deals. S.Artesian can you please elaborate on this. Why do you still feel that there is no recovery? How do you incorporate the increased productivity and

[Marxism] American Casino; The Most Dangerous Man in America

2009-09-02 Thread Louis Proyect
This month has been a very good one for leftist documentaries. Joining “The Cove” and “Crude” are two more films at the Film Forum. The first is “American Casino”, which opens today. Directed by Andrew Cockburn (Alexander’s brother) and his wife Leslie, this amounts to a film version of Matt

[Marxism] The German Auto Bubble-WSJ

2009-09-02 Thread johnaimani
(JAI: Twice as big as the US 'Cash for Clunkers, programs which compel the destruction of still useful automobiles so as to encourage the purchase of new ones through taxpayer funded subsidy, the German program (as the US') is but modified Keynesianism, itself a re-reading of Marx exposition

[Marxism] Testing ....

2009-09-02 Thread Politicus E.
-- In the tender annals of Political Economy, the idyllic reigns from time immemorial ... the present year of course always excepted. -- A German refugee, circa 1867 -- http://epoliticus.wordpress.com/ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when

[Marxism] Latest Articles on Sanhati

2009-09-02 Thread Politicus E.
Healthcare in India: Features of one of the most privatised systems in the world September 1, 2009 By Pinaki Chaudhuri, Sanhati Americans are currently engaged in a fierce debate regarding healthcare reforms - there is a growing demand for healthcare insurance coverage for all its citizens.

[Marxism] Invasion of the (Israeli or Jewish) body snatechers

2009-09-02 Thread Fred Feldman
The following is a short article from the liberal US magazine American Prospect by the liberal Israeli journalist Gershom Gorenberg. This provides factual counter-information to the article from Counterpunch which has been discussed by a number of comrades from the list, in which Alison Weir

[Marxism] BJP, CPM form alliance to win panchayat polls

2009-09-02 Thread Politicus E.
From the Times of India (29 August 2009): BURDWAN: Arch rivals BJP and CPM on Friday formed an alliance to win a gram panchayat election in Burdwan district. BJP leader Mala Dhara was made the chief of Purbasthali II gram panchayat as the 'Jatiya Ganashakti Morcha', an alliance between BJP and

Re: [Marxism] Invasion of the (Israeli or Jewish) body snatechers

2009-09-02 Thread Shane Mage
On Sep 2, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Fred Feldman wrote: The following is a short article from the liberal US magazine American Prospect by the liberal Israeli journalist Gershom Gorenberg... I am highlighting the role that articles, available in full to all list members, play in how I carry out a

Re: [Marxism] BJP, CPM form alliance to win panchayat polls

2009-09-02 Thread Jeffrey Thomas Piercy
For those of us who haven't memorized every acronym in every context under the sun, BJP stands for the Bharatiya Janata Party, a conservative, capitalist Hindu Nationalist party. The CPM is the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Politicus E. wrote: From the Times of India (29 August 2009):

[Marxism] Family of Israeli organ theft victim wants probe

2009-09-02 Thread Pat Costello
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=105140sectionid=351020202 Family of organ-theft victim wants probe Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:07:11 GMT The family of a Palestinian at the center of the organ-theft story in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet has called for a probe into the death of their son. The

Re: [Marxism] Family of Israeli organ theft victim wants probe

2009-09-02 Thread Fred Feldman
The tes Among other things, anti-Semitism has no better ally than the state of Israel.timony of Ghanem's family -- contradicting Goremberg's version -- shifts the burden of proof decisively. I never denied that the Israeli regikmr might be doing this. It will be good if this story -- which seems

Re: [Marxism] Invasion of the (Israeli or Jewish) body snatechers

2009-09-02 Thread Eli Stephens
Fred writes: This provides factual counter-information to the article from Counterpunch which has been discussed by a number of comrades from the list, in which Alison Weir claimed, based on a Swedish article, that Israel is systematically harvesting the organs of Palestinian prisoners.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Irish Bank Nationalisation

2009-09-02 Thread Paddy Hackett
For the working class the debate over whether to nationalize Irish banks or support NAMA is a false debate. It is a debate that has been whipped up by the bourgeois media and a substantial component of the bourgeois political establishment together with sections of the radical left. Neither