[Marxism] What's new at Links: Tamil oppression, US blockade of Cuba, Monthly rev...@60, climate, Bad banks, Malaysia, Iran, media lies, Pakistan, Arabic, Indonesia

2009-10-26 Thread glparramatta
What's new at Links: Tamil oppression, US blockade of Cuba, Monthly rev...@60, climate, Bad banks, Malaysia, Iran, media lies, Pakistan, Arabic, Indonesia * * * Subscribe free to Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal - at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 You can also follow

[Marxism] Showdown in Chicago--a grassroots reform movement

2009-10-26 Thread Greg McDonald
http://www.showdowninchicago.org/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/25/bank-protests_n_333155.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-trumka/showdown-in-chicago_b_330209.html 34Share 2 votesBuzz up! Get Breaking News Alerts never spam * Share * Print *

[Marxism] Fwd: [A-List] Why the international media lies about events in Latin America

2009-10-26 Thread NĂ©stor Gorojovsky
Sorry for cross-posting. But this piece of news explains why it is NOT cowardice to place no trust on anything the media tell us on whatever happens in countries not fully subservient to imperialist will. -- Forwarded message -- From: james daly james.irld...@ntlworld.com Date:

[Marxism] Obama's peace

2009-10-26 Thread Nasir Khan
Obama's peace by Joseph Massad http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/968/op12.htm YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at:

Re: [Marxism] Islamic creationism- Boston Globe

2009-10-26 Thread Les Schaffer
Andrew Pollack wrote: But what's frummer? Why do you assume nonJews or exJews (like me) know, or should need to know, Yiddish or religious Jewish expressions? is Yiddish verboten here on Marxmail? i pick up words i don't know on marxmail every day Frummer is a Yiddish adjective that

Re: [Marxism] Socialism and animal rights

2009-10-26 Thread Mehmet Cagatay
It would be a fairly straightforward choice between David Thorstad's cat and let's say someone like David Horowitz. But, what about a choice between a scorpion and DH, with knowing that one of them will probably sting you during the rescue attempt and the other will definitely do it after

Re: [Marxism] Socialism and animal rights

2009-10-26 Thread Jeff
At 10:32 26/10/09 -0700, nada wrote: Unfortunately Max, you failed, utterly, to contradict or really challenge D'Amato on any of his assertions. His point of the demeaning of the concepts of racism and genocide by those that equate the use of animals by humans as like the Holocaust is quite

Re: [Marxism] Islamic creationism- Boston Globe

2009-10-26 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:40:56 - Paul Flewers rfls12...@blueyonder.co.uk writes: I can't see why religious people, and I'm writing as an atheist of several decades standing, can't accept evolution, as there doesn't seem to be any contradiction between believing in a universal

[Marxism] Towards A New World: Via Maoist Insurgency?

2009-10-26 Thread Sukla Sen
[The following is a short note to evoke informed discussions. Sukla] First thing first. Nowhere in the world, till today, armed revolution has succeeded in any functioning democracy. Whatever the inadequacies or grave problems with such orders. That's very important. The only apparent

[Marxism-Thaxis] Islamic creationism- Boston Globe; definition of science; law and atheism

2009-10-26 Thread c b
This article prompted me to look at the wikipedia article on intelligent design. The struggle with the intelligent design advocates pushes the scientific community to arrive at a succinct definition of science, copied below. Also, the fight forces the federal courts to take a side in the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Islamic creationism- Boston Globe

2009-10-26 Thread c b
This is another interesting section of the wiki intelligent design article, which, by the way , is obviously written by an opponent(s) of intelligent design. CB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design#Defining_science Intelligence as an observable quality The phrase intelligent design