See also Russell Mokhiber's Corporate Crime and Violence, Sierra Club
Books, 1988.
I second Doug's remark that we should nor forget that the most systenatic
crime and violence are entirely legal.
On Violence
Bert Brecht
The headlong stream is termed violent
But the river bed hemming it in is
T
Nathan Newman wrote on January 15, 1994:
> Who are the real corporate criminals?
Consider the recent case of GM in which U.S. Transportation Secretary Federico
Pena concluded that certain Chevy and GMC pickup trucks are prone to catch fire
in side collisions. Rather than force a recall, Pena for
Does "criminal big businessmen"feel better for you, Doug? Or are we just
wasting our time until "someone" in a Congress of millionaires declares wage
slavery a capital offense? I suppose if Bernie Sanders had added this
ammendment to the crime bill even Cockburn might have been interested.
J
Dear Doug:
Did I miss it since 1/5/95, or did your proof that claims of the
New Party in Milwaukee were "bullshit"appear elsewhere? I would appreciate
reading your remarks. How can I find them?
While I find the articles of Nation writers generally interesting and
certainly entertaining--
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Nathan Newman asks for info on corporate criminals and corporate welfare
parasites.
I'm all for this exercise as long as we don't forget the Old Man's
observation - that wage labor, even when entirely legal and apparently
voluntary - is based on exploitation. Or as they say around DC, the real
cr
At 7:59 AM 1/15/95, Matt Zeidenberg wrote:
>NEW PARTY TIME
>
>BY DANIEL CANTOR ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
It would be real nice if someone besides me and members of the New Party
wrote articles about the New Party.
Erwin Knoll asked me several times to expand the pieces I did in LBO on the
NP for the
Have a look at Paul Hawken's book The Ecology of Commerce for some
excellent examples. Sally Lerner
>Hi,
>
>The subject header is a serious question. I am working on creating some
>propaganda for street organizing (and net organizing) that addresses
>right-wing scapegoating versus the true abus
Sometimes the mass media does a nice job of encapsulating the problems we
have now. Even those who are not Start TRek - Deep Space Nine fans might
want to look at the last 2-part series in which - as a consequence of the
US govt's removing all public supports except 3 basic meals a day - the
Coincidentally, the Labor Party Advocates held a public hearing in the
San Francisco area yesterday on the need for a labor party. Four
hundred people showed up to participate at the meeting in Hayward. More
public hearings are planned across the US. I was not at the meeting but
can get a r
What will this do to the use of internet? Will this very large
increase in the number of users overwelm the hardware currently
in existence?
Recently I spoke with a rep. from Digital who predicted that the use
of the internet on a large scale basis as it is now moving towards
will destroy the
In this whole discussion about folks rising with the tides and
particularly about minorities gaining more during upturns, I
wonder how much unemployment stats tell us. What kind of jobs
are these people getting? It might well be better to be
employed at minimum wage than unemployed. Yet,
2. China to Establish Direct Commercial Links to Internet ... 56
Source: The Boston Globe, 1/2/95
Written by: Ted Plaflser
Abridged
Hi,
The subject header is a serious question. I am working on creating some
propaganda for street organizing (and net organizing) that addresses
right-wing scapegoating versus the true abuses in favor of the wealthy. THe
form of the sheet will probably start with:
WHO IS THE CORPORATE ELIT
Everybody has their own preference for what they want Pen-l to be. I
vacillate between wanting to learn how we can use our training to be
activists (going beyond the mere repitition of left rhetoric) and gaining
deeper insight into economics.
Lynn's long postings represent the best of the sec
Many thanks to Matt Z. for posting the Progressive piece on the New
Party by Daniel Cantor. My main concern with going the third-party
route (as opposed to revitalizing the progressive "wing" of the
Democratic party) was the divide-and-conquer problem the article
spoke to quite effectively.
NEW PARTY TIME
BY DANIEL CANTOR ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Over the last three years, I've had thousands of
conversations with people about the idea of building a new
political party in the United States. Many of these
conversations have been with the leadership of existing
organizations: labor un
Anders writes:
> Doug said that mainstream economists would explain the failure of IBM,
> etc. by saying that in the new international economy, they didn't make it
> because they'd gotten "fat and lazy." I guess what I'm trying to ask is,
> how do smart neoclassicals explain how + when large
Doug points out, fairly enough, that Marx the dialectician dealt both
with abstractions and the nitty-gritty details of capitalism. But so,
for what it's worth, does mainstream economics in its "applied"
fields such as Industrial Organization, which Evan somehow thinks
are marginalized. Thus t
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