At 8:42 PM 8/28/96, Dale Wharton wrote:
>At midcentury George got wind that antitrust people from the
>Department of Justice were looking into investment banking.
>They claimed that 57% of the entire nation's securities
>business issued through six firms in NYC:
So what? Would we be better off i
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996 20:19:51 -0700 (PDT) SHAWGI TELL
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> What kind of change in the ROK are you referring to Rosser Jr, John Barkley?
>
>
> Shawgi Tell
> University at Buffalo
> Graduate School of Education
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
It is no longer a military dicta
Dear Penfolk,
Here's a question for you experts (first some background).
For a decade George Seldes (1890-1995) wrote a newsletter
called In Fact, "devoted to the exposure of economic
concentration and the spread of monopoly in America." Some
say In Fact inspired I. F. Stone's Weekly.
At midcen
Well, as one of the people making the Devine Jim
unhappy with meanderings about Peruvians from Planet Gonzo,
I shall try to revive a quiet thread with some policy oomph
to it, even if it is not overdetermined, :-).
On Sunday in the Washington Post there was a column by
Paul Offner ar
The Mexican government on Tuesday sent a diplomatic note to
Washington protesting the announcement of sanctions against the
Grupo Domos company for investing in Cuba. The U.S. had announced
sanctions against the company in connection with the Helms-Burton
law, which punishes companies anywhere in
What kind of change in the ROK are you referring to Rosser Jr, John Barkley?
Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mr. Swraj Paul, the owner of the monopoly capitalist steel company
Caparo, has been made a life peer on the recommendation of the
Labour Party, and will sit in the British House of Lords. Mr. Paul,
is reputed to be one of the richest men in Britain. Born in India
into the family that owns the Ind
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:46:05 -0700 (PDT) SHAWGI TELL
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 'Civilian' Regime Going Beserk
> This is the title of an article in the August 3 edition of The
> Pyongyang Times by staff reporter Song Myong Chol. The article
> reviews the developments in South Korea during
'Civilian' Regime Going Beserk
This is the title of an article in the August 3 edition of The
Pyongyang Times by staff reporter Song Myong Chol. The article
reviews the developments in South Korea during the month of July
pointing to attempts to strengthen north-south confrontation and
war moves
A while ago someone (Doug Henwood?) asked if people had seen Gary Webb's
San Jose Mercury News stories about crack and the CIA. Yesterday I got
RACHEL's Environment & Health Weekly which told the story, citing Webb and
other sources.
FYI, I copy the current issue of RACHEL's below. It is a great
EU LEGISLATION AGAINST ANTI-CUBA LAW DUE TODAY
By Bruce Barnard, The Journal of Commerce
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News
BRUSSELS--July 29--The European Union is expected to
finalize today measures to protect companies facing
U.S. sanctions for doing business in Cuba.
Sir Leon Bri
Is terrorism becoming the new catch-all that's used to justify damned
near anything that repressive forces want to do?
Sid Shniad
> > The latest Business Week
notes that the government is concerned
> about people counterfeiting tee shirts and ripping off logos. Why?
> Supposedly terrorists mi
Dear Trond,
Thanks for your work in this area. I have been interested in the area of "Political
Economiy of the Media" for many years. Here is a model that I developed and use when
discussing the question of why journalists all over a given country invariably cover
the same stories, ask th
BUILDING ALLIANCES -- THE KEY
TO THE FUTURE OF THE
LABOUR MOVEMENT
Patrick Bond wrote,
> John Roemer. . . peddling coupon socialism in a big way. . .
Was Roemer offering his suggestions as a blueprint for socialism or
merely as a way to address certain problems with nationalized
firms that exist within a capitalist economy?
On the one hand, Roemer calls for
Wednesday, August 28, 1996
PERSPECTIVE ON CAMPAIGN '96
Clinton Hasn't Earned Blacks' Vote:
His record on issues of
concern is abysmal, almost Republican,
making harsh policies with cheap
symbolic gestures.
By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON
Perhaps it's fitting that Bill
Clinton will be a
At 2:26 AM 8/28/96, Patrick Bond wrote:
>Lo and behold he's taken the argument to the pages of Business Day.
>And it really comes off as a thin-end-of-wedge into union arguments
>against privatisation (or in the rewording Roemer favours,
>"denationalisation"). First he argues for making parastata
Patrick Bond wrote:
>
> what's needed from PEN-L comrades is any accounting of how joint
> ventures or sell-offs have led to diminished public services and have
> prevented internal cross-subsidisation (a key redistributive demand).
> Telecommunications, electricity and transport are the most cri
A couple of years ago me and some others (esp. Herbert Gintis) had a
net discussion (on the pkt list) on the character of media under
capitalism. Based on this and later activity I have tried to sum up my
analysis on the importance and function of media in a market economy on
a Web page
http://ww
Ok Jim, here's one or two for you, from chilly Johannesburg.
Opened Business Day, our WSJ-equivalent, today and found a couple of
interesting items. One was a report (originally in the FT) that Haiti's
popular movement is keeping pressure on the turncoat successor to
Jean-Bertrand Aristide; as PE
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