Trade Treaties Threaten Local Democracy
Robert Naiman
Sunday Journal (suburban DC) August 23, 1998
These days, most people are aware that many government policies are more
likely to benefit big corporations than the little guy. But convincing most
people they could do something about it is har
--- On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 07:19:21 -0400 (EDT) Robert Weissman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Essential Action is joining with Walden Bello of Focus on the Global South
and a number of other groups throughout the world to circulate the
following letter to the U.S. Congress. It urges no increase in t
> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 06:05:52 -0500 (CDT)
> Patrick, where is all that expensive modern hardware coming from?
> Is sub-Saharan Africa about to host a surrogate world war?
>valis
>
For hints of an answer let's check one o
Wonderful posts like Rob's make pen-l a joy for me.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From the subject line I thought this was about Slick Willy. And I was
surprised that Jim Craven had turned against the Democrats!
Gene Coyle
>With all the weeping children, press coverage and proposed
>expenditures of millions of dollars associated with the moving of
>Keiko the Whale
See Stephen M Rosoff,Henry Pontell, and Robert Tillman, "Profit Without
Honor: White Collar Crime and the Looting of America" (Prentice Hall, 1998. This is a
study
in textbook form; ch.1 includes a rough estimate that costs of white
collar/corp crime are at least $250 billion a year. Covers co
> Besides pan-Islamic anti-colonialism (with an emphasis
>on the US) and anti-Zionism, the ideology of Osama bin
>Laden . . .
I'm starting a syndicate to sponsor Barkley
to go on Jeopardy. We'll securitize him and
sell bonds against his winnings, which I am
certain will be huge.
MBS
With all the weeping children, press coverage and proposed
expenditures of millions of dollars associated with the moving of
Keiko the Whale (aka "Free Willy") to Iceland, perhaps another more
efficient and sort of win-win solution (except for Willy) might be
proposed: Do (Kill) Willy on Pay-p
Wojtek,
Hmmm, a few observations.
You may be right that, for example, in Germany the
religious division between Protestants and Catholics left
over from the Thirty Years War meant that the nationalist
anti-Semitism took on a racist rather than religious theme.
But things are har
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:37:30 -0400
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From: Jennifer Houlihan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Two Films on Chile
Dear Louis Proyect,
I am writing to ask if you would consider posting the following press
release to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, and any other listservs you think
w
"When Kabul fell to Taliban forces, the US Oil company UNOCAL shocked world
public opinion by announcing its optimism about developments in
Afghanistan. The Taliban victory was perceived as a positive sign. It was
revealed that UNOCAL had been involved in negotiations with Taliban over a
gas pipel
At 09:57 AM 8/25/98 -0700, Jim Devine wrote, inter alia:
>another quibble: in England, the separation of Church from state dates only
>from the Civil War/"glorious revolution" and has not been completed. in
>France, it took the 1789 Revolution, but even there it's not final. Even in
>the US, where
On Tue, August 25, 1998 at 09:29:56 (-0700) michael perelman writes:
>Does anybody know of a good, quick overview of the costs and consequences of
>corporate crime?
*The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison* by Jeffrey H. Reiman might
help, so might http://www.ratical.com/corporations/CCRivRG1
"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is
to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from
abroad."
( Letter of James Madison to Thomas Jefferson 1798)
There were conquerors and conquered
Among the conquered the common people starved.
Among the co
Michael,
In his book *The Rodrigo Chronicles*, Critical Race theorist Richard
Delgado has a useful bit. The book is not about corporate crime, but he's
got this lovely little appendix in which he looks at the costs of
corporate crime vs. the costs of individual crimes (robberies and so on).
H
At 11:24 PM 8/24/98 -0400, boddhisatva wrote:
> I think you are on the right track although I would say that Islamic
>fundamentalism as such is not the problem. Clearly there are people who are
>wholly devoted to Islam who would not engage in fascistic behavior. I do
>think that Islam has
Thanks to everyone who responded:
Here is one tidbit that I had found on my own:
Cohen, Mark A. 1989. Corporate Crime and Punishment: A Study of Social Foreign
and Sentencing Practice in the Federal Courts, 1984-1987." American Criminal Law
Review, 26: 3 (Winter): pp. 605-60.
606: Of the 1,283
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BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1998
RELEASED TODAY: The Producer Price Index for Finished goods increased
0.2 pe
This is a terrific source of info on Africa. Here's some more on the
Congo crisis. You can sign up for the free service by talking to
Patrik Eklof at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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1. DR Congo: Namibian troops said to be in DRC
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3. DR
Please post & circulate (8/23/98)
HOTEL WORKERS UNION SEEKS RESEARCHERS FOR
EXCITING CAMPAIGNS THROUGHOUT NORTH AMERICA
The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HERE) is
recruiting full-time research staff for its fast-growing Research Department.
Positions are currentl
Almost a month ago Bill Rosenberg sent a paper on the New Zealand economic
crisis. I requested it, after his offer. I don't know if it went to the
list or not.
Time constraints kept me from really looking at it till today.
A good paper. And a depressing one. So, belatedly, thanks Bil
>If we draw paralleles with Europe, Christianity was a totalizing religion
>(albeit in a different geopolitical context, about which later) during the
>middle ages, Rome always struggling with local power centers for control.
>With the Reformation, the local centers eventually won (which has proba
Does anybody know of a good, quick overview of the costs and consequences of
corporate crime?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:43:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:James Michael Craven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AGITPROP NEWS: Special: Who's the Terrorist Issue (fwd)
fyi - Clinton appar
August 25, 1998
With Resignation, Russians Work Ever Harder for Even Less
By MICHAEL WINES
MOSCOW -- Nina Kostina cheered Boris Yeltsin's ascension to the presidency
in 1991. She voted to re-elect him in 1996. She expected to be comfortably
into her retirement by now. Instead she is a cleaning
> With Resignation, Russians Work Ever Harder for Even Less
> By MICHAEL WINES
.
> A nationwide poll of 6,000 Russians conducted shortly before the latest
> economic crisis registered a marked increase -- from 50 percent in March to
> 65 per
Patrick, where is all that expensive modern hardware coming from?
Is sub-Saharan Africa about to host a surrogate world war?
valis
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