--- On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 07:19:21 -0400 (EDT) Robert Weissman
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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
Eugene Coyle wrote:
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,
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BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1998
Contrary to the popular belief that corporate
Does anybody know of a good, quick overview of the costs and consequences of
corporate crime?
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Michael Perelman
Crackers the Corporate Crime-Fighting Chicken was an early incarnation
of Michael Moore; he probably has a coop atop MM's nifty new digs.
I don't think Crackers was
I don't think much rocket science is necessary to debunk
the basic assumption justifying the Sudan missile attack.
That's a country of vast spaces; would anyone who can spell Bhopal
stick a nerve gas plant anywhere near its be-all end-all capital city?
On the BBC's International Question Time
The poltergeists in our software have been purging some people from the
list unbeknownst to all concerned. When this happens to you, just resub
and we will begin anew.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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Tel. 916-898-5321
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Foreign Policy In Focus, a joint project of the Interhemispheric Resource
Center and the Institute for Policy Studies, is pleased to announce the
release of three new papers on international trade.
Investment Liberalization Agenda
by David Ranney, Univ. of Illinois
Capital Flows and the
C. Phillips,
This seems, finally, like something that begins to address the way
in which aboriginal peoples' movements might forward the cause of economic
justice. It seems to me that, in Canada, the aboriginal movement has
begun to create a unifying thread among
I have developed a new free web site (FreedomTrain:
http://www.freetrain.org/
Which I think most on-line U.S. progressives will find modestly
useful, in a limited and practical sort of way.
The idea is to take emergency fax networks, and e-mail alerts to Nth
degree. This site contains
Writing in the August 18 issue of Sel'skaya zhizn', Vladimir Solov'yev made
the observation that the white-blue-red tri-color chosen by Yeltsin as the
flag
of the Russian Federation was the flag under which the turncoat General
Andrei Vlasov's army fought against the Red Army in World War II.
I made an error in my long post on Wah'habism. The
owner of Achnacarry Castle at which the Red Line Agreement
of 1928 dividing up the world for the oil majors was owned
by the Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, but he was Sir Henri
Deterding, not Walter Teagle. Teagle was in attendance as
Louis' post may mystify people who are
on PEN-L but not on LBO, where the
thread to which it refers originated.
The content is pretty mystifying too,
but since nobody here asked to be
inflicted with the debate, I refer
interested parties to the LBO list.
MBS
Last night PBS aired an extraordinary documentary titled "A Life Apart:
Hasidism in America." Most people are familiar with Hasidim as the
"ultra-orthodox" in Israel. On TV news, you usually see the men in their
long black coats, beards and sidecurls on the front lines of some
demonstration for
Oh, that was just a pretext to get people to buy Marty's book. Besides,
everybody knows where you and I are coming from at this point. Like Elmer
Fudd and Bugs Bunny. Or the Roadrunner and Wily E. Coyote.
At 04:26 PM 8/26/98 -0400, you wrote:
Louis' post may mystify people who are
on PEN-L but
Oh, that was just a pretext to get people to buy Marty's book. Besides,
everybody knows where you and I are coming from at this point. Like Elmer
Fudd and Bugs Bunny. Or the Roadrunner and Wily E. Coyote.
Those are good analogies.
I didn't find much to disagree with in the
quote, only its
Writing in the August 18 issue of Sel'skaya zhizn', Vladimir Solov'yev made
the observation that the white-blue-red tri-color chosen by Yeltsin as the
flag of the Russian Federation was the flag under which the turncoat General
Andrei Vlasov's army fought against the Red Army in World War
I have the impression that Yeltsin may be George Steinbrenner's evil
twin -- or is it the other way around. Both have similar management
styles although Steinbrenner is having a better year.
If I were one of the oligarchs of Russia, I would try to install a
"communist government," which would
Regarding:
Movies like "Amistad," "Schindler's List" and "Saving Private Ryan" all
basically put forward the same message, namely that the wealthy and the
powerful are the ultimate guardians of what's decent and humane. In
"Amistad," this role is assigned to John Quincy Adams who stands up for
Duncan Foley has accepted an endowed chair in the
NS Economics Department. Will Milburg is the
new Department Chair.
Edwin Dickens
I have heard that Duncan was becoming Dept. Chair, but
may well be wrong about that. Anybody on this list a
member of the New School faculty who might definitively
clear this one up, please?
Barkley Rosser
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 21:38:34 -0400 Mathew Forstater
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When Max Sawicky argued that there were capitalist successes in the third
world as well as failures, he mentioned South Korea as an example. Hadn't
the free market had produced a steadily improving standard of living in
recent decades? I replied that it is impossible to abstract a country's
Dear pen-l'rs,
Here are 7 articles on the latest situation in Russia.
In sol,
Greg.
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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998
From: Fred Weir in Moscow
For the Hindustan Times
MOSCOW (HT Aug 25) -- Boris Yeltsin called on Russians to
``accept and support'' his decision to sack Sergei Kiriyenko
I resisted the temptation to contribute further
to the previous debate with Bhoddi, Louise and
Jim and have no intention to reignite it, but I
thought all might be interested in this announcement
released today by the Canadian Labour Congress.
"Labour and Aboriginal groups enter into
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:57:36 -0400
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From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:960] Re: Re: sell-out Indians and western arrogance
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ricardo:
Simply the Hegelian term for the so-called peoples
RS:
The fortunes of the Australian rouble have moved me to cast yet another
rheumy eye at the world. If, as Jerry Seinfeld would have it, we are at the
butt-end of the world down here, at least we're ideally positioned for the
reading of entrails, eh?
Just pray for no attack of the trots.
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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
G'day all,
The fortunes of the Australian rouble have moved me to cast yet another
rheumy eye at the world. If, as Jerry Seinfeld would have it, we are at
the butt-end of the world down here, at least we're ideally positioned for
the reading of entrails, eh?
The IMF is broke - next time a
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