[PEN-L:296] BY THE END OF 1999, A RECESSION IN NORTH AMERICA?; Too Big ToFail?

THE GLOBE AND MAIL MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1998 BY THE END OF 1999, A RECESSION IN NORTH AMERICA? The chief economist of RBC Dominion Securities blames flawed global financial markets Taken from a speech delivered on Sept 24 at the annual

[PEN-L:294] Ward Churchill on Cherokee slave-owners

Yes, well... I, too, find the Lipsitz' idea of "currying favor" less than convincing. But Ms. Meyer's complaint borders on the idiotic. What "terrible stereotype" is at issue here? That Cherokees weren't just like white guys (albeit a bit "culturally retarded")? Methinks she needs to drop the

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[PEN-L:292] California Dreamin

EPI is looking for a couple of stalwarts on the Left Coast who feel inclined to say unkind things about the flat tax being proposed by Mr. Fong, the GOP candidate for senate. Please respond off-list to me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MBS

[PEN-L:291] Colombian workers plan new anti-austerity strike

Visit the COLOMBIAN LABOR MONITOR at http://www.prairienet.org/clm === As with last week's strike, which virtually paralysed state-run hospitals, schools and

[PEN-L:289] Re: Russia: Peppered Vodka - New(?) Cure

This shortage of drugs is serious stuff for all of us. NPR [I confess, that i sometimes listen] had a report that the shortage is forcing Russian prisons to keep shifting their drug regimins. As a result, they give just enough for a disease to build up a resistents to a drug, shift to another,

[PEN-L:285] BLS Daily Report

This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. -- =_NextPart_000_01BDEBB3.CD678390 charset="iso-8859-1" BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1998 U.S. manufacturing productivity growth in

[PEN-L:284] American Indian specialist warns me to butt out

I seem to have stirred up a hornet's nest over on the H-AMINDIAN mailing list with my citation from George Lipsitz to the effect that Cherokee enslavement of blacks was tantamount to other forms of racially oppressed groups currying favor with the dominant white capitalist powers. They would

[PEN-L:283] Re: German SDP II

... How big is the "left" of the SDP? ... The answer[], based on what I saw of the Soc Dems on my European tour, [is] "large but powerless" (the rank and file SPD and most ordinary Germans

[PEN-L:282] Re: Cuba

I recommend Robin Moore, NATIONALIZING BLACKNESS: AFROCUBANISMO AND ARTISTIC REVOLUTION IN HAVANA, 1920-1940, University of Pittsburgh, 1997. Moore explains how race, culture, and national identity are linked in 20th century Cuba. The book is also framed in terms of the contemporary racial