[PEN-L:3612] Re: Serbia

1999-02-20 Thread John P. Lacny
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Joseph Green wrote: > All outside powers have to be condemned, and our orientation has to be > to the working masses of the region. The Serbian occupation is an > outside force just as much as the big powers are, and the conflict of > the Serbian government with the big pow

[PEN-L:3614] Re: Re: Re: [Fwd: BANK OF JAPAN PUSHES SHORT-TERM RATESNEAR ZERO]

1999-02-20 Thread Dennis R Redmond
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Henry C.K. Liu wrote: > Where is the party? Who is celebrating and celebrating what? A lot of working > people in America are finally going to lose their jobs and companies are going > to go under. The US owes Japan $1 trillion. Lessening the interest burden on that debt is

[PEN-L:3611] Re: Timothy McVeigh

1999-02-20 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 99-02-19 21:23:53 EST, michael writes: << I thought that the comment on McVeigh was inappropriate. Even if you accept his thesis that bombing the oppressor is a reasonable approach, killing children does not make much sense. >> I'm not sure who Michael is addressing in th

Self-Promotion

1999-02-20 Thread Anthony D'Costa
Dear Friends: My book on the steel industry is out, titled "The Global Restructuring of the Steel Industry: Innovations, Institutions and Industrial Change", London: Routledge (Routledge series in International Business and the World Economy). It's an expensive book so I hope you will encourage

[PEN-L:3613] Re: Re: Timothy McVeigh

1999-02-20 Thread Michael Perelman
Valis wrote a note that sounded as if he were praising McVeigh. I do not approve of him or his views in any way. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 99-02-19 21:23:53 EST, michael writes: > > << I thought that the comment on McVeigh was inappropriate. Even if you > accept his thesis

[PEN-L:3610] Christopher Cauldwell on Freud

1999-02-20 Thread Louis Proyect
(From the essay on Freud in "Studies and Further Studies in a Dying Culture", published by Monthly Review. Cauldwell worked as reporter, editor and publisher until 1934, when he devoted himself to freelance writing. His two major works are "Illusion and Reality," and "The Crisis in Physics." He jo

[PEN-L:3609] David Harvey and Leibniz

1999-02-20 Thread Louis Proyect
>Louis, can you elaborate on your post about Harvey and Leibniz and material >destruction of the earth? I don't understand the attention he gives >Leibniz; my eyes glazed over in these sections of the book. > >Bill Burgess Harvey's attack on Perelman, O'Connor and Foster has tended to be seen in

[PEN-L:3608] Stretching Federal Labor Law Far Into South

1999-02-20 Thread Henry C.K. Liu
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands -- Outside in the balmy tropical air, residents with deep tans and hefty girths like to relax beneath the palm trees that shade the long white beaches on this tiny Pacific island. Inside a nearby garment factory, rows of workers from China perform roboti

[PEN-L:3607] Re: Serbia (reply to Proyect)

1999-02-20 Thread Joseph Green
Louis Proyect wrote: > Joseph Green: > > But the right to self-determination isn't just > > necessary in > >order to help the Albanian Kosovars. It is also necessary > >in the interest of the Serbian working class, youth, and > >progressive activists.The oppression of Kosovo has been a > >ro

[PEN-L:3606] Re: Re: Re: Serbia

1999-02-20 Thread Joseph Green
John Lacny wrote: > Joseph, > > I know we've had exchanges on this subject on other lists before, > but I'd just like to point out that raising the cry "Self-Determination > for Kosovo!" at this moment is analogous to raising the cry > "Self-Determination for Kuwait!" eight years ag

[PEN-L:3605] Re: Serbia -- (part two)

1999-02-20 Thread Joseph Green
2nd half of "Support the right to self-determination of Kosovo!" (Communist Voice, vol. 4, #4, Dec. 8, 1998) The Recent History of Kosovo One of the reasons for the discontent of the Albanian

[PEN-L:3603] David Harvey and Leibniz

1999-02-20 Thread Louis Proyect
(From Harvey's "Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference") Leibniz made a strong distinction between possible and compossible worlds. While the former embraces an infinite variety of potential creative choices, the latter restricts the spatial relations internalized within a particular cho

[PEN-L:3599] Fwd: Help Stop Unionbusting in Ohio by Japanese Transnationalboundary="part0_919530121_boundary"

1999-02-20 Thread MScoleman
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_919530121_boundary In a message dated 99-02-19 15:59:07 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Subj: Help Stop Unionbusting in Ohio by Japanese Transnational From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (robin alexander) Dear union brothers and sisters an

[PEN-L:3602] Re: Serbia Article

1999-02-20 Thread ts99u-1.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.224]
0100,0100,0100C03 Swiss Roman 10ptSEEING YUGOSLAVIA THROUGH A DARK GLASS: Politics, Media and the Ideology of Globalization by Diana Johnstone Diana Johnstone was the European editor of In These Times from 1979 to 1990, and press officer of the Green group in the European Parlia

[PEN-L:3601] Re: Serbia

1999-02-20 Thread ts99u-1.cc.umanitoba.ca [130.179.154.224]
I must say I agree with Louis on Serbia/Kosova. In fact, I would go further and suggest that supporting Kosovar independence is to support a new American and German imperialism. This is outlined in a very long article that I will send as a separate post (so that those who are not interested

[PEN-L:3597] Serbia<36CD91C4.665F99D0@Lorainccc.edu>

1999-02-20 Thread Louis Proyect
Joseph Green: > But the right to self-determination isn't just necessary in >order to help the Albanian Kosovars. It is also necessary in >the interest of the Serbian working class, youth, and >progressive activists.The oppression of Kosovo has been a >rope around the neck of the Serbian peopl

[PEN-L:3598] Re: Re: AIDS and the blow back

1999-02-20 Thread William S. Lear
On Wed, February 3, 1999 at 00:45:42 (-0600) William S. Lear writes: > ... Cockburn once remarked >on the inoculating properties of the media. I think this might make >an interesting study. I finally came across the location of the above: A lot of w

[PEN-L:3604] David Harvey and Leibniz

1999-02-20 Thread Bill Burgess
Louis, can you elaborate on your post about Harvey and Leibniz and material destruction of the earth? I don't understand the attention he gives Leibniz; my eyes glazed over in these sections of the book. Bill Burgess

[PEN-L:3596] Re: Re: Serbia

1999-02-20 Thread John P. Lacny
Joseph, I know we've had exchanges on this subject on other lists before, but I'd just like to point out that raising the cry "Self-Determination for Kosovo!" at this moment is analogous to raising the cry "Self-Determination for Kuwait!" eight years ago. Sane and reasonable pe

[PEN-L:3600] Re: Serbia<199902192044.OAA03524@naos.cc.umanitoba.ca><36CD91C4.665F99D0@Lorainccc.edu>

1999-02-20 Thread Jim Devine
Louis writes: >... What is often forgotten is that Tito actually made a sincere effort to >provide equal social and economic resources to the poorer sections of >Yugoslavia. After the Western European banks had completed their mission of >wrecking the Yugoslav economy, Slovenia and Croatia, the mo

[PEN-L:3594] Re: Re: Colonial trade

1999-02-20 Thread Joseph Green
Colin Danby wrote: > Hello Joseph, > > Thanks for an interesting post. > > What are "internal factors"? Can you give an > example which clearly distinguishes the internal > from the external? > Sorry not to get back to you for awhile. FlashNet, my ISP, has been having a little "world-cri

[PEN-L:3595] Re: Serbia

1999-02-20 Thread Joseph Green
In regard to what's going on in Kosovo, perhaps the following article I wrote last year may provide some background. I am posting it in two parts. Written a few months ago, it naturally doesn't deal with the latest events and threats of bombing, but its characterization of what the big po

[PEN-L:3574] Re: Indonesian Politics

1999-02-20 Thread rc-am
> INDONESIA > > Mr. Moderate > Firebrand Amien Rais cools stance ahead of >June polls [...] and with indonesian workers out on the streets in surabaya, no doubt rais is looking pretty good to many angela