[PEN-L:4695] NATO Destroys Vacuum Cleaner Launched Munitions

1999-03-31 Thread Michael Eisenscher
Serbs Angered by Strike on Factory By George Jahn Associated Press Writer Wednesday, March 31, 1999; 5:23 p.m. EST CACAK, Yugoslavia (AP) -- The Yugoslav army took reporters Wednesday to a bombed-out appliance factory where workers described themselves as innocent victims of allied airstrikes.

[PEN-L:4694] Re: Re: Re: Stock Market & Social Security

1999-03-31 Thread Peter Dorman
Like you, I fear the worst (just about always...), but it's a question of what the issues are. The most important push is to retain the function of social insurance. The fight should be very focused on that score. As for the shift to equities, I agree that there is massive resistance today to a

[PEN-L:4693] Re: Re: Stock Market & Social Security

1999-03-31 Thread Jim Devine
At 02:38 PM 3/31/99 -0800, you wrote: >As long as SS remains defined-benefit (social insurance), I don't really >care what the predicted returns on the stock market are. For me, the >tradeoff in investing in equities is that more money goes to the private >rather than the public sector (bad) but

[PEN-L:4692] Ed Herman on Kosovo and "Atrocities Management"

1999-03-31 Thread Robert Naiman
>(from http://www.lbbs.org) > >ATROCITIES MANAGEMENT > >Edward S. Herman > >It is extremely easy to demonize by atrocities management. I became steeped >in this subject during the Vietnam War era, and even published a small >volume in 1970 entitled Atrocities in Vietnam: Myths and Realities. The >

[PEN-L:4690] Red Ken Supports Air Strikes: Sorry, Comrades, The Serbs Aren't Nice Old Communists

1999-03-31 Thread Nathan Newman
Sorry, Comrades, The Serbs Aren't Nice Old Communists The Independent March 31, 1999 Ken Livingstone Ken Livingstone Sorry, comrades, the Serbs aren't nice old Communists We might have avoided the slaughter in Bosnia, but few on the left were prepared to speak out Milosevic has used the worst

[PEN-L:4689] RE: RE: Re: Re: Kosovo

1999-03-31 Thread Max Sawicky
> >>> Max Sawicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/31/99 04:16PM >>> > There is significant division about this among the > ruling class. > > > ))) > > Chas.: Oh, so there is a ruling class ? I've heard tell of it, yes. mbs

[PEN-L:4688] Re: Re: Kosovo

1999-03-31 Thread Charles Brown
>>> "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/31/99 04:09PM >> The lack of convincing material explanations is part of why I think this. The Austrian counterexample to the Danube theory is just too strong, and none of the others, not even the mines are worth all this to any of them. ((

[PEN-L:4687] RE: Re: Re: Kosovo

1999-03-31 Thread Charles Brown
. >>> Max Sawicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/31/99 04:16PM >>> There is significant division about this among the ruling class. ))) Chas.: Oh, so there is a ruling class ?

[PEN-L:4686] RE: Re: Re: Kosovo

1999-03-31 Thread Max Sawicky
> Frankly I tend to these broader explanations, > Jim Devine's theory of a US-led New World Order with NATO as a main > operating body, perhaps feeling a need to assert its > existence and power with the addition of its new members > from Central Europe. . . . There is significant division

[PEN-L:4685] Re: Re: Kosovo

1999-03-31 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Wojtek, Traditionally anti-Serb Austria is no closer than traditionally pro-Serb Greece or Italy, both of whom are supporting the NATO actions, although there is reportedly substantial opposition to this within Greece and they are only providing logistical support, not planes. I do no

[PEN-L:4684] Re: Kosovo

1999-03-31 Thread Wojtek Sokolowski
At 02:41 PM 3/31/99 -0500, you wrote: > 1) The Death of the Danube Theory: > Greg Nowell recently suggested that the explanation >for the NATO actions in Yugoslavia were explained by >anger over Serbian machinations to slow trade along >the Danube with references specifically to German an

[PEN-L:4683] Fw: Kosovo

1999-03-31 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
-Original Message- From: William F. Hummel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: POST-KEYNESIAN THOUGHT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 3:16 PM Subject: Re: Kosovo >Barkley Rosser wrote; > >>For that matter, I don't think >>the canal link between the North and Black Seas links the

[PEN-L:4682] Re: Kosovo

1999-03-31 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Barkley Rosser wrote: > I would grant that Germany in particular is interested >in a "pacified" Central and Eastern Europe. Thus, the >arguments about German machinations and interests >in all of this do have some ring of credibility. It is striking >that even the Greens in Germany seem to b

[PEN-L:4680] Kosovo

1999-03-31 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
1) The Death of the Danube Theory: Greg Nowell recently suggested that the explanation for the NATO actions in Yugoslavia were explained by anger over Serbian machinations to slow trade along the Danube with references specifically to German and Dutch interests. This does not wash. W

[PEN-L:4691] Re: Stock Market & Social Security

1999-03-31 Thread Peter Dorman
As long as SS remains defined-benefit (social insurance), I don't really care what the predicted returns on the stock market are. For me, the tradeoff in investing in equities is that more money goes to the private rather than the public sector (bad) but opportunities are presented for intervenin

[PEN-L:4679] military Keynesianism II

1999-03-31 Thread Charles Brown
The Guardian (Australia) February 3, 1999 Editorial: Massive new American arms expenditure While the world was enjoying the Christmas and New Year festivities, the US Government announced a massive increase in military expenditure to be implemented over the next five years. According to newsp

[PEN-L:4678] Re: Re: military Keynesianism II

1999-03-31 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Tom, This is mildly interesting. But who the heck was it? Barkley Rosser -Original Message- From: Tom Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 10:12 AM Subject: [PEN-L:4673] Re: military Keynesianism II >Going down to Was

[PEN-L:4677] Mines in Kosovo

1999-03-31 Thread Charles Brown
Workers World July 30, 1998: The war is about the mines of Kosovo Workers World newspaper from the July 30, 1998 issue By Sara Flounders - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the July 30, 1998 issue of Workers World newspaper - Kosovo:

[PEN-L:4681] Serbia

1999-03-31 Thread Jim Devine
I think it's a mistake to explain the western front of Clinton's two-front war by reference to narrow economic interests like oil and mines. The more and more I think about it, the US/NATO attack on Serbia is about the US asserting itself as the sole super-power of the world, a world government in

[PEN-L:4676] FAQ on Balkan war from Ron Jacobs

1999-03-31 Thread Louis Proyect
Please distribute... ron jacobs, will miller, jay moore Q & A - the Bombing of Yugoslavia 1. Isn't NATO in Yugoslavia to encourage peace? Making war never encourages peace. Once the bombs began to fall, a new and much less predictable dynamic takes over. One achieves peace through negotiation

[PEN-L:4675] Stock Market & Social Security

1999-03-31 Thread Max Sawicky
>From my friend Dean Baker, at the Preamble Center ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), who would probably prefer that NATO invade Switzerland, or possibly Virginia, rather than Yugoslavia: Return to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not to me. mbs -- The following is a petition requesting that the So

[PEN-L:4672] BLS Daily Report

1999-03-31 Thread Richardson_D
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_01BE7B7E.024672F0 BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1999 Productivity measures most likely understate output per hour gains in the bus

[PEN-L:4674] Book Announcement: Valuing New Issues

1999-03-31 Thread Jim Devine
>Amsterdam, March 1999 > > Please note the following publication: > >Valuing New Issues >Information Quality of Initial Public Offerings at the Amsterdam Stock >Exchange > >by Tjalling van der Goot > >An initial public offering is a fruitful setting for analyzing firm >value. This study compares

[PEN-L:4673] Re: military Keynesianism II

1999-03-31 Thread Tom Walker
Going down to Washington, in civilian garb, to find a wartime job or how I became chairman of the Economics Department "In 1941 came also a somewhat more important event, America's entry into war. I knew that the armed forces would not want me; I had a thyroid deficiency, and the device used a