[PEN-L:4770] safe for capitalism?

from the op-ed page of the LA TIMES: Friday, April 2, 1999 Making the World Safer for Business Instability and aggression are regarded as a threat to the global stability upon which U.S. markets depend. By CHRISTOPHER LAYNE, BENJAMIN SCHWARZ

[PEN-L:4769] RE: Re: RE: Military spending

Huh? What do you mean? mbs > > Oh Max, have you been reduced to this sophistry. > > For the general amusement I've attached a .WKS file with U.S. . . .

[PEN-L:4768] Research Request "Asia Pacific Electric Cables"

[If anyone can help this brother in Australia, please respond to him directly, not to me.] = I work as a union organiser for the Comunications Electrical & Plumbing Union in Australia. I am seking any information concerning the ownership of

[PEN-L:4767] RE: Robert Pollin's LA Times article!

Attached as requested. Good question, Bob!! Thursday, April 1, 1999 COLUMN LEFT / ROBERT POLLIN Living Wage Gives a Boost to Demand Do we want higher minimu

[PEN-L:4766] Re: Opening Borders

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Max Sawicky) wrote >> LIFT THE KOSOVA REFUGEES OUT >> >> The Rainbow AntiBorders >> LIFT THE KOSOVA REFUGEES OUT >> >> The Rainbow AntiBalkans into Norway >At the risk of seeming argumentative, a risk I run and probably fall prey to every day, I'd say the refugee safe passag

[PEN-L:4765] Teaching Chapman's theory?

Please respond directly to my email address rather than to the list. According to J.R. Hicks (1932), "The classical statement of the theory of 'hours' in a free market is to be found in Sir Sydney Chapman's article, 'Hours of Labour.'" I'm wondering to what extent S.J. Chapman's theory of the hour

[PEN-L:4764] Re: RE: Military spending

Oh Max, have you been reduced to this sophistry. Paul Phillips, Economics, University of Manitoba From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Max Sawicky) To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:[PEN-L:4763] RE: Military spending Date sent: Fri, 2 Apr 1999

[PEN-L:4763] RE: Military spending

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0018_01BE7D22.488CCE20 For the general amusement I've attached a .WKS file with U.S. defense spending data from 1940 to present, in terms of current dollars, $1992 dollars, % of GDP, and % of Federal outlays. The deflator is a ge

[PEN-L:4771] Re: safe for capitalism?

Jim's post is interesting, but might be giving Clinton and Co. too much credit. Yes, they want to extend trade, and influence and power go together. But I have trouble following how bombing Kosovo will further the process, except to the extent that the U.S. is continuing a policy of dismantling

[PEN-L:4762] Re: RE: Non-Serb Refugees Living in Serbia

>SERBO-SPAM ALERT!! I suppose Max couldn't say there are no non-Serb refugees living in Serbia, hence the above joke. Yoshie

[PEN-L:4761] Anti-War/Anti-Sanction Actions in Columbus, OH

Yesterday (April 1), we had an anti-NATO-attack-on-Yugoslavia demo in front of the Federal Building (again) at noon in Columbus, OH. About 40 people showed up, and yours truly speechified, along with my good friends & comrades Connie (a Methodist peace & justice activist), Mark (a radical Presby),

[PEN-L:4760] United Nations: Before war, Kosovars and Serbs both guilty ofabuses

April 2, 1999 CRISIS IN THE BALKANS: ATROCITIES Report Finds Shared Guilt Inside Kosovo By ELIZABETH OLSON GENEVA -- A report to the U.N. Human Rights Commission on Thursday accused both Yugoslav and Albanian forces of committing numerous killings and other atrocities in Kosovo before NATO beg

[PEN-L:4759] Moscow Times Article

I got this off of Johnson's Russia List. Moscow Times April 1, 1999 DEFENSE DOSSIER: NATO Joins Balkan Sinners By Pavel Felgenhauer After a week of war in the Balkans, with thousands of people killed, wounded or displaced, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Yugoslav military ha

[PEN-L:4757] Re: cruise missles

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Pardon my ignorance, but who is the prime contractor for the Cruise >Missle? Air-launched - Boeing Advanced air-launched and sea-launched Tomahwak - General Dynamics Doug

[PEN-L:4756] Cruise Missile Query

Michael, Lockheed-Martin. Seth >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [PEN-L:4754] cruise missles >Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 08:41:31 -0800 (PST) > >Pardon my ignorance, but who is the prime contractor for the Cruise >Missle? >-- >Michael Perelman >

[PEN-L:4758] Kosovo

I just wanted to add a couple of footnotes to comments by Jim D. and Barkely. Jim mentioned that he was not aware of any evidence that the US had initially wanted to breakup Yugoslavia. He should be aware that under Reagan, the American foreign service had developed a secret plan to destabil

[PEN-L:4754] cruise missles

Pardon my ignorance, but who is the prime contractor for the Cruise Missle? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:4753] [Fwd: Fw: Saving lives in Kosovo]

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. From: "rc-am" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fw: [PEN-L:4731] Saving lives in Kosovo Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 18:09:38 +1000 can you forward this to pen-l? I've put my sub on postpone. thanks, angela -Original Message

[PEN-L:4755] "Pressures pile up...and people just explode"

The Washington Post December 15, 1983, Thursday, Final Edition Economic, Political Woes Bring Mood of Gloom To Post-Tito Yugoslavia By Bradley Graham, Washington Post Foreign Service Belgrade-- All the lights in the book-cluttered study were off, save for the soft glow of an old oil lamp

[PEN-L:4752] PC hardware cost trends towards zero

Indusrtial trends show hardare cost for PC/internet access will move toward zero with purchase of access contracts. The day is fast approaching that incentive cash will be paid to customers up front at contract signing. Finally PCs are going the way of telephones and cell phones. Soon auto manu

[PEN-L:4751] Kosovo remarks

This will be my only message on this or anything today as I must take off to give a lecture out of town. 1) Erstwhile "intelligent internationalist" Kissinger has now oined John McCain in calling for the introduction of ground troops into Kosovo. For those not in the US,McCain is a R

[PEN-L:4750] bombing of Iraq continues

Friday April 2 6:07 AM ET Iraq Says Two Injured In Western Air Strike BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq said two people were injured Friday when Western warplanes bombed targets in the Western-imposed no-fly zone in south

[PEN-L:4749] Robert Pollin's LA Times article!

Patrick wrote: >Comrades, some of us are on Third World phone systems with really >poor connectivity to the web and dodgy software. Strike a blow >against property rights and attach the entire text would you please?! Incidentally, this is one of the reasons I usually send out an article, rathe

[PEN-L:4748] Re: Robert Pollin's LA Times article!

Comrades, some of us are on Third World phone systems with really poor connectivity to the web and dodgy software. Strike a blow against property rights and attach the entire text would you please?! P. Patrick Bond email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * phone: 2711-614-8088 51 Somerset Road, Kensingto