G'day all,
Just by the way ...
>.i don't know if you can find "Arkadas" (Friendship)
>specifically, since I had seen it back to turkey many moons ago.
There are apparently a couple of words for 'friend' in Turkish, and I'm
given to believe 'arkadas' is the one closest to 'comrade' (with somet
yes, you can find yilmaz guney movies on video here. they also have
english-subtitles...i don't know if you can find "Arkadas" (Friendship)
specifically, since I had seen it back to turkey many moons ago. Guney is
both the director and the main actor of the movie. I highly recommend it
if you fi
At 04:19 PM 04/04/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>The water question is not so simple, especially in states like California
>that are naturally dry. When I was there a couple of months ago driving up
>the main interstate that runs through the agribusiness Central Valley, I
>saw signs every few miles urgin
Dana Frank also covers this territory in her fine history of economic
nationalism, Buy American. This sort of thing is exactly what makes
me so nervous about the anti-China stance of the AFL-CIO and the
Naderites.
Friday night, 6:30-8:30, at the Judson Church, Wash Sq S, NYC, I'm
the token ma
(From the newly published "Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters
Foreign Peoples At Home and Abroad 1876-1917" by Matthew Frye Jacobson,
Hill & Wang, 2000)
In the 1890s and after, an occasional "white" union did attempt to
embraceeven if reluctantlythe newcomers from Asia. In response
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yilmaz Guney movies
Are these movies available on video with english sub-titles? Probably
too much to hope.
Carrol
My message was narrower in focus than Marx's method and dialectical
materialism, etc., focusing rather on the Whitehead-Marx connection and
related programs. On a more general note, it has been a long time since I
looked at it, but I remember liking:
Sayer, Derek, _Marx's method : ideology, scie
of course, US vulgar movies are strongly penetrating into the markets of
other countries, rapidly taking control over their film industry through
cultural imperialism. It is difficult to escape this given that film
industry is a capitalist sector everywhere. But, for sure, we had better
movies on
Much of it remains in lagoons until it rains and then .
Jim Devine wrote:
> >--it takes 23 gallons of water to produce a pound of tomatoes, it takes
> >5,214 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef.
>
> true, but the water given to the cattle isn't totally wasted or destroyed.
> Eventual
>>--it takes 23 gallons of water to produce a pound of tomatoes, it takes
>>5,214 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef.
>
>true, but the water given to the cattle isn't totally wasted or destroyed.
>Eventually it evaporates and comes down as rain to feed the tomatoes.
>
>BTW, what are Moby
I have attached remarks I made at the recent socialist scholars
conference. I was on a panel sponsored by Monthly Review titled "Is the
US Bubble going to Burst?" Doug Henwood gave a fine presentation of the
economic situation, givng us both pessimistic and optimistic scenarios.
We are clearly i
>--it takes 23 gallons of water to produce a pound of tomatoes, it takes
>5,214 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef.
true, but the water given to the cattle isn't totally wasted or destroyed.
Eventually it evaporates and comes down as rain to feed the tomatoes.
BTW, what are Moby's sou
Hi all,
I mentioned to folks earlier that I had an article on the history and role
of government promoting open source software appearing in THE AMERICAN
PROSPECT. I am including a quick release on it with URLs. There is also a
roundtable on the issues involved, where they put me in with two
l
>With regard to cinema -- I am far from an expert -- the best cinema usually
>comes from countries that have government sponsorship. Where is the
Australian
>cinema now that the government does not support it? Even the Soviets under
>Stalin produced some excellent films.
>--
>
>Michael Perelman
--in the past 20 years approximately 1 million species have disappeared
from the world's tropical forests.
--from 1960-1985 over 40% of the Central American rainforests were
destroyed to create grazing land for cattle.
--the United States imports over 100,000 tons of beef from Central America
ea
Timework Web wrote:
> We are in for interesting times.
I believe there's an old proverb that goes something like,
"Woe to those who live in interesting times."
Carrol
Michael Perelman asked:
> The question is, how would this economy respond to collapse in stock
> market prices?
A glance at the historical stats on Nasdaq reveals that market valuation
quadrupled from a total of $1.5 trillion in 1996 to around $6 trillion in
February 2000. Using those figures a
>>> Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/03/00 11:36AM >>>
Bill did not address a question which occurred to me after his talk. In the
old days, boom and bust was very much related to the heavy capital
expenditures of industries that formed the core of American industry. For
example, the sharp
Dear Friends,
Please spread the word around to your lists and to your friends not on these
lists. Apologies in advance, because I'm sure this will conflict with other
events already scheduled. Thanks for your help. Also, if you reply, please
do not hit "reply to all." Thanks.
Daniel Cahill-O'Con
Carrol Cox wrote:
> I consider Ted's ideas on psychology not so much wrong as not
> worth discussing. I wonder if we can find a common ground which will
> enable us to state our disagreements. I could perceive no common ground
> in his post on Freud/Klein etc.
"We murder to dissect."
"when your
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> Perhaps this may be, besides being a political dialectic between
> competition & monopoly, an example of contradiction between the impulse to
> privatize anything & everything and the need to sustain the conditions for
> systemic reproduction of capitalism.
Absolutely
I suspect that it is a mistake to regard Ralph Nader as entirely good or
entirely bad. He has done some excellent work. For example, I suspect -- but
he should speak for himself -- that Patrick Bond appreciates Nader's work about
the drug companies in South Africa.
At the same time, Nader has m
Louis's point is very interesting. The railroad industry relied heavily on the
bond market for its funds. In the new economy with the high flying stock
market, companies such as Cisco purchase other companies using its inflated
stock. Money that would go to pay executives comes from the stock o
AMAZON: "THE COCA-COLA OF THE WEB"?
Saying he's "very excited" about the idea of becoming "the Coca-Cola of
the
Web," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced he's thinking about spinning off
his
company's fixed assets in order to focus his attention on managing the
Amazon brand. The analogy refers to Cok
Interesting, because Krader's work on nomadic pastoralists is also
excellent.
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From: Rod Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, April 03, 2000 7:31 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:17694] Re: Re: Marx's materialism
>And I must forceably put f
At 10:36 PM 4/3/00 -0400, Michael Yates wrote:
>I went to the meeting early so I could hear the other presentations. The
>first speaker was Mike Dolan of Seattle WTO protest fame.
Mike Dolan runs an outfit called Global Trade Watch that is a wing of Ralph
Nader's Public Citizen. Since Dolan's Ch
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2000
The Daily Labor Report (page A-7) reprints two articles from the January
2000 issue of BLS' Monthly Labor Review. Labor Department analysts reviewed
changes made by state governments during 1999 in the areas of workers'
compensation and unemployment insura
>On my way home I couldn't stop thinking about Dolan. I can't see how a
>radical movement, one aimed at worker self-emancipation could ever be
>led by such a person. Perhaps others can enlighten me on his good
>qualities, but I was very much unimpressed.
>
>Michael Yates
Of course, the 1960s ant
>On Behalf Of Chris Burford
>
> a) what are the probabilities of the breakup of Microsoft being enforced?
> It seems that yesterday's critical ruling was a response to the breakdown
> of negotiations at the weekend. The judicial approach to this case had
> clearly been designed to promote negotia
I know Bill Gates has been heavily discussed, but from this side of the
Atlantic I would like to ask
a) what are the probabilities of the breakup of Microsoft being enforced?
It seems that yesterday's critical ruling was a response to the breakdown
of negotiations at the weekend. The judicial
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