Yeah-- the same ACLU "civil libertarians" that defended the 'rights' of
Nazis
to march thru a Jewish neighborhhod in Skokie, Ill. and secretly gave
privileged info on their clients to the FBI during the '50s purges 'of
lefts-radicals
from public life.
The same ACLU that laughed at me
At this stage the campaigns are not
into policy-think. They're too busy looking for
rocks to throw at each other. Whoever wins will
start soliciting policy books from aspiring
office-seekers.
RE: RE: Brad on Krugman by Max Sawicky 04 August 2000 18:59
_
Presumably this
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At 11:33 02/08/00 -0400, Charles forwarded
Globalization:
Built on lies
By David Eisenhower -PWW
Valuable to have a relatively comprehensive article from a consciously left
point of view, with a large amount of empirical detail.
Two reservations:
1) I agree there are policies and an
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Goldberger, who was the ACLU attorney in the Skokie-Nazi case, was my
First Amendment prof at Ohio State Law, also my legal writing instructor. He
was rather surprised to find that a National Lawyers Guild type like me was
also a rabid kneejerk old-fashioned
In a message dated 8/5/00 11:02:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The ACLU did some less-than-honorable things during the high cold war. I am
certain it would not do them again.
Now they are taking tobacco money, aren't they?
Are they? That's a different order of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But there are other examples. Boesky. Millkan.
I don't think there is a lot of disagreement on this thread, but one might note
that Boesky was not among the *really* rich, and Millkan was a pretty special
case. Not all billionaires are billionaires one might say.
. . . But Krugman eventually argued that interest group
politics would mean that
true optimal policy would be rejected in favor of policies
that helped
powerful interest group. THerefore, it was best to support
free trade
not because it was, in theory, best but because free trade
was better
No, Justin, they are taking the tobacco money and defending the "free
speech" of the drug merchants.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Civilians Suffer Under Decade-Long Sanctions in Iraq
August 6 marks the 10th year of the U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq.
The sanctions, backed by the Bush and Clinton administrations, prevent Iraq,
led by Saddam Hussein, from having normal economic relations with other
nations. He
At 09:26 AM 08/05/2000 -0400, you wrote:
The ACLU did some less-than-honorable things during the high cold war. I am
certain it would not do them again.
never say never. They learned their lessons from the "high cold war," but
they may learn new lessons from the current period or some future
. . . But am I correct in saying that the Democrats also
have a lot of money for
the campaign, particularly for Congress? It is not
impossible to have a
result with a Republican president and a Democrat
Congress.
Yes. They're all well-oiled. If I had to bet now, it would
be that the Dems
In the passage pasted belown, Brad describes as one of his "most favorite
pieces of the book" -- and incidently the source of its title -- a "biting
denunciation" of William Greider for being someone "whose thought is thus
shaped by implicit, unexamined theories of which he is not
conscious."
But there are other examples. Boesky. Millkan.
Everyone will be glad to know that Michael Milken is out of prison, no
longer wearing a toupee, and is using his still-abundant pot of money to
buy back his reputation via charitable donations (there's a Milken
(private) high school, the main
The below appears to be an argument for the importance of a continued
centralising role of a communist party even in a more economically diverse
economy.
Does any one know the standing of Ellman and Kontorovich in economic
circles or whether their books have had any credibility?
Chris
John McMurty is a philosophy prof. He has written a book The Cancer Stage
of Capitalism anticipating Timeworks' recent remark.
CHeers, Ken Hanly
ER2000-08-#02 A Failed Global Experiment: The Truth About the US
Economic
Model
(Economic Reform, Vol. 12, No. 7 July 2000)
The Civil
Keep in mind that Milkin helped to create the SL crisis, which cost a fortune. He
served a bit more time than one of the Berrigans for tapping on a fighter plane; he
got to keep most of his money; and he subsidizes conservative economics with his
Milkin institute.
Jim Devine wrote:
I believe
This is from Znet
Cheers, Ken Hanly
ZNET May 30, 2000
Unsustainable Non-Development
By Noam Chomsky
At a recent talk Chomsky was asked What are the motivations of the
U.S. push for sustainable development in the developing world? Here
was his answer
Its the first time I ever
At 09:01 PM 08/04/2000 +, you wrote:
In a perverse way, Krugman is like those who know what is best for
the working class (Krugman, the vanguard party economist, knows what
is best for them) although what the working class wants is different from
what
Krugman (as economist for the vanguard
In a message dated 8/5/00 12:09:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, Justin, they are taking the tobacco money and defending the "free
speech" of the drug merchants.
Are you aware of any ACLU lawsuits actually attacking restrictions on tobacco
advertising? If there
In a message dated 8/5/00 12:10:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
August 6 marks the 10th year of the U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq.
It's also Hiroshima Day. --jks
In a message dated 8/5/00 12:57:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does any one know the standing of Ellman and Kontorovich in economic
circles or whether their books have had any credibility?
In Sovietological circles, anyway, Ellman is considered one of the very
In a message dated 8/5/00 12:34:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But there are other examples. Boesky. Millkan.
Everyone will be glad to know that Michael Milken is out of prison, no
longer wearing a toupee, and is using his still-abundant pot of money to
buy back
http://www.aclu.org/news/n032498b.html
here is a press release. You can look under tobacco and ACLU and find lots of
stuff.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 8/5/00 12:09:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, Justin, they are taking the tobacco money and
"Finally, there's the conservative camp, which includes,
among others, former Congressional Budget Office Director
Robert Reischauer of the Urban Institute, Henry Aaron of
Brookings, and, well, me. After many years of watching
official budget projections turn out to be too rosy and
worrying that
Here's what ACLU legislative counsel, Solange Bitol, is quoted as
saying in the press release:
"No matter how well-meaning, government regulation may not restrict
free speech in order to control the behavior of the public," Bitol
said. "And, as the Supreme Court has recently
Ken Hanly wrote,
John McMurty is a philosophy prof. He has written a book The Cancer
Stage of Capitalism anticipating Timeworks' recent remark.
I've read reviews of McMurty's book and the metaphor sure hits the spot. I
haven't had a chance to read the book itself, so I don't know to
Temps says:
In a message dated 8/5/00 3:00:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The unspoken corrolary to that is that no matter how evil-intended,
corporations-as-persons (forget about their state-granted charters,
suckers) have an inalienable right (presumably under the
In a message dated 8/5/00 12:10:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
August 6 marks the 10th year of the U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq.
It's also Hiroshima Day. --jks
In Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Campaign for Arms Control the
Interfaith Center for Peace will be
SCMP Saturday, August 5, 2000
Beijing faces EC inquiry as insurers wait
SHEEL KOHLI in London
Justin says:
However, you do know for sure is that if the state passes a law penalizing
left speech, or the cops start harassing you for your political activity, the
people to call are the ACLU and the NLG, and they will be there, whether you
are a Stalinist, an anarchist, a revolutionary
Rather than "the cancer stage of capitalism" perhaps Crapulism would be a
more apt term. I know, it sounds like crap -- but it really refers to
crapulence, drunkeness or a hangover. The allusion is to two brilliant
passages in the 18th Brumaire, the first regarded the aesthetics of
Bourgeois
JKSCHW wrote,
The story below is pure innuendo. Maybe this person thought that
red-baiting would work. Maybe he was wrong. You have no idea. I note,
btw, that under no reading of any free speech right do you have any
claim on the charitable resources of a private group.
No. I
New York Times August 5, 2000
Convention Demonstrators Are Held on Very High Bail
Lawyers Call Action Preventive Detention
By FRANCIS X. CLINES
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4 -- With bail being set as high as $1 million for
protesters accused of blocking streets during the Republican National
How soon will high energy prices lead to a strident call to remove what
environmental protections are left? Drill for oil everywhere to lower
gasoline prices. Fill the country with nuclear reactors or coal-fired
plants to lower electricity costs.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
Michael wrote:
How soon will high energy prices lead to a strident
call to remove what environmental protections are left?
From today's LA Times:
-
Pollution Rules Tighten Squeeze on Power Supply
California's already severe electricity squeeze could tighten further this
summer if
Robert Vienneau send me the address for the Friedman paper.
http://wwwtlc1.murdoch.edu.au/teach/econs/wps/167.html
I am sure that you will find much interesting stuff here.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL
Justin, the ACLU is probably 90% correct (my estimate). I don't think that we
are aiming at it. The stand of the representative in Philadelphia is terrible.
The tobacco case was abominable.
http://www.tobacco.org/News/aclu11.96.html
The above link gives some details about the abrupt change of
In a message dated 8/5/00 3:59:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We count on _you_ (= Justin Schwartz), but can we count on the ACLU
in general?
So, it all depends on which faction within the ACLU has power in each
chapter national organization, no?
As an
In a message dated 8/5/00 4:28:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No. I am still in possession of the file with all the correspondence,
including the defamatory letter. I stated unequivocally that we will never
know whether the red-baiting had any influence and I tagged
I have looked at this link and find the information in it disturbing. I will
write the national ACLU about the matter. If you all are not ACLU
members--and why not?--you should join and write too. You should know that,
as with many affiliate-based groups with a national office, the NO does not
Last night (Aug. 4, 2000), I heard the greatest guitarist in the world.
Performing at Town Hall as part of a 3 day festival of African music
sponsored by the Knitting Factory, Ali Farka Toure and his 8 piece ensemble
demonstrated why the musicians of contemporary Mali are in the vanguard of
world
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