Thanks to Louis P. for sending this. Nader's stance (or lack thereof) on
foreign policy is worrisome, as are his suggestions of support in principle
for humanitarian type interventions, where it is the US that gets to define
what constitutes "humanitarian". The spectre of patriotism rears its
While we have been hearing a lot about the Nader campaign (and to the extent
that it puts progressive politics in the foreground of public discussion,
all to the good), how has David McReynolds been getting on?
Michael K.
For news on the McReynolds campaign, go to: http://www.votesocialist.org/
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Hence we live in the
epoch "After the Autumn of the Patriarch": the Spring of the
Neoliberal Vultures. The time of feeding frenzy of imperial vultures
picking apart the corpse of the dead Patriarch (the social body of
corporatism).
CB: Or
Keaney Michael wrote:
While we have been hearing a lot about the Nader campaign (and to the extent
that it puts progressive politics in the foreground of public discussion,
all to the good), how has David McReynolds been getting on?
David McR is a splendid guy with excellent politics,
Wow, McReynolds getting 100,000 was really setting the bar high. Here
are the unofficial popular vote tabulations from 1996. Hollis, the
Socialist candidate, got 3,376 votes; the Workers World and SWP
candidates together got 40,631.
I hear the Canadian branch of the Natural Law Party does a
At 11:57 AM 10/16/00 -0400, you wrote:
Wow, McReynolds getting 100,000 was really setting the bar high. Here
are the unofficial popular vote tabulations from 1996. Hollis, the
Socialist candidate, got 3,376 votes; the Workers World and SWP
candidates together got 40,631.
I hear the Canadian
At 11:57 AM 10/16/00 -0400, you wrote:
I hear the Canadian branch of the Natural Law Party does a wicked Yogic
flying demonstration as part of their campaign act.
Recently, US National Public Radio has had several stories that involved
transcendental meditation (which allegedly allows Yogic
Jim Devine wrote:
Frankly, I think the Left would do better if we could mobilize
super- and supra-natural forces. Wicca anyone?
This misses the point. Transcendental meditators and witches run
campaigns to recruit members. Personally, I'm a devotee of Adorno's
Theses Against Occultism.
Doug
At 05:15 PM 10/15/00 -0400, Doug wrote:
Coordinated interest rate cuts as a reaction to a panic would leave
cross-national differences unchanged, so the currency impact could be
minimized. And in a panic, CBers and traders would forget about inflation
and worry about keeping everything afloat.
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Frankly, I think the Left would do better if we could mobilize super- and
supra-natural forces. Wicca anyone?
This misses the point. Transcendental meditators and witches run campaigns
to recruit members. Personally, I'm a devotee of Adorno's Theses Against
Occultism.
I hope that we're in
At 12:58 PM 10/16/00 -0500, you wrote:
Milosevic was the great beneficiary. He might have been a swine, but he
was Serbia's swine.
can someone carve that second sentence on his tombstone?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
[forwarded from Mike Lebowitz]
The Globe and Mail, Monday, October 16, 2000
The dream merchants
They are Uncle Sam's brokers of democracy, peddling truth, freedom and
the American way in the far corners of Earth. It's not always an easy sell,
as Moscow correspondent GEOFFREY YORK learns in
While we have been hearing a lot about the Nader campaign (and to the extent
that it puts progressive politics in the foreground of public discussion,
all to the good), how has David McReynolds been getting on?
Michael K.
Nader portion of below deleted...Michael Hoover
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2000
RELEASED TODAY: The U.S. Import Price Index rose 1.5 percent in September.
The increase was attributable to a rise in petroleum import prices. The
Export Price Index increased 0.5 percent in September, following a decline
of 0.3 percent in the
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2000
RELEASED TODAY: The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods rose 0.9
percent in September, seasonally adjusted. This index declined 0.2 percent
in August and showed no change in July. The Index for Finished Goods other
than foods and energy advanced
I was there. It was fun until one side of the building came down on my foot.
Peter
Jim Devine wrote:
I hope that we're in the majority on this one, but I remember when the
Yippies tried to levitate the Pentagon. (Max, was that in your Yippie
period? Louis?)
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
McReynolds and the socialists have a solution. "Vast corporate
structures" should be placed "under social ownership," he said
when he announced that he would seek the Socialist Party
nomination for President.
But McReynolds does not hold that the state should take over large
I remember when the Yippies tried to levitate the Pentagon. (Max, was
that in your Yippie period? Louis?)
Peter Dorman writes:
I was there. It was fun until one side of the building came down on my foot.
I understand that classified documents reveal that the Air Force's NORAD
also almost
Essentially that's what ICANN needs. It needs a
fundamental, ground-up restructuring. I'm talking about a restructuring to
the point where the supporting organizations -- such as its law firm --
need to be redefined, if not eliminated;
Presumably the law firm is working on the paradigm of
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
This seems to be a gaping hole in left prescriptions for organizational
change at the micro and macro economic level. What would socializing IBM or
UPS, or McDonalds for that matter, look like?
As opposed to small, locally owned enterprises? What would
socializing them
Jim Devine wrote:
Frankly, I think the Left would do better if we could mobilize super- an
supra-natural forces. Wicca anyone?...
Unfortunately, the one Wiccan of my accquaintence is a dedicated
Goreista, and believes Bush to represent an
There are a few people who have come up with answers -- including Robin
Hahnels and Michael Albert's Parecon scheme. However whenever it is
brought up we get into an endless loop of argument.
Doug Henwood wrote:
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
This seems to be a gaping hole in left prescriptions
Lisa Ian Murray wrote:
This seems to be a gaping hole in left prescriptions for organizational
change at the micro and macro economic level. What would
socializing IBM or
UPS, or McDonalds for that matter, look like?
As opposed to small, locally owned enterprises? What would
Gar Lipow wrote:
There are a few people who have come up with answers -- including Robin
Hahnels and Michael Albert's Parecon scheme. However whenever it is
brought up we get into an endless loop of argument.
This maillist constitutes a self-appointed Board of Experts. Now political
Justin wrote:
3. G on the Jacobins and Machiavelli. In referring to these as his models, I
agree that G did not intend to approve of the high terror of the French
revolution or the most cold cynical of Machiavelli's suggestions. But the
Jacobins did have a top down conception of leadership, a
full article at http://www.iht.com ]
Paris, Tuesday, October 17, 2000
For Free-Traders, the Choice Is Bush
By Reginald Dale International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON - The opening up of world trade is one of the few recent economic
issues to have generated strong emotions in the United States,
Andy Evans used to be my office mate at the Ohio State University.
Bless his heart. Yoshie
* Andy Evans
The Ohio State University
"Robert Southey and the Politics of Heroism"
...[T]he Poet Laureate and a radical turned conservative, Robert
Southey came to contribute to this
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