Gene Coyle--2/24 Sacramento Bee

2001-02-24 Thread Seth Sandronsky
Pen-l: Gene Coyle's editorial letter in The Sacramento Bee. The column Gene refers to follows his letter. Seth B E EE D I T O R I A L S Letters to the editor (Published Feb. 24, 2001) (clip) McClatchy's article was the most insightful comment on the electricity crisis th

Re: Re: Chossudovsky on Iraq bombing..

2001-02-24 Thread ALI KADRI
Not long ago on the list, there seemed to be an agreement that a war could take the US out of economic crisis. That is not far fetched, Mandel made a point of it, the Marxist theory of war could be woven around it, insofar as aggression remains the fifth facet of imperialism, and even Paul Samuels

Re: Re: Re: Chossudovsky on Iraq bombing..

2001-02-24 Thread Christian Gregory
So my question is Michel's > interpretation very much a "police interpretation of > history," one that Chomsky often makes as a result of > the US defeat in Vietnam, undercover activity > increased, or is the stock market affair really bigger > than the Monica affair such that a convenient timing

Re: Re: Re: Re: Chossudovsky on Iraq bombing..

2001-02-24 Thread Doug Henwood
Christian Gregory wrote: >On the one hand, if markets are efficient (pace >EMH), then daily stock movements are a response to publicly available >information. In which case, it's hard to see how a "routine" bombing of Iraq >would matter all that much in the fortunes of military-industrial >contra

Re: Naiman vs. Krugman on Cashews

2001-02-24 Thread Chris Burford
At 11:01 23/02/01 -0800, you wrote: >http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/02/21/index.html >PROTESTERS RIGHT >International Monetary Fund Admits Error, Paul Krugman Doesn't The punch line got missed off. So from the web-site because it is so valuable to pin down this arrogance to other cultures

Re: Re: Re: Chossudovsky on Iraq bombing..

2001-02-24 Thread Jim Devine
At 10:49 AM 02/24/2001 -0800, you wrote: >Not long ago on the list, there seemed to be an agreement that a war could >take the US out of economic crisis. That is not far fetched, Mandel made a >point of it, the Marxist theory of war could be woven around it, insofar >as aggression remains the f

Re: Re: Re: Re: Chossudovsky on Iraq bombing..

2001-02-24 Thread Ken Hanly
Talking about stocks, it would seem bombing Iraq has boosted Hussein's stock considerably among the Arabs. Indeed, the bombing is unpopular even with some of the US staunchest allies in the Mideast isn't it. Hussein has been building bridges and forging links with neighbouring states while the rec

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Chossudovsky on Iraq bombing..

2001-02-24 Thread Stephen E Philion
The US might be into long term investment then, with short term losses? Reference the Yugoslavia bombing. In the short term it seemed thoroughly irrational, since the population was solidly behind Milosevic and anti-American during the civilian bombing campaign. But in terms of long term benefits

Re: Re: Re: Barkely's antisematism article

2001-02-24 Thread Robert Manning
This historical process is addressed in the political sociology of the right such as Pareto and Mosca in "circulation of elites" and whether the ruling class should govern as a "lion" or a "fox." Their concern was that you get "liberal" class fragments (like the Kennedys) that are content to a

Fw: launching first review

2001-02-24 Thread Michael Pugliese
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America Gets Candid About What Colombia Needs

2001-02-24 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
New York Times 25 February 2001 FACING FACTS America Gets Candid About What Colombia Needs By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS WASHINGTON -- For nearly a year now, American officials have been trying to tell voters why they should care about Colombia. But this month, one architect of that campaign, the