Thousands Block Roads to Protest Austerity Plan

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-62547aug01.story?coll=l a%2Dheadlines%2Dworld Thousands of jobless people and state employees blocked highways nationwide, protesting a government austerity plan and demanding work. Argentina is sliding into a fourth straight year of

Re: Jamie Galbraith

http://www.sbs.com.au/insight/insight_set.html Now to the battle raging for the hearts and minds of Australian voters. Today the Government and Opposition slugged it out, yet again, over tax. The Opposition claimed the Government had a secret plan to increase the GST if re-elected - a claim

Fw: New roadblocks in Argentina

- Original Message - From: tempe1917 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 9:21 PM Subject: New roadblocks in Argentina [Yahoo! Clubs: Support the Salta Workers] Wednesday August 1, 2:04 AM (AFP) Workers block roads protesting Argentine economic

Wealth effect or swoon effect?

G'day all, Another in my futile series of posing ridiculous propositions in the hope of getting edifyingly corrected. I see world markets have 'rallied' (y'always have to put that in apostraphes because these things only ever last about four days) on account of 'better than expected' consumer

Brame, NLRB Far Rightist...

Message: 4 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:40:48 -0700 (PDT) From: portsideMod [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tidbits Tidbits All the information about J. Robert Brame on the fact sheet is public information. All of the information concerning American Vision was drawn from its website:

Colombia's 'other coke' problem

Do a google search on Guatemala and Coca-Cola and union, and you will find same death squadistra activity there in the 90's. Michael Pugliese San Francisco Chronicle July 30, 2001 URL:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/0 7/30/ED213030.DTL Colombia's

Labor rights redux

[Washington Post] Ensuring a Decent Global Workplace Labor rights belong in trade agreements. By Lance Compa Wednesday, August 1, 2001; Page A17 Linking workers' rights to international trade is an idea whose time has come and stayed, despite the best efforts of free trade ideologues to chase

Krugman: Dollar as Ponzi scheme

AUG 01, 2001 Blessed Are the Weak By PAUL KRUGMAN T reasury Secretary Paul O'Neill recently gave an interview in which he dismissed claims that the dollar was overvalued, arguing that concerns about our trade deficit are based on trivial and wrong notions. He also thinks that

Re: Krugman: Dollar as Ponzi scheme

Krugman wrote, blah, blah . . . the dollar's inevitable decline . . . blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah . . . the Ponzi scheme is about to run out of suckers. blah, blah, blah, blah But would a sharp drop in the dollar be a catastrophe? Probably not. blah, blah, blah blah, blah .

Genoa and Beyond II: The View from the Black Bloc

A few days ago I posted a brief critique of the direct action and anarchist elements' role in the anti-globalization movement. The following defense of the tactics of the Black Bloc is being circulated by sympathizers with this milieu. As a law professor I can only add: res ipsa loquitur

Demography redux

Thursday, 2 August, 2001, 01:45 GMT 02:45 UK World numbers 'may peak by 2100' The future will be less crowded than expected - and older By BBC News Online's environment correspondent Alex Kirby Researchers say the world's population could stop growing sooner than expected. They suggest it

Michael Moore speaks

[FT] Unfinished business World trade will suffer unless the WTO members settle a backlog of issues before November's meeting in Qatar, says Mike Moore Published: July 31 2001 19:08GMT | Last Updated: July 31 2001 19:17GMT In just over three months' time the World Trade Organisation will hold