Strong growth in arms sales

At a time when there is a contraction in profits and particularly investment in new technology, it is comforting that at least there has been a surge - of 8% - last year, in the investment of the means of production of war - the global arms trade. And considering how the USA, having accumulate

Plan Colombia Broadens (1)

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=vest20010717

Re: Re: Re: Tobin tax - for safe water

Dear Chris, I have been checking my e-mails before I get ready for a business trip that will last until Friday and saw your mail. I am sorry since I don't have the time for a lenghty response. I agree with you that this is an important topic for discussion. As you might have gathered already,

Empire or Not? A Quiet Debate Over U.S. Role

Ideas From the Right Empire or Not? A Quiet Debate Over U.S. Role By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 21, 2001; Page A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37019-2001Aug20.html One in a series of occasional articles. People who label the United States "i

Are resources scarce; the Lomborg Backlash

Wars of want It's comforting to be told environmentalists are deluded, but in fact scarce resources are fuelling terrible conflicts John Gray Tuesday August 21, 2001 The Guardian According to a growing body of opinion - well represented by Bjorn Lomborg in last week's Guardian - we shouldn't

WTO/FSC decision

< http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/108_art215_e.pdf >

Re: Re: Re: Tobin tax - for safe water

At 20/08/01 01:29 -0400, you wrote: >Chris wrote: > > > Otherwise the best of leftists seem to get bogged down in a muddle of > > doubts and hesitations, a) its reformist b) its impossible c) it is > > probably not marxist, d) it's irrelevant because capitalism is going to > > collapse within

How Spinozist was Marx?

Passages confirming Marx's respect for Spinoza, from a search for Spinoza's name at http://search.marxists.org/ Marx's Notebooks on Epicurean Philosophy 1839 6th Notebook >On the one hand, one could accept Baur's pronouncement that no philosophy >of antiquity bears so much the character of

Re: RE: Social Security Petition

David wrote: >what is the justification for running a social security surplus today, >other than as a regressive tax to fund general expenditures? I'm sure that our politicians don't see it that way, but that's the way it works. >Is there any legitimate argument, then, against immediately redu

RE: Social Security Petition

Matthew Forstater wrote: <>> This is from the "Open Letter" "Finally, while it should be apparent that a Trust Fund cannot help to reduce future financial burdens or real burdens, it should be just as obvious that privatization canno

Social Security Petition

The Center for Full Employment and Price Stability's Open Letter to U.S. Congress on Social Security can now be viewed on-line. Those wishing to sign the petition may also do so at the same site: http://www.cfeps.org/petition.html We believe that the Interim Report approved by the Presi

U.S. Backs Israel in Rejecting UN Monitors in Middle East

U.S. Backs Israel in Rejecting UN Monitors in Middle East By Bill Varner United Nations, Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. and Israel told the United Nations Security Council that they're against sending UN observers to the Middle East, as proposed in a resolution by Islamic nations. Twice bef

BLS Daily Report

> BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, AUGUST 20, 2001: > > Some 47 states experienced manufacturing job losses in July, but the other > sectors continued to expand payrolls modestly across all regions, > according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unemployment rates topped 6 > percent in t

déjà vu once again?

U.S. stock slide is looking like Japan's Nasdaq mirrors Nikkei's slump By Matt Krantz USA TODAY /August 20, 2001 U.S. investors are starting to get a taste of what a no-growth, Japanese-style stock market slide feels like. After 2 more weeks of losses, the Nasdaq composite and Standard & Poor's

World economy slows in unison

August 20, 2001 World's Economy Slows to a Walk in Rare Lockstep By JOSEPH KAHN with EDMUND L. ANDREWS The New York Times No Strength Anywhere Jobs Data for July Hint That the Economy May Be Stabilizing (August 4, 2001) ( I never realized it was unstable -C B) U.S. Economy

Re: Re: Question: unemployment rate

thanks! marta Doug Henwood wrote: > > Marta Russell wrote: > > >Someone on this list probably has this figure in their head. > > > >When the U.S. unemployment rate went up from 3.9% in April 2000 to > >4.5% in April 2001 about how many people lost their jobs? > > > >Was it 500,000 or more than

Re: Question: unemployment rate

Marta Russell wrote: >Someone on this list probably has this figure in their head. > >When the U.S. unemployment rate went up from 3.9% in April 2000 to >4.5% in April 2001 about how many people lost their jobs? > >Was it 500,000 or more than than that? total official employment in April 2000 = 1

Economics Reporting Review by Dean Baker, 8/20/01

Economics Reporting Review, August 20, 2001 By Dean Baker Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. (www.cepr.net) You can sign up to receive ERR every week by sending a "subscribe ERR" email request with your address in the body of the email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Reducing Risk

Martin wrote: >When I go to a meeting like the International Health Economics >Association, it is only among the U.S. contigent ..., who feel it >necessary that social criteria for making health resources allocation >decisions must flow directly from "neoclassical foundations of welfare >econo

Re: Question: unemployment rate

Marta Russell wrote: >Someone on this list probably has this figure in their head. > >When the U.S. unemployment rate went up from 3.9% in April 2000 to >4.5% in April 2001 about how many people lost their jobs? > >Was it 500,000 or more than than that? About 300,000 more. UNEMPLOYMENT, TOTAL

Question: unemployment rate

Someone on this list probably has this figure in their head. When the U.S. unemployment rate went up from 3.9% in April 2000 to 4.5% in April 2001 about how many people lost their jobs? Was it 500,000 or more than than that? -- Marta Russell

Re: Britain/US split?

Tony Judt book from UC Press on the French Left intelligentsia is quite a rollicking read, though. Funnier and more polemical than Mark Poster book from Princeton Univ. Press. (See his website at UCI, the book is o.p. but, he has scanned it all.) Course, nothing beats, Regis Debray, "Teachers

Fw: [marxist] EU's secret network to spy on anti-capitalist protesters

-Original Message- From: Johannes Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, August 20, 2001 8:23 AM Subject: [marxist] EU's secr

The Road From Genoa

From ZNET The Road From Genoa By Boris Kagarlitsky The battle in Genoa was not only the key event in the summer of 2001, but also marked a watershed for the anti-corporate movement. From the outset, the Big Eight summit in Genoa was doomed to become nothing more than a pretext for widespread p

Market efficiency

Crazy logic of currency markets dictates euro will scale the heights by Ian Bell Business a.m., Aug 16, 2001 THE logic of the money markets is, as we know, impeccable. Nobody ever blunders. Irrational exuberance, like irrational panic, is unheard of. Decisions are made in a calm and reasoned man

Re: Detroit News, conservative paper,runs series on poverty

http://www.commoncouragepress.com/ Merchants of Misery How Corporate America Profits from Poverty Edited by Michael Hudson Introduction by Rep. Maxine Waters http://www.commoncouragepress.com/hudson_misery.html Trying to find a cite for a book on the same, from the early 70's, with an intro. by

RE: Britain/US split?

I experienced a little bit of this when I was recently in the UK. As I mentioned earlier, I attended a play called "Feel Good" in London that is a satire of Blair, written, apparently, by a member of old-labor. More to the point, I needed to take the train from London to York and back. By U.S.

Payday loans trap borrowers

Payday loans trap borrowers High fees, interest snare disadvantaged in a vicious cycle Donna Terek/The Detroit News Family medical expenses drove Douglas McCallum to get cash from five payday lenders. By Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News When the mail arrived, Douglas McCallum noticed the

Lenders exploit poor*s few assets

Lenders exploit poor's few assets Elderly, minorities often targets By Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News hen the window salesman came to the Rev. Levi Williams' door, he brought a lot of smooth talk about the golden rule and personal redemption. "This guy came in here, he talked to my wife, a

Detroit News, conservative paper, runs series on poverty

Monday, August 20, 2001 Donna Terek / The Detroit News The Rev. Levi Williams and his wife Rita almost lost their home when they were persuaded to take out a second mortgage for $14,000 to put in new windows. Lenders exploit poor's few assets Elderly, minorities often targets Part 2: Eq

After Chrysler cuts, Ford to cut 5,000 jobs

Job cuts at Ford likely to increase Economy is offering no reason to be optimistic, Nasser says August 20, 2001 BY JAMIE BUTTERS DETROIT FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER Ford Motor Co. chief executive officer Jacques Nasser said he can't foresee any improvement in the economy that would stop

RE: Reducing Risk (was Re Re . . . DeLong)

I assume you are speaking strictly about popular sense in the U.S. And I doubt this statement is even true here, rather you are speaking about, excuse the expression, inside the beltway consensus. When I go to a meeting like the International Health Economics Association, it is only among the U

Britain/US split?

Penners The following is extracted from a reasonably insightful and interesting article by Tony Judt in the New York Review of Books, entitled "'Twas a Famous Victory". It gives another perspective on the dilemma facing the British state that Mark Jones highlighted several months back. I'm not so

Re: Fw: [ASDnet] World Bank to debate Globalizatio

Heh, that is a good one, Patrick! I'll pass it on to the more ironically minded of my DSA comrades! (And that it comes from you, I appreciate, much more than someone whose name rhymes with Barry Scheck, sort of, heh...). Business Day in S.A. I'll have a look see...I assume they are like the F

Britain/US split?

Mark Jones writes: It was always (in less neurotic times) the American consensus that Britain should be well inside the Euro gates, like any proper Trojan horse ought. Pulling the British satrapy out of Europe seems an awesome change of strategic direction, one with momentous implications. =

Fw: [ASDnet] World Bank to debate Globalization with Global Exchange?

-Original Message- From: Duane Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, August 19, 2001 9:54 PM Subject: [ASDnet] World Bank to debate Globalization with Global Exchange? -- The headlines in La Jornada (Mexico City) sunday says that the Worl

Mission to exonerate

Mark Jones writes: This Bofors business is as fishy as hell, and the real truth remains to be uncovered IMO. = Bofors Defence AB is now a wholly owned subsidiary of United Defense, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of the privately owned Carlyle Group, whose list of "Managing Directors" rea

Re: Britain/US split?

At 20/08/2001 12:24, Michael Keaney wrote: >Penners > >Way back on 25 May, Mark Jones wrote: > >"Norman Tebbit seems to think, along with Margaret Thatcher, that >political > salvation for the Tories lies in strengthening the 'Special >Relationship', > and prioritising Britain's US con

Re: Mission to exonerate

At 20/08/2001 11:58, Michael Keaney wrote: >One arm of government, the SIS, >knew all about the Hindujas' dodgy dealings including the Bofors >scandal, but none of this leaked out to the Home Office in time to >affect the Hindujas' application for citizenship, which was turned down >for quite di

Britain/US split?

Penners Way back on 25 May, Mark Jones wrote: "Norman Tebbit seems to think, along with Margaret Thatcher, that political salvation for the Tories lies in strengthening the 'Special Relationship', and prioritising Britain's US connection over Brtiain's relationship with Europe.

"Occupation is the Atrocity" (by Edward Said)

>From: Rewand Nakad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [BRC-NEWS] Occupation is the Atrocity >Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 06:04:03 -0400 (EDT) > >http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/547/op2.htm > >Al-Ahram Weekly (Cairo) > >16-22 August 2001 [Issue No. 547] > >[What the Palestin

Mission to exonerate

Background: On 24 January this year Peter Mandelson resigned, for the second time, from the Blair Cabinet. Unlike the first occasion, however, Mandelson was the fall guy for a badly conceived scheme involving cash for passports. While raising money for the grotesque millennium dome, Mandelson had