[NYT]
SEP 06, 2001
Debating Politics of the Surplus
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 - For all the partisan fighting over the
disappearing federal budget surplus, Republicans and Democrats are in
lock step on one issue: the desirability of sticking to their promises
not to use any mon
We should not forget Kissinger's reminder to the Bildeburgers that the US was
an imperial core which didn't really know how to do imperialising. I'm
reminded of the story about Tony Lake bringing news of the resumption of the
Rwandan genocide to the Clinton cabinet (we must not forget there was p
US leader lobbies for free trade agreement
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/nat/newsnat-6sep2001-62.htm
Officials in the United States have gone cool on the
idea of a free trade agreement with Australia, despite a last-minute lobbying
campaign by supporters of the pro
< http://www.koreaherald.co.kr >
Labor, management, gov't make progress in negotiations on five-day
workweek
The negotiation between the labor, management and government on the
proposed five-day working week made some headway yesterday, although
it failed to reach a full compromise.
In a meeting
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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Sept. 13, 2001
issue of Workers World newspaper
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FIDEL CASTRO TO RACISM CONFERENCE: "WE ARE ON THE
VERGE OF A HUGE GLOBAL CRISIS"
Excerpts from the key address by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, president
I don't know how many view are familiar with Tom's organization and
materials they publish, but you should take a look.
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:58:11PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In the LAT piece, Tom P. is referring to a system of asset-based reserve
> requirements. Applied to all fi
http://fpif.org/briefs/vol5/v5n10congo.html
War in the Congo
Volume 5, Number 10
April 2000
Written by Thomas Turner, University of Tunis
Editors: Tom Barry (IRC) and Martha Honey (IPS)
10ifcongo.pdf
Key Points
The Congo war is stalemated, and the country is divided into four regional
reg
Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2001
U.S. judges get tough on class action suits
NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (Reuters) -- U.S. judges are taking some of the
class out of securities class action lawsuits.
That's good news for corporate executives and Wall Street firms who
have paid out enormous sums in such cases -- b
35-hour week puts French hospitals at risk
Jon Henley in Paris
Thursday September 6, 2001
The Guardian
French hospitals risk collapse as the government tries to impose its
flagship 35-hour working week law on already over-stretched doctors
and nurses, health unions warned yesterday.
The hospita
> US newsman apologises for neglecting DRC
>
> New York - Few Americans know about the deaths of possibly up to 2,5
> million
> people in rebel-held eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over
> the past three
> years, and even fewer know why.
The Western media had very solid reasons for keep
#2
Christian Science Monitor
6 September 2001
Russia's bold new proletariat
Independent labor unions are springing up, but a Kremlin-backed bill could
nip them in the bud.
By Fred Weir
Special to The Christian Science Monitor
MOSCOW - The workers at Ivanovo Mashzavod had quietly endured almost 10
Mark Jones wrote:
>>And in late July, I heard an Australian aborigine singing this song
>>at an aboriginal arts center in Adelaide. Speaking of the reach of
>>American pop culture
>
>
>Did the aborigine know you were there?
Well, I was standing pretty close, though I don't think I looked m
>Doug Henwood wrote:
>And in late July, I heard an Australian aborigine singing this song at an
>aboriginal arts center in Adelaide. Speaking of the reach of American pop
>culture
Did the aborigine know you were there?
Mark
Dear Andrew,
I hundred per cent agree with you on what is below.
>Finally, an unrelated note. If you want to travel to a country with
>lots of fascinating history, unending ancient structures in various
>stages of ruination and preservation, incredible food and friendly
>people, a country where
In reply to Charles:
I am still trying to think this through. There are two concepts here.
First, we have the concept of poverty, or the absence of the basic
necessities of life. However, as I think you agree, even this concept is
relative. Is a stone-age man impoverished? Is a bourgeois man
> BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, SEPTEMBER 5, 2001:
>
> RELEASED TODAY: The Bureau of Labor Statistics today reported revised
> productivity data -- as measured by output per hour of all persons -- for
> the second quarter of 2001. The seasonally adjusted annual rates of
> productivi
>Dear Friend,
>
>We would like to draw your attention to a campaign that has
>recently been launched at the University of Manchester, UK.
>
>Teaching assistants at the university are casually
>employed with no contract, terms and conditions, poor
>resources and on very different rates of pay depe
Key address by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of
Cuba at the World Conference against racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance Durban, South Africa.
September 1, 2001
Excellencies:
Delegates and guests:
Racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia a
okay, one message today.
Gene wrote:
>Robert Manning has identified -- not to blame him --- how I think monetary
>policy really works. It doesn't work much through raising interest rates
>but through banks becoming more and more reluctant to lend. These things
>usually are highly, if not per
Top-down dictatorship of some sort may be the only option in poor &
dependent countries (either IMF-imposed tame democracy or nationalist
one-party dictatorships). On the question of what to do about that, we have
to ask the leftist residents of those countries rather than imposing
answers fro
Unfortunately, the "e-mail this story" option at www.iol.co.za does not
work well. Below is the full text of the story, available at the URI
below.
http://www.iol.co.za/html/frame_news.php?click_id=22&art_id=ct2001090418
2504620K143765
US newsman apologises for neglecting DRC
New York - Few Ame
Andrew Hagen wrote"
Does anyone suggest that the Left of today should issue a blanket
apology for the crimes of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and the rest? I would be
hesitant to agree. How can activists of today be responsible for what
some of our intellectual antecedents did when most of us weren't evenb
Dear pen-l
Andrew Hagen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spotted this on the IOL website and thought you'd find it interesting.Andrew Hagen says: US newsman apologises for neglecting DRC"How can two-and-a-half million people die over a three-year period and we don't even notice?" A prominent American television
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David S. writes:
I am trying to think this through. Let me summarize my understanding of the
discussion. Your original argument was that the elimination of "private
property" would eliminate "material want."
(((
CB: Yes, basically I am using "poverty" and "material
ference
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010905/ts/race_dc_67.html
Africa in Slavery Showdown with Former Masters
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010905/ts/race_reparations_dc_1.html
At Race Talks, Delegates Cite Early Mistrust
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/05/international/05RACE.html
Robert Manning has identified -- not to blame him --- how I think monetary
policy really works. It doesn't work much through raising interest
rates but through banks becoming more and more reluctant to lend.
These things usually are highly, if not perfectly correlated, so it appears
that high i
> Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary and now president of
> Harvard University, said in a paper with Bradford de Long, an> economist at
>Berkeley, that the scale of the productivity gains > within the information
>technology sector, and the sector's growing
> importance, w
>>Ask the DHKC or the TKP ML or the PKK or... and we'll find out what is
>>totalitarian (a horrible, horrible word from the Cold War we seriously
need to
>>exorcise from our vocab)
"Did somebody say totalitarianism?" S. Zizek, Verso, 2001.
Macdonald, your geneology isn't correct. Term was i
Michael Perelman asked,
> What does liberty mean?
According to the anonymous author of the Source and Remedy of the National
Difficulties, "wealth is liberty -- liberty to seek recreation -- liberty to
enjoy life -- liberty to improve the mind: it is disposable time, and
nothing more." So liber
The sluggish growth in consumer spending and household debt levels is at least partially due to the reticence of banks to increase credit lines to heavily indebted households as well as their reluctance to reduce finance rates. Also, keep in mind that traditional indicators of consumer debt do n
Where, exactly, was the First Division Association in 1974, when
Permanent Secretary at the Department of Industry, Sir Anthony Part,
proceeded to undermine the implementation of Labour Party policies, as
agreed by conference and printed in the election manifesto, by Tony
Benn?
How things have ch
Publishers foil theft of MI5 chief's book
Richard Norton-Taylor
Wednesday September 5, 2001
The Guardian
The publishers of the forthcoming memoirs of Stella Rimington, former
head of MI5, have foiled an attempt to steal a copy of the
book.
People posing as representatives of Random House publ
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Distorted view of bank's reform agenda
Financial Times, Sep 5, 2001
By SHENGMAN ZHANG
>From Mr Shengman Zhang.
Sir, Stephen Fidler ("A world of complaint", August 28) presented a
distorted view of the reform
agenda at the World Bank.
Nowhere did he mention that under
Research finds mobile phone cancer threat
ALAN MacDERMID
The Herald, 5 September, 2001
USING mobile phones more than doubles the
risk of developing brain tumours over 10
years, according to new research.
The evidence emerged from Sweden
yesterday as the UK government'
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Those attacking Wolfensohn hope to turn back the clock
Financial Times, Sep 5, 2001
By CLAIRE SHORT
>From Claire Short MP.
Sir, As the UK's governor of the World Bank, I would like to respond to
recent critiques of the World
Bank and its president, James Wolfensohn. Of
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Close the bank down and let capital markets do the job
Financial Times, Sep 3, 2001
By DAVID WALL
>From Prof David Wall.
Sir, Prof Josef Stiglitz (Letters, August 30) mentions the "old World
Bank" and the "new one". As
someone who has worked as a consultant to the World
Policymakers ride economy's white water
Financial Times, Sep 3, 2001
By GERARD BAKER
As they have done for 25 years, much of the world's economic
policymaking elite spent this late
summer weekend conferring in the jagged shadow of the Grand Teton
Mountains, exchanging friendly
advice about inter
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