Re: Re: Re: Discussion of Empire 26.10.01

2001-10-20 Thread Greg Schofield
Ian thank you for you reply and I will do my best to respond to it. --- Message Received --- From: "Ian Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 20:13:55 -0700 Subject: [PEN-L:18922] Re: Re: Discussion of Empire 26.10.01 From: "Greg Schofield" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

The US is a brand.......

2001-10-20 Thread Ian Murray
[Financial Times] Brand of the free America has enlisted Madison Avenue to help it present a new face to the world. But even a superpower cannot change its image overnight, says Richard Tomkins Published: October 19 2001 19:41 | Last Updated: October 19 2001 21:34 Think of America and what do y

Re: Re: Discussion of Empire 26.10.01

2001-10-20 Thread Ian Murray
From: "Greg Schofield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Empire" in essence only makes one grand point, a point that has been religiously avoided - Imperialism is over and is in the process of being transformed into a "new world order" [Empire?] - of which we seem to get not even a glimmer of its true for

An inivtation to the graveside to bury the past

2001-10-20 Thread Greg Schofield
Having just sent a posting (to "Discussion of Empire 26.10.01") I thought I would follow it up. I have over the past half-year partcipated in a good few marxist lists. Recently I have found myself at PEN-L and enjoying the level of debate. However, I would be lying to say that I have found any

Re: Discussion of Empire 26.10.01

2001-10-20 Thread Greg Schofield
Chris, in the main, I very much agree with you below. There has never been a situation where international and national struggles have been so closely intermingled as there is today, but what has the left done in practical terms about this turn of events? Nothing - except to tread the same tra

Fw: terrorist attacks against clinics

2001-10-20 Thread Michael Pugliese
http://www.armyofgod.com -Original Message- From: CyberBrook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: terrorist attacks against clinics It disgusts me that the attacks against Planned Parenthood and other clinics are barely gett

Re: Re: Re: Re: Kill-ratios

2001-10-20 Thread Michael Perelman
His name is John Graham. He is in charge of regulations at the OMB. He is a real sweetheart. He gets corporations to donate money to his institute at Harvard and then shows how there are better means of regulation, which are irrelevant to the corporation. On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 06:02:08PM -07

Re: Re: Re: Kill-ratios

2001-10-20 Thread Marta Russell
Michael Perelman10/20/01 1:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The US just appointed a man to review regulations, who has made a career > of justifying such deaths as Michael Yaffey described. He has one of the > most powerful positions in the federal government. > -- Do you have his name and how to contact

The mail terrorism and suicide bombing of 1919

2001-10-20 Thread Tim Bousquet
>From "Only Yesterday," Frederick Lewis Allen's history of the twenties: The events of 1919 did much to feed this fear [of Bolsheviks]. On the 28th of April--while Wilson was negotiating the Peace Treaty at Paris, and homecoming troops were parading under Victory Arches--an infernal machine "big

Post Office Blues

2001-10-20 Thread Tim Bousquet
My friend Bruce, a mail carrier, tells me that in the wake of the anthrax scare, many postal workers wanted to don gloves, but that management wouldn't let them. After the union pressed the issue, management agreed to allow workers to wear gloves inside the mail sorting facilities, but not while a

Re: Stiglitz again

2001-10-20 Thread Carl Remick
>From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Notice that Stiglitz seems far to the left of the Democratic >party. Has this >appeared in the US press? > >Ha'aretz Editorial & Op-Ed Friday, October 19, 2001 >Cheshvan 2, 5762 Israel Time: 06:19 (GMT+2) > >Rebalancing priorities > >By Joseph Stigli

global-l

2001-10-20 Thread Ian Murray
To ftaa-l subscribers, Over the past several months, the approval queue for ftaa-l has been brimming with a broad range of important posts about resistance to globalization as we know it. The moderators of the list have tried to keep posts approved to ftaa-l topical -- that is to say, focused on

Re: Discussion of Empire 26.10.01

2001-10-20 Thread Chris Burford
At 20/10/01 13:08 +0800, Greg wrote: >Doug and all, the discussion of Callinocos' criticism of "Empire" may well >be true, but does not I think hit at the critical question itself. > >Insofar as the authors continue to give support to their pet form of >struggle, Callinocos' criticisms are worth

a revisitation of NIEO strategy from the '70's

2001-10-20 Thread Ian Murray
[Thomas Pogge was student of John Rawls; he now teaches at Columbia Univ. This was written in '99.] "A Global Resources Dividend" ... Realizing our prudential and moral interest in a peaceful and also ecologically sound future will - and here I go beyond my earlier modesty - require supranational

Stiglitz again

2001-10-20 Thread Michael Perelman
Notice that Stiglitz seems far to the left of the Democratic party. Has this appeared in the US press? Ha'aretz Editorial & Op-Ed Friday, October 19, 2001 Cheshvan 2, 5762 Israel Time: 06:19 (GMT+2) Rebalancing priorities By Joseph Stiglitz Weeks after the terrorist attacks on New York and Wa

Re: Re: capturing ObL

2001-10-20 Thread Michael Perelman
Here is a letter showing the gross indifference to some terrorism other than that of Eric Rudolph. Most of the people who have been arrested for terrorism against the women's health services made no attempt to avoid detection. The write of this letter says that he is a Repug. [Earlier this year

Re: Re: Kill-ratios

2001-10-20 Thread Michael Perelman
The US just appointed a man to review regulations, who has made a career of justifying such deaths as Michael Yaffey described. He has one of the most powerful positions in the federal government. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898

Re: Kill-ratios

2001-10-20 Thread Michael Yaffey
At 01:46 PM 20-10-01, Ken Hanly wrote: >The Israelis are a long way from reaching the kill-ratio of the US and its >allies in Afghanistan--excluding the homeland toll-- but they are working on >it. How do cost-benefit analyses work in these situations? Are enemy deaths >given positive values and a

Re: Re: Re: capturing ObL

2001-10-20 Thread Michael Pugliese
Heh, "supposedly," sent hundreds of agents? In reality they did! I watched this story unfold on CNN. (Now being called the Taliban News Network and the Communist News Network by Right-Wing loons like Tom deLay.)Unless I was hallacinating the FBI did send hundreds of agents. http://www.apbonli

Re: Re: capturing ObL

2001-10-20 Thread Michael Pugliese
Eric Rudolph is the far right bomber of abortion clinics and a gay bar in the deep South. "Christian Identity, " adherent. FBI and BATF a few yrs. ago spent consioderable resources trying to find him in the Appalachians, "Bo" Gritz was called in too. http://www.google.com/search?q=Eric+Rudolph

Re: capturing ObL

2001-10-20 Thread Ann Li
I suppose the new anti-terrorist laws will help sweat the numerous non-arabs providing logistical support for Rudolph's continued flight from justice... I'm sure that buddy who provided a truckload of food (under the ever watchful eye of our FBI (aka the "Food & Beverage Industry" (that complex co

Kill-ratios

2001-10-20 Thread Ken Hanly
The Israelis are a long way from reaching the kill-ratio of the US and its allies in Afghanistan--excluding the homeland toll-- but they are working on it. How do cost-benefit analyses work in these situations? Are enemy deaths given positive values and allied deaths negative values? How about inn