This is a very relevant question for New Zealand. Our textile, clothing and
footwear (TCF) industry has been reduced from 40,000 to 20,000 workers over a
decade, largely as a result of tariff cuts. Many of the remainder
are at risk of
being sacrificed to a FTA currently being negotiated with
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Protecting a severely uncompetitive industry must cost money.
If you mean it costs the government money - not in the short run anyway. On the
contrary, it provides a few hundred million dollars in tariff income, plus
income taxes and the like. The standard trade
For those who haven't seen it, Thomas Frank has a very good piece on
plans to destroy --- er save --- social security (The Trillion
Dollar Hustle: Hello Wall Street, Goodbye Social Security) in the
January 2002 issue of Harper's Magazine.
In it, he makes the following claim:
... when the
Doug Henwood Must dissent here. The confidence numbers are a good leading
indicator of the bizcycle. They generally bottom about 3 months ahead of the
cyclical trough (and top out about 1-2 months ahead of the peak). And the
confidence numbers themselves - at least the Conference Board's version
[latest responses preceded by ***mbs:]
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
No nation's trade policy can be controlled by a labor movement unless
that movement is united on a national level.
DH: But no national union movement can be strong unless it has strong
cross-border alliances. That's not dreamy lefty
TRIM BEARDS
The government has also been informing male employees about a new dress code
for them that requires beards to be trim and western clothes worn when
working at an official post.
In addition to requiring long beards, the Taliban also banned men from
wearing western-style trousers and
Israel's dead end
By Edward Said
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/565/op1.htm
The earth is closing on us, pushing us through the last passage, and we
tear off our limbs to pass through. Thus Mahmoud Darwish, writing in the
aftermath of the PLO's exit from Beirut in September 1982. Where
Karl: Karzai's existence as the leading figure in the interim government
is based on the military invasion of Afghanistan by imperialism. His
present political existence has its social base in Washington. His
social base is not the Afghanistani masses which is why he makes for a
fragile political
Following may be of interest
Regards
Karl Carlile (Communist Global Group)
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at http://homepage.eircom.net/~kampf/
Asia Source
Special Report
Taliban: What prompted Bamiyan?
March 28, 2001
On February 26, 2001, Mullah Mohammad Omar,
Southwest Labor Studies Association
Call for Papers
27th Annual Conference
May 9-11, 2002
California State University, Los Angeles
Globalization, Labor, and Inequality Within and Across Borders
The Southwest Labor Studies Association (SWLSA) is an organization of
academics, labor unionists,
Dear Mr. Ghosh:
You have recently written:
Similarly, consider another grievance that is frequently adduced:
U.S. support for the current regime in Saudi Arabia. This is to
my mind one of the world's most horrible regimes. But the fact is
that if a credible alternative existed, U.S. support
Edward Said says:Have any of the innumerable members of the foreign media
covering the conflict done a story about these brutalised young Israelis
conscripts, trained to punish Palestinian civilians as the main part of
their military duty? I think not.
the (U.S.) NATION magazine -- which also
Doug Henwood wrote:
The whole set-up is DESIGNED [emph added] to foment an us-vs.-them
consciousness.
You don't mean this. The 'set-up' does indeed generate such a
consciousness, and various interests seize on that nad fan the flames as
it were -- but no one _designed_ it.
Carrol
Edward Said says:Have any of the innumerable members of the foreign media
covering the conflict done a story about these brutalised young Israelis
conscripts, trained to punish Palestinian civilians as the main part of
their military duty? I think not.
the (U.S.) NATION magazine -- which also
Karl Carlile: [acting Afghan leader] Karzai's existence as the leading
figure in the interim government is based on the military invasion of
Afghanistan by imperialism. His present political existence has its social
base in Washington. His social base is not the Afghanistani masses which is
why
Classy move
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 09:05:32AM -0800, Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
After this last post, I retract all criticism of Doug regarding trade
issues. He returned my vinegar with honey. He has thought hard and
long about the problems that we are facing. And I do benefit from his
[Alexander Hamilton and Freidrich List live!]
[NYTimes]
December 30, 2001
Suddenly, Uncle Sam Wants to Bankroll You
By AMY CORTESE
It may be quiet these days in Silicon Valley, but don't tell that to
Gilman Louie, the chief executive of In-Q-Tel, a private nonprofit
venture capital company set
Karl: Karzai's existence as the leading figure in the interim government
is based on the military invasion of Afghanistan by imperialism. His
present political existence has its social base in Washington. His
social base is not the Afghanistani masses which is why he makes for a
fragile political
Bill R. says:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Protecting a severely uncompetitive industry must cost money.
If you mean it costs the government money - not in the short run
anyway. On the
contrary, it provides a few hundred million dollars in tariff income, plus
income taxes and the like. The
From the Sidney Morning Herald
Onions out, poppies in and let the good times roll
Sticky business ... a poppy is slit to release the ooze that will become
opium.
Farmers are wasting little time returning to what they do best, Craig Nelson
writes from Ghochak.
While there is widespread doubt
Ruling off the books for 2001 will, for most in the investment industry,
be a painful experience. This years's market downturn followed hard on the
heels of a massive build-up of capacity. The immutable laws of supply and
demand dictated a slump in profits for brokers, bankers and fund
This article from NYTimes.com
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Seth Sandronsky
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New York Times 30 December 2001
WORD FOR WORD
American Gothic: 'Terrorists' and Tribunals in the Civil War Era
By MARK BULIK
THE nation was at war, and the government feared that a network of
immigrant terrorists was planning havoc on the home front. It
suspended civil justice and rounded
IMF predictions prove a fund of fallacy
Reading the economic runes proves too tricky even for the world
experts
Charlotte Denny
Monday December 31, 2001
The Guardian
Reminding economists of their predictions last year for the world
economy in 2001 is an unfair trick, a bit like reminding
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:19:14 -0500
From: Atif Durrani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hamid Karzai - Consultant for UNOCAL?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was forwarded this excerpt from an article on another listserv.
The article was published in Le Monde. It claims Hamid Karzai once
worked for the US
- or at least is not hostile to it:
It is no surprise either that the new Financial Services Authority has
chosen Canary War as its home, or that the legal profession has been among
those crowding into vacated city space. Regulation is one of the great
growth industries in financial services
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