Global Eye---Divine Afflatus

2002-04-05 Thread Ken Hanly
This is from the Moscow Times...cheers Ken Hanly Global Eye -- Divine Afflatus By Chris Floyd You will be much relieved to know that President Bush's witless dithering while the Holy Land burns is, in fact, a manifestation of the will of God. That's because Witless was appointed to his post

Water

2002-04-05 Thread Louis Proyect
(For many on the left, the terms "ecological crisis" or "vulnerable planet" are interpreted either as millenarian diversions from tasks facing the working class or as a failure to embrace supposedly orthodox Marxist concepts of the relationship between man and nature--which boil down to a kind

FW: Argentine Economists' Alternative Proposal Translated

2002-04-05 Thread Forstater, Mathew
Re: Louis' Argentina piece: Regarding the January 24, 2002 proposal of Argentine economists of the University of Buenos Aires, setting out an alternative, non-freemarketneoliberal, program -- An english translation of this program is now up on the Monthly Review website at http://www.monthlyre

Re: Fwd: A call for action for Palestine

2002-04-05 Thread Sabri Oncu
Michael writes: > I think what is missing is an overall > narrative to tie things together so > that each crisis does not appear as an > unrelated episode -- so that the > activists in various social justice movement > can draw upon the strength of each other. > > Of course, various sects ha

Re: Truly Wierd

2002-04-05 Thread Ken Hanly
Here is a more recent article on the same prosecution. There has been a long history of attempts of the US to apply their trading with the enemy ban to Canadian firms going as far back as trade wtih Communist China while the Chinese Communists were still bad guys but Canada had diplomatic relatii

Re: Why the Enron-Andersen mess goes way beyond the US

2002-04-05 Thread Tom Walker
Charles Jannuzi (and others) no doubt would be interested in Frank Partnoy's testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. Partnoy is also extremely critical of the ratings agencies. Partnoy wrote the investment banker insider story, F.I.A.S.C.O., a few years ago and is now a law

Re: RE: Bureaucracy

2002-04-05 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 9:12 AM Subject: [PEN-L:24690] RE: Bureaucracy > keeping this short, since time is short. = I thought time is money, now you economists are changing the

RE: Bureaucracy

2002-04-05 Thread Devine, James
keeping this short, since time is short. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine CB: >I still don't see any good usage or rigorous usage of "bureaucracy" in what you have said. "Hierarchy" or "elite" is better for all the purposes mentioned. And "bureaucracy" has ant

Re: Re: Fwd: A call for action for Palestine

2002-04-05 Thread Michael Perelman
I have enormous admiration for the courageous young peace activists in Palestine today. I do have a problem relating to Sabri's original note -- not with the note itself, of course. I remember in Berkeley during the 1960s, some people repeatedly calling upon the students for action: this is the

RE: Iraq and Middle East

2002-04-05 Thread michael pugliese
Hmm, one could say instead that Sharon has precluded the possibility of Bush attackng Saddaam by his invasion of the PA. You want more informed speculation, trey Luttwak here. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101020408-221163,00.html Michael Pugliese >--- Original Message

Re: Fwd: A call for action for Palestine

2002-04-05 Thread Ignacio Perrotini Hernández
Dear Yonca, I agree with all of what you say. incidentally, I´m also in Mexico city, but I do not see much practical work done here on the Palestine issue. If you could be more specific I would appreciate it. Thus, perhaps, some of us might get involve. Thanks. Ignacio At 08:43 p.m. 04/04/02 -

Bureaucracy

2002-04-05 Thread Charles Brown
Bureaucracy by Devine, James 04 April 2002 23:47 UTC I wrote: >> Applied to the CPUSA, the phrase "democratic centralist" involves an abuse of the word "democratic."<< CB: >Are you saying that the majority's votes were ignored in some election of Gus Hall ? Earl Browder ? John Reed ? Henry Wi

BLS Daily Report

2002-04-05 Thread Richardson_D
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2001: New claims for unemployment insurance shot up last week, but the layoffs picture was distorted by federal requirements related to how laid-off workers who exhausted their benefits may seek to get them extended. For the work week

BP, Sinopec Launch Petrochemical Plant In China

2002-04-05 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
The Financial Express March 29, 2002 BP, Sinopec Launch Petrochemical Plant In China Shanghai, March 28: Oil titan BP and China's Sinopec Corp launched a massive $2.7 billion petrochemical complex on Thursday, hoping slumping product prices would recover by 2005 when the plant goes into operat

On bureaucracy

2002-04-05 Thread miychi
Bureaucracy by Devine, James 04 April 2002 17:22 UTC Charles Brown wrote:>>>Isn't "bureaucracy" a Weberian and not Marxist concept ? ... <<< I wrote:>> The issue is not whether it's a "Marxist" concept in the sense of whether Marx talked about it as much as whether it fits with Marx's materialis