I didn't recieve PEN-L digest 130 (sent late on April 24, US time) and would
be graeful if someone who gets the digest format could forard it to me:
grantlee(at)iinet.net.au
This is also to inform anyone who has sent posts addressed to or concerning
me.
Regards,
Grant.
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Outgoing mail is
What's to stop, say, Hekmatyar, now sheltered in Iran, from bombing the
pipelines in a few years in Afghanistan?
http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/
The Center for International Policy offers a comprehensive source of
information and analysis about peaceful efforts to end Colombia's
At 24/04/02 20:19 -0400, Louis wrote:
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 00:14:22 +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
It was against this sort of sectarianism, which
let in Hitler, that Dimitrov fought.
This simply is not true. Hitler came to power because the German
Communist Party indulged in a suicidal
Original Message
Subject: ISRAEL'S NEW ECONOMYAND THE INTIFADA:
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:52:29 +0100
From: Mervyn Hartwig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This seems a really important analysis. It's nearly 6,000 words long, so
I've only
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Let us be fair to most of the software engineers Ravi. It is
true, they and some others who did the dirty work ran to .com
companies opportunistically but after all they did the dirty
work, however meaningless what they were doing may be. I know
many who worked 12 hours or
alot of this stuff about absolute property rights has its intellectual
underpinnings in John Locke, who saw property rights as existing in -- and
therefore morally justified by -- the state of nature, i.e., before the
creation of a state. Of course the real-world underpinning is simple greed.
--
Le Pen triumph thanks to ultra-leftists/ Pop Front
by Louis Proyect
24 April 2002 18:44 UTC
CB: On this issue, what about the fact that fascism _was_ defeated by the
Popular Front.
Do you mean the Allies? I wouldn't exactly call the military alliance
between Stalin and Churchill and
Greens Promote German Militarism
by Max B. Sawicky
25 April 2002 00:40 UTC
Can anybody explain this, starting with, is it true?
mbs
^^^
CB: Jim Heartfield told us so :)
===
World Socialist Web Site, 4/24
Germany's Green Party demands a powerful professional
Regional planning and property rights
by phillp2
25 April 2002 03:06 UTC
Charles: I believe Michael is being witty , but posing as his straight man, The Fifth
Amendment of the Constit. has both the Takings Clause and the Due Process Clause. The
latter says that life, liberty and property
INTERNATIONAL LENDERS, DONORS AGREE TO REDUCE DEBT OF POOREST CIS COUNTRIES
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), United States, Germany and Russia
have agreed on an initiative to reduce the debt burden of seven poorest
countries from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), including
Help!
I'm desperately in search of antidumping petition data other than that
provided by the US International Trade Commission and the International
Trade Administration -- I already have that data. I specifically need data
on antidumping filings AGAINST the US by other countries. Are there
CB: When you use epigone to refer to Lenin's followers it seems to be a
negative epithet.
I guess that negative connotation is part of the common usage. However, it
misses my point. My point was that democratic centralism is something
which doesn't have a totally clear meaning in Lenin, so
[From Focus on Trade #77]
*
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE OXFAM TRADE CAMPAIGN
Walden Bello*
Oxfam International recently launched a global campaign to promote
wider access for developing country products in northern markets.
I have a lot of respect
Michael Perelman wrote:
Is a law saying that I cannot grow marijuana on my land a taking?
Of course not. Growing marijuana is illegal. Growing poppies because
they're beautiful is legal, but if you grow them to make opiates,
it's illegal. (Most garden-variety poppies contain opiates - there's
Turkey seeks to push through controversial media bill
By Leyla Boulton in Ankara
Published: April 24 2002 18:47 | Last Updated: April 25 2002
05:28
The Turkish government plans to push through parliament a
controversial media bill that clashes with the constitution and
the country's commitments
Heh, Carrol, if you didn't have me in your kill file you'd have noticed I
posted this a while back ;-)
http://www.mail-archive.com/pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu/msg67628.html
Fw: ISRAEL'S NEW ECONOMY AND THE INTIFADA
Fw: ISRAEL'S NEW ECONOMY AND THE INTIFADA * From: michael pugliese * Subject:
A while back someone asked about the usefulness of game theory. Below is a
site that should, um, restore your faith in the power of this analytical
framework. Amazing! Gil
http://207.67.219.101/objective/gametheory.html
http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-827366-5
International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War
Denis MacShane, Official of the International Metalworkers' Federation; former
BBC producer and President of the NUJ
Price: £52.50 (Hardback)
0-19-827366-5
Publication date: 5 March 1992
Clarendon
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, Empires
Screening: _Hidden Wars of Desert Storm_
(Dir. Audrey Brohy Gerard Ungerman, 2000)
Tue., April 30, 7:30 PM
264 MacQuigg Lab, OSU
105 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH
On August 2nd, 1990, Saddam Hussein launched his troops against
Kuwait,
this reminds me of the way one former Catholic described the faith he
abandoned, in terms of bargaining with God.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-
From: Gil Skillman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:29
Of course if you trace the transfer of real estate
backwards in time you always get back to some sort of
theft. Stolen art work gets returned to its rightful
owner, no matter how much time may have elapsed
between the victim and heir; stolen real estate,
however, develops a special, even sacred,
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, Empires
IRAN FUNDAMENTALISM: A Secularist Perspective
Speaker: Sohrab Behdad
Wed., May 1, 6 PM, 115 Stillman, OSU
1947 College Rd., Columbus, OH
Sohrab Behdad is a professor of economics at Denison University. He
currently serves on the Editorial
I'm back to visit. How is everybody doing?
I come back and you attack my beloved Takings Clause. What else have I
missed?
The concept of compensation for takings by eminent domain goes back to at
least Roman times and I assume is generally uncontroversial as a general
principle. Now, if the
Argentine Chief Fights for Control
April 25, 2002
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 3:19 p.m. ET
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- President Eduardo Duhalde, struggling to prop up his
embattled administration, is considering a return to a fixed exchange rate to help
halt an alarming slide
My comments are interspersed.
Ravi wrote:
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Let us be fair to most of the software engineers Ravi. It is
true, they and some others who did the dirty work ran to .com
companies opportunistically but after all they did the dirty
work, however meaningless what they were
Ripe for abuse
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020422/usnews/22organic.htm
Farmworkers say organic growers don't always treat them as well as they do
your food
By Kit R. Roane
4/22/02
Just off California Route 1, on a rise above the Pacific Ocean, Jim Cochran
and Juan Barranco amble
UFW clash with growers looming
http://www.sacbee.com/content/business/agriculture/story/2346330p-2793015c.html
A new bill would mandate arbitration when contract talks hit an impasse.
By Lesli A. Maxwell -- Sacramento Bee
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
The United Farm Workers' campaign to revamp a
right. I forgot to mention that Locke was wrong.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-
From: Tim Bousquet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:15 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:25423] Re: RE: Re:
Wrote Michael Perelman:
How is an analysis of Stalin going to help us understand the world
today? History, of course, is important, especially when it is relevant,
but in matters such as Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc. the subject leads
to too much emotional finger-pointing to lead to much. I
The Times of India
THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2002
Shipment of fertiliser aid heads for N Korea
AFP
SEOUL: The first shipment of South Korean fertilizer aid this year left for
North Korea Thursday ahead of the planned reunions of families torn apart by
the peninsula's Cold War frontier.
The Red
No Kidding: Anti-Bribery Law Takes a Hit
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
A key anti-bribery law has taken a major hit.
A startling decision handed down last week by a federal judge in Houston
undermines the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and will make it difficult
for weak and
Analysis of Women In World Financial Institutions
Please circulate all or the main part of the following:
The US-based group WEDO (Women's Environment Development Organisation -
www.wedo.org) have issued a Gender breakdown of top posts at the world's
financial institutions. The clear
- Original Message -
From: Diane Monaco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Analysis of Women In World Financial Institutions
=
I wonder how Ann Krueger feels about this?
Ian
These are of course the same folks who believe that iMacs deliver the word
of Satan.
- Original Message -
From: Gil Skillman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 1:29 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:25419] The uses of game theory
A while back someone asked about
Did the United Steel Workers union take stock options in the 1950s, '60s,
and on?
To me it looks as if Big Steel got employees to take lower wages by
promising future benefits -- which it now can't deliver.
It resembles the Dot.Com strategy of getting workers to take stock options
in lieu of
Is ADM caught price fixing again?
Or just riding the backs of the corn farmers lobby to get subsidies?
Or both?
Gene
[The Wall Street Journal]
April 25, 2002
[Image]POLITICS AND POLICY
ADM Used European Wine for Ethanol,
As Government Subsidies Paved the Trail
By GLENN R. SIMPSON
Staff
I thought that i said that you can learn from history in a dialogue in
which people can address the subject objectively. I don't think that it
will happen here. I wish that I were wrong.
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 07:12:53PM -0400, Hari Kumar wrote:
Wrote Michael Perelman:
How is an analysis of
Baseball is a meaningless diversion?! How anti-American a heresy!
:-
Ian
These are of course the same folks who believe that iMacs deliver the word
of Satan.
- Original Message -
From: Gil Skillman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 1:29 PM
I can and do sympathise with Michael's position below and there is always a shiver of
dejavu whenever stalin/trotsky etc are mentioned, all too readily translated into
repeat performances of nightmarish proportions.
Your assessment is probably correct that it will not be solved here, afterall
Greg's request that I summarize the debate is reasonable, but I am on the
road this weekend -- to help my mother inlaw and meet with my daughter.
Some help-- I accidentally broke a window trying to close it.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
US confidence sags
Run on dollar as poor hi-tech results hurt recovery expectations
Larry Elliott and Charlotte Denny
Friday April 26, 2002
The Guardian
Fears that the recovery in the American economy may be faltering led to a run on
the dollar yesterday as poor results from the depressed
The IMF/WB Board of Governors Executive Board are appointed by their
member countries. Board positions are not filled through recruitment
and internal promotion.
As I understand it, the Governors at the IMF/WB are usually the
Finance Minister/Treasury Secretary or Central Bank Governor of
At 25/04/02 10:41 -0400, Charles wrote:
It is very important for people to take account of the distorting impact
of hindsight on assessment of the non-aggression pact. In 1939, the Nazis
were not the Nazis. They were more like the Italian Fascists. Bad , but
not genocidal, superduper,
Dimitrov's speech the the 7th Congress in 1935 was a transition. Some of
the old forms of the class against class line were used. He himself was
the hero of the Reichstag trial, who had outfaced the Nazi prosecutors
and won. He was therefore a good person to champion a transition to a
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