Fwd: Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark Calls to UN to Stop US!

2002-09-23 Thread Sabri Oncu
This was sent to the PGA list by an old friend by the name of Bob Everton. Sabri +++ The following letter by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has been sent to all members of the UN Security Council, with copies to the UN General Assembly. Please circulate. September 20, 2

Re: Re: A privatized public good: Higher Education

2002-09-23 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 9/23/02 5:28:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not sure what Sabri's reading of the article is.  What I read is that the public universities are underfunded [The Economist approves of this] and that private universities are becoming more prominent.  Bo

on cricket and inequality

2002-09-23 Thread Anthony D'Costa
EPW Commentary September 14, 2002 Calcutta Diary--by AM (btw is Ashok Mitra) Our star cricketers, some of whom reputedly earn anything between 20 and 50 crore rupees annually, should have the modesty to admit what they owe to the nation's poor. It is because the poor are oppressed and exploited

Re: A privatized public good: Higher Education

2002-09-23 Thread Sabri Oncu
Michael wrote: > I am not sure what Sabri's reading of the article is. Well Michael. This summer I visited home, that is, the mechanical engineering and mathematics departments at Bogazici University in Istanbul, and today saw this in that bloody the Economist article: > Crisis? What crisis? It

Re: Re: Re: Comments on CAFTA etc.

2002-09-23 Thread Michael Perelman
Yes, you are correct, but even a country as powerful as China seems to be willing to go along. On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 10:00:27PM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote: > Michael Perelman wrote: > > >What could possibly make the leadership of a country move in this > >direction? Are they merely going for

re "Turkish Expansionism & Iraqi War"

2002-09-23 Thread Hari Kumar
Dear PEN_ers, I think the following article below - should prove of interest to more than just Sabri (Whose views on this matter I would especially appreciate). I think that even those who choke at the term ML-ist, will find the analysis (especially of Kurdish interests) a little novel, & of passi

Re: Re: Comments on CAFTA etc.

2002-09-23 Thread Louis Proyect
Michael Perelman wrote: >What could possibly make the leadership of a country move in this >direction? Are they merely going for personal gain or fear of retribution >from the US? Are they stupid? > > The real leadership of the country was beaten into submission in the late 1980s. The curren

Re: Comments on CAFTA etc.

2002-09-23 Thread Michael Perelman
What could possibly make the leadership of a country move in this direction? Are they merely going for personal gain or fear of retribution from the US? Are they stupid? On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 03:09:18PM -0400, F G wrote: > >From what I've read in the U.S. press, there seems to be silence with

Re: A privatized public good: Higher Education

2002-09-23 Thread Michael Perelman
I am not sure what Sabri's reading of the article is. What I read is that the public universities are underfunded [The Economist approves of this] and that private universities are becoming more prominent. Both observations are true. The article does not address the lack of employment, but then

A privatized public good: Higher Education

2002-09-23 Thread Sabri Oncu
I don't know how these the Economist people reach such lovely conclusions. The university system in Turkey is about to collapse, if not collapsed already. The quality of education at most state universities are getting worse and worse, and majority of those with university diplomas from non-elite

RE: Re: RE: Re: The family

2002-09-23 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30483] Re: RE: Re: The family I wasn't disagreeing with you. (I wanted to send this message to Joel individually, but the damn network isn't cooperating.) Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message- From: Joel Blau [mai

Re: Re: [A-List] Left Book Club: Zed titles

2002-09-23 Thread Mark Jones
At 23/09/2002 19:48, you wrote: >How do you subscribe to the A list? > >Joanna The A-List archives are at http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/a-list/ also subscription info. Mark

Comments on CAFTA etc.

2002-09-23 Thread F G
>From what I've read in the U.S. press, there seems to be silence with respect to the forthcoming CAFTA. Here in El Salvador, it has demogogically been sold as a panacea (ditto with dollarization) to a population that hardly understands what is involved. The central government has generated

Re: [A-List] Left Book Club: Zed titles

2002-09-23 Thread joanna bujes
How do you subscribe to the A list? Joanna At 08:25 AM 09/23/2002 +0100, you wrote: >Dear Pen-lers, > >The Left Book Club by the A-list officially launches with the following >titles courtesy of Zed Books. As was recently discussed, Zed operates a >differential pricing policy enabling purchase

Wall Street warmonger

2002-09-23 Thread Louis Proyect
(James J. Cramer was with Goldman-Sachs in the 1990s and eventually launched his own firm. He became an icon of the now deflated bull market and still urges people to buy stocks on his website www.street.com and on his Bloomberg Radio show every night.) New York Magazine, Sept. 23, 2002 Battl

I NEED YOUR HELP

2002-09-23 Thread mariam aba
Dear Friend, It is with hope that I write to seek your help in the context below.I am Hajia Mariam Abacha, wife of Nigeria’s former head of state; Late General Sani Abacha, whose sudden death occurred on the 8th of June 1998. Since my husband died, I have been thrown into a state of utter

Campus Watch

2002-09-23 Thread Michael Hoover
At present, Campus Watch has "dossiers" on eight individual professors named on their web page: http://www.campus-watch.org/dossiers.php/cat/Professor Clearly they are attempting to isolate and intimidate these persons, and by masking examples of them to create a chilling effect on dissident

Re: RE: Re: The family

2002-09-23 Thread Joel Blau
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30481] Re: The family Of course traditional conservatism relied on other institutions. I wasn't discussing traditional conservatism as much as one variant of its contemporary version, which talks about cutbacks in social welfare while yearning out loud about returning responsib

RE: Re: The family

2002-09-23 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30481] Re: The family traditional conservatism didn't simply rely on the (patriarchal) family as the "default institution for social reproduction." It also relied on community, religious institutions, and the like. Further, the "good side" of the state (its military apparatus

Re: The family

2002-09-23 Thread Joel Blau
This represents a good first step towards an analysis of the family. She might have gone on to point out that the family is the right's default institution for social reproduction--that is, it is the cheapest method of accomplishing (at least partially, and varying sharply by class) the tasks

reverse domino theory

2002-09-23 Thread Devine, James
Title: reverse domino theory [here's a theory that's actually _worse_ than the original...] http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/la-na-outlook23sep23.story Still a Few Dots to Connect in Iraq Domino Theory By RONALD BROWNSTEIN TIMES STAFF WRITER L.A. TIMES/September 23 200

The family

2002-09-23 Thread Louis Proyect
Nancy F. Cott. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. 297 pp. Notes index. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-00875-8. Reviewed by Felice Batlan, Department of History, New York University. Published by H-Law (August, 2002) Beneath the Private Mas

A Student-Worker Alliance is Born (Review of _Students AgainstSweatshops_)

2002-09-23 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
* A Student-Worker Alliance is Born by Michael Yates Liza Featherstone and United Students Against Sweatshops, _Students Against Sweatshops_ (London and New York: Verso, 2002), 119 pages, paper $15.00. ... There are many events that may wake people up and make them think and act. For co

YOUR CARE!!!

2002-09-23 Thread ahmed yakubu
FROM: BARRISTER AHMED YAKUBU OKEAYA INNEH LAW FIRM ATTORNEYS/LEGAL PRACTITIONERS NIGERIA. DEAR SIR, COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON.GRACE AND PEACE AND LOVE FROM THIS PART OF THE ATLANTIC TO YOU.I HOPE MY LETTER DOES NOT CAUSE YOU TOO MUCH EMBARRASSMENT AS I WRITE TO YOU IN GOOD FAITH BASED O

Re: Re: Germany: Election results

2002-09-23 Thread Chris Burford
I suspect that the US government demanded the head of the German justice minister on a plate. Bush refused to take a telephone call from Schroeder, and extraordinarily, on the very day of voting, the justice minister was forced to indicate that she would probably be resigning, for making a the

[A-List] Left Book Club: Zed titles

2002-09-23 Thread Mark Jones
Dear Pen-lers, The Left Book Club by the A-list officially launches with the following titles courtesy of Zed Books. As was recently discussed, Zed operates a differential pricing policy enabling purchasers from the South to acquire books at more affordable rates. These are indicated below: