For those of you who are interested or haven't yet made plans for this
Wednesday evening - I'll be doing a talk on Corporate and Wall Street
Conflicts of Interest (the love / hate relationship). It's at the New
School, part of the CEPA (Center for Economic Policy Analysis) program:
6:00-7:30 on 80
[ operation infinite quackery, still at work in the DC swamp.]
washingtonpost.com
Iraq Fears Weigh on Wall Street
By Jerry Knight
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 11, 2002; 4:30 PM
What's ailing the stock market?
"Iraqnaphobia," is the diagnosis of Salomon Smith Barney equity
Too prescient.
This article can be found on the web at
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020527&s=nichols
Paul Wellstone, Fighter
by JOHN NICHOLS
[from the May 27, 2002 issue]
Paul Wellstone is a hunted man. Minnesota's senior senator is not
just another Democrat on White House political
Gen. Ozkok, Chief Of General Staff, Returns From United States
ANKARA - Gen. Hilmi Ozkok, the Chief of General Staff, said on
Sunday that if there is to be an intervention against Iraq, it
would be appropriate to hold it within international legal basis.
"We wish Iraqi administration to abide by t
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>From the Znet interview with Robin Hahnel:
>I have long been convinced that we can
>retain and expand upon the radical insights of Marxism without clinging
>to outdated and illogical theories. I believe The ABCs of Political
>Economy offers the non-professional audience a modern replacement fo
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=2544§ionID=36
ZNet Interviews Robin Hahel
About The ABCs of Political Economy
by Robin Hahnel; October 27, 2002
(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, The ABCs of Political
Economy, is about? What is it trying to communicate?
The
In a message dated 11/11/02 7:04:21 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ain't a fucking word in this proposition about some goddamn working class. The class consciousness of the working class was vital in a different way during the transition from agrarian relations to industrial r
In a message dated 11/11/02 7:19:48 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If this list were reduced to everybody who agreed with me ideologically,
I would be writing e-mails to myself and nobody else. I don't think that
the humor is terribly disruptive; it is not constructive either
If this list were reduced to everybody who agreed with me ideologically,
I would be writing e-mails to myself and nobody else. I don't think that
the humor is terribly disruptive; it is not constructive either.
I insist that it is a matter of style and etiquette.
Really, what happens is that per
In a message dated 11/11/02 1:03:56 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 10/11/02 20:30 -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
>Jim Devine:
>>I was instead thinking in terms of Marx's principle that workers can only
>>be truly liberated by the working people themselves, not by some
>>cond
In a message dated 11/10/02 11:09:40 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Louis P. writes: >I am not going to take up Jim Devine's misunderstanding of the sociobiology issues posed by Johnson/Pinker since Doyle Saylor has done so with such alacrity. Instead I will focus on the litan
NY Times, Nov. 11, 2002
Arkansas Rice Farmers Run Dry, and U.S. Remedy Sets Off Debate
By DOUGLAS JEHL
ULM, Ark., Nov. 5 Rice farmers like John Kerksieck are on the brink of
draining one of Arkansas' biggest aquifers dry.
That alone is troublesome, in a state that gets almost 50 inches of rai
This is not in direct response to Melvin P.'s
recent posts, but reading his stuff and reviewing
some earlier stuff has prompted me to add a small
bit to this discussion.
Has anyone who follows linguistics ever noticed
what an unimportant linguist Pinker actually is?
He claims that his and some oth
In a message dated 11/10/02 9:51:21 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Perelman:>Doyle's post was outstanding. ... I was not sure that we could learn much from Pinker.<
I agree. Doyles' contribution was great!
It should be remembered that I was not defending Pinker or
In a message dated 11/10/02 9:44:44 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Louis Proyect wrote:
>>Again, Johnson specifically argues against the view that biology
>>determines some sort of "eternal nature of things." And Chomsky, as I
>>read him, isn't hostile to revolution _per se _
In a message dated 11/10/02 6:51:02 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jim Devine:
>It's quite possible that Pinker is attacking the kind of communism
>that's popularly imagined - - the kind of gray homogeneity that
>Stalinism tried to impose - - rather than the kind of communism
At 10/11/02 20:30 -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
Jim Devine:
I was instead thinking in terms of Marx's principle that workers can only
be truly liberated by the working people themselves, not by some
condescending savior.
But didn't you read his May 1868 letter to Kugelmaier? He was very clear:
At 10/11/02 20:56 -0500, Diane Monaco
wrote:
The Mau Mau movement was a rebellion by the exploited peasants and workers
under British colonial rule. Most of these "rebels" were landless and if
they so happened to be employed, earned no more than one fifth of what the
British workers earned.
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