Israel Seeks $4 Billion In New Military Aid
By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 26, 2002; Page A24
Israel has asked the United States for $4 billion in new military assistance
to defray the costs of fighting terrorism and the potential expense of
preparing for a U.S.
Saudis Face U.S. Demand On Terrorism
Halting Financiers May Be Urged
By Douglas Farah
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 26, 2002; Page A01
A National Security Council task force is recommending an action plan to
President Bush that is designed to force Saudi Arabia to crack down on
[NYTimes]
November 26, 2002
U.S. to Seek to Abolish Many Tariffs
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 - The Bush administration, hoping to jump-start global
trade negotiations, will propose a plan on Tuesday to eliminate all tariffs
on industrial and consumer goods by 2015, officials said ton
The article was excellent. I am delighted that he is bashing the right,
just as I am saddened by the recent recruits to the right that we have
discussed earlier.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0212.confessore.html
http://www.outlookindia.com
Magazine | Dec 02, 2002
the communists
Shades Of Pink
China's pro-capitalist tilt yields a split opinion in the Left here
ASHIS K. BISWAS
Last week, the Indian Left received notice that it better reconstruct its
political vocabulary and, perhaps, its positions too, wh
Monday, November 25, 2002
WTO Drug Access Negotiations Begin
By CLARE NULLIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
GENEVA -- Negotiators opened talks Monday at the World Trade Organization on
the issue of access to medicines in hopes of reaching a compromise by an
end-of-year deadline between the United State
Joanna wrote:
> No I don't think the siphoning is done. They've
> got a ways to go ripping off the middle/professional
> class: end tenure, break remaining unions,
> further privatize schools, Social Security, etc.
I believe I was being selfish again and thinking about home.
There is very little
Greetings Economists,
Jim Devine writes,
I read Doyle as saying that accusing, say, Bob Barr, of having "loony"
positions does not really argue against his positions and therefore is
simply involves leftists talking amongst themselves (preaching to the
converted) which doesn't have any obvious prog
At 02:32 PM 11/24/2002 -0800, you wrote:
The reason why I think the Republican coup of 2000 may be a
historical turning point for the capital accumulation process
(from speculation back to production) is that finance capital
siphoned much of what could have been siphoned from the rest of
the world
Title: RE: base-superstructure model
I said:>Reductionism here means trying to explain everything in the superstructure by reference to the base. It's silly. <
Matt suggests > That would be something like "last instance determinism". That is when you write long paragraphs why culture, poli
This is an excellent piece of analysis. Your group does great work, but I
rarely see it acknowledged. Is it because the big fish do not give you
credit for the stuff that they take?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [E
Title: FW: base-superstructure model
Jim D. says:
Reductionism here means trying to explain everything
in the
superstructure by reference to the base. It's silly.
Are you looking to get drawn and quartered? (is that having your four limbs tied by ropes to four horses that
get set
Title: RE: Animal Farm parodied;
I wrote:> SNOWBALL'S CHANCE sounds like a good book, but it's wrong to see ANIMAL FARM as the Cold Warriors did, i.e., as a simple anti-communist book. As seen in the summary below, at the end of ANIMAL FARM, the animals can't tell the difference between the pi
Is anyone going to the World Social Forum Meetings in Porto Alegre from
Jan. 23-28 3002? I am planning to, and would like to put together a panel
with like minded progressive economists. So I"ve joined pen'l to put out
a call -- since proposals seem to be due by the end of November (!!!) (and
sin
Devine, James wrote:
SNOWBALL'S CHANCE sounds like a good book, but it's wrong to see ANIMAL
FARM as the Cold Warriors did, i.e., as a simple anti-communist book. As
seen in the summary below, at the end of ANIMAL FARM, the animals can't
tell the difference between the pig rulers and humans. Or
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32539] Animal Farm parodied; Orwell estate is not amused
SNOWBALL'S CHANCE sounds like a good book, but it's wrong to see ANIMAL FARM as the Cold Warriors did, i.e., as a simple anti-communist book. As seen in the summary below, at the end of ANIMAL FARM, the animals can't te
NY Times, Nov. 25, 2002
A Pig Returns to the Farm, Thumbing His Snout at Orwell
By DINITIA SMITH
What if Snowball had his chance? An American novelist has written a
parody of "Animal Farm," George Orwell's 1945 allegory about the evils
of communism, in which the exiled pig, Snowball, returns to
Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America'
Online document: the full text of Osama bin Laden's "letter to the American
people", reported in today's Observer. The letter first appeared on the
internet in Arabic and has since been translated and circulated by Islamists
in Britain.
Observer World
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32507] re: how things change referencing note # 32499
I read Doyle as saying that accusing, say, Bob Barr, of having "loony" positions does not really argue against his positions and therefore is simply involves leftists talking amongst themselves (preaching to the converted)
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32528] deflation? redux
Larry Elliott says that fears of deflation explain
> why the Fed cut interest rates this month, and why it would be prepared to back
up further cuts in the cost of borrowing with more unconventional means of
stimulating the economy - perhaps by printi
New from the Financial Markets Center:
Financial Markets & Society: November 2002
The trouble with Alan Greenspan's handling of the economy goes much deeper
than an ill-timed interest-rate adjustment or inaccurate staff forecast.
It's embedded in the Fed's increasingly antiquated machinery for
Wall St. Journal, Nov. 25, 2002
OIL TROUBLE
The Making of a Disaster:
The Prestige's Last Hours
Lessons of the Past Sealed Oil Tanker's Fate
As Spain, Portugal, Fearing Spills, Sent It Away
By BHUSHAN BAHREE, CARLTA VITZTHUM and ERIK PORTANGER
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
The oil
this leaves little room for me to disagree with you. i must find someone else on the list.
"Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I hope no-one thinks that talking about Stalin as an individual is productive. The question is about the societal situation that propelled people like Stalin -- a
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