New York Times 29 December 2002
Trickle of Oil Starts Flowing in Venezuela
By GINGER THOMPSON
PUERTO LA CRUZ, Venezuela, Dec. 28 - Nearly a month into Venezuela's
devastating national strike, all systems were back up and running
close to normal this week at the refinery here that supplies gas
* Al-Ahram Weekly 19 - 25 December 2002
Issue No. 617
Not kid stuff
A book by a 15-year-old girl on Palestine is causing a sharp outcry
by anti-Semitism activists in France. Amina Elbendary reports
Intellectual and journalistic circles in France -- and to an extent
in Germany -- have bee
Doyle,
I must admit being offended when you chastized me for a word I used.
Not sure what it was, I think it was "stupid" with repsect to Bush.
A lot of words have evolved from addressing a specific mental or
physicaldisability to a less specific slur. We call a driver cutting us
off in traf
Greetings Economists,
Joanna writes,
You also leave out one important social space -- that created by religion.
It seems to me that the official religion of the left is atheism and I
think this is a huge loss. I think the left needs to recongize that there
is a whole spectrum of religious belief in
On 28 Dec 2002, Michael Perelman wrote:
> I believe that the group in question supposedly met with the alien at
> Mount Shasta, not far from Chico.
Do Californians claim alien visitation sites the way Eastern states claim
houses Washington slept in? Out of a kind of civic pride? :o)
I'm sure l
December 20, 2002
MIDDLE-CLASS REVOLT
Venezuelan elites go on strike.
By Steve Ellner
Caracas, Venezuela -- At first glance, the general strike in
Venezuela stands Marx on his head. On December 2, the powerful
Confederation of Workers (CTV) and the business organization
Fedecámaras stopped work
Fuel Shipment Arrives in Venezuela
Fuel Shipment Arrives in Venezuela As President Chavez Insists He's
Winning Oil Standoff
The Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela Dec. 28 -
Venezuela got some desperately needed gasoline from abroad Saturday
as President Hugo Chavez claimed he was winning the
You also leave out one important social space -- that created by
religion. It seems to me that the official religion of the left is
atheism and I think this is a huge loss. I think the left needs to
recongize that there is a whole spectrum of religious belief in the
U.S. -- ranging from the com
One of the curious things about discussions among "leftists" is that we can't
agree about ANYTHING. Even about what capitalism and socialism are.
Is China a capitalist country, for example? Well, most people on the left are
finally starting to admit that China has become a capitalist country--th
At 05:27 PM 12/27/2002 -0800, you wrote:
I think emotional structure is key to making left organization. There is a
confusion about using text based tools to form emotional structure in left
groups. In my email 'Face Blindness' I give some of the crucial elements of
emotion structure that the fa
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> At 2:33 AM -0500 12/28/02, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
>I'd say the best thing about the movie from the standpoint
>of how it would strike a politically untutored person is that
>it raises a million questions.
Well said.
One point about the film I haven't seen mentioned
At 12:16 PM -0500 12/28/02, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
But its use is not limited to protecting the wealthy. It is also to
establish order.
Visually, though, the film doesn't dwell upon the establishment of
order very much. After the riot and its suppression, the film
creates a vast scene of mour
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>
> At 2:33 AM -0500 12/28/02, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> >I'd say the best thing about the movie from the standpoint
> >of how it would strike a politically untutored person is that
> >it raises a million questions.
>
> Well said.
One point about the film I haven't see
Forwarded on behalf of Mike Lebowitz [the attachment is reproduced
below]:
>Dear Friends and Comrades,
> Attached (this time it should open!) is an announcement of a
> conference next May in Havana which I have been helping to organise.
The
> theme, "Karl Marx and the Challenges of the 21st Cent
The point about state violence is well-taken. I did
gloss over it. It is overwhelming and indiscriminate,
as far as ordinary people go.
But its use is not limited to protecting the wealthy. It
is also to establish order. The mob violence reflects
oppression but it has no consciously constructi
The New York Times
December 24, 2002
Joe Strummer Is Dead at 50; Political Rebel of Punk Era
By JON PARELES
Joe Strummer, whose raw voice and fervent songs for the Clash showed
the punk generation that rebellion could be not just personal but also
political, died of a heart attack on Sunday at his
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>>So what has happened for the conservative right >>>that Bush let him [Lott] fall?
>>Michael Pollak:
>>The main reason is that this sort of open racism >>alienates swing voters
>>and if Lott stayed, he'd be a button ready to push >>for the next to years.
>>And the De
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/26/02 21:17 PM >>>
Corporate personhood came the long after corporate charters became
relatively easy to get. The advantage of the corporate charter was
bankruptcy protection, which did stimulate business. The purpose of
personhood was freedom from regulation -- not neces
BBC late last night emphasised how extremely unwelcome the news must be for
the Bush administration that North Korea is expelling arms inspectors.
Ironically just at time when Iraq is cooperating with them. The US
government wants all public attention on Iraq.
The speculation is that the Bush a
In a message dated 12/27/02 11:30:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I saw it tonight. It's an incredible movie.
...
Some of the comments by reviewers and LP's
friend reflect disapproval for failure to
find the good guy/bad guy fault line in the
movie. But there is no such
In a message dated 12/27/02 4:13:15 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the language of the Marxist doctrine, this means that man's evolutionary advance - his qualitative emergence to homo-sapien-sapien, did not take place on the basis of the discovery of fire or under the impac
At 2:33 AM -0500 12/28/02, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
the raging critique -- via a style of reportage
without any didacticism -- of U.S. society
being born. The city government is corrupt
to the core. The Civil War is a charnal house
for the working class that the wealthy are able
to forego. Civil soc
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