At 2003-07-09 07:36 -0700, you wrote:
The BBC report this morning, which led the world service, omits the fact
that the source Bush cited in the SOU address (is that the right
abbreviation?) was the British government.
I've seen it referred to as the SOTU address, but it's true that it wasn't
I was being slightly tongue-in-cheek. Michael Pollak wrote about the fallacy
that big, mechanized agriculture is always more productive that small
farmers. But in comparing different forms of agriculture in different
places and times, many different factors of course need to be taken into
account,
Dear Friends:
The statement below was adopted at last night's [July 8] meeting of
the Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition (NOAC). We would greatly
appreciate any help you can give in disseminating it as widely as
possible to anti-war groups.
In solidarity,
Jerry Gordon
Member, NOAC Coordinating
Date: Thurs, 10 July 2003
Japanese Women Protest Politicians who Defend Gang Rape
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Dear friends,
It has become a big political scandal that some
politicians of ruling
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Bill Undermines Head Start Program
Action Needed:
Please use the toll-free number and talking points below to call your House
member this week and urge him/her to oppose a harmful bill, H.R. 2210. This
Head Start reauthorization act transfers control of Head Start
Published on Tuesday, July 8, 2003 by the Raleigh News Observer (North
Carolina)
New Book, New UNC Controversy
Group Says 'Nickel and Dimed,' the Assigned Reading for Freshmen, Has a
Liberal Bias
by Jane Stancill
UNC-Chapel Hill officials might have thought a book about the economic
struggles of
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best way to win candidate centered elections is big early primary (and
iowa caucus) wins forcing other candidates to drop out and jump on
board, no differences at convention, pick vp running mate from second
largest faction...
for what little it's worth,
Hong Kong Delays Security Bill After Cabinet Member Quits
July 7, 2003
By KEITH BRADSHER
HONG KONG, Monday, July 7 - In an unexpected victory for
democracy advocates, Hong Kong's chief executive
temporarily postponed a contested internal security bill
this morning after the leader of a
The Dutch Financial Daily (10 July, p. 2) interviewed Clyde Prestowitz,
author of Rogue Nation - American unilateralism and the failure of Good
Intentions (Basic Books, 2003). Chief of a rightwing thinktank and
born-again Christian, Prestowitz has got himself something of a reputation
as an expert
Biotech Patents Focus of New Initiative
By Justin Gillis
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 10, 2003; 2:11 PM
The nation's leading centers of plant research launched a new plan today
to share the benefits of agricultural biotechnology more widely,
particularly with farmers growing
Jurriaan: It never ceases to amaze me how many leftists often consider imperialism
an outdated concept (they would rather talk about a globalised world in
which we are all politically powerless beyond protesting at international
forums) whereas conservatives and liberals freely admit the existence
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
So Lenin was actually making a specific
political intervention in an ongoing discussion, basing himself on ideas
current in his time (and not a rigorous argument about the operation of the
capitalist world market, grounded in Marx's theory of value).
I think this
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jul2003/nf2003079_3133_db042.htm
JULY 9, 2003
COMMENTARY
By Lewis Braham
No Rest for the Productive
Greater output per worker is good for business and the economy.
Unfortunately, it also means the overworked just have to toil harder
What happened to
As far as I know, reinterpretations of Hobson and JS Mill (in other words,
any theory about imperialism which is not Marxist, i.e. which does not say
that imperialism is a bad thing) were already occurring in the 1990s, they
are just becoming more prominent now, as I predicted in the 1990s (i.e.
I would basically agree with that. I think when Lenin wrote The State and
Revolution, he did so with an awareness that he could be assassinated
(there were a number of attempts to assassinate various bolshevik leaders,
in a Russian tradition going back several decades into the 19th century;
[now if we could just get them to abandon stock market capitalism...]
Unions press corporate US to abandon share options
David Teather in New York
Friday July 11, 2003
The Guardian
Corporate America is being pressed to follow the example of Microsoft,
which earlier this week announced a
[ for more; http://www.quine-duhem.com ]
[NYTimes]
July 11, 2003
Data in Conflict: Why Economists Tend to Weep
By DANIEL ALTMAN
Is the economy pulling itself out of a slump, or is it sinking deeper?
The answer could be either, based on the data from government agencies
these days. Because they
Schultz, Ellen E. 2003. Firms Had a Hand In Pension Plight. Wall
Street Journal (10 July): p. A 1.
A lot of big companies call it a looming crisis: They suddenly need to
pour millions of dollars into their pension plans, because there isn't
enough cash in them to meet the legal requirements.
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EU Takes Nations to Court on Patent Laws
By PAUL GEITNER AP Business Writer
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The EU's head office is taking eight countries to
court over their failure to adapt their national patent laws, saying
Thursday that their lack of
The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
Commentary: Asia can't devalue its way to prosperity
William Pesek Jr. Bloomberg News
Thursday, July 10, 2003
SINGAPORE Asia is wondering if it has a new crisis on its hands - the
flipside of the turmoil in 1997. This time, it is not plunging
Critics argue that options can encourage entrepreneurs, but in many cases
during the dot.com boom, they spurred executives to bend the rules in
order to keep share prices flying. Because restricted shares have a higher
inherent value, companies give far less to employees than they would
options -
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