Malaysian investment in Africa

allAfrica.com: South Africa [analysis]: Mbeki Seeks to Capitalise On Thaw in Malaysian Politics [A fine article. Check, in particular, the section on affirmative action.] Mbeki Seeks to Capitalise On Thaw in Malaysian Politics Business Day (Johannesburg) ANALYSIS September 5, 2003 Posted to the

Revolutionary industrial bourgeoisie?

BusinessWeek, APRIL 23, 2001 BOOKS By Hardy Green From Radical to Robber Baron VILLARD The Life and Times of an American Titan By Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave and John Cullen Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 414pp $30 He was a pacifist republican who was expelled from a German school for his

Exile in Büyükada

For those who are seeking to rid themselves of the bad taste in their mouth from the portrayal of Trotsky in Frida, I strongly recommend the 72 minute documentary titled Exile in Büyükada. Narrated by Vanessa Redgrave, made in Turkey, and based on Isaac Deutscher's The Prophet Outcast, it

This war on terrorism is bogus

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1036571,00.html An article in the UK Guardian by Michael Meacher MP, who was environment minister from May 1997 to June 2003 Although I would hope that none of us would find anything new in this article, it is a significant article since it comes

Re: This war on terrorism is bogus

Sorry - I did not notice that the fall out from this article has already started: Meacher sparks fury over claims on September 11 and Iraq war http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1036591,00.html === They mistake the finger for the bright

Dalton Trumbo letters

Nathan Lane is now appearing off-Broadway in Trumbo, which is basically a dramatic reading of Dalton Trumbo's letters. I was able to locate a copy of Additional Dialogue in the Columbia library--a collection of letters from 1942 to 1962 that presumably much of the play is drawn from. While Trumbo

Re: Exile in Büyükada

I just googled the title with 17 results and none of them was useful for ordering the DVD version of this documentary. What was your trick Lou? Louis Proyect wrote: For those who are seeking to rid themselves of the bad taste in their mouth from the portrayal of Trotsky in "Frida", I

Re: Exile in Büyükada

I just googled the title with 17 results and none of them was useful for ordering the DVD version of this documentary. What was your trick Lou? Amazon.com: http://makeashorterlink.com/?S34B221D5 others: http://www.videopriceshop.com/dvdinfo/7114

Re: Exile in Büyükada

Thanks Lou, already ordered since I am an enthusiast of Buyukada (also Trotsky). By the way, when I visited Trotsky's house in Mexico I observed a big BW photo of Trotsky with a fisherman from Buyukada --in his study just behind his desk on which there was a U.S. Printing Office document --a

UNCTAD World Investment Report 2003

http://www.unctad.org/en/docs//wir2003_en.pdf To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any. [Les Paul]

US/Canada timber wars

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/ September 06, 2003, 12:00 A.M. Pacific U.S. loses round in timber war By Bradley Meacham Seattle Times business reporter In the latest twist in an ongoing legal war over wood, an international trade panel yesterday ordered the United

Re: Exile in Büyükada

Thanks Lou, already ordered since I am an enthusiast of Buyukada (also Trotsky). By the way, when I visited Trotsky's house in Mexico I observed a big BW photo of Trotsky with a fisherman from Buyukada --in his study just behind his desk on which there was a U.S. Printing Office document --a

FW: Republican's losing military votes

[It seems like one of those history repeats itself... first time as a tragedy, second time as a farce situations. The neo-cons wanted to re-create the glory days of the Cold War US empire -- quickly, overnight. It looks as if they re-created the downfall of those glory days quickly and

We cannot ignore Che we cannot ignore Cuba

Greetings, My colleague Peter McLaran has recently written a terrific book on Che and his relationship to radical pedagogy. It's titled, "Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution" See: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/pages/mclaren/ Peter has also developed a terrific web

Re: We cannot ignore Che we cannot ignore Cuba

Brian mentioned a work on anthropologists and Rockefellers. I cannot resist mentioning again a magnificent book on the subject: Thy Will Be Done. I assigned it to Lou Proyect years ago, but he has earned an incomplete on his report. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State

the difference as to the state was imaginary only

Mr. John Adams observed that the numbers of people were taken by this article as an index of the wealth of the state, not as subjects of taxation, that as to this matter it was of no consequence by what name you called your people, whether by that of freemen or of slaves. That in some countries

Cancun....and after

Riots threat grows as WTO stalls on tariff reform Nick Mathiason Sunday September 7, 2003 The Observer Hopes for any significant breakthrough at the World Trade Organisation talks, starting this week, have been dealt a severe blow as it emerges that plans are already in place for an unscheduled

debt [again]

[ New York Times ] September 7, 2003 ECONOMIC VIEW Debt Trouble Could Be Piling Up Overseas By EDMUND L. ANDREWS WASHINGTON FOR the world's poorer countries, this year has been remarkably free from financial meltdowns. Argentina, having had one-fifth of its economy evaporate in 2001, is