Personal Bankruptcies Jump 7.8 Percent
By MARCY GORDON
The Associated Press
Friday, November 14, 2003; 10:39 PM
WASHINGTON - Bankruptcies have nearly doubled in the past decade,
including more than 1.6 million people who filed for personal bankruptcy
this fiscal year alone in a hangover of debt
I was also one of those who said that the war was not over in a televised victory, it had just begun. I also said something like a chinese slogan from my past:people united win. And I have heard it from human rights activist in the area that saddam's regime record on human rights was deplorable,
I sense that this Cockburn guy is important in some way to some of you
Americans for some reason... And I would like to be polite and give him
a wide berth... since he matters a lot to your culture.
But this is lousy style:
* Clichs like rubbing shoulders... that's as bad made a cool
million.
"The best they can hope for is that some sort of capitalist economicstructures will continue to be able to colonize Iraq aided by the work ofcondescending saviours. The worst could be far worse than Somalia."
Iraq WITH SECOND OR FIRST OIL Reserves will not beallowed to go the way of Somalia,
Kenneth Campbell wrote:
But this is lousy style:
I wouldn't mind his style.
What is unhelpful is his tactical misfiring.
At this juncture, you have an administration whose policies, domestic and
foreign, are exactly what the left is supposed to be against. Yet, Cockburn
is busy criticizing
Julio:
At this juncture, you have an administration whose policies, domestic and
foreign, are exactly what the left is supposed to be against. Yet, Cockburn
is busy criticizing Bill Clinton and Paul Krugman!
Well, who else is supposed to criticize the Democrats? Salon.com? The
Nation Magazine?
http://www.monthlyreview.org/561baran.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42547-2003Nov14.html
The Wash. Post reports that the Pentagon will establish a satellite link,
dubbed C-SPAN Baghdad. Who needs those pesky reporters? Next they will
need the information implants so that we can have individual receivers in
our
Try Negri, Antonio. 1988. Keynes and the Capitalist Theory of the State
in 1929. Revolution Retrieved: Selected Writings on Marx, Keynes,
Capitalist Crisis and New Social Subjects, 1967-1983 (London: Red Notes):
pp. 9-42.
Negri stresses that the General Theory was written in the shadow of the
- Original Message -
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My dream would be for us here to work on articulating a different
version
of the economy. Imagine that one of us were to step into a classroom,
factory, or call center and say that we wanted to speak in favor of
socialism.
Yes, that is easy. The problem is to go from there to a broader vision of
society. Instead, what we have is fragmentation. For example, the
students may not be interested in working conditions of health care and
the workers maybe not concerned about issues in higher education.
The result is
there's a book co-authored by Phil Klinkner that argues that in general, when the US
has been involved in a big war or cold war, the deal that Blacks received improved,
including improvements in the Welfare State. Ian Gough's book on the Welfare State may
also be of use.
Jim
Some sort of overarching vision is, at some point, necessary.
but that would be essentialism, surrender to a Master Narrative, while denigrating
the Otherness of the Other!
Jim
oh, my god. I am in pomo hell!
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:14:33AM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
Some sort of overarching vision is, at some point, necessary.
but that would be essentialism, surrender to a Master Narrative, while denigrating
the Otherness of the Other!
Jim
--
Michael
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] the Clinton years
Yes, that is easy. The problem is to go from there to a broader vision
of
society. Instead, what we have is
Julio:
At this juncture, you have an administration whose policies, domestic and
foreign, are exactly what the left is supposed to be against. Yet, Cockburn
is busy criticizing Bill Clinton and Paul Krugman!
Well, who else is supposed to criticize the Democrats? Salon.com? The
Nation Magazine?
The assumption would be that through left wing Keynesian management
the economy could be set on a path of a output growth with price
stability and 'acceptable' levels of income inequality. (Prabhat
Patnaik argues against the ability of any kind of Keynesianism to
guarantee accumulation and
Eubulides wrote:
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My dream would be for us here to work on articulating a different
version
of the economy. Imagine that one of us were to step into a classroom,
factory, or call center and say that we wanted to speak
In a message dated 11/15/03 9:02:47 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- Original Message -From: "Michael Perelman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] My dream would be for us here to work on articulating a differentversion of the economy. Imagine that one of us were to step into a
you Otherf*cker!
;-)
JD
-Original Message-
From: Michael Perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sat 11/15/2003 9:15 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] the Clinton years
oh, my god. I am in
2. Topical Words: McJob
---
The Associated Press reported last Saturday that Jim Cantalupo, the
Chairman and CEO of the fast-food firm McDonald's, had published an
open letter to Merriam-Webster about the recently-published 11th
Michael Perelman wrote:
Yes, that is easy. The problem is to go from there to a broader vision of
society. Instead, what we have is fragmentation. For example, the
students may not be interested in working conditions of health care and
the workers maybe not concerned about issues in higher
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From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I agree with Ian, but he does not go far enough.
You _start_ by trying to imagine the social context in which any of this
might happen -- which is _not_ the social context in which we now live.
Well I'd start
There was also a special issue on this topic in the Journal of Sociology
and Social Welfare, volume 15, no 2 (1988).
In general, both warfare and welfare require centralization of
administrative capacity. Welfare may also be used to mobilize popular
opinion with the promise of a decent life for
Title: Nader to Ashcroft
NADER DEMANDS FBI INCLUDE CORPORATE OFFENSES IN CRIME STATS
http://www.citizenworks.org/corp/ashcroft-letter.php
RALPH NADER HAS called on Attorney General John Ashcroft to
include
statistics on corporate crime in the FBI's annual Crime in
America
Report, an annual
Ian writes
Welcome to the contradictions of the division of labor and bounded
rationality.
Seems to me that coaxing fellow learners to 'see' connections that weren't
apparent in their quest to improve the quality of their lives is a small
first step creating greater public discussion whereby
Good one, thanks.
Joanna
Dan Scanlan wrote:
2. Topical Words: McJob
---
The Associated Press reported last Saturday that Jim Cantalupo, the
Chairman and CEO of the fast-food firm McDonald's, had published an
open letter to
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
In short, Cockburn's underlying criticism seems hardly structural; it seems to
retain state fetishism.
It's not at all structural because he wants to annoy liberal Nation
readers. It doesn't seem like the most urgent political task of the
moment to me, but I'm getting soft
Joanna writes:
That is why, perhaps, art is the first weapon.
Can you suggest any good socialist art? I've heard of a socialist realism movement in
literature, but haven't found any specific authors. There are very few films that I
know of that have a pro-worker, anti-capitalist bent, and
Louis Proyect wrote:
Well, who else is supposed to criticize the Democrats? Salon.com? The
Nation Magazine? Bill Moyers?
[clip]
I think that the point of Counterpunch (and PEN-L) is to address the
necessity of transforming the system. We are facing a downward spiral in
bourgeois politics that
Alas, the galaxy server is now defunct! Sign of the times.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 01:48:39PM -0500, Julio Huato wrote:
As for PEN-L, I don't know, but it seems to me like a group of professional
conspirators bent on taking over the galaxy -- just look at the e-mail
Title: Re: [PEN-L] the Clinton years
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
In short, Cockburn's underlying
criticism seems hardly structural; it seems to
retain state fetishism.
It's not at all structural because he wants to annoy liberal
Nation
readers. It doesn't seem like the most urgent political task of
From the Solidarity listserv, with permission of the author:
* Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:48:47 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Rise of the Neo-Centrics
2003 has seen the rise of a new current in U.S. politics, best
described as NeoCentrics, or simply NeoCens, for ease of
Julio:
To draw the proper economic and political lessons from the Clinton years is
an important strategic task. But it's not the burning issue of the day.
You can seriously do it now without shooting yourself in the foot. How
about picking on Greenspan? He's the one who gave a free pass to the
Walt Sheasby wrote:
The Neo-Cens have been joined by any number of former revolutionaries
like Carl Davidson and Angela Davis.
Just a clarification. In the case of Davidson, former does not mean last
year. He has not really been identified with revolutionary politics since
Joe Cocker was a big
* GEORGE SOROS AND THE RISE OF THE NEO-CENTRICS
By Walt Contreras Sheasby, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2003 has seen the rise of a new current in US politics, best
described as Neo-Centrics, or simply Neo-Cens, for ease of comparison
with a better known defection of Socialists to the Conservative
At 9:01 AM -0500 11/15/03, Julio Huato wrote:
I wouldn't mind his style.
What is unhelpful is his tactical misfiring.
At this juncture, you have an administration whose policies,
domestic and foreign, are exactly what the left is supposed to be
against. Yet, Cockburn is busy criticizing Bill
How can MoveOn.org _absorb_ $5 million? this seems a recipe for organizational
gigantism and even old-fashioned corruption!
(the latter refers to politicians who take bribes (broadly defined), feathering their
own nests rather than representing the movements they claim to speak for. This
I'm no aesthete, but a lot of Russian art after the 1917 revolution was very good.
(I don't know much about art, but I know the price.)
Jim
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 2:31 PM
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How can MoveOn.org _absorb_ $5 million? this seems a recipe for
organizational gigantism and even old-fashioned
In a message dated 11/15/03 2:34:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm no aesthete, but a lot of Russian art after the 1917 revolution was very good.("I don't know much about art, but I know the price.")Jim
Did the art - culture or development, cost as much as slavery and
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November 14 / 23, 2003
CounterPunch Diary
Clintontime: Was It Really a Golden Age?
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
silly question, of course not...cockburn's best stuff
was years ago in that belly of the beast the _wall street journal_,
article such as this would have
From the fabled Kennedy years:
Senator Albert Gore, Sr., a Tennessee Democrat (and a presumptive
candidate for the Treasury position himself) told Kennedy that selecting
Dillon as Secretary of the Treasury signaled a continuation of the
stagnant policies of the Republicans, Kennedy
protested.
Any relation to Matt Dillon ? (Thinking more of his earlier movie debuts,
like beautiful girls and so on) :+O :)
And if I was president
The minute congress call my name
I'd say who do,
Who do you think you're fooling?
I've got the presidential seal
I'm up on the presidential podium
My mama still
Walt was on pen-l. I have not seen any sign of him lately.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yoshie wrote:
Barring another terrorist attack to the magnitude of 9.11.01, Bush is
finished [clip]
The Democratic victory in the 2004 presidential election is virtually
certain.
What are socialists to do, now that George W. Bush is losing the war and
will be losing the election in 2004? Remind
Not to mention the films -- a significant slice of the great art of the
twentieth century. In the visual arts, they were the bomb!. And then
there were the writers: Akhmatova, Yesenin, Trifonov, Bulgakov, and
lots, lots more that I just don't know about ...
...and the dancers -- Galina Ulanova,
At his home in Westchester, N.Y., Soros early on raised $115,000 from
his friends for candidate Dean.
Hell Yoshie, if you and I could do that, we'd be home and hosed The
singer Loudon Wainwright III (who was born in Westchester and has a song
about it on his album Fame and Wealth) objects
[NOTE: Vijay Prashad's e-mail address is below. Reply to HIM if you want to
get involved in this.]
Confronting the Evangelical Imperialists
Mr. Kurtz: the Horror, the Horror
By VIJAY PRASHAD
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In mid-October, my email in-box began to receive forwards from Michael
Bednar, a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/15/03 9:24 AM
I think that the point of Counterpunch (and PEN-L) is to address the
necessity of transforming the system. We are facing a downward spiral in
bourgeois politics that has been going on for decades. Richard Nixon's
domestic policies were far more liberal than
A tax-dollar for Bush is a hand-out for war
Pretty good, I'll pass it on.
Joanna
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
A tax-dollar for Bush is a hand-out for war
When I woke up this morning, I was rereading in the first chapter of Rosa
Luxemburg's book The Accumulation of Capital (introd. Joan Robinson),
called The object of our investigation. I could not recall the precise
text, and therefore thought I would refresh my memory.
What is exciting about this
NY Times, November 15, 2003
Indians Now Disdain a Farm Once Hailed for Giving Tribe Jobs
By MELODY PETERSEN
ROSEBUD INDIAN RESERVATION, S. D., Nov. 8 Seven miles west of the tiny
town of White River, on a snow-covered rise surrounded by bluffs and
valleys, 24 metal-roofed barns create an
I think Alexander Cockburn does a great job debunking myths about the
Clinton area, and I would not dare to dispute his points. My small criticism
about him concerns a different aspect, namely the purpose of argumentation.
Debunking myths is indispensable if myth pretends to be fact or truth, on
I wrote:
If the monetary system were to break down
radically, as has happened at various intervals in history, then simple
reproduction can still occur through barter and countertrade, all that
really happens, is that new terms of exchange are established, and some
people are relieved of their
They will rotate marines with army units, but this happens all the time in
the ME.
Most of what you say about the gyrines, however, is not true at all, and
their equipment, still meant for taking shorelines, is a poor match for
most
of the Iraqi terrain. Marines with Army equipment are
I have a question about tax history in the USA, which relates to some
previous comments I made (a bit rudely) about the fact that in modern
capitalism the gross wage effectively includes a legal obligation to
subsidise state bureaucracies and private corporations.
The point is this: when I
More than one in three Britons think George Bush is stupid and a majority
branded the US president a threat to world peace, opinion poll results
showed. The results were published on Sunday. (...) Bush is due to arrive in
London on Tuesday, and start his three-day state visit the next day. It will
Saturday 15 November 2003, 15:20 Makka Time, 12:20 GMT
Money can't buy me love - but it can get you several valuable items of
entertainment industry memorabilia, including John Lennon's handwritten
lyrics for Nowhere Man, to be auctioned next week. Christie's spokeswoman
Margaret Barrett said on
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