Telmex/WTO

2003-11-26 Thread Eubulides
Telmex: WTO Telecoms Ruling Hurts US Reuters Wednesday, November 26, 2003; 10:54 PM By Pablo Garibian MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Carlos Slim, the billionaire owner of Mexico's dominant telecoms company, Telmex, said on Wednesday the United States came out worse in a World Trade Organization (WTO) rul

meanwhile, on the production possibility curve

2003-11-26 Thread Eubulides
Europe aims for endless energy Tim Radford, science editor Thursday November 27, 2003 The Guardian Europe's scientists hope to mimic the power of the sun and create limitless energy on Earth with the help of a £6bn experiment in the south of France. Ministers in Brussels gave the go-ahead yester

Dr. Doom and EU fiscal policy

2003-11-26 Thread Eubulides
Good riddance to the instability pact We should all be grateful to France and Germany for giving us a chance to restore some sanity to European fiscal policy Larry Elliott Thursday November 27, 2003 The Guardian Nobody does smug quite like the British, and the Treasury's smugometer had a high re

Re: The Looting of Asia: Gold Warriors

2003-11-26 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Chalmers Johnson, "The Looting of Asia" LRB 25.22 (20 November 2003) Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold by Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave | Verso, 332 pp, £17.00 ==

The Looting of Asia: Gold Warriors

2003-11-26 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
* Chalmers Johnson, "The Looting of Asia" LRB 25.22 (20 November 2003) Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold by Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave | Verso, 332 pp, £17.00 It may be pointless to try to establish which World War Two Axis aggressor, Germany or Japan, was

Protestor killed in Miami....

2003-11-26 Thread Mike Ballard
>From another list. From: earthsongwalker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 9:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LivRiv] protestor murdered by miami police i just spoke with lisa (Fithian) who confirmed the death of one of the protestor's who was beaten by miami

Venezuela report on workers-- 26 November 2003

2003-11-26 Thread michael a. lebowitz
This is the second of two notes on current developments in Venezuela; it is being sent to a larger distribution list because of its content. Please circulate widely. There have been rumours that in private industry (largely unorganised) workers would be taken to the signature tables by their

Re: Greenspan's Ponzi Scheme

2003-11-26 Thread Devine, James
he shouldn't be worrying about productivity growth. Rather, what's important is profitability trends... Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine > The Bear's Lair: Greenspan's Ponzi Scheme > By Martin Hutchinson > UPI Business and Economics E

Greenspan's Ponzi Scheme

2003-11-26 Thread Eubulides
The Bear's Lair: Greenspan's Ponzi Scheme By Martin Hutchinson UPI Business and Economics Editor Published 11/24/2003 5:36 PM WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A Ponzi scheme requires three things in order to be (temporarily) successful: a massive source of outside money, a sophisticated PR campaign,

America's Culture of Terrorism

2003-11-26 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
* America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word by Jeffory A. Clymer University of North Carolina Press 296 pp., 61/8 x 91/4, 5 illus., notes, bibl., index $45.00 cloth ISBN 0-8078-2792-4 $16.95 paper ISBN 0-8078-5460-3 Published: Fall 2003 Description Although

Strings attached, or, the financial world offers new initiatives in debt bargaining

2003-11-26 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
The United States will deduct $289.5 million from loan guarantees to Israel over disagreements regarding Israeli activity in Palestinian territories. The Israeli Embassy in Washington announced late on Tuesday that the amount was "suggested" by Israel. "Israel accepts that the United States does n

Too many humans?

2003-11-26 Thread Louis Proyect
1,000 Times Too Many Humans? Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20031124/humans.html Humans Are Unsustainable Nov. 25, 2003 — A study that compared humans with other species concluded there are 1,000 times too many humans to be sustainable. The study, published

Re: Bush trumps royalty

2003-11-26 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
At 8:50 AM -0500 11/26/03, Louis Proyect wrote: Another film that serves as a sign of the times: * FILM REVIEW; Master Of the Sea (And the French) By A. O. SCOTT I was thinking of reviewing this flick, but the reviews make it sound too tedious to sit through. About 8 years ago I visited old

Re: Bush trumps royalty

2003-11-26 Thread Louis Proyect
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Another film that serves as a sign of the times: * FILM REVIEW; Master Of the Sea (And the French) By A. O. SCOTT I was thinking of reviewing this flick, but the reviews make it sound too tedious to sit through. About 8 years ago I visited old friends from my Trotsk

Re: Bush trumps royalty

2003-11-26 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
the Bushes prefer long-dead plants, i.e., oil. BTW, in the lite-comedy movie LOVE ACTUALLY, the Prime Minister of England -- played by Hugh Grant, who would be an improvement over the poodle currently in that position -- gives a great speech against the over-bearing Americans, led by the Presiden

Re: Amnesty International

2003-11-26 Thread Louis Proyect
Hari Kumar wrote: Dave: Thanks very much indeed - you got the one I had fleetingly seen. Lou: Thanks for the review on AI on Palestine. Cheers & thanks again, H Not to myself: must not lose URLS's, must not lose usLrp's. must not.. Here is something brand-new: http://www.dissidentvoice

Forwarded from Michael Yates

2003-11-26 Thread Louis Proyect
This follows up some things Louis has been saying. First, let me quote myself (please note that the long quote reflects what mainstream economists think and what some progressive support in part, but not what I think): "Why are there rich countries and poor countries? This question implies a

Re: Amnesty International

2003-11-26 Thread Hari Kumar
Dave: Thanks very much indeed -  you got the one I had fleetingly seen. Lou: Thanks for the review on AI on Palestine. Cheers & thanks again, H Not to myself: must not lose URLS's, must not lose usLrp's. must not.. Re: Amnesty International by dave dorkin

Re: $/Euro dynamics

2003-11-26 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
That article by Stephen Roach is really superb I think, thanks for posting it, although I think the investigation should go further and look at the position of social classes in China. The essential issue is put very well: "By putting pressure on the Chinese to change their currency regime, the in

"moral issue is a distraction" - Monbiot

2003-11-26 Thread Chris Burford
George Monbiot, Tues Nov 25 in a thoughtful and cogent criticism of David Aaronovitch's position >>> in debating the war, those of us who opposed it find ourselves drawn into this fairytale. We are obliged to argue about the relative moral merits of leaving Saddam in place or deposing him, while w