You might feel this is the case, but have you asked men whether they perceive there is
a relationship, a common issue which those involved have to resolve. Do you feel
comfortable to unilaterally deny a relationship that others believe to exist. As for
non-traditional families--they exist ever
Most humor revolves around some human inadequacy. We had an early thread
about calling someone crazy, which some felt displayed an insensitivity.
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 07:52:43AM -0600, Lee, Frederic wrote:
> You might feel this is the case, but have you asked men whether they perceive there
>
Sudan's devastating war fails to register on world's radar
Posted: 02/01
From: AFP
By Beatrice Debut
TINE, on the Sudan-Chad border, Jan 29 (AFP) -- A war that has been
raging for nearly a year in western Sudan has practically escaped the
international community's notice, despite heavy civilian c
Monthly Review, http://www.monthlyreview.org/0204yates.htm
Poverty and Inequality in the Global Economy
by Michael Yates
(Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review. He was for many
years professor of eco
Lee, Frederic wrote:
> Perhaps some people find humor in how children are conceived.
> Perhaps it is fun to tease those who cannot conceive because they are
> of the same sex or if heterosexual one of them cannot contribute to
> conception. From experience, us males who are sterile and have to
> s
02 Feb 2004 10:09:36 GMT
War, terror hunt puts environment on hold
By Jeremy Lovell
LONDON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The Iraq war and the anti-terror offensive
have put environment issues on hold globally, but crucial decisions are
coming up that for the sake of the planet must not be avoided, a
leading
Why the unemployment rate is really higher than it looks.
Slate
By Daniel Gross
Friday, Jan. 30, 2004, at 1:57 PM PT
http://slate.msn.com/id/2094690/#ContinueArticle
"People are finding work," President Bush proclaimed yesterday in New
Hampshire. "There's an excitement in our economy." Evidently,
Mistake Prone
John Kerry as 'Pragmatic Choice'
By Mickey Z.
In a recent article, Stormin' Norman Solomon continues his
anyone-but-Bush crusade by telling us that John Kerry is "not a
progressive candidate" but is "probably the best bet to defeat Bush —
and, as president ... would be a very sign
Title: Message
"War Against the
Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race." by Edwin Black,
Four Walls-Eight Windows Press, N.Y., 2003
The scholarship in
this book is breathtaking and it is important for understanding present-day
forces and their origins and intentions.
Title: Message
>the supporters of eugenics included such progressive [sic]
thinkers as Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger, and Oliver Wendell
Holmes.<
back in the early
part of the 20th century, "progressive" referred to middle-class and especially
upper-middle-class advocates of a government
"Lee, Frederic" wrote:
>
> You might feel this is the case, but have you asked men whether they perceive there
> is a relationship, a common issue which those involved have to resolve. Do you feel
> comfortable to unilaterally deny a relationship that others believe to exist. As
> for non-trad
Mistake Prone
John Kerry as 'Pragmatic Choice'
Bizarre secrets of Bush club exposed
By Philip Delves Broughton in New York
(Filed: 25/04/2001)
THE bizarre rituals of one of America's most exclusive clubs, which counts both
President Bush and his father among its members, have bee
The word, progressive, was supposed to be more related to science than
politics. Progresses wanted a merit system based on tests to determine
political appointments. They believed in scientific management.
Frederick Taylor, in fact, fit right in with the Progressives. For them,
the highest level
Center for Economic Policy Analysis
Wednesday, February 4, 6:00 pm:
Tom Palley, Open Society Institute
"The Economics of Deflation"
Tom's paper is available for download from the CEPA website at:
http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/
The workshop is made possible with funding from the Irene and Ber
Eubulides wrote:
The workshop is made possible with funding from the Irene and Bernard
Schwartz Project on Markets, Equality and Democracy.
Wow. Bernie made his money as an arms contractor - Loral. Kill with
one hand, redistribute with the other?
Doug
Michael Perelman wrote:
The word, progressive, was supposed to be more related to science than
politics. Progresses wanted a merit system based on tests to determine
political appointments. They believed in scientific management.
Frederick Taylor, in fact, fit right in with the Progressives. For
Holmes was actuallya fairly rabid laissez faire
pro-capitalist. He believed fiercely in Eugenics (his
savagely terse opinion upholding Carrie Buck's
sterilization sums up the tenor the movement with
characteristic concision and clarity: "Three
generations of imbeciles is enough." --OWH Jr was not
February 2, 2004
The Hollow Candidate
The Trouble with Howie
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
(clip)
Then came Iowa. First Dean lost the caucuses; then he lost his mind. I'm
not talking about his Dexedrine-infused outburst following his defeat in
the caucuses, an election that is rigged by party bigwigs to t
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Wow. Bernie made his money as an arms contractor - Loral. Kill with
one hand, redistribute with the other?
Doug
===
"[C]apital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood
and dirt."
--Ma
The irony is that Barrick, the industry pariah because of its hedging
strategy, is now the industry's best friend. When Barrick hinted it would
halt forward sales and wind down its hedge book, gold prices took off. When
the biggest short seller of them all called it quits, gold bugs knew their
opti
Mistake Prone
John Kerry as 'Pragmatic Choice'
Bizarre secrets of Bush club exposed
By Philip Delves Broughton in New York
(Filed: 25/04/2001)
THE bizarre rituals of one of America's most exclusive clubs, which counts both
President Bush and his father among its members, have bee
(...) The basic principles of the WSF were that it was an "open meeting
place" for "groups and movements of civil society that are opposed to
neoliberalism and to domination of the world by capital and any form of
imperialism." Its theme was "another world is possible." It was a "process,"
not an o
Immanuel Wallerstein wrote:
When the Forum moved from Brazil to India, the Indian organizing committee
dropped the provision about parties. Still, the proscription against
violence led to a split among the Indians. A small Maoist movement organized
a counter-Forum, called Mumbai Resistance-2004, on
Title: Message
Dear JIm Craven,
America's 26 million
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17711
By Thom Hartmann, Thomhartmann.com
February 1, 2004
While global warming is being officially ignored by
the political arm of the Bush administration, and Al
Gore's recent conference on the topic during one of
the coldest days of recent years pr
Title: Message
In Bush's proposed 2005
budget, the 2.3 million members of the armed forces and reserves would get a 3.5
percent raise. But obviously decommissioned veterans aren't much use, they are a
cost, they don't generate new income. Underlying this policy is a view
of human beings as
Mon 2.02.04| Instruments of Imperialism
Eminent political economists from the global South
spoke at a World Social Forum panel titled
"Instruments of Imperialism: War, Trade and Finance".
Among the luminaries were Jomo K.S., Prabhat Patnaik,
and Samir Amin, talking about military Keynesianism,
def
This is the first that I heard that China is putting its reserves in
Euros. Is that true?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
I'm no expert on this, but it sure seems that any kind of global change in the average
temperature would disrupt weather patterns all over the world, causing severe winters,
droughts, etc.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> http://www.
I don't exactly agree with the Dawley characterization of the progressives
as Fabian socialists. They were mostly concerned with what they
considered to be "efficient management." The Fabians wanted efficiency
too but they were less explicit in seeing lower class people as "raw
material" to be fo
Amnesty called on corporate crimes
In a promising sign for the wider private economy, firms in Hebei province will
be 'forgiven' for financial misconduct
SCMP | 2 feb
by Wang Xiangwei
In what could turn out to be a watershed in the mainland's stop-go efforts to
liberate the private economy, Hebe
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-luft2feb02,1,370578.story?
coll=la-news-comment-opinions
LA Times | 2 feb
Gal Luft
Sixty-seven years ago, oil-starved Japan embarked on an aggressive expansionary
policy designed to secure its growing energy needs, which eventually led the
nati
if enough cold, fresh water coming
> from the melting polar ice caps and the melting
> glaciers of Greenland flows into the northern
> Atlantic, it will shut down the Gulf Stream, which
> keeps Europe and northeastern North America warm.
The important words here are "if" and "enough". It really d
--- "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm no expert on this, but it sure seems that any
> kind of global change in the average temperature
> would disrupt weather patterns all over the world,
> causing severe winters, droughts, etc.
>
I'm just an aspiring prolo-author. But the noises
c
--- "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> the word "progressive" is profoundly ambiguous. is
> it Bull Moose and Teddy Roosevelt? or Lafollette? or
> Henry Wallace?
*
To me progress is a directional verb with the
direction being towards greater freedom. If the
movement leads
but what is "freedom"? to Dubya, it's greater freedom for capital, especially for his
cronies.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> > the word "progressive" is profoundly ambiguous. is
> > it Bull Moose and Teddy Roosevelt? or Lafollette?
Right you are, James. The freedom of Bush and the
bourgeoisie is for me and my class,
un-freedom--continued wage-slavery. On the other
hand, freedom for me and my class from wage-slavery
should translate into a generalized freedom for all.
Progressively yours,
Mike B)
P.S.
Jurrien, thanks for t
> This is the first that I heard that China is putting its reserves in
Euros. Is that true?
Not true. As far as I know, they have more reserves in dollars, total
reserves are equal to about $400 billion, doubling in size over the last two
years. In 2003, the Chinese central bank bought $100 bill
"Devine, James" wrote:
>
> but what is "freedom"? to Dubya, it's greater freedom for capital, especially for
> his cronies.
That Wallace's party was called the Progressive Party points to one of
the usages of the term: it means non-communists who will work with
communists. This of course has no r
Total world currency reserves are about US$3 trillion, and Asia holds about
60 percent of those reserves.
J.
http://www.maxspeak.org/mt/
--- Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> This is the first that I heard that China is putting
> its reserves in
> Euros. Is that true?
Euros reserve increasing
According to comments made by the head of the State
Administration of
Foreign Exchange and vice governor of the central bank
Guo
The February issue of Monthly Review has a good article by Fred Magdoff
(Harry's son) about hunger and agriculture. I think it would be a good
piece for students to read. I have an article as well, on poverty and
inequality in the global economy, also one which might be useful for
student
MICHAEL YATES wrote:
We will take turgid academic prose and make it sparkle!!
Bless you. That's a job worth doing.
Joanna
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-luft2feb02,1,370578.story?
coll=la-news-comment-opinions
LA Times | 2 feb
Gal Luft
Sixty-seven years ago, oil-starved Japan embarked on an aggressive
expansionary
policy designed to secur
[Of course, they have intervened in the markets by saying they won't
intervene.]
U.S. Will Not Intervene in Dollar's Slide Against Euro
By Paul Blustein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 3, 2004; Page E01
Calls are mounting from abroad for efforts to stem the fall in the U.S.
dolla
it makes sense for them to diversify out of the US$, but not very much. That's not the
same as dumping dollars.
Jim D
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From: Mike Ballard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 2/2/2004 7:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
S
Ian Murray wrote:
Right wing Sino-phobic pessimism struggling to create a self-fulfilling
prophecy:
"The Energy Dept. says that world growth in petroleum has averaged 1.5% a
year since 1995, despite China's growth." [latest issue of Business Week]
Dr. Gal Luft is founder and co-director of the Ins
Ideology has taken us from champ to chump
By JIM STANFORD
Monday, February
2, 2004 - Page A13
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