Jean-Bertrand Aristide may have been allowed to leave, but middle class
vigilantes and police loyal to the rebels have entered Port-au-Princes
slums to hunt and kill his supporters, according to the Washington Post.
Residents of the slum quarter of La Saline told the Post uniformed
police and
(This article appears all the more rancid after the way things have
turned out in Haiti. Wilentz is a Columbia University journalism
professor who epitomizes everything that is bad about the Nation
Magazine. With its combination of disgusting politics and a highly
polished writing style, the
Jim raised the question in that post Yoshie mentions: But then again,
I'm not sure exactly what it means to have to have the law of value
continuing to operate under socialism. Does that mean that the economy
isn't totally under a plan?
^^^
And that some goods and services are traded based on
I wonder if somebody on PEN-L might have some insight as to whether the
anti-deregulation move by DTE, our local energy utility, is really anti-
or not.
http://www.dteenergy.com/ http://www.dteenergy.com/
Charles Brown
March 2, 2004/New York TIMES
Paul Sweezy, 93, Marxist Publisher and Economist, Dies
By LOUIS UCHITELLE
Paul M. Sweezy, a Harvard University economist who left academia and became the
nation's leading Marxist intellectual and publisher during the cold war and the
McCarthy era, died Saturday
"But then again, I'm not sure exactly what it means to have to have "the law of value"continuing "to operate under socialism." Does that mean that the economyisn't totally under a plan?
Comment
"The Economic Development of the USSR" by Roger Munting, St. Martin Press 1982 contains enough
Counterpunch, March 2, 2004
Progressive Interventionism
If Kerry's the Answer, What's the Question?
By WILLIAM BLUM
Of all the issues that the presidential campaign will revolve around,
none is more important to me than foreign policy. I say this not because
that is my area of specialty, but
Louis Proyect's comments on Wilentz's article in the Nation are very
persuasive. However, I do disagree with Louis on the following:
When you accept Bill Clinton's right to interfere in Haiti's internal
affairs on a good will basis, the door is also opened to George W. Bush's
more openly hostile
Julio Huato wrote:
It matters how Bill Clinton got involved in Haiti's internal affairs.
Whatever we may think of Aristide, he was a democratically elected
president. And he was asking for help from the UN and the U.S., and
help is
never disinterested (even in a hypothetical communist society).
Book Review - Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Y. Davis. New York, Seven
Stories Press, 2003.
While the US prison population has surpassed 2 million people, this figure
is more than 20 percent of the entire global imprisoned population combined.
Angela Y. Davis shows, in her most recent book, Are
(Reading this carefully, one might conclude that it is not so odd that
Ralph Miliband's sons are leading Blairites.)
In the house of the rising sons
Ralph Miliband was one of the most charismatic and influential
socialists of his generation. His sons David and Ed are stars of New
Labour. Is
Considering all the hype surrounding Lord of the Rings, one might have
missed another New Zealand export that is now available in DVD/Video and
whose 13 year old star was nominated as Best Actress in 2004. I am
speaking of Whale Rider, a Maori coming of age story with a twist--in
this case the
. . . Although Keisha Castle-Hughes is an Australian Aboriginal, she clearly
has an exceptional ability to make her character Pai come to life.
??
This is a sweet film. My wife talked me into watching it,
and as usual in those cases, I'm glad she did. I would
have thought it perfect for
Considering all the hype surrounding Lord of the Rings, one might have
missed another New Zealand export that is now available in DVD/Video and
whose 13 year old star was nominated as Best Actress in 2004. I am
speaking of Whale Rider, a Maori coming of age story with a twist--in
this case the
The original of this may have been jumbled in transmission. Whatever
happened, here is a corrected copy.
Original Message
Subject: [lbo-talk] : BDL on Sweezy)
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:35:50 -0800 (PST)
From: andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
I wonder if Paul Krugman is embarrassed to appear on the same op-ed page
as this fellow:
March 2, 2004/New York TIMES
More Than Money
By DAVID BROOKS
If the polls are to be believed, this could be the last day of John
Edwards's presidential campaign. But before we bid him adieu, it's time
for
March 2, 2004/New York TIMES
NEWS ANALYSIS
Medicare and Social Security Challenge
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
WASHINGTON, March 1 - When Alan Greenspan urged Congress last week to
cut future benefits in Social Security and Medicare, sending elected
officials to the barricades, he was if anything
Quoth Father Devine:
I wonder if Paul Krugman is embarrassed to appear on the same op-ed page
as this fellow:
March 2, 2004/New York TIMES
More Than Money
By DAVID BROOKS
It's 98% drivel, but there is this 2%:
. . . While conservatives were right about the basic nature of poverty,
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
. . . Evidently there is some psych lit
that says that seeing a story with an infant/mother death
would have a bad effect on the younger child. I have no
idea if this is so. You see worse stuff every night on
the news, so I'm skeptical.
I am too. I think children are much
Well, gosh darn it, he's right! The rich need more money and the poor
need more work and or work skills.
If you disagree, I've got a bumpersticker for you: black/red/white. It says
JOBS for the RICH
MONEY for the POOR
I made it up eight years ago as a non-so-subtle attempt at counter
propaganda.
Charles,
I took a look at the DTE proposal. There wasn't much detail there but
it looks like what Schwartenegger's academics are pushing in California.
I wrote a year ago that economists never learn -- but the proponents of
deregulation actually have learned that free market they proposed has
I said: I wonder if Paul Krugman is embarrassed to appear on the same op-ed page
as this fellow
a friend replied that David Brooks isn't competition for Krugman: he's his job
insurance.
Jim Devine
Jim, any idea who this Brooks is?
Paul
Devine, James wrote:
I wonder if Paul Krugman is embarrassed to appear on the same op-ed page
as this fellow:
March 2, 2004/New York TIMES
More Than Money
By DAVID BROOKS
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
March 2, 2004/New York TIMES
NEWS ANALYSIS
Medicare and Social Security Challenge
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
In theory, the two giant trust funds are
accumulating huge surpluses
that can be used to pay for benefits when the baby
boomers retire and
I don't know much, but from what I've heard on US NPR, he's the type of person who's
best when discussing polling results.
According to the web, he's the senior editor at [very conservative] The Weekly
Standard and author of Bobos [bourgeois bohemians] In Paradise: The New Upper Class
and How
OK, here's a comment: Since the trustees of the Social Security Trust Fund
are personally liable for the savings of the beneficiaries and Greenspan has
now put us on notice that further lending of trust funds to the US
Government is in jeopardy of not being repaid, we should put the Trustees on
The funds are in a lock box -- at an undisclosed location -- where Cheney and Scalia
are hunting. relax. The adults are in charge.
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 06:43:10PM -0500, Peter Hollings wrote:
OK, here's a comment: Since the trustees of the Social Security Trust Fund
are personally liable
He wrote a pretty funny radical chic type book on the meritocracy:
Bobos in Paradise. I'm actually surprised he's devolved into this.
Joanna
paul phillips wrote:
Jim, any idea who this Brooks is?
Paul
Devine, James wrote:
I wonder if Paul Krugman is embarrassed to appear on the same op-ed page
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
March 2, 2004/New York TIMES
NEWS ANALYSIS
Medicare and Social Security Challenge
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Doug Orr was on the local NPR affiliate with some other people giving an
excellent take on Greenspan's, uh, strategic
Mike Ballard wrote:
President Bush and Republican lawmakers distanced
themselves as well,
saying that much of the problem could be averted by
setting up private
savings accounts.
A ridiculous proposal which plays to the ignorance of
the working class about who actually produces the
wealth and
Good one! Justin ???
Joanna
Peter Hollings wrote:
OK, here's a comment: Since the trustees of the Social Security Trust Fund
are personally liable for the savings of the beneficiaries and Greenspan has
now put us on notice that further lending of trust funds to the US
Government is in jeopardy
Be vewy, vewy quietwe're hunting wabbits
j.
Michael Perelman wrote:
The funds are in a lock box -- at an undisclosed location -- where Cheney and Scalia
are hunting. relax. The adults are in charge.
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 06:43:10PM -0500, Peter Hollings wrote:
OK, here's a
joanna bujes wrote:
He wrote a pretty funny radical chic type book on the meritocracy:
Bobos in Paradise.
He stole a lot of it from Tom Frank.
Doug
James Devine wrote:
I wonder if Paul Krugman is embarrassed to appear on the same op-ed page as
this fellow:
He should... the same way we all should feel embarrassed for sharing the
same federal administration with David Brooks. It may be as hard for us to
alter the White House's policies as for
a Maori coming of age story with a twist--in
this case the protagonist is a teenage girl rather than a boy.
Although Keisha Castle-Hughes is an Australian Aboriginal, she clearly
has an exceptional ability to make her character Pai come to life.
In fact, Keisha's mother is Maori and she has
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200403/01/print20040301_136190.html
What seems interesting here is not so much that it might read from the days when the
Peoples' in the People's Republic of China had more meaning, but it raises the
question for me: is this just rhetorical of does it signal
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/opinion/02KRUG.html
New York Times
March 2, 2004
Maestro of Chutzpah
By PAUL KRUGMAN
T he traditional definition of chutzpah says it's when you murder your
parents, then plead for clemency because you're an orphan. Alan
Greenspan has chutzpah.
It's funny how a rational centrist (Krugman) can sound like a raving
socialist these days.
Joanna
Michael Pollak wrote:
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/opinion/02KRUG.html
New York Times
March 2, 2004
Maestro of Chutzpah
By PAUL KRUGMAN
T he traditional definition of chutzpah says
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