Re: Krugman on Greenspan and Bendien on Bujes

2004-03-03 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Joanna wrote: It's funny how a rational centrist (Krugman) can sound like a raving socialist these days. So what is the point of this ? This type of comment is useless in my view, and I will say why. What is the purpose, beyond trying to show how savvy or smart you are about the latest

Re: [Marxism] Whale Rider corrections

2004-03-03 Thread Louis Proyect
Thanks to Phil and to Grant Lee for their corrections. I have incorporated them on the rottentomatoes.com website, where all my reviews are archived. -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org

Angela Davis returns: are prisons obsolete ?

2004-03-03 Thread Charles Brown
From: Jurriaan Bendien Angela Davis returns...-clip- ^ Great ! Hope she comes to Detroit soon. We have a new City Council Women's Commission. ^^^ Book Review - Are Prisons Obsolete? ^^^ Yes, they are. In _Women, Race and Class_ , Angela discusses the coming obsolescence of

Re: Whale Rider

2004-03-03 Thread Max B. Sawicky
I was in front of my PC with my daughter in the next room watching Bambi. At one point she started screaming, Kill Bambi kill!! mbs Just recently I sat with my ten year old and watched an old Swedish film My Life as a Dog, a great movie that tells the story of a boy whose mother is dying of

Re: Whale Rider

2004-03-03 Thread joanna bujes
Yeah, these innocent Disney flicks will do it every time. I loathed Lion King. Joanna Max B. Sawicky wrote: I was in front of my PC with my daughter in the next room watching Bambi. At one point she started screaming, Kill Bambi kill!! mbs Just recently I sat with my ten year old and watched

The Nation Magazine on Haiti in 1921

2004-03-03 Thread Louis Proyect
Thanks to Alex G., a grad student at Columbia, for bringing this to my attention with the following observation: Say what you will about Villard, at least he formed an anti-imperialist league and used the Nation to object to intervention in Haiti:

Classroom exercise

2004-03-03 Thread Craven, Jim
Title: Message Here is a classroom exercise I do illustrating some of the contradicitons of capitalism. I asked students, which of the two personality types would you prefer to have--and would likely generate the most sales and profits--were you a capitalist. They always say person B. Now

Re: Classroom exercise

2004-03-03 Thread Dan Scanlan
Title: Re: Classroom exercise FREE LEONARD PELTIER!! as a Peace Freedom voter in California, I was able to (and did) vote for him for President. Jim Devine Yeah! I'm Peace and Freedom, too, and I'm proud to be one of 11 voters for Peltier in Nevada County CA. The other guy got 7 votes. There

The Piqueteros and Us

2004-03-03 Thread Louis Proyect
That's the title of an interesting article by Jim Straub that can be found on Tom Engelhardt's website at: http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/. It was also picked up on ZNet. It can best be described as a defense of the autonomist/Zapatista perspective but without the preciousness of John

Reply to Daniel Okrent

2004-03-03 Thread Louis Proyect
Dear Mr. Proyect, You appear to have a much more intimate familiarity than I do with The Times's reviewer policies. You might want to share them with the right-wingers who complained that eight books attacking John Ashcroft and the Patriot Act were assigned to a former member of the

Re: Reply to Daniel Okrent

2004-03-03 Thread Max B. Sawicky
Louis is the left's answer to Lazlo Toth. mbs -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Louis Proyect Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 5:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reply to Daniel Okrent The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org

Re: Reply to Daniel Okrent

2004-03-03 Thread Louis Proyect
Louis is the left's answer to Lazlo Toth. mbs The Lazlo Letters by Don Novello (Workman) Have you noticed lately that everyone and their uncle is writing prank letters to famous people or big companies, and publishing the results? It's the equivalent of calling the drugstore to ask if they have

Against the Grain

2004-03-03 Thread Sasha Lilley
The Monday through Wednesday editions of Living Room on KPFA, which I produce and C.S. Soong hosts, has been renamed. We're now Against the Grain -- a name which better reflects the radical analysis and Left ideas that we bring to Pacifica's airwaves. We're also going national, so if you are

Re: Against the Grain

2004-03-03 Thread Bill Lear
On Wednesday, March 3, 2004 at 16:11:10 (-0800) Sasha Lilley writes: The Monday through Wednesday editions of Living Room on KPFA, which I produce and C.S. Soong hosts, has been renamed. We're now Against the Grain -- a name which better reflects the radical analysis and Left ideas that we bring

US-Australia FTA text

2004-03-03 Thread Eubulides
USTR released the text of the US-Australia FTA today. The page with a link to each chapter is here: http://www.ustr.gov/new/fta/Australia/text/index.htm

Re: Reply to Daniel Okrent

2004-03-03 Thread Sabri Oncu
Louis is the left's answer to Lazlo Toth. mbs I know nothing about this Lazlo Toth but I am glad that Louis exists. Hopefully one day, I will meet Louis, that is, my eniste, in the real world. Best, Sabri

Re: The Piqueteros and Us

2004-03-03 Thread Grant Lee
Thanks Louis, for the interesting thoughts on the piqueteros and Straub's take on them. As it happens an Argentine friend referred me to the following article from the left/liberal _Pagina 12_, regarding opinion polling on the piqueteros. (My friend's take is that the polling is pretty accurate,

Israel jails foreign workers

2004-03-03 Thread joanna bujes
quite a scam... http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DA011746-AA4C-4804-81BF-009553BC.htm Joanna

Cui bono?

2004-03-03 Thread joanna bujes
Al Jazeera poll, numbers to date: Al Jazeera poll, to date: Who stands to benefit from civil unrest in Iraq? Neighbouring Arab country : 13% Neighbouring non-Arab country : 3% Israel and the US : 40% Internal Iraqi groups : 19% Combination of the above : 12% Unsure : 13% Number of pollers :

Re: US-Australia FTA text

2004-03-03 Thread Grant Lee
[I love the analogy made below re. Woolworth's, which is purely a supermarket chain in Australia...] Free Trade Deal details made public ABC Local Radio, The World Today, Thursday, 4 March , 2004 HAMISH ROBERTSON: [...] finance correspondent Stephen Long has been perusing the lengthy document,

Chai

2004-03-03 Thread joanna bujes
Hey Ravi, Do you or Dyvia know how to make masala chai? The blends they sell are really expensive and my guess would be that it's basically black tea + spices. But which spices? and how much? Thanks, Joanna

sorry about that...

2004-03-03 Thread joanna bujes
Chai message was obviously meant to go to ravi. J.