Re: wikipedia?

2004-06-11 Thread jjlassen
I think Ravi said he'd be willing to host it. I'd be happy to get it (it being MediaWiki at http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/index.php/MediaWiki_development) set up if Ravi's still willing to host it, and someone is willing to foot the modest bill ($10? 15?) of buying a domain name. Provided that

Re: wikipedia?

2004-06-11 Thread Ted Winslow
Sabri Oncu asked: What does _objective_ political economy mean? The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made in the imagination. They are the real individuals, their activity and the material conditions under which

Free Johnny Moss -- sign petition, forward widely

2004-06-11 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 09:13:33 -0400 From: Katha Pollitt Subject: Free Johnny Moss -- sign petition, forward widely Dear Friends, Please read about this case and if you agree that 23 years is more than enough for Johnny Moss, sign the petition supporting executive clemency in his case and forward

Re: wikipedia?

2004-06-11 Thread Devine, James
actually, I rewrote the entire entry on the labor theory of value. I also rewrote the entries on unemployment, the state, recessions, depression, the rate of surplus-value, the organic composition of capital, and a couple of others. If people on pen-l contribute to the existing Wikipedia, it

Re: wikipedia?

2004-06-11 Thread Calvin Ostrum
Carrol Cox wrote: Why not just produce a wikipedia of objective political economy? If that turns out to be leftist, so be it. A political economy either takes the perspective of those who must sell their labor power or the perspective of those who purchase that labor power. All political

Re: wikipedia?

2004-06-11 Thread Calvin Ostrum
Ted Winslow wrote: Sabri Oncu asked: What does _objective_ political economy mean? The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made in the imagination. They are the real individuals, their activity and the material

Re: wikipedia?

2004-06-11 Thread Sabri Oncu
Of all the answers to my question: What does _objective_ political economy mean? I liked Michael's the best: Something different from the objectionable political economy currently in vogue. Consequently, I will rephrase it as: Objective political economy is that political economy which

Should Venezuela Sell CITGO or Make It Pay?

2004-06-11 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Should Venezuela Sell CITGO or Make It Pay?: http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/06/sell-citgo-or-make-it-pay.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * Calendars of Events in Columbus:

remembering reagan

2004-06-11 Thread ravi
http://www.kirktoons.com/june_2004/images/06_01_04_Remembering_Reagan.jpg

Re: remembering reagan

2004-06-11 Thread Michael Perelman
Please, Ravi, I want to forget the guy as soon as possible. I was in Berkeley when Reagan brought the National Guard to town. After they shot an innocent bystander, James Rector, the governor said, if it takes a bloodbath, so be it. He was a thoroughly nasty person, who could somehow charm some

new radio product

2004-06-11 Thread Doug Henwood
Just added to my radio archive http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html: June 10, 2004 DH on the demise of Reagan * Rick Perlstein, historian of conservatism and author of a bio of Goldwater, on the emergence of the right the role of Ronnie * Ralph Nader, talking to the ruling class at the

Ray Charles, Ronald Raygun

2004-06-11 Thread Dan Scanlan
Title: Ray Charles, Ronald Raygun In the early sixties I saw Ray Charles perform at the Hollywood Bowl. He fell off the piano bench. Aides came out, dragged him backstage and a few minutes later he returned and finished the show. Years later he said getting off cigarettes was harder than getting

new frontiers of crony capitalism

2004-06-11 Thread Michael Perelman
The War on Jurisdiction: Troubling Questions about Executive Order 13303 Arizona Law Review, Forthcoming BY: CLAIRE KELLY Brooklyn Law School Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection:

Liberia: Another Reagan Legacy

2004-06-11 Thread sam pawlett
Chronicle of Higher Education, June 11, 2004 Rubber, Rebels, and Resentments Scholars explore the difficult past and uncertain future of the relationship between the United States and Liberia By JENNIFER JACOBSON But when civil war broke out in 1989 between Mr. Doe's government and rebel forces