Re: Whither the Fed?

... and make the next POTUS John Kerry a weak president without a big mandate at the same time.) Is there a subtle flaw here? If either Kerry or Bush is elected they will have a big mandate. It just won't be from the people, but the corporate purchasers. I fear the "people's mandate" can no longer

Re: Tariq Ali on the US election

TA: We're talking about the government which took the United States to war. Had Gore been elected, he would have gone to war in Afghanistan, but I doubt he would have gone to war in Iraq. This is very much a neocon agenda, dominated by the need to get the oil and appease the Israelis. Washington we

Re: Tariq Ali on the US election

Louis Proyect on Tariq Ali: this is Browderism raised to the level of art. No, its garden-variety Pabloism. "war in Iraq...is very much a neocon agenda, dominated by the need to get the oil and appease the Israelis." (as if Kerry wasn't gung-ho to "appease the Isrealis"!)

Re: Tariq Ali on the US election

Marvin Gandall wrote: > > (The following is from Doug Henwood's LBO-list. I may have missed Doug also > posting it here. If so, my apologies for duplicating it. But a case can be > made for reading Tariq Ali's comments twice. Ali, the radical British > political commentator and playwright, has IMO

Re: Tariq Ali on the US election

Good people disagree on the Nader/Kerry decision. I think that we all know the rationale for each choice. I don't think that either side comes out well, if you only look at what some of their supporters have done -- denying Nader his right to run through dirty tricks or cavorting with the right.

Re: Tariq Ali on the US election

Michael Perelman wrote: I don't see any more reason to demonize ABB people than to demonize Nader people. Both sides see themselves as promoting the left albeit by different routes. I am sorry, Michael. This is not "demonizing": "Frankly, I consider the ABB phenomenon to be almost unparalleled on t

Re: Tariq Ali on the US election

I don't see any more reason to demonize ABB people than to demonize Nader people. Both sides see themselves as promoting the left albeit by different routes. On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 09:05:05PM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote: > Despite my problems with State Capitalist ideology, I feel much more of >

Re: Tariq Ali on the US election

Marvin Gandall wrote: (The following is from Doug Henwood's LBO-list. I may have missed Doug also posting it here. If so, my apologies for duplicating it. But a case can be made for reading Tariq Ali's comments twice. Ali, the radical British political commentator and playwright, has IMO succinctl

Tariq Ali on the US election

(The following is from Doug Henwood's LBO-list. I may have missed Doug also posting it here. If so, my apologies for duplicating it. But a case can be made for reading Tariq Ali's comments twice. Ali, the radical British political commentator and playwright, has IMO succinctly grasped what is esse

Let The Voter Beware

Title: Let The Voter Beware Los Angeles Times August 6, 2004 COMMENTARY Democratic Party Should Live Up to Its Name Nader deplores political skulduggery aimed at keeping him off the ballot. By Ralph Nader Though the Democrats have the right to robustly oppose my independent presidential campai

questions for Leno to ask

http://ArnoldWatch.org Weblog August 6, 2004 2:00 pm Questions Jay Leno Should Ask Arnold Tonight Jay Leno has a tradition of using viewer-contributed material on the air. In honor of Governor Schwarzenegger's return to Leno tonight to mark the one year anniversary of his historic announcement tha

Re: Whither the Fed?

... and make the next POTUS John Kerry a weak president without a big mandate at the same time.) Is there a subtle flaw here? If either Kerry or Bush is elected they will have a big mandate. It just won't be from the people, but the corporate purchasers. I fear the "people's mandate" can no longer

Remembering the Korean Atom Bomb Victims

"Remembering the Korean Atom Bomb Victims" (Among the 350,000 to 400,000 who were attacked by the atom bomb and/or exposed to the lethal post-explosion radiation, at least 50,000 were people from the Korean peninsula who had been forcibly sent to Japan as mobilized workers and soldiers, or who had

Re: China's migrant refuseniks

This is a very fascinating article, displaying the contradictions in Chinese development on a far deeper level than the loud discussion that followed the mention of the article by Marty & Paul. At first it did not make sense at all. How could China have great unemployment & a shortage of workers?

Middle East Economic Survey?

Yet another oil question. Does anyone know anything about the Middle East Economic Survey? Is it considered a standard source? I ask because: in Peter Millard's Dow Jones article "Venezuela 's PdVSA Ramps Up Publicity Ahead Of Recall" (July 30), the second-to-last paragraph reads: "The government c

New way to escape the draft

NewsScan Daily, 6 August 2004 ("Above The Fold") FINLAND DISMISSING 'NET-ADDICTED' CONSCRIPTS A growing number of conscripts have to be dismissed from Finland's armed forces every year due to an Internet addiction that makes them unsuited for service. A Finnish official says: "It's an increas

China's migrant refuseniks

Drought of Migrant Labor Beijing Review | 5 aug by Fan Ren http://www.bjreview.com.cn/200431/Nation-200431(A).htm This year has seen the flood of migrant laborers, who traditionally travel to thriving coastal provinces in search of work, reduced to a trickle. As a result, many private companies hav

Re: Whither the Fed?

I would guess that the Fed -- led by Dubya's close friend Alan, who visits the White House more than weekly -- is going to surprise the financial markets by standing pat on August 10th. (I'll be out of the country, so I won't be able to stop them.) The Fed holds its next interest rate policy meetin

Re: Whither the Fed?

I would guess that the Fed -- led by Dubya's close friend Alan, who visits the White House more than weekly -- is going to surprise the financial markets by standing pat on August 10th. (I'll be out of the country, so I won't be able to stop them.) This policy will be justified by something i

Whither the Fed?

"Whither the Fed?" (Doug Henwood comments on US economy: "just 32,000 new jobs, way way below both recent trend and expectations -- and earlier months were revised down." Is the Fed still committed to a series of quarter-point hikes -- including one in September -- over the next 18 months? Then,

Arguments for progressive taxation

I'm trying to formulate arguments for progressive taxation. Does anyone have good references to share? My take is that the wealthy benefit disproportionately from society. Michael Dell gains much more from roads and educated workers than does an elementary school teacher, it seems to me, but has

Poletown decision overturned - Brush Park residents elated

The Michigan Supreme Court is dominated by Federalist Society members, i.e. rightwingers. However, here we have their conservatism/libertarianism turning into its opposite, in defense of small private property against monopolies. Charles

Economics and law

by Kenneth Campbell -clip- Calculate the number of deaths resulting from, say, a space heater (P) and multiply that by the average out of court settlement (P). If those estimated losses from defective products are less than the cost of removing those deaths through product improvement (B), then do