RE: Query- GDP by states

Gross State Product, produced by Regional Economic Info Service of BEA, Dept of Commerce. GSP is state counterpart of GDP. Since profits (and a few other things) are not reported by state, BEA takes profits for an industry and allocates it by state according to earnings for that industry. Same

RE: Re: The US Dollar (spend it fast as you can)

. . . As we have had most graphically demonstrated over the past two decades, economic growth is not a means to enable the nations to afford better housing, social programs and a more equitable distribution of income. Economic growth is an ideological program offered as a substitute for democracy,

RE: the significance of global riots

If 'everybody' is rioting, there is an obvious political burden on the authorities (distinct from the security burden) because there is a failure of policy. It becomes clear that something is wrong. If a few isolated goofballs are rioting, that has the opposite effect, or no effect. Days of Rag

RE: the significance of global riots

Max Sawicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Why not read it and find out for yourself > instead of demolishing the straw men of > your imagination. Yes, yes Max, my damn imagination: I hallucinate (as you put it) that Lind is a nativist and a right winger . . . See? There you

RE: the significance of global riots

Why not read it and find out for yourself instead of demolishing the straw men of your imagination. mbs Max, does the EPI include this 'betrayal' in its criticism of NAFTA or is this "side letter" exactly the kind of "fair trade" for which EPI, Sweeney and you are fighting? ___ >From

RE: The US Dollar (spend it fast as you can)

If you're one of those you don't identify w/the bourgeois class. Just because you're in a class doesn't mean you serve its interests. mbs But don't you have a conflict of interest and loyalties between the working class and the bourgeois class ? Charles >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/19/01 04:34P

RE: Re: The US Dollar (spend it fast as you can)

I doubt that the majority of Mexican residents & Mexican-Americans in the USA are against trade with, investment in, & immigration from Mexico. . . . Yoshie Neither am I. mbs

RE: The US Dollar (spend it fast as you can)

Plenty, if you're a smart trade unionist, social-democrat, or even a labor-friendly liberal. mbs CB: Speaking of (working) class solidarity, isn't that a socialist concept ? What use do non-socialists have for working class solidarity ?

RE: Re: Re: The US Dollar (spend it fast as you can)

Oy vey indeed. Reading Rakesh makes me forget what I actually said about Lind. I'm sure I didn't say he was my leader. I'm about 2/3rds thru The Next American Nation. I've said the analysis of race and class history in the book is very persuasive. It's good populism. I'm on his elaboration an

RE: Re: Re: The US Dollar (spend it fast as you can)

I'm thinking about how to get from here to there, and Yoshie is talking about getting from there to here. mbs Yoshie is thinking long-term, while it seems that Max is thinking short-term . . .

RE: Re: The US Dollar (spend it fast as you can)

If protecting union jobs is the only point, anti-immigrant & pro-protectionist nativism is patently pointless. New immigrant workers are more pro-union than native-born workers -- hence the AFL-CIO's new stance. To survive, organized labor has to sign up as many as it can, native or immigran

RE: Re: The US Dollar (spend it fast as you can)

Under this form of class solidarity, there would be no trade unions worthy of the name. Real class solidarity means you protect union jobs. If you aren't in a union, you protect them towards the day when you can be in one, which protecting furthers. In a strike situation, calling for all to be e

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: The US Dollar (spend itfast as you can)

>Lind is not a nativist. . . . Check what he says about the need to control immigration in one of his books. Maybe I am hallucinating his nativist sentiment; I didn't buy the book, just glanced through it at a bookstore. If I am wrong, I will apologize profusely. Rakesh Hmm. You glance t

RE: Re: URPE circular letter about Andrew Kliman

there's really no way for a third party to tell who is right or wrong, so more details wouldn't help. My suggestion is for both sides to agree on mediation as a substitute for litigation. Whoever refuses would then be defined as in the wrong. mbs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: The US Dollar (spend it fast as you can)

Lind is not a nativist. He is a liberal nationalist. He may be a Listian, but to me that is not necessarily a Bad Thing. The idea that he is a right-wing plant is hallucinatory. mbs . . . Michael told me not to insult anyone, so I will hold back my comments on the neo-nativist and self-procla

RE: Re: RE: wynne godley

To that extent tax competition is on point. In the main, urban fiscal problems are due to the city-suburb (city-state legislature) relationship, IMO. mbs Max, I don't understand your point. Toledo gave away tax breaks to lure companies, such as Chrysler, which gutted its tax base.

RE: Re: Re: The US Dollar (spend it fast as you can)

Michael Lind (The Next American Nation) makes the point that patents, IP, and professional licensure (i.e., tenure!) are the upper-class ("white overclass") variant of protectionism. Consistent free-traders should be willing to do away with those barriers to trade as well. How do laissez faire e

RE: wynne godley

I don't think it's quite right as an analogy. There's a city/suburb problem that you can appreciate wherein better-off people reside in suburbs and use the cities for job locations, services, and certain amenities not available in suburbs (museums, sports teams, etc.). This way they avoid, with

RE: wynne godley

There is tax competition between states and countries, but the effect in distorting tax structures is much more important, IMO, than the impact on the size of government. There is pressure on the size of Gov, but it stems from ideological and (anti-)redistributive concerns, not very much from act

When work isn't enough

The Economic Policy Institute recently released a new Briefing Paper, When Work Just Isn't Enough, which examines the hardships families experience on and off welfare. Many families that have left welfare rolls to join the workforce experience hardships even when they are successful in findi

RE: Re: RE: Why I Am Leaving PEN-L

Now I'm leaving PEN-L. >I don't get along with Rakesh, who has just arrived, >but how do we know it's really Rakesh and not some >imposter whose real name is Hyman Blumenstock or >Tachion Babushka? Max, why do you find so called ethnic names funny? Are you one of those self-hating ones? Look,

RE: Why I Am Leaving PEN-L

Hey Leo, Your departure is PEN-L's loss, not yours. LBO is more fun anyway. PEN-L tries to be serious and promote civility, but the results for civility are uneven and the seriousness stifles my matchless sense of humor. Plus it only encourages Devine. Calling someone a stalinist is hardly the

RE: RE: godley and implosion in the US

yes. mbs Didn't Wynne come out and state that a tax cut four times as big as Bush's would be necessary to avoid a major downturn?

RE: godley

. . . Anyway, I hoped I made a bit clearer Wynne's position on this. As I said, international trade is not really my area. What I can stand for is that the present trends of main financial (im)balances of the US economy (private sector negative net savings and negative balance of trade) cannot be

RE: RE: Re: Re: Re: RE: wynne godley

. . . The effects of any form of undisguised wall-to-wall US protectionism on world trade today would be presumably, completely catastrophic, the debacle even worse than 1929-31. Is the Godley view that this debacle is inevitable anyway, so it's a case of sauve qui peut? Mark Jones I presume a

RE: Mexican Workers in the US

where else does the GOP 'conservative wing' have to go? Buchanan is a total bust. This is a freebee for Bush. mbs Amnesty Proposal Is Huge Gamble for Bush President Could Be Rewarded With Hispanic Vote but Risks Angering GOP's Conservative Wing

El ALCAN a los siete anos

Two announcements regarding the Global Policy Network: 1)  The report NAFTA at Seven is now available in Spanish. El informe El ALCAN a los siete años está disponible ahora en español.    2) GPN now has a new, shorter domain name: The Global Policy Network can now be found on the web at GPN

RE: wynne godley

If the discussion is not fruitful, I'm sure it will be nutful. mbs Jim Devine has brought up Wynne Godley's work several times. He has a new paper writter with a former penner, who had promised to return. I think that Godley may sign up to pen-l after he returns from England. I hope that we

RE: Re: Re: East Timor

good grief. your reputation as the king of dish & gossip is reduced to ashes. mbs Is James K. Galbraith at U. Texas, Austin, another son? Michael Pugliese

RE: Crap alert!

You say you want an intervention Well you know We all want to change the rate You tell me it's a big recession Well you know We all want to change the rate But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Greenspan . . . [Pen-l contest: complete the last line here, what rhymes with Greenspan, anyway?]

RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: Question about Microeconomics

I talked to Walter once at a Cato event. You could see a mean streak. I've got one myself. It just takes other forms. mbs a colleague who mentioned Keynes at a seminar told me WW came up to him afterward and asked him if he knew K was a "dirty faggot."

RE: RE: Re: Question about Microeconomics

I didn't realize that Smith moved to GMU. That is an interesting development. Kind of solidifies GMU as sort of *the* free market 'heterodox' dept. or alternative mainstream dept, depending on how you define orthodoxy, etc. They have Buchanan (Public Choice), Vaughan, Boettke, D. Lavoie et al (A

RE: question about capital gains

See Len Burman's recent book, The Labyrinth of Capital Gains Tax Policy. IRS web site has tables with realized cap gains, though there is a time lag in reporting. The latest numbers are for '97 or '98. max -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

RE: news of the world

The media here has been saturated with Condit/Levy for weeks, and JD has just found out. Fox news and the cable outfits are having a field day w/this stuff. Latest rumor is she may have gotten pregnant. Condit's wife was in town when she disappeared. Lots of circumstances, but no facts. By r

Summer Reading?

Mark Jones-- Caviar --- Gollancz (0 575 06043 3) £15.99 out August 25th The game is international; the currency is oil; the penalty for defeat: extinction - in Mark Jones' devastating new thriller of realpolitik in a fragmented world. Douglas and Zildra Reynard have gone to ground in a remote cott

RE: shit hits fan

I'll be writing an electric manifesto on taking back the tax cut. mbs "There is little hope left for an economic recovery in the second half of the year, the president and chief executive officer told employees recently in a recorded telephone message." -- Globe and Mail, July 4, 2001 In 25

RE: The Universal market

Everything For Sale, Robert Kuttner mbs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Martin Watts Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 7:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:14716] The Universal market Has anyone got a good contemporary reference to

RE: Re: Marx's method

The truly digmatic would discern the macro foundations of micro. mbs Does the "digmatic" AM dig Micro while neglecting Macro? Yoshie >Curiously appropriate for AMs. I rather like it. Of course, >"dogmatic" is bad, but "digmatic" may be good. --jks

RE: Re: Re: Re: re: Marx's method

Bah. Electronic instruments. PR nerds. Here's my contribution to the Lexicon: Proposed Main Entry: dig·mat·ic Pronunciation: dig-'ma-tik Variant(s): also dig·mat·i·cal /-ti-k&l/ Function: adjective Date: 2001 1 : revealing hidden meaning 2 : characterized by or given to the use of digmatism sy

RE: Re: re: Marx's method

'digmatic'? If this isn't a word, if should be, though I'm not sure what it should mean. mbs Do you think that _I_ am a reductionist of the bad sort? Although it's hardly worth arguing anymore, I have argued here and elsewhere that AM is not exhausted by Roemer's and Elster's more digmatic p

RE: False Holism

You and MR are talking about financial capital, and most of what you say is well-taken, but I understood Mark to be referring to real capital goods and facilities. From a reasonable assessment of the world population's needs (including leisure time), we could use more capital, not less. Mark's s

RE: Re: Re: over- or under-accumulation? typo alert

Kondratiev> http://csf.colorado.edu/authors/Alexander.Mike/longwave.html > Several questions. Do K-waves actually exist> Yoshie Better question: if they did, how would you know you were or were not in one? Who in their right mind would rely on a theory that purported to predict when they be

RE: relevance

Does this endless debate over the origins of capitalism have any relevance to contemporary politics? I don't think it has to - I'm not demanding relevance as a precondition for debate. Just curious about the volume and vehemence of it all. Doug no, but the concept of hydraulic lock-in deserve

RE: RE: query: "kinked" utility curves

Other directions that do not engage the utility lit are transactions costs and 'specific human capital in the firm,' the latter a fancy way of saying you develop specialized knowledge in a particular job that is not transferable. So if you lose that job you command a lower wage (all other things

RE: Re: NYTimes.com Article: A Fertile Farm Region Pays Its Jobless to Quit California

Irony Alert!! mbs > The lavatory of federalism . . . If the Dems were > in control in CA this stuff would never happen. The Dems *are* in control in California... and wasn't it Clinton who "reformed" welfare? . . .

RE: RE: Re: RE: Re Postscript to Garbled messages, wasSpinoza. . . .

What about Flatulus? mbs " . . . let us not forget that they even named their leading families after the humble trades of their forebears. Thus, Lentullus (lentils), Cicero, (chick peas) and the Flavians (green beans) may have made it big in the times of the emperor Augustus and Julius Caesar,

RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Hardt:"Spinoza was a communist thinker long before Marx"

This is unfair. Out of the White Panther movement we get the MC5 and a kick-ass guitarist named Wayne Kramer. . . . " . . . John Sinclair, it ain't fair . . . " mbs

test/disregard (sorry)

2:47 pm

RE: Re: Re: Re: microsoft's plans

. . . I think there's an effort to write modem drivers to use Windows-specific modems under Linux; but almost all hardware is so cheap, and Linux device driver support is so improved, that it's only rarely a problem, at least for generic kinds of devices. Kendall Clark Some printers are windoze

Labor History Reading List

thought this might be of interest to PEN-Lers. max The Labor History discussion list recently asked for recommended readings on labor history that would interest "non-specialists." The following list summarizes the items proposed by those professors who made recommendations. I forward it to yo

RE: microsoft's plans

There's an article on this in Salon but not, surprisingly, in Slate. They are going to drive people into Linux. mbs Are you people following Microsoft's new plan? Lease, don't sell the software -- so that people will have to upgrade. Also, the new plan for XP is supposed to be able to monit

Budget Factoids

(Source: Congressional Budget Office letter to Sen. Domenici, June 6, 2001.) Projected FY2002 baseline surplus as of January of this year: $313b Projected FY2002 baseline surplus as of May of this year: $304b Axe to grind: economic downturn has negligible effect, contrary to certain prophets

RE: Re: economics as religion

Kenneth Boulding. The Economy of Love and Fear. mbs Could anyone offer a good book that deals with microeconomic behaviour say of individuals to noneconomic wants (religion, group solidarity, and the like)? I would prefer a less technical/modelling approach and more of a truly interdisciplinar

RE: Re: RE: question regarding reagan tax cuts...

I'll give them an ounce. But see Mike Meeropol's EPI issue brief on this, comparing Reagan '81 to Gerry Ford '75. mbs At 02:25 PM 6/11/01 +0100, you wrote: >The Reagan cuts were in passed in 1981, at the very start >of the recovery from '80 and '81 recessions. Because >Reagan's term began

RE: Re: (Fwd) CUBANALYSIS

The percentage of aging in the population is an empty figure unless accompanied by figures on the percentage of children and adolescents in the population. If the latter decreases, then the proportion of non-workers remains constant. If the latter also increases, then what? In any case, isolated p

RE: question regarding reagan tax cuts...

Unless there's a recession or near zero economic growth, tax revenue is likely to go up. The question re: Reagan was whether revenue was higher than it would have been with no tax cuts. If so, the tax cut would have 'paid for itself.' The consensus is it didn't (see The Tax Decade, C. Eugene St

RE: RE: A Clinton encounter

In general, convincing, but is Claire Sterling a reliable source? mbs Dear Sir, So Alan Duncan was employed by 'controversial commodities trader Marc Rich and Co' (May 20 1966)? Marc Rich is controversial in the same way Genghis Khan was controversial. According to Claire Sterling . . .

Steel Yourselves

Our view is Georgie did the right thing. But you always knew we are too preoccupied with the U.S. working class. Herewith an intra-office exchange: NY Times, June 6, 2001 Bush Moves Against Steel Imports By JOSEPH KAHN . . . Did Bush stumble into the right policy? What's your take on this? m

RE: Pacifica Radio Matters

I'm afraid I don't find PFW of much use down here either. Aside from the exceptional Amy Goodman, it consists of not very interesting call-in shows and music that I happen to like but is not commercially viable (blues, 'old- school', bluegrass). Its loss would be mostly a matter of what might ha

RE: Submerging...

thank you sweet Jesus. m bye John Landon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website on eonic effect http://eonix.8m.com http://www.eonica.net

RE: Re: Re: RE: the gospel of buddha

Could be a CB handle. mbs Who is a "good buddha"?

RE: Re: RE: Re: Michael, Re: Re Eurocentrism and "Waste" of Bandwidth

"The world is full of evil and sorrow, because it is full of lust. Men go astray because they think that delusion is better than truth. Rather than truth they follow error, which is pleasant to look at in the beginning but in the end causes anxiety, tribulation, and misery." --The Gospel of Bu

RE: Re: Michael, Re: Re Eurocentrism and "Waste" of Bandwidth

In re: the Zendo, better behind than before, say I. mbs John, I don't quite understand your note, but it does sound wierd. Here is the problem. I don't think that anybody has quite figured out what you are trying to say about Kant, Hegel and the like. . . . > > He fetl quite upset. He said

RE: Re: RE: Speaking of labor standards...

You have to fix or nix the WTO, but until you do one or the other, the ILO won't be a happenin place. Calls to leave the WTO alone in favor of the ILO do nothing but uphold the WTO and all it represents. mbs == Surely we shouldn't try to "reform" the WTO? And if we sink or unbundle

RE: Speaking of labor standards...

I remember the free-trade marxists who insisted labor should cold-shoulder the WTO and try to use the ILO. mbs The labor organization's fruitless effort to take a strong stand against Myanmar has shed a harsh light on its lack of enforcement power. . . .

RE: Re: RE: Re: The Truth Will Set You Free

Max: >Opposing U.S. intervention does not depend on solidarity >with the FARC or anyone else. Presumably most people >here who opposed NATO in the Balkans were not practising >solidarity w/Milo. Actually, the same divide that existed with respect to US intervention in Yugoslavia exists with resp

RE: Re: The Truth Will Set You Free

Max wrote: >There is also the small matter of the truth of >what is happening. Efforts to obscure this do >not uphold the credibility of the speaker, assuming >they have any credibility to begin with. >Acknowledgement of whatever crimes the FARC >et al. are guilty of would strengthen any >good cl

The Truth Will Set You Free

You can dress up atrocity reports w/a lot of marxist blather but the implied moral exhortation and political motive are no less obvious. I eschew bourgeois morality, but see how brutal capitalism is. Check out these testicles. Anyone who employs atrocity reports can hardly hope to delegitimize

RE: who's in the working class?

Awhile back, "Mad" Max Sawicky suggested a way to define the working class. By bizarre coincidence -- since we _never_ agree on anything -- it roughly coincided with my own workable definition. Of course, I look at it from the opposite direction, looking at the capitalist class. In one

RE: Memorial Day with Schleifer

How are the mosquitos this year? I'm going there in three weeks, but I don't plan to live in a tent. nice piece on AS et al. mbs I went camping in the rain on Chingoteague Island . . .

RE: Re: Re: Re: query

Yup. There's a new one out. Available in your hippest bookstores everywhere. If you don't have any hip bookstores, you can probably order it by phone or e-mail. http://www.kramers.com/ max Bill writes: >Note to Jim Devine: see the Cautionary Note at the top of p. xvii >where it says "As a r

RE: Re: Re: query

Depends on how good they are at tax avoidance, or how bold they are in tax evasion. The Gov 'muddies' its publicly-available data to prevent the identification of individuals. The averages for the top 1% are the best you are going to get, unless you have access to a microdata set that lets you c

RE: Re: Re: query

Different studies define income differently. There is a section in the report that discusses income definitions (p. 32). The income measure used includes the obvious types of cash income, as well as some fringe benefits, the employer share of the payroll tax, and realized capital gains. The fring

RE: Re: Re: query

broken down how? max -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William S. Lear Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 7:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:12514] Re: Re: query On Thursday, May 31, 2001 at 15:13:22 (+0100) Max Sawicky writes: >

RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: Final words on Brenner/Wood

It was the final sentence that I was referring to. I agree that the slavery numbers are more amenable to evidence. mbs Max Sawicky wrote: > > > . . . It was, inter alia, the 11 million slaves known to have been > exported from Africa to the Americas via the Atlantic slave trade i

RE: Re: Re: query

Try Appendix G of the CBO report. max >There's a brand new Congressional Budget Office >report w/tons of stuff on the income part. It can be >downloaded at www.cbo.gov: > >Historical Effective Tax Rates: 1979-1997. I was not able to find anything more fine-grained than the top 5%. If yo

RE: query

There's a brand new Congressional Budget Office report w/tons of stuff on the income part. It can be downloaded at www.cbo.gov: Historical Effective Tax Rates: 1979-1997. If that's not current enough for you, go to Census or the EPI web site. max -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROT

RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: Final words on Brenner/Wood

. . . It was, inter alia, the 11 million slaves known to have been exported from Africa to the Americas via the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th-19th centuries--and the exploitation of the indigenous societies, and the looting of the Americas, and much of Asia and Africa--which primed the European

RE: Re: Krugmania

I disagree. Discussion of style is not necessarily shallow. It's about Krugman's conflicted mind re: celebrification and public opinion. It is not about IS-LM or 'rules vs. discretion.' If you get close to the loony machinery that conveys your utterances to millions of ears and eyeballs, you c

Krugmania

fyi There was a Post article this a.m. about one Michael Wolff, a columnist for New York Magazine, which mentioned a column he did on PK. It was sufficiently interesting to prompt me to check it out. Wolff goes under the category of "media critic" and seems to be an exceptionally skilled and pi

RE: Re: Oz Competition update

I beg to differ. One of my favorite lines in a movie by Jessica Tandy was, "When sex is right it can be wonderful; but when it's wrong it can be wonderful too." mbs Competition is like sex. Whether it is a Good Thing or a Bad Thing very much depends on who, what, when, where and how. Tom Walk

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Sen. Jefferts leaves Republican party

This is in response to Max's answer about a third party -- his complete response is at the end of my comments: I like the idea of a front porch campaign -- a real time version of a list. And, I agree with most of your very broad outline. One question though, how would you define the working clas

RE: Re: Relevance, was Re:mita

hey, I'm worse than that. I'm the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, all wrapped into one. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine This brings to mind an equine image, but not the apocalypse dudes. mbs

RE: Re: RE: Sen. Jefferts leaves Republican party

I'm not interested in galvanizing progressives. I want to galvanize the working class. My 5- point populist program would be: democratic money; fair trade; curb anti-competitive predation by corporations; labor rights, and fully fund the domestic budget. My targets, conversely, would be free tr

RE: Re: RE: Re: tax cut passes Congress (U.S.)

Here is a condemnation of the tax cut bill by possibly the next Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Kent Conrad (D-ND). He mentions that he supported two alternative tax cuts, belying the notion that the Democrats lost because they did not present their own plans.

RE: Re: The Tax Bill & the D's

Father Devine semonizes: "it's not big bucks that buys social democracy, since big bucks won't buy it (they want something else) and any kind of social democracy that's bought with cash is crappy. It's popular mobilization of workers . . . Doh! I meant you need a big revenue system to fund big s

RE: Re: tax cut passes Congress (U.S.)

I've gone back and forth on this myself. I'm leaning towards the conclusion that it's a political victory for Bush. He got everything he asked for, against the wishes of the Dem leadership in both Houses. He got the defection of 10 or so 'moderates,' including the Dem head of the Finance Cttee.

The Tax Bill & the D's

For a lot of people, this year's rebate will be bigger than their tax cut. $600 bucks. Yum yum. I'll take it. The irrationality of the 'moderates' in both parties who uphold fiscal responsibility is grossly manifest. I'm talking about any Senator who made a big deal out of voting for a $1.35 t

RE: Fwd: Value Theory Symposium

>INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP ON VALUE THEORY > >2d SUMMER SYMPOSIUM AT GREENWICH > >9-10 JULY, 2001 > Not to be missed will be the session on litigation as productive labor. mbs

RE: Conquistadores

Also there was the DeNiro film along similar lines. I think it was called The Mission. Wasn't bad; the good guys lose but there was a not-bad propaganda note at the end. I don't recall ever seeing it in the tv listings. mbs Apparently there is a whacked-out film based on his voyage: Nicolas

RE: Re: Michael...

> You don't enforce the minimal--minimal!--requirements of politeness > required for any functioning discourse community that wants to be > anything more than an echo chamber for its dominant tendency. That > leaves me with a problem. How do you suggest that I deal with it? == We need to

RE: RE: Re: Re: Re: government media is bad for you

. . . But the Guardian's greatest Intelligence exploits happened much later, during the Thatcher era. The Guardian was then given the role of dishing Old Labour from the left, which it did very well. . . . Was it Wrong to dish Old Labour from the left, or was the way it was done objectionable? H

RE: ATC editor neutral in corporate take-over of Pacifica

Minor note -- I don't think Berry is DLC. Anti-Nader Liberal is a better designation. The latter have much more to lose, or would lose sooner, from a resurgent left that they failed to control. mbs As many of you are aware, the bitter struggle at the Pacifica network pits the radical forces at

RE: Re: A Broadband Mandate?- Telecom Legislation Battle on Capitol Hill

ation obliterates Net Action's argument. mbs - Original Message ----- From: "Max Sawicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >This looks very good, but to be more convinced I'd like >you to state the other side's progressive arguments, such >as they are, at more length, along

RE: A Broadband Mandate?- Telecom Legislation Battle on Capitol Hill

This looks very good, but to be more convinced I'd like you to state the other side's progressive arguments, such as they are, at more length, along w/your refutations. max -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nathan Newman Sent: Tuesday, May

RE: How Harvard and the Chubais clan robbed Russia

>Strange. Inside the U.S. Treasury that I was at, there was enormous >anxiety about Chubias's loans-for-shares program . . . Los Angeles Times September 12, 1999, Sunday, Home Edition HOW THE CHUBAIS CLAN, HARVARD FED CORRUPTION . . . Chubais and his clique of political and financial power br

FW: Palast: IMF's Four Steps to Damnation

++ global economy network Campaign for America's Future http://www.ourfuture.org ++ 1. Palast: IMF's Four Steps to Damnation 2. Interview with Palast from Cleveland Free Times IMF'S FOUR STEPS TO DAMNATION --

RE: Blinder on CA energy emergency

Don't Write Off Davis Energy Plan . . . The governor's plan, while not perfect, has the three elements. It also avoids the wackier suggestions from both the right and the left. . . . Not to worry. In 1991 or so, Blinder was writing that proposals to increase public spending in the face of th

RE: Taxes, Qui Bono?

. . . Questions: 1) Are these reasonable "multipliers" and/or is this the right term to use? mbs: not sure what this means. 2) Has anyone written about this in accessible form? Anyone written about this with good empirical data? mbs: there is tons of research on the dist

Cherry Pick

Advert for my bud Bob Cherry's latest book -- mbs = WHO GETS THE GOOD JOBS? COMBATING RACE AND GENDER DISPARITIES What do liberals, moderates, and conservatives agree on: the importance of Robert Cherry's Who Gets the Good Jobs? Both affirmative action s

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