I am not sure about this. Do other people find this a bit far-fetched?
Certainly stocks associated with the military-industrial complex are likely
to prosper but I would think that the touting of the NMD system has as much
or more to do with this as the specific instance of bombing Iraq.
Cheers
Ken wrote:
>I am not sure about this [Chossudovsky on Iraq bombing]. Do other people
>find this a bit far-fetched? Certainly stocks associated with the
>military-industrial complex are likely to prosper but I would think that
>the touting of the NMD system has as much or more to
awhile back Steve Philion wrote:
>The US might be into long term investment then, with short term losses?
>Reference the Yugoslavia bombing. In the short term it seemed thoroughly
>irrational, since the population was solidly behind Milosevic and
>anti-American during the civilian bombing campa
Jim Devine wrote:
>
> Further, I'm
> sure they're more interested in helping the rich as a whole -- and their
> friends and political allies -- than the stock market _per se_.
>
In the absence of an active (and growing) working class movement there
is a tendency for marxists to develop goofy
what threshold was used for the rich.
--- Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ken wrote:
> >I am not sure about this [Chossudovsky on Iraq
> bombing]. Do other people
> >find this a bit far-fetched? Certainly stocks
> associated with the
> >military-indust
So my question is Michel's
> interpretation very much a "police interpretation of
> history," one that Chomsky often makes as a result of
> the US defeat in Vietnam, undercover activity
> increased, or is the stock market affair really bigger
> than the Monica affair such that a convenient timing
At 10:49 AM 02/24/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Not long ago on the list, there seemed to be an agreement that a war could
>take the US out of economic crisis. That is not far fetched, Mandel made a
>point of it, the Marxist theory of war could be woven around it, insofar
>as aggression remains the f
Christian Gregory wrote:
>On the one hand, if markets are efficient (pace
>EMH), then daily stock movements are a response to publicly available
>information. In which case, it's hard to see how a "routine" bombing of Iraq
>would matter all that much in the fortunes of military-industrial
>contra
while the recent
US bombing gives his stock a big boost.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
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The discussion is about timing the bombing: is it far
fetched to link this to the stock market? That America
has to bomb is not an adventure, it is a must. The new
imperialism is like the old, only with more teeth
because the US enjoys more political hegemony. Indeed
the arrogance displayed in its
ruary 24, 2001 5:47 PM
> Subject: [PEN-L:8413] Re: Re: Re: Chossudovsky on Iraq bombing..
>
>
> > At 10:49 AM 02/24/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> > >Not long ago on the list, there seemed to be an agreement that a war
> could
> > >take the US out of economic crisis.
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