Act now to end this war occupation: Voices in the Wilderness

2004-08-11 Thread Fred Feldman
Act Now to End This War Occupation Hands Off Najaf By VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS Our country's military now declares preparations to attack the Shrine of Ali in the city of Najaf in Iraq. Our country stands on the precipice of declaring war on Islam. An attack on the Shrine of Ali is an attack

Re: Try email stripper to end wrap around

2004-08-02 Thread Waistline2
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The end of suburbia

2004-07-29 Thread Louis Proyect
Wednesday, July 28, 2004 Its the End of the World as We Know It By Thomas Wheeler Review of The End of Suburbia - Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream (The Electric Wallpaper Co., c/o VisionTV, 80 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 1X2, 87 minute DVD, US$27.75/C$34.50

The End Of Management?

2004-07-14 Thread Charles Brown
TIME.com: The End Of Management? -- Jul. 12, 2004 http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz/article/0,9171,1101040712-660965,00.html /

Cal Labor: End Occupation, Come Clean on Venezuela

2004-07-14 Thread Robert Naiman
Issued 7/13/04 11:45 p.m. PDT For immediate release: Contact: Michael Eisenscher, U.S. Labor Against the War 510-693-7314 Largest State Federation of Labor in U.S. Calls for Immediate End to U.S. Occupation of Iraq San Diego, CA: On Tuesday, July 13th at its 25th biennial convention

Re: The End Of Management?

2004-07-14 Thread Tom Walker
I love it! Total Information Awareness meets ParEcon. Robin Hanson, may I introduce you to Robin Hahnel... Charles Brown wrote, TIME.com: The End Of Management? -- Jul. 12, 2004 http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz/article/0,9171,1101040712-660965,00.html Tom Walker 604 255 4812

Re: The End Of Management?

2004-07-14 Thread Daniel Davies
Of Tom Walker Sent: 14 July 2004 23:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The End Of Management? I love it! Total Information Awareness meets ParEcon. Robin Hanson, may I introduce you to Robin Hahnel... Charles Brown wrote, TIME.com: The End Of Management? -- Jul. 12, 2004 http://www.time.com

Re: The End Of Management?

2004-07-14 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 7/14/2004 2:21:54 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TIME.com: The End Of Management? -- Jul. 12, 2004 http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz/article/0,9171,1101040712-660965,00.html The article states: The end of management just might look

Re: The End Of Management?

2004-07-14 Thread Tom Walker
Daniel Davies wrote, Hanson put out a press release last year saying that the revised Policy Analysis Market would be up and trading by March 2004. I emailed him offering to bet $500 that it wouldn't, but I never got a reply. However, had he accepted your wager, Daniel, he would have paid up:

Re: Marxist Fianancial Advice/ Henry C.K. on Money - 3 - end

2004-06-26 Thread Waistline2
an have only two of the three options. Through dollar hegemony, the United States is the only country that can defy the Mundell-Fleming thesis. For more than a decade since the end of the Cold War, the US has kept the fiat dollar significantly above its real economic value, attracted capital a

End of oil

2004-05-26 Thread Louis Proyect
'End of Oil' Author Paul Roberts May 6, 2004 The demand for oil increases each year, but the supply is not inexhaustible. Experts predict that within 30 years our oil energy sources will be depleted. In his book, The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World, Roberts looks

Re: End of oil

2004-05-26 Thread soula avramidis
slack in capacity, at least before reaching refineries, to offset any fear of serious shortages. The power brokers behind prices are already at work cutting corners to lessen the cartel-oil companiesoligarchic power and increase supply. Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'End of Oil' Author Paul

Aljazeera.Net - Shia groups see end to Najaf siege

2004-05-12 Thread Grant Lee
Aljazeera.Net - Shia groups see end to Najaf siege[Some more of the complexities within Iraqi Shia politics are revealed. Note: (1) there has been a peaceful demonstration _against_ Sadr in Najaf; (2) some Sadrists, if not Sadr, appear to endorse the peace plan described below, which (3) includes

Commemorate Rachel Corrie: Stop Caterpillar, End the Occupation

2004-03-16 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
/article.php?id=83 for more information. --- Friday, March 19, 2004 --- Commemorate Rachel Corrie: Stop Caterpillar, End the Occupation A Vigil to Commemorate Rachel Corrie Stop Caterpillar - End the Occupation! Date Time: Friday, March 19, 2004, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Location: 15th Ave. High St

Re: The Russian Default the Beginning of the End of Neoliberalism (Capitalism versus socialism)

2004-03-11 Thread Chris Doss
Yoshie: The Russian default was a blow against neoliberalism: Neoliberalism at the global level has also been dealt some serious blows--although one of the hardest punches has not received the attention it deserves: Russia's default on $200 billion worth of debt, some $40 billion of which is

Re: The Russian Default the Beginning of the End of Neoliberalism (Capitalism versus socialism)

2004-03-11 Thread Chris Doss
Anyhow, I think that Chris is trying to say that, though the Russian economy tanked after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, its economy has recovered quite a bit since Russia defaulted on its foreign debt in 1998. Putin has managed the post-default Russian economy well by capitalist

The Russian Default the Beginning of the End of Neoliberalism (Capitalism versus socialism)

2004-03-10 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
foreign debt in 1998. Putin has managed the post-default Russian economy well by capitalist standards. Russia's economy has grown by a third under Putin, after shrinking by half in the seven years following the end of communist rule, as oil prices averaged more than $27 a barrel under Putin. Under

Re: Beyond Pussyfooting: a story to end all stories ?

2003-12-12 Thread joanna bujes
We need a philosopher to invent some adequate concept for the below...somehow, fetishism doesn't quite cover it. Perhaps, it is just that academics are finally getting around to prostituting entities more appropriate to prostitution. Who knows. I become nostalgic for those days when we worried

Re: Beyond Pussyfooting: a story to end all stories ?

2003-12-12 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
We need a philosopher to invent some adequate concept for the below...somehow, fetishism doesn't quite cover it. Perhaps, it is just that academics are finally getting around to prostituting entities more appropriate to prostitution. Who knows. I become nostalgic for those days when we

Beyond Pussyfooting: a story to end all stories ?

2003-12-11 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
to the function of the orgasm. The concluding sentence of the book is that Pride, pleasure and the miracle of creation - this view of the vagina is the real story of V. But why did I end up closing the book with a queasy, empty feeling, even although I had eaten sufficiently prior to that time ? Possibly

The end game of the multiculturalism discourse in digitalised world

2003-12-01 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
AMSTERDAM - Faced with a community backlash against ethnic crime and headline-stealing violence, Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner has in principle backed the idea of sentencing immigrants who commit crime differently than Dutch nationals. But the conservative Christian Democrat CDA minister

Re: the next wedge issue/end enough of this

2003-11-21 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 11/21/03 11:04:28 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let me repeat this with emphasis: the Soviet government did not viewsame-sex relations as being in any way *sick* or *perverted*. It didnot promote homosexuality, nor did it condemn it. This is all

Re: the next wedge issue/end enough of this

2003-11-21 Thread ravi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Expel Melvin because he thinks different from me. And my wrong thinking and political assessment is really Stalinism. Because Stalinism did something back n the 1930s. Forget the economic and social content of the times and the political maneuver. The issue is sodomy.

Russia update: the end result of imperialism and Stalinism

2003-09-22 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
on the planet. That lasted until the people decided to build a pillar to reach the skies and to become like God. As a result, they were scattered and couldn't understand each other as they were given different languages. We don't know yet how human cloning experiments may end, but it is not ruled out

Re: Oct. 25th: March for an end to the occupation of Iraq!

2003-09-16 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
of the October 25 march against the occupation of Iraq: Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:03:17 -0700 Subject: Oct. 25th: March for an end to the occupation of Iraq! United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) and Act Now to Stop War End Racism (ANSWER) are joining forces to call on all those who oppose the war

Re: if you line up all the economists from end to end........

2003-07-11 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
of markets themselves, is not a possibility which is considered. Cheers J. - Original Message - From: Eubulides [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 5:08 AM Subject: [PEN-L] if you line up all the economists from end to end [ for more; http

if you line up all the economists from end to end........

2003-07-10 Thread Eubulides
[ for more; http://www.quine-duhem.com ] [NYTimes] July 11, 2003 Data in Conflict: Why Economists Tend to Weep By DANIEL ALTMAN Is the economy pulling itself out of a slump, or is it sinking deeper? The answer could be either, based on the data from government agencies these days. Because they

Tanya Reinhart, _Israel/ Palestine: How to End the War of 1948_

2002-11-16 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
* _Israel/ Palestine: How to End the War of 1948_ Tanya Reinhart Paperback - $11.95 Tanya Reinhart's _Israel/Palestine_ is the most devastating critique now available of Israel's policy toward the Palestinian people. Written with urgency and an unflinching clarity, it deserves to be read

End of UK national state pay scales?

2002-10-16 Thread Chris Burford
50% more than their colleagues in the north, one of Britain's leading economists said yesterday. Professor Andrew Oswald of Warwick University said the struggle to fill public sector jobs in the expensive parts of the country would only end when pay scales mirrored those in the private sector

War Without End? Not In Our Name! (Oct. 4-31)

2002-10-01 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Friday, October 4 Women in Black's Vigil against War Time: 5:30-6 30 PM (Every Friday) Location: 15th Ave. High St, Columbus, OH Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunday, October 6 War Without End? Not In Our Name! Demonstrate against Bush's Endless War! Time: 5-6 PM Location: 15th Ave. and High St

Re: Re:2nth: min wage/SeD/End?

2002-09-19 Thread GeorgeCSDS
In a message dated 9/19/02 12:41:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 03:32 PM 09/18/2002 -0400, you wrote: More obscene than the polarization of wealth is the expropriation of the resources of the earth and the resources of humanity as the private property and exclusive concerns of the few.

The end of the third world

2002-08-20 Thread Louis Proyect
they bring rapid change and it looks as though the conditions are being created to end poverty. In Brazil, where 72 per cent of equity capital in the machinery sector was foreign-owned in the early 1960s, by 1979 this had sunk to only 36.5 per cent; by then the state itself held as much equity

Re: Re: Zimmerwald/5-The End

2002-08-03 Thread Waistline2
ional allies in this global struggle. Chris Burford London Reply - The End The standpoint or method of Marx and Engels was distinguished from the doctrine of the class struggle in the form of Lenin or Leninism. The issue of strategic thinking versus the tactical daily issues faced by re

End to European Coal and Steel Community

2002-07-23 Thread Chris Burford
Yesterday a ceremony marked the end of the European Coal and Steel Community. This no doubt acknowledged the triumph of the ideas of its founders, including the non-Leninist socialist Jean Monnet and the French Christian democrat Robert Schuman. It is an example of a progressive reform

Re: End to European Coal and Steel Community

2002-07-23 Thread phillp2
It is a triumph of the vision of people like Jean Monnet that markets should be regulated and answerable to the democratic will of the people, and that negotiation and cooperation between capitalist enterprises under this degree of social foresight is progressive. Chris Burford

Re: Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy?

2002-06-25 Thread Michael Perelman
I think his approach implies that Brazil falters. On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:15:28AM +0100, Chris Burford wrote: At 24/06/02 16:11 -0700, you wrote: Roach's report sounds pretty reasonable. Does anybody have any comments? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department I don't quite

Re: Re: Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy?

2002-06-25 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 9:04 AM Subject: [PEN-L:27177] Re: Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy? I think his approach implies that Brazil falters. == Isn't that a foil

Re: Re: Re: Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy?

2002-06-25 Thread Eugene Coyle
- From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 9:04 AM Subject: [PEN-L:27177] Re: Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy? I think his approach implies that Brazil falters. == Isn't that a foil for if the left get's

End of U.S.-centric world economy?

2002-06-24 Thread sdiamond
r holdings of dollar-denominated assets (see his 21 June dispatch, "Saturation of Foreign Holdings of US Assets"). For example, at the end of 1Q02, foreign holdings of US Treasuries totaled $1.25 trillion, close to the previous record of $1.3 trillion hit in 1998; thats equivalent to 35.7% of ou

Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy?

2002-06-24 Thread Michael Perelman
Roach's report sounds pretty reasonable. Does anybody have any comments? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy?

2002-06-24 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 4:11 PM Subject: [PEN-L:27160] Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy? Roach's report sounds pretty reasonable. Does anybody have any comments? -- === He

Re: End of U.S.-centric world economy?

2002-06-24 Thread Chris Burford
At 24/06/02 16:11 -0700, you wrote: Roach's report sounds pretty reasonable. Does anybody have any comments? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department I don't quite understand why he puts such emphasis on contagious devalutaion in Latin America, but I suppose the main message is that the

It can only end in tears

2002-06-12 Thread Louis Proyect
US capitalism: Digging a deeper hole By Michael Roberts There's a story about the Great Depression of the 1930s. A distressed American banker decided to end it all by jumping out a window on the 12th story of the old Maryland National Bank building in Baltimore. As he was going by the 5th floor

Thu., May 9: A War without an End?: Plan Colombia and Beyond

2002-05-06 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Thursday, May 9 A War without an End?: Plan Colombia and Beyond Speaker: Sanho Tree, Director, The Institute for Policy Studies Drug Policy Project Sanho Tree will discuss the social, political, economic, and environmental consequences of the war on drugs and the war on terrorism. About

END OF THE NEW WORKPLACE

2002-03-26 Thread Charles Brown
END OF THE NEW WORKPLACE http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/03/16work Le Monde diplomatique March 2002 Smiling serfs of the new economy ___ Will the crash of Enron, following the dot.com debacle, end the abuse of the 'new economy' employees

Re: reply-part 3-end

2002-02-26 Thread Waistline2
2) You say, Virtually all of us with a little gray in our heads developed a conception of Marxism based on boundaries within capital that no longer exist. I think as a vestigial die-hard, that the fundamentals have NOT changed, that all economic avenues for capital are ultimately doomed.

Value Theory -- The End of the Line

2002-02-08 Thread Michael Perelman
I have been very busy and unable to the two follow the value theory debates closely. Although several people have claimed to be ready to stop participating in the discussion it keeps going on. The discussion seems to be getting more and more heated. That must stop. There are more than 400

Re: The End of the Line

2002-02-08 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] What might be useful would be a somebody would objectively say what the issue is and what the stakes are -- not by attributing views the other people, but just laying them out in a concise manner. Otherwise, I think it's

crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Devine, James
[was: RE: [PEN-L:21387] Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: the profit rate recession] I wrote: Hasn't he also said that consumer spending is what's been holding up the U.S. economy? My point -- and that of Godley Izureta, who also go beyond surface appearances to think about the determinants of

Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] The worst case scenario involves fascism, which would probably be called something else while being very different from the fascism of the 1930s 1940s. (I can imagine that a big environmental crisis would encourage the worst

RE: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Devine, James
The worst case scenario involves fascism, which would probably be called something else while being very different from the fascism of the 1930s 1940s. (I can imagine that a big environmental crisis would encourage the worst of authoritarianisms.) = Not that we're at

Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
presumably not in reply to me, Jim D writes: As I suggested in an earlier missive, social democracy is good for capitalism, since it rationalizes the accumulation process a bit (as with Keynesian economic policies or state investment in human capital, infrastructure, etc.) social democracy

Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Michael Perelman
Jim, what you wrote is very good, although I take exception at one point. I agree with Marx's view, as I understand it, that the shocks of a crisis can strengthen capitalism, if it can withstand the shock. At some point, a small unexpected shock can suffice to topple the whole edifice. Marx, of

RE: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Devine, James
Michael Perelman writes: I only wanted to say that recovery is not always certain. Right. It's also possible that we could see recovery for the capitalists -- as the Wall Street folks predict -- without an immediate recovery for workers. In fact, a lot of people predict that real GDP will start

Re: RE: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] the current kind of authoritarianism is actually making matters worse. I was talking about the kind that would be a reaction when the environmental crisis actually hits capitalists below the belt, hurting profitability. Jim

RE: Re: RE: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Devine, James
the current kind of authoritarianism is actually making matters worse. I was talking about the kind that would be a reaction when the environmental crisis actually hits capitalists below the belt, hurting profitability. Jim === You mean there will be another class of

RE: RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Devine, James
I don't know if anyone is familiar with Darity's thesis about managerial society or the managerial mode of production, which he believes has developed out of capitalism. I am not sure if I agree that managerial society is a distinct mode of production that had superceded capitalism, but I

Re: RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Forstater, Mathew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 11:56 AM Subject: [PEN-L:21408] RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism? I don't know if anyone is familiar with Darity's thesis about managerial society

crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Charles Brown
crisis causes the end of capitalism? by Devine, James 15 January 2002 18:20 UTC [was: the profit rate recession] Doug writes: You may be right. But I've heard this line many times before. Godley also said some dire things about the UK a decade ago, and the UK did get a big

crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Charles Brown
crisis causes the end of capitalism? by Devine, James 15 January 2002 20:24 UTC What I was thinking of is more along the line of rule by experts within capitalism. Usually, when there's some type of emergency, the capitalist let the experts rule. That doesn't mean they'd do a good job

RE: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Forstater, Mathew
contained therein. crisis causes the end of capitalism? by Devine, James 15 January 2002 20:24 UTC What I was thinking of is more along the line of rule by experts within capitalism. Usually, when there's some type of emergency, the capitalist let the experts rule. That doesn't mean they'd do

RE: RE: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Forstater, Mathew
capacity supplants property ownership as the key to access to the modern elite. -Original Message- From: Forstater, Mathew Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 5:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:21433] RE: crisis causes the end of capitalism? It is like Darity's managerialism. See

Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
I don't know whether Rakesh ever answered my question a few weeks ago, but do you or Fred or the Matticks generate any reform demands based on your style of analyzing cyclical crisis ? Charles, wage demands, as well as well as the limitations on the working day, are usually supported

Re: RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread F G
From: Forstater, Mathew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:21408] RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism? Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:56:55 -0600 I don't know if anyone is familiar with Darity's thesis about managerial society

Re: RE: RE: RE: Re: RE: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Eugene Coyle
It is a little late for this thread but this also sounds like Galbraith's THE NEW INDUSTRIAL STATE Devine, James wrote: I don't know if anyone is familiar with Darity's thesis about managerial society or the managerial mode of production, which he believes has developed out of capitalism.

Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Tom Walker
Galbraith's book dates to the mid-1950s. Peter Drucker also wrote a book on similar lines in the early 1940s. I would credit Berle and Means as the earliest articulate version of the theory (or story) in the U.S. There are also parallels with earlier Frankfurt School writings by Horkheimer

Re: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Michael Perelman
Actually, it starts with Marx. On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:52:23PM -0800, Tom Walker wrote: Galbraith's book dates to the mid-1950s. Peter Drucker also wrote a book on similar lines in the early 1940s. I would credit Berle and Means as the earliest articulate version of the theory (or story)

Re: Re: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism?

2002-01-15 Thread Ian Murray
; capital's legal apologist enablers. Ian - Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 9:21 PM Subject: [PEN-L:21464] Re: Re: crisis causes the end of capitalism? Actually, it starts with Marx. On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08

Peace Convocation to End 11 Years of War Against Iraq

2002-01-11 Thread Seth Sandronsky
). Thanks! Peace Convocation to End 11 Years of War Against Iraq Wednesday, January 16th, 11:30am-1pm State Capitol Bldg., West Steps, 10th Street Capital Ave., Sacramento, CA Speakers - Poetry- Music - Street Theater The event will be held rain or shine; please bring an umbrella if it rains

Israel's dead end - Edward Said

2001-12-30 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Israel's dead end By Edward Said http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/565/op1.htm The earth is closing on us, pushing us through the last passage, and we tear off our limbs to pass through. Thus Mahmoud Darwish, writing in the aftermath of the PLO's exit from Beirut in September 1982. Where

RE: Israel's dead end - Edward Said

2001-12-30 Thread Devine, James
Edward Said says:Have any of the innumerable members of the foreign media covering the conflict done a story about these brutalised young Israelis conscripts, trained to punish Palestinian civilians as the main part of their military duty? I think not. the (U.S.) NATION magazine -- which also

Re: RE: Israel's dead end - Edward Said

2001-12-30 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Edward Said says:Have any of the innumerable members of the foreign media covering the conflict done a story about these brutalised young Israelis conscripts, trained to punish Palestinian civilians as the main part of their military duty? I think not. the (U.S.) NATION magazine -- which also

Massacre at Mazar- the End of the America Republic

2001-11-27 Thread Brownson, Jamil
I keep going back to Gibbon's Decline Fall of Rome to understand America. When Ceasar crossed the Rubicon river the Roman Republic fell to Empire. On this day the US pulverized a few hundred prisoners into body parts in an obscure ancient mud stone fort near Mazar-i-Sherif in Afghanistan, and

more on the end-to-end internet debate

2001-11-19 Thread ravi
someone recently posted an article by lessig on the end-to-end design of the internet and how the violation of that principle by emerging technologies is a disturbing trend (from the perspective of innovation etc). i responded with some thoughts and mentioned the resurgence of the end-to-end

He CHurch of Scotland calls for end to bombing

2001-11-02 Thread Ken Hanly
From the Telegraphy (UK) End the bombing campaign, says Kirk By Auslan Cramb, Scotland Correspondent (Filed: 02/11/2001) THE Church of Scotland called yesterday for an end to the bombing in Afghanistan, claiming it was doing more harm than good and fuelling a humanitarian crisis. The Kirk's

End of history thesis contradicted

2001-10-26 Thread Charles Brown
The American Nation, the new school textbook. On the steps of the Capitol Building, the leaders of Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, stood shoulder to shoulder, united in a new resolve 'to fight evil. End.

The end of Globalization?

2001-09-26 Thread Steve Diamond
culminated in the Great War of the early 20th century. Yet another wave of globalization occurred in the inter-war period of the 1920s, only to be brought to an abrupt end by the Great Depression and a renewed outbreak of worldwide war. The historians have done a good job in p

Good news! Light at end of tunnel!

2001-09-18 Thread Tom Walker
Recovery just around corner! WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Commerce Secretary Don Evans on Tuesday said he was ``still very optimistic'' about the future of the U.S. economy, despite last week's terror attacks on New York and Washington. ``In terms of the economy, I am still very optimistic about the

Dresdner Bank: Repent, The End is Nigh!

2001-08-04 Thread Tom Walker
Friday August 3, 4:54 pm Eastern Time Risks of a Equity Crash High-Dresdner NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. productivity revisions due on Tuesday could shatter the belief in the ``new paradigm'' economy where strong growth could live with low inflation, possibly triggering a U.S. stock market crash,

Is there a light at the end of the tunnel just around the corner?

2001-07-25 Thread Tom Walker
I have a question. Inflation is tame; Greenspan said so. The US dollar is strong or was until Dubya started worrying out loud that it might be too strong. Does anyone have a handle on the extent to which the strong dollar has contributed to containing inflation through its impact on the dollar

Re: Calling an end to S. Africa thread?

2001-06-21 Thread Chris Burford
purpose. I myself work in a feudal institution. You can see that in the robes we wear on graduation day, yet it is an important gear in capitalism. Some of the one sidedness has been removed on each side which happens in any good debate. Whether this means it is at an end, I don't know. I have just

Calling an end to S. Africa thread?

2001-06-21 Thread Keaney Michael
Michael P. writes: I suspect that everybody is talking past one another. Mark seemed to be closest to the target referring to the combined and uneven nature of colonial economies -- They have elements of all sorts of ancient formations turned to a capitalist purpose. I myself work in a feudal

Re: Re: Calling an end to S. Africa thread?

2001-06-21 Thread Louis Proyect
Chris Burford: CLASS RELATIONS WERE IDENTICAL TO MEXICO, ETC remains improbable both in theory and empirical fact. This does not necessarily flow from combined and uneven development. Rather the reverse. Actually I supplied historical and economic data on Mexico and South Africa. You can

Re: Calling an end to S. Africa thread?

2001-06-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
fundamental change on this side of the border? It's not as though Mexicans, South Africans, etc. have a duty to get an international chain of revolutions going but we don't, is it? Or does our duty end with supporting revolutionaries elsewhere, while we engage in reforms? Yoshie

Re: Re: Calling an end to S. Africa thread?

2001-06-21 Thread Louis Proyect
. Or does our duty end with supporting revolutionaries elsewhere, while we engage in reforms? Yoshie I am for reforms. What is wrong with reforms? Sorry, I apologize. Didn't mean to ask a rhetorical question. Not really my style. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: Calling an end to S. Africa thread?

2001-06-21 Thread Julio Huato
Louis makes assertions of fact as if he really knew: The SACP and the Mexican CP are [!] basically reformist outfits and if fundamental change comes to those countries, it will linked to forces to the left like the Zapatista movement or the constellation of left intellectuals and trade unionists

Re: Re: Re: Calling an end to S. Africa thread?

2001-06-21 Thread Louis Proyect
Sorry, I should have been clearer. The Mexican CP dissolved itself into a Eurocommunist formation in 1982 called the Unified Socialist Party (PSUM). If anything, this outfit was even more reformist than the CP itself. The PSUM then merged with other left reformist forces in 1987 and became the

Re: Re: Re: Re: Calling an end to S. Africa thread?

2001-06-21 Thread Michael Pugliese
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 7:23 AM Subject: [PEN-L:13735] Re: Re: Re: Calling an end to S. Africa thread? Sorry, I should have been clearer. The Mexican CP dissolved itself into a Eurocommunist formation in 1982 called the Unified Socialist Party (PSUM

Re: Re: Re: Calling an end to S. Africa thread?

2001-06-21 Thread Michael Perelman
Would somebody explain to me how this discussion is going beyond the old Indian mode of production debate? Assume that that southern US in the early 19th C. were a separate country. Being basically a slave economy, it would not seem like a capitalist economy -- looking at the US by itself. From

Re: Re: Re: Re: Calling an end to S. Africa thread?

2001-06-21 Thread Julio Huato
Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please, we are trying to avoid this sort of communication. On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:00:07AM -0400, Julio Huato wrote: Louis makes assertions of fact as if he really knew: The SACP and the Mexican CP are [!] basically reformist outfits and if

Combined Uneven Development 2 (was Re: Calling an end to S.Africa thread?)

2001-06-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
. Or does our duty end with supporting revolutionaries elsewhere, while we engage in reforms? Yoshie I am for reforms. What is wrong with reforms? Sorry, I apologize. Didn't mean to ask a rhetorical question. Not really my style. Louis Proyect Theory of permanent revolution based on analysis

The End of History and the Last Man

2001-06-05 Thread Nemonemini
Since a Tathagata, even when actually present, is incomprehensible, it is inept to say of him that after dying the Tathagata is, or is not, or both is and is not, or neither is or is not. Samyutta Nikaya, III, 118 John Landon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website on eonic effect http://eonix.8m.com

Re: Businesses Petition for an End to Deregulaiton of Power.

2001-01-21 Thread phillp2
I think Ken should have also pointed out that Alberta was the one area of Canada that was largely settled by Americans who migrated to the territory (it was not a province until 1905) around the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Paul Phillips, Economics, University

Businesses Petition for an End to Deregulaiton of Power.

2001-01-20 Thread Ken Hanly
That business in Alberta should favor a petition on this shows that even among its strongest supporters the free-market ideology is being questioned. Alberta is a stronghold in Canada of free-market, neo-liberal ideology. When deregulation means that Alberta business is at a disadvantage compared

FW: [WTO-REGISTRATION4:59] News and end of year greetings from WTO

2000-12-22 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
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Re: The End

2000-12-11 Thread Ricardo Duchesne
First of all, this sort of smug communication has no place here. Second, for those who are interested, I would suggest a look at Kulikoff, Allan. 2000. From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press). Thanks for the source. That's a

Re: Re: The End

2000-12-11 Thread Michael Perelman
I am not interested in your interpretation of my ethics. This sort of talk does not belong here. I am tired of having to warn you. On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:00:49AM -0400, Ricardo Duchesne wrote: First of all, this sort of smug communication has no place here. Second, for those who are

Re: The End

2000-12-08 Thread Timework Web
I thoroughly agree with and endorse Michael's ruling. I think it's time for (en)closure on this matter. Tom Walker Sandwichman and Deconsultant Bowen Island (604) 947-2213

The Living Dead (was The End: was Re: Max Weber's Genteel Racism)

2000-12-08 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Carrol says: Michael Perelman wrote: Finally, and this is my main point, this Brenner Wood stuff keeps cropping up. It's like a horror movie. The monster is supposed to be dead, but then it comes back. The mere mention of Weber is enough to resurrect the beast. I personally am done

Re: The End: was Re: Max Weber's Genteel Racism (was Re:weber)

2000-12-08 Thread kelley
At 09:35 AM 12/8/00 -0800, Michael Perelman wrote: Finally, and this is my main point, this Brenner Wood stuff keeps cropping up. It's like a horror movie. The monster is supposed to be dead, but then it comes back. The mere mention of Weber is enough to resurrect the beast. of course,

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