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From: "ertugrul ahmet tonak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I watched this guy in his DN interview. I didn't find him fully
> believable. Here is what a reviewer (without reading the book!) said
> about him at Amazon's site:
> "...you have to consider that this could well be a
Kmart, Sears to merge, create nation's third-largest retailer
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO - The discount retailer Kmart Holding Corp. is combining with one of
the most venerable names in U.S. retailing, Sears, Roebuck & Co., in an $11
billion deal that will create the
A New Pattern Is Cut for Global Textile Trade
China Likely to Dominate as Quotas Expire
By Peter S. Goodman and Paul Blustein
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, November 17, 2004; Page A01
AMPARA, Sri Lanka -- Wild monkeys and Buddhist shrines outnumber any
signs of industry, and rampaging el
No more of 'the poor'
For people who live in poverty, the stigma they face and the shame it
creates can be as devastating as the economic consequences
Ruth Lister
Wednesday November 17 2004
The Guardian
Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin sang about it; politicians pontificate
about it; "the poor" a
Disillusioned with politics? Vote Redgrave!
Tania Branigan
Wednesday November 17 2004
The Guardian
He is treading the boards in Newcastle as a critically lauded King
Lear. She is filming a Merchant Ivory costume drama in Shanghai.
But next week Corin and Vanessa Redgrave, the siblings as well kn
Translating economic into cultural insecurity
* From: Hinrich Kuhls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The age of anxiety
American academic Richard Sennett, who has been teaching in London for five
years, returns to New York and takes the cultural and political temperatu
Equality? That's a bit rich
Heather Stewart: Rich man, poor man: How some Brits are more equal than
others
Heather Stewart
Sunday November 07 2004
The Observer
In the days of Old Labour, fighting against the inequalities in society
was a central tenet of leftist philosophy.
In his first Budget i
Britain, not the US, is the odd one out
All across Europe, politics and religion still go hand in hand
Peter Preston
Monday November 08 2004
The Guardian
Let us call it "Blair exceptionalism". Our leader is a committed,
practising Christian. A priest from Great Missenden arrives at Chequers
every
Paul Craig Roberts writes:
"In the post World War II period, the dollar took over the reserve
currency role from the British pound, because the supremacy of US
manufacturing guaranteed US trade surpluses. The British pound lost
its role due to debts of two world wars, loss of empire, a run down
in
Bill Lear wrote:
How did the socialists attack UK business?
Socialized medicine, one might guess. Despite being published by
Counterpunch, the author is an establishment figure.
--
The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
They nationalized some companies, though mostly the lemons (hence the term
lemon socialism--the companies that lost money). Far-seeing businesspeople
acquiescenced in this takeover--if a business was essential to the national
well-being and lost money, it was better to have the government run it. B
Not just establishment, very, very conservative -- almost an economic
Buchananite.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:59:49AM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
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> Socialized medicine, one might guess. Despite being published by
> Counterpunch, the author is an establishment figure.
>
> --
>
> The Marxism lis
From: "michael a. lebowitz" Mon, 15 Nov 2004
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Well, there's a question that has me baffled! My google-search has yielded
lots
of differential exploitation of moths, fruit resources, blue crabs, even the
commons--- ie., it must be a familiar concept in biology; but, I don't see
any
use of i
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From: "Patrick Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[snip]
"I am NOT at all surprised by his Shamanic interests. One day I will
right
an ethnography of the American Caucasian tribal pursuit of native wisdom.
These kinds of "seekers" are a dime a dozen in Ecuador and much of the
Title: Message
The Secret War
Frustrated by intelligence failures, the Defense Department
is dramatically expanding its `black world' of covert operations
by William M. Arkin
27 October 2002
Los Angeles Times
SOUTH POMFRET
Title: Message
This is an exchange from Marxmail around a
parody-comment I wrote about the hysterical character of much of the liberal
campaigning in 2004, which may actually have contributed a little to their
defeat. I am certain that all the yelling about Bush's "stupidity" was
counterpro
Falluja Arithmetic Lesson
by Prof. Greg Palast
Monday's New York Times, page 1:
"American commanders said 38 service members had been killed and 275
wounded in the Falluja assault."
Monday's New York Times, page 11:
"The American military hospital here reported that it had treated 419
American sold
Encompassing elements of Patrick O'Brian's first and final novels, Peter
Weir's exciting but reactionary "Master and Commander: The Far Side of
the World" might strike one as the dialectical opposite of Herman
Melville's sea-going tales. Melville's anti-authoritarianism and
sympathy for workers
AFTER THE ELECTIONS: WHAT NEXT?
Mark Dudzic, Labor Party National Organizer
---
There is no question that the outcome of the 2004 elections must be seen as
a stunning defeat for working people. Bush will use his "mandate" to attempt
to steamroll a series
NY Times, November 17, 2004
Leading Democrat Senator Won't Block Confirmation of Gonzales
By DAVID STOUT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 - President Bush's nominee for attorney general,
Alberto R. Gonzales, was all but guaranteed Senate confirmation today
when a leading Democrat expressed fondness for the nomi
Louis Proyect writes:
In the climax of the film, Aubrey rouses his men with the cry, "Do you
want to see a guillotine in Piccadilly? Do you want your children to
grow up singing the 'Marseillaise'?" Oddly enough, this evokes the
climactic scene in Shakespeare's "Henry V," when the British monarch
Today at basketball, there was a dispute about a foul. When I made my case, a
young
man, whose father is a fundamentalist preacher said that I was a liar because I
was a
Democrat.
He knows nothing about politics, but just assimilates stuff like that. When
someone
fell a few weeks ago, his fat
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael
Perelman
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L] democrat/liar
Today at basketball, there was a dispute about a foul. When I made my
case, a young man, whose fathe
China to invest $20 billion in Argentina
Wednesday, November 17,2004
BUENOS AIRES: China's President Hu Jintao and Argentine President Nestor
Kirchner signed cooperation agreements as Chinese companies pledged
investments of 20 billion dollars.
Chinese companies would develop railway and aerospac
From: "Patrick Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>... It is disappointing to hedge a bet that the Marxist/materialist
blinders would lead one to think that EHM was a hoax, because he's a
new-ager. That may help explain, sadly, why the US-left may never win
hearts and minds of Christian-middle-America...w
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From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
FWIW, one of the few things that the US Left shares with Christian
middle Americans is a disdain for New Age religion. The exception is
those members of the US left who are also New Agers. On the other hand,
Christians -- espec
The magnitude of what has happened is scarcely comprehensible. This
regime has placed the USA in hock to the Chinese.
All the more serious because the Chinese, drawing on 2000 years of
culturally rich tactical and strategic approaches, will not overplay
their hand prematurely. They will be sure not
I do not see the situation as the U.S. in hock to or dependent on China.
One could just as well see the situation as the Chinese are dependent on
a steady flow of FDI, increasingly from the U.S., and access to the U.S.
market which is where a growing percentage of their output is going.
The more i
Yes CNN are just running an interview with Lagos of Chile, following
the signing of an agreement with China. I could not quite understand
what was being said about APEC.
At first it seems intuitively strange to think of a free trade area,
even one that takes 20 years to develop that actually stradd
I can see how the enmeshments could on both sides lead to instability and
vulnerability. But I am having a hard time imagining how the
Chinese are not benefiting from this massive growth. Perhaps if we
broke down the beneficiaries (in class terms if you like or by
residency and age) we will get a
On Nov 17, 2004, at 3:37 PM, Devine, James wrote:
From: "Patrick Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
... It is disappointing to hedge a bet that the Marxist/materialist
blinders would lead one to think that EHM was a hoax, because he's a
new-ager. That may help explain, sadly, why the US-left may never win
How much does the Chinese gov't have to fear from the capital losses a
falling dollar now that China holds so much US paper? Or is the trade
balance the predominant concern?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-53
The issue here is whether Chinese workers are benefiting from this ongoing
shift to a foreign driven export led growth model. I certainly agree that
there is a rising middle and upper class that is enjoying great new
wealth. And I also agree that China at the end of the Mao period was in
need of
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NY Times, November 17, 2004
Leading Democrat Senator Won't Block Confirmation of Gonzales
By DAVID STOUT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 - President Bush's nominee for attorney general,
Alberto R. Gonzales, was all but guaranteed Senate confirmation today
when a leadi
Lester Brown visited our campus yesterday. He said that he had been asked
before
Nader to be the Green party candidate in 2000, but he declined. His statistics
about
China were frightening. 24,000 villages have been abandoned in the Northeast
because
of desertification. The water table at an
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-sweat17nov17,0,6197150.story?coll=la-home-business
Working Too Hard in an Industry of Fun and Games
As budgets and expectations at video game firms explode, programmers feel
the crunch of long hours and little rest.
By Alex Pham
Times Staff Writer
November 17,
Eubulides wrote:
>
> http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-sweat17nov17,0,6197150.story?coll=la-home-business
>
> "The love of my life comes home late at night complaining of a headache
> that will not go away and a chronically upset stomach," she wrote. "My
> happy supportive smile is running out.
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