June 3, 2007
Op-Ed Contributor
An Enemy We Can Work With
By BARTLE BREESE BULL
New York Times
London
WHEN the populist Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr emerged from 14 weeks of
invisibility on May 25, it was hard not to focus on his typically passionate
anti-Coalition rhetoric: “No, no to America;
"The mosque, which Mr. Sadr's Mahdi Army was using as a hospital of sorts,
had just been hit by something that everyone said was an American rocket.
The shoes of dead fighters lay in piles inside the entrance. Outside, thick,
angry crowds milled around."
Boy, the new york times HAS reached an all
The article below makes an interesting companion piece to the one from the
NYT I posted earlier this morning about the complex relationship between the
Sadrists and the US. It's by the Washington Post's David Ignatius, one of
the better connected and more astute commentators on US Mideast policy.
On 6/2/07, raghu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Michael,
A naive question: on the face of it, cancelling licenses of unfriendly
TV stations does sound like a suppression of free expression. What is
the background to this? Was this decision taken in a democratic way?
Thanks.
here are some letters
If Sadr is working with the US it is not clear that
the US is working with him. Quite the contrary they
are using air attacks on his constituents.
I think that Sadr is an opportunist interested in
furthering his own fame and significance. As I
understand it the Mahdi militia is not completely
und
That certainly sums up how many mainstream media treat
reality.
The entire commencement speech is available at:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=200332
I give you my favorite quotation from the Bush
administration, put forward by the proverbial "unnamed
Administration official" and publ
June 3, 2007 / New York TIMES
Economic View
Shattering Stereotypes About Immigrant Workers
By DANIEL ALTMAN
AS immigration legislation slowly makes its way through Congress, the
debate about illegal immigrants' role in the economy has intensified.
To some people, they represent a black-market wor
At 11:39 03/06/2007, jim wrote:
here are some letters to the editor of the L.A. TIMES that seem relevant:
Re "Chavez didn't start this media war," Opinion, May 30
People such as Bart Jones are willing to embrace tyrants as long as
these tyrants speak against the U.S. government.
SNIP
GUS
Michael Lebowitz defends the nonrenewal of the license to broadcast on the
public airwaves:
Hi Raghu,
Firstly, there was no cancellation. Rather, this station (which was an
active participant in the coup, going so far as to tape a day in advance of a
march in 2002 an announcement by mil
On Jim's comments...
I think that the thread on "preference formation" answers the issue of
whether some (but of course not all) GT research addresses endogenous
determination in non-individualist terms. Some GT research when it
addresses more historical issues especially in the overlap with
poli
On 6/3/07, David B. Shemano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On pages 16-20 of Capitalism and Freedom, which I am sure all of you have on
your bedstands, ...
I only read it for the pictures...
--
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your
own way and let people talk.) -- Ka
On 6/3/07, ann li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(who tries not to disagree with Jim :-) )
why not? I stick my neck out a lot and am thus wrong a lot.
--
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your
own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
Jeez-- guy really knows how to abuse a metaphor, doesn't he?
- Original Message -
From: michael a. lebowitz
To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Re: [PEN-L] Re: [PEN-L] The current
counter-revolutionary offensive in Venezuela - wh
Yes, and as the free marketeers of the Chicago School, Friedman's offspring,
showed us in Chile, capitalism has no difficulty preserving dissent and
dissenters... in formaldehyde, in concrete overcoats, and at the bottom of the
Pacific.
Let me just add, the Pinochet coup was entirely predictab
ZNet | Israel/Palestine
For Boycott to Be Effective, an International Coalition Is Indispensable
by Ramzy Baroud; June 03, 2007
South Africa's Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils whispered to
me as I sat down following a most enthusiastic speech I gave at a recent
conference in Cape Town:
Kuwait casts doubt over Gulf currency union
By Simeon Kerr in Dubai
The Financial Times , 03:14 p.m. 03/06/2007
Published: June 3 2007 18:11 | Last updated: June 3 2007 18:11
Kuwait’s decision to delink its currency from the dollar last month sent
reverberations around the Gulf and beyond.
Centr
You meant its not the heat, just the humanity ;)
--- sartesian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, and as the free marketeers of the Chicago
> School, Friedman's offspring, showed us in Chile,
> capitalism has no difficulty preserving dissent and
> dissenters... in formaldehyde, in concrete
> overc
They are called the Chicago boys, but some of my classmates from
Berkeley did dispicable things.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
michaelperelman.wordpress.com
UCB sent a hit squad to Indonesia, no?
On 6/3/07, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
They are called the Chicago boys, but some of my classmates from
Berkeley did dispicable things.
--
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your
own way and let people talk.) --
Not from my Department. Our thugs came courtesy of the Ford Fdn. --
you know that left wing foundation; but these guys were worthy of the
earlier Ford's Harry Bennett of the Ford Sociological Department. Gene
Coyle knows about the Asian scandal.
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 02:34:03PM -0700, Jim Dev
was Lovell Jarvis, Jr. involved?
On 6/3/07, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not from my Department. Our thugs came courtesy of the Ford Fdn. --
you know that left wing foundation; but these guys were worthy of the
earlier Ford's Harry Bennett of the Ford Sociological Department. Ge
Biofuel brews up higher German beer prices
Farmers abandoning barley for crops that produce ethanol
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18941618/
Ethanol boom may fuel shortage of tequila
Mexican farmers burning agave fields and replanting them with corn
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18926019/
Thanks for not spoiling it for me! Its not like we're on an email
discussion list where it might be useful to some participants know what he
said or anything.
> On pages 16-20 of Capitalism and Freedom, which I am sure all of you have
> on your bedstands, Milton Friedman discusses the practical di
On 6/2/07, michael a. lebowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Raghu,
Firstly, there was no cancellation. Rather, this station (which was
an active participant in the coup, going so far as to tape a day in advance
of a march in 2002 an announcement by military leaders of deaths in that
ma
> In a sense, I translate Gintis as saying (something I concur with)
> that there is already much work in economic theory that amounts to
> some sort of realization (contradictory and all) of the research
> program outlined by Hahnel.
It'd be interesting to hear evidence for this assertion.
Hi Gernot, thanks for your message.
Are you suggesting that services generally have a lower composition of
capital than manufacturing, so that a shift from manufacturing to
services will reduce the aggregate composition of capital (or slow down
its increase)? If so, I think you are right, and th
Charles Brown wrote 29 May 2007
CB;
. . . Has it been mainly in the U.S. that
crises have been smoothed over, and long term rate of profit raised ?
I think most of the advanced countries have had a significant recovery
of the rate of profit..
. . .
Does the almost complete recovery of the lo
Nitzan, Jonathan and Shimshon Bichler. 2007. War Profits, Peace
Dividends (רווחי מלחמה, דבידנדים של שלום). Second Exapnded and Revised
Edition. Hebrew. Haifa: Pardes. 595 pp.
FULL TEXT:
http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/229/
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ABSTRACT
המהד
Dear Friends and Comrades,
Here's an opportunity to mark your
calendars for May 2008--- the first notice for
the Marx Conference in Havana. There will be
further notices with more details; however, if
you know that you definitely want to come, you
can contact Jesus Garcia Brigos at
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Julio Huato wrote:
Marxism aspires to being the living, breathing, kicking worldview of a
revolutionary class. So Marxism (as any other doctrine with such high
aspirations), just to survive, needs to subject itself to relentless
self-criticism, pretty much to experience a continuous or "perman
Hi Raghu,
You clearly have to read the concluding chapter of Build it
Now! >:-} The short answer is that immediately after the coup, Chavez
was very conciliatory because he wasn't certain about the depth of
support in the military. After the bosses' general lockout, he was
much more confid
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