>Gassler Robert wrote:
>> This is riminescent of the nonsense over altruism from a couple of decades
>> back: whatever nice thing you do, it is really selfish underneath. Two
>> references come to mind that counter this nonsense. David Collard's Altruism
>> and economy showed the neoclassicals t
I am not surprised about the report about the use of
US anthropologists in the NY Times, but rather by the
extraordinary lapses of memory by the profession,
wreaked by an intense debate involving their members
in the infamous Project Camelot.
David Barkin
Mexico
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What's Killing the Lobsters Of Long Island Sound?
Argument on Global Warming's Role Comes to a Boil
By Anthony Faiola
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 7, 2007; A01
LONG ISLAND SOUND, Conn. -- The trap buoys, orange and white, wink
between the waves in this murky estuary, beckoning wi
NY Times, October 7, 2007
Op-Ed Contributor
From Military Disaster to Moral High Ground
By TONY JUDT
THE “liberal hawks” are back. These, of course, are the politicians and
pundits who threw in their lot with George W. Bush in 2003: voting and
writing for a “preventive war” — a war of choice th
david barkin wrote:
> I am not surprised about the report about the use of
> US anthropologists in the NY Times, but rather by the
> extraordinary lapses of memory by the profession,
> wreaked by an intense debate involving their members
> in the infamous Project Camelot.
When I was taking frosh a
Jim Devine wrote:
When I was taking frosh anthropology at Yale 1970 or 1971, the prof,
J.V. Murra (reputed to be a leftist) assigned a book, titled (I
believe) "Life in the Barrio." It was a an example of "applied
anthropology" (for either Venezuela or Colombia), in which
anthro-tools were applie
I wasn't slamming Murra. It's possible that the book's value exceeded
its down-side. I think Murra was one of the best profs I had at Yale.
On 10/7/07, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Devine wrote:
> > When I was taking frosh anthropology at Yale 1970 or 1971, the prof,
> > J.V. Mur
my son Guthrie wrote the following Xmas carol: [apologies for the spellng]
Who gets away with surveillance worldwide?
Who gets away with a billion break-ins each year?
Why doesn't he have the law stalking him as he hides?
Why don't they strike his little heart full of fear?
I'll tell you why he st
Last Friday the New York Times reported that anthropologists have been
working alongside the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to
make the occupation more effective:
In this isolated Taliban stronghold in eastern Afghanistan,
American paratroopers are fielding what they consider
I appreciate Louis Proyect's piece on Colonial Anthropology which I've sent
on to an anthro listserv. They do not take kindly to criticism of Boas. . .
I also just sent them this item which I send to PEN-L, the best listserv in
the world!
"The tyranny of the wage slave relationship, taken for g
The New SPACE (The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education)
Presents U.S. Book Launch
RECLAIMING MARX’S “CAPITAL”: A REFUTATION OF THE MYTH OF INCONSISTENCYby Andrew
Kliman Thursday, November 8 at 7:00 p.m. CUNY Graduate Center365 Fifth Avenue,
Manhattan (between 34th & 35th Stre
Jim Devine wrote:
--- Shane Mage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In the invention of this inherently unobservable entity, they are
merely following the methodology pioneered by that exemplar of
modern science, Cosmology. To save the expanding universe/big
bang dogma in the face of a flood of "
Steve Houston wrote:
Compared to this stuff, James Joyce might be a piker
Wait a moment--these old Irishmen knew a thing or two. Not only was
Joyce the first to know about quarks and that there are three of 'em, his
predecessor Swift was the first to know about the moons of Mars, and
that th
Shane's post presents an important quandry. We economists often revert
to dark matter -- unobserved forces that explain deviations from
perfect competition.
I was just reading The Cigarette Century, which details how the
bastards sowed doubt and confusion about their cancer sticks by hiring
"repu
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