Re: [PEN-L] Peak food

I just like kalecki s equation. it shows in the typical classical sense that price markup and degree of monpoly ie profits lower proportionatly the real wage. moreover since prices are in the purview of capital workers can only raise their nominal thru union activity.

[PEN-L] the expected happened

Climbing Up the Technology Ladder? High-Technology Exports in China and Latin America by Kevin P. Gallagher Roberto Porzecanski U.C. Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies Working Paper No. 20 The developed world has lost significant market share in high technology exports. China has

[PEN-L] Africa says no – and means it

http://mondediplo.com/2008/01/01africa Africa says no – and means it By Ignacio Ramonet The unimaginable has happened, to the displeasure of arrogant Europe. Africa, thought to be so poor that it would agree to anything, has said no in rebellious pride. No to the straitjacket of the Economic

Re: [PEN-L] George Habash, marxist, Dies at 82

, Dies at 82 according to the newspaper, he's famous for arranging airplane hijacking. Any comments? On Jan 26, 2008 10:48 PM, soula avramidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.pflp.ps/english/?q=print/161 The Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayyam interviewed Dr. George Habash, Founder of the Popular

[PEN-L] George Habash, marxist, Dies at 82

http://www.pflp.ps/english/?q=print/161 The Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayyam interviewed Dr. George Habash, Founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in May 2001. The interview follows below: The key to facing any potential internal conflict is to ensure democratic process at

Re: [PEN-L] Minestrone soup

no asset is worthless if it can be made good in the future... that is the beauty of a deep very deep financial market that allows you to borrow indefinetly against assets that you could sieze from others abroad by sheer force. this is no ministrone it is imperial rent - Original Message

[PEN-L] Special Report: Egypt - financial times

in 2007 http://www.ft.com/reports/egyptdec2007 “There’s a vicious circle of the small clique getting filthy rich and the rest getting impoverished,” says Nader Fergany, a former economics professor and author of the Arab Human Development Report from 2002 to 2005. “We have returned this country

Re: [PEN-L] National Debt Grows $1 Million a Minute

what if foreigners that owned US paper and US finanacial instruments wanted to convert these papers into real assets inside the US. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try

Re: [PEN-L] economics in the news!

math is art not science, and when game theory takes hold of it is actuarial science and not social science. in the sensce one that seeks to sudy how society develops and the conditions for change. but is it not possible for an ideological social science position to become scientific when

Re: [PEN-L] economics in the news!

Althusser says he was giving his wife a massage when he discovered he had strangled her and he got off with consignment to a sanitorium. after reading althusser, it does not take much to prove that althusser is insane. i think the same goes for game theory. anyone who really think that is

Re: [PEN-L] Rational Expectations and the Housing Bubble

More than 70% of U.S. consumers believe a national housing bubble will burst and home prices will collapse within the next year, although 56% believe it's unlikely to happen in the area where they live, according a new survey. Morrissey, Janet. 2006. Consumers Expect Housing Bubble to Burst. Wall

Re: [PEN-L] Saddam's strategy

By Kantian moral equivalence all near eastern political regimes are guilty of crimes to similar degrees. I remember from the days when Khomeini with about alhassan bani sadr were massacring the fadayeen (both akalyat and aktharyat), pecar (the maoists), tuddeh (the soviet allied) and the kurds.

Re: [PEN-L] The Long Fall

one should not underestimate the capacity of US empire to generate imperial rents by killing abroad. little that it matters how its accounts go, much that matters on its imperial aggression.. the 20 century killing spree is not far off __ Do You

[PEN-L] iran is not a liberation project

according to the author: there cannot be obscurantist anti imperialism, he says snip The second prime project in the Arab region is the Iranian project. Its problematic aspect is that it is not a liberation project, but rather it is predicated on an agenda of expansion with nationalist and

Re: [PEN-L] Petrocracy in Venezuela? irredenta

why is the matter of irredentism in the Arab mashreq not understood as a colonialist plot to rob Arab people of their resources. how else one can explain that a Qatari family earns 10,000$ month has two domestic Asian servants and the Qatari state sends billions to the US and more so allows the

Re: [PEN-L] Petrocracy in Venezuela?

Yes there are trhe exceptions but the rule is quite different. also you must note that there is very little absorptive capacity and a lot more money thaen is needed for consumption per head. in numbers in the Uae there 2 million nationals with nearly 200 billion dollars in income see -

Re: [PEN-L] Kuwait : Health and Welfare

they are undergoing a privatisation binge nad note that saudi per capita income which is the leading gulf state fell from 18,000 $ in 1981 to about 6,000$ in 2001. so this is an income as volatile as oil and it does not benefit the poorer arabs going right in to the vaults of the US treasury.

Re: [PEN-L] Petrocracy in Venezuela?

the UAE case It is not different, it may be worse given the law of big numbers. I have just looked at the excess savings over investment since 2003 until 2006 and it was 530 billion dollars. the national savings always (since 1970) exeeded investment for the GCC by more than two trillion until

Re: [PEN-L] MACROfoundations

I think the biggest failure of neoclassical economics relates to the way the labour market operates. so i chose this: As an aside, the conventional (mainstream) neoclassical economic strategies relate the cause of unemployment to high real wages that were pushed by trade unions. The tenet -

[PEN-L] Funds that shake capitalist logic By Lawrence Summers

Here below is additional proof that Patanaik's point that global imbalances will not be refressed by exchange rate tinkering but the crisis will come when foreigners seek national assets in the US Funds that shake capitalist logic By Lawrence Summers Financial Times July 29 2007 17:49

[PEN-L] An Iraqi's take on Iran (whatever happened to Yoshie)

That the US wants Iran to be coerced into complete submission, bombed, or dismantled and be taken apart is a matter that can be clearly discerned from the avowed intent, practice and strategic aims of US imperialism. And in point of analogy, the US’s approach to Iran will resemble to a large

[PEN-L] A very Iran question

The reactionary Arab regimes are using the communal argument to foment anti shiism in the Arab world. They are pointing to Iran's tacit collaboration with the US in Iraq and to Sistani's legitimisation of occupation in various steps. Not even a Hizbollah fight against Israel would offset the

[PEN-L] POVERTY AND NEOLIBERALISM

POVERTY AND NEOLIBERALISM Persistence and Reproduction in the Global South Ray Bush (when in the 3d world he likes to say I am no relative george w) ISBN: 9780745319605 Paperback This thoroughly researched book unveils the conceptual uses and abuses of 'poverty'. ... Ray Bush breaks new ground in

[PEN-L] The global economy through rose-tinted glasses: Robert Wade

The global economy through rose-tinted glasses Robert Wade FT Published: April 30 2007 18:29 | Last updated: April 30 2007 18:29 Talk of the future has been dominated by climate change and the mood is one of alarm. But among those who focus on economics the mood is upbeat. Climate

Re: [PEN-L] REALLY on another subject

judging by his comments on my recent paper this guy has got a very sharp mind. and if he is so, then I am worried about his foe. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

[PEN-L] the UN MDGs and the Arab world

what would it take to alleviate poverty in the Arab world? according to a UN expert group meeting this: Policy Recommendations Policy recommendations during the expert group meeting referred to the content of the upcoming UN 2007 MDG Report as well as to the cooperation between Governments

[PEN-L] Iraq may hold twice as much oil

Because it was always politically unstable the British did not invest musch in Iraq in colonial days unlike what they did in Iran under the Shah. But these figures are not new... many before and long ago have said that Iraq's reserves are twice what the offical record said.

[PEN-L] The fiscal fallacy of decoupling from America

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/77c47b12-eb63-11db-b290-000b5df10621,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F77c47b12-eb63-11db-b290-000b5df10621.html_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fhome%2Feurope%2F The fiscal fallacy of decoupling from America Published: April 15 2007

[PEN-L] three points from iraq

1. prime minister Maliki has to ask the US security a day in adavance as to whether he is able to move within the green zone. 2. Iraqi judge who issued saddam's execution order is seeking assylum in the UK 3. first guy who toppled saddam's statue in Baghdad four years ago, says he is sorry.

[PEN-L] worst argument from the left is to preserve the state at any cost

What kind of government collaborates with foreign powers against its own people? What kind of government invites foreign forces to kill its own population? What kind of government substitutes militias for regular national armed forces? What kind of government bequests the nation’s oil wealth to

Re: [PEN-L] quotation du jour

exchange is the mediation cum outward manifestation of a social process valorised by concrete conditions and generalised by exchange... ‘Thus the contrast between use-value and value hidden away within the commodity,’ Marx wrote, ‘has an outward and visible counterpart, namely the relation

Re: [PEN-L] Beyond Quagmire

there is quite a difference bwteen analytical rationality what elites debate and waht happens on the ground. the same could be said for any other american war. one is not to confuse or conflate the views of the few and juxtapose those to the way a process eveolves. in the case of iraq and nam

Re: [PEN-L] Beyond Quagmire

Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 5:40:40 PM Subject: Re: Beyond Quagmire On 3/16/07, soula avramidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is quite a difference bwteen analytical rationality what elites debate and waht happens on the ground. the same could

Re: [PEN-L] Beyond Quagmire

, soula avramidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing can be further from the truth.. The US went to war to completely destroy Iraq as a social and political entity, and it did. That is the ultimate victory: pulling out or, staying in, is just a mere detail. the US went to war to destroy Iraq

[PEN-L] Beyond Quagmire

Nothing can be further from the truth.. The US went to war to completely destroy Iraq as a social and political entity, and it did. That is the ultimate victory: pulling out or, staying in, is just a mere detail. URL:

[PEN-L] No mention of US occupation

A UN report fails to mention US occupation in Iraq as the casue of decline... Instaed it had this to say: Impact of Conflict on Unemployment in Iraq Damages caused by insurgents and the lack of new investment affected adversely most productive sectors, particularly in high violence regions.

[PEN-L] the lebanese civil war is on hold.

There is one reason why there isn't an open sectarian military conflict in Lebanon and that is it will spill over into Syria opening a ventilation space for Sunni insurgents in Iraq. It is something the US Israel and Iran seem to be in accord with now.

Re: [PEN-L] The economic situation in Iran

This may be an a tangent but the situation in Iran could have been much better if they avoided sectarianism and got involved with the resistance in Iraq. now too late... The fish are biting. Get more

Re: [PEN-L] crisis article

Maybe too late for this but there is little mention about the role of Iraqi resistance, which is to credited for holding the hegemon at bay, whilst others paly. - Original Message From: MICHAEL YATES [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007

[PEN-L] get samart- chaos and alqaeda

To a large extent the alqaeda motif resembles the 'chaos' in the get smart motif... where a good cop maxwell smart chases the chaos guys everywhere. i never thought that someting so silly could become reality. only in the pull the wool over the eyes wooly world of defunct imperialism.

Re: [PEN-L] obscene and ostentatious wealth

in middle east also there disastroue conditions in iraq and palestine and lebanon.. and now the bank and the fund are meddling with syria and inflation on principal commodities is near 15% two year running- wages holding steady- exchange rate holding steady - genie coefficient rising- the

Re: [PEN-L] The Great Dollar Crash of 2007

PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2007 4:56:17 PM Subject: Re: The Great Dollar Crash of 2007 On 2/8/07, soula avramidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry i meant inter imperialist rivalry is no longer as intense between the advanced formation. I see. No question

Re: [PEN-L] The Great Dollar Crash of 2007

, soula avramidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The genius of American empire is that everyone is a partner in crime. You said it. Ironically, the state most defiant of the American empire -- Venezuela -- is also among the most dependent on the American market. so in that fiat dollar, the us military

Re: [PEN-L] PEN-L should be announcing capitalism's shortcomings more than the Sun-Times

now capitalism i always thought is universal it is the general condition under which all else is subsumed. as a general condition that is one that includes at its tail end 50 least developed countries that are a tragedy of sort it has problems of a severe nature that in view of the wealth it

Re: [PEN-L] The Great Dollar Crash of 2007

That seems to discount the other side of the coin and that is the US can honour its debt obligations by further military expansion, ergo, Iran, and, because everyone wants to keep a steady and universal medium of wealth holding, they will look the other way when Iran is bombed. The US boat has

[PEN-L] scathing Niebyl

http://www.marxistlibr.org/meth.html The issue here is the issue of scientific method, of theory. This issue has been dodged, and dodged most successfully, in the Anglo-American world up to this moment. It has been dodged by Marxists as much as by bourgeois social scientists. (I shall not be

Re: [PEN-L] Hizballah, Tehran, and Iraq

My take on this is to revise the history of Iraq in light of the new developments. Much of history was written by FOX and CNN day and day out. No one, in my opinion, should even attempt to copy that in particular the demonsation of Saddam.

Re: [PEN-L] The New Saddam

Saddam invaded Iran without provocation, how could victors write history..by relying on the ignorance of journalists who would say that there was awar without provocationnow that is truly something

Re: [PEN-L] The New Saddam

histroy even saddam - Original Message From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2007 2:11:15 PM Subject: Re: The New Saddam On 2/1/07, soula avramidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saddam invaded Iran without provocation, how could

Re: [PEN-L] The new imperial war in Lebanon

the problem in lebanon and in iraq and in the region as a whole is that everyone forgets the abc of national liberation struggles and that is front formation. it is difficult to fight an anti imperialist war with shiites alone or sunnites alone. the really big war is in iraq and there iran and

Re: [PEN-L] Hizballah, Tehran, and Iraq

The difficulty with progressive working class action in the near east nowadays is when the communist lag tremendously behind the fundementalist of every colour in numbers and impetus. There are two communist tents in downtown and 1000 or more shiite tents. it just looks like a token presence.

[PEN-L] geopolitical rents are more important than oil rents

Below you will find para 132 and 133 of RECOVERY, RECONSTRUCTION, AND REFORM International Conference for Support to Lebanon 25 January 2007 http://www.finance.gov.lb/NR/rdonlyres/89C37627-828E-4626-9F00-9A6498BB4082/0/ParisIIIEngVersion.pdf As you can very well see that six families owning

Re: [PEN-L] Socialism and Islam

there isn't a single veil that is a misconception. at the turn of the century nearly every rural community had its folkloric head dress and in rural communities there was no separation of the sexes because of the shallow division of labour. the present veil is the urban veil. if you look at

Re: [PEN-L] Socialism and Islam

Lenin to be inexact says something to the effect that there are leftists only by name. in Palestine as well apart from the pflp which the biggest leftist group, small factions of the left were elitist and getting support from Arafat. in fact Arafat was using these leftists on the negotiating so

[PEN-L] shouting on aljazeera

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Re: [PEN-L] Why did Saddam become expendable?

My research tells me that the relationship of the former Iraqi regime with the US is exaggerated. the US nominally intervened to assist Iraq in its war against Iran because when Saddam started to loose after one year of fighting, they had to prop him, but it was more of a marriage of

[PEN-L] here's an interesting quotation

US external commercial and capital accounts are an expression of what it implies for the United States to have modelled its whole economy along the needs of contemporary money-bearing capital and become, both for its own financial investors and those of wealth owners, governments with export

Re: [PEN-L] Polish archbishop quits over communist links

: Re: Polish archbishop quits over communist links He quit over supplying information to the secret police. US bishops cooperate routinely with police agencies and no one objects. On Jan 7, 2007, at 10:26 PM, soula avramidis wrote: Do they quit over child abuse or is it just communism which

Re: [PEN-L] Spinning the Execution of Saddam Hussein

whatever the US does will only be smart in appearance because it is the power at the helm of history. the corrosion to empire is deep in its underbelly and cannot be easily seen. Am I wrong in thinking that Iran is the operational ally of the US in Iraq. None of the Arab commoners are stooges,

Re: [PEN-L] Spinning the Execution of Saddam Hussein

/7/07, soula avramidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the battle for iraq is the battle of the international working class not the battle for iranian nukes Nukes are a secondary issue for the US-Israel vs. Iran, to be sure, just as they were a secondary issue for the US-Israel vs. Iraq -- more means

Re: [PEN-L] Lebanon's Labor Unions Call for a Sit-in to Protest Proposed Tax Hikes

On 1/7/07, soula avramidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. this time it will be sunnis and shiis This being Lebanon, the divide among the Christians is equally significant. 4. this is not your usual democracy, the government does not mediate class differences. it mediates sect differences

Re: [PEN-L] Spinning the Execution of Saddam Hussein

thing at a time. the Ummah never dies, it just goes to sleep for a while. - Original Message From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Sunday, January 7, 2007 5:12:21 PM Subject: Re: Spinning the Execution of Saddam Hussein On 1/7/07, soula avramidis [EMAIL

[PEN-L] Polish archbishop quits over communist links

Do they quit over child abuse or is it just communism which is worst? Polish archbishop quits over communist links By Jan Cienski in Warsaw Published: January 7 2007 17:37 | Last updated: January 7 2007 18:04 Less than two days after becoming archbishop of ­Warsaw, Stanislaw Wielgus on Sunday

Re: [PEN-L] Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group

I am of the opinion that regime in Iran will do itself in because it is more sectarian than anti imperialist, though it is both. and sectarianiasm conceals of course the inetrest of a small clique that hoards rents in a neo-mercaltisit structure that is in need of keeping its hold on deomestic

[PEN-L] EMW i.e. ellen wood

while US and British soldiers enjoy an Iranian sponsored holiday in southern Iraq, here's friend take on economics snip from a friend This is wrong. “War without end” answers to the particular needs of US imperialism, those which have emerged as a result of the US’s particularly close

[PEN-L] Re: West Tries a New Tack to Block Iran’s Nuclear Agenda

Iran will stop itself because it is pursuing sectraian pro american policies in iraq and lebanon. Arab new year greeting: May the flees of one thousand camels infest the ass of the person who screws up your year and may his arms grow too short to scratch his ass...

[PEN-L] Re: [PEN-L] Re: West Tries a New Tack to Block Iran’s Nuclear Agenda

in Iran disgiused under Shiite islam. - Original Message From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Tuesday, January 2, 2007 12:13:10 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Re: West Tries a New Tack to Block Iran’s Nuclear Agenda On 1/2/07, soula avramidis [EMAIL

[PEN-L] Re: [PEN-L] Re: [PEN-L] Re: West Tries a New Tack to Block Iran’s Nuclear Agenda

maybe I was too quick, never really written such a lengthy response to anyone but you but let just reemphasize that there is a difference between tokenism and reall core issues such as the situation in iraq. but here it goes: Tehran's foreign policy has never solely relied on the Shi'is.

[PEN-L] Is There a Sunni Majority in Iraq?

Is There a Sunni Majority in Iraq? Iraqis By the Numbers By Faruq Ziada* http://english.alarabonline.org/display.asp?fname=2006%5C12%5C12-28%5Czopinionz%5C963.htmdismode=xts=28/12/2006%2003:36:21%20%C3%A3 The United States based its policy on Iraq on two primary so-called facts: 1. The

[PEN-L] Even if the world is abig piece of shit....

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[PEN-L] The sense that war makes

http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-vision_reflections/war_sense_3970.jsp violence and war are also seen as exclusively negative in their consequences. This view stretches back to the 19th- and early 20th-century liberal interpretation of war; it was neatly captured in a World Bank

Re: [PEN-L] In Somalia, a Reckless U.S. Proxy War

Ethiopia's war will be very costly to its territorial unity given the ratio of the muslim population and Somalis on the iside and the Ogadin province. - Original Message From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:08:01 AM

Re: [PEN-L] People's Revolt in Lebanon

This is a falsification of fact. Obviously mr. bazzi comes from Bint Jbail and he is a shiite. the poorest in lebanon are the sunnis of the countryside especially in akkar and western bekaa. the shiites are better of though still poor. tobacco growing allowed southern lebanon a cash crop that

Re: [PEN-L] People's Revolt in Lebanon

surprisingly bad but so little comes out of the region that even this sounds good - Original Message From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 6:01:52 PM Subject: People's Revolt in Lebanon Surprisingly good for The Nation. --

[PEN-L] here's a quotation du jour for degustation (2006 vintage)

of the poor are taken care of while the rest of the world gets along with its business. p18 Reinert, E.S. Development and Social Goals: Balancing Aid and Development to Prevent 'Welfare Colonialism'. UN/DESA, 2006, Working Paper No. 14. - Original Message From: soula avramidis [EMAIL

Re: [PEN-L] Saddam Hussein Loses 'Appeal', To Hang Within 30 Days

the way in which liberal intellectuals fell victim to the demonisisng of saddam hussein in and about an area they know little of by pathetic bourgeois moral standards makes them inadvertant criminals against humanity. and if some think this is the end of the story, let them just sit back and

Re: [PEN-L] Learning Turkish

The last time i heard the phrase Learning Turkish was in Anakra one or two years back, where a pretty solid english marxist scholar met the man of his life who happened to be a turk at a late dinner party, after which he said I want to learn turkish I wish i could speak turkish. -

Re: [PEN-L] question on imperialism from Loren Goldner From Zimbabwe

Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of soula avramidis Sent: 12 December 2006 08:53 To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: [PEN-L] question on imperialism from Loren Goldner From Zimbabawe a student from Harare who says the internet will not go far: Certainly

[PEN-L] Oil producers shun dollar

what would it take to recress global imbalances and redress falling dollar? Answer: the US has to bomb Iran. very unusual or is it http://www.ft.com/cms/s/277471c2-8889-11db-b485-779e2340.html Oil producers shun dollar By Haig Simonian in Zurich and Javier Blas and Carola Hoyos in London

[PEN-L] question on imperialism from Loren Goldner From Zimbabawe

a student from Harare who says the internet will not go far: Certainly an interesting expose. What Loren Goldner asserts happened to Japan, as its reserves got reduced by 32%, and contends, China is likely to go through and see its owed loans and reserves reduced as it devalues to the

Re: [PEN-L] question on imperialism from Loren Goldner

another response from Africa Interesting. If this is all true, that I find interesting is the fact that then this is all planned, well thought out. The problem for me and what frustrates and exasperates me is that Africans are not planning, neither are we engaged in long range thinking. We

Re: [PEN-L] What the Baker Report DOESN'T Say

Thursday: 57 Iraqis Killed, 10 Wounded http://antiwar.com/updates/ to say that the US lost is a smokescreen very much like the WMD that were not there. One nation goes to war to destroy another nation. Iraq has been nearly completely destroyed. Thursday: 57 Iraqis Killed, 10 Wounded

Re: [PEN-L] What the Baker Report DOESN'T Say

[This is, in fact, similar to the scenario that was played out in the first 10 years of the Lebanese Civil War - a core of the Lebanese Army remained intact (and mostly in their barracks) from 1975 until February 1984. The army remained largely neutral and despite the dominance of Christian

Re: [PEN-L] Fwd: Kenneth Rogoff on Latam economies

I like the stance growth oriented and democratic.. as if the others are undemocratic. when asked about Saudi Arabia a fledgling market economy why is it undemocratic, the answer from these guys would be it is their culture... - Original Message

Re: [PEN-L] More idiocy from Iran

This is just the tip of the iceberg in idiocy. Its sectarian pro-Shiite policies in Iraq facilitated the American invasion and paved the grounds for the present civil war. What Bob G said yesterday i.e. the US is not winning is another smoke screen similar to that of Iraqi WMD. When hundreds of

Re: [PEN-L] question on imperialism from Loren Goldner

In my reading on imperialism few, not several decades ago, there were three main texts provided: Bukharin, Luxembourg and Lenin. The point of departure of Lenin from the rest was in fact that military aggression i.e. the fifth analytical facet of imperialism was central to how the practice of

Re: [PEN-L] question on imperialism from Loren Goldner

Just forgot to add lenin's definition of imperiliasm is more a theory of war. This is certainly better than cultural explanations of war. the worst racist comments that come out of imperilaist prolocutor is that these 'tribes hated each other for a long time.' Shakesperiam deus ex machina hate

[PEN-L] Arab national congress congratulates Chavez

It says in the ltter sent to Chavez.. Your victory is ours, it is a vcitory for fredom and social justice for the peoples to choose not under the threat of guns and canons. etc.. nice letter Have a burning

[PEN-L] walls in near east: the new fad

Saudi Arabia is building a fence along its border with Iraq to hedge against the spill-over effect of terrorism, which will cost $12 billion; that is higher than Yemen’s GDP in 2005, which stood at $11.5 Billion. Walls in Saudi Arabia and Israel are the fad enclosure of primitive accumulation

Re: [PEN-L] Preparing the retreat

if news of US defeat in iraq propagate you could start another great depression.. it ain't over until the fat lady things. there is as much withdrawal as there was weapons of mass destruction.. this is just a democratic smoke screen of crisis management and iran is next by necessity to US capital

Re: [PEN-L] Seth Sandronsky Interviews Michael Perelman!

contributions?On 10/24/06, soula avramidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Maurice Clark, the American institutionalist, addressed his pioneering work, Studies in the Economics of Overhead Costs, to the problems discussed here. he had few followers among either conventional or non-conventional (including

[PEN-L] International day of action for the Iraqi resistance

The battle of the Iraqi people is the battle of all movements, peoples and nations fighting for their liberation from the imperialist world system led by the US . Therefore we have to firmly rally behind the Iraqi resistance. If we are able to support their struggle to smash the US attempt to

Re: [PEN-L] Seth Sandronsky Interviews Michael Perelman!

John Maurice Clark, the American institutionalist, addressed his pioneering work, Studies in the Economics of Overhead Costs, to the problems discussed here.he had few followers among either conventional or non-conventional (including Marxian) economists. - Original Message From: Yoshie

[PEN-L] losses or gains of war in lebanon

Accounting: depreciation and destruction to the infrastructure: 3.2 b$ Economic: Foregone income and earnings from destroyed capital: 3.5b$ Political economy: Is the present social formation capable of reproducing itself in time and space within the confines of the same social relations

Re: [PEN-L] Jordan buy Iraqi oil for ten dollars a barrel

ther are two types of rents in the near east: oil rents and geopolitical rents. jordan is an aid showcase because as a buffer state it enjoys a lot of geopolitical rents - Original Message From: ken hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDUSent: Wednesday, October 4, 2006 4:46:15

Re: [PEN-L] Whoopi! Didn't you know? We Won the War in Iraq

US: Baghdad Bombings Hit New High http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061004/ts_nm/iraq_dc if new highs continue at the present rate, the daily death toll in Iraq will climb to 32,000 perday by the year 2025. now ain't that something to reckon with. if it ain't the will of Gad what is it then?

Re: [PEN-L] deep critique of Hobsbawm

Every position is a class position. rash political positions emanating from deep hate as opposed to deep critique for imperialism and the sort make things happen. there is a world of difference between the organic intellectual surrounded by misery and driven by more hate than reason at times and

Re: [PEN-L] bye-bye Mao

It depends on the type of contradiction... is it contingent, relative, absolute etc., The US example of contradiction proves that you can fool the people all the time... Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail.

[PEN-L] The thorny road to Tehran

Back on 26 April the following steps were envisaged for raid of Tehran "they really need to bomb but the costs are great for now: 1.they have emasculate Hezbollah 2. they to quarantine the Syrians 3.they have to have Iraqi Resistance contained by Iraqi forces 4. they have to discredit hamas

[PEN-L] geopolitcal rents in the near east

there are two ways of making a livingin the near east, oil rents for oil endowed states and geopolitical rents for neighbouring states. Israel and the non oil producing Arab states have come in part to survive on the fact they could be involved in war or could be paid to stay out of war e.g Jordan

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