Global Warming meets Johnny Appleseed

[A little overanxious to justify US approaches no?] February 10, 2001 New Report Backs Planting More Trees to Fight Warming By ANDREW C. REVKIN An influential panel of scientists is preparing to endorse two strategies for curtailing global warming that have been major po

The Internet Anti-Fascist: Friday, 9 Feb 2001 -- 5:9 (#511)

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Re: Re: racism: you can't win.

I've been reading a book titled, "Gender and Jim Crow." It follows the lives of several well educated, upper class black women in North Carolina through the days following the Civil War up through the beginning of segregation. The same phenomenon was apparent then. There were very wealthy, very

Re: Fraudulent capitalist accounting: Lucent ?

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/09/01 10:19AM >>> Charles Brown wrote: >WSJ has an article today the Lucent is under investigation by the >SEC over possible fraudulent accounting practices. And your point is...? You confirming Lenin's claims in Imperialism about accounting practices getting ever mu

RE: Re: RE: lowe/polanyi/hayek

>if there's one's thing that would give us a feel for Lowe's overall work, >what would it be? your article? wow! big time interest in adolph lowe! big time self-promotion opportunities for me! i am not paying jim and michael! one thing? that's a toughie. i would guess that you, jim, might be mo

Re: RE: lowe/polanyi/hayek

if there's one's thing that would give us a feel for Lowe's overall work, what would it be? your article? At 03:10 PM 2/9/01 -0600, you wrote: >Michael writes: > > >tell us more in about the Lowe, Polanyi, Hayek connection. > >Well, there is a lot there, and a lot that still remains to be invest

Job Posting

To all those on Pen-l and PKT, I must apologize for misleading many of you when I posted the job opening in History/political economy here at Manitoba. It is, at this stage, open only to Canadians or landed immigrants. If we fail to find a qualified Canadian, only then can we go to the next

RE: lowe/polanyi/hayek

Michael writes: >tell us more in about the Lowe, Polanyi, Hayek connection. Well, there is a lot there, and a lot that still remains to be investigated. I spent some time in the Polanyi archives at Manchester but couldn't find anything. Much of Lowe's correspondence was destroyed, unfortunately

Fw: OUCH! (#68--Tax Cuts for Campaign Contributors)

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Re: Re: Re: Imperialism 2001

Oh, you always ask big questions when I don't have time! If I'm late for work again, the mean Big Boss Man is gonna lecture me again! I'll try to write something up soon on Polan & Lenin. In the meantime, do what I do and do a search at www.google.com Lenin Polan Michael -Original Message

BLS Daily Report

> BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2001: > > RELEASED TODAY: "Major Work Stoppages in 2000" indicates that major work > stoppage activity rose in 2000 after hitting record lows in 1999. > Thirty-nine major work stoppages began during the year, idling 394,000 > workers and resulting in 20 mi

Vigorous, yet vulnerable (China)

Business Times - 9 Feb 2001 http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/5/focus/focus21.html Vigorous, yet vulnerable Despite its robust performance last year, China's growth prospects for 2001 and the next few years are still underscored by uncertainty, says JOHN WONG HINA China ended 2000 with a stro

Re: Re: Imperialism 2001

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/09/01 01:41PM >>> Charles, you ever read the book by A.J. Polan, "Lenin and the End of Politics. " ??? CB: No. What is its thesis ?

Re: Re: Imperialism 2001

Charles, you ever read the book by A.J. Polan, "Lenin and the End of Politics. " ??? http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/printable/9/0,5722,115419,00.html Funny, this Britannica.com piece doesn't cite Neil Harding's 3 vols. on Lenin or Moshe Lewin, "Lenin's Last Struggle," Encyclopædi

Re: Imperialism 2001

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/09/01 01:25PM >>> Charles Brown wrote: >Would the following be the sum and substance of your look at >"Lenin's style of politics " ? No mention of the class struggle , >working class, capitalism ? That's not specifically "Leninist." That's Marxist, in the broad sens

Re: Re: Tom Kruse on de Soto

There's a strongly critical article on microcredit by PEN-L alumna Gina Neff at . And a followup at . Doug

Re: Imperialism 2001

Charles Brown wrote: >Would the following be the sum and substance of your look at >"Lenin's style of politics " ? No mention of the class struggle , >working class, capitalism ? That's not specifically "Leninist." That's Marxist, in the broad sense, and even some non-Marxists would give prio

Imperialism 2001

[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/09/01 11:42AM >CB: Glad you are applying Lenin. Must have been a good conference. DH: Well it made me re-read Imperialism after a gap of about 10 years, and I was struck by how frequently wrong it is. If that's what you mean. (( CB: Would the following be t

Imperialism 2001

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/09/01 11:42AM >>> Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Glad you are applying Lenin. Must have been a good conference. Well it made me re-read Imperialism after a gap of about 10 years, and I was struck by how frequently wrong it is. If that's what you mean. ** CB: Gee

Re: california energy, part 2

At 04:12 PM 2/7/01 -0800, you wrote: >The Republicans meeting in San Diego were not inclined >to investigate electrical deregulation--the convention >opened with a video tribute to Ronald Reagan, the >political godfather of deregulation--but if they had, >they weren't going to find much informatio

the Bush tax cuts

from SLATE: > The [LA TIMES] adds that when asked to provide the economic rationale > for the cuts, Bush's economic advisor Lawrence Lindsey, said, "I might > refer you to your economics textbook from freshman year for the answer." new frontiers in intellectual excellence! Jim Devine [EMAIL P

Re: Tom Kruse on de Soto

Tom Kruse wrote: >Digression for Jim Devine: regarding the argument that elites would be >aginast making peasants landowners on the grounds that it >de-proletarianizes them, and thus raises labor costs -- I don't buy >it. Here there is such a surplus of people of dubious utility to global >ca

Re: Re: Fraudulent capitalist accounting: Lucent ?

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Glad you are applying Lenin. Must have been a good conference. Well it made me re-read Imperialism after a gap of about 10 years, and I was struck by how frequently wrong it is. If that's what you mean. Doug

Re: Fraudulent capitalist accounting: Lucent ?

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/09/01 10:19AM >>> Charles Brown wrote: >WSJ has an article today the Lucent is under investigation by the >SEC over possible fraudulent accounting practices. And your point is...? You confirming Lenin's claims in Imperialism about accounting practices getting ever mu

Re: Fraudulent capitalist accounting: Lucent ?

Charles Brown wrote: >WSJ has an article today the Lucent is under investigation by the >SEC over possible fraudulent accounting practices. And your point is...? You confirming Lenin's claims in Imperialism about accounting practices getting ever murkier in the era of "monopoly"? If that's th

Re: data question

Michael Perelman wrote: >I'm having a devil of a time finding a time series on net and gross >investment for the United States. Is there and obvious source? You want NIPA table 5.02, which is one of the annual only tables at (scroll about 1/3 of the way do

Fraudulent capitalist accounting: Lucent ?

WSJ has an article today the Lucent is under investigation by the SEC over possible fraudulent accounting practices.

Re: data question

At 08:34 PM 2/8/01 -0800, michael perelman: >I'm having a devil of a time finding a time series on net and gross >investment for the United States. Is there and obvious source? >-- >Michael Perelman >Economics Department >California State University >Chico, CA 95929 > >Tel. 530-898-5321 >E-Mail

Re: Re: Re: Re: Quiz for pen-l people

At 09:53 AM 2/8/01 -0600, Ken Hanley wrote: >You win! The prime minister of Canada. Obviously a relative unknown in other >countries. Yes he was just visiting Dubya. Dubya probably personally gave >him his instructions, including support for the new missile defence system.. >:By the way how is it

Re: racism: you can't win.

At 05:20 AM 2/8/01 -0800, you wrote: >from SLATE on-line magazine, 02/08/01: >>The [Wall Street JOURNAL] front disturbs with a feature about race >>relations in Bowie, Maryland. The town had been virtually all-white until >>the 90s, when a growing number of blacks moved in and nowadays, it's 30

Re: Tom Kruse on de Soto

Hear hear!!! to everything Tom says. I've had much the same experiences on microcredit in Zimbabwe (it occupies a chapter in my 1998 book Uneven Zimbabwe, but the attached magazine article picks up some of my line of argument). Actually, the broader political project Tom describes as an alter