Re: terror in chico

Michael, Marysville is the mail center for all of the north valley. Chico mail gets postmarked in Marysville, even when it's just mailed across town (it goes 50 miles south, then 50 miles north...). The letters could have been mailed from Marysville, but not likely-- they could just have easily ha

The origin of the anthrax

Billions of pounds of public expenditure may depend on an opinion about the origin of the anthrax, if an invasion of Iraq is still on the options agenda. I share this passage from the editorial in the latest New Scientist, which as always is quietly and consistently socially progressive: "Some

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Leaders back 'Marshall Plan for Africa' Chris McGreal in Johannesburg Wednesday October 24, 2001 The Guardian Leaders of African states formally launched an ambitious plan to rebuild their continent yesterday through a partnership in which good and accountable government and an end to conflict i

Who pays for the Terror Economy?

The Los Angeles Times October 23, 2001 Take a Guess: Who's Going to Pay for the Terror Economy? By Robert B. Reich Not since World War II have Americans felt so unified. We're fighting a war against terrorism and we're fighting to get the economy moving again. And we're all in this toge

The sexual division of labour and nature

Carrol kindly sent the message below in response to Jim. The message is a rather good summation of Engel's standing in anthropology by her friend Maureen (the entire message is reproduced below. I am not taking issue with Maureen because she has correctly and concisely summed up the general co

terror in chico

We got this today. Marysville is a very poor, conservative town about 40 miles S. of Chico. To: faculty and staff From: Joe Wills, public affairs and publications Re: Campus notice: Hoax letter There is a hoax letter circulating with a Freehold, NJ, return address that apparently was actually m

Daniel Bensaïd on, "Leninism."

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Re: Re: Re: query: Engels & anthropology

Thankyou Jim for the opportunity to bore everyone with my obsession, Dobbins argument is that in preclass societies kin relations regulated (expressed) equal exchanges of necessary labour. No surplus nor on the surface any possibility of one. The contradiction would thus appear to be no histor

Re: query: Engels & anthropology]]

I fwd Jim's query to a Chicago anthropologist who posts to lbo occasionally. Her reply below which seems quite useful. Carrol Original Message Subject: Re: [Fwd: [PEN-L:18974] query: Engels & anthropology] Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:32:16 -0500 From: Maureen Anderson <[EMAIL PR

Pakistan and Islamic militancy

Pakistan, not Afghanistan, is the source of Islamic militancy. Pakistan has been using Islamic militants as a instrument in its foreign policy. Consequently it has been responsible, with the support of Saudia Arabia and the US, for the export of Islamic militant forces to Afghanistan, Chechyna and

underconsumptionism

Charles, i'm going to send this reply to pen-l. we don't seem to be getting far. i thank you for having taken the time to have sent me rudy fichtenbaum's piece a while ago; after a couple of moves i am having trouble locating it. i think you miss grossmann's and mattick's point which is not

GATS........

Research Paper Reveals Collusion Between UK Government and London Financial Services Lobby AMSTERDAM, 17 October 2001 -- The United Kingdom is home to a particularly influential services industry lobby, which operates through an organisation called "International Financial Services, London (IFSL)

Re: Re: late colonialism

- Original Message - From: "Jim Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Though I find the oil connection to be much more plausible to the current > "splendid little war" than to the war against Serbia, there's one snag: if > the US wins and then builds a pipeline through Afghanistan, it will hav

Re: Conditions and the Taliban

In an earlier message, Michael K wrote: >>>Slings and arrows and accusations of pedantry aside, I think it's important not to allow history to be glossed over by the use of misleading terms like "Russo-Afghan war". Afghanistan was used as a proxy for the Cold War between the US and the Soviet

Re: late colonialism

Though I find the oil connection to be much more plausible to the current "splendid little war" than to the war against Serbia, there's one snag: if the US wins and then builds a pipeline through Afghanistan, it will have to be guarded with a lot of troops (paid for by guess who?) It's hard to

Re: Re: query: Engels & anthropology

thanks for your reply. It was quite useful. Could you please give a quick summary of Dobbins' theory of the missing dialectic? At 10:21 AM 10/23/01 +0800, you wrote: >If you are interested to track down a pamphlet by (I think) Peggy >Anne Dobbins "From Kin to Class" you will find that she has >d

Pilger on crisis management as imperialism

Pilger on crisis management as imperialism by Ian Murray 23 October 2001 A War In The American Tradition The ultimate goal of the attacks on Afghanistan is not the capture of a fanatic, but the acceleration of western power. John Pilger -clip- In his zeal, Tony Blair has come closer to an ann

Engels and anthropology

University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology faculty have a lot on this. I had a class with Dr. Henry Wright on the origin of the state. Dr. Robert Whallon: Museum Director and Curator for Europe 734-764-7570 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dr. C. Loring Brace: Curator for Physical Anthropology 734-

Pilger on crisis management as imperialism

< http://www.outlookindia.com > A War In The American Tradition The ultimate goal of the attacks on Afghanistan is not the capture of a fanatic, but the acceleration of western power. John Pilger The Anglo-American attack on Afghanistan crosses new boundaries. It means that America's economic w

Re: query: Engels & anthropology

Peruse back issues of Dialectical Anthropology, http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/jrnltoc.htm/0304-4092 Michael Pugliese

Conditions and the Taliban

Conditions and the Taliban by Michael Keaney 23 October 2001 < < < And I think that the vast majority of Afghans were better off under Najibullah than under the successive regimes that followed (hardly difficult to prove). ( CB: "Hardly difficult to prove", but the ease with which i

University of Manitoba on Strike

Pen-llers, et al., This is to inform you that the faculty at the University of Manitoba began a strike yesterday morning (Oct 22) following almost of year of fruitless negotiations with the administration. The issues are more bread and butter than the last strike 6 years ago which was over

Conditions and the Taliban

I wrote: That the USSR had its own less than admirable reasons for going in is absolutely true, Charles Brown: What were those less than admirable reasons ? Seemed like they were defending a government like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua or the Dos Santos government in Angola from US

Re: Re: neoclassical collective action

- Original Message - From: "michael perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I wonder how they establish the existence of dumping. It always seemed > pretty arbitrary. > -- > = A toy economy: There are 5 firms in a market 1 holds 32% 2 holds 21% 3 holds 19% 4 holds 17% the 5th holds

Conditions and the Taliban

Jim D. writes: Michael K writes: >Slings and arrows and accusations of pedantry aside, I think it's >important not to allow history to be glossed over by the use of >misleading terms like "Russo-Afghan war". Afghanistan was used as a >proxy for the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union, an

Screening: Ernesto Che Guevara: The Bolivian Diary (Fri., Oct. 26)

Friday, October 26 Film Screening: _Ernesto Che Guevara: The Bolivian Diary_ (Dir. Richard Dindo, 1994, 94 minutes) Discussion follows after the screening. For a review of Ernesto Che Guevara: The Bolivian Diary, click on . 6 p.m. The Journalism

Teach-in: "America's Bio/Chemical Weapons" (Sat., Oct. 27)

Teach-in: America's Bio/Chemical Weapons The U.S. government has embarked on "a program of secret research on biological weapons that...tests the limits of the global treaty banning such weapons" (New York Times September 4, 2001). Unbeknownst to unsuspecting people in Ohio, the Battelle Memor

Teach-in: "America's Bio/Chemical Weapons" (Sat., Oct. 27)

Teach-in: America's Bio/Chemical Weapons The U.S. government has embarked on "a program of secret research on biological weapons that...tests the limits of the global treaty banning such weapons" (New York Times September 4, 2001). Unbeknownst to unsuspecting people in Ohio, the Battelle Memor

. Conditions and the Taliban

. Conditions and the Taliban by Michael Keaney 23 October 2001 07:54 That the USSR had its own less than admirable reasons for going in is absolutely true, CB: What were those less than admirable reasons ? Seemed like they were defending a government like the Sandinistas in Nicara

Beware, Oh Northern Alliance, this harbinger of your future.

Beware, Oh Northern Alliance, this harbinger of your future. Beware , the Ides of March, E tu usa. "Maybe they have made a mistake", And maybe they have not. - A Soothsayer AFP. 22 October 2001. US jets accidentally bomb anti-Taliban positions. BAGRAM -- United States fighter jets on Mo

Re: Conditions and the Taliban

At 10:51 AM 10/23/2001 +0300, you wrote: >Jim D. writes: > >1) there was a unified -- and unifying -- state in Afghanistan before >the Taliban. (It was also modernizing, educating women, etc., which >stimulated the ire of the fundamentalist men.) This, of course, was >destroyed in >the Russo-Afgh

query: Engels & anthropology

query: Engels & anthropology by Jim Devine 22 October 2001 22:21 UTC Has there been a serious effort to consider Engels' _Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State_ from the perspective of recent anthropology, i.e., to present a serious critique (rather than a trashing) and recon

Open government vs. capital shortage

Penners, Alas, it appears that my earlier speculations regarding the possible reorientation of New Labour's relationship with finance capital were forlorn, in that the promised restructuring is in fact going to deepen that relationship, rather than restore the older state sector financing rules.

Unimpeachable source

Former CIA chief: 'Iraq was involved in terror attacks' By Anne Usher, AP Writer 23 October 2001 Former CIA Director James Woolsey says Iraq likely was involved in the attacks of September 11 and that the United States will probably confront President Saddam Hussein as part of its ongoing

Whiteout, part 2

Russia in multi-million arms deal with Northern Alliance Moscow gives major backing to opposition forces Kevin O'Flynn Tuesday October 23, 2001 The Guardian Old Soviet tanks, helicopters and kalashnikovs are being supplied in a multi-million dollar arms deal between Russia and the Northern All

Re: late colonialism

--- Message Received --- From: "Ian Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lbo-Talk@Lists. Panix. Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:22:59 -0700 Subject: [PEN-L:18987] late colonialism "America's pipe dream A pro-western regime in Kabul should give the US an Afghan route for Caspian

Conditions and the Taliban

Jim D. writes: 1) there was a unified -- and unifying -- state in Afghanistan before the Taliban. (It was also modernizing, educating women, etc., which stimulated the ire of the fundamentalist men.) This, of course, was destroyed in the Russo-Afghan war. = Slings and arrows and accusati

Re: Conditions and the Taliban

At 01:36 AM 22-10-01, Karl Carlile wrote: >Conditions are such in Afghanistan that the only basis for unity is the >army and >religion. [cut] In many ways there is no Afghan society. >Indeed in so far as Afghan society exists it is constituted by the >Taliban state >which chiefly consists of th