What's to stop, say, Hekmatyar, now sheltered in Iran, from bombing the
pipelines in a few years in Afghanistan?
http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/
The Center for International Policy offers a comprehensive source of
information and analysis about peaceful efforts to end Colombia's con
I didn't recieve PEN-L digest 130 (sent late on April 24, US time) and would
be graeful if someone who gets the digest format could forard it to me:
grantlee(at)iinet.net.au
This is also to inform anyone who has sent posts addressed to or concerning
me.
Regards,
Grant.
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Outgoing mail is ce
Greider ("The Right and US Trade Law: Invalidating the 20th Century", The
Nation, October 15, 2001) clarified all this very nicely.
Bill
Ian Murray wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
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> Subject:
Nasdaq pushes to take over London Stock Exchange
Share price rises as analysts predict bidding war in wake of US move
Jill Treanor
Thursday April 25, 2002
The Guardian
Nasdaq, Wall Street's market for hi-tech companies, has mounted a fresh attempt to
get the London Stock Exchange to agree to a
Fascism was defeated by the world proletariat brigade - a class. This class was
under the leadership of Stalin and that is a historically recorded fact. The
subsequent defeat and collapse of fascism throughout the world was connected to
the turning point in World World II or as it is called by
> Germany$BCT(B Green Party demands a powerful professional army
> In the course of the current debate in Germany over the future of the
> country$BCT(B conscript army, the Green Party has emerged as the most vehement
> proponent of the re-emergence of German militarism and advocate of a
> pro
Of course I don't expect much from either WSJ or BW when it comes to
covering Asia seriously, but the article derails at sentence one. First, at
130 yen to the dollar, the yen looks to be stuck at a fairly high level
still--what I predicted, the US would not like anything past 135 and the
markets
Louis I believe you make the mistake of over identifying every thing that happened in
the world communist movement as directly being an expression of Stalinism. Stalin was
acting on contradictory forces, despite his claims to being all powerful he was more
often then not a reactor to situations
> AOL's $50-Billion Loss Is One From the Books
Wow, I thought the recent NTT write-off of telecoms and start ups they paid
too much for was huge. $50 billions dollars. You could fund both Argentina
and Turkey for 5 years using IMF figures. If I were at AOL-Time-Warner I
would get the movie divisi
< http://www.feer.com >
The Tide Turns for Seagate Technology
Technological change has forced the world's biggest disk-drive maker--one of Asia's
largest private employers--to rethink the way it does business, with far-reaching
consequences for the region
By Neel Chowdhury/SINGAPORE and PENANG
Is
Michael,
All of the mails sent to your address today came back with this:
> Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:
>
> Recipient address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So here is my response:
12:30 it is.
I apologize from the rest for posting this to the list.
Best,
Sabri
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:02 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:25390] Re: Re: Regional planning and property rights
> The American Law on "takings" is a Frankinsteinian abortion of
> distorted thinking that is spreading its
Maybe this story should be called adventures in fictitious capital.
>
> The loss "is a recognition that AOL paid too much for Time
> Warner," said George Gilbert, who helps manage the Northern
> Technology Fund, before the results were released. "If they paid
> for it in cash, it would be a real
The American Law on "takings" is a Frankinsteinian abortion of
distorted thinking that is spreading its tentacles beyond the US
into other countries by the extraterritoriality of US law. The idea
that property rights extends to the incorporation of expected profits
in perpetuity is a US phant
Thursday, April 25 is the date for an Education and Cultural Event to
Support the Palestinian Struggle at the Hart Center, 915 27th Street,
Sacramento, CA. Doors open at 6:45 p.m.
The program includes Michel Shehadeh, Director of the West Coast
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and L
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Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:59 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:25386] Re: Regional planning and property rights
> Is a law saying that I cannot grow marijuana on my land a taking?
> --
Okay, but if you can't measure "capital," how do you measure -- or even
define -- "capital deepening"?
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From: Michael Perelman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 4/24/02 6:27 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:25384] Capital Spending
This article is short on details, but it supports my long
Is a law saying that I cannot grow marijuana on my land a taking?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2002.04.25 03:00 AM, "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> dem. cent. & Venezuela
> by Devine, James
> 23 April 2002 21:06 UTC
>
>
> ... Explaining why I described the idea of "democratic centralism" as coming
> from the "Marxist" tradition rather than from "Leninism," I wrote: >> It's
This article is short on details, but it supports my long-held view that
capital spending during recessions is capital deepening; during
expansions, capital widening. The article also quotes old URPE member,
Dan Luria.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/24/business/24INVE.html
--
Michael Perelman
E
The Economic Times
Tuesday, April 23, 2002
China-based IT firms climb up value chain
REUTERS
HONG KONG/SHANGHAI: China, whose vast and cheap labour force has long made
it
a manufacturing hub for global tech firms, is moving slowly up the industry
value chain.
>From semiconductors to cellphone
Jurriaan is right on the mark here.
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
> Opposing e.g. Zionist aggression against Palestinians is a relatively
> simple and straightforward matter, but arriving at a profound understanding
> of modern-day imperialism is a more more complex undertaking. I confess I
> am still
Can anybody explain this, starting with, is it true?
mbs
===
World Socialist Web Site, 4/24
Germanys Green Party demands a powerful professional army
In the course of the current debate in Germany over the future of the
countrys conscript army, the Green Party has e
>From Chris' mail:
>> Chirac has every possibility of winning but this
>> representative of Big Capital must not do so with the
>> support of those whom he will oppress for 5 years.
If she said that before the second round, and I have no reason to
believe that Chris would give us wrong informati
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 00:14:22 +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
>
>It was against this sort of sectarianism, which
>let in Hitler, that Dimitrov fought.
This simply is not true. Hitler came to power because the German
Communist Party indulged in a suicidal ultraleft politics.They
refused to unite wit
> i too am an ex internet startup software
> developer, soon to be a an internet startup
> software developer again. but dont feel too
> sorry for me. i haven't sold the european car
> yet, though i do pause a second before entering
> an expensive restaurant. ;-)
>
> -- ravi
Let us be fair to mo
I rather share Michael's view that an abstract discussion about Stalin will
not be very illuminating. However today it is not impossible that someone
like Le Pen could get 35% of the votes in a run off against Chirac. Look
how low the incumbent president's vote was in the first round.
In this
How is an analysis of Stalin going to help us understand the world today?
History, of course, is important, especially when it is relevant, but in
matters such as Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc. the subject leads to too
much emotional finger-pointing to lead to much.
I recall that on one list -- n
At 24/04/02 14:37 -0400, Louis wrote:
> >CB: On this issue, what about the fact that fascism _was_ defeated by the
>Popular Front.
>
>Do you mean the Allies? I wouldn't exactly call the military alliance
>between Stalin and Churchill and Roosevelt a Popular Front.
"hasten by every means the es
[was: RE: [PEN-L:25368] Re: Re: Le Pen triumph thanks to ultra-leftists]
Michael Pugliese writes: >Re; the Stalin-Hitler Pact. See, "Betrayal, " by
Wolfgang Leonhard.<
whatever one thinks of the H-S pact, it's a real sign of political
immaturity that an organization has so much energy & emotion
Luckily for all of us, it is not real money. George Gilbert of
Northern Technology Fund calls it "AOL funny money".
Sabri
=
Top Financial News
04/24 16:56
AOL Time Warner Posts Record $54.2 Bln 1st-Qtr Loss (Update2)
By Aimee Picchi
New York, April 24 (Bloomberg) -- AOL Tim
In a message dated 4/24/2002 1:31:01 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Greg Schofield:
>>The Popular Front was one of the great modern innovations in effective
political struggle of the working class, at the plain of how communists
should work it relates directly to the Communis
>CB: On this issue, what about the fact that fascism _was_ defeated by the
>Popular Front.
http://www.marxmail.org
I agree. The difference between the response of the communist in the
imperialist countries and the communist in the countries under attack by
aggressive fascism demands somewhat
>>CB: On this issue, what about the fact that fascism _was_ defeated by the
>Popular Front.
>
>Do you mean the Allies? I wouldn't exactly call the military alliance
>between Stalin and Churchill and Roosevelt a Popular Front. It was a
>military alliance between sovereign nations. For that matter,
Ian Murray wrote quoting someone/something else:
>
> Starting from the "bottom up," Kirsch is seeking "lowly" cube dwellers. He wants to
> hear the stories of software developers and sales agents, customer service
> representatives and their customers. In essence, his project hopes to chronicle th
Re; the Stalin-Hitler Pact. See, "Betrayal, " by Wolfgang Leonhard. On the
reaction in Western European CP's after the Pact was announced. Leonhard also
has an interesting autobio of his youth in the CP. Published here by right-wing
publisher under the title, "Child of the Revolution."
Micha
Good post! For once, I see (some) wisdom on CB's side. Thouigh, politically,
I'm with Jim. Anyway. Will google after work for, "Bolivarian Circles." (I work
from 1-9 p.m. lousy hrs...)
For now, go to http://www.pww.org for a recent article on Chavez and the
Venuelan CP. He spoke to thei
Thanks Michael,
Very interesting book. Are you aware of any studies similar to
this that cover "distant" neighbors such as Turkey, Greece,
Cyprus and the like?
Best,
Sabri
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Watching the Neighbors: Low- Intensity Conflict in Central
America
http://www.statecraf
BTW, I can see no reason why Lenin's work should be idolized. After all, his
main achievement in practice -- leading the Boshevik revolution -- was, in
the end, basically a failure. The failure wasn't totally his fault, of
course, but neither does he deserve all the credit for revolution. (T
>CB: On this issue, what about the fact that fascism _was_ defeated by the
Popular Front.
Do you mean the Allies? I wouldn't exactly call the military alliance
between Stalin and Churchill and Roosevelt a Popular Front. It was a
military alliance between sovereign nations. For that matter, I saw
Le Pen triumph thanks to ultra-leftists
by Louis Proyect
24 April 2002 12:32
Greg Schofield:
>>The Popular Front was one of the great modern innovations in effective
political struggle of the working class, at the plain of how communists
should work it relates directly to the Communist Manifesto
dem. cent. & Venezuela
by Devine, James
23 April 2002 21:06 UTC
... Explaining why I described the idea of "democratic centralism" as coming
from the "Marxist" tradition rather than from "Leninism," I wrote: >> It's
from Lenin, but much of what's been written on "democratic centralism" comes
f
my latest.
mbs
http://www.epinet.org/Issuebriefs/ib176.html
Drug Firm, FTC Settle Patent Dispute
Agency Promises More Action Against Companies Illegally Trying to Block Generic
Competition
By Bill Brubaker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 24, 2002; Page E03
The Federal Trade Commission for the first time has brought a case accusing a
pharm
I posted the interview with David Landes because to me it succinctly
summarises a modern liberal attitude, showing both its strengths (for
instance, rejection of the hullabaloo about "globalisation" and obsession
with "victim culture") and weaknesses (its misplaced faith in market
economy as
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Lessons in Failure
Univ. of Maryland Academic Seeks to Chronicle Dot-Com Bust
Michael P. Bruno
Washtech.com Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 24, 2002; 9:56 AM
David A. Kirsch loves failure, and he could be looking for you.
Kirsch, a newly hired assistant professor of entrepreneurship at the Unive
>I don't understand your position of these issues, Louis. Are you opposed to
>cross-class alliances (such as the "popular front" that Dmitrov advocated)?
>but aren't a lot of the third-world causes you support organized as
>cross-class alliances? for example, wasn't Peron's movement a cross-class
I don't understand your position of these issues, Louis. Are you opposed to
cross-class alliances (such as the "popular front" that Dmitrov advocated)?
but aren't a lot of the third-world causes you support organized as
cross-class alliances? for example, wasn't Peron's movement a cross-class
one?
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Louis this is more guilt by historical association. what happens in history is
obviously complex, contradictory and all too often ironic. Simply making a simple
reduction of the Popular Front to siding with the bourgeousie, is not about the Front
at all but rather a more abstract question mispl
The Telegraph, Apr. 24, 2002
Marx in the marketplace
Michael Prowse reviews Marx's Revenge by Meghnad Desai.
SOME books are more than the sum of their parts; others are less.
Unhappily, Marx's Revenge, falls into the latter category. Many of the
chapters are entertaining and instructive. Meghn
(Reading this on top of the Enron fiasco, one has to begin to seriously
wonder whether the 1990s economic expansion was just a mirage.)
LA Times, April 24, 2002
AOL's $50-Billion Loss Is One From the Books
By JAMES BATES, Times Staff Writer
Sometime this afternoon AOL Time Warner Inc
Greg Schofield:
>>The Popular Front was one of the great modern innovations in effective
political struggle of the working class, at the plain of how communists
should work it relates directly to the Communist Manifesto applying the
same principles to the specific question of anti-fascist struggle
Wall Street Journal, Apr. 24, 2002
New View of Japan Emerges
As the Yen Keeps Dropping
By ROBERT A. GUTH, MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS and CHARLES HUTZLER
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
With Japan's currency dropping like a stone lately, familiar howls of
protest can be heard from some pow
Education and Cultural Event to Support the Palestinian Struggle at the Hart
Center, 915 27th Street, Sacramento, CA. Doors open at 6:45 p.m.
The program includes Michel Shehadeh, Director of the West Coast
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and Laurie King-Irani, Editor,
Middle East
Title: Business Week Restates the Nineties
Sparring with the American Way
propagandists at S&P's Business Week is a waste of time, IF YOU ASK ME. Of
course American workers benefited. They became stock holders, too. That's why
all their money went into Enron stock if they worked at Enron. BTW
>
> Asia or Europe are big enough entities to take unilateral decisions to
stop
> subsidising the USA by giving giving the USA free credit by using the US
> dollar as the main medium of international exchange.
>
> While something like an old fashioned currency board can be sharply
> inflexibile fo
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