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Come on: in this there can be no dismay;
My ships come home a month before the day. (The Merchant of Venice)
The rise of globalization over the past thirty years has coincided with adramatic rise of money markets, derivatives, securitization, currency trading,and other forms
The Economic Times
Saturday, August 03, 2002
Strike on Iraq would redraw regional economic map
REUTERS
CAIRO: Success for Washington's stated goal of regime change in Iraq would
redraw the economic map of west Asia as well as its political map.
A possible return of Iraq as a full trading
No, the victory of socialism is no longer possible in several capitalist
countries alone. (And I am not arguing over past terrain between
"Stalinists" and "Trotskyites" in saying this, but talking about the
present balance of forces in the world.)
Lenin argued in Left Wing Communism an
ORIGINAL: Chris B wrote: Arthur Scargill is due to resign today after 20 years as
the leader of the (British) National Union of Mine Workers.
Despite great courage he was beaten by Mrs Thatcher's attack on the miners. The
Union, which was said to have 250,000 members in 1981, is now said to
Friendly fire deaths linked to US pilots 'on speed'
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
03 August 2002
American pilots in Afghanistan, blamed for a series of friendly fire
incidents and devastating erroneous attacks on innocent civilians, were
routinely provided with amphetamines to tackle fatigue
I thought it happens when your wife is a socialist and you actually pay some
attention to what she says.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
- Original Message -
From: Ben Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 2:30 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:28907] Re: Re: Expertise and
Wow! Ill bet that will render hamburgers sterile and there will be no baby
99 cent Macs.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
the average hamburger . . . may receive
the equivalent of millions of chest X rays in an attempt to temporarily
remove any potential bacterial contaminants.
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I not at all surprised that the long tale ending in CAT scanning of a possible tumour
was the launch of several hares, or should I say 'pale herrings'?
Firstly an apology: I used a tale within medicine for particular reasons - I know its
innards well; there is a perception of Medicine as being
ken hanly wrote:
Wow! Ill bet that will render hamburgers sterile and there will be no baby
99 cent Macs.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, June 1990
Vol. 46, No. 5
Zapping the food supply
Donald B. Louria
New arguments are boiling up over an old idea--irradiating food
Since you brought up Oregon, I'm going to change the subject slightly.
An initiative has qualified for the November ballot (which thanks to
Oregon's vote my mail system most Oregonians will receive by the first
week of October) that would implement single payer Health in the state
of
From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:29024] Jim Blaut on world systems analysis
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 18:56:12 -0400
(From the late Jim Blaut's regrettably out-of-print The National
Question. Sharp readers
There are possible hazards to irradiation but there has been little
risk-assessment of potential hazards. Not irradiating also has risks. The
CDC for example sees the potential for better control of contamination as
important enough that it recommends the adoption of irradiation. Some of the
Irradiation is a substitute for adequate regulation of the meat packing
industry -- not a good substitute, but a substitute nonetheless.
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 03:13:43PM -0700, ken hanly wrote:
There are possible hazards to irradiation but there has been little
risk-assessment of potential
F G wrote:
I´m no expert (there´s that word again) in WS analysis, my knowledge
of it stemming entirely from reading some of the papers on the FBC site
and numerous articles in the Journal of World Systems Research. From
what I have read though, some of the above misrepresents the claims
The threat to consumers comes from the radiation-caused chemical
alteration of the food.
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 05:18:35PM -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Irradiation is a substitute for adequate regulation of the meat packing
industry -- not a good substitute, but
I became aquainted with Wood's writing and thought by reading through an
interview and an article in some old Monthly Reviews. I then went out to
look for some/all of her books and I've been having a lot of trouble
locating them. Apparently some are even out of print.
I live in Oakland (CA)
At 01:30 PM 08/03/2002 -0700, you wrote:
I thought it happens when your wife is a socialist and you actually pay some
attention to what she says.
Hmmm. Reminds me of when I used to be married to a Trotskyist. Since he was
so busy doing political work and thinking political thoughts, he never
Title: the D of P
[was: RE: [PEN-L:29072] Re: Re: Jim Blaut on world systems analysis]
Louis writes:What I am afraid the good professor [Wallerstein] does not understand is that it takes armed workers in control of their own state in order to expand health, education and a guaranteed
Joanna,
Try Monthly Review Press:
http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrpress.htm
Seth
I became aquainted with Wood's writing and thought by reading through an
interview and an article in some old Monthly Reviews. I then went out to
look for some/all of her books and I've been having a lot of
Title: RE: [PEN-L:29078] Re: the D of P
maybe the armed workers were in control of their own state in Cuba in the early 1960s, but the quote from Boostein doesn't refer to the state at all. (It's been awhile since I read that book, but I don't remember it talking of workers controlling the
Maybe, but she just republished her last MR book with Verso.
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 11:14:30PM +, Seth Sandronsky wrote:
Joanna,
Try Monthly Review Press:
http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrpress.htm
Seth
I became aquainted with Wood's writing and thought by reading through an
Devine, James wrote:
maybe the armed workers were in control of their own state in Cuba in
the early 1960s, but the quote from Boostein doesn't refer to the
state at all. (It's been awhile since I read that book, but I don't
remember it talking of workers controlling the state at all,
Title: RE: the D of P
I wrote:
maybe the armed workers were in control of their own state in Cuba in
the early 1960s, but the quote from Boo[rn]stein doesn't refer to the
state at all. (It's been awhile since I read that book, but I don't
remember it talking of workers controlling the
Devine, James wrote:
reality is a great orientation, but we have two eyes. We can't just
focus on reality alone -- which ends up with pessimism or even
fatalism or opportunism. (I have met corrupt labor union leaders who
claimed to be in touch with reality, so that their practices were
There is a new edition of her _The Origin of Capitalism_, published by
Verso. Have you checked at Amazon or Barnes Noble? I have the cloth
edition; I don't know whether it is out in paper yet. If you don't have
her _Retreat from Class_ it is worth whatever you have to pay to get it
from a used
Seth Sandronsky wrote:
Joanna,
Try Monthly Review Press:
Won't do Seth. A new and expanded version is out of the only book MR
Press of published by her, now published by Verso. Her other books at MR
are books she edited rather than wrote.
I just checked with Barnes Noble and
Ellen ,
Try the Niebel-Proctor Marxist library on Telegraph Avenue in ?? Berkeley or
Oakland. It is pretty near the city line and I'm not sure which city it is
in. They have a fair collection.
Gene Coyle
joanna bujes wrote:
I became aquainted with Wood's writing and thought by reading
The Hindu
Thursday, Aug 01, 2002
Iran may find it hard to spurn Russian offer
By Atul Aneja
MANAMA (BAHRAIN) JULY 31. Though Iran has got a commitment from Russia on
the supply of civilian nuclear reactors, in return it may have to go along
with Moscow's controversial plans to share the
Devine, James:
Stalinism (which prevailed from the 1920s to the 1980s in the USSR, with a
political party holding a monopoly of the state power and the state
dominating society) does not seem a good case of armed workers in control
of their own state at all. If anything, a new stratum (or class)
As a side bar to questions of doctrine and the Marx method I have an interest in understanding the theoretical and practical impact of the money supply - M3. Maybe someone out there has followed the money supply in the US and Japan - in particular for the past decade and maybe 25 years or so. The
In a message dated 8/2/02 8:31:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
They will also work hard to hide the fact that the Davis-Besse site
is one of the very few in Ohio where wind power could really work.
The lakeside breezes are there to generate the electricity cheaply
and
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