The Telegraph, Sept. 17, 2002
When in doubt, blame the US
Noel Malcolm reviews The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and
Infuriates the World by Mark Hertsgaard and After the Terror by Ted Honderich
Why do they hate us? is, we are told, the question that most Americans
were asking
Michael Perelman wrote:
Bobbitt, Philip. 2002. The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and
the Course of History (NY: Knopf).
217: Certainly since Grant and Sherman
accepted that modern wars ...would not be won by the elegant
The theory of strategic bombing holds that air
power
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30298] Re: military strategy
Do you think that the US North's defense of the Union against the South was really against slave society? It had the effect of destroying that society (or at least of converting slaves into debt peons), but the war was about defense of the union,
i am always surprised by this question that seems to haunt americans.
why do americans think that the rest of the world hates them? it seems
to me the more appropriate question is 'why do americans hate the rest
of the world so much?'. after all, the worst the rest of the world has
done to
Devine, James wrote:
Do you think that the US North's defense of the Union against the
South was really against slave society? It had the effect of
destroying that society (or at least of converting slaves into debt
peons), but the war was about defense of the union, disputes about
[Dingell's, no Henry Gonzalez but maybe he's going to climb the learning
curve]
September 12, 2002
The Honorable Alan Greenspan
Chairman
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Twentieth Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20551
The Honorable John D. Hawke, Jr.
HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Business
Sept. 16, 2002, 10:45PM
Debt climbs at fastest rate in over 10 years, report says
Chicago Tribune
Experts worried about ever-increasing consumer and business borrowing had new
cause for concern Monday, as a new Federal
Carrol seems to have correctly distinguised between a war against a slave
society and a war against slavery. The North believed that it could not
compete effectively within a slave society, which depended upon low
tariffs and unfree labor. I found the passage that I posted interesting
because
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30304] debt
Several economists and stock market analysts have fretted in recent weeks about
debt levels and the ability of consumers and businesses to meet their
obligations. A surge in defaults could have drastic effects on the economy and
stocks, they say, and even
I think that the translation of the why do they hate as? is something
like: gee, why doesn't the rest of the world realize that we are very good
and noble and doing God's work.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL
Title: FW: Slate Politics: Schroder
[The accusation that Schröder is opportunistic (on this issue) is cute.]
From SLATE --
international papers [A survey of the press outside the US]
Schroder to Voters: I Won't Talk About the War
By June Thomas
Posted Monday, September 16, 2002, at
Heck Louis 5 out of 43 is just over ten percent. Shows that almost 90 per
cent of them have an elementary knowledge of history.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
- Original Message -
From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday,
Ted Honderich was my classmate at the U of Toronto. He was perhaps the best
student in the class. Nice to see that he has come to no good according to
the hacks hired to smear any criticism of capitalism and US foreign policy.
It is amazing that these reviews actually present almost no evidence
The Imperialist Backlash on Empire
Antonio Negri interviewed by Ida Dominijanni
Translated by Arianna Bove/ Erik Empson
(full interview at:
http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/17/1347223)
Q. How do you explain it? [9/11]
A. S11 occurred the moment when the conservatives were
NY Times, Sept. 17, 2002
U.S. Will Get Power, and Pollution, From Mexico
By TIM WEINER
MEXICALI, Mexico, Sept. 11 American companies have long faced intense
resistance to big new power plants from communities crying, Not in my
backyard.
Now they have a big new backyard: Mexico.
Here on
The Observer, June 6, 1999
Books: In California, you can always come home to a real fire;
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis
Picador pounds 18.99, pp484
By CHARLES GLASS
In Los Angeles, Nature herself resisted European settlement. Her original
weapon
I spoke to the Mexican Senate's Commission on Constitutional Points on August
28th on Vicente Fox's initiative to open the Mexican electric power system to
foreign investment.
President Fox needs one or two constitutional amendments to really open
things up. A coalition of the PRI and the
Someone wrote the other day:
In any case, I doubt that any of this will mean anything to you because you
are one of those postmodernist leftists who refuse to be burdened by
historical grand narratives. I myself think that this might be intimately
linked to the undergraduate malaise described so
Someone wrote the other day:
How amusing. Doug is afraid to mention my name like in Beetlejuice.
Everybody knows that if you say Proyect 3 times in rapid succession, the
gates of hell will open up and engorge the U. Mass economics department.
In any case, the news he posted on undergraduates
from another list:
cheers, Ken Hanly
Mail-order medicine
Pharmacy benefit managers say mail-order prescriptions save patients and
their employers money. But some clients and others question just how cozy
PBMs are with the drug companies.
By SARA FRITZ, Times Washington Bureau Chief
St.
Please, let's not get started.
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 03:54:06PM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
Someone wrote the other day:
How amusing. Doug is afraid to mention my name like in Beetlejuice.
Everybody knows that if you say Proyect 3 times in rapid succession, the
gates of hell will
In a message dated 9/17/2002 12:03:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[Dingell's, no Henry Gonzalez but maybe he's going to climb the learning
curve]
Dingell's an odd one. He's close buddies with the NRA, a major proponent of further telco deregulation, yet he's
This is a very interesting discussion, especially with the rapid
vertical/horizontal consolidation of the banking system, accompanied with
a weakening of the regulatory system as well as the ability to obscure
actions through international transfers. Isn't this a pretty sure recipe
for disaster?
The case for war
Adam Roberts on why military action against Iraq can be legally justified
Tuesday September 17, 2002
The Guardian
Would the use of force against Iraq be justifiable in international law even if
the current negotiations in the UN security council result in no new
authorisation?
Ok, I give up. I'll stay on the list. You all are a bunch of groovy
economists and I could probably learn something.
Lisa S.
on 09/17/2002 7:02 PM, Michael Perelman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a very interesting discussion, especially with the rapid
vertical/horizontal
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General Electric's Jack Welch and the corporate plundering of America
By Jeremy Johnson
17 September 2002
Divorce papers filed in court earlier this month against retired General
Electric Corporation Chairman and CEO John F. Welch Jr. provided a glimpse into
the lifestyle
Sept. 17, 2002
PEN-L:
Hello. When self-employed people go out of business in the U.S., how are
they accounted for in the official job stats?
Thanks in advance,
Seth Sandronsky
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