I think the real issue is in rolling back the nationalisation of the oil fields, an objective that colonies were allowed to achieve because of the USSR. it is possible that for every privatised oil field the private owner could get himself an army and start shooting trepassers american style.
How is the book project advancing?
Maybee it would be a good idé to sort out areas of
responsibility? Some of them in my mind:
Editing - collecting the texts, making them fit
together and write a summary.
Spellchecker - Adjusting the texts (preferable native
english)
Publishing - keeping
Dec. 10, 2002
Hi Jim,
What would Strom Thurmond say about the economics of racism in the U.S.?
Black Americans' official unemployment rate in Nov. climbed to 11 percent,
up 1.2 percent from 9.8 percent in Oct. In Nov. the jobless rate for white
workers was 5.2 percent, up a tenth of a
Title: FW: [Iww-news] 1/3/2003 Seminar On Women And Poverty
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Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 15:32:36 -0800
To: bawdn [EMAIL PROTECTED], TUDN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Iww-news] 1/3/2003 Seminar On Women And Poverty
Women and Poverty
-Trafficking,
Sorry, I send this message to the wrong list.
/Johan
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Title: decorum
was: RE: [PEN-L:32935] Re: Re: Re: about some quotes from CAPITAL
let's play nice.
--
Michael Perelman
Louis Proyect writes:
I've got an alternative suggestion. Tell Devine not to
respond to anything I write. I never respond to him. I already promised you that
I
December 2002
NOBEL PRIZE FOR DISCOVERIES IN GENETICS
Heritage of humanity
The 2002 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was presented this
month to John Sulston, Sydney Brenner and H Robert Horvitz for
discoveries about the genetic regulation of organ development and
programmed cell death.
Title: the fix is in
from SLATE's news summary:
The NY [TIMES] has gotten an enormous amount of heat over the past few months for pushing various agendas, including what's seemed to some to be an anti-war, peacenik position. There is a touch of truth to those arguments, but the Times isn't
Title: US Medicare reform proposed.
USA Today's lead says that President Bush is considering pushing for a new prescription drug plan. Under the proposal, in order to get their drugs covered, seniors would have to leave the traditional fee-for-service Medicare and enroll in an HMO that would
Title: looking for someone to do short term data project
The International Labor Organization is looking for someone with strong data skills to take on a short term (approximately two week) assignment as soon as possible. The task involves improving an extrapolation exercise (187 countries x
Devine, James wrote:
So I have erased all of the responses
I recommend autotrash. It greatly increases one's peace of mind.
Doug
Treasury Wants To Permit Firms To Convert Pension Plans
By Albert B. Crenshaw
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 10, 2002; Page E01
The Treasury Department plans to propose new rules today that would
allow employers to resume converting traditional pension plans to new
cash balance
Earlier, which we discussed the probabilities of the Republicans
overreaching themselves. Expectations within their base have to be high.
The pie, if not shrinking, is at least a growing very fast.
They have to be able to satisfy their social activists and their business
interests. To do
I have been thinking about the horrendous cost of the U.S. support for
Israel. Does anybody believe that Israel would exist except for the
Nazis? In effect, the Middle East Holocaust is a continuation of the
original one.
I assume all sorts of unimaginable consequences will flow out of the
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32956] Blowback
Michael Perelman:
I have been thinking about the horrendous cost of the U.S. support for
Israel. Does anybody believe that Israel would exist except for the
Nazis? In effect, the Middle East Holocaust is a continuation of the
original one.
I don't like
Any public mention of consequences is against the Patriot Act.
Besides the heartlessness of the government, these people are stupid.
And the conseaquences will fall hardest on the weakest of us, but on the
rest of us as well.
Gene Coyle
Michael Perelman wrote:
I have been thinking about the
At 10:39 AM 12/10/2002 -0800, you wrote:
I have been thinking about the horrendous cost of the U.S. support for
Israel. Does anybody believe that Israel would exist except for the
Nazis? In effect, the Middle East Holocaust is a continuation of the
original one.
I forgot who it was who said
Better is Isaac Deutscher's
explanation of the connection between the Nazis and Israel: it's as if
someone had jumped out of a burning building -- and had fallen and
squashed his neighbor (the Palestinians).
Say what?
Joanna
From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't like the word Holocaust as it's been applied. It's best to avoid
it, since it's used as part of pro-Israel propaganda.
Better is Isaac Deutscher's explanation of the connection between the Nazis
and Israel: it's as if someone had jumped out of a
joanna bujes wrote:
I assume all sorts of unimaginable consequences will flow out of the
attempt to remake the Middle East. I wonder if anyone in power gives any
thought whatsoever to long-term consequences.
Nah. They're too stupid and too arrogant.
If they're so stupid, gang, how come
Doug Henwood wrote:
If they're so stupid, gang, how come they've managed to run the world
all these centuries?
I think it's wisest to assume they know what they're doing. It's
unwise to underestimate an enemy.
But success in running the world is in itself no evidence for anything.
As
I say stupid in the following sense: The US has adopted the same
strategy as has Israel -- massive retaliation for everything. It is
clear that Israel's strategy cannot bring it peace. Nor can the US.
There is already only limited geography where US tourists can freely
venture, and that
- Original Message -
From: Eugene Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any public mention of consequences is against the Patriot Act.
Besides the heartlessness of the government, these people are stupid.
And the conseaquences will fall hardest on the weakest of us, but on
the
rest of us as
Eugene Coyle wrote:
I say stupid in the following sense: The US has adopted the same
strategy as has Israel -- massive retaliation for everything. It is
clear that Israel's strategy cannot bring it peace. Nor can the US.
There is already only limited geography where US tourists can
Please Circulate Widely!!
We Ain't Going Nowhere !!
Uptown Youth for Peace and Justice
Anti-War March and Rally
**Calling all members of our Uptown communities!
**CALLING churches, students, youth, and working people from around the
city!
PROTEST the poverty draft: targeting Black and
http://www.fordham.edu/philosophy/processphilosophy/papers/Pomeroy.htm
I wish to argue in this paper that if one takes the ontological view
that emerges from Whitehead's philosophy seriously then one's
conclusions regarding the existing socio-political and socio-economic
system in the US will be
http://www.fordham.edu/philosophy/processphilosophy/papers/Pomeroy.htm
My claim is this: that there exists a striking similarity between a
Whiteheadian ontology and the ontological presuppositions that necessarily
ground Marx's claims regarding the source of capitalist surplus value and
This kind of thing has done been done, of course, both specifically Marx
and Whitehead, and generally Marx and ___, where the blank is your
favorite philosopher or philosophical tradition (that fills in or
elaborates something missing or underemphasized in Marx, according to
the author). See,
I just translated these two articles from the Folha de Sao Paulo's internet
edition on Lulas Environment and Treasury ministers. They are pretty rough in
the original, much more so my hasty translation. The last two paragraphs of the
second article dont make a hell of a lot of sense in the
But among the Marxists there were also people of another sort. Especially
Ulyanov. His friends called him Old Man because of his wisdom, although he
was still young. He had a bald skull, the huge dome of which indicated an
outstanding intelligence. His eyes were sharp: they seemed to drill
California is supposed to be a trend-setter. The head of the
party wants to undo corporate tax breaks.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/ca/story/5536064p-6514941c.html
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL
In a message dated 12/9/02 8:23:37 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Real life proved how senseless the plan was. Kuibyshev had recklessly
predicted that costs would go down, meanwhile they went up: although the
plan allocated 22 billion rubles for industry, transportation and
[New York Times]
December 11, 2002
'Politically Correct' Stem Cell Is Licensed to Biotech Concern
By ANDREW POLLACK
A small biotechnology company has obtained the exclusive rights to
commercial applications of a new type of stem cell that has the
potential to defuse the public debate over the
In case you do not read corrections or have missed this particular
one, I'd like to call your attention to _The Nation_'s correction (on
p. 23 of the 16 December 2002 issue) regarding the Bruce Cumings
article Endgame in Korea (which appeared in the 18 November 2002
issue of _The Nation_): In
* Detainee dies during US interrogation in Afghanistan
By Peter Symonds
11 December 2002
US authorities last week reported that one of the detainees being
held by the military for interrogation at the Bagram Air Base in
Afghanistan had died. Almost nothing is known about who he was, why
Canada will welcome troops in emergency
By Colin Nickerson in Montreal
December 11 2002
A pact signed by Canada and the United States may allow US armed
forces to be deployed on Canadian soil in the event of a terrorist
attack or big emergency.
For the first time Ottawa has agreed in
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