Anders Aslund's take on this, predictably, is that resources are only a
curse when not privatized. He put forward this thesis as the Khordokovsky
affair got underway: the linkage transparent to all! A counter-example
would be Chile, whose state sector possesses significant portions of its
copper
Salon.com, Feb. 22, 2004
From tragedy to farce
He's running for president as an independent, not as a Green. He has no
organization. He's starting late. Does Ralph Nader's narcissism have no bounds?
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Ralph
The mandatory service bill is a poison pill. It will make unjustified war
unpopular and unsustainable.
Peter Hollings
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Johansen
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
Peter is correct here. Today we have an economic draft, so the middle
class is much less to complain about. In addition, the outsourcing of
military jobs obscures the human costs of war.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:30:43AM -0500, Peter Hollings wrote:
The mandatory service bill is a poison
from Today's Papers (from MS SLATE):
An op-ed in the NY [TIMES] argues that since Israel's security barrier
goes deep into the West Bank it's a less than ideal security
barrier: What this wall is really doing is taking Palestinian
lands. That's not an original argument but the author is: Noam
Too bad the Democrats don't go after Bush, Halliburton and Enron with
the same fervor they go after Nader -- or Matt Gonzales in San
Francisco, for that matter.
Dan Scanlan
Too bad the Democrats don't go after Bush, Halliburton and Enron with
the same fervor they go after Nader -- or Matt Gonzales in San
Francisco, for that matter.
Dan Scanlan
That raises an interesting question of *class*. The Republicans are
successful because they have a clearly defined
Just added to my radio archive
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html:
February 19, 2004 Sara Roy, senior research scholar at the Harvard
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, on the social crisis among
Palestinians in the occupied territories and Israel's intentions
behind building the wall
Is that so? The Repugs have been very successful in getting working class people to
vote for them by way of wedge issues and making the Dems. seem out of the mainstream.
Electorally, their clearly define constituency is a minority and the Dems. do a
pretty good job of serving the corporations as
An op-ed in the NY [TIMES] argues that since Israel's security barrier
goes deep into the West Bank it's a less than ideal security
barrier: What this wall is really doing is taking Palestinian
lands. That's not an original argument but the author is: Noam
Chomsky. Judging by a quickie Nexis
- Original Message -
From: Peter Hollings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] dems, etc
The mandatory service bill is a poison pill. It will make unjustified war
unpopular and unsustainable.
Peter Hollings
Really? What working class people? African-American working class people?
Hispanic working class people? Undocumented workers?
Retired, white, former workers? No doubt. But the notion of a reactionary
mass of workers is a convenient fallacy.
But the facts are that the Republicans garner
Wait a minute-- this wasn't the NYT taking an editorial and reporting
position. This was an op-ed piece by Chomsky which does not express the
view of the editors.
So why make more of it than it is? It's an op-ed piece, that's all. NYT
supported and supports the assault on Iraq, the occupation
dmschanoes wrote:
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From: Peter Hollings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] dems, etc
The mandatory service bill is a poison pill. It will make unjustified war
unpopular and unsustainable.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army
Paige: Teachers Union Is 'Terrorist Organization'
Education Secretary's Comments Made at Private Meeting With Governors
By Robert Tanner
The Associated Press
Monday, February 23, 2004; 5:52 PM
Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation's largest teachers union a
terrorist organization
Disagree. Our work is not resisting the draft, it is carrying the class
struggle into the very heart of capital's military machine. That cannot be
done by resisting the draft.
The failure of the new left, in particular SDS, to move from anti-Vietnam
war, anti-draft, to anti-deferment, isolated
To be used in forthcoming generations of body armor. You can look it up.
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From: Eubulides [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 7:50 PM
Subject: [PEN-L] more cheap Government Surplus!
[Federal Register: February 23, 2004 (Volume 69,
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From: dmschanoes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To be used in forthcoming generations of body armor. You can look it up.
The potential applications are enormous and will be worth *big* bucks. Buy
goat farms...
Ian
That's eminently sane of them.
Joanna
Shane Mage wrote:
An op-ed in the NY [TIMES] argues that since Israel's security barrier
goes deep into the West Bank it's a less than ideal security
barrier: What this wall is really doing is taking Palestinian
lands. That's not an original argument but
No, it's significant even though it's only op-ed. This is an
intra-bourgeois sign.
Joanna
dmschanoes wrote:
Wait a minute-- this wasn't the NYT taking an editorial and reporting
position. This was an op-ed piece by Chomsky which does not express the
view of the editors.
So why make more of it
This is a Spartacus moment.
I am a terrorist!
Jim Devine
-Original Message-
From: Eubulides [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 2/23/2004 5:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: [PEN-L] if you're a teacher and in the NEA, you're
Yeah, absolutely. This would be the party who cried wolf...just too many
goddamn times. McCarthy made the same mistake.
Joanna
Devine, James wrote:
This is a Spartacus moment.
I am a terrorist!
Jim Devine
-Original Message-
From: Eubulides [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe I was not clear. If the Repubs. were clear about what they were, no working
class people would vote for them. In fact, many do, including union workers.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 07:37:37PM -0500, dmschanoes wrote:
Really? What working class people? African-American working class people?
It is hard to imagine the Republicans being any more clear about what they
are and who they represent. They are for private property, big private
property, unrestrained private property. They say it they act it they live
it.
The fact that some workers support that is a fact of historical
So? So what's so significant about an intra-bourgeois sign? History, the
same history littered with corpses, is page after page of intra-bourgeois
signs. There were intra-bourgeois signs everyday when Clinton was
president. Lula is an intra-bourgeois sign, so is Kirchner-- and their
- Original Message -
From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a Spartacus moment.
I am a terrorist!
Jim Devine
Hand out the vines!
Ian
Anybody ever read Marc Linder?
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of andie
nachgeborenen
Subject: Fwd: Why U.S. Labor Law Has Become a Paper Tiger
yes. he does wonderful stuff. I especially like Linder, Marc and
Ingrid Nygaard. 1998. .Void Where Prohibited: Rest Breaks and the Right
to Urinate on Company Time. (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press).
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:34:55PM -0500, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Anybody ever read Marc Linder?
I have often wondered if the difference between a Republican
politician and a Democratic politician wasn't something like this:
The Republican says under his breath, Screw you, and the Democrat
says, Sorry fella as they pass by the hitch-hiker in the desert.
Glee versus guilt at someone else's
Tom Frank has an essay in Le Monde Diplomatique addressing the right
wing populism that confuses and attracts many.
I'll paste the first paragraphs here:
A WAR AGAINST ELITES
The America will vote for Bush
The US
I quoted Marx on services as follows:
Thus, because the specific relation of labour and capital is not contained
at all in this purchase of services; because it has either been completely
extinguished or was never present, it is naturally the favourite form used
by Say, Bastiat and their
Yep I have (though not all). He's great. Didn't he do that book
Anti-Samuelson ?
J.
- Original Message -
From: Max B. Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 5:34 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Why U.S. Labor Law Has Become a Paper Tiger
Anybody ever
Nay it's a far richer vein of problems than that as far as feminists are
concerned:
Basically how I personally evaluate feminists is on whether they wish to
strengthen the toiling classes, the direct producers, the proletarians and
peasants, or whether they seek to weaken them. Are they a help
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
Ultimately, theoretically, I consider prostitution as the core problem of
the whole feminist problematic, and I cannot very well get along with
feminist moralists who spout drivel about this, and vent all sorts of
confusing abstractions, rather than making a specific,
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