The day that fool DeLong returns to this list is the day I picket
Michael Perelman's house. He is a disgusting red-baiter. If he
were in front of me now I would smack him in the mouth.
Michael Yates
It is telling that Brad De Long deliberately removed the recognizable
context from his obituary
(Although this NY Times Magazine article has interesting facts on dying
languages, it basically conceals the real reason this is
happening--namely political, economic and cultural genocide. Forced
assimilation is a form of genocide basically. The article claims that
people opt for Spanish rather
Financial Times (London, England)
March 1, 2004 Monday
Don't fall for Washington's spin on Haiti: JEFFREY SACHS:
By JEFFREY SACHS
The crisis in Haiti is another case of brazen US manipulation of a
small, impoverished country with the truth unexplored by journalists. In
the nearly universal media
i delete a large volume of pen-l email, which i would like to read since
i respect the opinions of the authors, simply because of the impossible
formatting of the text (yes, i do realize i write entirely in lowercase,
and if required i will present my case against 'gratuitous capitalization').
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
I do not take
badly to disagreement, I take badly to disagreement from which nothing is
learnt, and that is quite a different story.
this is sort of circular isn't it? or is it that only the rest of us are
to learn?
--ravi
Michael Perelman wrote:
David asked me to make the call. Here it is: just about everybody on
the list knows about Alan Greenspan and the savings-and-loan scandal.
Just about everybody on the list knows about Alan Greenspan and Ayn
Rand.
...
There are people here with valuable information
My uncle recently died. He was a fine man. Today, I got this letter, which appeals
to emotions over and above greed.
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In addition, pen-lers should make a major change to the _content_ of their missives
when replying to others. Instead of simply replying to Renegade X or Apostate Y in
kind, we should write with the _list as a whole_ as our audience, trying to convince
the group of the validity of our
I want to thank James and Ravi. I used to try to enforce Jim's idea, but I have been
lax, letting myself become overwhelmed with other stuff. My apologies.
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:14:22AM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
In addition, pen-lers should make a major change to the _content_ of their
Ralph Nader: If Not Now, When?
by Gilles d'Aymery
Jan Baughman
March 1, 2004
Kudos to Ralph Nader for not kowtowing to the immense pressure to stay
out of the 2004 US presidential race. Of course, his decision is
portrayed as evidence of his huge ego, and not of his great convictions,
and the
So, Sweezy wished to clarify the meanings of the terms socialism
and communism by saying that the law of value still continues to
operate under socialism to the extent that economy is capitalistic,
i.e., governed by market discipline, whereas it won't under communism
worth its name. As Jim
this is sort of circular isn't it? or is it that only the rest of us are
to learn?
That depends on your definition of agreement and disagreement. Obviously I
am not arguing that only the rest of us should learn. For Marx, learning
is a process of dialog.
J.
Jurriaan, this thread is finished. We don't need to go round and round
on the same subjects. As you can see by the messages from Jim and Ravi,
many of us are trying to raise the level of discourse here.
I know that I'm violating my own principles by addressing you directly,
but I have not
Even CNN is now covering the story of the kidnapping? How will this
play out in the US? Why has France been so complicit? Is it just the
claim for reparations? I think France has other means to deflect such a
claim?
Is this a test for Venez., for Cuba?
Perhaps it is for the best that Sweezy
Kenan Malik argues at http://www.kenanmalik.com/essays/die.html that:
(1) The purpose of a language is functional: to enable communication. I
think this is simplistic and question-begging because it fails to specify
exactly what a language is or how exactly language enables communication.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/27/04 01:49PM
Turnout Decline in the U.S. and other Advanced Industrial Democracies
Martin P. Wattenberg
University of California, Irvine
mainstream poli sci guy who uses lots of national elections studies
data, not to be confused with digital artist of same name, no
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/26/04 04:02AM
Fourteen percent of pure political independents -- those who do not
identify with or lean to either of the two major parties -- gave
their support to Nader in 2000, compared with 6% among Democrats and
Democratic leaners and just 2% of Republicans and
Jason Myers wrote:
Dear Mr. Proyect,
Thanks for your comments regarding Fred Aldama's article on Cuba. I hope you
also came across my response to him:
http://eserver.org/bs/66/myers_response_aldama.html
His piece very nearly caused my resignation from Bad Subjects. Luckily, the
editor who was the
Reminds me of Noriega's tortilla flour, described by
Colin Powell's invaders as cocaine.
Was any evidence of Noriega drugs ever turned up?
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Louis
Proyect
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 3:03 PM
To: [EMAIL
Reminds me of Noriega's tortilla flour, described by Colin Powell's
invaders as cocaine.
Was any evidence of Noriega drugs ever turned up?
mbs
Try www.expertwitnessradio.org See archives of radio shows. See also
The Big White Lie and Deep Cover by Mike Levine.
Jim C.
They destroyed the village in order to save it. A
friend from up there in the Northern Hemisphere
related the below to me.
Best,
Mike B)
***
On Pacifica's Democracy Now today, Rep Maxine Waters,
Dem, Ca (from LA) said she spoke with Jean
Treasury Department Is Warning Publishers of the Perils of Criminal
Editing of the Enemy
February 28, 2004
By ADAM LIPTAK
Writers often grumble about the criminal things editors do
to their prose. The federal government has recently weighed
in on the same issue - literally.
It has warned
According to something I heard today on the radio, France is complicit
in ousting Aristide because it made the Haitians pay back 21 billion for
the fact that France had to wage war against their liberation efforts a
hundred years ago. Aristide was trying to get France to pay that money back.
OK, a clear violation of the First Amendment. This is
moronic McCarthyism. It will not survive contact with
the courts, if it gets that far. That is not a reason
to rejoice, of course. The ACLU has other things to do
than to squash blatantly illegal regulations. Sigh.
jks
--- joanna bujes [EMAIL
andie nachgeborenen wrote:
OK, a clear violation of the First Amendment. This is
moronic McCarthyism. It will not survive contact with
the courts, if it gets that far. That is not a reason
to rejoice, of course. The ACLU has other things to do
than to squash blatantly illegal regulations.
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