I am posting a chronology I wrote in early 2000 about Chechnya. It deals
briefly with a number of the issues raised by recent posts on PEN-L. I will
serialize it in parts. Taken as a whole, it shows
--that Chechnya was not a part of Russia until the late 19th century, when it
was conquered
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3826731.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1247759,00.html
Interesting how this is done. The Attorney General, a government
minister, who is meant to give impartial legal advice (which is then
kept secret - eg whether it is lawful to invade Iraq) has delivered a
speech in a foreign
Uh, I never disagreed with any of this.
Once again: What should Russia's reaction have been to armed aggression onto its
territory? (Now that we have established that such aggression did in fact take place.)
I have never gotten an answer.
Chris, there are no easy answers. Engels once said that the worst time for a bad
government is when it first tries to do something good.
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 03:01:17PM +0400, Chris Doss wrote:
Uh, I never disagreed with any of this.
Once again: What should Russia's reaction have been to
What was the response to the other released Gitmo Brits having been accused falsely?
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 07:23:08AM +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1247759,00.html
Interesting how this is done. The Attorney General, a government
minister, who
Yes, it is wrong. It adds nothing to the list. You can tell X personally that you
do not like him/her off list, but not here.
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:21:31PM -0700, Sabri Oncu wrote:
Michael:
What is wrong with letting a person know that you do not like him Michael?
Do we have to like
That is my whole point. Things are a lot more complicated than just evil Russian
imperialists attacking noble Chechen freedom-fighters.
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Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 04:44:44 -0700
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NY Times, June 26, 2004
Candidate, Under Pressure, Quits Senate Race in Illinois
By STEPHEN KINZER
CHICAGO, June 25 - Crippled by accusations about sex clubs and losing
support from his own party, Jack Ryan, the Republican Senate candidate
in Illinois, pulled out of the race on Friday, leaving
In a message dated 6/26/2004 1:01:35 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1817-64:. These are the years of the fierce series of
rebellions and conflicts called the Caucasian War, in which the Chechens play
a major role. Ultimately Russia subjugates the Caucasus through
Viagra, Valium, and Prostitution in Occupied Iraq:
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--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
(Years from now historians might regard the differences between the
Internet and print journals today in the same light as those that
existed between handwritten manuscripts and material produced by the
Gutenberg press during the dawn of the bourgeois-democratic revolution.
One form of
NY Times, June 26, 2004
China Pays a Price for Cheaper Oil
By KEITH BRADSHER
HONG KONG, June 23 - With toxic lead finally disappearing from most of
the world's gasoline, a new air pollution fight is emerging around the
globe over how much sulfur to allow in fuel. Rapidly developing
countries like
whatever you do, don't answer the on-line poll (with all the red/white/blue colors)
about whether or not the US should pull out of Iraq. You'll get much more spam if you
do.
jd
Counterpunch Weekend Edition
June 26/27, 2004
Venezuela: the Gang's All Here
Replay of Chile and Nicaragua?
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
You can set your watch by it. The minute some halfway decent government
in Latin America begins to reverse the order of things and give the
have-nots a break from the
Louis Proyect wrote:
One form of communication has enormously democratic implications while
the other serves as an elitist club open only to those who have been
accepted into the priesthood. In Gutenberg's day, it was the Catholic
church. Today it is tenured academia.)
---
NY Times,
(Joel's reply appears in its entirety. My comments are interspersed.)
joel kovel wrote:
Hi Louis,
Bushism is a term used on a number of occasions by Howie Hawkins--with
whom I have worked a lot in the past--to describe the identity
between the
mainstream parties. I absolutely agree that both
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For over forty years Perry Anderson, has been one of the most
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s. artesian wrote:
Then comes the advice about doing the right thing in the international debt
markets and
taking positions (long? short?) in Venezuelan debt. That's a real thing
of beauty by the
way.
That was me (btw, I don't believe I've ever claimed to be a Marxist, though
I reserve the
Suffice to say that, no joke, in (I think) 2002 when the 10bn lira note was introduced
(quote from the Central Bank Governor at the time It's not exactly a proud moment
having your name on a note with ten zeros on it, but needs must), there was a small
but serious atempt by some members of the
1. We are not talking about personal favors, good deeds, doing friends a
solid, or picking up a bar tab. We are talking about capitalist
accummulation. That's not an exactly subtle distinction.
Let me know how you feel when you invest your retirement savings in
Venezuelean bonds, and a
I agree that it is more complicated, but I can't see why Putin's approach gives a
more satisfactory explanation. When I was in France, they had terrorist attacks
quite frequently -- 1979 -- but the French both repressed AND accomodated resistence
forces. France is not great, but it seems a step
Carrol Cox wrote:
Let's remember that very few if any of the subscribers to this list have
much in the way of discretionary investment.
How do you know? A lot of PEN-Lers are professors with retirement
accounts that invest in stocks and bonds. Many, maybe most, are in
the upper quintile of their
Devine, James wrote:
I said that the superficial stuff of volume III
I missed this. What's superficial in v 3?
Doug
I am not righteous. I put two daughters through college. I know a lot
about investing-- none of it has anything to do with Marxism.
Nobody's against pensions. Railroad pensions, for your edification, are not
self-direct investments. They are defined benefit plans.
My only point was that
In a message dated 6/26/2004 12:17:19 PM Central Standard
Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The
struggle for "national liberation" did not arise in the past 150
yearsseparate and apart from critical moments in the conflict between the
means and relations of production, and consequently
it's only superficial in Marx's framework. (Note that I put it quotes.) To use
somewhat non-Marxian termionology, he saw the volume I stuff as essential (the
source of surplus-value, the big picture) and the volume II stuff as more superficial.
Put another way, if you understand volume I alone,
sartesian writes: I know a lot about investing-- none of it has anything to do with
Marxism.
for what it's worth, pen-l isn't self-defined as Marxist.
I'm also not sure that Marxist financial advice is necessarily oxymoronic. There may
be some stuff in the volume III discussion of money and
There are fundamental faults with specie money. To begin
with, specie money must be based on a commodity of limited supply. There was a
time when new gold was discovered so abundantly in the New World that gold was
the cause of inflation in Europe. Thus an effective specie money by nature
The Foreign Capital HoaxThe Chartalist theory of
money claims that government, by virtual of its power to levy taxes payable with
government-designated legal tender, does not need external financing.
Accordingly, sovereign credit should enable the government to act as employer of
last
Sovereign Credit
(Part 1)
By Henry C.K. Liu
Credit drives the
economy, not debt. Debt is the mirror reflection of credit.
Even the most accurate mirror does violence to the symmetry of its reflection.
Why does a mirror turn an image right to left and not upside down as the lens of
a
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Chat about Financial Advice, was Re: Marxist Financial
Advice
sartesian writes: I know a lot about investing-- none of it has anything
to do with
Title: nader to moore
Ralph Nader letter to Michael Moore:
http://www.votenader.org/why_ralph/index.php?cid=54
Chris Doss wrote:
I wish they would follow his wishes. he wanted to be buried or
cremated, I forget which. I doubt that anyone wants to be put on permanent
display...
jd
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It's a political decision. It was outrage a lot of conservatives (in the
Russian sense of the word). Most people think he
From Francis Wheen's new biography Karl Marx: a Life (W. W. Norton,
2000):
The annual rent for Modena Villas was 65 almost twice that of Grafton
Terrace. Quite how Marx expected to pay for all luxury is a mystery: as
so often, however, his Micawberish faith was vindicated. On 9 May 1864
I'd like one. If you don't like me,
I'll pay the postage myself.
mbs
By the way, as Michael pollak knows, you may even be able
to obtain a 20 Million Liras Turkish Banknote from me free of charge. I even
pay the postage. The only condition is that you have to be someone I like.
Sartesian has
I'd like one. If you don't like me,
I'll pay the postage myself.
mbs
Of course, I like you. There are not many I don't like but if I give this
away things may get out of control:
20,000,000 Liras is roughly $13.5 US in these days.
But I will bring you one from my trip to Turkey. I am
In answer to Michael's question [below] my impression is that it has
all been handled very discretely by the British government, which did
nothing to fan the controversy when the previously released detainees
gave a number of interviews.
But the Guardian article which I quoted, refers to Blair's
Hi PEN-L:
We went to see Moore's new film on June 25 in Sacramento. All of the
400-plus seats were filled for the 12:15 p.m. showing at the Tower Theater,
the first for the public here. Moore's latest work is a powerful critique
of the Bush White House, top Democrats and American journalism. 60
This is the second part of my chronology of Russian-Chechen relations. It deals
with the history of the Chechens during the Soviet Union. The third part will
deal with the 90s, and show in particular the continuity of Yeltsin and Putin's
policy on Chechnya.
Some comments have been
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