The below was written for a different purpose, after my recent extended
period of teaching in Shanghai.
It is not a profound economic analysis at all, rather it is a view of
the heatlh services. Even there I have omitted stats for lack of time to
research them, tho' this will follow.
Purpose was
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/170/11/1678
Abstract The Canadian Adverse Events Study: the incidence of adverse
events among hospital patients in Canada G. Ross Baker, Peter G. Norton,
Virginia Flintoft, Rgis Blais, Adalsteinn Brown, Jafna Cox, Ed
Etchells, William A. Ghali, Philip Hbert,
.
I admittedly have not seen whether the younger generations have filled that older
emigre-left 'technogap'.
Hari Kumar
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns4976
Seen on Leftist Trainspotters:
Abuse of Iraqis 'well thought through'
16:58 10 May 04
NewScientist.com news service
The type of mistreatment Iraqi prisoners have suffered at the hands
of US soldiers is unlikely to have occurred without
of Maoism was to confuse developing
radical movements in the West, as to who their first and immediate
allies were.
The substitution of the Angolan peasant as your immediate ally (for
e.g.) rather than the white worker down the block or two or three etc -
is pretty devastating.
Cheers,
Hari Kumar
Mike Ballard:
I agree with most of your observations and I'm not
trying to play one-upsmanship here; but Marx and many
others thought that the French--espeically the workers
of Paris--had reached at least a level of class
consciousness sufficient to begin to junk the old
State machinery and to
Soula: "Jones was not
only right.. his little peace on the castration of Japanese capital was one
good piece of Leninist analysis"
Could someone give me a link to that please?
Thx,
Hari
On the CKMP list:
Hassan Nasir wrote :
The Awakening of the Sleeping Giant
By Riaz Ahmed
Teachers throughout South Asia are protesting against the government policy sponsored by the World-Bank of introducing drastic reforms in universities, colleges, schools and hospitals. The proposed
Michael P: "But it appeals to young people. It is very effective for
students.I am negotiating with an agent now. She is insisting that I make
everything "dumber" to make the work popular. To do so would require
opening me up to the kind of questions that Zinn is getting --
At:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9060859%255E1702,00.html
I fully realise that talking to a self-professed Stalinist-Hoxhaist, as
though he/she/it is sane, is probably quite taboo - quite infra-dig -
amongst true intellectuals - but could you possible try?
Just
Hello Michael:
Sincerely, am not trying to stir the pot.
Of course given the situation, it is not unreasonable that participants
feel agitated on this matter. I do fully respect applaud your sterling
efforts to keep sane discussion here - rather than a virulent insanity -
on this list. But a
.
All very confusing.
But the contradictions in Saudi seem close to exploding point - to a
naive outsider on a quick jaunt.
Thanks in advance to those who can assist.
Hari Kumar
Michael Yates wrote:
What went wrong? Looking at the broad sweep of
history, we can perhaps identify some of the forces at
work and bad decisions taken. First, as Marx pointed
out, capitalism creates workers in its own image. It
is hard for workers to grasp the nature of their
circumstances, ..
% of
applications to the Canadian Inst Hlth Res will get funded. I know the NIH is about as
bad, if not worse.
Wonder what the reformists on the list would proffer as solutions?
Hari Kumar
Sabri Oncu :
Heteroskedastic means non-constant variance. If you look at the way the data
varies with time, the
fluctuations are larger initially and the fluctuations attenuate as the time
progresses, although they appear
to get larger again towards the end.
Moreover, you just have 13
THANKS very much Julio!
The Herfindahl is the sum of the squared market shares. H = 1 means
monopoly. H = 1/n (for n very large) means a perfectly competitive
market.
Julio
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Joanna: Hari, I think you should add another factor to your list: women are not
only giving birth later, but having children in a fairly stressed state
(because of working full time until the last minute)...and having to
Surely it'd be possible to correlate Herfindahls Ginis, no? Hasn't
someone done this?
Doug
gini I understand as a coefficient allowing some guess at level of equality.
What is a Hefindahl please?
Thanks,
Hari
Says Juriaan:
CDC suggests the 2002 rise in American infant mortality may be a one-time
blip, and the US infant mortality rate for 2003 is expected to drop.
Previous CDC research suggested the recent rise in infant mortality may
reflect the long trend among American women toward delaying
to these sort of
problems. He got turfed from a Chair-in-waiting for warning of the
dangers of this class of drugs, as Elli Lilley had funded the Chair.
So Michael P - Sorry for the ramble, but I suppose it does have an
economic component.
Hari Kumar
"Rocky money was also tied to medical
science and the Flexner Report. . .which helped create bio-medicine a century
ago. . .the scourge of social medicine. . .
Brian McKenna."
Hi Brian:
(i) The 'scourge' of social medicine? But that great apostle of social medicine
- Virchow was at the
Ken Hanley: I am very surprised by this. I thought that Martin would avoid an inquiry. Cheers, Ken Hanly
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1c=Articlecid=1075291136761call_pageid=968332188492col=968793972154
Many Ontario doctors are so fed up with the lack of resources in the
health system that they're considering either retiring or leaving the
province, suggests a new poll released Tuesday.
One in every six doctors in the province is seriously considering
leaving Ontario, while another 22 per cent
Anyone seen the play by Michael Frayn on the Heisenberg-Bohr
relationship? Strongly suggest those in the Toronto area try to see it.
It is in my view, a multi-faceted dialectical play of the highest
interest. The acting is superb - bar the somewhat always-the-same
mannerisms of Martha Henry.
Hari
MP wrote (paraphrased): you put it better than I did; Doug Henwood wrote:
Fighting a Republican party that passionately believes in mostly horrible things is
pretty hard when you're a party of capital that,
given its constituencies, has to act like the popular party at the same time. That
Louis:
I am clear that I misunderstood you - when you clairfy in tihs ntoe that you are not
an 'abstentinis'.
With repsects to the Green party I suppose you are quite aware of infomration on
Portside today,
that they won a signficant vote (I think in the SF area).
My apologies, I caught one
CC: 4. If a real fascist (or some new kind authoritarian populism) were to arise in
the U.S. it could not be defeated by DP politicians. It could
only be defeated by the unity of a _real_ social democratic party _and_ the 21st c.
equivalent of a communist movement. But those urging us to
support
I trust this is not too old a thread to allow further comment.
I know that PEN-ers may be allergic to the name, but still - I was
surprised that the old Leninist adage of Support them (=social
democracy) like a rope supports a hanged man - did not come up. Though
the intent of Jim C's return to
Mike ballard said: There seems to be greater recognition today that abused children
tend to grow into becoming abusive parents/adults themselves.
It seems to me to be a conservative cycle which has the effect of putting a
psychological stopper on the social revolution. Of
course, if all
Dave: Thanks very much indeed - you got the one I had fleetingly seen.
Lou: Thanks for the review on AI on Palestine.
Cheers thanks again, H
Not to myself: must not lose URLS's, must not lose usLrp's. must not..
Re: Amnesty International
by dave dorkin
-ness, has been unsuccessful in locating said.
Thanks for any help,
Cheers, Hari Kumar
Wilde is in the general tradition of William Morris (NEWS FROM NOWHERE,
etc.) Jim D.
COMMENT:
Mine is a simple remark, in the context of the discussion taking place
on the matter- largely irrelevant. But I do object to the simplistic
equation of William Morris (A man deeply involved with forming
Thank M, for a good reading tip.
As i read the very interesting piece from Linebaugh however, I found a
sort of yearning for a past utopia.
His critique of Robertson he cites early on, discredits Robertson -
apparently upon the lack of evidence that King John was literate. [Since
when did stop the
http://www.allianceML.com/CommunistLeague/LIBERIAissue1990.html
Given the nature of current events in Liberia, I felt this above was
still of use. Penned by the deceased W.B.Bland of Communist League (UK).
Alliance is up-dating said piece.
Hari
Re Andie Nachbogebornen: If Daubert is a defense weapon, and I suspect
it is, it is because firms like mine probably have the money to hire
better experts, .. You don't need an econ degree to do it, just some
understanding of statistics and an operative bullshit detector.
COMMENT: I know nothing
Carol: Simply having someone to talk to who isn't too stupid can help
with many mental illnesses, and reasonably intelligent ones will have a
stock of information and gimmicks that may help more. E.g., it was
useful to me to find out that the lead ball in one's stomach that often
accompanies
Ds2UP: wrote:
I'm assuming you mean medical research here; I'm entirely unsure how
you'd define the concept of a double blind in social sciences research,
most of which is not experimental.
And even in the medical context, I think that the demand that
psychoanalysis use double blind tests would be
Carrol wrote:
Actually, psychoanalysis has virtually disappeared from psychiatry and
serious neuro-science. It survives only in literary criticism and among
those marxists Timpanaro described as believing the Freud never made a
mistake. Fewer and fewer medical schools have psychoanalysts on their
The conversation went:
I noticed that a major element of Crews' critique of Freudianism (in
the
New York REVIEW OF BOOKS a few years ago) is that it can't be falsified
(following Popper's criterion). Unfortunately, this seems to apply to
all_ of social science (and to Popper).
I would beg to differ.
I simply find it rather improbable what you Samir Amin are suggesting.
Although Ian, thanks for your links! I will indeed check them out.
With all due respect, I think you must have a very hard time 'rationally'
explaining the immoral war in Iraq - the sharp divisions
Bill writes:
The stance toward them should be the same: they are both pawns, usually
non-wealthy, fed intensive propaganda, left largely ignorant of the big
picture, and placed in often dangerous situations where it is nearly
impossible to do the morally correct thing. They should be held
re-posted from ISML list
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THE STRATFOR WEEKLY
03 April 2003
by Dr. George Friedman
Baghdad
Summary
From the beginning of the war-planning process, Baghdad posed the
greatest challenge. The United States does not want to fight an
urban battle, but
So Ken - Why do YOU think Chreiten pulled in that direction?
H
Does anyone have a clip/picture/reference to a very brief image shown
(probably in error - shown only once that I saw anyway) when an
African American man held up a picture of his son killed in Iraq said:
President Bush- take a good look at this boy - remember him - because
you killed him. We'd
Ken Thanks for that.
It made a good deal of sense.
What is the source pelase?
Thanks again, H
rule - to erase
into a true world cosmopolitanism.
3) Do Devine Yoshie feel that the national spirit that has up-lifted
the Iraqi people to fight the USA imperialists is bad? This is the
logical consequence that seems to me likely to flow from their
utopianism.
Hari Kumar
Yoshie says:
It would be true to say that Japanese leftists are firmly opposed to
many nationalist symbols that signify Japan's lost empire: Hinomaru,
Kimigayo, Yasukuni, etc.
Reply:
What the hell has that to do with it? This is one of the equations I
suggested was a NOT= to.
It is another straw
.html
]
So.. Is there some hurrah left in the old wilted Trillium-Maple leaf
- or what is going on?
Seeking Inspired Guidance, and Gratefully Yours, Cheers!
Hari Kumar
Dear Chris:
I really would hope that you are right. But, again I doubt it. The "worried
sick" look on Blair's face in the interviews at the War Summit with his
leader Bush - certainly indicate that Blair is worried and sick. but what
about exactly?
Of course the longer the heroic struggle of the
in Cairo goes the
saying in the Souk.
Hari Kumar
Dear Chris:
you write:
Saddam, vilified as an admirer of Stalin, may have taken a leaf out of
Stalin's book: to play the war
as a great patriotic united front against the aggressors.
And as (Sir) David Frost let slip in his amiable way in an interview
this morning, could Saddam be
preparing
Ken wrote:
Tell me if the US commentators point out that not only Iraqis have
violated Geneva conventions by
putting prisoners on TV but the US did the same. In fact they did it
first! I would be interested if the US stations play the grisly videos
of the corpses. Some of the prisoners are
(In
Afghanistan - USA fighter pilots killed Canadian on ground exercises in
friendly fire - I think N=4) - the refusal to move to court-martial
by the USA authorities was timed just right.
Hari Kumar
Ken:
The point was made to the 'Great Liberator Franks' - by the CBC press
and one other reporter (could not catch who) as to whether or not the
Iraqis really had WMD, or was this a lie allowing the invasion?
Franks evaded the question's thrust, merely saying that they are
waiting to see what
http://harikumar.brinkster.net/AllianceIssues/CLOUD.htm
Thanks Eugene!
H
Is anyone aware of documentaries on video or via the net - on the
Venezuela struggles over the last year?
Thanks, Hari Kumar
Title: afl-cio shake-up: Businessweek/MARCH 17, 2003
http://www.businessweek.com:/print/premium/content/03_11/b3824091.htm?mz)
Question: Anyone have any idea whether the salaries of these worthies
are published anywhere?
Hari Kumar
).
Thaksn, Hari Kumar
Dear Michael:
How may one 'book' this tour - or elements of the tour - for Canadian
venues?
Hari
From the ML_ist Daily:
IMF Praise for Canada
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)is a financial spokesperson and
organiser for the international financial oligarchy. IMF credit is
routinely used to protect the investments of U.S., Canadian and other
monopolies in those countries that have been
Whoa! Hell's teeth - a film Made the case that Pol Pot had to move the
people out of the cities in order to avoid starvation.
Gad! You people give Stalinism a bad name!
Pol Pot was a fascist - you are scrabbling around to find some
potential 'sense' to his actions?
Steve Diamond is absolutely
Charles: But if all this is unfair, let him come on this list and defend
himself like normal human beings have to do.>
Comment: Charles, please do not take this amiss, but why the hell
would he? I mean while we gathered here - might get something out
of this lark on PEN - what meaning does it
I am impressed by both the scope of offerings - and the volume of
replies to this question!
I am surprised however, by the lack of The Jungle by old Upton
Sinclair;
the lack of Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressel
(altho' I guess it could be classed as old - tho' if Shakespeare's
Ken:
Thanks.
Have any economists done an analysis on the societal benefits resulting
from reduction of emissions etc.? Given the barrage of stuff from the
anti-Kyoto-ists in Canada - it might be useful grist.
PS: What do you think the Chretien push on Kyotot is all about? Leave
Martin with the
Ken: There is probably a lot more poaching by Canada from the UK and
particularly South Africa etc. then the US poaches from Canada. Our
local hospital has two doctors from South Africa and one from Poland,
and that is the total number of doctors there.
REPLY:
Hi Ken: Yes there is indeed a lot of
Dear Ken:
Your sub-heading: that is to say--- creating a smooth transition to
capitalism -
must prompt the question in reply: Was China ever anything other than
capitalist?
Cheers, H
Chris:
This is definitely not a new problem. It has been the same with
'poaching' from Canada. It is one of the reasons that the English
speaking metropolitan countries have used English countries for sourcing
nurses ( drs let us add) as we have discussed on the list before.
It may - I grant you
Dear Philip Ken:
Now that the mud-slinging has (temporarily?) subsided with rapid fulminant
exhaustion of the slingers, it might be actually worth continuing.
Both you Ken outline many similar matters. Of course we Northern
Neighbours still await with bated breath the Royal Commission (I
Hi Joanne:
I know, I know - I said I would not try to reply to all your points!
But in amongst all the recent extraordinary mud-slinging - I had
overlooked your dump on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Well, none of this
will convince you, But at least it is off my chest!
I will argue here, that the
Hi Joanne:
I agree with what I take to be your drift - the term American uttered
in some circles with a hatred, can be mis-used to 'blame all Americans,
for what the USA system has done. Point taken.
Agreed!
Hi Carrol:
I am not sure why you ask such a pointed question of a simple
statement. I know
Yoshie:
Sorry - re lateness reply sorry to address you via PEN-L [I could not
easily see your address].
You asked for writers for Journal of Poverty speical issue re Latin
America.
Dr Jose Venturelli would be interested - he is very authoritative re
child helath poverty in Latin America.
See
James
You acknowledge in your note below, that there may be greater
inequality.
So what do these overarching figures showing improvement really mean
to progressives?
Incidentally I understand by the term 'welfare state' a rather more
substantive 'welfare' than has ever been provided. Perhaps the
Dear Joanna:
I do not intend to take issue with each substantive point that you make.
I am happy to do so if you choose to insist. I honestly do not think
that in this forum, it is likely to be of any use.
However, I do certainly take exception to an equation of Stalinism with
events up to 1989.
Dear Michael:
You ask why there isn't a backlash?
Perhaps Ken or others from C should chip in, but I would suggest this:
(i) There is still enough 'heft' in the health care services to carry
the majority of people, it just has not dug into enough people's real
health status as yet; that is
Ian:
Thanks - very sharp reminders of what is really going on. I was recently
a programme grant reviewer for an RFA from the NIH on reduction of
racial disparities in maternal child health inequities.
5 times approximately $1.5 million were to be awarded
Hari
Brecht - is usually cited in these discussions. I contend that he is
problematic.
The whole notion of 'alienating' your audience is profoundly illogical
to me.
His personal behaviour at various points - strikes me as momentously
less than socialist. Noticeably his grovel to that McCarthy
Gene pioneer urges dream of human perfection
By CAROLYN ABRAHAM
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/front/RTGAM/20021026/wxwa=
ts1026/Front/homeBN/breakingnews
James D. Watson, the grand duke of DNA, described one of his greatest=20
fears yesterday to
from the Stalin Archives.
But the bones of the analysis are still correct in my own personal view.
Hari Kumar
I would like to thank both Ravi pbs for their time in reply.
i) I may get back to you Ravi with more techno-specifics.
ii) pbs: I understand when you say that the technical good advices,
never seem to be 'possible' for the techno-faint-hearted!
I count myself as in that category.
iii) re the
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
...[W]hat is called globalisation is really another name for the
dominant role of the United States. -- Henry
Kissinger.
QUESTION:
James: Citation?
Hi folks Of Pen:
Is anyone else being repetitively spammed by the most nasty
anti-Palestinian messages? Many with rather nasty cartoons? All
emanating from a variety of names - making it difficult to pin down who
the sender is before opening?
Furthermore, do any of the techie types on the list
Thanks Michael Hoover.
The analysis I first read (re sectional interests the Yankees vs the
Cowboys) did indeed invoke Ogelsby. It was in a work by W.B.Bland in
an issue of Communist League from the 70's; discussed matters of the
USA politics - from the Kennedy assassination - through to
This does appear to corroborate the view of JS as posted earlier at:.
ALLIANCE 49: TURKISH EXPANSIONISM USA-LED ANTI- IRAQI WAR.
It should be of interest.
http://www22.brinkster.com/harikumar/AllianceIssues/TurkishExpansionismUSAgress
The Lunacy Against the Palestinian People Must Stop!
Break Off Diplomatic Relations with Israel Now!
Statement of the WorkersÂ’ Communist Party of Denmark (APK), September
22, 2002
For how long more shall Israel be allowed to torture and humiliate the
Palestinian people? Under the
pretext of
Dear PEN_ers,
I think the following article below - should prove of interest to more
than just Sabri (Whose views on this matter I would especially
appreciate). I think that even those who choke at the term ML-ist, will
find the analysis (especially of Kurdish interests) a little novel, of
I have probably missed this due to recent absence, but what do list
members think re the apparent divisions in the ruling class regarding
assulting Iraq?
i) Are these real divisions - or merely 'willpower'? Or do they
represent mroe objective capitalist class divisions?
ii) If the latter - What
Michael P said There are none.
Carrol Said:
"They are not in any politically significant sense _divisions_. ...And
I think
there is a reason for that: divisions in the ruling class occur
only under heavy pressure from the working-class. Divisions on the international
level, such as
PREVIOUS:
1)... what is exceptional about Americans is their mix of murderousness,
infantile self pity and devastating lack of self-insight. Mark
2) Exactly. Just add America's new hyperpower status to that mix and
you have the most toxic combination for world calamity since WWII. Carl.
Poverty explosion in eastern Europe, ex-USSR: WHO.
AFP. 17 September 2002. Poverty explosion in eastern Europe, ex-USSR:
WHO.
COPENHAGEN -- Poverty levels have exploded in central and eastern Europe
and the former Soviet Union, according to a report by the World Health
Organisation published
At 25/08/2002 16:13, Melvin P. wrote:
There is a glut of oil in the world.
Wrote Mark Jones:
Er, well. Even BP don't quite agree. They, like Shell, think we are at
the end of the oil age. Only the satanic hordes at Exxon think otherwise
for some reason.'
COMMENT:
Well, would one expect the
ORIGINAL: Proyect:
The problem is that many Marxists retain a kind of Julian Simon
productivist notion that advances in the means of production--even under
capitalism--can solve the environmental crisis. At this stage of the
game, I would have to characterize this stance as counter-revolutionary
ORIGINAL:
PROYECT: Obliviously socialism can solve lots of problems. But it
cannot repopulate the oceans with Bluefin Tuna once they are extinct.
REPLY:
Hey Proyect-Englishy-Teacher- it is Obviously Or do I mean
obviously? Yes??
However, real point is:
i) The possibility of regeneration of
Julian Simon productivist notion that advances in the means of
production--even under capitalism--can solve the environmental crisis.
At this stage of the game, I would have to characterize this stance as
counter-revolutionary.
REPLY:
Please tell this counter-revolutionary - who what Julian Simon
Dear Sabri:
I do agree with your sentiemnts. Sadness inded. But .. what
about a United Front to stop/try to stop . impeirlaism? A new Zimmerwald
IS NEEDED.
See: Zimmerwald Zimmerwald 2001- A Call re Imperialist War
Afghanistan
http://www22.brinkster.com/harikumar/CALLfinalZ2001.htm
ULHAS: What has happened to Cuba since the USSR's demise? Is Cuba a
neo-colony of some other nation?
REPLY: I agree with you that this is a very good question. I frankly do
not know the right answer based on data, I would be very interested in
the lists' response to this question. Although from
ORIGINAL:
1) Hari K: (i) I do not deny international connections - that is
precisely the
meaning of 'comprador'. (ii) As for domestic relations,Often the
comprador elements are linked to landed aristocratic/feudal estates
etc.; for instance. ...
2) Louis P: The problem in figuring
JD WRITES: Two points:
a) it's true that capitalism wasn't abolished in England, but the
reforms weren't fictitious. The social-democratic management of
capitalism did have some benefits to the working class (though you
should ask a Brit, not me), though I think this was based on the power
of the
ORIGINAL: Hari writes: I suggest that the term [comprador bourgeoisie]
is still meaningful. [Even despite the increasingly 'narrow' stage on
which national capitalists can play in today's even more
inter-penetrated world]. It describes for instance the opponents of
Chavez in the recent tussles
Can anyone off the top of their head give me the quote from Marx
referring to British exploitation of India, (about the 'whitened bones'
or something to that effect) and where that quote appears?
REPLY:
??? Sorry I know no bones except..: But perhaps a skull or
two would be helpful to
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