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There has been considerable reaction to the bombing of Serb TV
and radio especially the murderous attack in Belgrade that seems
to have killed at a least a dozen people. Under the Geneva
convention journalists
The opalescence [literally, opal-like] of some words just can't be left
without comment. Ostracism is one of them. Ostracism is from the Greek
ostrakízein which my Random House Webster's also tells me is akin to
óstreion: oyster, shell. Oysters indeed have shells but are famous for their
practice
On Saturday, April 24, 1999 at 23:26:55 (-0500) Ken Hanly writes:
...
Robin Cook apparently bristles at the idea that NATO is engaged in a
counter-propaganda campaign. He claims that NATO is only interested in
getting the truth to the Serbian people. Is he an actor or what? ...
Alex Cockburn had
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi
Subject: [PEN-L:5868] The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Condemns theAmerican-NATO Aggression on Yugoslavia
From: Abu Nasr
. . .
THE POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE CONDEMNS THE
AMERICAN-NATO AGGRESSION
Latest item on this was a report in the Post that the Yugo govt announced it
would agree to no armed forces in Kosova, even if only to protect observers
or human rights monitors.
Whatever might have been done before the bombing began, much less two or
four months ago, the new reality appears to
Here's a govt statement:
http://www.suc.org/news/yds/#N2
. . . Trotsky argued that the right to national sovereignty in such cases
had to be weighed against the broader needs of socialist revolution.
Self-determination in this light might be revealed not as an end in itself,
but as a tactic used to advance the class-struggle under given objective
Here's one response from the moderator of an unnamed other list to my web
page announcement ("How Iatrogenic Economics Killed the Standard of Living
-- http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/satanic.htm). I want to emphasize that I
think the response was INTELLIGENT, AMIABLE and SINCERE. It also presents
Max:
There's nothing
wrong with carnage per se -- as long as you nail the right people.
Bruce Cockburn-- "If I Had a Rocket Launcher"
here comes the helicopter -- second time today
everybody scatters and hopes it goes away
how many kids they've murdered only god can say
if i had a rocket
Tom Walker wrote:
Ken Hanly asked,
How can intelligent people come up with such
mindless uncritical drivel and Pavlovian reactions?
That's a rhetorical question. Don't you just love it when somebody answers a
rhetorical question? The answer to this question requires rephrasing the
The war
against Serbia is a proxy war against every vestige of
anti-imperialist independence in Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union. It is a signal to the Communists in
Russia and allied states that Nato will blow them to
kingdom come if they threaten the "stability" of the new
Max wrote:
There's nothing
wrong with carnage per se -- as long as you nail the right people.
That's NATO's position, not Lou's.
Yoshie
The question of labor time he is fairly complicated. An individual worker in an
individual job works fewer hours. A household with two wage earners might work
more hours. How we factor in commute times? What about the workers holding two
or three jobs, while others can only find the single
Taken to its logical conclusion, the NATO bombing of Serb TV (and the
argument that it is a legitimate military target since it is part of the
Yugo war machinery) may also be used to further curtail the (already very
narrow) range of views that may be publicly expressed in NATO countries
Furthermore, looking only at US data is misleading since the US has been exporting
labor intensive (and heavy lifting) jobs overseas, not to mention pollution.
3000 annual work hours is still the norm in the Third World.
Neo-liberal economists should be apologising for their general failures
Louis Proyect wrote:
1. The "final crisis" of capitalism. I feel it is clearer
by the days that we have finally entered the "final
crisis". As usual with history, things are never the way
one anticipates them, but the current tendency to lower
average global wages (substituting
Paul Phillips wrote:
I have been asked by a friend whose daughter is doing an
undergrad history paper on the Vietnam War in which she is
supposed to discuss the economic impact. However, in her
reading to date she has found little on the economic impact and I
was asked to recommend some sources.
The final crisis of capitalism has already occurred.
Just like the war to end all wars has produced the permanent miltarization
of the peace, and reduced all future wars to police actions, the final
crisis of capitalism, though less visible and dramatic, has depersonalized
the capitalist and
Re:
"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened
the day's toil of any human being." (John Stuart Mill, as quoted by the big
fella at the head of chapter 15 of *Capital*)
Thanks, Tom!
Rob.
Since John Stuart Mill wrote this, the average urban workyear in the
Ken Hanley wrote:
It is interesting that CNN and US broadcast sources who had been using the
Serb
TV facilities were given private warnings by NATO that they were to be bombed.
It seems that they did not pass these warnings on to workers at Serb TV. They
left the building knowing that Serb
Here is Charles Babbage's description of the establishments for slaughtering
horses at Montfaucon, near Paris in the nineteenth century: It describes the
ingenuity and the hard work involved in the informal sector. It is one of my
favorites.
1. The hair is first cut off from the mane and
Gene Coyle wrote:
This unnamed correspondent thinks we, the workers, are expressing
preferences for long hours?
Alas, this problem seems unlikely to be solved - paradoxically, for the
same reasons why the opposite problem of motivating couch potatoes to do
something useful with their lives
Brad De Long wrote:
Nevertheless, the curious thing is the fall in the average urban workweek
from 3000 to 2000 hours, followed by pronounced stickiness at 2000
(although western Europe may be in a generation-long process of dipping to
1500)...
There's a lot of curious things about the hours of
Yes, but didn't Siegfried Giedeon claim (in MECHANIZATION TAKES COMMAND)
that the French refused to adopt the assembly line in meatpacking
(pioneered in Cincinnati) because of its "unnaturalness"? This was in
the 1840's, which would be after Babbage. So cultural factors prevented
a
What I found interesting was:
"Shleifer has never been formally charged with a misdeed, and he has
denied any wrongdoing. He has separated, however, from the Harvard
Institute, whose director is Jeffrey Sachs, also a Harvard economist.
Asked about the announcement that Shleifer had won the Clark
Andrei Shleifer won the John Bates Clark award. The New York Times said
that his conflict of interest case did not enter into the considerations.
What is the status of that case? Anybody know?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel.
The question of labor time he is fairly complicated. An individual worker
in an
individual job works fewer hours. A household with two wage earners might
work
more hours. How we factor in commute times? What about the workers
holding two
or three jobs, while others can only find the single
I had a brief debate with my brother recently about the EPA and other
"anti-business" government institutions. I know that the EPA is not
necessarily anti-business, as some businesses benefit from regulation,
and might welcome more stringent standards to help drive out
competitors. Does anyone
It is interesting that CNN and US broadcast sources who had been using the Serb
TV facilities were given private warnings by NATO that they were to be bombed.
It seems that they did not pass these warnings on to workers at Serb TV. They
left the building knowing that Serb workers were about to be
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Tom Walker wrote:
Lewis Carroll wrote a poem about oysters
I weep for you, the Walrus said,
I deeply sympathize.
With sobs and tears he sorted out
Those of the largest size.
Carrol
It also contains the beautiful lines:
The time has come, the Walrus said,
To speak of many things.
Of ships
Re:
"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened
the day's toil of any human being." (John Stuart Mill, as quoted by the big
fella at the head of chapter 15 of *Capital*)
Thanks, Tom!
Rob.
Since John Stuart Mill wrote this, the average urban workyear in the
This unnamed correspondent thinks we, the workers, are expressing preferences
for long hours?
Gene Coyle
Tom Walker wrote:
Rob Schaap wrote:
For what it's worth, Tom, I think your essay on neo-classical assumptions,
measures and prescriptions as the miserable multiplication of misery
Rob Schaap wrote:
For what it's worth, Tom, I think your essay on neo-classical assumptions,
measures and prescriptions as the miserable multiplication of misery
(iatrogenic) is bloody wonderful.
- snip, snip -
Thanks, Tom!
And thank you, Rob. I hope your kind words will encourage others on
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"At the end of the press conference, the participants said it was
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Louis,
With eloquence and substance, presented and argued.
By the way, anybody feel that the FBI Building, a building of the JUSTICE
department, being named after J. Edgar (aka "Mary") Hoover is on the one hand
quite appropriate, while on the other hand,
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