BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1999
__Prices paid by producers of finished goods advanced a seasonally-adjusted
0.2 percent in July, led by the first rise in energy prices in 3 months.
The advance followed a decline of 0.1 percent in June and a 0.2 percent rise
in May. The index rose less
This is a webpage with links to articles on the Internet put together by
Denis Dutton, who launched the Bad Writing Contest. It is updated daily and
is quite lively.
Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
Wojtek Sokolowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/16/99 05:34PM
At 04:21 PM 8/16/99 -0400, Chareles wrote:
Charles: Why is it do you think that the way you tell it "consciousness"
is not corresponding to "structure" ? Are you saying this "perfect soical
control" is exercised through "structure" and
Final 2 paragraphs of NYT op-ed piece by Robert Kaplan:
Despite the region's instability and the Caspian's oil riches, the Caucasus
does not get sufficient attention from the West. In the early and
mid-1990's, the West focused on the plight of Bosnian Muslims, and paid
little attention to the
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New at Foreign Policy in Focus
Containment Lite: U.S. Policy Toward Russia and Its Neighbors
by John Feffer
If the U.S. government had wanted to destroy Russia from the inside out, it
couldn't
have devised a more effective policy than its so-called "strategic
partnership." From
aggressive
The main point is that both excessive 'socialization' and excessive
'privatization' of reproductive health can be detrimental to women.
wojtek
From the themes and arguments of my numerous posts on the subject, it must
be obvious that I am not advocating the 'privatization' of the kind you are
I saw the following inquiry on MLG. I figure that listers here must have
lots of expertise to help her. Yoshie
* I am currently working on a project that examines how Giuliani has used
Quality of Life Initiatives to discriminate on the basis of class and race.
For example, I am now
Ricardo seemed to be making a clumsy attempt at humor. In the past, he has shown
himself to be
insensitive, but not vicious. Let's see if he continues. Is that ok? Otherwise, I
will warn
him.
Stephen E Philion wrote:
Michael Perleman,
I'm not sure what has induced this occasion for
Rod H:
In my experience, every woman I have known who had an abortion went
through
a big moral struggle. That is not the point. The point is that it is
her
moral decision not any one else's. It is her choice. A fetus is not an
appendix and no woman treats an abortion like she would an
Here is a list of the people who have been posting. Note how few of us are
chirping in.
last 50 PEN-L messaglast 100 PEN-L messa last 200 PEN-L messag
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I think that the debate on abortion was held at a very high level -- illustrating the
best in our
list. Like all list debates, this one seems to be degenerating.
I think that Carrol Cox pointed to the key issue is deciding where to communicate and
where to
isolate.
I would like to see a new
My apologies. I carelessly thought that I was responding off list.
Michael Perelman wrote:
Ricardo seemed to be making a clumsy attempt at humor. In the past, he has shown
himself to be
insensitive, but not vicious. Let's see if he continues. Is that ok? Otherwise, I
will warn
him.
In my experience, every woman I have known who had an abortion went through
a big moral struggle. That is not the point. The point is that it is her
moral decision not any one else's. It is her choice. A fetus is not an
appendix and no woman treats an abortion like she would an appendectomy.
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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 17 August 1999
Vol. 3, Numbers 65 (#318)
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AN ISSUE OF CONFERENCE AND RALLY
Out of curiosity, I wonder how this blob of ectoplasm known as a fetus is
regarded. What do people think it is exactly, or philosophically? Is it
like an appendix, a second-class Siamese twin, or what?
cheers,
mbs
a symbiotic-ecosystem on a slippery slope towards a possibility for
Carrol wrote:
So our task -- as in almost all the
key issues for the left -- is simply (!) to find ways to shift the locus
of struggle. That is a subject of two or three years (or decades)
of discussion.
And then Ellen wrote:
I think this is absolutely correct. I would add one thing.
It would
CC
So our task -- as in almost all the key issues for the left -- is simply
(!) to find ways to shift the locus of struggle. That is a subject of two or
three years (or decades) of discussion.
mbs: This last is the most self-refuting statement in the entire debate.
But who cares about
Michael Perelman has asked me to introduce my web site and post new
additions.
About five years ago I while teaching the history of economic thought at
McMaster, posted a number of readings for my students. With the
encouragement of Michael and Tony Brewer, I made the text available to
everyone.
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
I use the terms "consciousness" and "structure" in a somewhat technical
sense - as they are used in social movement mobilization theory. . . .
snip
Later on, the theory got a bit more sophisticated and said that
consciousness changes as a result of movement
Well, Stefy, considering your location, I would guess that dancing in
the beach is your real profession.
Richard,
I didn't think you were from Latin America, though I'm not sure that there
is anything I wrote that would indicate this to you. I now do wish to make
a geograpical guess. You
(Pen-l, Does anybody have current info about the rate of profit on US,
German and Japanese investment in Colombia?
Seth Sandronsky)
US continues buildup
Warnings of "Vietnamization" of Colombian civil war
By Bill Vann
17 August 1999
Use this version to print
Warnings that the United States
Carrol writes:
I suggest that as a general strategic principle our goal should be not
to persuade more people that abortion is legitimate but to generate
an atmosphere in which abortion is simply taken for granted. We need
to isolate rather than convert right-to-lifers.
I think this is
Richard,
I didn't think you were from Latin America, though I'm not sure that there
is anything I wrote that would indicate this to you. I now do wish to make
a geograpical guess. You are from Buffalo...Teresa Ebert is your
mentor...?
Steve
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Michael Keaney wrote:
snip
The USA has gone in a direction of punishing with imprisonement what you
call "'irresponsible' behaviors of pregnant mothers,'" and this policy
trend is likely to continue.
As applied to the "left" broadly defined, it is clear that
At 01:04 PM 8/17/99 -0400, Yoshie wrote:
Michael Keaney wrote:
Does the wider community have a legitimate interest in the fate of the
unborn child? Is it an adequate defence of a woman's ability to choose
freely to insist upon a conception of her body as private property with
which she may do as
At 11:38 AM 8/17/99 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
Charles: OK. However, the residential pattern was very unequal and
segregated by class and race in 1949. I am not sure that that "structure"
has worsened in the last 50 years, and it has not improved as much as
"advertised" by the "home of the
It is lively, but there's a preponderance of links to The New
Republic, the Weekly Standard, and even LM Online. Suggests that
there's a real conservative tilt to the whole Bad Writing project.
Doug
Maybe you or Bad Subjects girls boys can launch a Bad Writing Contest of
your own, documenting
Michael Keaney wrote:
Does the wider community have a legitimate interest in the fate of the
unborn child? Is it an adequate defence of a woman's ability to choose
freely to insist upon a conception of her body as private property with
which she may do as she pleases? If so, how do we deal with
It is lively, but there's a preponderance of links to The New
Republic, the Weekly Standard, and even LM Online. Suggests that
there's a real conservative tilt to the whole Bad Writing project.
Doug
Louis Proyect wrote:
Whoops. Left out the URL: http://www.cybereditions.com/aldaily/
Whoops. Left out the URL: http://www.cybereditions.com/aldaily/
At 10:44 AM 8/17/99 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
This is a webpage with links to articles on the Internet put together by
Denis Dutton, who launched the Bad Writing Contest. It is updated daily and
is quite lively.
Louis Proyect
Stephen E Philion wrote:
Richard, Is it possible that you might demonstrate to us how the segment
that you quote below is 'rhetorical'? You might not agree with what is
asserted below, but how is it 'heavily rhetorical'? Steve
Who is Richard, by the way? Cheers, ajit sinha
Stephen E Philion wrote:
Richard, Is it possible that you might demonstrate to us how the segment
that you quote below is 'rhetorical'? You might not agree with what is
asserted below, but how is it 'heavily rhetorical'? Steve
Who is Richard, by the way? Cheers, ajit sinha
G'day Chas'n'Max,
You write:
So Lauren Bacall , the Sweetheart, was as tough as Boggie ?
I don't think so.
Way tougher, Chas! As with Kate and Spencer. Actually, women had some
serious character and plot grunt there for a while in the forties - what
with war somewhat mucking up political
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