Ian wrote:
Not that I advocate a technocracy; just that there are still
a lot of very smart people on our planet who reject fatalism
in all its forms.
Fatalism has nothing whatever to do with the Global Hubbert eak. Accusing
people of fatalism who accept the geological evidence
If I had the energy I'd try to relate this batch
of material to what's going on in Ivory Coast,
but I don't really know much of anything that is
going on there and I have no energy because of
jet lag.
A few things I've noticed:
1. Ivory Coast is the world's number one supplier
of cocoa, right?
I should have said STEVEN Hatfill, not Mark, as
the person some were fingering in the anthrax
terror.
ACRI is military and mercenary 'aid' specific to
Africa but it is also, confusingly enough, an
acronym for a cocoa research institute.
This next link has stuff written up in more
coherent
The google cache helped me to recover the article
that had been at this link. Considering what
bizforward.com is, you can see the issue that I'm
talking about here is hardly a figment of
leftwing paranoiac imagination. In fact, it's a
first-rate employment and investment opportunity!
Here is
I don't think your rant is mindless, Michael. I really do believe we are
watching the rise of a kinder, sneakier fascism. It is just as racist and
as violent as the old fascism, but more totalitarian and therefore more
sublimated, couched in euphemisms about ending world hunger and such.
Don't
I know it's a bit old, but it's one of the better
'DynCorp' stories I know, since the rulings went
against them. Note it would seem PimpCorp
employees were directly involved.
http://www.aviva.org/europe.htm
UN Cover-Up of Trafficking Prostitution in
Bosnia
There is mounting evidence that
Title: Re: Question to James Devine
From: Hari Kumar
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?
alas, I have none.
Lisa Stolarski wrote:
I don't think your rant is mindless, Michael. I really do believe we are
watching the rise of a kinder, sneakier fascism. It is just as racist and
as violent as the old fascism, but more totalitarian and therefore more
sublimated, couched in euphemisms about ending
Devine, James wrote:
From: Hari Kumar
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?
alas, I have none. I'm pretty sure I
Title: PK on dubya dip
New York TIMES/October 1, 2002
Dealing With W
By PAUL KRUGMAN
TOKYO - I got obsessed with the Japanese economy after it was fashionable.
Americans paid a lot of attention to Japan in the 1980's, when Japanese manufacturers were conquering the world. Remember when
My brother -- who is a real estate agent and was a high school buddy and
water polo team mate of N.J. Republican senate candidate Doug Forrester --
says the most bubblicious part of the market is duplex to fourplex, which in
Sacto are selling for as much as 300 times monthly net income. The
It was also cited in:
Gindin, Sam. 2002. Social Justice and Globalization: Are they Compatible? Monthly
Review,
54: 2 (June): pp. 1-11.
ravi wrote:
Devine, James wrote:
From: Hari Kumar
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
...[W]hat is called globalisation is
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30752] Re: RE: oilism redux
Ian wrote:
Not to quibble, but given what we know of physics,
ecology etc. there can be no such thing as an energy
crisis in our niche of the cosmos.
But there can be an oil crisis, can't there? Probably that day is
not
At 8:11 AM -0700 10/1/02, Michael Perelman wrote:
Gindin, Sam. 2002. Social Justice and Globalization: Are they
Compatible? Monthly Review,
54: 2 (June): pp. 1-11.
Available at http://www.monthlyreview.org/0602gindin.htm.
--
Yoshie
* Calendar of Events in Columbus:
oh ye conservative Americans! 100 times monthly rent would be a rental
yield of 12%, wouldn't it? Mug punters in London are still stepping up to
the plate to buy investment properties at yields of 5-6%!
dd
As if refuting the bubble once and for all was not enough, the bumf goes on
to put
Devine, James wrote:
From: Hari Kumar
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevinehttp://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?
alas, I
ravi wrote:
Devine, James wrote:
From: Hari Kumar
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?
At the Marxism
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30724] The persistence of feudalism
A great article! But even if the current situation in the U.S. workplace is _legally_ feudal, it is not so in a socio-economic way: it's capitalist. A lot of what's described below is similar to what Marx described in his chapter on the
Ian wrote:
Not that I advocate a technocracy; just that there are still
a lot of very smart people on our planet who reject fatalism
in all its forms.
Fatalism has nothing whatever to do with the Global Hubbert Peak. Accusing
people of fatalism who accept the geological evidence
- Original Message -
From: Mark Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fatalism has nothing whatever to do with the Global Hubbert eak. Accusing
people of fatalism who accept the geological evidence about the extremely
limited original natural endowment of hydrocarbons is like calling someone
a
What did Cockburn's father say? Don't believe anything until it is officially
denied.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901
Title: RE: oilism redux
Has someone estimated the date of the Global Hubbert Peak? when is it? how does it change if people make an effort to conserve on the use of petroleum?
(Also, some people may want the Global Hubbert Peak defined.)
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30782] An exchange with Jonathan Alter (Newsweek editor)
One of these days I am going to collect all my crank letters to the liberal muck-a-mucks of the world--and their replies--and try to get it published as Crank Letters from a Marxist Upstart.)
with _The Lazlo Letters_
From: Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: PEN-L [EMAIL PROTECTED], ALIST [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:30749] Brazil's Debt Menaces U.S. Markets
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:01:17 -0700
Brazil's Debt Menaces U.S. Markets
It's important to keep in mind that although
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/27/02 08:06PM
well the direction of US foreign policy need not necessarily
change. All I am suggesting is that within the context of an overall
agreement to screw the workers/peasants fo the USA/the world - there may
be cause to disagree on some matters within the ruling
--- Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's leave aside what was an aberration even
for fascism, the
Holocaust. Let's also get rid of that word
totalitarianism, the
primary reason for its use being to equate
Stalin with Hitler. (I'm
neither defending nor attacking Stalin, I'm
just
...[W]hat is called globalisation is
really another name for the
dominant role of the United States. --
Henry Kissinger.
QUESTION:
James: Citation?
At the Marxism 2000 conference, David Harvey
devoted his plenary talk to
supporting the proposition that Globalism is a
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30786] Re: bullying
This is almost like self-enforced 'political
correctness' from concerned parties of the left.
Don't use that word 'fascist', they'll just make
us eat our words.
I think the problem is that the word fascism has been over-used. Back in the 1960s, it
Devine, James wrote:
This is almost like self-enforced 'political
correctness' from concerned parties of the left.
Don't use that word 'fascist', they'll just make
us eat our words.
I think the problem is that the word fascism has been over-used.
Back in the 1960s, it became a
Carrol Cox wrote:
But again, my central point is that incontinent use of the label
fascist shows a naive faith in the goodness of simple capitalist
democracy.
If capitalist democracy were such a total sham, how come you're not
in jail? Is it just because you're so marginal? Or is the thing
Title: profitabililty down
Note on the Profitability of Domestic Nonfinancial Corporations, 1960-2001 (by Daniel Larkins)
The profitability of domestic nonfinancial corporations decreased in 2001, continuing a decline that began in 1998. The decrease was considerably more pronounced in
If capitalist democracy were such a total sham,
how come you're not
in jail? Is it just because you're so marginal?
Or is the thing
actually a little roommier than Germany in
1938?
Doug
Doesn't the US criminal justice system now
encompass 2 million incarcerated and 1 million
under
Stark alternatives -- those who don't have naive faith must believe the
thing is a total sham. One could base a fundamentalism on such a
dichotomy. It may sound like a pedantic distinction, but capitalist
democracy is not a synonym for bourgeois democracy.
Capitalist democracy or democratic
washingtonpost.com
Longshore Union Walks Out of U.S. Mediation Talks
Tuesday, October 1, 2002; 8:07 PM
By Michael Kahn
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Efforts to start federal mediation for a U.S.
port dispute that has stranded mountains of cargo on West Coast docks
collapsed Tuesday after the
Tom wrote:
Stark alternatives -- those who don't have
naive faith must believe the thing is a
total sham. One could base a fundamentalism
on such a dichotomy.
This has always been my problem with many a discussions on this
and most other lists. It is as if people, not just the ones on
this
--- Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
; or maybe, I am just too naive.
Sabri, you simply have to acknowledge that a
maillist post, usually a
fairly hastily written first draft, and almost
always rather short for
the topics being covered, is not an article in
a scholarly journal.
Carrol Cox wrote:
But again, my central point is that incontinent use of the label
fascist shows a naive faith in the goodness of simple capitalist
democracy.
If capitalist democracy were such a total sham, how come you're not
in jail? Is it just because you're so marginal? Or is the thing
Florida Oranges,Canada Lumber Disputes To Go To WTO Panel
Tue Oct 1,12:28 PM ET
GENEVA (AP)--The World Trade Organization ( news - web sites) agreed Tuesday
to investigate claims that the U.S. is acting illegally by imposing special
taxes or duties on imports of orange juice and lumber.
Panels
Here is a nice succint explanation from Chuck Grimes on LBO:
Okay, the more realistic issue is that shipping clerks who run the
computers for automated inventories and FOB manifests port-side, are
at the moment, unionized under the ILWU. The PMA and shippers want to
de-link these jobs from their
Friday, October 4
Women in Black's Vigil against War
Time: 5:30-6 30 PM (Every Friday)
Location: 15th Ave. High St, Columbus, OH
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sunday, October 6
War Without End? Not In Our Name!
Demonstrate against Bush's Endless War!
Time: 5-6 PM
Location: 15th Ave. and High St.,
Yesterday we received good news on Marxmail that the two major antiwar
coalitions have moved toward coalescing their forces, the first step being
endorsement of each other's demonstrations in Washington. The October 26th
action is spearheaded by the IAC (International Action Center), which is
(This was prompted by Alter's column at
http://www.msnbc.com/news/814574.asp which states, among other things, that
Divestment may be only a fall fad on college campuses, but it's political
nitroglycerin. One of these days I am going to collect all my crank
letters to the liberal muck-a-mucks
--- Tom Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Carrol Cox wrote,
To call the Bush administration fascist is
capitalist apologetics.
It is also bad American history. The Bush
administration's ideological
extremism is as American as cherry pie.
Fascism was European and too
damned intellectual.
Tom Walker wrote:
Stark alternatives -- those who don't have naive faith must believe the
thing is a total sham. One could base a fundamentalism on such a
dichotomy. It may sound like a pedantic distinction, but capitalist
democracy is not a synonym for bourgeois democracy.
And Doug
Sabri Oncu wrote:
Tom wrote:
Stark alternatives -- those who don't have
naive faith must believe the thing is a
total sham. One could base a fundamentalism
on such a dichotomy.
This has always been my problem with many a discussions on this
and most other lists. It is as if
Title: the best we can do
Amerika v. 6.0 (The Best We Can Do)
(Steve Earle)
Look at ya
Yeah, take a look in the mirror now tell me what you see
Another satisfied customer in the front of the line for the American dream
I remember when we was both out on the boulevard
Talkin'
Title: Re: [PEN-L:30788] RE: Re: bullying
Well perhaps it might be helpful to define what I mean when I use the word 'fascist' since I brought it up. I mean a military industrial complex which increasingly seeks control of its own people as well as other peoples and nations. I mean a political
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