Not only did Louis gracefully post Barbara Ehrenreich Janet McIntosh's
"The New Creationism," but the NATION actually came before June. It's okay
as journalism goes (and as Doug knows, journalism has its limits). My main
problem for me is that it didn't give the PoMotistas a chance to defend
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker)
Subject: [PEN-L:10423] Re: more planning and democracy
The snare's there, but not in the post. Just because there's a radical
separation between language and reality doesn't mean there's no reality or
even that reality is "unknowable". The
From: D Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:10445] EU crisis (2)
The Daily Telegraph Thursday 29 May 1997
Crisis over euro after Bundesbank blocks Kohl
To Brother Sid and the Bundesbank Buddies,
You're wrong and Kohl is right.
. . .
Terry McDonough wrote:
No matter how long you
try you cannot deduce evolutionary biology from the principles of
chemistry, even if it is evident that biology cannot be inconsistent
with chemistry.
Wojtek Sokolowski replied,
I do not want to be a contrarian, but I do not buy the
Thanks for the dates, Phil. I'm off to Vancouver on
Sunday, for a week -- and will be seeing Sid so
I'll see if I can pursuade him to come too.
Elaine
Wojtek wrote:
I do not want to be a contrarian,
Wojtek is welcome to take any viewpoint he wants, but he has an
obligation to argue carefully and logically. I'll save Terry the
trouble of noting that Wojtek's latest post does not deal with his
argument but instead conflates it with a
On Sat, 24 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Canada's
military spending:
Perhaps this is not
insignificant as I suggested in my post, but it is surely minimal
and I would argue virtually a minimal level necessary for
air-sea rescue, coastal and fishery servailance, and contribution
to
The Daily Telegraph Thursday 29 May 1997
Crisis over euro after Bundesbank blocks Kohl
By Andrew Gimson in Bonn
The future of the euro was in doubt last night after the Bundesbank
refused to help the German government meet the criteria for
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At 09:38 AM 5/30/97 -0700, Terry McDonough wrote:
the irreducability of one science to another. No matter how long you
try you cannot deduce evolutionary biology from the principles of
chemistry, even if it is evident that biology cannot be inconsistent
with chemistry. For the same reason,
Doug Henwood:
In this week's New York Press (May 28-June 3), my favorite right-wing
columnist Christopher Caldwell wrote:
"But Kabila is actually a savvy operator. In mid-April, halfway through his
masterful westward march across his enormous country, he took time out to
renegotiate all of
Consumers "are like roaches -- you spray them and spray them and they get
immune after a while," says David Lubars, chief executive of the Los
Angeles office of BBDO
-- Yumiko Ono, "Marketers Seek the 'Naked' Truth in Consumer
Psyches," WALL STREET JOURNAL, May 30, 1997.
COMMENT:
Louis Proyect wrote:
Mercenaries defending the interests of the bourgeoisie, both local and
foreign, are clashing with indigenous armed movements with varying degrees
of commitment to a full program of social and economic emancipation, in
Angola and Mozambique. The class struggle is sharpening
Consumers "are like roaches -- you spray them and spray them and they get
immune after a while," says David Lubars, chief executive of the Los
Angeles office of BBDO
-- Yumiko Ono, "Marketers Seek the 'Naked' Truth in Consumer
Psyches," WALL STREET JOURNAL, May 30, 1997.
Well,
(This is what I wrote to the list on April 30 about Barbara Ehrenreich's
new book on war. I suspect that her latest Nation article was written with
a view to providing some kind of theoretical underpinning for this dreadful
book, which I suspected is being greeted by dismay from her left
Consumers "are like roaches -- you spray them and spray them and they get
immune after a while," says David Lubars, chief executive of the Los
Angeles office of BBDO
-- Yumiko Ono, "Marketers Seek the 'Naked' Truth in Consumer
Psyches," WALL STREET JOURNAL, May 30, 1997.
I have a question on this BLS data:
On Fri, May 30, 1997 at 07:10:37 (-0700) Richardson_D writes:
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1997
...
Consumer spending has been the driving force behind the U.S. economy
over the past year, but, ironically, American families haven't been
spending very
Thanks to Louis for posting the Ehrenreich article. For a while, I
thought perhaps I would have to modify my earlier immoderate
denunciation of BE's academic work. I think BE is basically correct
in taking on pomo. It is increasingly evident that the Sokal affair
marks a turning point in
All,
Twenty years ago a group of graduate students and young faculty at
Binghamton organized a conference on the labor process, inspired by Harry
Braverman's _Labor and Monopoly Capital_. That gathering had a lasting
impact on the way many of us came to understand work and class. Now a new
Today's NY Times reports that Angolan troops have overrun large parts of
the northeast of the country, driving "thousands of civilians from areas
held by fighters of the former rebel movement, Unita". This, according to
the Times, is an area with valuable diamond resources. The MPLA and Unita
are
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1997
__In the month of April, when the national unemployment rate declined
to 4.9 percent, there were 29 states and the District of Columbia with
jobless rates at or below that level, according to data released by
BLS. Labor markets have improved to such
This New Zealand newsletter on the WTO, trade etc may be of interest
to list members.
Bill Rosenberg
Getting The Big Picture
The Big Picture is the quarterly bulletin of GATT Watchdog.
Articles in Issue 10 of The Big Picture (May 1997) :
Dr Jane Kelsey (Associate Professor of Law,
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