Re: Turkish Movies, Query. (fwd)

2000-04-05 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day all, Just by the way ... .i don't know if you can find "Arkadas" (Friendship) specifically, since I had seen it back to turkey many moons ago. There are apparently a couple of words for 'friend' in Turkish, and I'm given to believe 'arkadas' is the one closest to 'comrade' (with

BLS Daily Report

2000-04-05 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2000 RELEASED TODAY: In February, 210 metropolitan areas recorded unemployment rates below the U.S. average, while 114 areas registered higher rates. Eleven metropolitan areas had rates below 2.0 percent, with five of these located in the Midwest and four in

three bears metaphor killed

2000-04-05 Thread Jim Devine
The following is my effort at journalistic op-editorializing. It has clear limitations due to the limited subject matter, while I added a ending that suggested what I consider to be an impossible possibility. It's been rejected by the L.A. TIMES and the PROGRESSIVE's news service. Does anyone

three bears metaphor killed

2000-04-05 Thread Louis Proyect
Summary: The cheering of the U.S. economy's success should be tempered by the fact of private debt accumulation. I ran across an article by Harry Braverman in the '56 American Socialist that makes almost the identical point. And only 6 months earlier there is an article on automation by Harry

RE: three bears metaphor killed

2000-04-05 Thread Max Sawicky
If you really want to publish this . . . First thing is it's too long. Columns should be 750 words. Second, the paragraphs are too long. It's a newspaper, not the AER. Third, you used Randy Wray's title. When he sues you I'm sure he won't ask for too much. Fourth, you need to state in the

Re: three bears metaphor killed

2000-04-05 Thread Jim Devine
At 11:47 AM 4/5/00 -0400, you wrote: Summary: The cheering of the U.S. economy's success should be tempered by the fact of private debt accumulation. I ran across an article by Harry Braverman in the '56 American Socialist that makes almost the identical point. yeah, and there was no

frontiers of finance

2000-04-05 Thread Jim Devine
from SLATE's "Today's Papers" column: The [Wall Street Journal] and the [Washington Post] report that the IRS is planning to shut down a truly macabre tax break known as a "ghoul trust." The gimmick? A lawyer for a rich person finds a young person who is expected to die within a few years and

Re: three bears metaphor killed

2000-04-05 Thread Doug Henwood
Louis Proyect wrote: I ran across an article by Harry Braverman in the '56 American Socialist that makes almost the identical point. And only 6 months earlier there is an article on automation by Harry or co-editor Bert Cochran (they went on to launch Piel's Beer after the magazine collapsed)

Re: Turkish Movies, Query. (fwd)

2000-04-05 Thread md7148
G'day all, Just by the way ... .i don't know if you can find "Arkadas" (Friendship) specifically, since I had seen it back to turkey many moons ago. There are apparently a couple of words for 'friend' in Turkish, and I'm given to believe 'arkadas' is the one closest to 'comrade' (with

alan woods on socialist europe (fwd)

2000-04-05 Thread md7148
some important info--Mine -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 09:54:48 -0400 From: Chris Chase-Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: alan woods on socialist europe a colleague from over there suggested that i send a notice to

AVIVA: April Press Release (fwd)

2000-04-05 Thread md7148
AVIVA Women’s World-Wide Web FREE Monthly Webzine http://www.aviva.org Press Release: April 2000. http://www.aviva.org/press.htm * ACTION ALERT: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Stoning Appeal Pending But Sentence Still Stands *EVENTS: US: Female Genital Mutilation – The Challenge. John Hopkins

The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 4 Apr 2000 -- 4:29 (#410)

2000-04-05 Thread Paul Kneisel
__ The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 4 April 2000 Vol. 4, Number 29 (#410) __ CONTENTS Action Alerts AFAA

Re: Current (heterodox) thinking on interest rates?

2000-04-05 Thread Jim Devine
At 01:22 PM 04/02/2000 -0500, Barnet wrote: Perhaps someone could summarize (or supply citations on) current (heterodox) thinking on interest rate determination (in the U.S.). I'm no expert on the heterodox thinking on this subject, but I would point to Marx as a good place to start. Marx

book announcement

2000-04-05 Thread Michael Perelman
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:50:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Loren R Goldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Edmond Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Book Announcement Queequeg Publications (Cambridge MA USA) announces the first book in the Marx/Third Millennium Series: Loren Goldner. UBU SAVED FROM DROWNING:

Re: Xenophobia and the American labor movement

2000-04-05 Thread Michael Hoover
(From the newly published "Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples At Home and Abroad 1876-1917" by Matthew Frye Jacobson, Hill Wang, 2000) But Samuel Gompers voiced the prevailing opinion of American labor when he agreed to issue an AFL charter to the Council of