Robert Service damning Yeltsin

2002-11-17 Thread Chris Burford
Informative review by left wing British economist Robin Blackburn, of book by right wing historian Robert Conquest, which summarises many of the adverse developments in Russia. Service's right wing perspective makes these reports even more credible.

Jim Craven To Talk On Marxism And Indigenous Struggles In Sacramento

2002-11-17 Thread Seth Sandronsky
November 17, 2002 News Release For more information: Call John Rowntree, (916) 446-1758 P.O. Box 160406 Sacramento, CA 95816 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.marxistschool.org Jim Craven To Talk On Marxism And Indigenous Struggles In Sacramento Jim Craven, a professor of economics, will give a talk

Left sweeps to victory in Vancouver

2002-11-17 Thread Tom Walker
From the CBC: Real-life Da Vinci leads sweep in Vancouver elections Last Updated Sun, 17 Nov 2002 9:54:49 VANCOUVER - A former Mountie and coroner who inspired a CBC Television series won a landslide election on Saturday to become the next mayor of Vancouver. Larry Campbell, the real-life

self-ownership redux

2002-11-17 Thread Ian Murray
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,5506606%255E2902,0 0.html Stone loses cool over double Bill 18nov02 FORMER Rolling Stone Bill Wyman has threatened a US journalist with legal action because he shares the same name as the musician. The star's lawyers have ordered the

New book -frightening.

2002-11-17 Thread Eugene Coyle
There is a new book out on climate and justice: DEAD HEAT. The authors make both a frightening case about the future and a powerful argument for justice. One of the authors furnished the following precis: Dead Heat argues that the battle against global warming is key to the larger battle

Cars and jobs?

2002-11-17 Thread Eugene Coyle
The stock market liked it last week when, although retail sales were sort of weak, when car sales were taken out of the figure,things looked pretty good. It occurs to me that cars are actually made in the USA (mostly), where as most everything else isn't. So even if retail sales hold up for

the nouveau pauvre

2002-11-17 Thread Devine, James
Title: the nouveau pauvre November 17, 2002/New York TIMES. From Middle Class to the Shelter Door By LESLIE EATON The tidy apartment in a house in Staten Island rents for just $650 a month, but Salvatore and Lorraine Nardulli can no longer afford it. They cannot pay the phone bill, or

British war crimes in Kenya

2002-11-17 Thread Chris Burford
The BBC programme Sunday evening gave some more details http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/2416049.stm It quoted a former British colonial administrator, John Nottingham, referring to Brutal savage torture by people who have to be condemned as war criminals. I feel ashamed

Wed., Nov. 20: Rally March against the War

2002-11-17 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Wednesday, November 20, 11:00 AM Not In Our Name National Day of Action We believe that as people living in the United States it is our responsibility to resist the injustices done by our government, in our name. In this spirit, the Not In Our Name Project is calling for a National Day of

Re: Archetypes

2002-11-17 Thread joanna bujes
At 05:14 PM 11/15/2002 -0800, you wrote: The US is the puzzle. Is it deflation or stagflation. Given what I intuitively feel about the US economy's critical mass of true unproductivity, I'm betting stagflation. Uh, is that the short way of saying unemployment + inflation? Joanna

Re: Negri explains the multitude

2002-11-17 Thread Charles Jannuzi
Then tell Henwood to stop making inane responses just to bait people, or unsubscribe me. Like I really care at this point. You deserve discussions with Henwood. In other words, you deserve inanity. CJ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the

Re: Archetypes

2002-11-17 Thread Charles Jannuzi
--- joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:14 PM 11/15/2002 -0800, you wrote: The US is the puzzle. Is it deflation or stagflation. Given what I intuitively feel about the US economy's critical mass of true unproductivity, I'm betting stagflation. Uh, is that the short way of saying

Re: Re: Negri explains the multitude

2002-11-17 Thread Doug Henwood
Charles Jannuzi wrote: Then tell Henwood to stop making inane responses just to bait people, or unsubscribe me. Like I really care at this point. You deserve discussions with Henwood. In other words, you deserve inanity. If anyone cares what I think about Empire, my review is at

Re: RE: Re: economics on pen-l

2002-11-17 Thread Peter Dorman
Devine, James wrote: RE: [PEN-L:32288] Re: economics on pen-l Peter D writes:... I'm wondering whether foreign central banks are already financing the US current account deficit, in light of the weakness in US financial markets. don't you think that it's foreign financiers

Re: Re: RE: Re: economics on pen-l

2002-11-17 Thread Michael Perelman
Business Week recently had an article that seemed to agree with Peter. I did not save the ref, but it was from the last few weeks. Peter Dorman wrote: Devine, James wrote: Peter D writes:... I'm wondering whether foreign central banks are already financing the US current account deficit,

Re: Cars and jobs?

2002-11-17 Thread Michael Perelman
why should the market be rational? Eugene Coyle wrote: The stock market liked it last week when, although retail sales were sort of weak, when car sales were taken out of the figure,things looked pretty good. It occurs to me that cars are actually made in the USA (mostly), where as

stagflation

2002-11-17 Thread Devine, James
Title: stagflation [was RE: [PEN-L:32334] Re: Archetypes ] Joanna: Uh, is that the short way of saying unemployment + inflation? that's right, but it's a bit more complicated. The word stagflation arose in the US during the 1970s and the very early 1980s because the dominant theory of the