Dear progressives,
Included in this email is some information on a labour dispute at the
University of Toronto. The part-time bookstore workers, who recently
unionized, are fighting for a fair first contract. The University of Toronto
Press, which is owned wholly by U of T, has
o offer re. socialization of land... Michael Hoover
of including market mechanisms in
a socialist society. If AM is finished, so is market socialism.
And so is Soviet-style socialism. So what's left?
Doug
why, e-list chatt(er)ing, of course... Michael Hoover
Creative destruction occurs when innovation makes old ideas and
technologies obsolete.
Henry C.K. Liu
what about destructive creation? Michael Hoover
gangs and the balls to gang wars...Michael Hoover
see Kolko's 1967 _The Triumph of Conservatism_ for more general argument
about so-called 'Progressive Reform' which was really about the formation
of Hamiltonian government-corporate partnership...Michael Hoover
Disney (NYSE: DIS - news)$575.6 million
2 Mel Karmazin/CBS (NYSE: CBS - news)201.9
3 Sanford Weill/Citigroup (NYSE:C - news) 167.1
4 Stephen Case/America Online (NYSE: AOL - news) 159.2
5 Craig Barrett/Intel (NASDAQ: INTC - news) 116.5 6
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Albanian nationalists/separatists
who quit their jobs in the established system?...as I understand it, less
than 10% of the Kosovo Albanian population followed them and switched...
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e sending troops that
occupied the respective countries for nineteen and eight years...
his kind of internationalism - making the world safe for hypocrisy -
became sacrosanct US foreign policy by the end of WW2...Michael Hoover
emain of Rumania's national industry,
or of Yugoslavia's national industry?" (_Problems of Foreign
Policy_, Moscow, 1949, pp. 207 214)
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more difficult for them to
listen to their own people. Without the presence of a single
soldier Western capitalism this makes itself a senior, and often
dominant, advisor to the Yugoslavian government." (_Socialism_, p. 295)
Michael Hoover
ombardiers to fold down their screens...Michael Hoover
interest in
this type of relatively low risk (for US personnel) opportunity...
Michael Hoover
on campus, proposed gym in Morningside
Park - that preciptated the action...striking students read back
to him a section from above book in which he suggested that such
proceedings are a poor way to obtain information, function
principally as a propaganda devices, and serve as symbolic safe
t the same as
assassination...he is working with some congressional members to overturn
the policy...his pal, rabid right-wing attack dog Bob Barr from Georgia,
who led the way for House Republican impeachers, has submitted a bill to
do just that...Michael Hoover
, which has been a very
male domain...so male domination of the political state has been closely
related to militarism...Cynthia Enloe (I think), suggests that militarism
requires excessive 'strength, bravery, and responsibility' to fulfill male
social functions...Michael Hoover
lation in bureaucratic institutions as
senseless. Their lives are devoted, in one way or another, to
consuming capital. They feel that there musy be something more."
(pp. 223-224)
Michael Hoover
I have been asked by a friend whose daughter is doing an
undergrad history paper on the Vietnam War in which she is
supposed to discuss the economic impact. However, in her
reading to date she has found little on the economic impact and I
was asked to recommend some sources. Can anyone
Sidney Milkins,
_The Politics of Regulatory Change_, Oxford UP, 1989...
Michael Hoover
Wasn't Laura Tyson's dissertation on Yugo?
Michael Perelman
can't answer above, but she wrote a monograph on Yugoslavian economic
performance in the 1970s and co-wrote one on 1980s performance...she
also wrote a book for RAND in the mid-80s on economic adjustment in
Eastern Europe...Michael
Michael "Not-Mike" Hoover wrote:
for what it's worth, the US gov't has been prohibited from carrying out
assassinations and assassination attempts since Gerald Ford signed
Executive Order 11095 (I think) in 1976...
William Blum says that, in the American bombing attack upon Libya of 14
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New York Post®, Copyright 1999 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
... Ousted Compaq chief Eckhard Pfeiffer is walking away with a $278
million severance package.
But he would have gotten much more - up to $418 million - if he hadn't
bungled
friend sent me below, Michael Hoover
(04/21/99, 12:17 p.m. ET)
U.S.-based long distance carriers that serve Yugoslavia aren't
experiencing big service delays, even though NATO has said it's
targeting communications facilities in war-torn Kosovo for bombing.
Despite the almost month
controlling all
the world's lands and people." (1973)
Huey was right then, and our response then was to oppose the empire. We
must do that now.
Down with imperialism! Stop the bombing! NATO/U.S. out of Yugoslavia!
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at it...Michael Hoover
also, is it "Kosovo" or "Kosova"?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Serbs call region Kosovo and Albanians call it Kosova? Michael Hoover
from today's Orlando Sentinel:
Associated Press
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
What makes a good recipe for financial stability in the technologically
enhanced, globalized economies of the late 20th century?
Leading world economists gathered here for a three-day symposium said the
necessary
Forwarded message:
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 12:50:51 -0500
From: Michael Rempel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: REVIEW: History of Corporate Finance
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 10:21:33 -0400
From: "K. Austin Kerr" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
= H-BUSINESS
Urban and Regional Economics.
Barney Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Peter Smith, *City, State, Market: The Political Economy
of Urban Society*
Michael Peter Smith Joe R. Feagin, eds., *The Capitalist City*
Susan Fainstein, et. al., *Restructuring the City: The Political
Urban and Regional Economics.
Barney Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: regional economics
Ann Markusen has authored/co-authored a bunch of articles and books.
..book titles include:
*Profit Cycles, Oligopoly Regional Development*
*Regions: The Economics Politics of Territory*
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Date: 05 Dec 1997 12:48:59
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Congressman Sanders Says IMF Asian Loans Are Illegal
To: Recipients of conference [EMAIL PROTECTED]
November 26, 1997
Sanders Deeply Concerned Over the Legality and
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CBS MarketWatch
Wed Dec 17 12:36:34 1997
SAN FRANCISCO -- Flexing its fiscal muscle, Microsoft Corp. warned an
appeals court the U.S. economy may suffer as a result of a court order
that challenges the way it markets its Internet Explorer browser.
In the appeal,
When and in what case did the Supreme Court expand the commerce clause of
the Constitution to overrule state regulation of corporations?
-- Jim Cullen
*Gibbons v Ogden* (1824) was the first major case to raise the issue of
the scope of the commerce power and the question of the impact of
Has anyone got the reference context for K Marx's reported
denial that he was a Marxist?
According to Hal Draper, Marx's comment is known via mention by
Engels on 4 occasions: in a letter to Bernstein in 1882, in
letters to Schmidt Lafargue in 1890, and in an open letter
in 1890 published
Forwarded message:
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 01:36:08 -0800
From: Nathan Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: BUSINESS WEEK: Income Inequality kills the poor
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nov 10, 1997
THE UNHEALTHY U.S. INCOME GAP
It's linked to higher levels of illness
America has the
What methodology DG use in understanding fascism is simply beyond me
" ...Rural fascism and city or neighborhood fascism, youth fascism and
war veteran's fascism, fascism of the Left and fascism of the Right,
fascism of the couple, family, school, and office ..."
What is Left fascism?
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A Dismal Decade Ahead for Stocks?
TOM PETRUNO
05/28/00
LATIMES.COM
Robert Shiller's dream is everyone else's nightmare.
Here's what Shiller, a Yale University economist, believes
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Vandals Ruin Crops at UC-Berkeley Genetic Research Center
Sasha Talcott
Daily Californian - U. of California : Berkeley (U-WIRE)
BERKELEY, Calif., May 26 -- Two ski-masked activists scaled
the fence of an Albany research center partially owned
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Published on Wednesday, May 31, 2000 in the Guardian / UK
Monsanto Admits Its Gene-Modified Products Contain Unexpected Gene Fragments
by James Meikle
Monsanto, the international company that pioneered the use of genetically
modified crops, has revealed
ualist,
communitarian, republican, democratic - is call to go 'back to
future' that only partially was.Michael Hoover
ation made it bit less than glorious for some
minorities. Silly Me (aka Michael Hoover)
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Sunday June 4 8:02 PM ET
Activists, Police Clash But OAS Talks Proceed
[Beneath this article: "Hundreds Protest OAS Assembly," Associated Press]
By Randall Palmer
WINDSOR, Ontario (Reuters) - Anti-capitalist activists clashed with police
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Published on Friday, June 2, 2000 in the http://www.mercurycenter.com/ San
Jose (CA) Mercury News
Share The Wealth,' Janitors Demand, But Life Could Get Worse Before It Gets
Better
by K. Oanh Ha
Gemma Martinez remembers how she and her husband Abel would
of ratification, writing to
Edward Carrington (5/27/1788) that 'general adoption is to be
prayed for' and expressed wish for Virginia to be all-important 9th
state to ratify.
Oh silly me, I'd already written above, well, comments are applicable
in both instances... Silly Me (aka Michael Hoover)
to which you point. Michael Hoover
), West Virginia from VA (using rump
legislature) in 1863. Michael Hoover
who opposed *The Big C*. Silly Me (aka Michael Hoover) One Last Time
ic Black's phrase)... Michael Hoover
, rather than few rich, would someday have power.Michael Hoover
captive. Some began calling state 'Rogue'
Island. Madison, no doubt, had RI in mind with his reference, in
*Federalist #10*, to 'superior force of an interested and overbearing
majority.'Michael Hoover
Boyte's name sticks in my mind, but seems some involved were folks
who had worked on Barry Commoner's 1980 prez campaign. I'm pretty sure
that GP's 'Ten Key Values' were initially worked out by CofC (who adopted
name to recall networks of local agitation groups established in 1770s)
Michael Hoover
m Coolidge.
As for 1948, 'first shot' of domestic Cold War was fired by Dems/FDR
dropped Wallace as VP in favor of Truman in '44. And Truman would remove
Wallace as Commerce Secretary in '46 (and initiate loyalty oaths and
Smith Act investigations in '47). Michael Hoover
in Korean War. He would also
become public critic of Soviet Union. He wasn't red... Michael Hoover
to be remembered as consistent advocate
of 'judicial restraint.' Michael Hoover
Dennis case in which Court supported government
anti-communist policies.
If memory serves, Eisenhower called Warren and William Brennan appt's
to Supreme Court biggest mistakes of his presidency.Michael Hoover
"If the construction of the future and its completion
for all time is not our task, all the more certain is what
we must accomplish in the present; I mean, the ruthless
criticism of everything that exists; the criticism being
ruthless in the
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Since 1959 the CIA has conducted over 2,000 operations in Cuba.
Our tax dollars at work.
-Original Message-
From: Common Courage Political Literacy Course
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, June 12, 2000 2:01 PM
Subject: Bio Warfare Against Cuba
Common
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Vieques trespassers sentenced to mere hours behind bars
[Beneath this article: "Politician Berrios sick with cancer"]
Published in The Orlando Sentinel on June 14, 2000
Activists won`t rule out trespasses
Puerto Rican activists declared vic
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Boeing Plans Ads to Promote Missile Defense
By Greg Schneider
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 16, 2000; Page E03
With the planned multibillion-dollar national missile-defense system under
attack from critics who say the technology will not work
s, he gets
sympathetic hearing because of current triumphalism of free-market
economics. Nature will back you up if you want its authority, blah,
blah, blah... Michael Hoover
Michael Hoover
Village Voice
June 14 - 20, 2000
PETTY TO THE MAX
BY C. CARR
Feds Throw the book at Mumia Protesters
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0024/carr.shtml)
They were found guilty of petty offenses, charges way too minor to warrant
a jury trial. And now, as punishment
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Common Courage Political Literacy Course -
http://www.commoncouragepress.com
+-+
C O M M O N C O U R A G E P R E S S'
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A backbone of facts to stand
possessing
social as well as individual responsibilities are connected to other
individuals via ability to care empathize. Various theorists have
since suggested that concern for interests/welfare of others is based
on 'enlightened self-interest' or belief in 'common humanity.'
Michael Hoover
of historically different modes of production (contrasting
him to those positing/holding bourgeois individual to be natural).
Early 19th century saw number of books with political economy in title:
Say, Ricardo, Malthus, among better known... Michael Hoover
of
history that just happened to bear remarkable resemblance to bourgeois
relations? I recall something about attempting to 'reconcile
irreconcilables' or some such language by Marx. Michael Hoover
(who, for some reason, has spent inordinate amount of time e-listing
today)
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--- Robert Rabin - Nilda Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Subject: Vieques bombardeo Vieques bombing
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 0
Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques
PO Box 1424Vieques, Puerto Rico 00765
Tel.fax 787 741-0716
hahaha, teeheehee, yuckyuckyuck...tomato, tomawto, potato, potawto,
just call the whole thing off Michael Hoover
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2619/pl/usa_rogues_dc_1.html
19 June 2000
State Department Drops 'Rogue State' Tag
By Jonathan Wright
WASHINGTON (Reuters
note that below report includes couple instances of 'parentheses'
editorializing that may folks may/may not agree... Michael Hoover
(en) US, Boston: Albright speech disrupted at Northeastern U graduation
From "Matthew Williams" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date Mon, 19 Jun 2000 04:1
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--- Robert Rabin - Nilda Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques
Box 1424Vieques, Puerto Rico 00765
Telefax (787) 741-0716 cel 375-0525
Vieques Update
19 June, 2000
Incursions
,
the omniscience of a neo-conservative... Michael Hoover
e time his equals becomes insensible
to their affliction as soon as that equality ceases."
Day when people are no longer condemned to death on basis of race
class will be day when no one is condemned to death at all. Michael Hoover
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Study: Florida poor second among those losing Medicaid
By Rob O'Dell, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 20, 2000
WASHINGTON -- A 15-state study released Monday says
that Florida experienced the second largest percentage
decline in the number of low-income
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Speak Truth to Power
Tom Baxter, USA 66-69, Vietnam 67-69
Progressive Librarians http://www.libr.org/PL/index.html
VVAW http://www.prairienet.org/vvaw/
Veterans for Peace http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
PO Box 10358, Tallahassee, Florida 32302-9752
W 850-414
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In an interview, Castro says he is confident of Cuba's future
By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press, 6/23/2000
HAVANA - President Fidel Castro said in an interview published yesterday
that he is not worried about Cuba's transition after he dies, because
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Workers say factory threw them off job site
By Kevin Spear
of The Sentinel Staff
Published in The Orlando Sentinel on June 24, 2000
MOUNT DORA -- An area labor advocate and several workers were
given warning tickets for trespassing Friday after they tried
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An otherwise pretty good article marred by a little bit of misguided
editorializing by the reporter in the second graf. Disney _is_ at fault,
actually. Regardless of the so-called market forces, Disney has a moral
obligation to at least pay a decent living wage
Below is revised version of post I sent to pen-l several months ago...
Michael Hoover
Of some 2 million farms in US, about 90% of farms are classified as
"individual operations" averaging about 362 acres. "Partnership" farms
average about 850 acres, average "corpora
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Published on Friday, June 30, 2000 in the Washington Times [via
http://www.commondreams.org ]
Gore Resists Calls To Halt Oil Drilling in Colombia
by Bill Sammon
Vice President Al Gore, who controls at least $500,000 worth of stock in
Occidental Petroleum
n the New China'
(previously published in _America's Asia_ (1969), Friedman Selden,
eds., _Center Magazine_ (May 1970), Monthly Review (February 1971).
'The Formation of Mao's Economic Strategy, 1927-1949', Monthly
Review (July-August 1975).
Michael Hoover
choice/game theorists)...
towards an orthodox marxism emphasizing importance of exploitation and class
struggle and dead-end (nay, silliness) of academic attempts to merge marxism with
methodological individualism associated with liberalism...michael hoover
Sharon suspends reservists as revolt in the ranks grows
By Phil Reeves
06 February 2002
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=118431
Israel's armed forces have decided to suspend scores of
reserve soldiers from their posts in an effort to quell
the largest
is a longtime influential Israeli politician and political scientist... michael hoover
Uri Avnery
9.2.02
The Great Game
Some weeks ago, something curious happened: Israel discovered that Iran is the
Great Satan.
It happened quite suddenly. There was no prior sensational news, no new
discovery. As if by the order of a
Uri Avnery
9.2.02
The Great Game
Some weeks ago, something curious happened: Israel discovered that Iran is the
Great Satan.
It happened quite suddenly. There was no prior sensational news, no new
discovery. As if by the order of a
February 14, 2002 by the Inter Press Service
Argentina's Rebellion in the Neighborhoods
by Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 13 - Neighborhood assemblies are springing up in
cities
throughout Argentina, particularly in the capital and surrounding
areas, as
a groundswell of people seek to
http://www.foodfirst.org/media/press/2002/cubabook.html
Policy Think Tank Releases New Report on Cuba's
Successful Organic Farms
To understand Cuban agricultural development we must
first look at the richness of detail in this volume.
Then we have to step back and squint to capture the
truly
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/02/17/Worldandnation/Chavez_clings_to_shak.shtml
Chavez clings to shaky control of Venezuela
The Latin American president's economic solutions may not be enough to
pull the country back from the brink.
By DAVID ADAMS and PHIL GUNSON © St. Petersburg Times published
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, February 21, 2002
International Campaign to Free Ali Khalid Abdullah
c/o Pushing Forward
2716 SE 21st Street
Portland, OR 97202, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(503) 232-5817 (ask for Todd)
www.angelfire.com/dc/freeali
Ali Khalid Abdullah, a New Afrikan
)
i, admittedly, do not read in this area as i once did so below references are not
current... michael hoover
Juan Eugenio Corradi's chapter on Argentina in _Latin America: The Struggle With
Dependency and Beyond_, Chilcote Edelstein, eds.,
Sheldon Liss' chapter on Argentina in _Marxist
From: Gary Klass [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Myth of the Superhuman Professor
For your consideration:
The title is The Myth of the Superhuman Professor and it is by Professor Richard
Felder who writes about teaching in Chemical Education. He is at North Carolina State
University. The
[from the Gainesville Iguana, March 2002]
Professor, union organizer, fired by Florida Community College at Jacksonville
After 15 years as a professor of English as a Second Language at Florida Community
College at Jacksonville (FCCJ), community activist Russell Pelle has been told he will
I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you? I just want you to think
big...You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians.
--President Richard Nixon, from actual transcripts of White House tapes.
SOURCE: Time, April 1, 2002
Is it possible that the United States leaders felt more
comfortable around the European Israelis rather than the
Arab leaders?
Michael Perelman
george kennan called arabs dirty and ignorant... michael hoover
.)... michael hoover
if fidel ha!
d been on mound in ninth inning of seventh game of 1960 world (gotta love imperial
bombast of u.s. major league championship name) series, he'd have struck bill
mazeroski out rather than giving up home run to win title...
in sum, blame ny yankees for u.s. cuba 'problem'...michael
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace
Press Release
Sign petition to re-instate Dr. Al-Arian
Tampa- May 10, 2002
A student-led petition addressed to the University of South Florida president Judy
Genshaft was initiated on Wednesday, May 8, 2002. The petition can be found at the
rollins college/winter park florida, six member dept includes:
charles rock
eric schutz (who was - and may still be - on pen-l, check out his 2001 book 'markets
and power: 21st century command economy')
kenna taylor
michael hoover
to the collective's desire to periodically stop the projector and facilitate audience
discussion.
michael hoover
in sum, blame ny yankees for u.s. cuba 'problem'
who do we blame the Yankees on? go Cubs!
Jim Devine
some would say boston red sox for 1919 *sale* of babe ruth to yankees who had never
previously won a pennant...
...one of raygun's
last acts as prez was to pardon gs... michael hoover
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