On Saturday, January 22, 2000 at 20:32:32 (-0500) Rod Hay writes:
Maybe, but I don't know how? Anyone do this in HTML?
There are a fair number of ways to do this. What we need is a central
repository for the outline and a check in/out process to allow
multiple people to check out the file, edit
On Monday, January 24, 2000 at 13:26:56 (-1000) Stephen E Philion writes:
And what of the poorest Americans' loss of ground compared to the
richest, as reported by the Fed? The apostles of equality consider
the rising inequality kindling for social unrest. But while that
On Thursday, March 16, 2000 at 18:37:13 (-0500) Yoshie Furuhashi writes:
Bill wrote:
On Thursday, March 16, 2000 at 14:32:47 (-0600) Carrol Cox writes:
Perhaps it can't be
done, but I am willing to argue that so far as possible in all left
On Thursday, March 16, 2000 at 23:14:23 (-0500) Yoshie Furuhashi writes:
Bill:
In the above cases, those subject to the speech have no costless way
to avoid it. I feel that the freedom to avoid the speech must also be
present to grant protection to the speaker.
You see, you are not defending
On Thursday, March 30, 2000 at 09:36:30 (-0800) Jim Devine writes:
Non-religious folks have this kind of
emotional security due to upbringing, training, faith in the socialist
tradition, etc. Either way, there seems to be an "irrational" component, an
On Wednesday, April 26, 2000 at 12:54:36 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
Michael Perelman wrote:
Hayek, F. A. 1952. "Review of Harrod's Life of J. M. Keynes." Journal of
Modern History, 24: 2 (June).
197: Keynes "had not long before coined the phrase of the
"euthanasia of the
Anders Scheiderman writes on Mon, 3 Feb 1997 17:58:32 -0800 (PST):
At 05:47 PM 1/16/97 -0800, Bob Pollin wrote:
After I mentioned to Eric Nilsson over pen-l the course I am now
teaching on economic issues, several people have written in asking me about
the syllabus. So I am
Anders Schneiderman writes:
That's only because too few Lefties have spent time in Corporate America or
have friends who have to appreciate how unsettling Dilbert is if you take
it seriously.
[...]
Of course, most people don't take Dilbert seriously. I've met plenty of
corporate folks
On Tue, March 11, 1997 at 09:27:22 (PST) Doug Henwood writes:
At 9:04 AM -0800 3/11/97, William S. Lear wrote [quoting Paul Phillips]:
poor
Cuba must have inherited her food genes from England, except
perhaps for the beer and bread which were quite excellent.
This surprises me.
"Cuban
Macroeconimic
Theory: A Foundation of Successful Economic Policies for the
Twenty-first Century_ (Edward Elgar: 1994, p. 5)].
Bill
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quid
On Tue, March 4, 1997 at 18:09:06 (-0800) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Doug,
1 liner. What does MA stand for.
Mergers and Acquisitions.
Bill(oug)
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | of reasons of state was artfully invented
of a slave)?
Bill
--
William S. Lear | Who is there that sees not that this inextricable labyrinth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | of reasons of state was artfully invented, lest the people
| should understand their own affairs, and, understanding,
| become inclined to co
f you consider that we have not, in
fact, all started from the same point, and most of the population
agrees to such survey contentions as "the country is run by the few,
for the benefit of the few". Lack of support for lefty policies? No.
Lack of articulated support for lefty polici
On Sat, February 15, 1997 at 18:48:27 (PST) Max B. Sawicky writes:
From: "William S. Lear" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
This is an entirely different question than that raised in the first
paragraph above. Asking how attitudes would be were we to all begin
"the quest
with Proudhon
that (all) "property is theft". It's when this notion is forced onto
humans who must rent themselves as property (market relationships)
that I think the analogy of rape is appropriate.
Bill
--
William S. Lear | Who is there that sees not that this in
ence to Stigler is "The Theory of Economic Regulation",
originally published in _The Bell Journal of Economics and Management
Science_, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring 1971), pp. 3-21. This is reprinted
(with deletions) in Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers, _The Political
Economy: Readings in t
wrong, perhaps overly romanticizing, if I suggest that rape
can be fun when it is highly contextualized, a small part of an
extensive network of non-sexual relations?
Bill
--
William S. Lear | Who is there that sees not that this inextricable labyrinth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | of reasons of state
e anything wrong with the ever-present need to balance
long-term visions with short-term policy goals.
Bill
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | of reasons of state was artfully invented, lest the people
| should
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
On Thu, May 29, 1997 at 08:12:46 (-0700) Anders Schneiderman writes:
... I don't have a problem if Chomsky
wants to toss off wild flights of speculative fantasy about biology and
justice--or, for that matter, biology and language--so long as he's very
clear
On Wed, May 28, 1997 at 20:40:00 (-0700) James Devine writes:
... (Bill Lear: I wouldn't see
advertising as the basis for sexism: it's only one part of the seamless web
of our culture.)
Thanks for the Marvin Harris suggestion, I'll have to track him down.
On Wed, May 28, 1997 at 11:45:31 (-0700) Wojtek Sokolowski writes:
...
For these reasons, we can safely dismiss all so-so biologies, eveloutionary
psychologies, etc. as crap without even reading it, for the same reason we
dismiss astrology, parapsychology, and metaphysics without even bothering
On Fri, May 16, 1997 at 14:48:23 (PST) Max B. Sawicky writes:
From: James Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A "democratic central plan" sounds like a
pizza/ice cream diet. Appealing in theory but
hard to imagine in reality. It reminds me of some
things you said about a legion of autonomous
Perhaps Jim Devine, who seems to have a cool head about this, can
intercede and tell me if I am being unreasonable. I feel the flames
rumbling---but that's how I respond when I feel that democracy is
being swept aside as some romantic fantasy, and that engaging in
queries about the forms of
On Thu, May 15, 1997 at 09:40:22 (PST) Wojtek Sokolowski writes:
RE: Bill Lear:
...
I guess my own thinking goes on a much lower level of abstraction. What
really interests me is how different people perceive and use social
institutions, rather than how such institutions are labeled. From
On Thu, May 8, 1997 at 11:02:36 (-0700) Louis Proyect writes:
This is the sort of systems development projects that I have been working
on for 28 years and they present a completely different set of problems
than creating shrink-wrapped software like a word-processor. The
difficulties cut to the
up to now have been primarily useless things like simulation of
nuclear weapons (the current cash-cow for buying big machines).
Bill (speaking for his friend)
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William S. Lear | Who is there that sees not that this inextricable labyrinth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | of reasons of state was artfully inven
On Wed, May 14, 1997 at 10:30:34 (-0700) Max B. Sawicky writes:
From: "William S. Lear" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:10096] Re: Kasparov's defeat
On Wed, May 14, 1997 at 09:38:28 (PST) Wojtek Sokolowski writes:
As long as, for whatever reason, "per
On Wed, May 14, 1997 at 14:11:21 (PST) Wojtek Sokolowski writes:
I am afraid that more empirical support can be marshalled to support Max's
position, even though I wish Bill's faith in democracy were true.
I'll just comment briefly, since I've been spamming this list all day.
I wouldn't expect
On Wed, May 21, 1997 at 09:34:23 (PST) Max B. Sawicky writes:
From: "William S. Lear" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:10254] Re: planning and democracy
On Tue, May 20, 1997 at 14:52:05 (PST) Max B. Sawicky writes:
Democratically-elected planners can connive to conc
I'm not quite sure if Tom is responding to anything I have
written---it doesn't appear so, but I'll try hurling my javelins at
him for a bit.
On Sun, May 25, 1997 at 11:11:24 (-0700) Tom Walker writes:
Max is right (except for the last line). To add definition to Max's "public
ownership of
On Mon, May 26, 1997 at 15:54:14 (-0700) Tom Walker writes:
Bill Lear wrote,
The recognition can, if you like, start with me. Then I convince you
and Max, then we do what we can to convince others, in long-practiced
and familiar ways (not to imply that we will succeed).
O.K. but if we're
In August of 1994 I wrote a few very brief notes on a book I had just
read (subsequently lost in the mail from a friend who borrowed it)
called _The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating_ by David
M. Buss (Basic Books, 1994). Since we had been on the topic of gender
roles, I thought I
Just wanted to add my two-cents' worth of confusion.
On Tue, May 27, 1997 at 10:40:01 (-0700) Tom Walker writes:
Bill Lear wrote,
I don't remember ever advocating anything resembling a
dictatorship of the proletariat, and would reject it in principle.
So, we have two diametrically opposed
On Mon, May 26, 1997 at 11:27:16 (-0700) Tom Walker writes:
Bill also wrote,
The cure for "bourgeois democracy" is, first, to recognize that such a
system of democracy, as it is practiced today, is stretching the term
"democracy" itself. Therefore, a quantitative increase in democracy
is not
On Tue, May 20, 1997 at 08:12:20 (-0700) Doug Henwood writes:
Well, I'm in the midst of trying to do just that. What do you, Maggie, or
anyone else for that matter, think of this observation from Teresa Ebert's
preface to Ludic Feminism: "This mode [of canonic feminist theory] has
become a more
On Thu, May 22, 1997 at 12:54:45 (-0700) Max B. Sawicky writes:
Jim old boy,
I note that Max seems to be ignoring what I write, perhaps because it
is so devastating---or perhaps because I'm just ignorant and annoying.
I'll comment on a few things and let Jim reply to the rest.
I'm still utterly
On Tue, May 20, 1997 at 20:40:01 (PST) peter donohue writes:
Instead of debating whether a "national parliament" or
"democratically-elected planners" might reach "the socially efficient
resolution," wouldn't it be more useful to discuss building organizations of
popular power that might cultivate
On Tue, May 20, 1997 at 14:52:05 (PST) Max B. Sawicky writes:
Democratically-elected planners can connive to concoct a plan. A
collection of sub-unites of an economy --geographic, industrial, etc.
-- cannot contribute pieces of a plan that some overlord fails to
reconcile. If a plan's "locus
On Mon, May 19, 1997 at 09:41:20 (-0700) Wojtek Sokolowski writes:
As I see it, the disagreement between Bill and myself boils down to one
point: what is the actual effect, if any, of formal structures, institutions
and people who hide behing them on the everyday behaviour of the so-called
On Wed, May 14, 1997 at 15:04:00 (-0700) Max B. Sawicky writes:
You've mangled my argument considerably,
rather than rebutting it. Unraveling it and
restating it would be tedious. A few remarks,
and take the last word if you like.
How graciously you avoid argument. Thank you for your
they would not be
so inclined to feed in BS. Perhaps what central planning has hitherto
been missing has been democratic participation, destroyed as far as I
know in the former centrally-planned economies of Europe and the
Soviet Union, and naturally, utterly absent in Keynesian (or other)
capitalism.
companies
(1993), their "key strategic features", and "related trade barriers"
(those of IBM are shown above). The table runs from pp. 239-268.
Bill
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William S. Lear | Who is there that sees not that this inextricable labyrinth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | of reasons of sta
a command on society's resources. In my view, it all comes
down to how you use it.
---Bill Gates, in an interview with John Kennedy, in the
February, 1997 issue of _George_, pp. 101-2.
Ah, the burdens of the rich.
Bill
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William S. Lear | Who is there that sees
On Thu, May 8, 1997 at 14:06:08 (-0700) Max B. Sawicky writes:
Europe, of course, is also a convenient way of getting these countries
off the hook and allowing them to move democracy one step further away from
the people, in hopes of getting a government more like ours, in which the
people
On Thu, May 8, 1997 at 11:46:34 (-0700) Doug Henwood writes:
William S. Lear wrote:
He's overthinking. I've worked as a professional "software engineer"
for over a dozen years, and am currently working on "cutting edge"
stuff (OO and Internet).
I think he was ta
On Thu, May 8, 1997 at 09:32:55 (-0700) Doug Henwood writes:
Speaking of computers, Jim O'Connor suggested to me recently, citing the
work of the late Rick Gordon of UC-Santa Cruz, that the reason that
computers have not had the much hyped productivity payoff is that the
social organization of
anisms of damage."
Bill
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William S. Lear | Who is there that sees not that this inextricable labyrinth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | of reasons of state was artfully invented, lest the people
quid faciendum? | should understand their own affairs, and, understanding,
quaere verum| become inclined
On Sat, May 31, 1997 at 08:33:39 (-0700) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am teaching a course this summer based on movies. I am
curious if anyone has any suggestions for movies with a strong
message concerning labor issues or unions.
Has anyone mentioned _Salt of the Earth_? A favorite of Noam
On Sat, May 31, 1997 at 12:49:21 (-0700) Tavis Barr writes:
Y'all --
I've noticed a dramatic increase in the amount of junk email arriving to
my accounts, like from one a week to five a day, in the last month. I
don't know if it's just me or if it's happening to other people on the
net. I
On Sun, September 28, 1997 at 19:53:26 (-0700) James Devine writes:
I can't be snobby toward them, since I'm not immune to the charm of the
famous. I recently got an autograph from Michael Moore on my copy of his
DOWNSIZE THIS! and still feel good about it. BTW, his book is a good example
of how
For you Beat fans, I thought the following nifty snippet from the late
James Baldwin might be of interest:
Now, I do not know what white Americans would sound like if
there had never been any black people in the United States,
but they would not sound the way they sound.
On Tue, September 9, 1997 at 11:10:59 (-0700) Sid Shniad writes:
As a refugee from my native Los Angeles, I strongly recommend City of
Quartz to any Penners who want a very insightful analysis of the history
and politics of L.A. I learned more from reading the book than I knew
from having been
On Thu, September 11, 1997 at 12:29:14 (-0700) michael perelman writes:
Bill Lear said that he would help to set up a pen-l web site. This would
be an ideal application of that site.
Perhaps now would be a good time to get everyone's opinion on what
they'd like to have for the web site.
I am
On Tue, September 16, 1997 at 07:35:13 (-0700) jf noonan writes:
Does anyone know if this is good, bad, or indifferent? Has she
commented on the push to change the CPI?
You can find a copy of her testimony before the Senate Budget
Committee on January 30, 1997 at
On Thu, September 18, 1997 at 10:22:55 (-0700) Doug Henwood writes:
William S. Lear wrote:
I realize that you are being brief, but can you tell us what, in plain
English, pomo offers that cannot be found elsewhere?
I don't have time to answer this right now, but I will soon.
That would be most
On Mon, September 22, 1997 at 07:42:32 (-0700) William S. Lear writes:
When the racist University of Texas Law professor Leo Graglia ...
That's "Leno", not "Leo". Letting my ears type for me again...
Bill
On Fri, September 26, 1997 at 08:11:18 (-0700) Colin Danby writes:
If we think of culture broadly as the ways people give meaning to their
lives (one might go so far as to say the structures of meaning around
which people build lives) then while we can recognize "cultures" they
are far from
On Sat, September 27, 1997 at 07:58:39 (-0700) Colin Danby writes:
I've had an instructive offlist correspondence with the
irascible Bill L and will try to clarify a couple of points.
Let me add some rascibility, then.
... the nature of culture
in general,
On Fri, September 26, 1997 at 15:00:49 (-0700) J Cullen writes:
On Mon, September 22, 1997 at 07:42:32 (-0700) William S. Lear writes:
When the racist University of Texas Law professor Leo Graglia ...
That's "Leno", not "Leo". Letting my ears type for me again...
Actua
On Thu, September 25, 1997 at 03:17:47 (-0700) Ajit Sinha writes:
At 07:42 22/09/97 -0700, you wrote:
Or, should we be offended by this "non-committal" criticism of one who
*cannot* ever join Black culture in any meaningful sense (this notion
of "becoming a part of [a] culture" on which you
On Mon, September 22, 1997 at 00:48:02 (-0700) Ajit Sinha writes:
I think the whole idea of having a "right" to
critique or rather criticize other cultures from 'outside' is a bit
problematic. If cultures are a living things, then you have got various
currents in a
On Wed, September 17, 1997 at 08:58:49 (-0700) Doug Henwood writes:
...
Oversimplifying greatly for this medium, my position has evolved from
thinking that all that stuff is silly wrong to finding some of it so
(e.g. Donna Haraway and her inexplicably influential Cyborg essay) - but in
any case,
On Tue, September 16, 1997 at 18:41:16 (-0700) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In a message dated 97-09-16 06:08:05 EDT, [Bill Lear] write[s]:
What about in Central America? How did the Jesuits relate to the
Catholic hierarchy, and to the women and the poor there?
In case you forgot, the original
On Tue, September 16, 1997 at 12:38:36 (-0700) Wojtek Sokolowski writes:
At 07:34 AM 9/16/97 -0700, Louis Proyect wrote, inter alia:
The problem with Affluenza is that it depicts an escape from the consumer
treadmill *within* capitalism.
Playing a devil's advocate:
How exactly are the
On Mon, September 15, 1997 at 07:59:21 (-0700) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2. However, I certainly agree that catholicism always puts the most
backward/patriarchal spin on any local culture. ...
What about in Central America? How did the Jesuits relate to the
Catholic hierarchy, and to the women
On Friday, March 5, 1999 at 15:33:14 (-0800) Jim Devine writes:
Colin: Why assume that patriarchal or race-privileging structures and
institutions cannot be dynamic or unstable? If we've learned anything
about cultures in recent decades it is that they are seldom static.
Patriarchs or racists
Kubrick has died. I recently saw "Lolita" and "Paths of Glory" for
the first time. Both were excellent, though I think "Paths of Glory"
provokes a sharper response, drawing the angry bile upward as quickly
as any movie I've seen.
Bill
On Friday, March 12, 1999 at 16:05:08 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
...
Feudal society was deeply and explicitly political. Individuals were
situated in a distinct social hierarchy culminating in the sovereign;
economic life was bound up with the state. Capitalism split the
economic and the
I heard that in some article in the NYT Mike Davis admitted to making
things up. Anybody hear about this?
Bill
On Thursday, March 18, 1999 at 09:04:32 (-0500) Louis Proyect writes:
At 07:39 PM 3/17/99 -0600, you wrote:
I heard that in some article in the NYT Mike Davis admitted to making
things up. Anybody hear about this?
Bill
Los Angeles Times
January 10, 1999, Sunday, Home Edition
ESSAY: THE
On Thursday, March 18, 1999 at 21:18:30 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
William S. Lear wrote:
Of course, Ethington does not accuse Davis of fabrications, nor of
admitting to such, something about which I'm still keen on finding
out.
Davis wrote up an interview that never took place. That's
From Richard Hofstadter, *America at 1750: A Social Portrait*,
pp. 106-107:
It has to be remembered, when we consider the English during the
period when they were beginning to have numerous contacts with
Africans, that we are dealing first with the Elizabethan men and
then
Nathan attempts to redefine Michael's query:
On Sunday, April 11, 1999 at 18:41:36 (-0400) Nathan Newman writes:
-Original Message-
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am very appreciative of all the intelligent analysis I am reading on
this
This is the standard pragmatic argument against intervention --- it is
a "quagmire", resulting from tragic hardheadedness in the face of
overwhelming evidence that the venture is too costly. The article
uncritically accepts the premise that NATO's goal is "protecting the
Kosovo Albanians from
On Thursday, April 15, 1999 at 14:00:42 (-0700) Jim Devine writes:
In response to my impassioned plea for a less boring name for the US/NATO
attack on Serbia besides "Operation Allied Force," people on pen-l seem to
have settled on "Operation Just Because." This is not up to pen-l
standards. ...
On Monday, April 12, Noam Chomsky appeared on Christopher Lydon's WBUR
(Boston NPR station) show. The interview is available on the net in
Real Audio format. I haven't seen this posted, and I found it quite
good:
http://208.208.4.55/connection/audio/Monday1.ram
Bill
On Saturday, March 20, 1999 at 08:20:21 (-0500) Michael Hoover writes:
below is from an ole' surfing buddy, Friedmanite friend (yes, I have
one) of mine who dug Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen...he's
go on to own a computer business, make a good bit of money, become an
eco-activist
On Thursday, March 18, 1999 at 19:16:31 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
There's a good page of links about the Mike Davis brouhaha at
http://www.thelocus.com/LA/davis.html, including Marc Cooper's fine
article in Davis' defense and to Brady Westwater, the Malibu real estate
guy who set out to ruin
On Thursday, March 18, 1999 at 19:18:33 (-0500) Louis Proyect writes:
...
I don't have the Counterpunch article handy, but it makes the case that the
errors in Davis's book are par for the course for a 500+ page book. Every
few days the NY Times prints a half-dozen corrections, to put things in
On Tuesday, March 16, 1999 at 10:45:41 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
Louis Proyect wrote:
I think the problem is when "civil society" is used as a club against
socialist revolution. That, of course, is exactly what Jorge Castenada
intended when he wrot
As U.S. philanthropists and their pet
On Tuesday, March 16, 1999 at 10:52:59 (-0500) Frank Durgin writes:
I am utterly baffled by William Lear's posting.
Bill, just what do you mean by "hand-picked" and "unwashed"?
I mean "hand-picked" by the elite scum who run Universities and who
normally make sure folks like Howard Zinn, Lynn
On Monday, March 15, 1999 at 22:27:58 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
...
He served in the Navy during World War II and joined the Hofstra
faculty in 1957.
There was a wave of former military personnel into academia thanks to
the GI bill. Many of them turned progressive, or didn't turn
On Friday, March 5, 1999 at 14:45:23 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
Jim D. asked about the historian who took note of the relationship between
fascism and big business.
Wasn't his name Abraham? Run out of academia, I believe.
David Abraham, *The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political
On Wednesday, April 28, 1999 at 19:50:05 (-0400) Henry C.K. Liu writes:
Meanwhile, innocent people are getting killed. NATO claims moral
superiority by pronouncing at least NATO regrets the technological
shorfalls. It reminds me of list members congratulating themselves
for keeping their sense
On Friday, May 28, 1999 at 18:33:01 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote:
First let me say that I think your review of
Harvey is perfectly reasonable. I have published
a bunch of stuff on dynamics within complicated
ecological-economic and spatial hierarchies
(see
On Friday, May 28, 1999 at 15:22:51 (-0400) Michael Hoover writes:
...
consequences of unrestricted suburban growth include among other things,...
Very interesting stuff. What would you recommend for reading on these
topics?
Bill
On Monday, May 17, 1999 at 02:04:02 (+) Paul Phillips writes:
... I would like to ask all of those interested on the
list to name the top 10-20 titles (excluding the classics which we
have I believe) of books and/or journals that you would think should
be a requirement for
On Wednesday, May 26, 1999 at 19:35:41 (-0500) Yoshie Furuhashi writes:
Bill:
On Tuesday, May 25, 1999 at 21:11:10 (-0500) Yoshie Furuhashi writes:
...
While I am sympathetic to David Harvey's pro-urban + anti-primitivist
strain of thought (and distrustful of the rhetoric of the "noble savage"),
There is a recently uploaded article, "Reflections on NATO and
Kosovo", by Stephen R. Shalom on the Z Magazine site. It looks quite
thorough and can be found at http://www.zmag.org/shalomnp.htm.
Bill
Below is an article from the Motley Fool, discussing the differences
between 1929 and 1999. Much of it is I think misleading and reaching,
but the topics raised I think are important, and might make a good
starting point for discussion.
The author touches on 9 topics contrasting the state of
On Tuesday, May 25, 1999 at 21:11:10 (-0500) Yoshie Furuhashi writes:
...
While I am sympathetic to David Harvey's pro-urban + anti-primitivist
strain of thought (and distrustful of the rhetoric of the "noble savage"),
does it really matter (to marxists as political activists, that is) whether
On Sunday, May 2, 1999 at 22:20:03 (-0500) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am glad that Max has left the list. Not that I opposed his
contributions to economics and social security and even (threaten-
threaten) his ignorance of what was going on in Kosovo. But his
recent postings that took on a
On Sun, October 19, 1997 at 12:02:07 (-0800) DOUG ORR writes:
I have just been drafted to participate in a panel discussing the merits of
implementing a "livable wage" in Spokane. The opposition includes a business
owner (not sure which industry) and the president of the local Chamber of
"Rhizome", the first essay in the book _A Thousand Plateaus_ by
Deleuze and Guattari, is a work not far from free association, built
in a similar manner to how Mahler built his third symphony. DG
(inseparable, they claim, from one another, being dissolved in some
sort of intellectually cloaking
On Sat, January 3, 1998 at 16:13:32 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
One of the joys of belonging to the National Writers Union, United Auto
Workers Local #1981, is that I get a subscription to the UAW's magazine,
Solidarity. The issue that arrived in the mail yesterdy has the union's
1996 financial
Browsing through my new 1998 Princeton University Press catalog, I
noticed an interesting blurb about a book by Gary King (Professor of
Government at Harvard) that claims to have solved the "ecological
inference problem", that is, the problem of reliably inferring
individual-level behavior from
On Tue, February 3, 1998 at 21:22:33 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The books below are major books by Phil Burch, representing a culmination
of years of work on the issues of whom is precisely behind the right-wing
networks in the United States. It promises to be a basic reference source.
On Thu, February 12, 1998 at 11:35:29 (-0800) James Devine writes:
Does the US currently have stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons,
as far as anyone knows?
You might try the folks at CAQ. Their back-issues page from their
website (http://www.caq.com/CAQ/CAQBackIssues.html) has the
On Thu, January 8, 1998 at 11:02:39 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
William S. Lear wrote:
Bright nor Hartley
Remember that these two women are socialists whose critique of degradation
and exploitation focuses on wage labor, not sex.
Yes, quite right. It's easy to get sucked into a pointless
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