Re: China's new Marxist left

2004-01-29 Thread Stephen Philion
Michael Lebowitz wrote: I was struck by the vigour with which the assembled Chinese Marxist economists were discussing the law of value--- in particular, how to demonstrate that utility yields value and the capitalist is a productive worker.Lou asked: This is ironical, right? --nope, jonathan

re China's new Marxist left?

2004-01-29 Thread Stephen Philion
Michael L. wroteI think that journal was called "Pursuit of Truth" and no longer exists. --right, that's the one. On the other hand, there must be currents within currents in China. Eg., the paper I gave at the Beijing Conference talked about how commodity exchange (while not to be

The Antiwar candidate

2004-01-26 Thread Stephen Philion
Dean said his opposition to the Iraq (news - web sites) war was a significant difference between himself and Kerry, who voted for the resolution authorizing the U.S. invasion. He also criticized the Massachusetts senator for voting against the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites). A lot of folks in

hard time keeping this one hidden

2004-01-26 Thread Stephen Philion
http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v?TARGET=showImagearticle_id=4014704a457 c1image_num=1

re China's new Marxist left

2004-01-25 Thread Stephen Philion
The unfortunate thing about the NYT article is it doesn't really feature any Marxists. Dai Jianzhong is a fine and rare type of labor scholar in China, I"ve met him in Beijing and he counts quite a few Marxists as friends, but he's not a person who would categorize himself as Marxist. Wang

an exchange with aaron brown of CNN on David Kay and Scott Ritter

2004-01-25 Thread Stephen Philion
Steve begins exchange with: comments: Mr. Brown, Now that it is clear that Mr. Ritter was right, will you let him back on your program and concede to him that he should have been an expert analyst at CNN? Imagine if CNN had used him instead of Ken Pollack as an expert witness, how smart you guys

steve from minneapolis strikes again...

2004-01-22 Thread Stephen Philion
a good exchange today with neil conan on NPR Talk of the Nation on the wmd search in Iraq. begins at minute 10:45 http://tinyurl.com/38zgb I called the media on their way too late critical take on the so-called WMDs in Iraq that they used to sell the war to the public. steve

Perle snaps at Steve from Minneapolis, What do YOU know about my family??!!

2004-01-21 Thread Stephen Philion
Found an effective way to get under Richard Perle's skin this morning. He was on Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning program this morning, a call inshow, pushing his new book calling for endless war.I asked him how come, if the war on terror is such an important war that all americans

MPR Perle unnerved URL

2004-01-21 Thread Stephen Philion
If you go to minute 16, you can hear my question and then Perle's angry retort, What do YOU know about my family?! http://tinyurl.com/3a28y

Close, but no cigar

2004-01-14 Thread Stephen Philion
In another incident Tuesday, grenade rounds were fired at a compound near Fallouja where ABC journalist Ted Koppel was reporting. U.S. soldiers returned fire, and at least three Iraqis were wounded, said Darley, the military spokesman. Koppel and his Nightline crew were traveling with the Army's

re No safety net for programmers

2004-01-12 Thread Stephen Philion
Have an oldfriend in Phoenix who I hadn't contacted for almost a decade, I figured he should be a millionaire by now given his age and level of computer skills developed during the mid-1980's. He, it turns out did do pretty well, but not a millionaire (didn't play the stock markets...for

another day in baghdad, another family liberated from tyranny

2004-01-12 Thread Stephen Philion
http://tinyurl.com/3fvda G.I.'s Fire on Family in Car, Killing 2, Witnesses Say By EDWARD WONG Published: January 13, 2004 AGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 12 - American soldiers on Monday night killed an Iraqi man and a boy and wounded four others in a car that was driving behind their convoy after a

home is where the garbage is

2004-01-05 Thread Stephen Philion
http://tinyurl.com/3ckveTaji, Iraq -- There are places in Iraq where things are getting better,where people are beginning to step out of the darkness of despotism and warinto, if not the light, then at least glimmers of hope. Taji is not one ofthose places.In this tiny suburb on the

Interview with Jerry Lembcke about CNN's Tailwind Tale: Vietnam's Last Great Myth

2004-01-04 Thread Stephen Philion
An interview with Jerry Lembcke about his new book "CNN's Tailwind Tale: Inside Vietnam's Last Great Myth" http://tinyurl.com/2qyor