[PEN-L] Mao and the poison pill

PF Boston Globe December 24, 2005 - Student's tall tale revealed;Confesses fabricating US surveillance story By Jonathan Saltzman - It rocketed across the Internet a week ago, a startling newspaper report that agents from the US Department of Homeland Security had visited a student at the

[PEN-L] Jim Craven on email lists

Louis writes: As a rule of thumb, I expect Marxmail to not repeat the errors of previous Marxism mailing lists. This is not a place for factional trench warfare that goes on endlessly. We aim for a clear statement of opposing views, a series of exchanges and then some kind of closure. Nothing

[PEN-L] A study in contrasts

(The first 2 items are from the NY Observer, a newsweekly launched by multimillionaire Arthur Carter after he got bored with publishing the Nation Magazine. His interest has turned from pwogwessive politics to real estate porn and screeds against subway workers. With friends like Arthur

Re: [PEN-L] Jim Craven on email lists

On Dec 30, 2005, at 3:33 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: Louis writes: Response Jim C: Know-it-all-ism, sectarianism, quote mongering, appeal to authority, contrived syllogisms, data/source cherrypicking, vitriol, flame-baiting/trolling, ad hominem, gotcha, irrelevant minutae, narcissistic

[PEN-L] coupla articles

Heck of a Job, Bushie By PAUL KRUGMAN NY Times Op-Ed: December 30, 2005 A year ago, everyone expected President Bush to get his way on Social Security. Pundits warned Democrats that they were making a big political mistake by opposing plans to divert payroll taxes into private accounts. A year

[PEN-L] new radio product

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood Best Music on an Economics Politics Radio Show Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 * N O W P O D C A S T I N G (new links)* *

[PEN-L] ARTICLE: Are the only cranes in Baghdad building the US Embassy?

[Though that may seem cheap to Americans, wages in Iraq are far below those in the United States. Employees in government ministries, for example, earn about $130 a month on average, putting them among the top earners in Iraq. Millions of other Iraqis live in poverty, relying on food handouts

[PEN-L] capitalism and christianity; the revised version

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/books/30book.html December 30, 2005 Books of The Times | 'The Victory of Reason' Capitalism, Brought to You by Religion By WILLIAM GRIMES Rodney Stark comes out swinging right from the bell in The Victory of Reason, his fiercely polemical account of the rise of

Re: [PEN-L] capitalism and christianity; the revised version

At 08:26 PM 12/30/2005, you wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/books/30book.html December 30, 2005 Books of The Times | 'The Victory of Reason' Capitalism, Brought to You by Religion By WILLIAM GRIMES Rodney Stark comes out swinging right from the bell in The Victory of Reason, his

[PEN-L] India, the WTO and the political economy of self-delusion

http://www.flonnet.com/fl2227/stories/20060113002804600.htm Volume 22 - Issue 27, Dec. 31 - Jan 13, 2006 India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU WTO Political economy of self-delusion JAYATI GHOSH India's stand at the WTO Ministerial Meeting was not just a betrayal of other

Re: [PEN-L] capitalism and christianity; the revised version

On 12/30/05, Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:26 PM 12/30/2005, you wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/books/30book.html December 30, 2005 Books of The Times | 'The Victory of Reason' Capitalism, Brought to You by Religion By WILLIAM GRIMES Rodney Stark comes out

[PEN-L] Asst. professor, geography or international development

If you can think of any friends or colleagues (or lists you're on) that should know about this job, we'd greatly appreciate you passing the listing along. Faculty job (assistant professor rank) Geography or international development Department of Regional Economic and Social Development,

[PEN-L] Women, Youth, and Labor in Japan

Honda's promotion of the new Asimo (robot) crystallizes the corporate view of women workers in Japan: Asimo is given a task that Japanese corporations have assigned office ladies (aka OLs),2 female office workers on non-career tracks (i.e., expected to quit when they have children), in Japan; and