Greetings Economists,
Doug Henwood writes,
Ok, we're on the PEN-L bear watch again. What do you think we should
do if the market keeps falling? Just what does it mean that it does?
If it means a very bad economy ahead, what does that mean? Right now
you're sounding like the color guy in the
At 22/09/01 00:15 -0500, you wrote:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24615
The article says
The Saudi royal family has long been concerned about the
rise of Islamic radicalism within its own kingdom.
However the politics are much more complicated, and sections of
At 21/09/01 21:47 -0500, you wrote:
I stand by what I've written.
Andrew Hagen
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Yes it is presumptuous but I see some advantages to that. Certainly there
must be serious debate within the left about the best way forward, even if
it does not have to be totally united to be
Doug Henwood writes,
Ok, we're on the PEN-L bear watch again. What do you think we should
do if the market keeps falling? Just what does it mean that it does?
If it means a very bad economy ahead, what does that mean? Right now
you're sounding like the color guy in the ICU, and not much else.
Thomas Duesterberg, president of the 400-member Manufacturers' Alliance in
Arlington, Va., said the
attacks struck at the roots of the productivity boom by exposing how
vulnerable the economy was to
swift disruptions of basic services like transportation.
BOTTLENECKS EXPOSED
``The whole concept
Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, interviewed on PBS Television's News Hour
with Jim Lehrer,
indicated that bolstering capital investment was on the minds of
policymakers trying to devise ways to
add stimulus to a shocked economy.
O'Neill said capital spending already was waning before the
The New York Times September 21, 2001
Concern Over Proposed Changes in Internet Surveillance
By Carl S. Kaplan
Significant and perhaps worrisome changes in the government's Internet
surveillance authority have been proposed by legislators in the wake of the
attacks on the World Trade
This brings up again UN resolution 1333. Apparently there is evidence that
bin Laden was associated with embassy bombing in Kenya and elsewhere. Along
with sanctions against Afghansitan, resolution 1333 would empower
appropriate authorities apprehending bin Laden and turning him over to
Let us take, as an example, the problem of Chechnya. The Russians have
argued that the bombing in Moscow was carried out by terrorists from
Chechnya. Some people have serious doubts about that and believe that it
was carried out by Russian Mafia to encourage the invasion of Chechnya.
Text of
The following was a response to the responses one of the Fisk articles
circulated from a friend of my sister's. It should be of interest, even for
those who want war.
I have been meaning to answer for a while now, but haven't had a moment to
do so. Suraya Sadeed, born in Afghanistan and now
My apologies for not deleting all those e-mail addresses in my forward.
I'll tell Martin Shaw to bcc all on his list there, so dumbo here has not
possibility of doing that again. I hope that data miners in the spam
factories don't start sending more garbage to folks like Fred Halliday.
Fred,
You must be in a fortunate area of the Great Plains. Many areas of the
Plains are sujbect to drought conditions from time to time.
Of course they are also subject to grasshoppers, fusarium, hail, winds, and
all sorts of other conditions that make for reduced yield.
Nevertheless they do in the
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 9:07 AM
Subject: RE: [ASDnet] Wolin v. Hitchens
There must be two
Christopher Hitchens, since Wolin is responding to an article that is almost,
point for point, the opposite of
I recall that Democracy Now had some fairly convincing discussion (Kagarlisky?) to
the effect that the KGB did the bombings to stir up the flagging interest in the
Chechen War. Police people were working around the buildings well before the
blast
Tom Walker wrote:
Let us take, as an
The Wall Street Journal had an article about the disruption caused to the
Just-in-Time production systems around the country.
Tom Walker wrote:
Thomas Duesterberg, president of the 400-member Manufacturers' Alliance in
Arlington, Va., said the
attacks struck at the roots of the productivity
apropos of what?
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:15:34AM -0700, Michael Pugliese wrote:
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Subject: RE: [ASDnet] Wolin v. Hitchens
There must be two Christopher Hitchens,
Check the Johnson's Russia List archives at CDI. Kagarlitsky did write a
piece alleging the FSB did bomb one of the apt. bldgs. in Moscow.
Michael Pugliese
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 9:34 AM
Didn't I send that Wolin rant last night to the list?
Just to show y'all that Leo can make distinctions, too.He can hate
Chomsky but, see that the Hitch is closer to his p.o.v.
Michael Pugliese
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The Philadelphia Inquirer September 21, 2001
A Bailout for the People
by Richard B. DuBoff
In possibly the worst debasement of public discourse in recent years - no
mean feat - George W. Bush stated last fall, and repeats as President, that
when you look at taxes or the government
http://www.gallup-international.com/terrorismpoll_figures.htm
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From: Ken Hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Philadelphia Inquirer September 21, 2001
A Bailout for the People
by Richard B. DuBoff
More of this type of stuff is exactly what's needed in the current
struggle of/for public opinion..
Ian
Leo has not been here for a while. All that personal stuff does not
belong here.
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 10:01:38AM -0700, Michael Pugliese wrote:
Didn't I send that Wolin rant last night to the list?
Just to show y'all that Leo can make distinctions, too.He can hate
Chomsky but, see
This is from the Gulf States Newsletter but is based mostly upon material
from the Washington Post.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Saudis Resisting U.S. Use Of New Command Centre, Washington Post Reports -
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2001 by Various
Saudi Arabia is resisting a request to use the U.S.
I just heard my tape of Doug's interview of Tariq Ali, who was emphasizing
that the Saudi state is already fragile and the war can throw it into
turmoil.
If the war were just bombing the Afgan's, perhaps we could kill a few
thousand, declare victory, and leave. I think that Bush's demand that
When western Canada was first surveyed by Europeans for
settlement, the surveyor, Captain Palliser, deemed the northern
extension of the great American desert not fit for settlement.
This area is still known as Palliser's Triangle and is the area
currently hit by drought. (This does not
PerelmanI don't know how much
discontent there is in Pakistan...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-worldtrade-pakistan.story
Copyright © 2001, Newsday, Inc.
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 22,
http://www.antiwar.com/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1555000/1555688.stm
Workers must join together in opposition to the imperialist war that is being waged
against the working class. Although the pretext for this war is the terrorist attack
in Manhattan and Washington the campaign being mounted by the Bush administration is
ultimately a campaign against the working
of the Bush cabal has led to rises in the price of oil which will further eat into
the living standards of struggling workers around the world. The declared war will
lead to deaths and injury of workers. It will also lead to further economic hardship
and pain.
I have a student who wants to
The triangle does include part of Manitoba. As noted it often accounts for
over half of Canada's agricultural production. Maybe some parts should be
returned to grazing land but grazing also produces problems. There may very
well be even greater difficulties in this area because of global warming
[from Thomas the gov website for fishin' through legislation..]
H.R.2506
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Appropriations Act, 2002 (Reported in the Senate)
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IRAQ
SEC. 566.
The Bush Administration should seize the opportunity to make sure
that the tragedy in Vietnam is not repeated in Afghanistan.
from Thomas again.
ALARMING DETAILS REGARDING AFGHANISTAN -- (BY RICHARD M. NIXON)
(Extension of Remarks - February 07, 1990)
[Page: E215]
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HON. DON RITTER
[..Thomas, againDoug, the check's in the mail :-) ]
THE SILK ROAD STRATEGY ACT OF 1997, H.R. 2867 -- HON. BENJAMIN A.
GILMAN (Extension of Remarks - November 08, 1997)
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[Page: E2240] GPO's PDF
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HON.
Steve says:
I read Chomsky as
stating that the perpetrators of this crime were at one point funded by
the CIA and that that is what makes it necesary to then analyze the
relationship between US foreign policy and this incident.
If the perpetrators turn out to have been indeed associated with
[this is one of the more intriguing rumors]
Terror chiefs plunder stock market
John Hooper in Berlin
Sunday September 23, 2001
The Observer
The terrorist overlords who plotted the attacks on New York and
Washington appear to have made a massive financial profit out of the
resulting
Revealed: British plan for Afghan onslaught
Bin Laden 'hiding in terror camp' Allied warships steam to Gulf, Spy
plane downed
War on terrorism - Observer special
Guardian Unlimited special: terrorism crisis
Kamal Ahmed in London, Peter Beaumont in Washington and Ed Vulliamy in
New York
Sunday
Beyond bin Laden
The future of Afghanistan itself should lie at the root of Western
political thinking
War on terrorism - Observer special
Guardian Unlimited special: terrorism crisis
Special report: Afghanistan
Fred Halliday
Sunday September 23, 2001
The Observer
Events of the past week
This is from the Globe and Mail. The NDP has not been critical of Chretien
for being slow to attack it is the Alliance and Conservatives both
right-wing parties.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
POSTED AT 11:21 AM EDTSaturday, September 22
Poll shows Canadians unwilling to put civilians at risk
Has anyone compiled a history of the government use of murderous gangs?
I know that the mob has been used in Europe after WW II. How common is
the practice?
Ian Murray wrote:
the West has bequeathed a bevy of murderous gangs,
from Unita in Angola to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan.
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Here are a couple of extracts from a poll in the UK. Full poll at:
http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,556456,00.html
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Do you agree or disagree with the view that, in the past, the United States
has been far too arrogant and selfish in the way it has treated the
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/national/22PASS.html
Stephen Philion
Lecturer/PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology
2424 Maile Way
Social Sciences Bldg. # 247
Honolulu, HI 96822
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