big pharma: cookin' the data redux

Foregone conclusions The public is being regularly deceived by the drug trials funded by pharmaceutical companies, loaded to generate the results they need Richard Smith Wednesday January 14, 2004 The Guardian Drug companies spend hundreds of millions of pounds to bring a new drug to market,

call for papers

Engendering the Post-9/11 Era: Feminism(s), Imperialism(s) and Fundamentalism(s) Call for submissions for an edited volume on gender and the war on terror Editors: Deepika Grover, York University Krista Hunt, University of Toronto Kim Rygiel, York University More than two years after the war

venezuelan banker tours

Women's Development Bank president Nora Castaneda: Creating a caring economy in Venezuela Ahead of a tour of the United States later this month, Venezuelan Women's Development Bank president Nora Castaneda explains that “micro-credits are an excuse to empower women ... we believe that the

New European Party of the Left Founded

Date: Wed, 14 January 2004 The time is ripe for a party of European leftists. A Europe of peace, of justice, of openness and democracy is impossible without a strong visible and self-assured Left.We will be treading new paths and abandoning old models of thought, Lothar Bisky- chair of the host

Marx Conference in Havana

Dear Friends and Comrades, Please forgive me for the impersonal nature of this note (and any duplicate postings), but I'm just back to Caracas and am about to go into overdrive. I'm writing to remind you about the Marx Conference, which is scheduled for 4-7 May in Havana (with a series of events

Borders Store #1 wins first contract!

Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 16:18:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: We win! Borders strike and boycott over! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Note: This is a one-time announcement for your information only.] Dear Friends of Borders Workers Union: It's official, Borders Store #1 has their first

ironies of IP

The patent office just listed the top patenters for last year. IBM leads. Most of the other leaders are Japanese. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/speeches/04-01.htm -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929

G-10 worried over fall in dollar

G-10 worried over fall in dollar value STELLA DAWSON REUTERS TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2004 02:36:57 AM BASEL: Japan joined Europe today in expressing concern abo ut instability on currency markets in a sign that central bankers of top industrial nations may be nearing agreement to try to slow the

EU: criminalizing financial mismanagement

Finance ministers face legal action Simon Jeffery and agencies The Guardian Tuesday January 13, 2004 The European commission today launched legal action against national finance ministers over their failure to discipline France and Germany for breaking the eurozone growth and stability pact.

Anti-bush contest winners

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 (SF Chronicle) Anti-Bush ad contest proves popular online/Winner out of 1,500 entries to be shown on TV in key states Mark Simon, Chronicle Political Writer The leaders of the grassroots, Internet-based political phenomenon MoveOn.org were surprised when their national

Review: Good Bye, Lenin (2004)

It is 1989 and Communism is crumbling everywhere except in the heart and mind of Christiane Kerner (Katrin Sass), a middle-aged Berlin resident who has a picture of Che Guevara on her bedroom wall and is fiercely loyal to party leader Erich Honecker. Her son Alex (Daniel Brühl, who played the

Re: of course, it's treason

Kevin Phillips: The Barreling Bushes January 11, 2004 Four generations of the dynasty have chased profits through cozy ties with Mideast leaders, spinning webs of conflicts of interest http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-phillips11jan11,1,

Re: Magloff on Mike Davis, _Dead Cities and Other Tales_

Below are comments on a review of Mike Davis's latest book. For the entire review, go to http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=50041074061302) H-Net Reviews wrote: H-NET BOOK REVIEW Published by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (September 2003) Mike Davis. _Dead Cities and Other Tales_. New York: The New

shrimp, planes, externalities

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/156456_air14.html Wednesday, January 14, 2004 Aerospace Notebook: Tiny shrimp could be big problem for jet makers By JAMES WALLACE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER A shrimp dispute on both sides of the Atlantic could have implications for Airbus and The

Re: of course, it's treason

Response Jim C: I just finished this book [by Kevin Phillips] and although it is generally a good read and touches some important points, it also misses some important points or examples of the criminality, treason and barbarism of these in-bred preppy scum (examples not a matter of rumor or

Rick Perlstein on leaving Iraq

This week's Village Voice has a disappointing article by Rick Perlstein titled Last Copter Out of Baghdad (http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0402/perlstein.php). Rick is the author of the much-acclaimed Before the Storm that argues that the Goldwaterite movement of the 1960s was ultimately

Re: of course, it's treason

Devine, James wrote: for what it's worth, that Tomb is the building of the Skull Bones secret society, the most elite of the Yale secret societies, which probably includes both Dubya and his father. It's been linked to the CIA and clearly is a formal organization of the most elite of the old

Re: of course, it's treason

Devine, James wrote: for what it's worth, that Tomb is the building of the Skull Bones secret society, the most elite of the Yale secret societies, which probably includes both Dubya and his father. It's been linked to the CIA and clearly is a formal organization of the most elite of the old

Sorry, previous missive not intended--Treason continued...

Devine, James wrote: for what it's worth, that Tomb is the building of the Skull Bones secret society, the most elite of the Yale secret societies, which probably includes both Dubya and his father. It's been linked to the CIA and clearly is a formal organization of the most elite of the old

screwing labor does not pay?

some of you may be familiar with the paper: Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires, joint with Alan Krueger, NBER Working Paper, March 2003. Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy, April 2004. it argues that many of the

Italy: corporate misgovernance

Time for a break in the family circle Parmalat will force a review of Italy's traditional corporate model Sophie Arie in Rome Thursday January 15, 2004 The Guardian As scabby kneed kids, Calisto Tanzi and Fausto Tonna sat on the same schoolroom bench in the small town of Collecchio, outside

China: bailout dynamics/spillovers

http://www.feer.com BANKING Wasteful Transfusion The addiction of China's big state banks to rash lending could defeat a drive to drag them out from under a mountain of bad debt before they go public. The poison still runs deep in their veins By Tom Holland and David Lague/HONG KONG Issue

Turkey, pipelines and all that........

http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav011404.shtml EURASIA INSIGHT January 14, 2004 TURKEY SEEKS TO CARVE OUT CONFLICT RESOLUTION ROLE IN THE CAUCASUS Mevlut Katik: 1/14/04 Turkish officials view the recent leadership turnover in both Azerbaijan and Georgia as a diplomatic

Close, but no cigar

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