2 points: one by Prabhat Patnaik on The Crisis of the Capitalist World in
http://www.networkideas.org/news/jan2009/news01_Capitalist_World.htm
The current crisis of the capitalist world is commonly explained as resulting
from "a lack of government regulation of the financial sector", "insufficient
supervision allowing reckless lending by financial institutions", "the
unbridled greed of the financiers", in short a series of mistakes and
aberrations. These have contributed to a "systems failure" in the words of
Joseph Stiglitz, the distinguished economist and Nobel Laureate. This entire
line of reasoning however misses the point. The crisis is not a "failure" of
the system; it is central to the mode of functioning of the system itself. It
is not the result of some “mistakes” or "aberrations"; it is inherent to the
logic of the system.
and two this:
Jews against Israeli terrorism (The Guardian)
We the undersigned are all of Jewish origin. When we see the dead and bloodied
bodies of young children, the cutting off of water, electricity and food, we
are reminded of the siege of the Warsaw Ghetto. When Dov Weisglass, an adviser
to the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, talked of putting Gazans "on a
diet" and the deputy defence minister, Matan Vilnai, talked about the
Palestinians experiencing "a bigger shoah" (holocaust), this reminds us of
Governor General Hans Frank in Nazi-occupied Poland, who spoke of "death by
hunger".
The real reason for the attack on Gaza is that Israel is only willing to deal
with Palestinian quislings. The main crime of Hamas is not terrorism but its
refusal to accept becoming a pawn in the hands of the Israeli occupation regime
in Palestine.
The decision last month by the EU council to upgrade relations with Israel,
without any specific conditions on human rights, has encouraged further Israeli
aggression. The time for appeasing Israel is long past. As a first step,
Britain must withdraw the British ambassador to Israel and, as with apartheid
South Africa, embark on a programme of boycott, divestment and sanctions.
Ben Birnberg, Prof Haim Bresheeth, Deborah Fink, , Tony Greenstein, Abe Hayeem,
Prof Adah Kay, Yehudit , Dr Les Levidow, Prof Yosefa Loshitzky, Prof Moshe
Machover, , Prof Jonathan Rosenhead, Seymour Alexander, Ben Birnberg, Martin
Birnstingl, Prof. Haim Bresheeth, , Judith Cravitz, Mike Cushman, Angela Dale,
Merav , Greg Dropkin, Angela Eden, Sarah Ferner, Alf Filer, Mark Findlay,
Sylvia Finzi, Bella Freud, Tessa van Gelderen, Claire Glasman, Ruth Hall,
Adrian Hart, Alain Hertzmann, Abe Hayeem, Rosamene Hayeem, Anna Hellmann, ,
Riva Joffe, Yael Kahn, Michael Kalmanovitz, Ros Kane, Prof. Adah Kay, Yehudit
Keshet, Mark Krantz, Bernice Laschinger, Pam Laurance, Dr Les Levidow, Prof.
Yosefa Loshitzky, Prof. Moshe Machover, Beryl Maizels, Miriam Margolyes, Helen
Marks, Martine Miel, Diana Neslen, O Neumann, Susan Pashkoff, Hon. Juliet
Peston, Renate Prince, Roland Rance, Sheila Robin, Ossi Ron, Manfred Ropschitz,
John Rose, Prof. Jonathan Rosenhead, ,
Michael Sackin, , Amanda Sebestyen, Sam Semoff, Prof. Ludi Simpson, Viv Stein,
Inbar Tamari, Ruth Tenne, Norman Traub, Eve Turner, Tirza Waisel, Karl
Walinets, Renee Walinets, Stanley Walinets, , Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, Ruth
Williams, Jay Woolrich, Ben Young, Myk Zeitlin, Androulla Zucker, John Zucker
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