This is now making the rounds again: Paul Krugman’s Shocking, Revisionist, and Obscurantist Views on Single Payer http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/46940.html
Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898 x1 On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Patrick Bond <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016/01/20 12:01 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: > > ... > Reckonings; A Real Nut Case > http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/19/opinion/reckonings-a-real-nut-case.html > > > And a few weeks after that ridiculous attack, he went after Ralph Nader: > http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/23/opinion/reckonings-saints-and-profits.html > ... and he used a very weak argument, namely that Nader condemned "South > Africa's new Constitution, the one that ended apartheid, because -- like > the laws of every market economy -- it grants corporations some legal > status as individuals." > > Here's an excellent rebuttal by Ed Herman (disclosure - a former teacher > of mine, and at age 90, still going strong): > https://zcomm.org/zcommentary/the-hack-strikes-again-krugman-on-nader-by-edward-herman/ > > The story, dating to 1996, was related in the Nader-affiliated *Multinational > Monitor *here, halfway down: > http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm1196.03.html > > I'm still sore about losing that one; I was arrested in July 2010, at the > World Cup's Fan Fest park on the Durban beachfront, handing out > anti-xenophobia leaflets. The single most democratic space in our country, > this beachfront - which Sepp Blatter had in effect privatized for a month - > was regularly visited by 50,000 people. The corporate power of FIFA to > declare that I was "ambush marketing" for a rally the next day, trumped my > rights of political freedom and association. More on the case, here: > http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category.php/features/65767 > > Phansi, Paul Krugman, phansi (as they say here about political rascals) > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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