B&N seems to say military spending to prop up capitalism is the fulcrum for the policy, but the official memo seems to say military spending is not as costly as you might think, more as a secondary afterthought.
Mbs -----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Nitzan Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 3:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: The Bichler & Nitzan Archives: "Cheap Wars" Nitzan, Jonathan, and Shimshon Bichler. 2006. "Cheap Wars." Tikkun, August, 9. ABSTRACT The new conflicts of the twenty-first century - the 'infinite wars,' the 'clashes of civilization,' the 'new crusades' - are fundamentally different from the mass wars and statist military conflicts that characterized capitalism from the nineteenth century until the end of the Cold War. The novelty lies not so much in the military nature of the conflicts, as in the broader role that war now plays in capitalism. FULL TEXT Tikkun: http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/specials/cheapwars FULL TEXT AND EXCEL DATA The Bichler & Nitzan Archives: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/205/ --------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Nitzan email: nitzan at yorku.ca website: www.bnarchives.net Political Science, York University 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, M3J-1P3, Canada Voice: (416) 736-2100, ext. 88822 Fax: (416) 736-5686 ---------------------------------------------------
