Re: [Marxism] Just a Nut Job

2011-01-19 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == So, palaver aside, here's what happens to the really existing mentally ill in this

[Marxism] Hobsbawm interviewed about Marx, student riots, the new Left, and the Milibands

2011-01-15 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/16/eric-hobsbawm-tristram-hunt-marx

[Marxism] WikiLeaks: Locking Up Whistleblower Bradley Manning in Solitary Confinement Puts America's Depravity on Full Display

2011-01-05 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Depravity are us. This is another hideous, unspoken horror in our 'civilized'

[Marxism] Why Indefinite Detention by Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People

2010-12-23 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/23-5 Can it be said enough: This is war

Re: [Marxism] Marx wine quote

2010-12-18 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. If I had

[Marxism] Major Media Ignore Veterans, along with Ellsberg and Hedges, Chained to WH Fence

2010-12-18 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Black-Out in DC: Pay No Attention to Those Veterans Chained to the White House

Re: [Marxism] Major Media Ignore Veterans, along with Ellsberg and Hedges, Chained to WH Fence

2010-12-18 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Manuel Barrera wrote We're on our own. It's time we stop complaining about it and

[Marxism] What's Behind the GOP's War Against NPR?

2010-12-17 Thread Ralph Johansen
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Re: [Marxism] Petition to stop the WikiLeaks crackdown

2010-12-15 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I posted this petition at about 4 PM PST. I just returned 9 hours later for about

[Marxism] Petition to stop the WikiLeaks crackdown

2010-12-14 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I've just signed an Avaaz petition to stop the WikiLeaks crackdown. [While

Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?

2010-12-13 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Shane Mage wrote On Dec 13, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: I wonder

Re: [Marxism] Obama Isn't Spineless, He's Conservative

2010-12-12 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Midhurst mailto:Midhurst14%40aol.com wrote The problem with negative criticism of

[Marxism] Needed: A Real World Counterpart to Nobel Prize

2010-12-11 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == *Documenting how unrepresentative, instrumental and biased the Nobel awards are

Re: [Marxism] James Petras - The Democratic Party Debacle and the Demis of the Left-Center Left

2010-12-05 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jim Farmelant wrote In recent years, I have found a lot of Petras's commentary on

Re: [Marxism] in the spirit of wikileaks...

2010-12-04 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Mark Lause wrote This is an interesting site. I love the piece on Ron Paul's

Re: [Marxism] New title: FIVE LESSONS ON WAGNER by ALAIN BADIOU

2010-12-04 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect wrote I suppose I am going to have to find the time to read

Re: [Marxism] Attacks on Wikileaks

2010-12-03 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Gulf Mann wrote We could make some deft defensive moves, too, by going on the

[Marxism] 12-01-10 Like Radio before it , then TV: Obama's FCC chair wants 'to turn the Internet into cable TV'

2010-12-01 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == [Again, quoting Assange: He who controls today`s Internet servers controls the

Re: [Marxism] 12-01-10 Like Radio before it , then TV: Obama's FCC chair wants 'to turn the Internet into cable TV'

2010-12-01 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Connecting dots? Two profiles of Obama's FCC chair, Julius Genachowski:

[Marxism] Wikileaks in its broader context - Assange at the 2010 Oslo Freedom Forum - transcript 1

2010-11-29 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is the transcript of a more philosophical exposition of the basis for the

Re: [Marxism] Wikileaks in its broader context - Assange at the 2010 Oslo Freedom Forum - transcript 2

2010-11-29 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == [He who controls today`s Internet servers, controls the intellectual record of

[Marxism] Re FBI creates, thwarts terrorist plot around allegedly angry teenager

2010-11-28 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This was sent to me by Mike Munk of Portland A Portlander who spoke with members

[Marxism] Chinese consumer the hope of the world?

2010-11-24 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/11/28/magazine/china-portfolio.html

Re: [Marxism] Sweden Issues Arrest Warrant for WikiLeaks' Assange

2010-11-19 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Joaquín Bustelo wrote I don't particularly LIKE Assange. He seems like a smarmy,

[Marxism] WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Walks Out of CNN Interview

2010-10-26 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CNN had the appallingly bad editorial judgment to sic a young cub reporter to

[Marxism] PBS 's flagrant definition of news

2010-10-25 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == PBS NewsHour executive producer Linda Winslow: ... FAIR seems to be accusing us of

[Marxism] NYTimes trashes Wikileaks founder

2010-10-24 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/24assange.html?_r=1hp . . . . . Now it is

[Marxism] # Re: A response to Blankfort's hatchet job on Chomsky

2010-07-27 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Manuel Barrera wrote: I am frankly baffled by this seeming nuance; that one

[Marxism] Roubini anticipates 1.5 percent growth, risk of negative feedback, double dip recession

2010-07-26 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == [in the second half of the year, due to the housing market, bank lending, and

Re: [Marxism] Erdogan argues independent Turkey is good for US -- but US isn't buying

2010-06-13 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Fred Feldman wrote June 12, 2010 For Turkey, an Embrace of Iran Is a Matter of

[Marxism] Israel’s Greatest Loss: Its Moral Imagination by Henry Siegman [Haaretz]

2010-06-12 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi all, perhaps the most amazing piece on the Gaza massacre -- particularly given

[Marxism] Obama Expands Covert Military Operations

2010-05-31 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (The order was first reported by the New York Times May 25 and officials told AFP

[Marxism] Euro crisis in figures

2010-05-07 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-54629.html

[Marxism] An Immigrants' poem, Imagine the Angels of Bread by Martin Espada

2010-05-04 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/az-governor-april-poetry_b_554934.html#

Re: [Marxism] Marx in college?

2010-04-29 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == - Original Message - From: brendan cooney callmecoo...@gmail.com I am

[Marxism] 'Venezuela 2d most dangerous for trade unionists after Colombia' - BBC

2010-04-07 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/8583662.stm

Re: [Marxism] Climate denial grows in Britain

2010-02-27 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Shawn Redden wrote In all the hullabaloo yesterday, I missed the link Comrade

Re: [Marxism] The Warlords of Afghanistan

2010-02-26 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Greg McDonald wrote http://www.warlordsofafghanistan.com/author.php

Re: [Marxism] Tritium Hot Zone Expands Around Vermont Nuclear Plant

2010-02-10 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == VERNON - The Department of Health said late Monday there appears to be a very

[Marxism] Tritium Hot Zone Expands Around Vermont Nuclear Plant

2010-02-09 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Published on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 by The Rutland Herald (Vermont) Tritium Hot

[Marxism] Venezuelan government writes off Haiti's debt

2010-02-07 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == www.*pslweb.org* Venezuelan government writes off Haiti's debt Saturday, February

Re: [Marxism] reset to 5.31.2008

2010-01-23 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Joaquin Bustelo wrote Kathleen [kmcook] writes about the Democrats: The party

[Marxism] France accuses US of 'occupying' Haiti as troops flood in

2010-01-19 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Venezuela and Nicaragua have made similar charges, and Spain has also charged the

[Marxism] MSF Teleconference on Haiti Earthquake on January 18

2010-01-18 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == MSF logo January 18, 2010 Teleconference on Haiti Earthquake on January 18, 2010

[Marxism] Re Here it comes, Here comes the night

2010-01-13 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == S. Artesian sartes...@earthlink.net wrote From the FRB Beige Book: Overall

[Marxism] Geostrategic significance of Yemen to US imperialism

2010-01-10 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page.html

[Marxism] Obama's spooky past?

2009-12-30 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Frank Espada wrote: Hello Ralph: Here's a peek at our new regent. The more

Re: [Marxism] ReSocialism and the defense of public education: Shift toHealth

2009-12-27 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Carroll Cox wrote That said, may I note that what radicals, marxist or otherwise,

Re: [Marxism] Capital Class

2009-12-17 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's unfortunate that arrangements haven't been made to video tape these sessions.

[Marxism] After Obama Visit, Assessing U.S.-China Relations: Orville Schell on Fresh Air

2009-11-19 Thread Ralph Johansen
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This transcript is informative and challenging and worrisome - and well worth

Re: [Marxism] Socialist Voice: China /Fidel /Class/ U.S. Health Care S. Artesian

2009-09-06 Thread Ralph Johansen
S. Artesian wrote: In 2003, US Census Bureau reported 45 milllion US residents without health insurance. http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/p60-226.pdf Don't you agree that it should not be difficult to construct an extrapolation from these official 2003 estimates that would establish that,

Re: [Marxism] Socialist Voice: China /Fidel /Class/ U.S. Health Care

2009-09-06 Thread Ralph Johansen
Re: [Marxism] Socialist Voice: China /Fidel /Class/ U.S. Health Care S. Artesian I'm sorry, Les, I did it again. I forget to remove the name from my cut and paste. etter next time. Ralph YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying

[Marxism] Cindy Sheehan's Lonely Vigil in Obamaland

2009-08-29 Thread Ralph Johansen
/The Silence of the Antiwar Movement is Deafening/ Cindy Sheehan's Lonely Vigil in Obamaland By JOHN V. WALSH CounterPunch http://www.counterpunch.com/walsh08262009.html August 26, 2009 Cindy Sheehan will be at Martha's Vineyard beginning August 25 a short way from Obama's vacation

Re: [Marxism] Cindy Sheehan's Lonely Vigil in Obamaland

2009-08-29 Thread Ralph Johansen
Fact is, no one is protesting the wars any longer other than this dedicated woman and a few around her, and as Eli says, the few in SF. AFP has published the article below but US megamedia haven't picked it up, although I'm sure Sheehan has tried. And the writer of the CPunch article correctly

Re: [Marxism] Teddy

2009-08-29 Thread Ralph Johansen
Jim Farmelant wrote: ///I think that Louis Proyect had gotten closer to an answer when he posted on Ted Kennedy's early championing of deregulation in trucking and transportation. I recall also when Ted Kennedy was featured on the evening news shortly before the US recognized China, coming

[Marxism] US now has more US mercenaries than troops in Afganistan

2009-08-23 Thread Ralph Johansen
[By the end of the year, Obama will have almost 150,000 troops and mercenaries in Afghanistan, compared to 250,000, and counting, now in Iraq. It's another almost fool-proof way to continue to privatize government functions, ronin under the guise of security contractors and non-combatant