[Marxism-Thaxis] Obama's grade on energy policy: F minus minus

2010-05-29 Thread CeJ
Americans still don't have health care, the US military still occupies Iraq, its occupation of Afghanistan has expanded, and Obama pulled a real bonehead move earlier this year when he announced a reversal--a total boneheaded flipflop on offshore drilling--and gave the likes of T. Boone Pickens

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Thailand

2010-05-29 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Sat, 29 May 2010 11:07:54 +0900 CeJ jann...@gmail.com writes: I find some similarity between post-war developing Japan and current Thailand. Yes, the class war is real. Yes, it largely contests the future of the Thai national development state (which is doing better than Philippines

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Thailand

2010-05-29 Thread CeJ
JF: In Japan wasn't land reform imposed by the American occupation under MacArthur? This is what I've read from all the standard sources (like Reischauer). It seems to have created the Japanese equivalent of the Republican-voting dairy farmer of the MidAtlantic US. They hold a few rice