[Marxism-Thaxis] Kaleidoscope

2007-01-28 Thread Charles Brown
By antiquity, the Greek and Roman oligarchies placed their commercial affairs in the hands of slaves, often Near Easterners. Would anyone say that slaves controlled the economy? Or Near Easterners? Could one speak of an ³international slave conspiracy² or ³slave bankers² to bleed the Roman

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Soviet Union, the U.S. and Russia: Opportunities Lost

2007-01-28 Thread Charles Brown
January 26, 2007 The Soviet Union, the U.S. and Russia: Opportunities Lost Washington Profile www.washprofile.org An interview with Stephen F. Cohen, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University and author of several books, including Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy

[Marxism-Thaxis] Indigenous

2007-01-28 Thread Charles Brown
Who and What is a Real Indian? To: The A-List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Comment Jim C: I was invited some time ago by the students at University of the Victoria's Native Studies Program to speak at a program with Ward

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Randi Rhodes Show

2007-01-30 Thread Charles Brown
The Randi Rhodes Showlisten live http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/live/listen Navigation Home Contact Team Music Photos http://forums.therandirhodesshow.com/index.php?act=modulemodule=gallery Contact Randi Swag

[Marxism-Thaxis] Can we feed the world without industrial agriculture?

2007-02-03 Thread Charles Brown
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:41:48 -0500 (EST) From: nchamah miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Can we feed the world without industrial agriculture? Subject: Can we feed the world without industrial agriculture? To: Socialistproject [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Marxism-Thaxis] navarro interview

2007-02-03 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/696/36142 Pioneering the new socialism of the 21st century Federico Fuentes 25 January 2007 On January 8, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez swore in his new cabinet, including five new members, calling upon them to take an oath that they would never

[Marxism-Thaxis] Bertram Gross' 1980 FRIENDLY FASCISM

2007-02-03 Thread Charles Brown
Web Results 1 - 10 of about 10,100 for Bertram Gross' 1980 FRIENDLY FASCISM. (0.25 seconds) Book results for Bertram Gross' 1980 FRIENDLY FASCISM http://books.google.com/books?q=Bertram+Gross%27+1980+FRIENDLY+FASCISMots= NOU-H_GZSwsa=Xoi=printct=title

[Marxism-Thaxis] Friendly_Fascism_BGross

2007-02-03 Thread Charles Brown
I had my basic economics course with Daniel Fusfeld at University of Michigan in 1969. CB excerpts from the book Friendly Fascism The New Face of Power in America by Bertram Gross South End Press, 1980, paper As long as an economic system

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Randi Rhodes Show

2007-02-03 Thread Charles Brown
The Randi Rhodes Showlisten live http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/live/listen Photos http://forums.therandirhodesshow.com/index.php?act=modulemodule=gallery Contact Randi Swag http://www.cafepress.com/randirhodes

[Marxism-Thaxis] Gross

2007-02-03 Thread Charles Brown
This is G o o g l e's cache http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html#cached of http://a4a.mahost.org/gross.html http://a4a.mahost.org/gross.html as retrieved on 24 Jan 2007 12:09:46 GMT. G o o g l e's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as

[Marxism-Thaxis] Beset by money problems: Doesn't this reflect the system ?

2007-02-07 Thread Charles Brown
http://cmsimg.detnews.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C3Date=20070206Category=METROArtNo=702060378Ref=V2Q=100MaxW=500 John T. Greilick / The Detroit News Matt Yesich stands with his fiancee, Elizabeth Lawrie, who had to be led sobbing from sister Jennifer Kukla's

[Marxism-Thaxis] Most fundamentally Marxism is the theory of the liberation from slavery , from ancient to wage

2007-02-08 Thread Charles Brown
Once the ideas of surplus accumulation and commodity production are introduced , there is a certain unfolding of internal logic tending toward capitalism. In other words, there is a kernel of capitalism in the original slave societies, and commodity production; and it comes to the fore over the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Percy_Julian

2007-02-09 Thread Charles Brown
much. Between Julian and Drew quite a few lives saved. Now you got me. Whose Just ? CB At 02:31 PM 2/9/2007 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: Percy Lavon Julian From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Percy Lavon Julian http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb

[Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of Hotdog school

2007-02-10 Thread Charles Brown
Critique of Frankfurters [Marxism] Theodor Adorno: nice theory, pity about the politics? http://readingthemaps.blogspot.com/2007/02/adorno-in-condom.html

[Marxism-Thaxis] an-elaborate-hypothesis

2007-02-10 Thread Charles Brown
Insurgent American http://www.insurgentamerican.net An Elaborate Hypothesis of the The Suppression of Active-Pattern-Recognition by Stan Goff DISCLAIMER - I will ramble. The Squirrels Where I live now, drivers are frequently obliged to stop in the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of Hotdog school

2007-02-10 Thread Charles Brown
What's the whole story ? ^^ This is not very informative about Adorno's ideas or politics. Even the detailed snippet about Adorno's handling of student protest doesn't necessarily tell the whole story. At 09:36 AM 2/10/2007 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: Critique

[Marxism-Thaxis] Prometheus Rebound:The End of Fire

2007-02-11 Thread Charles Brown
In which Prometheus sets an NBA record for rebounds :) We are in the age of Prometheus Rebound. Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to humans. Now the Gods' anger with Prometheus is seen to be wise ? Human control of fire, energy capture, is making things too hot (not enough entropy

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Agenda Restated

2007-02-11 Thread Charles Brown
by Jim Kunstler www.kunstler.com (February 05 2007) Out in the public arena, people frequently twang on me for being Mister Gloom'n'doom, or for not offering any solutions. I find this bizarre because I never fail to present audiences with a long, explicit task list of projects that American

[Marxism-Thaxis] from the people's front lines

2007-02-11 Thread Charles Brown
from the people's front lines * From: Dan Scanlan __ Midge is a friend who is an active veteran for peace. Here is her latest report - Yesterday, I was in yet another Congressional hearing to remind our elected representatives that they have an

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cuba's eternal dilemma: annexation or independence

2007-02-12 Thread Charles Brown
Walter Lippmann : (Comprehensive interview in which the Cuban ambassador to Guatemala takes easy and difficult questions. Spanish posted on website.) = Cuban Vice Chancellor Bruno

[Marxism-Thaxis] New at Climate and Capitalism

2007-02-12 Thread Charles Brown
RECENT POSTS AT CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM http://climateandcapitalism.blogspot.com/ **The Obscenity of Carbon Trading **Australian Text Demolishes Neoliberal Environmental Policies **Climate Change Doesn't Scare the Financial Post **Listen Gore: Some Inconvenient Truths About the Politics

[Marxism-Thaxis] Finkelstein responds to Dershowitz

2007-02-14 Thread Charles Brown
02.13.2007 | The [Brandeis] Justice OP-ED: Sapere Aude! (Dare to think for yourself) By Norman Finkelstein Rarely (if ever) does a professor from one university write for a school newspaper at another university urging its student body not to invite a particular speaker. But it is

[Marxism-Thaxis] CT

2007-02-17 Thread Charles Brown
:13 GMT * [A-List] Re: To The Moderators re: Loose Change debate, Sabri Oncu Sat 17 Feb 2007, 07:23 GMT * [A-List] NATURAL CAPITALISM: CREATING THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, Charles Brown Fri 16 Feb 2007, 21:49 GMT

[Marxism-Thaxis] The real white history and its place in Black History

2007-02-17 Thread Charles Brown
This book by Aptheker is a history of white people who were leading anti-racist fighters. CB ^ Anti-Racism in U.S. History The First Two Hundred Years This book is not currently available for purchase Online. Please call 1-800-225-5800 to backorder.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Amazing Grace

2007-02-18 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism] Amazing Grace Louis Proyect lnp3 at panix.com mailto:marxism%40lists.econ.utah.edu?Subject=%5BMarxism%5D%20Amazing%20Grac eIn-Reply-To= Sun Feb 18 11:59:38 MST 2007 * Previous message: [Marxism] Ground shifting under U.S. isolation of Cuba

[Marxism-Thaxis] Wittgenstein reference

2007-02-20 Thread Charles Brown
_ * * * Titel: A Critical Note on the Editions of Wittgenstein's REMARKS ON FRAZER'S GOLDEN BOUGH*1* Autor: Andrzej Orzechowski, Warschau - Polen Alois Pichler, Bergen - Norwegen Dateiname: 21-2-95.TXT Dateilänge: 35 KB

[Marxism-Thaxis] Disney, Ford, Edison: most reactionary sector of monopoly in early twentietb century

2007-02-20 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.spitfirelist.com/f301.html FTR-301 Mickey Mauschwitz, the Reactionary Politics of Walt Disney (Two 30-min. segments) (Sources are noted in parentheses.) (Recorded on 5/10/2001.) $8.50 Along with FTR-304, this program comprises a pair of programs

[Marxism-Thaxis] marxism of the 21st Century

2007-02-21 Thread Charles Brown
Dear All, friends of mine from the editorial board of the German daily paper Junge Welt want to conduct a telephon and email survey in various countries (USA, Italy, UK, France etc). They want to approach Marxist scholars and ask them what they understand by Marxism of the 21st century. They

[Marxism-Thaxis] : guns-n-money

2007-02-21 Thread Charles Brown
Guns 'n' Money http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-goff/guns-n-money_b_40708.html (14 comments ) READ MORE: United States, Japan, China, Stan Goff The 2007 war budget -- which many Democrats will undoubtedly approve and allow to happen -- will take spending up to a billion dollars every

[Marxism-Thaxis] energy

2007-02-21 Thread Charles Brown
University of Michigan - Research News Energy Institute U-M Research focusing on global energy crisis From Michigan Engineer magazine Sunset on oil The 1973 oil crisis put the first damper on America's post WW-II economic boom and ever since,

[Marxism-Thaxis] energycenters

2007-02-21 Thread Charles Brown
University of Michigan - Research News Greater than the sum: Key components of U-M's energy initiative From Michigan Engineer magazine Cutting-edge energy research has been going on at U-M for many years. Several of the University's established

[Marxism-Thaxis] Is the Latin «macho» dying o ut?

2007-02-21 Thread Charles Brown
(We seem to have nearly nothing in the way of discussion of matters of gender and sexuality on Marxmail. But here in Cuba, which is a macho culture in many ways, I'm pleasantly surprised at how much of this is going on here all the time.)

[Marxism-Thaxis] Hugo Chavez's democratic agenda

2007-02-22 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=45ItemID=12179 Hugo Chavez's Social Democratic Agenda by Stephen Lendman February 22, 2007 Hugo Chavez Frias was reelected by an overwhelming nearly two to one margin over his only serious rival on December 3, 2006 giving him

[Marxism-Thaxis] FW: Stockmarket analysis

2007-03-01 Thread Charles Brown
-- Forwarded message -- From: Institute for Public Accuracy dcinstitute at igc.org http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk Date: Feb 28, 2007 8:12 AM Subject: Stock Market Drop To: Institute for Public Accuracy dcinstitute at igc.org

[Marxism-Thaxis] Chinese Premier says promoting fairness and social justice is a major task

2007-03-01 Thread Charles Brown
Premier says promoting fairness and social justice is a major task GOV.cn Tuesday, February 27, 2007 While developing productive forces and immensely increasing material wealth, China needs to gradually secure fairness and social justice, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao

[Marxism-Thaxis] Genocide in Iraq

2007-03-05 Thread Charles Brown
by Edward Herman ZNet Commentary (January 24 2007) It was claimed early in 2005 that the United States was considering resort to what has been called the Salvadoran Option in Iraq, in which, as had been done in El Salvador in the 1980s, US Special Forces would train paramilitary squads to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Chinese Premier says promoting fairness and social justice is a major task

2007-03-06 Thread Charles Brown
and sincerely. Evidently , it wasn't working in their opinion. You say it wasn't working because the Chinese Communists are just liars. What's your evidence and argument ? Charles ^^ Ralph And do you actually believe this shit? At 04:23 PM 3/1/2007 -0500, Charles Brown wrote: Premier says

[Marxism-Thaxis] Happy International Women's Day

2007-03-08 Thread Charles Brown
Clara Zetkin Stamp http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/59/Clz.jpg/180px-Clz.jpg Stamp Clara Zetkin, maiden name Eissner (5 July 1857 - 20 June 1933) was an influential socialist German politician and a fighter for women's rights. Until 1917 she was active in the Social

[Marxism-Thaxis] U.S., Latin America Trends

2007-03-16 Thread Charles Brown
ZNet | Latin America U.S., Latin America Trends by Philip Agee; March 15, 2007 Anyone following the news in recent times cannot be unaware of the wave of progressive change

[Marxism-Thaxis] U.S., Latin America Trends

2007-03-20 Thread Charles Brown
ZNet | Latin America U.S., Latin America Trends by Philip Agee; March 15, 2007 Anyone following the news in recent times cannot be unaware of the wave of progressive change sweeping Latin America and the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Of Lice and Men

2007-04-01 Thread Charles Brown
Of Lice and Men (adapted from posts to Anthro-L) Timothy Mason (cv) Université de Paris 8 with Scott MacEachern, Bowdoin College. Abstract : While wild beasts, large-scale climatic changes, floods and other dramatic events are often invoked in current scenarios intended to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Glenn Beck

2007-04-10 Thread Charles Brown
Glenn Beck Philadelphia-based radio and television host Glenn Beck's career began after he won a radio station contest at 13. After working for several years as a disc jockey, Beck got his own daily talk radio show, The Glenn Beck Program, in 2001 and is currently syndicated by Premiere Radio

[Marxism-Thaxis] imus

2007-04-10 Thread Charles Brown
MICHAEL YATES : To argue that racial slurs on a nationwide radio/tv show are harmless is naive. We've been traveling around the nation for six years now and have run into unsolicited racist remarks numerous times. What assholes like Imus do is that they make it acceptable for ordinary

[Marxism-Thaxis] Which Fukuyama?

2007-04-11 Thread Charles Brown
Which Fukuyama? Shadia Drury 8 - 6 - 2006 Francis Fukuyama is caught between the triumphalism of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, and the despair of Nietzsche, Heidegger and Kojève, says Shadia Drury. -- At

[Marxism-Thaxis] Google

2007-04-12 Thread Charles Brown
Google has implemented a new feature  which enables you to type a telephone number into the search bar and hit enter and you will be given the person's name and address. If you then hit MapQuest, you will get a map to the person's house. Everyone should be aware of this!  It's a nationwide

[Marxism-Thaxis] Mastectomy bill in Congress

2007-04-16 Thread Charles Brown
This only takes a minute. Please help. Karen Subject: Fw: Mastectomy bill in Congress Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:56:06 -0700 MessageI really don't pass along a lot of stuff, but think this is important. - Original Message - From: Anne Carr To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April

[Marxism-Thaxis] Nappy-headed Hos of the World Unite!

2007-04-16 Thread Charles Brown
This article can be found on the web at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070423/ehrenreich Nappy-headed Hos of the World Unite! by BARBARA EHRENREICH [posted online on April 13, 2007] Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of thirteen books, including the bestselling Nickel and Dimed. This article was

[Marxism-Thaxis] Sliders of the World Unite!

2007-04-17 Thread Charles Brown
Waistline2 Sliders . . . yea, sliders the series. Melvin P. Time travellers of the world unite ! John Henry ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Sliders of the World Unite! ___

[Marxism-Thaxis] Nappy-headed Hos of the World Unite!

2007-04-17 Thread Charles Brown
Clearly senility is setting in. But you are an admirer of Cornel West, as I recall. You probably like Michael Dyson even better. At 12:12 AM 4/17/2007 -0400, _Waistline2 at aol.com_ http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis (mailto:Waistline2 at aol.com

[Marxism-Thaxis] : Conference on the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, April 20-21

2007-04-17 Thread Charles Brown
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Detroit, MI- April 9, 2007 1967 Detroit Rebellion LESSONS LEARNED Conference April 20 21, 2007 Detroit, MI In July of 1967, Detroit exploded in what has been characterized as the most deadly urban rebellion in the United States to date. To commemorate the 40th

[Marxism-Thaxis] Workers World Editorial: Why Virginia Tech killings happened

2007-04-18 Thread Charles Brown
EDITORIAL Why Virginia Tech killings happened Published Apr 17, 2007 11:36 PM Yet another rampage has occurred at a school, this time leaving 33 people dead at Virginia Tech-the worst such incident ever at a U.S. college campus. The news media seem stunned and surprised, yet their

[Marxism-Thaxis] gun control

2007-04-19 Thread Charles Brown
gun control * From: Jim Devine the recent killings in Blacksburg, VA suggest that a theoretical examination the role of gun control is needed. background: I was looking at Carlin Soskice's (very good but hard) macroeconomics textbook which shows a graph indicating the theoretical

[Marxism-Thaxis] THE LYNCHING OF SAM HOSE

2007-04-24 Thread Charles Brown
THE LYNCHING OF SAM HOSE Coweta group uses past to promote dialogue about today's race relations By ERNIE SUGGS The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 04/22/07 For years, legend has it, body parts belonging to Sam Hose rested in drawers and keepsake boxes throughout Coweta County.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Rockefella was a gangsta

2007-04-25 Thread Charles Brown
He assumes this individuality is significantly irrational. He claims the main motive force of the economic machine in capitalism iinvolves an intense appeal to the money=making and money-loving instincts of individuals. This constitutes it as a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those

[Marxism-Thaxis] Imus isn't the real bad guy

2007-04-25 Thread Charles Brown
Waistline2 I absolutely agree that gangster rap expresses bourgeois ideology, not all gangster rap. Gangster Rap as with the term New Jack swing was coined, to describe something. Rap means . . . Rap music and into simply lyrics or words but a structure of sound . . . music.

[Marxism-Thaxis] History of capitalists as gangsters

2007-04-25 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism] General Motors collaboration with Adolph Hitler http://hnn.us/articles/37935.html _ ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Imus isn't the real bad guy

2007-04-26 Thread Charles Brown
Is murder and deploying any means necessary to achieve business means and ends lumpen proletariat ideology? CB: I'd say it is bourgeois ideology. ^^^ The petty bourgeoisie is not a class of softies or punks but rather an economic indicator of owning and partial ownership of a

[Marxism-Thaxis] Tillman hearing videos

2007-04-26 Thread Charles Brown
http://video.google.com/videosearch?ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8aq=trls=org.mozilla:e n-US:officialclient=firefox-aum=1q=tillman+lynchsa=Ntab=nv ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to:

[Marxism-Thaxis] Chavez praises Trotsky's Transitional Program

2007-04-28 Thread Charles Brown
lixiang : Chavez ,a politician,guileful? He praised Jiang Zeming in his visiting to China too. CB; Chavez's overall practice seems revolutionist in the Marxist sense. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To

[Marxism-Thaxis] What Are the Origins of May Day?

2007-05-01 Thread Charles Brown
Rosa Luxemburg, What Are the Origins of May Day?: The happy idea of using a proletarian holiday celebration as a means to attain the eight-hour day was first born in Australia. The workers there decided in 1856 to organize a day of complete stoppage together with meetings and entertainment

[Marxism-Thaxis] Reflections by the Commander in Chief

2007-05-01 Thread Charles Brown
Reflections by the Commander in Chief: IT IS IMPERATIVE TO IMMEDIATELY HAVE AN ENERGY REVOLUTION I hold nothing against Brazil, even thought to more than a few Brazilians continuously bombarded with the most diverse arguments, which can be confusing even for people who have traditionally

[Marxism-Thaxis] Rush's Magic Negro Routine

2007-05-01 Thread Charles Brown
Comedic dialectic can be more radical than serious dialectic, as when it backfired on Imus. Charles ^^ The Nation BLOG | Posted 04/25/2007 @ 12:09pm Rush's Magic Negro Routine Adam Howard

[Marxism-Thaxis] Rush's Magic Negro Routine

2007-05-02 Thread Charles Brown
usual, and issues may move along faster than in the normal cycle. Americans may be forced to think politically more. Maybe not , though. Charles At 07:04 PM 5/1/2007 -0400, Charles Brown wrote: Comedic dialectic can be more radical than serious dialectic, as when it backfired on Imus. Charles

[Marxism-Thaxis] Have we already abandoned our attempts to prevent dangerous climate change?

2007-05-02 Thread Charles Brown
Have we already abandoned our attempts to prevent dangerous climate change? by George Monbiot Published in the Guardian (May 01 2007) The rich nations seeking to cut climate change have this in common: they lie. You won't find this statement in the draft of the new report by the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Bush official preached abstinence while using prostitutes ( Jeane Palfrey's little list)

2007-05-03 Thread Charles Brown
Little list or big list ? On the radio , I heard she had 10,000 clients. Monica-gate to the third power ? The dialectic of feminist critique of male supremacy and its impingement on the power strucutre could have unexpected twists and turns. Radical madames ? CB ^

[Marxism-Thaxis] Portrait of an young Iranian Marxist feminist

2007-05-04 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism] Portrait of an young Iranian Marxist feminist Louis P This is an excerpt from chapter 8 of Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War by Andreas Malm and Shora Esmailian that was released by Pluto Books in February 2007.

[Marxism-Thaxis] A real gangster

2007-05-04 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.geocities.com/jiggs2000_us/jonesbutch.html Milton David Jones Y.B.I Founder 1978-Present Butch The Early Years At the age of fourteen Milton David Jones was introduced to the world of drug dealing by his brother-in-law who he referred

[Marxism-Thaxis] actual you know what

2007-05-04 Thread Charles Brown
Monterey Dexter Eastside neighborhood Dexter is on the Westside, no ? Malcolm X ^ Milton David Jones Y.B.I Founder 1978-Present Butch The Early Years At the age of fourteen Milton David Jones was introduced to the world of drug dealing by his brother-in-law who he

[Marxism-Thaxis] Our_Gang: Gangism in American working class culture

2007-05-06 Thread Charles Brown
Our Gang From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The Little Rascals redirects here. For other uses, see The Little Rascals (disambiguation). For the novel by Philip Roth see Our Gang (novel). A poster for the

[Marxism-Thaxis] West_Side_Story: artists romanticizing gangs

2007-05-07 Thread Charles Brown
West Side Story From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the musical. For the 1961 film, see West Side Story (film). For The Game's song, see Westside Story (song). West Side Story MusicLeonard Bernstein Lyrics Stephen Sondheim

[Marxism-Thaxis] West_Side_Story: artists romanticizing gangs

2007-05-07 Thread Charles Brown
in American popular culture. Of course, Joseph Kennedy was gangster rumrunner. --- Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis wrote: West Side Story From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Marxism-Thaxis] West_Side_Story: artists romanticizing gangs

2007-05-07 Thread Charles Brown
As for the relationship between youth gangs and underworld crime, I guess the assumption is that there is a connection, but I would also guess that it is not always straightforward and simple. Nothing in real life is. In the film 'A Bronx Tale', the mafia group who operate in the neighborhood

[Marxism-Thaxis] West_Side_Story: artists romanticizing gangs

2007-05-07 Thread Charles Brown
in Little Italy on Spring and Mulberry in Manhattan. My sister worked at the bakery and lived across from the oven down the street from the store. Her apartment was two doors down from John Gotti's club. We didn't worry much about crime there. I got other stories, too. --- Charles Brown cbrown

[Marxism-Thaxis] West_Side_Story: artists romanticizing gangs

2007-05-08 Thread Charles Brown
^ Truly. It is not really a very unique observation on my part to point to heroizing gangs, gangsters and outlaws in American popular culture. Of course, Joseph Kennedy was gangster rumrunner. On glamorizing hoods, I forgot Frank Sinatra and the Ratpack. Of course, Sinatra is

[Marxism-Thaxis] THE TRAGEDY THREATENING OUR SPECIES

2007-05-09 Thread Charles Brown
REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF THE TRAGEDY THREATENING OUR SPECIES I cannot speak as an economist or a scientist. I simply speak as a politician who wishes to unravel the economists' and scientists' arguments one way or another. I also try to sense the motivations of each one of

[Marxism-Thaxis] _iacocca_bush

2007-05-09 Thread Charles Brown
Susan Antilla / Bloomberg | April 23, 2007 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088sid=aTO5XQKJLKoorefer=home Lee Iacocca campaigned for George W. Bush in 2000 even though he'd never met him. After Bush won, his then chief of staff, Andy Card, called to offer an ambassadorship; Iacocca

[Marxism-Thaxis] Detroit city council oks racial profiling ban

2007-05-09 Thread Charles Brown
Detroit council OKs racial profiling ban May 9, 2007 By NIRAJ WARIKOO FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER The City Council voted 9-0 today to pass a new ordinance that bans profiling people based on race, immigration status, ethnicity, dress and appearance, among other factors. It was developed after

[Marxism-Thaxis] West_Side_Story: artists romanticizing gangs

2007-05-11 Thread Charles Brown
andie nachgeborenen The story about Joe K as a bootlegger is romantic but untrue. The Kennedy money was from Rose F's dad, Honey Fitz, Mayor of Boston, big time Mass politician, and hand over first crook: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Fitzgerald Joe himself made his money as a

[Marxism-Thaxis] Discussion

2007-05-11 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism] On the MIA controversy Haines Brown You know, it is really astounding, more than a half century after his death, to be reading apologetics for Stalin, via`` accusing the MIA volunteers (and I daresay the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Lessons We Learned from the 6th Hemispheric Meeting in Havana

2007-05-15 Thread Charles Brown
Also available in Spanish, French, Russian, German, Arabic and Portuguese at this Cuban website. As you can see, Fidel continues to deepen his study and understanding of the ethanol problem daily, sharing what he learns from others with an international audience.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Continental Workers' Campaign for Living Wages

2007-05-15 Thread Charles Brown
T h e B u l l e t ~~~  A Socialist Project e-bulletin No. 49... May 11, 2007 ___   Mexican Workers Call for a Continental Workers' Campaign    For Living Wages and Social Justice Richard Roman

[Marxism-Thaxis] Chrysler at the Private Equity Gates of Hell

2007-05-18 Thread Charles Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [A-List] Chrysler at the Private Equity Gates of Hell To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How much of Chrysler is left for them to carve up  and sell off? I suspect here instead they have a re-float plan in mind for the  next  3-5 years. The new owners might put together

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cerberus puzzles

2007-05-18 Thread Charles Brown
Cerberus puzzles * To: PEN- I'm trying to make sense of the Cerberus takeover of Chrysler. The private equity firm is getting Daimler only $1.3 billion not much of a return for the original $36 billion that Daimler paid for Chrysler. The restive

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cerberus puzzles

2007-05-18 Thread Charles Brown
PEN-L Re: Cerberus puzzles _ On May 16, 2007, at 7:02 PM, Michael wrote: The restive Cerberus $7.4 billion Your voice recognition software is buggy, but funny. That's capitalism for you - money is always restive. Doug ___

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cerebrus

2007-05-18 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism] Another good article on Cerebrus/UAW from wsws.org Les Schaffer schaffer at optonline.net mailto:marxism%40lists.econ.utah.edu?Subject=%5BMarxism%5D%20Another%20good %20article%20on%20Cerebrus/UAW%20from%20wsws.orgIn-Reply-To=20070516134300.

[Marxism-Thaxis] Navy lawyer convicted of leaking Guantanamo names

2007-05-21 Thread Charles Brown
Navy lawyer convicted of leaking Guantanamo names Losing a fight for detainees Officer says he leaked list of terror suspects in the name of justice; now convicted, he could face prison term 12:00 AM CDT on Friday, May 18, 2007 By BROOKS EGERTON / The Dallas Morning News [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

[Marxism-Thaxis] for the holocaust of the species, is what his marvellous submarine will be good for.

2007-05-22 Thread Charles Brown
Castro on species-being sounds like me.:) CB ^ REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF THE ENGLISH SUBMARINE http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/secciones/reflexiones/ing-009.html The press dispatches bring the news; it belongs to the Astute Class, the first of its kind to be constructed in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Pharmacology

2007-05-22 Thread Charles Brown
From: Deborah This was funny.  Bad but funny! :-) Pharmacology   In Pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name. For example, the trade name of Tylenol also has a generic name of Acetaminophen. Aleve is also called

[Marxism-Thaxis] More on gangsta rap

2007-05-22 Thread Charles Brown
Unfortunately, much of social science is pseudo-science - an attempt of ideologically motivated interests to disguise itself as science. This is quite evident on this list - some people have no problem blaming warmongering for increased violence, but refuse to blame gangsta rap -even though

[Marxism-Thaxis] Pharmacology

2007-05-23 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain : Several years ago I was told the generic name was Mycoxafailin, so I consider that authoritative. The person who told me may have been penile, but I still trust my source. ^^ CB: Are you sure your source isn't pulling your leg ?

[Marxism-Thaxis] Fidel: Nobody Wants to Take the Bull by the Horns

2007-05-23 Thread Charles Brown
REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF NOBODY WANTS TO TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS by Fidel Castro On March 28, less than two months ago, when Bush proclaimed his diabolical idea of producing fuel from food, after a meeting with the most important U.S. automobile manufacturers, I wrote my

[Marxism-Thaxis] QUT to discipline academics for advocating humanity (part two)

2007-05-23 Thread Charles Brown
[lbo-talk] james daly : The laughable charges include iii) that in an article appearing in the Higher Education supplement of 'The Australian newspaper on Wednesday 11 April 2007.which was co-authored by

[Marxism-Thaxis] Got the message ?

2007-05-24 Thread Charles Brown
[Marxism] Ficel Castro: For the Deat Who Won't Listen REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF FOR THE DEAF WHO WON'T LISTEN A summary of the FAO declaration from its headquarters in Rome, on May 16, 2007. World cereal production is on track to reach a

[Marxism-Thaxis] Mata_Hari: world historic femme fatale

2007-05-25 Thread Charles Brown
    Memorial Day history of art and war. Remember Mata Hari. she was nevertheless found guilty and was executed by firing squad on 15 October 1917, (new calendar) an auspicious month elsewhere, too. The Allied and Entente pigs passed her around , and then shot her. CB

[Marxism-Thaxis] Mark Jones on life in the USSR and after

2007-05-31 Thread Charles Brown
andie nachgeborenen --- Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis wrote: As originally posted to the Marxism International list: Point of this blast from the past? ^ CB: The points are in the post

[Marxism-Thaxis] Drinking Bottled Water Kept in Your Car

2007-05-31 Thread Charles Brown
Drinking Bottled Water Kept in Your Car This is how Sheryl Crow got breast cancer she was on the Ellen show and She said this same exact thing. So please be very careful ladies. Drinking Bottled Water Kept in Cara friend whose mother recently got diagnosed with breast cancer. The doctor

[Marxism-Thaxis] Star Wars comes to Georgia

2007-06-01 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=17669 International Relations and Security Network (Switzerland) May 29, 2007 Georgia: NATO by way of BMD As Tbilisi extends its hand to the US and the latter's missile defense plans, some analysts believe it is also signaling its NATO

[Marxism-Thaxis] Cerebrus [sic]/ Gangsta rap

2007-06-01 Thread Charles Brown
CeJ jannuzi: a few days ago i mentioned that Lee Iacocca had met with Fidel Castro and said some surprising things about Castro and Cuba. CB: Not only that, Iaccoca did a commercial with Snoop Doggy Dogg - two peas in a pod. Gangsta rappers admire rich guys, and some are rich guys. ^^^

[Marxism-Thaxis] bottles

2007-06-01 Thread Charles Brown
Here ya go , Doug. Charles From: Deborah Subject: Re: Emailing: bottles Oh OK Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:     Home -- Medical -- Toxin du jour -- Bottle Royale Bottle Royale Claim:   Reusing plastic water bottles causes them to break down

[Marxism-Thaxis] Gangsters and capitalists

2007-06-07 Thread Charles Brown
?God?s banker? murder suspects acquitted By Tony Barber in Rome Financial Times: June 7 2007 All five defendants in one of modern Europe?s most mysterious murder cases were acquitted on Wednesday of killing Roberto Calvi, the Italian financier known as ?God?s banker? on account of his illicit

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