G'day Pen-pals,
Er, what's going on?
The Dow is up more than 5% for the week for no reason other that interest
rates went up by as much as expected. One inference is that the 'neutral
policy setting' signalled by Greenspan has been taken seriously - that his
was a hopeless gesture aimed only
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Struggle for Human Rights on Vieques, Puerto Rico
(For publication in the War Resisters League newsletter, July, 1999)
Robert L. Rabin Siegal*
Around 7:00 PM (EST) on April 19, 1999, a U.S. Navy pilot launched two
forwarded by Michael Hoover
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U.S. SHIRKS LIABILITY ISSUE ON CASSINI
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The "double standard" that the U.S. has created to deal with its liability
the event of a space
On 07/03/99 at 10:00 PM, Progressive Economics [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Every time I hear of Althusser, I have a hard time getting past the fact
that he murdered his wife. What do list members think of this? It's just
like William Burroughs. I like some of his writings, but what kind of a
It is important to put Althusser's work in context. It was addressed to the
intellectual milieu of the French CP, who were heavily biased toward a
crude "base-superstructure" model. He revived the more dialectical approach
to Marxism, which is embodied in works like the 18th Brumaire, as opposed
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Actually, I suspect that the markets would have reacted positively to iwhatever/i
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Bill writes:
It is incredible to imply that race is not a significant factor in
determining income in Canada.
Two of my colleagues, Wayne Simpson and Derek Hum,
conducted an extensive statistical study using special access to
detailed SLID data (Suvery of Labour and Income Dynamics), micro
Louis P., channeling the breathless Barry Lituchy:
. . .
Finally, let's not forget the interests of the military-industrial
contractors themselves. Having used up their inventory of certain weapon
systems, the Pentagon got Congress to rush through a $15 billion military
spending bill for just
LATIN AMERICA:
--Understanding Brizola
--Working and retirement in Latin America
CULTURE:
--Was Alan Lomax a Communist?
--Asian economic collapse and Hong-Kong film
WAR IN YUGOSLAVIA:
--Background to the war
--Fighting Hitler and fighting Milosevic
--Trotsky on the Ukraine, lessons for Kosovo
Paul: I think that a distinction should be made between objective in the
sense of the observer/theorist being honest and fair, and an "objective"
explanation of human society. Surely the first is what is meant by the
objectivity of science. And the second is what is being criticised in
.. . .
sov-er-eign (sov'rin, sov'uhr in, suv'-) n.
1. a monarch or other supreme ruler.
2. a person who has sovereign power or
authority.
3. a body of persons or a state having
sovereign
Is this technically not a racist crime becuase Jews who are technically
white are also targets? Nazis of course refer to the Jewish race.
This is not just an intellectual issue. People actually get killed
everyday.
Cops: Shooter Motivated by Hate
By
This surge has nothing to do with economic fundamentals in Asia.
Henry C.K. Liu
Saturday, July 3, 1999
Asian surge continues
AGENCIES
Asian stock markets pushed further ahead
yesterday, with blue chips in
Jiang sets tone with trip down Mother RiverJuly 5, 1999
By Wu Zhong
STORY: PRESIDENT Jiang Zemin marked the 10th
anniversary of his rise to the top the nation's hierarchy by
making a three-week-long inspection trip of the areas along
http://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/works/1962/4july.htm
KPFA Commentary
June 20, 1962
A Fourth Of July Oration
By Hal Draper
Independence Day is coming soon; and I began thinking about how our
revered forefathers rose up in their multitude to throw off foreign
oppression, fight for
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H-NET BOOK REVIEW
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Karen Brodkin. _How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race
in America_. New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Rutgers University Press,
1998. xi + 243 pp. Bibliography and index. $48.00
The Financial Post [house organ of Canadian bankers] ran a review of
some recent studies by far right think tanks[Cato, John Locke
institute(that's a new one)] on corporate welfare. While the analysis
is predicatable: corporate welfare should be abolished because it does
not reflect 'market
Carrol Cox wrote:
The impenetrable prose might be due to bipolar illness also. On occasion
when a bipolar friend (especially what is called a "rapid cycler") is
sinking (or rising) into the manic phrase their discourse becomes steadily
more disjointed and incoherent, though sometimes they
Rod Hay [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/03/99 09:46PM
Yoshie
What your post tells me is that the left has been outmanoeuvered on the
question of racism. I think that happened because they became stuck with a
strategy that had produced so many victories in the 1960s, but eventually
the limits of the
Max Sawicky wrote,
Potentially misleading. My Webster's says "supreme power esp.
over a body politic," which means the topographical location
is the correct latitude, but the wrong longitude. In the
sense of regnant, or exercising rule, as it were.
Don't you mean "correct longitude, wrong
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Since June 28, Huainan city, Anhui Province has been the site of a
sit-in
Okey Chigbo is not right wing. He is a left wing activist in Toronto--an
immigrant from Nigeria who is turned off by the "black" activists in
Toronto. And althought he cites the things you say he does, his primary
concern is the damage done by separationist Afro-centric theorists.
I know
Rod Hay wrote:
I would ask those who are interested in the question of racism to look at
the following article. I would appreciate comments.
Rod, The Next City is an extreme right wing publication. I used to get
it free when I subscribed the the GlobeMail. The author of the article
cites
I would ask those who are interested in the question of racism to look at
the following article. I would appreciate comments.
http://www.nextcity.com/main/town/7reading.htm
Rod Hay
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The History of Economic Thought Archives
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?...
Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
The day that Robert E. Lee's defeated Army of Northern Virginia began
its retreat from Gettysburg?
Brad DeLong, who has always liked the Gettysburg address more than
the Declaration
I suspect that a society can never successfully fight racism or
discrimination directly, even with strong organizations dedicated
specifically to that objective. I think that you need a backbone of
other sorts of organizations. Does this study support my perspective?
Baker, Michael and Nicole
Max B. Sawicky was probably correct in saying that the interests of the
munitions makers (judging by the $15 billion, which includes a car wash for
tanks [or was that taken out?] and other extaneous stuff). Barry Lituch
probably gave a best case scenario for a simple economic motive.
I recall
I'm a synthesist rather than a follower of any specific school, but I think
Althusser had something to contribute. (And no, I don't think we can
dismiss a thinker on the basis of his or her personal life. My son has his
own bipolar tendencies and I'd hate to think that meant he was useless.)
I
Credibility. Who would believe the Fed's newly proclaimed neutral stance if
it hadn't followed up on its previously announced leaning towards tightening?
I wonder how much good that credibility will do when the U.S. consumer
spending boomlet peters out? In terms of debt recycling, U.S. consumers
Chalmers Johnson on US Crony Capitalism (LATimes 6/25/99)
Friday, June 25, 1999
Let's Revisit Asia's 'Crony Capitalism' Economy: America's free-trade
proselytizing is the true root of what is now a global crisis.
By CHALMERS JOHNSON
After all the endless mouthing off in
My internet connection is working poorly, so I could not respond in more detail
last night. Yes, I was sorry to see Carrol's comment about Rod. The Althusser
case suggests the importance of approaching the personal and the intellectual
side dialectically. Louis (I think) suggested, and he
Rod Hay wrote:
I Althusser, anti-humanist
thought, his madness, and his stalinism.
These is the most intellectually and morally disgusting words I have
read on any maillist. Rod Hays is the third person to make it to
my permanent delete list.
Carrol
I agree with Carrol Cox on this account.
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