The New Yorker, Nov. 18, 2002
WHAT COMES NATURALLY
by LOUIS MENAND
Does evolution explain who we are?
The new sciences of human nature. Well, why not? The old sciences of
human nature didn't have such a fabulous track record. They gave us
segregated drinking fountains, invented spelling, and
Title: RE: [PEN-L:32338] Re: RE: Re: economics on pen-l
Peter B. writes:The strength of the dollar depends entirely on the willingness of the rest of the world to accumulate them at the rate of one-half trillion a year. Private wealth-holders will do so based on expectations of risk (exchange
The dollar has historically been seen as a hedge against uncertainty. The
war would seem to promise more uncertainty, perhaps then subsidizing the
dollar in part.
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 08:17:43AM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
Peter B. writes:The strength of the dollar depends entirely on the
At a Circle of Elders discussion last night, Folksinger U. Utah
Phillips (who should have been president by now) said, You cannot
build an enlightened foreign policy on the three lower chakras --
Bush, Dick and Colin.
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Drop Bush, Not
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Basically it is about whether you believe the economic system is
essentially a social system, although privately owned, and whether you
believe in the cooperative powers of human beings eventually to get on top
of it, even though there may be no one party
But didn't Waistline tell us the workers will be robots?
Gene Coyle
Michael Hoover wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/15/02 03:58PM
Basically it is about whether you believe the economic system is
essentially a social system, although privately owned, and whether you
believe in the cooperative
A friend suggests that if we funded wars out of the property tax we
would have no war. People seem to vote down any local spending -- for
schools, parks, whatever. Let them vote down war.
Gene Coyle
Eugene Coyle wrote:
A friend suggests that if we funded wars out of the property tax we
would have no war. People seem to vote down any local spending -- for
schools, parks, whatever. Let them vote down war.
Not necessarily. If local spending is for a beefed-up police force, they
will
from Sunday Herald (UK)
Official: US oil at the heart of Iraq crisis
By Neil Mackay
President Bush's Cabinet agreed in April 2001 that 'Iraq remains a
destabilising influence to the flow of oil to international markets from the
Middle East' and because this is an unacceptable risk to the US
Sir,
URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
Firstly, I have to introduce myself to you. My name is Dr Wilfred Mboyo
from Zimbabwe. I
was the chairman of contract review panel in my country before the
problem of the land
reform program.
Before the escalation of the
Dear Hari,
Of course the imperialists wanted Hitler to mop up those troublesome
commies; of course the imperialists had no objection to Hitler's building a
SLAVe camp in the east...that goes without saying.
The problem has more to do with our very different views of Stalin. And, I
suspect
Louis Proyect wrote:
Eugene Coyle wrote:
A friend suggests that if we funded wars out of the property tax we
would have no war. People seem to vote down any local spending -- for
schools, parks, whatever. Let them vote down war.
Not necessarily. If local spending is for a beefed-up
Title: re: Blank State Reviewed
Louis Menand's review of Pinker's BLANK SLATE is excellent -- as far as I can tell, since I haven't read Pinker's book. It fits with the evolutionary psychology books that I _have_ read (e.g., Baron-Cohen's book on autism). I will probably never read Pinker's
Title: when I write my masterpiece...
... I'll title it EUROS AND CIVILIZATION.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Not necessarily. We are dealing with a quite reactionary _voting_
public, that is with a slight majority among a minority. What the
politics of the majority (non-voting) are (or might become under
different conditions) remains to be determined. (Bloody reversals could
work both ways.)
Carrol
This is just a brief message to let you know that I have in the
past
couple of months added a number of new and old texts recently to
the
Break Their Haughty Power web site at
http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner
These include an exchange between myself and the British Aufheben
group
about my
This article is fascinating. We supposedly fight to bring democracy to
the rest of the world, but ...
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 06:52:37PM -0800, Ian Murray wrote:
[Business Week]
NOVEMBER 25, 2002
LEGAL AFFAIRS
Making a Federal Case Out of Overseas Abuses
An obscure law paves the way for
Hi Joanna - I'm an anarchist leaning independent socialist myself. (I
would explain why I'm not an anarchist, but I doubt it would be of great
interest to anyone.) I know that Stalin was a butcher, monster, a mass
murderer and a totalitarian. He did almost nothing I would defend. But
almost
Short takes a tilt at CAP
EU subsidies will wreck trade talks and drive up poverty, says development
secretary
Larry Elliott, economics editor
Tuesday November 19, 2002
The Guardian
Clare Short, the international development secretary, will today attack the
common agricultural policy with a
[New York Times]
November 19, 2002
Victors and Spoils
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Rule No. 1: Always have a cover story. The ostensible purpose of the Bush
administration's plan to open up 850,000 federal jobs to private competition
is to promote efficiency. Competitive vigor, we're told, will end
U.S. Discusses Aid for Turkey to Defray Costs of an Iraq War
By Bradley Graham
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 19, 2002; Page A20
The United States has begun discussions about compensating Turkey for
economic losses and other costs likely to be incurred in a U.S.-led war
against
The no-fly zones were never specifically authorised by UN resolutions. The
northern zone became irrelevant after Iraq withdrew troops from the north
and the US also withdrew after a Kurdish faction called in help from Hussein
to oust a competing faction supported by the US and Iran! Before that at
I refer back to an item that says that the conservative desocialising agenda is at work under George w. if so and I am sure cuts in social spending are abound, then to what degree is a fall in the average level of education of the American working class fosters ultra nationalism and
By Will Hutton, the campaigning British economist and former editor of the
Observer
When the house-price bubble bursts
We are colluding in the mania of falsely elevated house prices. They fuel
our extravagant lifestyles but we are heading for trouble
Will Hutton Sunday November 17, 2002 The
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