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Ed George, Marc Jones and myself exchanged views on this list as to how
socialists should relate to the national question in Wales both in the
present and as an historical question. Contributions on this list have
been polite, all too rare on some lists, and
So what ever happened to the old custom of the king personally leading the
troops into battle?
Tom Walker
In a message dated 11/18/02 3:34:57 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Gulick wrote:
the "state capitalism" thesis (advanced by both the News and Letters gang
and the Rethinking Marxism crowd, among others) is a sorry artifact of
political convenience and intellectual
Salon.com, November 19, 2002 Tuesday
Manufacturing a massacre
By Eric Boehlert
Initial reports said Palestinian gunmen brazenly fired on Jewish
worshipers in Hebron. The reports were wrong -- but the U.S. media has
yet to correct them.
The headlines over the weekend were startling, even for
(Sooner or later it had to happen. Peter Singer, an animal rights
leftist, who also argues that handicapped children should be killed for
their own good, has written a new book promoting globalization in the
Thomas Friedman Lexus and the Olive Tree mold. What's next? A proposal
to turn famine
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When is the quarter/semester over?
Joanna
At 04:29 AM 11/19/2002 +, you wrote:
Gar Lipow wrote:
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.)
This makes the three of
I for one am irritated with the new correct line on trade in
agricultural goods: agricultural subsidies are bad, and free trade is
the solution for impoverished farmers in the third world. (1) If we
want to reverse the continuing transformation of agriculture into
unsustainable and
It's beginning to look like, financially, Iraq II will be the opposite
of Iraq I. Ten years ago, the US fought the war as a mercenary and was
repaid by other capitalist powers; we ended up with an approximately
$100B transfer on the current account. This time around, the US will
have to be
In both wars, the US shelled out before the war to bribe acquiescence, but
Peter is correct -- it looks like the US will have trouble collected
afterwards.
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:45:16AM -0800, Peter Dorman wrote:
It's beginning to look like, financially, Iraq II will be the opposite
of
I share Soula Avramidis' insight and worry about natioanl chauvinism.
Separately, I see an environmental calamity close at hand, but I think
that it will tear humanity apart rather than bring it together.
Gene Coyle
soula avramidis wrote:
I refer back to an item that says that the
Title: cutting privatizing state services
[was: RE: [PEN-L:32376] Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: economics on pen-l]
In addition, cutting state services such as education means that religious groups fill in the gap. Maybe Catholic education is pretty harmless (except to those students hit by
Privatizing education also tends to reinforce the fragmentation of
society into separate islands of experience. Public schools, at their
best, bring all sorts of people together in ways that they would not have
otherwise experienced.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State
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In his first paragraph, Easterbrook reveals he hasn't read Singer, but
rather the people who write about Singer. Given his rather loose
standards of intellectual accountability (also revealed in his past
writings on environmental issues), his endorsement of this latest book
is of little
How did you conclude that Easterbrook hasn't read Singer?
Peter Dorman wrote:
In his first
paragraph, Easterbrook reveals he hasn't read Singer, but rather the people
who write about Singer. Given his rather loose standards of intellectual
accountability (also revealed in his past writings
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Attention, Small-D Democrats: The Party's Over
by James Ridgeway
(Village Voice, Nov. 12) -- Since last week's election, liberals have
been melodramatically wringing their hands, while the pundits have
rushed to expound upon the deeper meaning of the Republican sweep.
The Democrats lost,
I've just posted my October 4, 2001, interview with Ashraf Ghani, the
anthropologist who is now finance minister of Afghanistan (surely one
of the least enviable jobs in the world), but who then was a former
Johns Hopkins professor and World Bank consultant. It's at
joanna bujes wrote:
When is the quarter/semester over?
This question, in the context of what is below confuses me.
Joanna
At 04:29 AM 11/19/2002 +, you wrote:
Gar Lipow wrote:
Hi Joanna - I'm an anarchist leaning
independent socialist myself. (I would
explain why I'm not an
Singer doesn't take the positions Easterbrook has attributed to him.
You don't have to agree with Singer (I often don't) to appreciate this.
There was an article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed about a year ago
that was fair-minded, I thought, on Singer and his critics. The man is
not a
In a message dated 11/19/02 8:27:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(Sooner or later it had to happen. Peter Singer, an "animal rights
leftist," who also argues that handicapped children should be killed for
their own good, has written a new book promoting globalization in
Title: FW: HU'S ON FIRST
forwarded from pen-l alumnus Mike Lebowitz --
Playwright Jim Sherman wrote this today after Hu Jintao was named chief
of
the Communist Party in China.
HU'S ON FIRST
By James Sherman
(We take you now to the Oval Office.)
George: Condi! Nice to see you. What's
Greetings Economists,
Peter Dorman writes,
There was an article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed about a year ago
that was fair-minded, I thought, on Singer and his critics. The man is
not a monster...
Doyle,
Writings on an Ethical Life, Peter Singer, Harper Collins books, 2000,
page 163,
We might
i found myself once next to a wealthy man in a cold war peace rally, i asked him what he was doing there since it was something the commies put together in part, he says a nuclear bomb or an ecological disaster will poor and rich alike.i think there in international culture a heavy humanist
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