Not only are these analyses serious in their own right. They mark a new
deepening in the democratic opposition to the present executors of the will
of finance capital, at the same time as the popular movement widens in its
extent and its contact with whole populations. The role of capital is no
I thought it simply demystifies an expansionist process and pinpoints the real enemy as capital, that being a detrimental social relationship tying up all, and allemerging events in the present epoch of history. It sort of makes the life process of humanity one and the same and bridges
[from today's Federal Register]
Farm Service Agency
RULES
Program regulations:
Farm Security and Rural Investment Act-
General credit provisions,
7693-7701 [03-3562]
FSA program participants are predominantly family-size farmers and
ranchers and, as defined by the U.S. Small
Yes, but the small farms produce a small share of the total output. That
was true in the 1970s, when I was working on my ag. book. It is more true
today, I am certain.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 07:16:01AM -0800, Ian Murray wrote:
[from today's Federal Register]
Farm Service Agency
RULES
Title: independent Kurdistan?
from SLATE:[U.S.-based ] Newsweek reports that [the government of] Turkey is also demanding that it be allowed to set up strategic positions as much as 150 miles inside Iraq. The Kurds are not thrilled about that.
one possible event, once the US invades Iraq:
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34837] George Monbiot and David Harvey
this is an interesting article, but as Monbiot portrays it, Harvey's analysis is too mechanical and too pat.
The idea seems to be that a structural specific economic problem (under-use of industrial capacity) provokes the ruling class
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Slate was quoted as quoting:
Newsweek reports that Turkey is demanding that it be allowed to set up
strategic positions as much as 150 miles inside Iraq. The Kurds are
not thrilled about that.
And fwiw, the Turks have already set up positions a dozen miles into
Northern
LA Times, Feb. 18, 2003
The Good Life Is No More for Argentina
The nation rode high on a free-market system, backed by the IMF and tied
to the dollar. Then the global economy spun it into disaster.
By Héctor Tobar, Times Staff Writer
SAN ISIDRO, Argentina -- More than any other developing
(It must be bad karma or something, but the two institutions of higher
education that I have received degrees from are now being run by sleaze
bags. With Bard College's Leon Botstein, you get empire-building
financed by thieving financiers. With the New School's Bob Kerrey, you
get what is
(Amazing stuff. Sounds like a whore haggling over the price of a
blow-job with a john.)
NY Times, Feb. 18, 2003
Proposal by Turkey Stalls U.S. Bid to Use Its Bases
By DEXTER FILKINS with JUDITH MILLER
ISTANBUL, Feb. 17 The Bush administration's plans for a northern front
against Iraq
Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel and Dimed
Thursday, February 27, 2003, 7:30 p.m.
Walb Union Ballroom
Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)
A recognized and original social commentator, author and journalist Barbara
Ehrenreich has been a contributing writer for Time magazine since
You're absolutely right, Michael. Although it is true that most family
farms are classified as small businesses, the agricultural production from
these small businesses is actually concentrated in very large family
farms. These large family farms account for less than ten percent of the
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34857] Re: Re: US farms
and a lot of family farmers also have urban jobs that allow them to survive.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-
From: Diane Monaco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Title: strange bedfellows
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-affirm18feb18,1,2302122.story
Ex-Military Men Back Admissions Policy
Well-known former officials lend support to University of Michigan's affirmative action case.
From Associated Press (in L.A. TIMES)/February
Title: Argentina
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fg-argecon18feb18001440,1,1676421.story
The Good Life Is No More for Argentina
The nation rode high on a free-market system, backed by the IMF and tied to the dollar. Then the global economy spun it into disaster.
By Hector
from the NY-TIMES:
Bush Says Worldwide Protests Won't Change Approach to Iraq
By DAVID STOUT
ASHINGTON, Feb. 18 President Bush said today that he is still
determined to use force, if he must, to disarm Saddam Hussein, and that
a weekend of worldwide protests by millions of people did nothing
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34862] Bush Says Worldwide Protests Won't Change Approach to Iraq
it is telling that bush's understanding of democracy (at least the
beautiful version of it) is one where people get to say what
they want,
but not decide on what they do.
it's also telling that the
BUSINESS WEEK
FEBRUARY 13, 2003
READER SURVEY RESULTS
Weighing Powell's Evidence
Some 60% of respondents to our online survey still don't think the Bush
Administration has made a persuasive case against Iraq
Despite the photos and documents that Secretary of State Colin Powell
unveiled at a
---
it is telling that bush's understanding of democracy
(at least the
beautiful version of it) is one where people get to
say what they want,
but not decide on what they do.
--ravi
On his version, they don't even get to pick the people
who DO
At 01:49 PM 2/17/2003 -0800, Jim wrote:
is there such a thing as a good labor economics textbook?
I think not. But some of us still have to make do with what is out
there...s my solution has been to use the McConnell, et al. text,
Contemporary Labor Economics, which is quite good for
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34803] Re: Re: Sacramento anti-war rally
Joanna says: On the Ides of March ... the war will start.
a friend with some contacts with the military says that some time in the last two weeks in Feb. is the time for the invasion. If you want to have a surprise attack, after
Fwd by Lou Paulsen:
Assembling a coalition of the willing is like making sausage, you don't want
to look too closely at it.
From Reuters:
U.S. Warns Turkey Against Blocking Iraq Plans
ANKARA, Turkey/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. preparations for war with Iraq
suffered a new setback Tuesday
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34870] Operation Northwoods
from ABC: America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba, and, casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national
Unilateral action not only would look like aggression it would be aggression
and violates Article 2(4) of the UN charter. Ordinarily such a breach
against the peace would be brought before the Security Council and sanctions
imposed or force authorised to neutralise this breach of the peace.
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34873] Re: Assembling the Coalition of the Willing
speaking of which, I don't think enough people have remarked on the similarity between the Bushists' attitude toward the UN and that of the John Birch Society. The latter say get US out of the UN and reject any
Despite the warning, the European declaration was marked most by what
it did not say: It set no deadline for the inspections to be called
off; it did not commit European countries to using force to back up
U.N. resolutions on disarming Iraq; and it did not say Hussein is
already in material breach
Funny you should ask. Yes there is, entitled _Labor Markets and Employment
Relationships_, but unfortunately it won't be published until winter
semester next academic year.
Gil
is there such a thing as a good labor economics textbook?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tuesday night Arthur Miller was interviewed on BBC Newsnight by Jeremy
Paxman, who suggested that unlike in Britain, the majority of people in the
USA supported the war.
AM: First of all I doubt that very much. I don't really think that is the
case. I think the poll numbers have been dropping
Global Capitalism and Israel
by Adam Hanieh
Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler, The Global Political Economy of
Israel (London and Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press, 2002), 407 pages,
cloth $75.00, paper $24.95.
...Nitzan and Bichler start by challenging the traditional view of
Israel as a
At 18/02/03 11:20 -1000, you wrote:
Despite the warning, the European declaration was marked most by what
it did not say: It set no deadline for the inspections to be called
off; it did not commit European countries to using force to back up
U.N. resolutions on disarming Iraq; and it did not say
Class, Economy, and the Second Intifada
by Adam Hanieh
...In essence, I argue that Israeli capitalism was brought into being
by the Labor Zionist movement (today represented by the Labor Party)
and that the Oslo process was a key step in its formation.1 Israel's
war against the Palestinian
Title: how it works -- a glimpse
This was posted to PubRadio by Ted Coltman at
CPB:
From InternalMemos.com (fuckedcompany.com) 2/12/2003
Clearchannel
Preparing for war
WAR PLANS
KFBK and KSTE
NEWS
Make certain that we are monitoring CNN and ABC's Sat Que. Sat Que
must be turned up loud. We
Title: Get the picture?
In a message dated 2/18/03 12:53:19 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"The present condition of South Carolina can only be understood by a
consideration of the population and the changes which have taken place
in it since the close of the war. There are now about three hundred
25,000 German firms expect the worst
Eichel risks showdown with EU as Brown defends UK spending
Mark Milner and Heather Stewart
Wednesday February 19, 2003
The Guardian
A leading German business organisation yesterday predicted that Europe's
largest economy would stagnate this year, raising
Of splits and zeros
Paul Foot
Wednesday February 19, 2003
The Guardian
There was only one advantage to being forced - by lameness - to miss the
biggest demonstration of my life. I could watch the whole glorious pageant
unfold on BBC News 24. Among the many marchers picked out at random for a
washingtonpost.com
Attorneys General Crusade Against Corporate Misdeeds
States Often Sue When the Federal Government Won't
By Caroline Mayer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 19, 2003; Page E01
Over the past four months, groups of state attorneys general have settled a
$484
Which kurds, the barzanis or the talebanis both lowly paid US agents past and present and having strong ties to israel and they hate each other more than they hate saddam. not to forget that they conspired against the pkk on the turkish side and against cesessionist kurds on the iranian side.
Daily News (New York)
February 18, 2003, Tuesday SPORTS FINAL EDITION
BRITS, TURKS WAFFLE ON IRAQBig anti-war rallies shocked pols
BY RICHARD SISK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON - U.S. allies Britain and Turkey appeared to waver yesterday
in their resolve to back quick military
http://www.punchdown.org/rvb/F15/
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The present condition of South Carolina can only be understood by a
consideration of the population and the changes which have taken place
in it since the close of the war. There are now about three hundred
thousand whites and four hundred thousand blacks. The general effect of
the
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