Bush's plans for our tax dollar

Bigger military spending, more residtribution to the ultra rich, big payoffs to pharmaceuticals and insurance companies, and of course giveaways to far-right Christian faith-based intiatives (or rather the fundamentalist theocrats): http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/fbci/ A vote for the

Re: More on LNG

Hi Mike, We must have that beer some time soon. Is LNG the same as what's being promoted in Australia as LPG? So as when we run low on petrol (peak oil), we can sell zeez nice carbon based stuff for the burning. In Australia, most petrol stations already sell LPG or as it is known, auto

Re: Bush's plans for our tax dollar

Joel Wendland wrote: Bigger military spending, more residtribution to the ultra rich, big payoffs to pharmaceuticals and insurance companies, and of course giveaways to far-right Christian faith-based intiatives (or rather the fundamentalist theocrats): http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/fbci/

Exxon crimes

Betrayed by an oil giant 15 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, the coast remains polluted and compensation is unpaid By Andrew Gumbel The Independent, 25 March 2004 Shortly after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, a senior Exxon representative visited the devastated fishing communities of

More on the labor theory of value

We're being fiddled, say violinists AP, Berlin Wednesday March 24, 2004 The Guardian Violinists at a German orchestra are suing for a pay rise on the grounds that they play many more notes per concert than their musical colleagues - a litigation that the orchestra's director yesterday called

Interest rate debate

Gerald Baker in todays Financial Times describes the renewed debate within financial circles about whether it is time to tighten US monetary policy, and weighs in against sado-monetarism. Baker says a deviancy popular among certain central bankers and commentators in the 1980s, is out of the

Re: More on the labor theory of value

Isn't this being published a week too early? We're being fiddled, say violinists AP, Berlin Wednesday March 24, 2004 The Guardian Violinists at a German orchestra are suing for a pay rise on the grounds that they play many more notes per concert than their musical colleagues - a litigation that

Re: Student from Hamilton College

Dear Herman, Thank you for your note. It is good to hear that people read things I write. I employ the theory of Marx in my analysis of what goes on in a capitalist economy. But I suspect that your professors want a review of neoclassical literature. One way to proceed might be first to

Re: More on the labor theory of value

of course, this isn't really about the labor theory of value, since the players produce a collective product with a collective labor process in which external benefits amongst workers imply that the effects of individual labors can't be separated. Being paid more for more effort is about the

Re: Student from Hamilton College

There are a couple of Marxists in that department. The situation is not that bleak! Ahmet MICHAEL YATES wrote: Dear Herman, Thank you for your note. It is good to hear that people read things I write. I employ the theory of Marx in my analysis of what goes on in a capitalist economy. But I

Re: American flags

My Navajo friend, a well-educated former Catholic priest, tells me that his family's stories include many in which his ancestors were led to believe that if they stand around the flagpole when the federal troops come in they would be safe. A ploy, of course, to get them all in one place where they

Re: Yassin assassination

[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/23/2004 3:22:08 PM isn't it obvious israeli strategy to incite hamas into becoming the primary opposition, thus sidelining more moderate elements with whom they (israel) may be forced to negotiate with by their patrons (the US)? --ravi Or incite Hamas to reckless retaliation

Class in America Book Series

Call for book proposals. Announcing, CLASS IN AMERICA, a new book series from the University of Nebraska Press. Series Editor: Jeffrey R. Di Leo. Advisory Board: Michael Berube, Laura Hapke, Steve Parks, Paula Rabinowitz. CLASS IN AMERICA is a newly established book series for a broad array of

Planet of Slums

(This appears to be the presentation that Mike Davis gave to the Columbia University conference on imperialism that I reported on a while back. It is extremely good stuff.) New Left Review 26, March-April 2004 Future history of the Third Worlds post-industrial megacities. A billion-strong

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Camejo-Hawkins meeting in NYC

Anyone But Bush? What Should Progressives Do in 2004? Saturday, March 27, at 4:00 P.M. with Special Guests: Peter Camejo 2003 Green Party Candidate for Governor of California Howie Hawkins Chair, Onondoga County Green Party 25 West 43rd St, 19th Fl (btwn 5th 6th Aves) F/B/D/V train to 42nd

Great essay on the Yasin assassination...

The Living, about the Dead /by B. Michael, The Israeli Daily Yedioth Achronot Translated from the Hebrew by Victoria Buch/ The whole nation is huddled up in the corner, like a little dog that urinated on the carpet, waiting meekly for the cruel strike that will come. Nobody has any doubt that it

Re: American flags

We can either reject an important symbol for all sorts of intellectual reasons, or embrace it and tap into the emotions of a majority of the population. If the flag has been used against the left so effectively, why insist on letting the right keep using it? My Navajo friend, a well-educated