This looks like a wonderful solution for the objective interests of
capitalism. As reported in the UK, Singh will particularly ensure that
Indian Pakistani economic cooperation continues and will reassure the
Indian stock exchange.
Meanwhile with the help of Sonia Ghandi in the background, some
Counterpunch, May 19, 2004
Where's John Kerry?
Homes Destroyed; Death Toll Mounts
By JOSH FRANK
Even if he turns out to be the second worst president in US history,
John F. Kerry will still be better than our sitting president. At least
many liberal and progressive Americans are stating as much
The following statement was sent by a reliable friend. I know it breaks the
rule of discussing minor parties, but there was an indication from a
previous poster that the IRAQ CP was isolated in the international communist
movement.
Joel Wendland
http://www.politicalaffairs.net
-Original Message-
From: Joel Wendland [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Svajotslav Sokol Communist Party of Russian Federation Central Committee
member
--
Which is not a Communist party in the Western sense...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ralph Nader all but endorsed John Kerry for president in an interview yesterday with the New York Times,
I don't want to give away too many of the details that I have in an
upcoming Swans article on the attacks on Ralph Nader, but suffice it to
say that Nader practically
I think it's a mistake to see psychopathology as ever functional.
Success can't be furthered by unrealistic thinking. Even if we
interpret success as making money, psychopathological thinking will
be less successful than rational thinking. In Keynes's analysis of
financial markets, for instance,
Monsanto can hold plant patent: SCOC
Ottawa - Biotechnology giant Monsanto can hold a patent on its
genetically-modified plant, the Supreme Court of Canada said Friday, ruling
against a Saskatchewan farmer.
In a 5-4 decision, the court upheld Monsanto's patent over its Roundup Ready
canola.
The
Ted writes:
I think it's a mistake to see psychopathology as ever functional.
Success can't be furthered by unrealistic thinking.
unrealistic thinking -- e.g., schizophrenia -- usually doesn't further success in
capitalist enterprise, on the level of practical reason. But it does in other
Ted Winslow writes:
I had understood you to be claiming that Nash's equilibrium
concept was
brilliant.
I had written:
Einstein's Gedanken (sp?) experiments and Nash's brilliant insight
come from non-neurotypical thinking.
I do think that Nash's equilibrium [NE] concept was
Jim wrote:
So Ted assumes that I thought it was brilliant in general rather than
in a very specific way.
Ted had asked:
What specifically from the summary of his ideas by Mirowski would you
select as demonstrating brilliant insight into human motives and
behaviour?
in response to Jim's claim that:
I recently saw the film Y Tu Mama Tambien. This film is about the
sexual and other adventures of two Mexican youth, one from the upper
crust and one from the professional middle class. Ignoring the (very
interesting) sexual dimension, it reminded me of a Chilean graduate
student I knew at
What is the general theory that psychopathology is rewarded and encouraged by the
structure of corporations in capitalist society? As opposed to what? Why more so
than other structures, such as rising through the ranks of the Communist Party in the
Soviet Union (or any political party for
David S writes:
What is the general theory that psychopathology is rewarded
and encouraged by the structure of corporations in capitalist
society? As opposed to what? Why more so than other
structures, such as rising through the ranks of the Communist
Party in the Soviet Union (or any
Ron Fournier of the Associated Press reports that John Kerry, who
voted to confirm Antonin Scalia in 1986, said yesterday he's open to
nominating anti-abortion judges as long as that doesn't lead to the
Supreme Court overturning the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion
legal, disappointing
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Will liberal feminist organizations such as Planned Parenthood,
NARAL, and NOW continue to give the Democratic Party a blank check?
Why not? If this didn't stop them, nothing will.
The New York Times
October 23, 2003 Thursday
Bill Barring Abortion Procedure Drew on Backing
In the winter of 1962-63, during a strike of the NY Times, Robert
Silvers and a few close friends decided to launch the New York Review of
Books (http://www.nybooks.com/), which is considered the premier
intellectual print journal outside of academia.
When I first joined the SWP in 1967, I was a
Professor Zhao Zhun (tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing) will be speaking at the Cambridge
Public Library tomorrow, Saturday May 22 3pm - 5pm. The forum is entitled Can
Socialism and Capitalism Co-Exist in China? Enterprise Ownership Reform Since 1978
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: PEN-L list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L] NY Review of Books
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:32:49 -0400
In the winter of 1962-63, during a strike of the NY Times, Robert
Silvers and a few close friends decided to launch the New
Here's an excerpt from an article by
Hermann Albrecht of the 'Revolutionary Marxist Current, Venezuela' (a
group linked to the Ted Grant/Alan Woods old 'Militant tendency' in the
UK) which I posted on another list and which Michael asked me to post
here. You can find the whole piece on their
Professor Zhao Zhun (tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing) will be speaking at
the Cambridge Public Library tomorrow, Saturday May 22 3pm - 5pm. The
forum is entitled Can Socialism and Capitalism Co-Exist in China?
Enterprise Ownership Reform Since 1978
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
http://slate.msn.com/id/2100720/
This is not perfectly executed (it's a bit tendentious), but it's easy to
imagine it done perfectly, and it seems like a great idea. It does a
great job of capturing what's wrong with the man's speech. It's not that
he makes gaffes, but rather lards that he
Or, as John Stewart put it, why does Kerry sound more
dickish when he's telling the truth than Bush sounds when
he's lying?
-Original Message-
From: Michael Pollak
Subject:[PEN-L] Kerryisms
It's not that
he makes gaffes, but rather lards that he lards so many of his sentences
George Neumayr wrote in The American Spectator: Had
Robert Mapplethorpe snapped the photos at Abu Ghraib,
the Senate might have given him a government grant
(The Abu Ghraib Collection, May 12, 2004). The
outrageous equation of photographic evidence of prison
torture in the real world with works
George Neumayr wrote in The American Spectator: Had Robert
Mapplethorpe snapped the photos at Abu Ghraib, the Senate might have
given him a government grant (The Abu Ghraib Collection, May 12,
2004). The outrageous equation of photographic evidence of prison
torture in the real world with works of
David, could you tell us more about this case, please?
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:39:22AM -0700, David B. Shemano wrote:
Regarding corporations, everybody should be happy to know that the Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals held this week that a corporation can sue for violations of civil
rights
Has anyone ever tried to bring a charge under the 1996 Federal War Crimes
Act?
Cheers, Ken Hanly
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/politics/21MEMO.html?ei=1en=fa2af4bbd3884368ex=1086154392pagewanted=printposition=May
21, 2004
GENEVA CONVENTIONS
Justice Memos Explained How to Skip Prisoner Rights
Qatar labour law opens door to unions
Thursday 20 May 2004, 15:05 Makka Time, 12:05 GMT
The state of Qatar has issued a new labour law allowing for workers in the
tiny Gulf emirate the right to form trade unions and go on strike.
An official statement released from Amir Shaikh Hamad bin
Frank, Ellen wrote:
Or, as John Stewart put it, why does Kerry sound more
dickish when he's telling the truth than Bush sounds when
he's lying?
I hope he's lying about what he plans for Iraq. But as it now stands, a
vote for Kerry is a vote for expanding the war in Iraq.
I don't see how any
But many Indian economists trained in the US still remain staunch
nationalists. That has to do with the fact most come (came) at the
graduate level. Besides, the US has competition with the UK (the
Oxbridge types) and much earlier with the fSU, E Germany, and the like.
cheers, anthony
[If this is true, I think I'm just going to through in the towel and
decide that covert intelligence is an oxymoron. Is there no country with
a spy agency who can divine their own long-term interests? Are they all
willing to shipwreck their country just for the chance to say they made
something
The Great Satan doing God's work again!
Shane Mage
I am part of that force which always does good by attempting
to do evil. (Mephistopheles)
May 21, 2004
NEW YORK NEWSDAY
Chalabi aide is suspected Iranian spy
BY KNUT ROYCE
WASHINGTON BUREAU
May 21, 2004, 7:29 PM EDT
WASHINGTON -- The Defense
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