Re: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-22 Thread Bill Burgess
At 11:17 AM 21/04/2002 +0800, Grant wrote: That wasn't my contention, which is more accurately that except for actual formal/military imperialism, (e.g. Britain in India) imperialist and imperialised have always been poles on a notional axis, rather than being distinct and permanent things. I

Re: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-20 Thread Bill Rosenberg
Grant Lee wrote: HK and Singapore are entrepots, and they are city-economies, which indicates the need to qualify the significance of their numbers It seems to me that if no western state is very similar --- and I'm not convinced this is the case --- to HK and Singapore it would have

Re: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada (and US foreign investment)

2002-04-19 Thread Bill Rosenberg
Ratios of inward and outward FDI stock to GDP, and FDI flows to gross fixed capital formation are tabulated for most countries in the various World Investment Reports of UNCTAD. They also calculate a transnationality index of FDI host countries, which averages the four shares: FDI flows (as a

Re: Re: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada (and US foreign investment)

2002-04-19 Thread Louis Proyect
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 00:37:28 +1200, Bill Rosenberg wrote: It's difficult to say what profit figures would show. The ability of TNCs to transfer their profits from one country another for tax, political or internal reasons must make the profit attributed to their operations in any one country

Re: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-19 Thread Louis Proyect
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 22:46:00 +0900, Charles Jannuzi wrote: US policies toward New Zealand came damn close when NZ objected to US ships not confirming whether or not they carried nukes in NZ waters and harbors. In the case of Australia, the US has taken the place of GB as key 'military ally' and

Re: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-19 Thread Michael Pugliese
The CIA in Australia, Part 1 ... and individuals in Australia. Today, in part 1 ... operations against the Whitlam government through the ... for covert actions. Covert Action often means the ... http://www.serendipity.magnet.ch/cia/cia_oz/cia_oz1.htm - 24k - Cached - Similar pages The CIA in

Re: Re: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-19 Thread Michael Pugliese
April 5, 1998 THE SWISS, THE GOLD, AND THE DEAD By Jean Ziegler. Translated by John Brownjohn. 322 pp. New York: Harcourt Brace Company. $27. (Review) Gnomes and Nazis An account of Switzerland's role in financing Germany's war machine. By PETER GROSE (Peter Grose, a research fellow at

Re: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-19 Thread Bill Burgess
Grant wrote: country inward FDI stock/GDPoutward FDI stock/GDP Canada 23.9% 26.9% Australia 28.117.1 UK 23.335.9 France 11.715.9 Singapore 85.8

Re: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-16 Thread Louis Proyect
Grant Lee wrote: Louis, I'm sorry you feel that way. I took your reference to Lenin meant that you favoured the national front tactics of the early 1920s, which did involve bourgeois nationalists (in dependent countries). This only confuses things further. Lenin advocated support for

Re: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-15 Thread Louis Proyect
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:29:15 +0800, Grant Lee wrote: I would ask: why would Marxists any longer seek solidarity with bourgeois nationalists, except in the now rare circumstances where the formal national question has never been resolved? In my last reply to you, I urged you not to put words in

Re: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-14 Thread Louis Proyect
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 10:23:17 +0800, Grant Lee wrote: Louis: If it isn't already clear, I find references to monolithic, single-minded exploitative entities called Great Britain or the United States to be untenable generalisations, which ignore the complexity of real class structures and the

Re: Re: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-14 Thread Ken Hanly
Left nationalism is nothing new in Canada and it certainly not a novel theory of Ross Dowson. Left nationalism was a strong current in the NDP (New Democractic Party) a social democratic party that ruled in BC, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and even Ontario for a while. It still governs Manitoba and

RE: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-13 Thread phillp2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yea, there is a lot of superficial truth in this account, at least as relative to Canada. But there is also a lot of overgeneralization and obfuscation in this account also. Since I have already published several hundreds of pages and articles on this subject

Re: RE: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-13 Thread Michael Perelman
Louis tells us that that the British behaved differently toward Argentina than Canada. Why? Was it because the settlers were ethnically different in Argentina from those in Canada? Did Britain have to behave differently toward Commonwealth countries? Paul, could you give us a brief outline of

Re: Re: RE: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada

2002-04-13 Thread phillp2
: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:24882] Re: RE: Re: Argentina, Australia and Canada To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Louis tells us that that the British behaved differently toward Argentina than Canada. Why