Jim
There are some figures that may be useful in the UN's "World
Investment Report" for 1996 and 1997 - I haven't seen the 1998 one.
Bill Rosenberg
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 17:18:23 -0800
From: Barbara Laurence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:4313] US, Japanese,
Doug Henwood wrote:
Bill Rosenberg wrote:
There are some figures that may be useful in the UN's "World
Investment Report" for 1996 and 1997 - I haven't seen the 1998 one.
I think they use the IMF's balance of payments figures, which
wouldn't distinguish between financial flows and
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I see a problem in the discussions of "civil society" out there: the term
is used by indiscriminatley by authors, pundits, etc. descriptively,
prescriptively, and normatively.
As description, I see no problem coining a term to refer to non-state.
Marx did; and as I understood it he meant the
Ooops, I should have made it more clear that these are Paul's words:
Paul LeBlanc wrote:
For what it's worth, I don't consider myself an ex-Trotskyist. Labels
often get in the way, but I still identify as a Trotskyist. I would be
happy to discuss that with you further at some point. Anyway,
June Zaccone wrote:
There is not much more to tell. Nadler is, or was, very
involved in developing a progressive growth policy to
counter Supply-Side. Late in 1995 or early 1996, some
members of the Coalition were meeting with him on our Growth
Agenda, which emphasizes good jobs. I mentioned
Frank:
What I found missing from Lynn's obituaries was the fact that he was one of
the nation's leading Sovietologists back in the late 50's and middle
sixties.
One of Lynn's greatest achievements was coming up with numbers that refuted
the notion that the USSR was an imperialist nation. He
(The Feb. 8, 1999 editorial was written by Ana Carrigan. She is the author
of The Palace of Justice: A Colombian Tragedy, and is writing a new book on
the Colombian peace process.)
Ana Carrigan:
Meanwhile, violence by largely narco-funded paramilitaries rages. As the
army and police sat in their
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To: J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 4:02 AM
Subject: Fw: A Note on Lynn Turgeon
Dear Barkley,
I guess I don't have to tell you how sad I am over Lynn's passing.
No one has been
I would add that there was a good article on the Colombian attorney
general in CAQ a few issues ago. Some of the civil servants are sincere
in their battle for human rights and against corruption. They are in the
minority however. They receive death threats and are quite often
murdered. Many
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On Friday, March 12, 1999 at 16:05:08 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
...
Feudal society was deeply and explicitly political. Individuals were
situated in a distinct social hierarchy culminating in the sovereign;
economic life was bound up with the state. Capitalism split the
economic and the
Salon magazine today has an interesting feature about the law and
economics programs and luxury treatment given to judges who are willing
to submit to the laissez faire ideology that these types dish out.
http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/1999/03/cov_17feature.html
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Michael Perelman
On Tuesday, March 16, 1999 at 10:45:41 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
Louis Proyect wrote:
I think the problem is when "civil society" is used as a club against
socialist revolution. That, of course, is exactly what Jorge Castenada
intended when he wrot
As U.S. philanthropists and their pet
On Tuesday, March 16, 1999 at 10:52:59 (-0500) Frank Durgin writes:
I am utterly baffled by William Lear's posting.
Bill, just what do you mean by "hand-picked" and "unwashed"?
I mean "hand-picked" by the elite scum who run Universities and who
normally make sure folks like Howard Zinn, Lynn
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What's the matter with these guys? Haven't they seen Lawrence of Arabia?
To Accaba!
Sam
I am utterly baffled by William Lear's posting.
Bill, just what do you mean by "hand-picked" and "unwashed"?
You are touching a raw nerve here. I am very fortunate in having been able
to consider Lynn a friend. He was one hell of a nice guy, highly energetic,
highly personable, great sense of
Louis Proyect wrote:
I think the problem is when "civil society" is used as a club against
socialist revolution. That, of course, is exactly what Jorge Castenada
intended when he wrot
As U.S. philanthropists and their pet intellectuals use the term, it's not
just directed against socialist
Several people have told me this is the AFL-CIO's line too -
you can't say there's no crisis or people won't believe you. Talk
about the citational nature of truth, eh? I wonder, though, if
this isn't just a bit of convenient cowardice that excuses the
AFL-CIO and Nader from criticizing
Max, could you explain why US Medicare isn't in
crisis? what are the easy
solutions you propose to the relatively minor problems you see?
The problem with Medicare is the current growth
trend in spending. This problem is common to
private health care costs as well, though in
the past few
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There is not much more to tell. Nadler is, or was, very
involved in developing a progressive growth policy to
counter Supply-Side. Late in 1995 or early 1996, some
members of the Coalition were meeting with him on our Growth
Agenda, which emphasizes good jobs. I mentioned Doug's
article, as the
For what it's worth, I don't consider myself an ex-Trotskyist. Labels
often get in the way, but I still identify as a Trotskyist. I would be
happy to discuss that with you further at some point. Anyway, if it's easy
for you to make this correction on your list sometime in the future, I
would
Tom Kruse:
... is terribly ignorant of other sources of political practice, debate,
innovation, ideas. The point here is we need to separate the wheat from
the chaff. In the mid to late 1970s thre emerged in Bolivia an amazing
amalgamation of human rights, left parties, peasant and labor
On Monday, March 15, 1999 at 22:27:58 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes:
...
He served in the Navy during World War II and joined the Hofstra
faculty in 1957.
There was a wave of former military personnel into academia thanks to
the GI bill. Many of them turned progressive, or didn't turn
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A dispute at Clark College has reminded
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