Re: on the anti-globalization movement (fwd)

2000-04-27 Thread Dennis R Redmond
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] crossposted: UNDERSTANDING THE BATTLES OF SEATTLE AND WASHINGTON By Dick Platkin and Chuck O'Connell* Lemme see if I get this right: they're arguing that the anti-WTO and anti-IMF protests are financed by nationalist bourgeois pig foundations, organized

Re: Re: on the anti-globalization movement (fwd)

2000-04-27 Thread Jim Devine
At 02:12 AM 04/27/2000 -0700, you wrote: UNDERSTANDING THE BATTLES OF SEATTLE AND WASHINGTON By Dick Platkin and Chuck O'Connell* anti-globalization groups. They are (unknowingly) recycling Kautsky's argument when they claim that the WTO, IMF, and World Bank represent a new capitalist

A.G. Frank and his critics

2000-04-27 Thread Louis Proyect
Many thanks to Mine for info on the 1999, number 3 of "Review", published by Wallerstein's Braudel Center. I ordered it because I was extremely interested to see what Arrighi, Wallerstein and Amin had to say on A.G. Frank's "Re-Orient" which I had just finished reading. I wasn't disappointed. It

Re: Poor in US more likely to face tax audits (fwd)

2000-04-27 Thread Brad De Long
Poor in US more likely to face tax audits By Shannon Jones 22 April 2000 Another side of this issue is that the General Accounting Office did a report to follow up on the infamous Roth hearings that ventilated citizen tales of IRS abuses. GAO found that none of the anti-IRS charges

Re: Re: Re: Krugman attacks the EPI! (fwd)

2000-04-27 Thread Jim Devine
At 04:40 PM 4/26/00 -0400, you wrote: ... Galbraith endorsed technocracy, no ? The private corporations have technocrats/bureaucrats too, yet they claim liberal capitalism means some kind of anti-bureaucratic democracy. it's a "democracy" that follows the one dollar/one vote principle. John

RE: Re: Poor in US more likely to face tax audits (fwd)

2000-04-27 Thread Max Sawicky
Poor in US more likely to face tax audits . . . A copy leaked out anyway and it turns out there was little or no confidentiality issue -- any personal stuff was blacked out and there wasn't much of it. mbs I'd like a copy,if you know where I could find one... I've got it. It's a 2.7

Re: Re: on the anti-globalization movement (fwd)

2000-04-27 Thread Carrol Cox
Dennis R Redmond wrote: [Nothing Intelligible] Dennis, for someone who wants us to believe that you have successfully construed Adorno, you certainly have your troubles with a fairly simple and straightforward post. I haven't decided yet my own response to Platkin O'Connell but your

FW: [baker-data-commentary] GDP BYTE, 04/27/2000

2000-04-27 Thread Richardson_D
-- From: Joyce Kim[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 10:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [baker-data-commentary] GDP BYTE, 04/27/2000 GDP BYTE, April 27, 2000 by Dean Baker SURGING CONSUMPTION AGAIN DRIVES GROWTH

Naiman v Krugman: the cashew round

2000-04-27 Thread Patrick Bond
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- From: "Robert Naiman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PEN-L and Mozambique cashew nut case Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:16:32 -0400 Patrick: I'm only half-on PEN-L at the moment, but I see there's been

Re: Re: Re: on the anti-globalization movement(fwd)

2000-04-27 Thread Doug Henwood
Carrol Cox wrote: I would give it at best a C+ There's no such thing as a retired professor Doug

Re: Re: on the anti-globalization movement (fwd)

2000-04-27 Thread md7148
I am excessively under rush now. but 1) I will come to Dennis and Jim's comments on the anti-globalization movement. I don't seriously disagree, except that R Kautsky's position was more like leaning towards the ultimate freedom of the market (ie.,capitalism unleashing its own contradictions, so

BLS Daily Report

2000-04-27 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 2000 The average person in the United States holds 9.2 jobs from ages 18 to 34, according to a longitudinal study by BLS. More than half of these jobs (5.6 positions) are held between the ages of 18 and 24, according to the study. ... (Daily Labor Report,

BLS Daily Report

2000-04-27 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2000 Manufacturing overtime, most prevalent among high-skilled workers, is still near its January 1998 decade high. In contrast to previous economic booms, employers now find overtime cheaper than training new hires. ... Data in the accompanying chart are

Naiman on Krugman

2000-04-27 Thread Jim Devine
for the record, here are Bob Naiman's letters. Krugman's Sloppy Economics April 20, 2000 Paul Krugman ("A Real Nut Case") is right about one thing: the destruction of Mozambique's cashew nut processing industry by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund is my favorite example

Re: [Fwd: New British Empire of the Dammed]

2000-04-27 Thread Chris Burford
A damning and highly instructive report. Note what we are really seeing here are the extreme features of finance capital. The British company is a front for the US company. The finance has already been earmarked for the unbuilt dam and that is why the price of the water has to be so high for

The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 18 Apr 2000 -- 4:33 (#414)

2000-04-27 Thread Paul Kneisel
__ The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 18 April 2000 Vol. 4, Number 33 (#414) __ CONTENTS Ira Glasser (Executive

Re: Samir Amin: Not a Happy Ending

2000-04-27 Thread Dennis R Redmond
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Louis Proyect crossposted: Conclusion to "Not A Happy Ending" by Samir Amin, published in Al-Ahram. http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/1999/462/samir.htm US HEGEMONY ATTACKS --THE 21ST CENTURY WILL NOT BE AMERICAN: There are no European TNCs: only British, German, or

No Subject

2000-04-27 Thread Michael Hoover
Interested listers might check out below website for documentary entitled "Roll on Columbia: Woody Guthrie and the Bonneville Power Administration." Film explores great piece of musical, political, economic history. My friends Denise Mathews and Bill Black were involved in the project. Denise

Tom Kruse reports/photos from Bolivia

2000-04-27 Thread Louis Proyect
Go to http://www.americas.org/ and click 'Bolivian Water War'. Louis Proyect (The Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org)

[fla-left] [labor] Taco Bell Action Alert! Justice for Tomato Workers!! (fwd)

2000-04-27 Thread Michael Hoover
forwarded by Michael Hoover From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:35:23 EDT Subject: [ciw-announce] Taco Bell Action Alert! Please distribute the following Action Alert as widely as possible - Thanks ... ACTION ALERT... ACTION ALERT... ACTION ALERT... Coalition

Samir Amin: Not a Happy Ending

2000-04-27 Thread Louis Proyect
Conclusion to "Not A Happy Ending" by Samir Amin, published in Al-Ahram. Full article online at: http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/1999/462/samir.htm US HEGEMONY ATTACKS --THE 21ST CENTURY WILL NOT BE AMERICAN: In this chaotic conjuncture, the US took the offensive once more to reestablish its

Re: Re: Samir Amin: Not a Happy Ending

2000-04-27 Thread M A Jones
Dennis R Redmond wrote: There probably will be a tomorrow for this world-system, but it'll be transacted in euros. Living in the shadow of the dollar Mark Milner, deputy financial editor The Guardian Thursday April 27, 2000 How low can the euro go? ... Today the currency slumped to fresh

Re: unsubscribing

2000-04-27 Thread Brick Menz
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Re: Re: Re: Samir Amin: Not a Happy Ending

2000-04-27 Thread Dennis R Redmond
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, M A Jones crossposted: Mark Milner, deputy financial editor The Guardian Thursday April 27, 2000 How low can the euro go? ... Today the currency slumped to fresh lows on the foreign exchanges despite a rise in interest rates by the ECB. This is known as a buying

Re: Re: Samir Amin: Not a Happy Ending (fwd)

2000-04-27 Thread md7148
Dennis R Redmond wrote: There probably will be a tomorrow for this world-system, but it'll be transacted in euros. so should we give up the struggle? i don't see the point.. Mine Doyran SUNY/Albany

Re: Re: Re: Re: Samir Amin: Not a Happy Ending

2000-04-27 Thread M A Jones
Mark Jones http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList Dennis R Redmond wrote: This is known as a buying opportunity of historic proportions. Some future George Soros out there is going to make an unholy killing by snapping up EUR and dumping USD. Hey, Russia posted a whacking bal of payments

Fw: Re: Re: Re: Samir Amin: Not a Happy Ending

2000-04-27 Thread M A Jones
- Original Message - From: "M A Jones" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 3:57 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L:18398] Re: Re: Re: Samir Amin: "Not a Happy Ending" Hey, Russia posted a whacking bal of payments surplus last year and has done almost every year

Re: Re: unsubscribing

2000-04-27 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
you can send your command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe pen-l if i am not mistaken, btw. Brick Menz wrote: HELP -- Mine Aysen Doyran PhD Student Department of Political Science SUNY at Albany Nelson A. Rockefeller College 135 Western Ave.; Milne 102 Albany, NY 1

Re: Re: Re: unsubscribing

2000-04-27 Thread michael
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