UK media, to be honest BBC and Guardian, report Bush's latest visit to
Europe in the context of his campaign trail. Guardian had a comic
photo of him doing a power walk in lock-step with Ahern in the context
of visit to Ireland so short it was obviously only for the purpose of
election videos.
Much as I think Joseph Green argues his case carefully and is right to
criticise the violations of human rights that occurred under Stalin's
leadership, the apparently mindless clearing of the Chechens and
others in 1944, while to be condemned, needs to be understood, and put
in the context of
Malthus was not the first to differentiate between food supplies and population growth, that was almost received theory at the time. Malthus argued for small govenment. Long before Malthus tackled the poor law in England with his hands off welfare approach,[1] the discourse relating small
This article misstates the situation (but then it's only a wire story). What is
happening is that the government is going over from a system of giving benefits (like
free public transportation) to giving monetary supplements to targeted groups
(pensioners, heroes of the Soviet Union or Russia,
However I am really arguing that if we try to study historyconcretely, as well as with a flaming heart, we have to interpretthese national questions not only from the point of view of theinterests of the international unity of working people, but also fromthe point of view of economic viability
This gives the other side of the story:
Tuesday, June 29, 2004. Page 1.
Veterans, Disabled Slated for Extra AidBy Caroline McGregor Staff Writer
Budget money allocated for World War II veterans will be 20 times greater and 10 times greater for the disabled, President Vladimir Putin said
I suspect much as I disagree with the oppression of the Chechens now,and consider it disastrous for the unity of the people of the world,since they are seen as representatives of muslim people oppressed bychristians, I suspect that hidden away in current Russian analysisthere are details about
Michael Perelman
wrote:
Some of Sowell's early stuff on
Say's law was pretty good. Then he became more of a
right wing hack. Reagan tried to get him to be Sec. of
Education. Now his most
appears as a syndicated right wing ideologue.
Jim's critique was excellent.
I agree with both: Jim's analysis
Actually, I answered this question. Chris just didn't like my answer. Ofcourse, I was referring to how to deal with a series of problems in theCaucasus, not just the Dagestani events used by Putin as a pretext to renouncethe peace accords with Chechnya, to declare that a Russian puppet government
Cash grants are far easier to cut. First you make them means tested. Then you
denigrate the less influenial people who depend on the grants as undeserving
Of course, the money for WW II veterans should be in decline because of demographics.
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 03:25:04AM -0700, Chris
I think the big issue is that the payments aren't indexed to inflation. Like I said, I haven't done the math it would be necessary to do to see the effect of the changeover for good or ill (I've seen the figures for the amounts of payments, but don't know the cash value of the benefits).Michael
Why is he a hack? The man turns out a book every year on far-ranging
topics.
His writings on international affirmative action and cultural migrations are
first-rate. He writes a popular syndicated column that is clear,
informative
and entertaining. He is a true public intellectual.
(One of the main excuses of the ABB crowd for backing the pro-war, DLC,
Joe Lieberman wannabe John Kerry is that we need to reverse the
rightward drift of the Supreme Court. Leaving aside the question of John
Kerry announcing that he is amenable to the nomination of
ultraconservative judges,
Malthus did not give a hoot about population. Nor did he even consult the census.
His dad was sort of radical. He wrote the first essay in a few days to prove that
you could not make society better because population growth would absorb any
incremental improvements. Later, he worried about
On Chechnya and the modern nation state/finance capital:
Actually, Chechen radical ideologists such as Nukhayev are explicitly anti-modernist and believe that the Chechens should live like their ancestors did, live in tribes and herd goats and raid. A few years ago he was invited to Moscow to
Chris Doss wrote:
On Chechnya and the modern nation state/finance capital:
Actually, Chechen radical ideologists such as Nukhayev are explicitly
anti-modernist and believe that the Chechens should live like their
ancestors did, live in tribes and herd goats and raid.
This kind of
Somebody should tell Counterpunch that Putin has no son. He has two daughters.
---
A couple of years ago Vladimir Putin journeyed to the American Southwest to take his natural son on an initiation ritual. The boy's mother is now an American citizen.
Do you Yahoo!?
New and
Chris Doss wrote:
Somebody should tell Counterpunch that Putin has no son. He has two
daughters.
In fact I just sent a note to Jeff St. Clair to remove it from the
website. In any case, it has about as much accuracy as your describing
Nukhayev as recommending to the Chechens that they make their
On Monday, June 28, 2004 at 18:33:12 (-0700) David B. Shemano writes:
He is a hack because he is a popularizer? ...
He is a hack because he writes well-punctuated, superficial drivel.
Bill
INSPIRED BY IRAQI HANDOVER, BUSH HOLDS U.S. ELECTION FOUR MONTHS EARLY
Element of Surprise Cited As Bush Romps to Victory
[by Andy Borowitz]
Inspired by the early handover of sovereignty in Iraq, President George W. Bush
employed the element of surprise once more last night, holding the U.S.
Actually, Chechen radical ideologists such as Nukhayev are explicitly
anti-modernist and believe that the Chechens should live like their
ancestors did, live in tribes and herd goats and raid.
This kind of characterization reminds me of James Robertson, leader of
the Spartacist League,
Read Klebnikov's book. Have you ever heard of Nukhayev?
-Original Message-
From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:34:03 -0400
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Chechnya and capitalism
Chris Doss wrote:
Somebody should tell Counterpunch that Putin
Once or twice, I've jokingly told my department chair (who's African-American) that he
could have made Big Money if he'd gone right-wing. There's truth there, though it's
very rare that someone actually chooses their political orientation as one would
choose a dessert. The conservatives _love_
Hot damn, Nukhayev even has a website (with part of it "in inglish" (sic)). Yeah, this is superprogressive:
No matter how blasphemous it may seem, I have to comment that the Russians, by embarking on their latest war, helped us to avoid the fate of being turned into a state and of having a
So where does he recommending raiding as a way of life? Or did you
just make that up?
Chris Doss wrote:
Hot damn, Nukhayev even has a website (with part of it in inglish
(sic)). Yeah, this is superprogressive:
No matter how blasphemous it may seem, I have to comment that the
Russians, by embarking
Read the book!Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So where does he recommending "raiding" as a way of life? Or did youjust make that up?Chris Doss wrote: Hot damn, Nukhayev even has a website (with part of it "in inglish" (sic)). Yeah, this is superprogressive: No matter how blasphemous it may
Let's keep it nice!
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 07:08:06AM -0700, Chris Doss wrote:
Read the book!
Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:So where does he recommending raiding as a
way of life? Or did you
just make that up?
Chris Doss wrote:
Hot damn, Nukhayev even has a website (with
I know. For some reason, the cheap shots always seem to come from one direction.Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is no need to relate this way.
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There is no need to relate this way.
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:03:03AM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
So where does he recommending raiding as a way of life? Or did you
just make that up?
Chris Doss wrote:
Hot damn, Nukhayev even has a website (with part of it in inglish
(sic)). Yeah,
I think that Sowell, like Powell, has Caribbean roots. Sometimes, they look down on
those whose ancestors were slaves here. I am sure someone here knows more about this
than I do.
Glen Lowry could not maintain his right wing discipline.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State
And here he is apologizing for the quaint custom of blood revenge.
We can cite many examples of how the state destroys blood ties, and even their genetic framework, not to mention their spiritual content. Those who watch TV and read newspapers will understand what Im speaking about: abandoned
Chris Doss wrote:
And here he is apologizing for the quaint custom of blood revenge.
And the Old Testament calls for an eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth. In any case, I can only conclude that he does not advocate
raiding at this point. That's progress.
--
The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
It is a shame that so much information is mixed with the personal stuff. Joseph laid
out a fairly non-controversial time table. Maybe Lou and Chris could each lay out a
list of their key points of agreement disagreement.
For example, I think that all concerned agree that Yeltsin made things
Michael Perelman wrote:
It is a shame that so much information is mixed with the personal stuff.
What is so personal about demanding that he back up his slander about
raiding? The main excuse of the Kremlin for its criminal war is that
it is rooting out bandits.
--
The Marxism list:
Lou, demanding does not work or belong here. I think that Chris is
going to unsub because of this mode of communication. You can disagree.
You can supply other facts. The non-personal part of the dialogue is
useful; the personal part is not.
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list
Perelman, Michael wrote:
Lou, demanding does not work or belong here. I think that Chris is
going to unsub because of this mode of communication.
Excuse me?
Chris Doss:
Dammit, answer my question. What should Russia's reaction have been two
armed incursions by jihadi gunmen? Sit there and take
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?guid=%7BB4FBCBBD-1278-4421-889C-1D4B7982B9C3%7Dsiteid=myyahoodist=myyahoo
The self-made myth
Societal support key to much wealth creation, report says
By Thomas Kostigen, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 8:55 PM ET June 28, 2004
SANTA MONICA,
Maybe some people should take their own advice. But please do take me off the list,
Michael.
Louis Proyect lnp3 at panix.com
Tue May 4 16:35:29 MDT 2004
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Budget money allocated for World War II
veterans will be 20 times greater and 10 times greater for the disabled,
President Vladimir Putin said Monday as he tried to win support from a
skeptical population for his plans to replace
In a message dated 6/29/2004 8:55:08 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is cities, alienating people from one another and from
the natural way of life, which faultlessly and uninterruptedly manufacture the
biological raw material needed by the state: all these
The DSP's major work on the environment is now available
online athttp://www.dsp.org.au/dsp/ECS/index.htmContents: Chapter 1. The threat
to human survival http://www.dsp.org.au/dsp/ECS/Chapter1.htm 1. Destroying the
biosphere 1. The atmosphere:
greenhouse, acid rain and ozone
depletion 2.
Hi All,
Just wanted to let you know that Harvey Wasserman's Bob Fitrakis' The Free Press
published my piece today. . .it's another chapter in the annals of higher ed
corruption.
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/20/2004/705
Brian
Laurence Shute wrote:
It
looks like he made his right turn around then.
An interesting ambiguity. Right turn means turn to the right or the
right turn to make. :-)
Carrol
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/22/04 3:29 PM
Is the Nader campaign the best way to build the mass movements we need?
jd
no election campaign is 'best' way to build mass movements, they are too
periodic episodic, too narrowly focused, running a campaign 'to make a
point' (or points) is self-defeating,
Gloves Off Summer 2004 Issue
http://www.glovesoff.org/
In our last issue, Gloves Off presented the first
installment of "Perspectives on the Global Justice Movement" http://www.glovesoff.org/features/globaljustice_1003.html,
with views from Latin America, Europe and the US on the
FYI
From: James K. Galbraith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Friends,
Today's effort is co-authored with the supply-side brigand, Jude Wanniski, and appears
in the notorious
Washington Times.
Jamie
http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20040628-092019-6437r.htm
Rate hike reservations
By James
In a message dated 6/29/2004 8:19:03 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"What would happen if the Old World, or more concretely Russia,
will abdicate from the rules of dynamics, from the technological race, in
favour of the rules of static? Let's examine this question
Missing the 'Walter Cronkite Moment' (an eloquent indictment of the
Afghanistan and Iraq Wars in the May 3rd issue of Sports Illustrated
-- a Walter Cronkite moment that the Green Party missed):
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/06/missing-walter-cronkite-moment.html
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages:
Meat Tags (about marines tattooing dog tags on their bodies):
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/06/meat-tags.html
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
Korea recently effectively ended the move to privatize the electric
power system. Privatization had been driven by the usual IMF/WB
pressure, and steps had been taken down that path.
A recent decision ended the move toward privatization. I was there last
week for a symposium on the issue which
Carol Cox wrote:
Laurence Shute wrote:
It
looks like he made his right turn around then.
An interesting ambiguity. Right turn means turn to the right or the
right turn to make. :-)
Sorry, just hasty writing; no ambiguity or talmudic questioning intended.
:-) Sowell is a bright guy and it was
Gene, that is a great victory. Can you shed any light on why privatization of
electricity is now off the agenda while privatization of other key services
remains on that agenda.
In other words, the decision to cancel privatization of the electric power
system obviously does not represent a
Laurence Shute writes:
"I agree with both: Jim's analysis of Sowell's article was great. And some of Sowell's early stuff was quite good. For example, "Marx's 'Increasing Misery' Doctrine," American Economic Review, March 1960, pp. 111-120. I think I recall that Sowell had trouble finding a
As some Pen-l oldtimers may recall, in the late 1990s I embarked on a quest
for the locus classicus of the oddly-named lump-of-labour fallacy. I
eventually identified an article by D.F. Schloss as the source. Now, it
turns out, the critique of the fixed amount of work, if not the whimsical
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