[Fwd: U.S.-Sponsored Genocide against Iraq]

2000-07-09 Thread Carrol Cox
Original Message Subject: U.S.-Sponsored Genocide against Iraq Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 18:56:13 -0400 From: Jay Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:@ns.hcr.net; It's called Genocide by Rasha Saad Al-Ahram July 6-12, 2000

Net Worth of the Bottom 40%

2000-07-09 Thread Michael Perelman
In the August issue of In These Times, David Moberg says that Ed Wolff calculated that the net worth of the bottom 40% of the population fell by 76.3%. Is that true? If so, I assume that it reflects the increase in debt. If that is true, then it would seem that a fairly small decline in

Catching Up

2000-07-09 Thread Max Sawicky
Hello girls. I'm back from vacation and sorting thru about a thousand messages. As best I am able to determine, DeLong has gone in for juggling. Henwood has been exposed as a liberal, though an undependable one. Kelley has been dating Herbert Aptheker. Jones reports that capitalism is on its

Re: Catching Up

2000-07-09 Thread Stephen E Philion
Chelsea's no longer a virgin? Steve Stephen Philion Lecturer/PhD Candidate Department of Sociology 2424 Maile Way Social Sciences Bldg. # 247 Honolulu, HI 96822

Re: Re: Catching Up

2000-07-09 Thread Jim Devine
For my part, I'm worried about Socks and Buddy. At 03:32 PM 07/09/2000 -1000, you wrote: Chelsea's no longer a virgin? Steve Stephen Philion Lecturer/PhD Candidate Department of Sociology 2424 Maile Way Social Sciences Bldg. # 247 Honolulu, HI 96822 Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Brookings Phillips Curve Paper

2000-07-09 Thread Timework Web
Jim Devine wrote, BTW, it's important to remember that the Brookings people aren't monolithic. You mean some of 'em are paleolithic? Tom Walker

Re: Re: Re: Re: Sudan

2000-07-09 Thread George Pennefather
Mine: George, stigmatization of jews and arabs was just an example _among_ others. It applies to whoever it applies; the irish, kurdish, gypsies, african americans, etc... there is no indication in my rhetoric that I ignore the injustices done to Irish people by the british ruling class. In

Re: Workplace Literature

2000-07-09 Thread Timework Web
Louis Proyect wrote or quoted: "Marx warned that, in a capitalist system, "the worker becomes a commodity, and indeed, the most despised of commodities." Saunders' correction is that the worker becomes an advertisement, and, indeed, the most wretchedly inarticulate of advertisements. . . " I

Intellectual property and profiteering in the third world

2000-07-09 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, July 9, 2000 As Devastating Epidemics Increase, Nations Take On Drug Companies By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. (clip) SETTING PRICES: BIG DIFFERENCES AND BIG PROFITS Fluconazole, the best anti-fungal agent invented by modern science, is equally effective against toenail fungus, children's

Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Paul Krugman]

2000-07-09 Thread Jim Devine
The following response to my comment on Krugman's "What a Hack" was forwarded to me. My comments follow. From a Marxian perspective, what is emerging on the list may be vulgar economy but from my perspective I think it is an exchange of ideas that would not have otherwise taken place

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sudan

2000-07-09 Thread Mine Aysen Doyran
George Pennefather wrote: Mine: George, stigmatization of jews and arabs was just an example _among_ others. It applies to whoever it applies; the irish, kurdish, gypsies, african americans, etc... there is no indication in my rhetoric that I ignore the injustices done to Irish people by

Last CFP: MARXISM 2000 -- extended deadline 15 July

2000-07-09 Thread Stephen Cullenberg
RETHINKING MARXISM announces its fourth International Gala Conference MARXISM 2000 21-24 September (Thursday-Sunday) 2000 University of Massachusetts at Amherst JOIN WITH Robert Albritton, Jack Amariglio, Giovanni Arrighi, Enid Arvidson, Margot Backus, Drucilla Barker, Ursula Biemann,

Brookings Phillips Curve Paper

2000-07-09 Thread christian a. gregory
Hey, Has anybody checked out the article by these Brookings folks about the changing face of NAIRU? It was mentioned a week or ten days ago in a WSJ article. I'm just reading through the abstract, but it seems that the basic idea here is that NAIRU changes depending on how wagemakers use

Re: Intellectual property and profiteering in the third world

2000-07-09 Thread Chris Burford
South Africa has the world's fastest-growing AIDS epidemic. In April, on the day that AIDS activists, unions and religious groups were set to begin a lawsuit and picketing campaign denouncing the company as an AIDS profiteer, Pfizer announced that it would supply the drug free to any South

Y2k Blessing

2000-07-09 Thread rk harper
January 15, 2000 Dear Valued Employee: Our records indicate that you have not used any vacation time for the past100year(s). As you know, employees are granted 3 weeks of paid vacation per year, or pay in lieu of unused time off. One additional week is granted for every 5 years of

Nicaragua / Central America Debt Relief Mechanism

2000-07-09 Thread rk harper
My local paper ran the following brief story on Central American Debt relief in the aftermath of Mitch: http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/world/docs/debt08.htm Does anyone on this list (Doug?) have clear insight into the precise mechanism of this debt relief? Presumably some institution,