Re: lefties stop your whining

- Original Message - From: Ian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 9:56 AM While the Genoa G8 summit last July was being besieged by violent elements from Europe's middle class on the outside, the voice of Africa's poor was being heard for the first time inside.

The Power Elite: Enron and Frank Wisner, Jr.

I'm amazed sometimes what this rightist, militia list sends. Writer is Vijay Prashad is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Source: People's Democracy, 16 November 1997. Prashas appears frequently in the People's Weekly World of the

FYI: Enron prize winners

Colin Powell Mikhail Gorbachev Nelson Mandela Eduard Shevardnadze Alan Greenspan Tom Walker

Enron prize winners: clarification

Whoops! I hope no one confuses my signature line as being part of the list included in my previous message. I am not now, nor have I ever been a recipient of the Enron prize. Tom Walker

beary beary cute

In PARADE magazine, a trashy supplement to many U.S. Sunday newspapers, we find an ad that says: Looking For A Few Good Bears! A Hamilton Collection exclusive Meticulously handcrafted and hand-painted Accompanied by a numbered Certificate of Authenticity Semper Fi ... Always Faithful From

Re: Enron prize winners: clarification

Tom, you might be in the future but the $$ amount might be a bit disappointing. Gene Coyle Tom Walker wrote: Whoops! I hope no one confuses my signature line as being part of the list included in my previous message. I am not now, nor have I ever been a recipient of the Enron prize.Tom Walker

Sharpening class contradictions

The future portends intensified class struggle. Capitalism over the past ten years or so has produced a technological revolution in its means of production involving the transformation of information technology. Over the same period it has succeeded in recomposing the working class. This has led

Re: Sharpening class contradictions

Together with sustained attacks on the working class growing capitalist contradictions will tend to generate increased inter-imperialist rivalry. Such rivalry developing into conflict can explode into inter-imperialist war in which the future of humanity becomes questionable. Karl Carlile

Re: inter/ra imperialist contradictions

At 20/01/02 20:33 +0100, you wrote: Together with sustained attacks on the working class growing capitalist contradictions will tend to generate increased inter-imperialist rivalry. Such rivalry developing into conflict can explode into inter-imperialist war in which the future of

Enron: the containment strategy

Democrats, GOP Debate The Effects Of Enron Some Say Scandal Not a Political Issue By Thomas B. Edsall and Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, January 20, 2002; Page A05 AUSTIN -- Those attending the annual Republican National Committee meeting here expressed confidence that the

RE: Re: inter/ra imperialist contradictions

Chris B. writes:.There is a degree of inter-imperialist, or perhaps we should say more intra-imperialist, rivalry. the key thing that's changed from Lenin's day is the end of _military_ rivalry amongst the imperialist powers and the shift to more purely economic rivalry. After all, Europe is

Re: Re: inter/ra imperialist contradictions

Romain may not agree with the idiom of Empire but I wonder whether he would say that the friction that can occur between imperialist states should better be thought of as intra-imperialist conflict Chris Burford I do agree with the concept of Empire to define the current world system. But

M.E. Oil, Neo-Colonialism Cheap S. Asian Labor

Via the post-colonial list. http://members.tripod.com/~INDIA_RESOURCE/mideastoil.html Michael Pugliese

Who will be the next Marx

After This Whatever Capitalism's Fate, Somebody's Already Working on an Alternative By David J. Rothkopf Washington Post Sunday, January 20, 2002; Page B01 [David Rothkopf is chairman and CEO of Intellibridge Corp. He served as managing director of Kissinger Associates and was deputy

the pathetic politics of 'smart people'

Kissinger rated No 1 brain Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Monday January 21, 2002 The Guardian There are lists of the best films and the best cricketers and the best books. There are even books of lists of lists. But the latest list to be published might prove to be one too far. A list of the

China

'High Tide' of Labor Unrest in China Striking Workers Risk Arrest to Protest Pay Cuts, Corruption By Philip P. Pan Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, January 21, 2002; Page A01 DAFENG, China -- On the fourth night of the strike, management cut off the heat. The 2,000 workers occupying

RE: the pathetic politics of 'smart people'

Would be fun to compare to the list of a hundred in, The American Intellectual Elite, by Charles Kadushin, published in 1974. http://www.google.com/search?q=American+Intellectual+Elite+Kadushin+ Michael Pugliese --- Original Message --- From: Ian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Argentina and Oscar Wilde

[Financial Times] This Argentine scheme The new government is courting Brazil and planning to protect local industry. This is bad economics, says Sebastian Edwards Published: January 20 2002 20:11 | Last Updated: January 20 2002 21:54 At his first press conference, Jorge Remes Lenicov,

Re: Who will be the next Marx

We will be. Collectively. (and not just those on this list) Interesting that they seem to be looking for a spectre.