Top Japan banks seen posting 01-02 net loss

2002-04-08 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
The Economic Times Saturday, April 06, 2002 Top Japan banks seen posting 01-02 net loss REUTERS TOKYO: All top Japanese banking groups are likely to bleed red ink for the 2001-02 business year that ended last week as they aggressively boosted loan-loss provisions against risky borrowers,

BLS Daily Report

2002-04-08 Thread Richardson_D
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2002: RELEASED TODAY: Both payroll employment and the unemployment rate were little changed in March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Manufacturing and construction each lost nearly 40,000 jobs, but services employment

RE: Bureacracy: Forwarded from Jurriaan

2002-04-08 Thread Devine, James
For what it's worth, I agree with Jurriaan on all of the below (unless I've missed something). Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message- From: Michael Perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: RE: Timor and More

2002-04-08 Thread Devine, James
Andrew writes:Debord saw this as a manifestation of the society of the spectacle. The reporting on each crisis is the same or near same as the previous, with the content of each forgotten with the next and so on. what is the basis for the society of the spectacle? Is it just a description or is

Venezuela

2002-04-08 Thread Devine, James
Put Venezuela on the list, where now some labor leaders seem to be taking their turn in following a script out of CIA headquarters. Gene Coyle while the CIA is probably involved, I think it's a mistake to see this solely in terms of CIA machinations. Venezuela is a country with a social

Economic Reporting Review, 4/8/02

2002-04-08 Thread Robert Naiman
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Re: Water

2002-04-08 Thread Ignacio Perrotini Hernández
Louis, I utterly agree with you. Years back, I was fortunate enough to meet and become a close friend of a great Spanish Marxist philosopher, named Manuel Sacristán Luzón, the translator and introducer of Lukacs, Gramsci, and many others into Spanish. Manuel was one of the first marxists to

Re: ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ TO TALK ON GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS @SACRAMENTO MARXIST SCHOOL

2002-04-08 Thread W. Robert Needham
Can her talk be put on the webv? April 6, 2002 News Release For more information: Call John Rowntree, (916) 446-1758 P.O. Box 160406 Sacramento, CA 95816 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.marxistschool.org ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ TO SPEAK ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AT THE MARXIST SCHOOL OF SACRAMENTO

Re: Venezuela

2002-04-08 Thread Eugene Coyle
Jim, I don't see what you are saying here. Chile too ... is a country with a social system (classes, etc) ... So what? Nebraska has a social system, classes, etc. -- does that mean the CIA can't depose the governor? Or that it can? The steps unfolding in Venezuala are reminiscent of

re: Bureaucracy

2002-04-08 Thread Devine, James
If I reply to one message per day in this thread (as I'm constrained to do), it will continue until 2010. I haven't even read Miychi's missives yet... JD I wrote:But wasn't Earl Browder -- a long-term leader who was quite popular with the CPUSA's rank and file members -- kicked out of the

Love me I'm a neoliberal

2002-04-08 Thread Max Sawicky
New from EPI: The unremarkable record of liberalized trade After 20 years of global economic deregulation, poverty and inequality are as pervasive as ever by Christian E. Weller, Robert E. Scott and Adam S. Hersh http://www.epinet.org/briefingpapers/sept01inequality.html juicy excerpt: . .

Turkey

2002-04-08 Thread Ian Murray
http://www.eurasianet.org EURASIA INSIGHT April 8, 2002 TURKEY: ECONOMY SPELLS TROUBLE FOR RUSSIA, IRAN, AZERBAIJAN Michael Lelyveld: 4/4/02 New economic figures from Turkey are raising some old questions about energy planning that could soon cut into gas exports from Russia, Iran, and

Re: Venezuela

2002-04-08 Thread Sabri Oncu
Jim writes: In any event, history -- i.e., the 1973 Chilean coup -- doesn't repeat itself. I would say it does but each time differently. There seems to be lots of CIA involvement in Venezuela. Of course, this is not to deny that Venezuela is a country with a social system with which Chavez,

Join us in Jo'burg, mid-May, to fight services privatisation

2002-04-08 Thread Patrick Bond
(International enquiries to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) (Apologies for cross-posting) CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT -- SEE ALSO http://www.queensu.ca/msp Services for All? Water, Electricity and other State

Earl Browder, Liquidationist

2002-04-08 Thread michael pugliese
From Daniell Aaron's history of the Left and the literary intelligentsia. Preface by Alan Wald, Columbia Univ. Press. M.P. ...Maltz's article bristled with heresies. Had he written it during the united-front days of 1935-39 or in the war years of Soviet-American co-operation, when

Rabbi Lerner's Call for Civil Disobedience

2002-04-08 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:57:29 -0700 From: Michael Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would you please send this out to all your email lists--because some people on those list may wish to join us, or be strengthened in their resolve to

Re: Soweto anti-privatisation protesters shot/wounded and now in jail

2002-04-08 Thread Ignacio Perrotini Hernández
Hi, Speaking of South Africa, I am trying to contact Mojalefa Ralekheto, a very valuable militant of the SouhAfrican Congress, and a former classmate of mine, now residing in South africa. If you happen to know his e-mail address please let me know. thanks. Ignacio

RE: re: Bureaucracy

2002-04-08 Thread michael pugliese
Again Charles, read some sources like, The Communist Movement, 2 volumes, translated in the late 70's by Monthly Review Press, author is Spanish Communist Fernando Claudin and/or, Stalin and the European Communists, by Italian Communist historian, Paulo Spriono, published by Verso Books in

Re: Bureaucracy

2002-04-08 Thread michael pugliese
http://www.frontpagemag.com/archives/leftism/two_evils.htm .,..The Soviet tie, according to Schrecker, along with the outrageous orders that the Party issued to its cadres, did not interfere with its ability to play a progressive role in American society and culture. The small but cunning word

Re: Re: Bureaucracy

2002-04-08 Thread Louis Proyect
Michael Pugliese cites Ronald Radosh: http://www.frontpagemag.com/archives/leftism/two_evils.htm They speculate that, by having the French Communists appear to be the authors of the condemnation of Browder, the Soviets may have hoped to avoid alerting American leaders prematurely to the

Venezuela

2002-04-08 Thread michael pugliese
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/662026/posts yahoo.com | Mon Apr 8, 2002 - 3:01 PM ET | Pascal Fletcher,Reuters CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan troops tightened security at oil facilities on Monday as stoppages by state oil workers halted exports, jolting the world's No. 4

RE: Re: Venezuela

2002-04-08 Thread Devine, James
I wasn't criticizing you, but rather some folks on the left who are too pat in their analyses. I just think we have to (1) realize that the CIA is important while (2) being clear that sometimes leaders like Chavez antagonize important constituencies independent of the CIA's efforts. Of course,

BLS Daily Report

2002-04-08 Thread Richardson_D
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2002: The unemployment rate edged up 0.2 percentage points to 5.7 percent in March, but employers added 58,000 workers to their payrolls, further proof that a recovery is under way, according to figures released Friday by the Bureau of

Re: Top Japan banks seen posting 01-02 net loss

2002-04-08 Thread Michael Perelman
How is this news? I have been hearing for some time now that the Japanese banking system was in disaster mode. And yet it seems to be surprising that they will not make a profit. What am I missing? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel.

Re: Bureaucracy

2002-04-08 Thread Michael Perelman
I'm not sure that we have much to gain by rehashing the old debates about Stalinist bureaucracy. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Iraq-Venezuela-Oil

2002-04-08 Thread Sabri Oncu
States. Full at: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=506506e=11u=/a p/20020408/ap_wo_en_ge/world_oil_22

Economists vs. IMF???

2002-04-08 Thread Michael Perelman
Mark Weisbrot wrote this letter. They are trying to collect economists' signatures. If you are interested, reply to the address at the bottom, not to me or the list. An Open Letter From Economists on the Crisis in Argentina We, the undersigned economists, express our concern that

Re: Turkey

2002-04-08 Thread Michael Perelman
With Turkey qualify as too big to fail within the context of the war on terrorism? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]