Actually it's the kind of pompous Western bloviating the eXile likes to mock.
Dagestanis are just like Kurds! I don't know Dagestan from a hole on the ground, but
they must be just like Kurds, cause, well, I don't know, they just are! They speak
Dagestani there in Dagestan, they shore do! Where
Actually it's the kind of pompous Western bloviating the eXile likes to mock.
Dagestanis are just like Kurds! I don't know Dagestan from a hole on the ground,
but they must be just like Kurds, cause, well, I don't know, they just are! They
speak Dagestani there in Dagestan, they shore do!
[The headline and introduction to this are completely misleading -- they
make it sound like this is an approach that has promise: It is not clear
whether they had won, or lost, more hearts and minds. But the day by day
account that follows seems to me to leave no doubt. This seems like a
From: Louis Proyect
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Marx and Engels supported the cause of Irish independence long before
Marxists like Connolly were involved. They did not extract promises from
bourgeois nationalists that they would expropriate the expropriators.
CB: We are in the U.S., the imperialist power that
Inputs and outputs, though. I certainly wouldn't want
to live in a precapitalist economy or in most forms of
Actually Existing Socialism, but one argument that I
always think ought to get more traction is that
capitalism has singularly failed to shorten the working
day. A lot of people
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Inputs and outputs, though. I certainly wouldn't want
to live in a precapitalist economy or in most forms of
Actually Existing Socialism, but one argument that I
always think ought to get more traction is that
capitalism has singularly failed to shorten the working
day.
The trick is not getting in until 10:30 a.m.
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 10:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Job flight
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Inputs and outputs, though. I certainly
In today's Times one of Rice's minions, Franklin Miller, disputes Clarke's
account of 9/11:
quote
In Mr. Clarke's account, in a chapter called Evacuate the White House,
he heads into the Situation Room at the first word of attack and begins
issuing orders to close embassies and put military
[From the Slate newsletter, Today's Papers]
excerpt
USA Today leads with a poll that has President Bush ahead of Senator Kerry
49 percent to 45 percent with Ralph Nader at 4 percent. The poll claims
that in 17 battleground states where Bush has launched an ad barrage,
Kerry went from a 28 point
First the military diverted specialized forces from Afghanistan to Iraq:
URL: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20040329/6056156s.htm
And now the same process is being carried out by the free market:
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/politics/30MILI.html
Michael
From: Bill Lear
Let me get this right: since only 1,000 out of 24 million came out for a
very vocal demonstration, that shows how cowed they are; therefore,10,000 in
the U.S., keeping proportions constant, shows the same thing?
^^
CB: Aren't a lot of Americans cowed ? ( As in standing
It probably would have taken a civil war (i.e. chaos) for Iraqis to
overthrow Saddam. Would those who now oppose U.S. withdrawal from Iraq
because it will lead to civil war have opposed a revolt against the
Baathists ?
Charles
Why then does this qualify as news. A judge ruled today that some
lawyer doesn't have the right to the photographs of Vincent Foster's
dead body, which we certainly prove that Hillary murdered him in cold
blood. I'm surprised that the press has left the Travelgate scandal
fall by the wayside.
Michael Perelman writes: A judge ruled today that some
lawyer doesn't have the right to the photographs of Vincent Foster's
dead body, which we certainly prove [?] that Hillary murdered him in cold
blood.
strange bedfellows: the Bush admin. sided with the defender of Foster's privacy in
order
Charles Brown wrote:
It probably would have taken a civil war (i.e. chaos) for Iraqis to
overthrow Saddam. Would those who now oppose U.S. withdrawal from Iraq
because it will lead to civil war have opposed a revolt against the
Baathists ?
Who opposes U.S. withdrawal from Iraq? The position of
but isn't the free market simply the embodiment of the military? or is it vice-versa?
;-)
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
First the military diverted specialized forces from Afghanistan to Iraq:
URL:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Inputs and outputs, though. I certainly wouldn't want
to live in a precapitalist economy or in most forms of
Actually Existing Socialism,
After Marx returned from a vacation in Germany in which he had been well
entertained by some friends in the aristocracy there,
[was: RE: [PEN-L] Job flight]
Carroll wrote:That's one reason socialists should for the most part emphasize the
negative in their agitation and propaganda. Guesses about what will be
good in the future are mostly sort of silly. But we can know with intensity what is
not to be tolerated in the
NY Times, March 30, 2004
Give Me a Rebel, but Hold the Politics
By GINIA BELLAFANTE
Sam Seb is a children's clothing store in the Williamsburg section of
Brooklyn that specializes in the sort of garments, tiny Levi's, baby
Dries van Noten tops that have been created with the assumption that
Name/Occupation/Employer: Donald J. Trump/President/The Trump Organization
Address: 725 5th Ave
New York, NY 10022
Contribution: John Kerry, $2,000
Name/Occupation/Employer: Donald J. Trump/President/The Trump Organization
Address: 725 5th Ave
New York, NY 10022
Contribution: George W. Bush,
URPE AT BRECHT FORUM,
SPRING 2004
presented by New York Union for Radical Political
Economics and the Brecht Forum
d-squared wrote:
but one argument that I
always think ought to get more traction is that
capitalism has singularly failed to shorten the working
day. A lot of people intuitively realise that there is
something wrong here; we were promised robot slaves and
unlimited leisure time in the
At 12:08 PM -0500 3/30/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
a UN force without the U.S. to replace the U.S.
Who do they think will contribute the troops to make up a UN force
without the US?
--
Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
I agree on the big points, but all the LK memo seeks to do
is show that getting to 10 million and 4.1 in four years is
plausible in historical context. His memo does not attempt
to demonstrate that Kerry's plan gets us there. If he showed
40 million jobs and one percent unemployment, it would be
Doug Henwood wrote:
a UN force without the U.S. to replace the U.S.
Yoshie asks:
Who do they think will contribute the troops to make up a UN force
without the US?
the Arab League has been mentioned...
JD
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
My gripe about this teensy memo is that 4.1 is couched in
terms of being a structural goal requiring supply-side
improvements in the tax code, rather than something accessible
with fiscal policy. Not coincidentally, Kerry has no fiscal
policy and is mouthing anti-deficit
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=655e=1u=/oneworld/20040330/wl_oneworld/4536827661080666584
Iraq War Was about Israel, Bush Insider Suggests
Tue Mar 30, 1:05 PM ET
Emad Mekay, Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 29 (IPS) - Iraq (news - web sites) under Saddam Hussein
(news - web
[from the ONION]
Bush Addresses 8.2 Million Unemployed: 'Get A Job!'
WASHINGTON, DC-Responding to the nation's worst unemployment rate since
the Hoover Administration, President Bush addressed the nation's 8.2
million unemployed workers in a televised speech Monday.
The economy has been on the
Yes, though less hard when there's no employment growth.
As for what Clinton 'did,' as opposed to who he did, the
biggest factors seems to have been the dot com bubble and
household debt stimulating demand. Obviously there were other ways
AD could have been boosted, but Clinton wasn't interested
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
As for what Clinton 'did,' as opposed to who he did, the
biggest factors seems to have been the dot com bubble and
household debt stimulating demand. Obviously there were other ways
AD could have been boosted, but Clinton wasn't interested
in them. Blinder's book sez the
Is this the same Arab League whose summit just collapsed or is this a
different Arab League?
Is this the same UN that imposed sanctions on Iraq for 12+ years, that
backed down with a whimper when Israel refused to allow its inspection
of Jenin, that has never even debated sanctions against the US
It's true I've tended to think of public employment as a last
resort, rather than on an equal footing with counter-cyclical
and work time. There's no reason to do so. Politics at one
time or another may favor and disfavor any of them.
I hereby elevate it to my Sacred Threesome.
Active labor
RESOLUTION PROPOSING A MILLION WORKERS MARCH ON
WASHINGTON
ADOPTED BY ILWU LOCAL
Whereas: our ancestors fought tirelessly in this
country for the right to organize unions and ensure
that our government recognized this right because it
is a cornerstone of democracy, and
Whereas: that because of
Jim Devine wrote,
I see nothing wrong with utopian dreaming, as long as it's not seen as a
matter
of thinking up blueprints that _must_ be imposed.
Just about everything I lay my hands on these days has the word Utopia in
it. Chapman (1909): It occurred to me after a cursory examination of
Thatcher's TINA is the opposite side of the utopian
coin.
Commies have to know what they want as well as what
they want to leave behind in history's dustbin.
Regards,
Mike B)
=
1844 Paris Manuscripts,
Marx makes a major point
of the relationship between
the sexes: The infinite
degradation in
Doug Henwood wrote:
a UN force without the U.S. to replace the U.S.
Yoshie asks:
Who do they think will contribute the troops to make up a UN force
without the US?
the Arab League has been mentioned...
JD
How many troops does the Arab League have and how many of them can
they afford to send to
Is this the same Arab League whose summit just collapsed or is this
a different Arab League?
* No lost sleep over the postponed summit
By Danny Rubinstein
The Palestinian leadership was not especially disappointed yesterday
when it learned of the postponement of the Arab summit conference
What's China's share of all government purchases of U.S. assets?
* A trade deficit must be financed by net borrowing from the
rest of the world. The United States was effectively spending about
5% more than it was producing last year, but cannot continue to
borrow at such a high rate
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