Re: Saving India's economy

2004-05-21 Thread Chris Burford
This looks like a wonderful solution for the objective interests of capitalism. As reported in the UK, Singh will particularly ensure that Indian Pakistani economic cooperation continues and will reassure the Indian stock exchange. Meanwhile with the help of Sonia Ghandi in the background, some

Where's Kerry? Homes Destroyed; Death Toll Mounts

2004-05-21 Thread Michael Hoover
Counterpunch, May 19, 2004 Where's John Kerry? Homes Destroyed; Death Toll Mounts By JOSH FRANK Even if he turns out to be the second worst president in US history, John F. Kerry will still be better than our sitting president. At least many liberal and progressive Americans are stating as much

Solidarity with Iraq's democratic forces

2004-05-21 Thread Joel Wendland
The following statement was sent by a reliable friend. I know it breaks the rule of discussing minor parties, but there was an indication from a previous poster that the IRAQ CP was isolated in the international communist movement. Joel Wendland http://www.politicalaffairs.net

Re: Solidarity with Iraq's democratic forces

2004-05-21 Thread Chris Doss
-Original Message- From: Joel Wendland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Svajotslav Sokol Communist Party of Russian Federation Central Committee member -- Which is not a Communist party in the Western sense...

Re: [Marxism] Nader lauds Kerry

2004-05-21 Thread Louis Proyect
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph Nader all but endorsed John Kerry for president in an interview yesterday with the New York Times, I don't want to give away too many of the details that I have in an upcoming Swans article on the attacks on Ralph Nader, but suffice it to say that Nader practically

Re: game theory

2004-05-21 Thread Ted Winslow
I think it's a mistake to see psychopathology as ever functional. Success can't be furthered by unrealistic thinking. Even if we interpret success as making money, psychopathological thinking will be less successful than rational thinking. In Keynes's analysis of financial markets, for instance,

Schmeiser loses again

2004-05-21 Thread k hanly
Monsanto can hold plant patent: SCOC Ottawa - Biotechnology giant Monsanto can hold a patent on its genetically-modified plant, the Supreme Court of Canada said Friday, ruling against a Saskatchewan farmer. In a 5-4 decision, the court upheld Monsanto's patent over its Roundup Ready canola. The

Re: game theory

2004-05-21 Thread Devine, James
Ted writes: I think it's a mistake to see psychopathology as ever functional. Success can't be furthered by unrealistic thinking. unrealistic thinking -- e.g., schizophrenia -- usually doesn't further success in capitalist enterprise, on the level of practical reason. But it does in other

Re: Mirowski on Nash's brilliant insight

2004-05-21 Thread Devine, James
Ted Winslow writes: I had understood you to be claiming that Nash's equilibrium concept was brilliant. I had written: Einstein's Gedanken (sp?) experiments and Nash's brilliant insight come from non-neurotypical thinking. I do think that Nash's equilibrium [NE] concept was

Re: Mirowski on Nash's brilliant insight

2004-05-21 Thread Ted Winslow
Jim wrote: So Ted assumes that I thought it was brilliant in general rather than in a very specific way. Ted had asked: What specifically from the summary of his ideas by Mirowski would you select as demonstrating brilliant insight into human motives and behaviour? in response to Jim's claim that:

economics education

2004-05-21 Thread Devine, James
I recently saw the film Y Tu Mama Tambien. This film is about the sexual and other adventures of two Mexican youth, one from the upper crust and one from the professional middle class. Ignoring the (very interesting) sexual dimension, it reminded me of a Chilean graduate student I knew at

Psychopathology and Capitalism

2004-05-21 Thread David B. Shemano
What is the general theory that psychopathology is rewarded and encouraged by the structure of corporations in capitalist society? As opposed to what? Why more so than other structures, such as rising through the ranks of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union (or any political party for

Re: Psychopathology and Capitalism

2004-05-21 Thread Devine, James
David S writes: What is the general theory that psychopathology is rewarded and encouraged by the structure of corporations in capitalist society? As opposed to what? Why more so than other structures, such as rising through the ranks of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union (or any

Kerry Could Appoint Anti-Abortion Judges

2004-05-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Ron Fournier of the Associated Press reports that John Kerry, who voted to confirm Antonin Scalia in 1986, said yesterday he's open to nominating anti-abortion judges as long as that doesn't lead to the Supreme Court overturning the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion legal, disappointing

Re: Kerry Could Appoint Anti-Abortion Judges

2004-05-21 Thread Louis Proyect
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Will liberal feminist organizations such as Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and NOW continue to give the Democratic Party a blank check? Why not? If this didn't stop them, nothing will. The New York Times October 23, 2003 Thursday Bill Barring Abortion Procedure Drew on Backing

NY Review of Books

2004-05-21 Thread Louis Proyect
In the winter of 1962-63, during a strike of the NY Times, Robert Silvers and a few close friends decided to launch the New York Review of Books (http://www.nybooks.com/), which is considered the premier intellectual print journal outside of academia. When I first joined the SWP in 1967, I was a

boston lecture on China

2004-05-21 Thread Michael Perelman
Professor Zhao Zhun (tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing) will be speaking at the Cambridge Public Library tomorrow, Saturday May 22 3pm - 5pm. The forum is entitled Can Socialism and Capitalism Co-Exist in China? Enterprise Ownership Reform Since 1978 -- Michael Perelman Economics Department

Re: NY Review of Books

2004-05-21 Thread Carl Remick
From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: PEN-L list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L] NY Review of Books Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:32:49 -0400 In the winter of 1962-63, during a strike of the NY Times, Robert Silvers and a few close friends decided to launch the New

Chavez and arming the people

2004-05-21 Thread michael a. lebowitz
Here's an excerpt from an article by Hermann Albrecht of the 'Revolutionary Marxist Current, Venezuela' (a group linked to the Ted Grant/Alan Woods old 'Militant tendency' in the UK) which I posted on another list and which Michael asked me to post here. You can find the whole piece on their

Re: boston lecture on China

2004-05-21 Thread Craven, Jim
Professor Zhao Zhun (tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing) will be speaking at the Cambridge Public Library tomorrow, Saturday May 22 3pm - 5pm. The forum is entitled Can Socialism and Capitalism Co-Exist in China? Enterprise Ownership Reform Since 1978 -- Michael Perelman Economics Department

Kerryisms

2004-05-21 Thread Michael Pollak
http://slate.msn.com/id/2100720/ This is not perfectly executed (it's a bit tendentious), but it's easy to imagine it done perfectly, and it seems like a great idea. It does a great job of capturing what's wrong with the man's speech. It's not that he makes gaffes, but rather lards that he

Re: Kerryisms

2004-05-21 Thread Frank, Ellen
Or, as John Stewart put it, why does Kerry sound more dickish when he's telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying? -Original Message- From: Michael Pollak Subject:[PEN-L] Kerryisms It's not that he makes gaffes, but rather lards that he lards so many of his sentences

Orientalist Torture, Cont'd

2004-05-21 Thread YOSHIE FURUHASHI
George Neumayr wrote in The American Spectator: Had Robert Mapplethorpe snapped the photos at Abu Ghraib, the Senate might have given him a government grant (The Abu Ghraib Collection, May 12, 2004). The outrageous equation of photographic evidence of prison torture in the real world with works

Abu Ghraib / Robert Mapplethorpe

2004-05-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
George Neumayr wrote in The American Spectator: Had Robert Mapplethorpe snapped the photos at Abu Ghraib, the Senate might have given him a government grant (The Abu Ghraib Collection, May 12, 2004). The outrageous equation of photographic evidence of prison torture in the real world with works of

Re: Psychopathology and Capitalism

2004-05-21 Thread Michael Perelman
David, could you tell us more about this case, please? On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:39:22AM -0700, David B. Shemano wrote: Regarding corporations, everybody should be happy to know that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held this week that a corporation can sue for violations of civil rights

Avoidgin the Geneva Conventions etc.

2004-05-21 Thread k hanly
Has anyone ever tried to bring a charge under the 1996 Federal War Crimes Act? Cheers, Ken Hanly http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/politics/21MEMO.html?ei=1en=fa2af4bbd3884368ex=1086154392pagewanted=printposition=May 21, 2004 GENEVA CONVENTIONS Justice Memos Explained How to Skip Prisoner Rights

Qatar to legalise unions

2004-05-21 Thread k hanly
Qatar labour law opens door to unions Thursday 20 May 2004, 15:05 Makka Time, 12:05 GMT The state of Qatar has issued a new labour law allowing for workers in the tiny Gulf emirate the right to form trade unions and go on strike. An official statement released from Amir Shaikh Hamad bin

Re: Kerryisms

2004-05-21 Thread Carrol Cox
Frank, Ellen wrote: Or, as John Stewart put it, why does Kerry sound more dickish when he's telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying? I hope he's lying about what he plans for Iraq. But as it now stands, a vote for Kerry is a vote for expanding the war in Iraq. I don't see how any

Re: economics education

2004-05-21 Thread Anthony D'Costa
But many Indian economists trained in the US still remain staunch nationalists. That has to do with the fact most come (came) at the graduate level. Besides, the US has competition with the UK (the Oxbridge types) and much earlier with the fSU, E Germany, and the like. cheers, anthony

Newsday: Iran wanted US to invade?

2004-05-21 Thread Michael Pollak
[If this is true, I think I'm just going to through in the towel and decide that covert intelligence is an oxymoron. Is there no country with a spy agency who can divine their own long-term interests? Are they all willing to shipwreck their country just for the chance to say they made something

Re: Newsday: Iran wanted US to invade?

2004-05-21 Thread Shane Mage
The Great Satan doing God's work again! Shane Mage I am part of that force which always does good by attempting to do evil. (Mephistopheles) May 21, 2004 NEW YORK NEWSDAY Chalabi aide is suspected Iranian spy BY KNUT ROYCE WASHINGTON BUREAU May 21, 2004, 7:29 PM EDT WASHINGTON -- The Defense