Is a trial lawyer the nearest an electable public figure can get in
the USA to waging a sort of class war against capitalism?
To be a Robin Hood?
To use the capitalist ideology of bourgeois right from within
bourgeois civil society, against the private ownership of the means of
production
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/boondocks-satirizes-anybody-but-bush.html
--
Yoshie
* Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html,
At 7:14 PM -0400 7/6/04, Louis Proyect posted:
July 6, 2004
Critiquing the critique
Pandering to the lies the Left tells itself about the Democrats
By Stephen Gowans
http://www3.sympatico.ca/sr.gowans/critique.html
snip
To be fair, Jensen tries to play-down the election, and for good
reason. It
Carrol wrote:
And for non-DP leftists (such as myself), it seems to me that the
campaign is no longer worth discussing. What Lou or Gowan or I say
about the campaign at this point is, for the present, simply kicking
a dead horse. The debate over the DP will become relevant again next
January
NY Press, July 7, 2004
DONKEY. ELEPHANT. CHICKEN?
The pacifists stick to their guns, and then some.
By Matt Taibbi
Well, thank god the Green Party came to its senses last week and
nominated David Cobb to run for the presidency, ending that whole ugly
Ralph Nader episode. I was afraid I might
Does the empirical generalization suggested below have validity today
nationally or globally ?
Charles
The greater the social wealth, the functioning capital, the extent and
energy of its growth, and, therefore, also the absolute mass of the
proletariat and the productiveness of its labour, the
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004
Subject: AFSCME Convention Votes to Bring Troops Home Now
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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the July 8, 2004
issue of Workers World newspaper
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AFSCME CONVENTION VOTES TO BRING TROOPS HOME NOW
By Sharon Black
The following essay will be the Introduction to The Hobgoblin's
upcomingspecial issue on Marx's _Capital_.The Hobgoblin
( http://members.aol.com/THEHOBGOBL
) is aBritish journal of Marxist-Humanism.
==
Introduction: Marxs Capital in the Struggle for a New Human
Society
by
In the US, labor unions are on the wane, while the welfare state is getting meaner and
less effective at doing its good jobs. So what's a worker to do if injured or cheated
by some corporation? Call in a trial lawyer or personal injury lawyer! In the South,
where unions and the welfare state
it seems to have some validity these days, due to the world-wide race (or creep) to
the bottom, the downward harmonization of wages relative to labor productivity. Of
course, Marx covers his ass by adding the qualification at the end (the last
sentence)
Jim Devine
NY Press, July 7, 2004
DONKEY. ELEPHANT. CHICKEN?
Right on!
July 7, 2004/NY TIMES
Europe Reluctantly Deciding It Has Less Time for Time Off
By MARK LANDLER
FRANKFURT, July 6 - ... Like millions of his fellow citizens, he is
struggling to accept the stark new reality of life in a global economy:
Germans are having to work longer hours.
And not just
from Jamie Galbraith
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
I did not choose the headline on this one.. JG
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/07/07/job_growth/print.html
Length matters
While pundits sugarcoat the economy, the real
Devine, James quoted Jamie Galbraith:
As the chart shows, the index reached highs on three occasions. The first
was just after President Reagan's stinging midterm election defeat in 1982.
The second was just as Bush the elder was beaten in 1992. And the third
peak came in 2003, with a trivial
Louis Proyect channels Matt Taibbi:
...For those of you who didn't follow this story, Cobb snatched the
Green Party nomination away from Nader last week largely through his
embrace of the so-called safe states strategy...
Only those who didn't follow this story will be taken in by this
lie. Cobb
Shane Mage wrote:
Only those who didn't follow this story will be taken in by this
lie. Cobb didn't snatch the Green Party nomination away from Nader
for the simple reason that Nader didn't want the GP nomination and
made it very clear that he would reject it if offered.
This is specious
More generally, the Manchester index (Unemployment rate * duration of unemployment) is
a shaky. If you multiply two numbers that move together most of the time, you get a
number that exaggerates the movement of either one. There isn't much in the way of
new information.
If so, let me remind you that newspapers are not so different from
politicians. They exist to sell advertising. What goes on the page in
between the ads is not so very important.
I thought the function of news was to keep the ads from bumping into
one another.
Dan Scanlan
Louis Proyect wrote:
If I could understand the above, I imagine that I'd take vigorous exception.
I just heard that Kerry is going to get his nipples pierced because
Bush has a Dick Cheney.
Title: THE GAME OF GO AND THE CHINESE WAY OF WAR
THE GAME OF GO AND THE CHINESE WAY OF WAR
A close study of the Chinese board game go can provide insights into the distinctive Chinese conception of warfighting, according to a new study published by the Army War College.
Go is the oldest
Geological equipment in baggage leads to evacuation of Ottawa airport
Last Updated Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:30:25
OTTAWA - A piece of geological research equipment found in a passenger's
luggage prompted the evacuation of the Ottawa International Airport on
Wednesday, authorities say.
Airport
Monthly Review, Feb. 2001
The Nader Campaign and the Future
of U.S. Left Electoral Politics
by The Editors
The unlikely postelection contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush,
which ultimately led to the anointing of Bush as president by the
Republican majority on the US Supreme Court (despite
Didn't Mao write about Go?
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:32:26PM -0400, Funke Jayson J wrote:
THE GAME OF GO AND THE CHINESE WAY OF WAR
A close study of the Chinese board game go can provide insights into the
distinctive Chinese conception of warfighting, according to a new study published by
From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the US, labor unions are on the wane, while the welfare state is getting
meaner and less effective at doing its good jobs. So what's a worker to do
if injured or cheated by some corporation? Call in a trial lawyer or
personal injury lawyer! In the South,
I've heard that Mao made the military study go and I've also heard that he suppressed
the game socially. Can't confirm if either is true. It appears as though it may be
destined to be West Point's new past time.
Jayson Funke
Michael Perelman wrote:
Didn't Mao write about Go?
OK, I'll bite. Isn't go a Japanese game? There were many articles
written around the time of WWII on what this game might tell us about
Japanese military strategy. China had a version of chess that was much
slower and more deliberate than what we know in the west -- a "river"
runs through the
I've written a five page account of how I think privatization of
electric power was stopped in Korea. I'm going to spare the list the
five pages at this point.
Please let me know off-list if you'd like a copy -- if a number of you
so indicate, I will burden the list with the story.
Gene Coyle
Yes he did and he was considered a master of the game. It is every bit
as complex as Vulcan three-dimensional chess would be (if such could be
invented outside of Star Trek)
Jim C.
Didn't Mao write about Go?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
from http://www.well.com/user/mmcadams/gointro.html:
Having developed in China between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago, Go (called Wei Ch'i in
China and Baduk in Korea) contends with backgammon for the right to be called the
oldest game still played in its original form. Today it is played by
At 2:01 PM -0400 7/7/04, Louis Proyect wrote:
Nader *did* seek their endorsement, but the realos indicated almost
immediately after the 2000 election that they were ready to come
home to the Democrats. If they had instead felt like the Nader vote
was wind in the sails of the Green Party (which it
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
In short, a politically sensible compromise between the Nader/Camejo
and Cobb/LaMarche factions within the Green Party would have been
Camejo's proposal for free states, i.e., the Green Party at the
national convention endorsing both campaigns and leaving each state
Green
From an article in today's New York Times, Europe Reluctantly Deciding
It Has Less Time for Time Off:
To be sure, Europe's dogged pursuit of free time goes on. Sweden is
undertaking a two-year study of the social effects of a 30-hour workweek
proving that Thorstein Veblen and his theories about
For the most part, we have been spared the agonies of the choice between
Kerry and Nader on this list, with the threat of another ghoulish four
years of Bush.
No attractive choice lies ahead of us. I once spent a couple hours
alone with Nader. I don't think he had the slightest interest in me
I recently attended a history of economic thought conference in Toronto. Judy Klein,
who has unremarkable work about the overwhelming influence of military thought on
both economics and mathematics, has used the crude computers that military could in
its fighter craft during World War II as a way
Michael Perelman wrote:
I recently attended a history of economic thought conference in
Toronto. Judy Klein,
who has unremarkable work
I assume that sound recognition software's way of rendering done
remarkable work.
about the overwhelming influence of military thought on
both economics and
Right. Done remarkable work. The technology is wonderful when the user
is not careless.
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
95929
-Original Message-
From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug
Henwood
Sent: Wednesday, July 07,
Michael Pereleman writes: rational expectations comes directly out of the server
mechanisms that
the gunners used.
are you sure? the RatEx theory simply says that on average the expected value of a
number (say, the price level) equals the equilibrium value of that number, so that
P(expected) =
It is a fascinating story. Muth worked on the gunnery problem. So did Kalman -- of
filter fame. All you have to do is to postulate individuals as computers, then they
can calculate expected outcomes.
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:10:11PM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
Michael Pereleman writes:
It is not usally a good idea to distribute long papers on the list, but
Gene's paper is not that long and it is very good, so I am violating my
own principles.
Korea will not privatize its electric power system.
The governments attempt to privatize the Korean Electric Power Company
(KEPCO) has
I recently heard Jeff Sachs speak eloquently about Haiti. I never heard
him speak against US imperialism before. So, Columbia has perhaps the
only 2 high profile economists who have moved to the left. Lou, are you
doing something right there?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1254072,00.html
Monday July 5, 2004
The Guardian
Did one woman's obsession take America to war?
She is a conspiracy theorist whose political conceits have
consistently been proved wrong. So why were Bush and his aides so keen
to
[Rosen's letter to editor to the Atlantic, posted by Juan Cole]
http://www.juancole.com/2004_07_01_juancole_archive.html#108913458457643751
Guest Comment on Fallujah and Kaplan: Nir Rosen
Journalist Nir Rosen, who has spent most of the past year in Iraq and
has fluent Arabic, recently
Let's be clear, Western, or US military strategy is
not based on poker, boxing, football, chess, or Pac Man. And as far as I
can tell, which isn't too far but was way too close for comfort, infantry
tactics and strategy of the Asian opponents to the US are not based on
Go.
The US military
While Fahrenheit 9/11 makes Saudi Arabia in general (as well as the
Saudi royals, the bin Laden Family, and other Saudi investors in
particular) seem like Washington's puppet master, one of the jokes
that I've heard several Palestinians tell points to an opposite role
for Saudi Arabia: when
Here are some snippits from a Wall Street Journal about bank credit
card fees. Does anybody attempt to take account of such things in
measuring the CPI or income distribution?
Pacelle, Mitchell. 2004. Late Payers and Big Borrowers Are Becoming
Cash Cows. Wall Street Journal (6 July): p. A 1.
you have seen the movie, i hope!!
from michaelmoore.com:
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Letterman's Top Ten List: Top Ten George W. Bush Complaints About
Fahrenheit 9/11:
10. That actor who played the President was totally unconvincing
9. It oversimplified the way I stole the election
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1255850,00.htm
Press review
'A dangerous man to flirt with'
Commentators
from left and right have been working hard to explain the importance and
possible implications of the Fahrenheit 9/11 phenomenon. Here's what they had
to say
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