Russia -- it never changes!! :)
What year is this? Cossack soldiers arrive in South Ossetia Georgian government detains supposed 'humanitarian aid' from Russia By Nino Kopaleishvili Messenger.ge Wednesday, July 14, 2004, #130 (0654) Cossack military formations help a demonstration of their force inside territory of South Ossetia on Tuesday. The well-equipped fighters, who arrived to South Ossetia following a decision of the Cossack Council, showed their skills and demonstrated weapons in training in territory controlled by the de facto government. A Cossack leader interviewed by Rustavi-2 stated that the fighters had arrived in South Ossetia to help their brother Ossetians and this was an official decision as 949 delegates of the Cossack Council voted for it. Here are our Cossack volunteers who want to take part in this, the Cossack ottoman told a Rustavi 2 journalist. 90 percent of the population of South Ossetia are citizens of the Russian Federation. That is why we are obliged to support our citizens. We represent the voice of Russia. If it is necessary, all Russians will come to help our brothers. While the Cossacks demonstrated their force, Georgian law-enforcers detained cargo trucks escorted by Russian peacekeepers at the Ergneti checkpoint. According to the representative of the President of Georgia in Shida Kartli Micheil Kareli, Russian peacekeepers, who claimed they were carrying flour to Ossetian and mixed villages in Big Liakhvi as a present from President Putin, could not provide any documents that it was humanitarian aid. After 3-hour of negotiations between Georgian customs officers and Russian peacekeepers the Georgian side did not change its position. Sviatoslav Nabzdorov could not present any evidence that these goods are really humanitarian aid and if these goods are not cleared, we won't allow them to enter the territory of Georgia, Kareli told journalists. Commander of the Russian Peacekeeping Forces Sviatoslav Nabzdorov, who personally escorted the cargo, insisted that it was humanitarian aid and there was an agreement with President Saakashvili. Nabzdorov also reminded journalists that on July 12 a Georgian delegation with an escort of Russian peacekeepers managed to distribute flour to the Big Liakhvi villages. Yesterday I said that I would bring a present from President Putin. Now we are carrying flour which the president of Georgia allowed us to do three days ago, but your governor probably misunderstood something, stated Nabzdorov before negotiations with the Georgian side. According to Kareli, he did not have any information that President Saakashvili had allowed the cargo to pass. Meanwhile, on June 12 Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania and Defense and Chairman of the Parliamentary Security Committee Givi Targamadze stated that Moscow had dispatched a convoy of some 150 military vehicles transporting artillery, ammunition and 120 troops from North Ossetia to the breakaway Republic of South Ossetia during the night of 11-12 June. President Mikheil Saakashvili denounced the deployment as an unfriendly act on Russia's part, while the Georgian Foreign Ministry lodged a protest with its Russian counterpart and appealed to the international community to condemn the Russian deployment on June 13. On Monday the Russian Defense Ministry denied the allegations that troops and arms had been sent to South Ossetia. But according to the website Hellenic Resources Network, Interfax on July 12 quoted a spokesman for the North Caucasus Military District as explaining that a convoy carrying fuel, food, and spare parts was sent to South Ossetia as part of a routine rotation of Russian troops serving with the quadripartite peacekeeping force deployed in the conflict zone. Murad Djioev, foreign minister of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia, similarly denied that Russia has sent troops to the region, Interfax reported. He dismissed the Georgian accusations as part of a Georgian propaganda campaign. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
North Korea Goes Commercial Online
North Korea Goes Commercial Online (North Korea's net venture is merely one aspect of its slow but certain transformation into a capitalist economy): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/north-korea-goes-commercial-online.html. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * Calendars of Events in Columbus: http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html, http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php, http://www.cpanews.org/ * Student International Forum: http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/ * Committee for Justice in Palestine: http://www.osudivest.org/ * Al-Awda-Ohio: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio * Solidarity: http://www.solidarity-us.org/
Rock Financial
This weekend, I heard a commercial by Rock Financial saying that mortgage rates had unexpectedly gone down , despite the Fed raising rates recently. (They said that on the commercial). Is this theliquidity trap ? C
Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
The Hindu Monday, Jul 26, 2004 Israel pushing for Kurdish state? By Atul Aneja MANAMA, JULY 25. Relations between Turkey and Israel appear to be souring rapidly amid reports that Israeli commandos are training Kurds in northern Iraq to encourage the emergence of an independent Kurdish state. Israel has vociferously denied these reports, which acquired prominence in a recent article written by the American investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, in The New Yorker magazine. In a damage control exercise, the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, rushed to the Turkish capital, Ankara, last week where he addressed this issue. At a press conference, Mr. Olmert said, I conveyed at every opportunity that we are not in northern Iraq and that we have never been active in that region. It is a lie that Israel is cooperating with Kurds. Israel and Turkey have been known as strategic partners and have had a strong military relationship. Israel has also viewed Turkey as its strategic anchor in West Asia a region that has been intensely hostile towards it. Turkey, however, has a huge stake in seeing that northern Iraq does not become independent. Fears of secession Turkey fears that an independent state at its doorstep Iraq could become the nucleus for a larger Kurdish nation, which could incorporate parts of its territory where Kurds reside in large numbers. Iran and Syria, which also have large Kurdish populations on their soil also share these apprehensions and have stood opposed to Kurdish secession in northern Iraq. Notwithstanding Israel's denial, the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, signalled his unhappiness by declining to meet Mr. Olmert. He met Naci Otri, Prime Minister of Syria Israel's arch foe, who was also visiting Turkey at the same time. Differences between Turkey and Israel have also come out in the open over the Israeli treatment of Palestinians. Mr. Erdogan has not given much credence to reports of Israeli presence in northern Iraq, indicating that the dissonance could also be driven by other factors. Analysts point out that Ankara has begun to perceive that Israel opposes Turkey's attempt to enter the European Union its core foreign policy objective. Copyright © 2004, The Hindu. Yahoo! India Careers: Over 65,000 jobs online Go to: http://yahoo.naukri.com/
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
Ha. It's only a matter of time now until some of the same people who have been glorifying the Kurds as a long-oppressed victim-race now start vilifying them as tools of imperialism. --- Ulhas Joglekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Hindu Monday, Jul 26, 2004 Israel pushing for Kurdish state? By Atul Aneja __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
Chris Doss wrote: Ha. It's only a matter of time now until some of the same people who have been glorifying the Kurds as a long-oppressed victim-race now start vilifying them as tools of imperialism. Nobody should either glorify or vilify them. Moreover, it is a mistake to lump all the Kurds together. The Workers Party in Turkey never cut deals with imperialism, while the Iranian Kurds were allied with the USSR at one point, until Stalin's typically cynical double-dealing forced them to look elsewhere. Of course, the Iraqi Kurdish leadership is utterly bankrupt. That being said, the Kurds are an oppressed nationality. Period. -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
Re: Subject: Re: Suicides, Military and Economic
Anthony D'Costa wrote: But what he said was that Chandra Babu Naidu the laptop toting chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, who was recently ousted in the elections, transferred massive water to the urban, high tech driven city, at the expense of the rural folks. This story hasn't been reported in the media AFAIK. It's possible I missed it. But how exactly he did this? The water table is drastically falling in the southern region and virtually all major southern cities (Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai) are all facing massive water supply problems. For all the headlines over (unfortunate) suicides in Andhra Pradesh, the state with a very high level of suicides rate is Kerala. Ulhas Yahoo! India Careers: Over 65,000 jobs online Go to: http://yahoo.naukri.com/
John Kerry and Langston Hughes
The neoliberals at Micro$oft's Slate Magazine are red-baiting John Kerry over his appropriation of a line from a Langston Hughes poem: http://slate.msn.com/id/2104295/ Kerry's Lit Crit The soon-to-be nominee sanitizes a Stalinist poem. By Timothy Noah Posted Monday, July 26, 2004, at 6:08 AM PT Last month, Chatterbox urged John Kerry to drop the campaign slogan, Let America be America again. Instead, Kerry has wrapped his arms more tightly around the slogan's regrettable source. As Chatterbox noted in the earlier column, Let America be America again comes from a poem published in 1938 by the Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes. But Hughes intended the line ironically. A black man living in the pre-Civil Rights Era would have had to be insane to look back to a golden age of freedom and equality in America, and Hughes was not insane. Hughes was, rather, an enthusiastic cheerleader for the Soviet Union at the time he wrote Let America Be America Again, which explains the poem's agitprop tone. I am the young man, full of strength and hope, Hughes writes in the poem: Tangled in that ancient endless chain Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land! Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need! Of work the men! Of take the pay! Of owning everything for one's own greed! Toil good, private ownership bad, etc. Hughes ends his poem on a more hopeful note (America never was America to me/ And yet I swear this oath/ America will be!), but the future Hughes imagined for America when he wrote those words probably looked a lot like Stalinist Russia. Before turning to the substance of Slate's red-baiting, it is worth pointing out how both Slate and Salon function in American political discourse. Slate's role is to push liberals to the right, as befits its New Republic lineage. The original editor was Michael Kinsley, who started his career at this DLC house organ. More recently, Kinsley has shifted to the left if his LA Times editorial attack on Kerry's prowar stance is any indication. On the other hand, Salon's mission is to push radicals to the right. As a watchdog for officially-sanctioned liberalism, it is constantly on the attack against Ramsey Clark, Ralph Nader or any other figure who strays too far to the left. Both publications are funded by the Silicon valley bourgeoisie, which was profiled in a very perceptive NY Times Magazine article yesterday: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/magazine/25DEMOCRATS.html. If they were not funded by rich people, they would probably go out of business immediately. This raises the interesting question of political culture in the USA. With so much of the soft left being sustained by the George Soros's and Paul Newman's of the world, one wonders what would happen if there was a huge crash that left such individuals in dire straits. If political opinion is published solely on the basis of volunteer labor, I suspect it would be weighted much more to the left. Turning to John Kerry and Langston Hughes, it is obvious we are dealing with the sort of phenomenon that Thomas Frank honed in on in the pages of Baffler Magazine, namely the capitalist appropriation of countercultural themes. Kerry has about as much in common with a black radical's poetry as The Gap had with William S. Burroughs who modeled their trousers some years ago. Or Iggy Pop's Lust for Life being used as the backdrop for Royal Caribean Cruise-Lines. Just as they don't use these lyrics from Lust for Life in that cruise line commercial: Here comes johnny yen again With the liquor and drugs And the flesh machine Hes gonna do another strip tease. I wouldn't expect Kerry to ever refer to the lines cited by Slate. In fact, Kerry's attitude toward the sort of people championed by Langston Hughes has much more in common with Slate Magazine's. Their problem is that they are so uptight they won't allow one of their own to appropriate a catchy slogan, even if it was written by somebody who despised capitalism and racism. Despite borrowing from Hughes, Kerry's outlook has much more in common with the Don Imus show, where he is a frequent guest. It was on the Imus show where Kerry made that crack about opponent Bill Weld taking more vacations than people on welfare. Kerry often uses that show to make key announcements, such as his denial that he had an affair with an intern. Imus was the subject of a 60 Minutes profile a couple of years ago, where he admitted to Mike Wallace that he used the word nigger in private conversations. That any big-name politician would continue to appear on this venue is simply astonishing. But I guess if the goal is to remove Bush, it is okay if his replacement hangs out with cracker-barrel racists. When Kerry accused Bill Weld of taking as many vacations as people on welfare, this wasn't just a racist jibe to endear himself to Don Imus's listeners. He competed with Bill Weld for the prize of sticking it to the poor. When
Justin Raimondo skewers the ABB'ers
This election year is a conundrum that is baffling the antiwar Left, and the great debate over whether or not to support Nader is separating the wheat from the chaff. As I noted in a previous column, the self-promoting and largely self-appointed leaders of the progressive movement i.e. what used to be called liberals are fanatically devoted to Kerry, and attack the Naderites with the same mindless ferocity as the old Nation magazine used to denounce the Trotskyites as wreckers, splitters, and agents of Hitler and the Mikado. Uncle Joe Stalin may be long dead, but his spirit lingers on in the mindset of the ABB'ers, even down to mimicking the vicious smearing campaigns that were the hallmark of the Stalinist propaganda machine. Speaking of Stalin, the Kerry camp will be delighted to hear that they've been endorsed by the Communist Party USA, the official Commie party in the United States, which gives voice to the ABB movement on the Left. While Kerry's economic platform is not as dramatic a program as we would place, but one that goes in a significantly different direction, on the other hand, say the Commies: He is the vehicle by which George W. Bush, representing the most extreme reaction, can be defeated. A Kerry presidency by itself will not bring the changes, it will undoubtedly require huge mass pressure to bring the changes. In this regard ..., a Kerry election presents the possibility for greater struggles to undo damage and move forward. There is concern in many quarters that Kerry has not taken a strong enough stand, especially on issues of race and on the war in Iraq. Placing this criticism, Julian Bond said at the Take Back America conference, 'Too often the opposition party has been absent without leave. When one party is shameless the other can't afford to be spineless.' Yet, he concluded, given the threat to civil rights enforcement on every front and right-wing control of all branches of government, 'The consequences of loss are too high to bear. We have to ensure every citizen registers and votes and guarantee the theft of Black votes never happens again.' These formulations speak volumes to those within peace and left organizations who insist there is no difference between Kerry and Bush. On the basis of the record alone, this is not the case.' It isn't surprising that a party that could ignore the crimes of the gulag would subordinate the deaths of thousands of Iraqis to the issue of how many chads were counted in Florida. As a way to prove their complete lack of any moral sense, not to mention their slavish devotion to the Democratic party machine, such a stance is a stroke of strategic genius on the part of these latter-day Leninists. I guess the Commies will be among the protesters at the Democratic national convention, which we'll be subjected to all week, and I had to laugh when I read the complaint of the protesters' leader, Medea Benjamin, at being caged up in Boston: We don't deserve to be put in a detention center, a concentration camp. It's tragic that here in Boston, the birthplace of democracy, our First Amendment rights are being trampled on. Even more tragic is that self-proclaimed leftist leaders such as Benjamin a founder of the trendy-lefty Global Exchange, as well as Code Pink, a women's antiwar group, and a former Green Party candidate are supporting Kerry, sliming Nader, and basically taking the CPUSA united front line of Anybody But Bush. No, Ms. Benjamin doesn't deserve to be put in a concentration camp: nobody does. But she does deserve a pointed reminder that Iraqi lives are valuable, too. Sadly, the necessity of such a reminder underscores the imperialist arrogance that pervades our political discourse, and can infect even the antiwar movement of an imperialist country. full: http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3189 -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
Marc Cooper on Black Democrats
www.MarcCooper.com July 25, 2004 Bombs Away: Black Dems and Lockheed Martin Together At Last Take a close look at these two pictures I snapped tonight at the Congressional Black Caucus Institute's homage to Fannie Lou Hamer at the Massachussetts State House on Boston's Beacon Hill. That's right, the same Fannie Lou who led the Mississppi Freedom Democratic Party delegation into the 1964 Democratic Convention saying she was sick and tired of being sick and tired and --unsuccessfully-- demanded full racial integration of her state's Dixiecrat delegation. We've come a long way, baby. In the photo on the left you can see Fannie Lou's portrait posted next to the co-sponsor of tonight's event, Lockheed Martin. Fourteen original and now aging members of the Freedom Delegation were flown into the event by the other corporate sponsor, our friends at Verizon. The photo on the right features CBC co-chairs, Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummins and California Democrat Barbara Lee -- the only member of the House who refused to vote George W. Bush authority to retaliate after September 11th (not to be confused with the Iraq vote). I don't know anything about it, I'm just the co-chair of this, Congresswoman Lee said when I asked her what Lockheed Martin had to do with the legacy of Fanny Lou Hamer. Congressman Benny Thompson of Mississippi was more enthusiastic. As he introduced Lockheed Martin exec Art Johnson to the crowd of several hundred, he said We had to have someone step up to help us... Lockheed stepped up to the plate. They've been very supportive of our caucus and our activities. Johnson reciprocated the comments saying his company is pleased with the relationship we have with the CBC. We work together on a number of projects countrywide. Lockheed is one of America's largest defense and war contractors. It also administers several outsourced and privatized computer programs for what used to be the federal welfare system -- the same one Comrade Bill Clinton dismantled in 1996. Lockheed has also recently been embroiled in accusations of employment discrimination. The CBC is well-known for its alternative, liberal budget proprosals which traditionally call for a 30% or more cut in military spending. Indeed, Congresswoman Lee said tonite that the CBC is the conscience of the Congress. It's the resistance movement inside the House of Representatives. A dandy phrase, for sure. But apparently a posture that doesn't frighten Lockheed Martin...or Verizon. There are, of course, two ways to look at all this. Either you believe that money permeates all politics and the CBC is only doing what everybody else does and, in fact, has no choice other than to wet its beak with all the others. Or, conversely, you believe that the CBC ought to be, indeed, the conscience of the Congress and that calling upon the likes of Lockheed and Verizon to sponsor an homage to Fannie Lou Hamer is, at a minimum, in bad taste. We merely report. You decide. The formal DNC opens Monday night with a speech by Mr. Clinton. -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
Todd Chretien replies to Norman Solomon and Medea Benjamin
Counterpunch, July 26, 2004 A Reply to Norman Solomon Medea Benjamin Believing in a Green Resistance By TODD CHRETIEN These are the times that try mena*TMs souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. -Thomas Paine, The Crisis, 1776 The great immigrant revolutionary, abolitionist and supporter of women's rights, Thomas Paine, made the point in 1776 that in order to win any meaningful battle, it is necessary not only to fight when it is easy. It is necessary to fight, and in fact, it is especially important to fight when all pragmatic opinion counsels compromise, retreat and surrender. Had Washington's army sued for peace in 1776 at Valley Forge then the world's first representative democracy would never have been born. Visionary abolitionist Frederick Douglass advised John Brown to abort his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry, not because he opposed the rebellion, but because he believed it could not succeed in its tactics. However, when John Brown was executed by the slave power, Douglass lauded him as the man who started the war that ended slavery. In 1937, Congress of Industrial Organization union leader John Lewis dared the government to break the auto sit-down strikes and shoot him first. The auto bosses and Roosevelt backed down and we can thank the Flint rebels for the remnants of unions we still have today. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, touching off a direct action movement that bucked those who advised to let the apartheid courts work with all deliberate speed. The racist backlash was intense and led to the deaths, beatings and jailings of thousands of young Black and white freedom fighters. But Jim Crow died as well. Any serious consideration of American history shows that Thomas Paine was right. Independence, abolition, unions, civil rights, suffrage, abortion, Stonewall. All great rebellions and reforms came into being because the minority who advocated unreasonable demands refused to disorganize their forces under the pressure of majority opinion. Instead, they held to their principles, gathered their forces, weathered the storm and showed friend and foe alike that truth and not lies are the motor force of history. Today, we are at an historical crossroads. Bush has set the world on fire. He has invaded Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti; cheered on the Israeli war against the Palestinians; shredded our civil liberties with the Patriot Act; and wants to codify his version of the Old Testament into a constitutional ban on gay marriage. He wants to outlaw abortion and doesn't believe in global warming. No doubt, he is a danger to the planet. However, rather than opposing this madness, John Kerry has helped Bush light the matches. He voted for the invasions and wants to send more troops. He promises more, more, more of the same for Sharon's dirty war, and adds that we should get tough with Venezuela. He voted for the Patriot Act and vows to intensify the war on terror if elected. There are, of course, some differences. Kerry does not want to write his anti-gay marriage bigotry into the form of an amendment. He believes in global warming, but thinks any radical action to reverse it will hurt American corporate power. He says he will appoint anti-abortion federal judges, but will follow Clinton's policy of slowly outlawing abortion to the young and the poor. full: http://www.counterpunch.org/chretien07262004.html -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
Re: John Kerry and Langston Hughes
In a message dated 7/26/2004 9:57:10 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hughes ends his poem on a more hopeful note ("America
never was America to me/ And yet I swear this oath/ America will be!"), but the
future Hughes imagined for America when he wrote those words probably looked a
lot like Stalinist Russia.
Comment
Talk about cheap Red baiting.
Langston Hughes lived through the period of American history
that birthed the Red Hot Summers and this reality helped shape the core of his
vision . . . not to mention his personal history. Without question Langston's
vision was of an America where blacks were not murdered and lynched in mass and
segregated for another half century . . . which you equate with a Stalinists
vision or a Stalinists America.
You state in a dry "as a matter of fact manner" that "the
future Hughes imagined for America when he wrote those words probably looked a
lot like Stalinist Russia" and the year as index in 1938.
In exercising your freedom of speech you play with fire and
reveal something profound in your character and mental politics . . . that
smells rotten.
Langston Hughes vision of the kind of America he conceived is
contained in his many poems.
(February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967) Born in Joplin, Missouri,
James Langston Hughes was a member of an abolitionist family. He was the
great-great-grandson of Charles Henry Langston, brother of John Mercer Langston,
who was the first Black American to be elected to public office, in 1855. Hughes
attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the
eighth grade, and was selected as Class Poet. His father didn't think he would
be able to make a living at writing, and encouraged him to pursue a more
practical career. He paid his son's tuition to Columbia University on the
grounds he study engineering. After a short time, Langston dropped out of the
program with a B+ average; all the while he continued writing poetry. His first
published poem was also one of his most famous, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers",
and it appeared in Brownie's Book. Later, his poems, short plays, essays and
short stories appeared in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in
Opportunity Magazine and other publications.
One of Hughes' finest essays appeared in the Nation in 1926,
entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain". It spoke of Black writers
and poets, "who would surrender racial pride in the name of a false
integration," where a talented Black writer would prefer to be considered a
poet, not a Black poet, which to Hughes meant he subconsciously wanted to write
like a white poet. Hughes argued, "no great poet has ever been afraid of being
himself." He wrote in this essay, "We younger Negro artists now intend to
express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white
people are pleased we are glad. If they aren't, it doesn't matter. We know we
are beautiful. And ugly too... If colored people are pleased we are glad. If
they are not, their displeasure doesn't matter either. We build our temples for
tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free
within ourselves."
In 1923, Hughes traveled abroad on a freighter to the Senegal,
Nigeria, the Cameroons, Belgium Congo, Angola, and Guinea in Africa, and later
to Italy and France, Russia and Spain. One of his favorite pastimes whether
abroad or in Washington, D.C. or Harlem, New York was sitting in the clubs
listening to blues, jazz and writing poetry. Through these experiences a new
rhythm emerged in his writing, and a series of poems such as "The Weary Blues"
were penned. He returned to Harlem, in 1924, the period known as the Harlem
Renaissance. During this period, his work was frequently published and his
writing flourished. In 1925 he moved to Washington, D.C., still spending more
time in blues and jazz clubs. He said, "I tried to write poems like the songs
they sang on Seventh Street...(these songs) had the pulse beat of the people who
keep on going." At this same time, Hughes accepted a job with Dr. Carter G.
Woodson, editor of the Journal of Negro Life and History and founder of Black
History Week in 1926. He returned to his beloved Harlem later that year.
http://www.redhotjazz.com/hughes.html
What if Langston Hughes vision and ideas of Russia was based
on his visit to the country and his vision of a future of America was based on
being born and living the American experience as an American citizen.
What a cheap shot and disgusting Red Baiting.
You seriously need to study the years of the Red Hot
Summers.But then again you already know what Mr. Hughes vision of the
future was.
Sad.
Melvin P.
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
Chris Doss wrote: Ha. Do you know Cuba supports self-determination by Kashmiris? Ulhas --- Ulhas Joglekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Hindu Monday, Jul 26, 2004 Israel pushing for Kurdish state? By Atul Aneja Yahoo! India Careers: Over 65,000 jobs online Go to: http://yahoo.naukri.com/
Re: John Kerry and Langston Hughes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 7/26/2004 9:57:10 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hughes ends his poem on a more hopeful note (America never was America to me/ And yet I swear this oath/ America will be!), but the future Hughes imagined for America when he wrote those words probably looked a lot like Stalinist Russia. Comment Talk about cheap Red baiting. I was quoting a Slate.com article. My own views on Langston Hughes have nothing to do with that. I am actually quite partial to Stalinist artists such as Hughes, Neruda, Mike Gold and the Hollywood screenwriters such as Abraham Polonsky. -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
Chris, why the sarcastic Ha.? The Kurds have been oppressed for centuries. Playing a weak hand, they have been involved in all sorts of weird arrangements, frequently living by smuggling, shifting alliances unexpectedly. Why can't people sympathize with them and still be disgusted by particular actions? Chris Doss wrote: Ha. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Re: John Kerry and Langston Hughes
In a message dated 7/26/2004 11:02:14 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was quoting a Slate.com article. Comment Sorry . . . and apologies are due. There are times when the distinction is blurred and indistinguishable. Melvin P.
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
I'm not surprised. They probably knee-jerk support every little group that screeches national sovereignity! Even if India goes down in flames. --- Ulhas Joglekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Doss wrote: Ha. Do you know Cuba supports self-determination by Kashmiris? Ulhas --- Ulhas Joglekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Hindu Monday, Jul 26, 2004 Israel pushing for Kurdish state? By Atul Aneja Yahoo! India Careers: Over 65,000 jobs online Go to: http://yahoo.naukri.com/ __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
Sure they've been oppressed (as far as I know -- I'm not informed on the issue). I'm alluding to certain segments in the US according to him a group is oppressed or not according to whether or not it is pro- or anti-US or Israel. --- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris, why the sarcastic Ha.? The Kurds have been oppressed for centuries. Playing a weak hand, they have been involved in all sorts of weird arrangements, frequently living by smuggling, shifting alliances unexpectedly. Why can't people sympathize with them and still be disgusted by particular actions? Chris Doss wrote: Ha. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: John Kerry and Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes lived through the period of American history that birthed the Red Hot Summers and this reality helped shape the core of his vision . . . not to mention his personal history. Without question Langston's vision was of an America where blacks were not murdered and lynched in mass and segregated for another half century . . . which you equate with a Stalinists vision or a Stalinists America. -- Hughes wrote for Izvestia when he lived in Central Asia in the early 30s. He was the first American writer to be translated into a Central Asian language (Uzbek), I think. __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
Where does this ocme from, Chris. Again, Cuba is weak -- yet amazingly has survived every imaginable sort of pressure -- so it may find it beneficial to side with Pakistan. But to make your generalization about knee-jerk support seems overblown. On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:07:10AM -0700, Chris Doss wrote: I'm not surprised. They probably knee-jerk support every little group that screeches national sovereignity! Even if India goes down in flames. --- Ulhas Joglekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Doss wrote: Ha. Do you know Cuba supports self-determination by Kashmiris? Ulhas --- Ulhas Joglekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Hindu Monday, Jul 26, 2004 Israel pushing for Kurdish state? By Atul Aneja Yahoo! India Careers: Over 65,000 jobs online Go to: http://yahoo.naukri.com/ __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
Chris Doss wrote: I'm not surprised. They probably knee-jerk support every little group that screeches national sovereignity! Even if India goes down in flames. --- Ulhas Joglekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Doss wrote: Ha. Do you know Cuba supports self-determination by Kashmiris? so, are you two saying that kashmiris are a little group that screeches sovereignity? aren't their demands of self-determination legitimate? why would india go down in flames if the people of kashmir were to gain self-determination? --ravi
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
Michael Perelman wrote: Where does this ocme from, Chris. Again, Cuba is weak -- yet amazingly has survived every imaginable sort of pressure -- so it may find it beneficial to side with Pakistan. But to make your generalization about knee-jerk support seems overblown. On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:07:10AM -0700, Chris Doss wrote: I'm not surprised. They probably knee-jerk support every little group that screeches national sovereignity! Even if India goes down in flames. --- Ulhas Joglekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Doss wrote: Ha. Do you know Cuba supports self-determination by Kashmiris? [all the top posting is making this difficult to follow, but i hope the reader can still make sense of who said what when] why pakistan? isn't it wrong to reduce the human rights violations of kashmiris (by both countries) to a tiff between the perpetrators? or to put it another way why is supporting self-determination for kashmir = siding with pakistan? --ravi
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ravi wrote: why pakistan? isn't it wrong to reduce the human rights violations of kashmiris (by both countries) to a tiff between the perpetrators? or to put it another way why is supporting self-determination for kashmir = siding with pakistan? apologies for the flood. correction to the first sentence above: human rights violations of kashmiris should read violation of kashmiri human rights. --ravi
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You're right, I can't read Castro's mind. --- Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where does this ocme from, Chris. Again, Cuba is weak -- yet amazingly has survived every imaginable sort of pressure -- so it may find it beneficial to side with Pakistan. But to make your generalization about knee-jerk support seems overblown. ___ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com
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so, are you two saying that kashmiris are a little group that screeches sovereignity? aren't their demands of self-determination legitimate? why would india go down in flames if the people of kashmir were to gain self-determination? --- You're assuming a majority of the people of Kashmir want self-determination. I don't know if they do. Since most fighters killed in Kashmir (as far as I know) are non-Kashmiris, I doubt that they do. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
Chris Doss wrote: You're assuming a majority of the people of Kashmir want self-determination. I don't know if they do. Since most fighters killed in Kashmir (as far as I know) are non-Kashmiris, I doubt that they do. i do not know about fighters, but definitely quite a few kashmiris have been killed in kashmir by indian forces. a simple search on amnesty.org for 'kashmir' yields multiple pages and reports of abuse and murder perpetrated by the indian govt and armed forces. leaving aside the jammu, the region with a larger indian population, what i have heard and read suggests that the people of kashmir would perhaps prefer to be independent of both india and pakistan. afaik, that, not just pakistan sponsored terrorism, is also one of the reasons for the indian govt's refusal to conduct a plebiscite. so, how are we to know what the majority of the people of kashmir want? tariq ali writes: http://www.counterpunch.org/tariqkurds.html TA The real question is what to do about Kashmir, and the simple answer TA is to ask the Kashmiris. Neither Islamabad nor Delhi wants to know, TA because they already know: Kashmir would like to be independent. w.r.t the question of kashmiri militants, BBC writes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1719612.stm BBC What started as essentially an indigenous popular uprising in BBC Indian-administered Kashmir has in the last 12 years undergone BBC major changes. BBC ... BBC some of the groups that were in the forefront of the BBC armed insurgency in 1989 - particularly the pro-independence BBC Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) - have receded into the BBC background. a contrary view and report can be found at: http://members.tripod.com/~INDIA_RESOURCE/kashmir.html --ravi
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
Chris Doss wrote: You're assuming a majority of the people of Kashmir want self-determination. I don't know if they do. Since most fighters killed in Kashmir (as far as I know) are non-Kashmiris, I doubt that they do. The real issue is Indian occupation of foreign soil. India has resisted Kashmiri independence from early on. When the nationalist leader Abdullah agitated for independence, New Delhi removed him from office and sent him to prison for 22 years. In 1990 Indian troops gunned down 30 people involved with pro-independence demonstrations. That's when the current insurgency got started. India, like Indonesia and East Timor, or Turkey, Iraq or Iran with the Kurds, is quite adept at adopting the brutal stance of their former colonizers. What a slap in the face to Gandhi's example. With respect to the guerrillas being non-Kashmiri, this is a charge that has been raised by the Indian government all the while it occupies Kashmir itself. Frankly, it is as cynical as Paul Bremer complaining about foreign fighters in Iraq. -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
Cyber One Korea
Cyber One Korea (more on North Korean online gambling and South Koreans' yearning to communicate with North Koreans): http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/cyber-one-korea.html
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
Has any country dealt fairly with minorities? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Release: Chávez Gets Strong Support From Brazil
Venezuela Information Office 733 15th Street NW Suite 932 Washington, DC 20005 Voice: (202) 347-8081 Fax: (202) 347-8091 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, July 26, 2004 Contact: Robert Naiman 202-347-8081 x. 605 Chávez Gets Strong Support From Brazil President Lula's Party, Renowned Leaders, and Major Trade Union Federation (CUT) All Support Chávez Win in August 15 Referendum In recent statements, the party of Brazils President Lula Da Silva, the largest Brazilian trade union federation Central Unica dos Trabalhadores (CUT), and dozens of prominent individuals in Brazil expressed support for President Hugo Chávez campaign in the August 15 referendum in Venezuela. On July 16, the Workers Party the party of Brazils President Lula Da Silva released a letter sent to President Chávez in which it expressed its desire for full success of president Hugo Chávez in the referendum August 15, since his victory will speed the process of economic integration of South America. Just 9 days earlier the national trade union federation CUT had released a Declaration of the CUT on the August 15 Referendum in Venezuela, which said, we understand that this election will be of basic importance for all the peoples of Latin America, and that the decision of Venezuelans to support the continuity of the Chávez government will be a strong reaffirmation of democracy. The CUT is the largest labor federation in Brazil, founded in 1983. Brazils President Lula was one of the founders of the CUT. Strong support for Chavez also came from a group of 69 prominent writers, intellectuals, musicians and politicians, mostly from Brazil, who signed a declaration entitled If I were a Venezuelan, I would vote for Hugo Chávez. The declaration was signed by Jose Rainha, coordinator of Brazil's landless workers' movement, the MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra); best-selling author Fernando Morais; and Brazilian music legend Chico Buarque, who was exiled from Brazil during its dictatorship. The declaration denounced the media monopoly that portrays Chávez as a tyrant despite the fact that he respects the Law and the Constitution and praised his commitment [to the] common people and his determination to apply the 1999 constitution, created by an inclusive democratic process. It noted that the right to a recall referendum is an unprecedented in Latin America, and that few government leaders have the courage to submit themselves like President Hugo Chávez to such a referendum. The statement declared, We are sure that on August 15, the people of Venezuela will be victorious and will construct a free and just country if we were Venezuelans, we would vote for Hugo Chávez. Nobel Peace Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano also supported the declaration. -- Robert Naiman Senior Policy Analyst Venezuela Information Office 733 15th Street, NW Suite 932 Washington, DC 20005 t. 202-347-8081 x. 605 f. 202-347-8091 www.veninfo.org ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: The Venezuela Information Office is dedicated to informing the American public about contemporary Venezuela. More information is available from the FARA office of the Department of Justice in Washington, DC.
Nicaragua 25 years later: a reply to Lee Sustar
Twenty five years ago, the FSLN seized power in Nicaragua. Although it is difficult to see this abjectly miserable country in these terms today, back then it fueled the hopes of radicals worldwide that a new upsurge in world revolution was imminent. Along with Grenada, El Salvador and Guatemala, where rebel movements had already seized power or seemed on the verge of taking power, Nicaragua had the kind of allure that Moscow had in the 1920s. So what happened? While nobody would gainsay the political collapse of the FSLN after its ouster and troubling signs just before that point, it is worth looking a bit deeper into its rise and fall. There are strong grounds to seeing its defeat not so much in terms of its lacking revolutionary fiber, but being outgunned by far superior forces. With all proportions guarded, a case might be made that Sandinista Nicaragua had more in common with the Paris Commune than the Spanish Popular Front, which was doomed to failure by the class collaborationist policies of the ruling parties. You can get a succinct presentation of this analysis from Lee Sustar, an ISO leader who contributed an article to Counterpunch titled 25 Years on: Revolution in Nicaragua. He states: While the U.S. and its contra butchers are to blame for the destruction of the Nicaraguan economy, the contradiction at the heart of the FSLNs politics was instrumental in its downfall. FSLN leaders couldnt escape the centrality of class divisions in the 'revolutionary alliance'--the fact that workers and 'nationalist' employers had contradictory interests. The conditions of workers had deteriorated throughout the 1980s as runaway inflation wiped out wage gains. Workers participated in Sandinista unions and mass organizations--but they didnt hold political power, and their right to strike was suspended for a year as early as 1981. This allowed the opportunistic Nicaraguan Socialist Party--a longtime rival of the FSLN--to give a left-wing cover to Chamorros coalition, which in turn functioned as the respectable face of the contras. With respect to the failure of the FSLN to align itself with workers (and peasants, a significant omission in Sustar's indictment), Washington seemed worried all along that bourgeois class interests were being neglected and that Nicaragua was in danger of becoming another Cuba. Of course, since Cuba never really overthrew capitalism according to the ISO's ideological schema, this might seem like a moot point. In any case, it is often more useful to pay attention to the class analysis of the State Department and the NY Times than it does to small Marxist groups. If the ruling class is worried that capitalism is being threatened in a place like Nicaragua, they generally know what they are talking about. Virtually all the self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist formations, from the Spartacist League to more influential groups like the ISO, believe that the revolution collapsed because it was not radical enough. If the big farms had been expropriated, it is assumed that the revolution would have been strengthened. While individual peasant families might have benefited from a land award in such instances, the nation as a whole would have suffered from diminished foreign revenues. After all, it was cotton, cattle and coffee that was being produced on such farms, not corn and beans. When you export cotton on the world market, you receive payments that can be used to purchase manufactured goods, medicine and arms. There is not such a market for corn and beans unfortunately. Even if the big farms had continued to produce for the agro-export market under state ownership, they would have been hampered by the flight of skilled personnel who would have fled to Miami with the owners. Such skills cannot be replicated overnight, especially in a country that had suffered from generations of inadequate schooling. While all leftwing groups that operate on the premise that they are continuing with the legacy of Lenin, virtually none of them seem comfortable with the implications of Lenin's writings on the NEP, which are crucial for countries like Nicaragua in the 1980s or Cuba today, for that matter. In his speech to the Eleventh Congress of the Communist Party in 1922, Lenin made the following observations: The capitalist was able to supply things. He did it inefficiently, charged exorbitant prices, insulted and robbed us. The ordinary workers and peasants, who do not argue about communism because they do not know what it is, are well aware of this. 'But the capitalists were, after all, able to supply thingsare you? You are not able to do it.' That is what we heard last spring; though not always clearly audible, it was the undertone of the whole of last springs crisis. As people you are splendid, but you cannot cope with the economic task you have undertaken. This is the simple and withering criticism which the peasantryand through the
In Venezuela, Failure Is Not an Option
In Venezuela, Failure Is Not an Option (Roland Denis on the August 15 referendum); http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/in-venezuela-failure-is-not-option.html Yoshie
calling for the assassination of the President is against the law
Reuters, the Washington Post, and AFP reported on statements by former Venezuelan president Carlos Andres Perez -- now a resident of Florida -- in an interview with the Venezuelan opposition newspaper El Nacional that the referendum would fail and that violence was the only way for the opposition to get rid of Chávez. Chávez should die like a dog, Perez said. My recollection is that calling for the assassination of the President is a serious crime in the United States. In fact, my memory is that in one of Michael Moore's books he tells the following story. Jesse Helms, when he was still in the Senate, was mad at Clinton about something - I think maybe it was the assault weapons ban. And Helms made some comment like, Clinton had better not come to North Carolina, because it won't be safe for him there. And Moore says, what is this? You can't just go around threatening the President of the United States, even if you're a Senator, that's a serious crime. So he calls up the FBI, and says, what are you doing about this? And the guy from the FBI says, we're taking this seriously, as we take all threats to the President seriously; we have opened an investigation. Does anyone remember this, or have any references, or know where the relevant law might be in the U.S. code? -- Robert Naiman Senior Policy Analyst Venezuela Information Office 733 15th Street, NW Suite 932 Washington, DC 20005 t. 202-347-8081 x. 605 f. 202-347-8091 www.veninfo.org ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: The Venezuela Information Office is dedicated to informing the American public about contemporary Venezuela. More information is available from the FARA office of the Department of Justice in Washington, DC.
Re: calling for the assassination of the President is against the law
What about Ari Fleischer describing the one bullet option in Iraq? Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929
Re: calling for the assassination of the President is against the law
we take all threats to the President seriously; we have opened an investigation.Does anyone remember this, or have any references, or know where the relevant law might be in the U.S. code?-- There's this: 18 U.S.C.A. § 115United States Code Annotated Currentness Title 18. Crimes and Criminal Procedure (Refs Annos) Part I. Crimes Chapter 7. Assault § 115. Influencing, impeding, or retaliating against a Federal official by threatening or injuring a family member (a)(1) Whoever-- (A) assaults, kidnaps, or murders, or attempts or conspires to kidnap or murder, or threatens to assault, kidnap or murder a member of the immediate family of a United States official, a United States judge, a Federal law enforcement officer, or an official whose killing would be a crime under section 1114 of this title; or (B) threatens to assault, kidnap, or murder, a United States official, a United States judge, a Federal law enforcement officer, or an official whose killing would be a crime under such section, with intent to impede, intimidate, or interfere with such official, judge, or law enforcement officer while engaged in the performance of official duties, or with intent to retaliate against such official, judge, or law enforcement officer on account of the performance of official duties, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). (2) Whoever assaults, kidnaps, or murders, or attempts or conspires to kidnap or murder, or threatens to assault, kidnap, or murder, any person who formerly served as a person designated in paragraph (1), or a member of the immediate family of any person who formerly served as a person designated in paragraph (1), with intent to retaliate against such person on account of the performance of official duties during the term of service of such person, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). (b)(1) An assault in violation of this section shall be punished as provided in section 111 of this title. (2) A kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, or conspiracy to kidnap in violation of this section shall be punished as provided in section 1201 of this title for the kidnapping or attempted kidnapping of, or a conspiracy to kidnap, a person described in section 1201(a)(5) of this title. (3) A murder, attempted murder, or conspiracy to murder in violation of this section shall be punished as provided in sections , 1113, and 1117 of this title. (4) A threat made in violation of this section shall be punished by a fine under this title or imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years, or both, except that imprisonment for a threatened assault shall not exceed 6 years. (c) As used in this section, the term-- (1) "Federal law enforcement officer" means any officer, agent, or employee of the United States authorized by law or by a Government agency to engage in or supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of any violation of Federal criminal law; (2) "immediate family member" of an individual means-- (A) his spouse, parent, brother or sister, child or person to whom he stands in loco parentis; or (B) any other person living in his household and related to him by blood or marriage; (3) "United States judge" means any judicial officer of the United States, and includes a justice of the Supreme Court and a United States magistrate judge; and (4) "United States official" means the President, President-elect, Vice President, Vice President-elect, a Member of Congress, a member-elect of Congress, a member of the executive branch who is the head of a department listed in 5 U.S.C. 101, or the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. (d) This section shall not interfere with the investigative authority of the United States Secret Service, as provided under sections 3056, 871, and 879 of this title. __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: calling for the assassination of the President is against the law
At 04:31 PM 7/26/2004 -0400, you wrote: My recollection is that calling for the assassination of the President is a serious crime in the United States. [clip] You can't just go around threatening the President of the United States, even if you're a Senator, that's a serious crime. Ah, but note the caveat--it's a serious crime to threaten the President *of the United States.* It's unlikely that U.S. law extends a similar protection to chief executives of other countries. (And apparently, from Justin's just-now posting, it doesn't.) Gil
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Actually, the thing that I was looking for was precisely what was posted, that it's illegal in the United States to threaten the President of the United States. The point being, that which the opposition in Venezuela does as a matter of course would never be tolerated here. However, and notwithstanding single bullet statements, we do have the following. -CITE- 18 USC Sec. 878 01/22/02 -EXPCITE- TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE PART I - CRIMES CHAPTER 41 - EXTORTION AND THREATS -HEAD- Sec. 878. Threats and extortion against foreign officials, official guests, or internationally protected persons -STATUTE- (a) Whoever knowingly and willfully threatens to violate section 112, 1116, or 1201 shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both, except that imprisonment for a threatened assault shall not exceed three years. (b) Whoever in connection with any violation of subsection (a) or actual violation of section 112, 1116, or 1201 makes any extortionate demand shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. (c) For the purpose of this section ''foreign official'', ''internationally protected person'', ''national of the United States'', and ''official guest'' shall have the same meanings as those provided in section 1116(a) of this title. (d) If the victim of an offense under subsection (a) is an internationally protected person outside the United States, the United States may exercise jurisdiction over the offense if (1) the victim is a representative, officer, employee, or agent of the United States, (2) an offender is a national of the United States, or (3) an offender is afterwards found in the United States. As used in this subsection, the United States includes all areas under the jurisdiction of the United States including any of the places within the provisions of sections 5 and 7 of this title and section 46501(2) of title 49. -SOURCE- (Added Pub. L. 94-467, Sec. 8, Oct. 8, 1976, 90 Stat. 2000; amended Pub. L. 95-163, Sec. 17(b)(1), Nov. 9, 1977, 91 Stat. 1286; Pub. L. 95-504, Sec. 2(b), Oct. 24, 1978, 92 Stat. 1705; Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 5(e)(2), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1373; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(K), (N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147, 2148; Pub. L. 104-132, title VII, Sec. 705(a)(4), 721(e), Apr. 24, 1996, 110 Stat. 1295, 1299.) -MISC1- AMENDMENTS 1996 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-132, Sec. 705(a)(4), struck out ''by killing, kidnapping, or assaulting a foreign official, official guest, or internationally protected person'' before ''shall be fined''. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-132, Sec. 721(e)(1), inserted '' 'national of the United States','' before ''and 'official guest' ''. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104-132, Sec. 721(e)(2), inserted first sentence and struck out former first sentence which read as follows: ''If the victim of an offense under subsection (a) is an internationally protected person, the United States may exercise jurisdiction over the offense if the alleged offender is present within the United States, irrespective of the place where the offense was committed or the nationality of the victim or the alleged offender.'' 1994 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-322, Sec. 330016(1)(K), substituted ''fined under this title'' for ''fined not more than $5,000''. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103-322, Sec. 330016(1)(N), substituted ''fined under this title'' for ''fined not more than $20,000''. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103-272 substituted ''section 46501(2) of title 49'' for ''section 101(38) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1301(38))''. 1978 - Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 95-504 substituted reference to section 101(38) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 for reference to section 101(35) of such Act. 1977 - Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 95-163 substituted reference to section 101(35) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 for reference to section 101(34) of such Act. -SECREF- SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 11 of this title. At 04:58 PM 7/26/2004 -0400, you wrote: At 04:31 PM 7/26/2004 -0400, you wrote: My recollection is that calling for the assassination of the President is a serious crime in the United States. [clip] You can't just go around threatening the President of the United States, even if you're a Senator, that's a serious crime. Ah, but note the caveat--it's a serious crime to threaten the President *of the United States.* It's unlikely that U.S. law extends a similar protection to chief executives of other countries. (And apparently, from Justin's just-now posting, it doesn't.) Gil -- Robert Naiman Senior Policy Analyst Venezuela Information Office 733 15th Street, NW Suite 932 Washington, DC 20005 t. 202-347-8081 x. 605 f. 202-347-8091 www.veninfo.org ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: The Venezuela Information Office is dedicated to informing the American public about contemporary Venezuela. More information is available from the FARA office of the Department of
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
ravi wrote: tariq ali writes: TA The real question is what to do about Kashmir, and the simple answer is to ask the Kashmiris. Let us then ask Tibetan and Uighurs what they want. Let us ask Sindhis and Baluchis in Pakistan, Tamils in Sri Lanka, Arakan people in Mynamar, muslims in South Thailand and Philippines what they want. Let Cuban freely decide what kind of rule they want. Let there be self-determination everywhere, from Bejing to Havana. Ulhas Yahoo! India Careers: Over 65,000 jobs online Go to: http://yahoo.naukri.com/
Housing bust...
July 25, 2004GRETCHEN MORGENSON Housing Bust: It Won't Be Pretty ET the stock market slide. Let the bond market sink. As long as home prices keep rocking, it's easy for Americans to feel fat and happy. But what happens when the run-up in housing prices loses steam, or worse? The implications are sobering, not only for homeowners but also for the economy as a whole. With the growth rate for home prices starting to slow, now may be the time to ponder what a bear market in real estate may bring. A recent study by two economists at Goldman Sachs provides some answers. For now, prices are still climbing over all. The average home price in the nation rose 7.71 percent in the 12 months ended in March. But the first three months of this year showed far slower growth than previous periods. Prices rose only 0.96 percent, according to the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, which keeps an eye on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The last time housing prices grew by less than 1 percent in a quarter was in the spring of 1998. More ominous, six states showed declines in housing prices in the first quarter: Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska. No state had price declines in the previous quarter. To be sure, home values are still hot in many spots. In the most recent 12 months, prices have jumped by more than 15 percent in Hawaii and Nevada, by 14 percent in California, 11 percent in New Jersey and 10 percent in New York. In nominal terms, United States home prices are up 60 percent since 1995; in real terms, adjusted for inflation, they are up 37 percent. Viewed historically, home prices are up twice as much now as they were in the bullish real estate markets of both the mid-1970's and the 1980's. As a percentage of disposable income, home prices are more than 18 percent above the long-term average. Prices exceeded that average by only 4 percent in the 1970's and 8.5 percent in the 1980's boom. Michael Buchanan, a senior global economist at Goldman Sachs, and Themistoklis Fiotakis, a research assistant there, reckon that at current interest rates, home prices are now overvalued by 10 percent, on average. Because this figure spans the entire nation, the hottest markets - California and New York - are obviously more overpriced. The economists compute fair value in home prices by using a variety of measures, including interest rates, population and demographic data, and the overall health of the economy. If interest rates increased by one percentage point, the economists said, home prices in the United States would be overvalued by 15 percent. None of this would be worrisome if homeowners had not turned the paper profits in their properties into cold, spendable cash. But withdrawals from home equities have recently totaled 6.3 percent of household disposable income, according to the Goldman study. In the late 1980's, equity withdrawals reached only 2.5 percent of disposable income. Federal Reserve studies indicate that as much as half of the equity withdrawals went into personal consumption and home improvements. As a result, the Goldman economists estimate that equity cash-outs added 1.75 percent to the growth in the gross domestic product in 2003. That is a significant increase from the 1.25 percent kick that equity withdrawals added in 2002. Consumption would slip 1 percent, Goldman estimated, if housing prices fell by 10 percent, to the fair value level. But if prices decline to well below that, as often happens when overheated markets go cold, consumption may fall by 2.4 percent, Goldman reckoned. Such a housing crash took place in Britain in the early 1990's. At the market's low, home prices had fallen by 27 percent, 5 percent below Goldman's estimate of fair value at the time. Such a decline is not expected here, said Dominic Wilson, a senior global economist at Goldman. That's because home prices in Britain had escalated much more than they have in this country, even now. And interest rates had soared into the high teens, which is unlikely here. But even small declines in home prices could hurt the economy. "The precise degree of the vulnerability isn't going to be clear until we see house prices slow," Mr. Wilson said. "You've never seen consumers this stretched, operating at levels of leverage we've never experienced before. House prices are starting at a level that is pretty high relative to what we think fair value is going to be, and the economy as a whole has gotten a lot more sensitive" to housing-related spending. Indeed, Goldman estimates that home equity lines of credit and the like have magnified the effect of housing wealth on consumption over the past decade, taking it to 10 percent from 4 percent. Although rising home prices have been stopped dead in the past by sharply higher interest rates, the Goldman economists note that bear markets don't necessarily need major triggers to get
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
Ulhas Joglekar wrote: ravi wrote: tariq ali writes: TA The real question is what to do about Kashmir, and the simple answer is to ask the Kashmiris. Let us then ask Tibetan and Uighurs what they want. Let us ask Sindhis and Baluchis in Pakistan, Tamils in Sri Lanka, Arakan people in Mynamar, muslims in South Thailand and Philippines what they want. Let Cuban freely decide what kind of rule they want. Let there be self-determination everywhere, from Bejing to Havana. in a general sense, why not? i am not able to tell if you are being sarcastic or making some other point... --ravi
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ravi wrote: Let there be self-determination everywhere, from Bejing to Havana. in a general sense, why not? Surely, Cuban leadership (and this is only an example)should offer self-determination to Cubans before it demands demands self-determination for Kashmiris? Ulhas Yahoo! India Careers: Over 65,000 jobs online Go to: http://yahoo.naukri.com/
Re: Subject: Re: Suicides, Military and Economic
It's very simple, provide uninterrupted water to businesses and the rich enclaves in the high tech cities. Some gallon figure was mentioned per resident. This is not an overnight development, although it appears that way. Newspapers may not have necessarily made the connection between IT development and water shortage in rural areas. But we know water, power, better roads are pretty mundane stuff when promoting business. xxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Comparative International Development South Asian and International Studies Programs University of WashingtonCampus Box 358436 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402, USA Phone: (253) 692-4462 Fax : (253) 692-5718 xxx On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, [iso-8859-1] Ulhas Joglekar wrote: Anthony D'Costa wrote: But what he said was that Chandra Babu Naidu the laptop toting chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, who was recently ousted in the elections, transferred massive water to the urban, high tech driven city, at the expense of the rural folks. This story hasn't been reported in the media AFAIK. It's possible I missed it. But how exactly he did this? The water table is drastically falling in the southern region and virtually all major southern cities (Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai) are all facing massive water supply problems. For all the headlines over (unfortunate) suicides in Andhra Pradesh, the state with a very high level of suicides rate is Kerala. Ulhas Yahoo! India Careers: Over 65,000 jobs online Go to: http://yahoo.naukri.com/
Re: India's HDI Improves, Ranking Doesn't
There are two main national languages: Hindi and English. A good number of people don't speak either. But they tend to be from rural areas from the non-Hindi belt. But Hindi is spoken by more people than English and would easily run into several hundred millions. Even 4% of Indians speaking English is over 40 million. So a national language for unity is I think a bogeyman. In fact linguistic problems are less important than ethnic identity, although the latter incorporates the language component sometimes. xxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Professor Comparative International Development South Asian and International Studies Programs University of WashingtonCampus Box 358436 1900 Commerce Street Tacoma, WA 98402, USA Phone: (253) 692-4462 Fax : (253) 692-5718 xxx On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Chris Doss wrote: --- Anthony D'Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is hard to estimate but the numbers that float around, are 3-4% of the population, which is not a small number by any means. English has been both a uniting factor (in a national sense) but also one that sets the rural-urban and class divide more forcefully. --- Given that knowledge of English is so low and the absence of a national language (I guess), what is the lingua franca in India? I mean, is there any language that people anywhere in India would be able to communicate in (like Russian in the fSU)? Without that, I imagine it would be very difficult to have a united country. __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
A critical look at Michael Moore
In some ways, Michael Moore's rise to fame and fortune is a classic Horatio Alger story. Starting out as the son of a General Motors assembly line worker who lived in blue-collar Flint, Michigan, Moore now sits at the top of the mountain. With his face on the cover of Time Magazine and ticket sales for Fahrenheit 9/11 breaking all sorts of records, one can say that he has really made it. Since this meteoric rise has been the subject of some debate on the left, we are obligated to come to terms with the Michael Moore phenomenon. Whatever one says about Moore, he is like the proverbial 800 pound gorilla sitting in the doorway demanding our attention: too big to be ignored--both figuratively and literally. From a lengthy and invaluable New Yorker Magazine profile that ran in the Feb. 16, 2004 issue (http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040216fa_fact7), we learn that Moore was born in 1954, educated in a Catholic school and enjoyed a happy and conventional childhood. Like so many people a little too young to have participated directly in the 1960s revolt, he was still affected by lingering cultural and political themes that persisted into the late 1970s at least. Affecting the shaggy look of the hippies, Moore launched a radio show called Radio Free Flint and participated in anti-nuclear rallies. His next step was to publish an underground newspaper called the Flint Voice. One contributor was an assembly-line worker named Ben Hamper who went on to write a much-acclaimed memoir titled Rivethead. Hamper and Moore eventually had a falling out that can only be understood in terms of the latter's transformation into a big-time entrepreneur on the left and the abuse of power that tends to go with it. When Hamper's complaints about Moore's imperiousness were brought up in a May 23, 2004 Guardian interview, the film-maker attributed them to alcohol and drug abuse. In 1986, Moore was invited to edit Mother Jones magazine, a magazine catering to Birkenstock-wearing, Sierra Club-donating, brie-eating liberals. Before the year was up, Moore was fired by Adam Hochschild, the magazine's publisher who was left a fortune by his father. He was the owner of American Metals, a mining company that did business in Zambia. To Moore's ever-lasting credit, he refused to print an article by Paul Berman, a self-styled anarchist who used to attack the FSLN from the pages of the Village Voice, a New York alternative weekly. As Alexander Cockburn put it in a Nation Magazine article, It turned out that the working-class boy from Flint had ideas of his own. This was never the game plan of the rich boy in San Francisco. A settlement from Mother Jones over wrongful firing and proceeds from the sale of his house in Flint, allowed Moore to make Roger and Me, a film that was successful beyond his wildest imagination. Originally expecting to show it in church basements for movement groups, he found that it was considered to be a highly marketable item by the Disney corporation, the same company that refused to market Fahrenheit 9/11 for fear of alienating the Bush administration. Moore instead went with Warner Brothers who paid him three million dollars, an unprecedented sum for a documentary. It is no surprise that they would pay top dollar for the film, since Moore was and is a consummate entertainer. Although there's hardly been any attention paid to this in the vast amount of literature around Michael Moore, it seems obvious to me that he has been strongly influenced by the early David Letterman, another affable Midwesterner who made a career out of thumbing his nose at the establishment. In Letterman's case, the jokes were always fairly harmless--usually having something to do with the cluelessness of NBC executives. (When comic strip author and radical Harvey Pekar attacked parent company GE's dangerous nuclear plants and Hudson River pollution on Letterman's show, he was never invited back.) What Moore shares with Letterman is an affinity for college pranks raised to the level of art. For example, Letterman was fond of blaring goofy messages to bemused suburbanites while driving around in a sound-truck. Moore pulls the same stunt in Fahrenheit 9/11, in this instance using an ice-cream truck loudspeaker to invite members of Congress to read the Patriot Act, something they evidently voted in favor of without having read in advance. From the New Yorker profile, we discover that Letterman's ex-girlfriend (and source of much of his distinctive wit) Merrill Markoe worked on Moore's short-lived TV Nation show. Another Letterman alumnus who worked on the show was Randy Cohen who invented the monkey cam--a Letterman show stunt involving a monkey who ran around the studio with a camera strapped to his back. If you mix this sort of irreverence with left-leaning politics, you end up with a formula for success. Key to all this, needless to say, is Moore's on-camera persona
Re: Housing bust...
Jim Devine wrote, July 25, 2004 GRETCHEN MORGENSON Housing Bust: It Won't Be Pretty I don't know the web-page that this came from. New York Times Tom Walker 604 255 4812
Re: A critical look at Michael Moore
Mother Jones magazine, a magazine catering to Birkenstock-wearing, Sierra Club-donating, brie-eating liberals. hey, Louis, have you been channeling Dick Cheney? It sure sounds like him or someone in the neo-con crowd. Are the MJ folks cheese-eating surrender monkeys, too? By the way, is there anything wrong with brie? It's a little expensive, but it tastes okay. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Re: A critical look at Michael Moore
Devine, James wrote: Mother Jones magazine, a magazine catering to Birkenstock-wearing, Sierra Club-donating, brie-eating liberals. hey, Louis, have you been channeling Dick Cheney? It sure sounds like him or someone in the neo-con crowd. Are the MJ folks cheese-eating surrender monkeys, too? Actually, I wear Birkenstocks myself. By the way, is there anything wrong with brie? It's a little expensive, but it tastes okay. You just have to eat it in a day or two, or else it developes an ammonia taste. I myself prefer Chevril. Nothing goes better with a nice Chardonnay. On the other hand, NPR is pure poison. -- Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
Re: A critical look at Michael Moore
At 7:48 PM -0400 7/26/04, Louis Proyect wrote: Devine, James wrote: Mother Jones magazine, a magazine catering to Birkenstock-wearing, Sierra Club-donating, brie-eating liberals. hey, Louis, have you been channeling Dick Cheney? It sure sounds like him or someone in the neo-con crowd. Are the MJ folks cheese-eating surrender monkeys, too? Actually, I wear Birkenstocks myself. I think brie and Birkenstocks are cool. Sierra Club, however, is beyond redemption. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * Calendars of Events in Columbus: http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html, http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php, http://www.cpanews.org/ * Student International Forum: http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/ * Committee for Justice in Palestine: http://www.osudivest.org/ * Al-Awda-Ohio: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio * Solidarity: http://www.solidarity-us.org/
Is this a serious problem?
Karmin, Craig. 2004. Slowdown in Buying of Securities Reverses Trend and May Make It Harder to Finance Trade Deficit. Wall Street Journal (26 July): p. C 1. Foreign purchases of securities in the U.S. in May came to $56.4 billion. While that was large enough to finance the current-account deficit, it was down 26% from April and represented the lowest monthly total in seven months. It also marked the fourth consecutive monthly decline of such purchases by foreigners. May was the third consecutive month foreigners have been net sellers. That hadn't happened in nearly a decade. Potentially more troubling was the slowdown in Asian purchases of U.S. debt -- especially in Japan, which holds 16% of all U.S. Treasurys. That country's nascent economic recovery has eased the government's concerns about maintaining a weak currency to boost exports, in turn reducing the Bank of Japan's need to intervene and buy dollars. Japan bought $14.6 billion in U.S. Treasurys in May and $5.5 billion in April, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. That is a significant drop from a monthly average of $25 billion for the seven-month period ending in March. If the Japanese economy continues to rebound, Tokyo's Treasury purchases are unlikely to return to those lofty levels. Japan is to the U.S. financial markets what Saudi Arabia is to the world oil markets -- the primary provider of capital, Joseph Quinlan, chief market strategist for Banc of America Capital Management, wrote in a recent report. Self-sustained growth in Japan could ultimately obviate the need for the Bank of Japan to purchase U.S. securities, leaving a buying void in the U.S. Treasury market, helping to drive yields higher. foreigners now control 40% of U.S. Treasury debt, and their purchases are unlikely to return to peak levels seen at the start of the year, she said. So U.S. interest rates could still go higher, even if the current account is funded, Ms. McCaughrin [Rebecca McCaughrin, an economist for Morgan Stanley] said. China, Asia's second-biggest buyer of U.S. securities, ... bought $13 billion in U.S. assets through May, compared with $33.1 billion a year earlier. China was a net purchaser of $1.7 billion of U.S. Treasurys in the first five months of the year -- down 91% from the $18.4 billion in net purchases a year earlier. Even the United Kingdom, long a reliable buyer of U.S. securities, turned negative in May, with net sales of $4 billion. That was its first monthly net sale since October 1998 during the near collapse of giant U.S. hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management and the aftermath of the Russia financial crisis. Mr. Quinlan [Joseph Quinlan, chief market strategist for Banc of America Capital Management] argued that Japan has become America's de facto banker, helping to keep U.S. interest rates low over the past year. Currency traders say the Bank of Japan hasn't intervened in the currency market since March, and the pace of Japanese Treasury buying of the recent past looks unsustainable: Japan bought $175 billion in U.S. Treasury debt from September to March, a figure that exceeds Japanese purchases of Treasurys in the previous seven years combined. Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
Chris, You gave a better answer when you earlier when you said you didn't know. Assuming want Kashmiris want or don't want is exactly not the issue. The issue is the material determinants of the struggle, the history of the conflict in the area and what the resolution requires. - Original Message - From: Chris Doss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Israel pushing for Kurdish state? so, are you two saying that kashmiris are a little group that screeches sovereignity? aren't their demands of self-determination legitimate? why would india go down in flames if the people of kashmir were to gain self-determination? --- You're assuming a majority of the people of Kashmir want self-determination. I don't know if they do. Since most fighters killed in Kashmir (as far as I know) are non-Kashmiris, I doubt that they do. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: Israel pushing for Kurdish state?
sartesian wrote: The issue is the material determinants of the struggle, the history of the conflict in the area and what the resolution requires. 1. Independent Kashmir would be a US protectorate in reality. 2. Jammu Kashmir is not a homogenous entity. 3. A part of the territory of Kashmir (5000 sq. km.) was given by Pakistan to China in 1963. How Kashmiris will that back? Ulhas Yahoo! India Careers: Over 65,000 jobs online Go to: http://yahoo.naukri.com/
Re: Is this a serious problem?
It might explain Greenspan's recent shift to talking about interest rates possibly going up more rapidly than earlier thought -- at a moment when the economy noticeably slowed. Suggesting higher interest rates might keep the cash in-bound. But maybe not for long. Gene Coyle Perelman, Michael wrote: Karmin, Craig. 2004. "Slowdown in Buying of Securities Reverses Trend and May Make It Harder to Finance Trade Deficit." Wall Street Journal (26 July): p. C 1. "Foreign purchases of securities in the U.S. in May came to $56.4 billion. While that was large enough to finance the current-account deficit, it was down 26% from April and represented the lowest monthly total in seven months. It also marked the fourth consecutive monthly decline of such purchases by foreigners. "May was the third consecutive month foreigners have been net sellers. That hadn't happened in nearly a decade." "Potentially more troubling was the slowdown in Asian purchases of U.S. debt -- especially in Japan, which holds 16% of all U.S. Treasurys. That country's nascent economic recovery has eased the government's concerns about maintaining a weak currency to boost exports, in turn reducing the Bank of Japan's need to intervene and buy dollars." "Japan bought $14.6 billion in U.S. Treasurys in May and $5.5 billion in April, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. That is a significant drop from a monthly average of $25 billion for the seven-month period ending in March. If the Japanese economy continues to rebound, Tokyo's Treasury purchases are unlikely to return to those lofty levels." "Japan is to the U.S. financial markets what Saudi Arabia is to the world oil markets -- the primary provider of capital," Joseph Quinlan, chief market strategist for Banc of America Capital Management, wrote in a recent report. "Self-sustained growth in Japan could ultimately obviate the need for the Bank of Japan to purchase U.S. securities, leaving a buying void in the U.S. Treasury market, helping to drive yields higher." "foreigners now control 40% of U.S. Treasury debt, and their purchases are unlikely to return to peak levels seen at the start of the year, she said. "So U.S. interest rates could still go higher, even if the current account is funded," Ms. McCaughrin [Rebecca McCaughrin, an economist for Morgan Stanley] said. "China, Asia's second-biggest buyer of U.S. securities, ... bought $13 billion in U.S. assets through May, compared with $33.1 billion a year earlier." "China was a net purchaser of $1.7 billion of U.S. Treasurys in the first five months of the year -- down 91% from the $18.4 billion in net purchases a year earlier." "Even the United Kingdom, long a reliable buyer of U.S. securities, turned negative in May, with net sales of $4 billion. That was its first monthly net sale since October 1998 during the near collapse of giant U.S. hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management and the aftermath of the Russia financial crisis." "Mr. Quinlan [Joseph Quinlan, chief market strategist for Banc of America Capital Management] argued that Japan has become "America's de facto banker, helping to keep U.S. interest rates low over the past year." Currency traders say the Bank of Japan hasn't intervened in the currency market since March, and the pace of Japanese Treasury buying of the recent past looks unsustainable: Japan bought $175 billion in U.S. Treasury debt from September to March, a figure that exceeds Japanese purchases of Treasurys in the previous seven years combined." Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901
Willy defines the difference
Tonight the most recent dumbocratic POTUS announced that there were profound differences between the two Factions: the Bushits used 9/11 to push the country too far to the right. I kid you not-- that's what the man said!!! Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus. Herakleitos of Ephesos
