Re: [PEN-L] Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

- Original Message - From: ertugrul ahmet tonak [EMAIL PROTECTED] I watched this guy in his DN interview. I didn't find him fully believable. Here is what a reviewer (without reading the book!) said about him at Amazon's site: ...you have to consider that this could well be a hoax or

[PEN-L] Kmart, Sears to merge, create nation's third-largest retailer

Kmart, Sears to merge, create nation's third-largest retailer Wednesday, November 17, 2004 ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO - The discount retailer Kmart Holding Corp. is combining with one of the most venerable names in U.S. retailing, Sears, Roebuck Co., in an $11 billion deal that will create the

[PEN-L] Empirical confirmation of Hart-Landsburg/Burkett

A New Pattern Is Cut for Global Textile Trade China Likely to Dominate as Quotas Expire By Peter S. Goodman and Paul Blustein Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, November 17, 2004; Page A01 AMPARA, Sri Lanka -- Wild monkeys and Buddhist shrines outnumber any signs of industry, and rampaging

[PEN-L] No more of the 'poor'

No more of 'the poor' For people who live in poverty, the stigma they face and the shame it creates can be as devastating as the economic consequences Ruth Lister Wednesday November 17 2004 The Guardian Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin sang about it; politicians pontificate about it; the poor

[PEN-L] Disillusioned with politics? Vote Redgrave!

Disillusioned with politics? Vote Redgrave! Tania Branigan Wednesday November 17 2004 The Guardian He is treading the boards in Newcastle as a critically lauded King Lear. She is filming a Merchant Ivory costume drama in Shanghai. But next week Corin and Vanessa Redgrave, the siblings as well

[PEN-L] Translating economic into cultural insecurity

Translating economic into cultural insecurity * From: Hinrich Kuhls [EMAIL PROTECTED] The age of anxiety American academic Richard Sennett, who has been teaching in London for five years, returns to New York and takes the cultural and political

[PEN-L] Equality? That's a bit rich

Equality? That's a bit rich Heather Stewart: Rich man, poor man: How some Brits are more equal than others Heather Stewart Sunday November 07 2004 The Observer In the days of Old Labour, fighting against the inequalities in society was a central tenet of leftist philosophy. In his first Budget

[PEN-L] All across Europe, politics and religion still go hand in hand

Britain, not the US, is the odd one out All across Europe, politics and religion still go hand in hand Peter Preston Monday November 08 2004 The Guardian Let us call it Blair exceptionalism. Our leader is a committed, practising Christian. A priest from Great Missenden arrives at Chequers every

[PEN-L] Paul Craig Roberts on the dollar

Paul Craig Roberts writes: In the post World War II period, the dollar took over the reserve currency role from the British pound, because the supremacy of US manufacturing guaranteed US trade surpluses. The British pound lost its role due to debts of two world wars, loss of empire, a run down

Re: [PEN-L] Paul Craig Roberts on the dollar

They nationalized some companies, though mostly the lemons (hence the term lemon socialism--the companies that lost money). Far-seeing businesspeople acquiescenced in this takeover--if a business was essential to the national well-being and lost money, it was better to have the government run it.

Re: [PEN-L] Paul Craig Roberts on the dollar

Not just establishment, very, very conservative -- almost an economic Buchananite. On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:59:49AM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote: Socialized medicine, one might guess. Despite being published by Counterpunch, the author is an establishment figure. -- The Marxism list:

Re: [PEN-L] question - differential exploitation

From: michael a. lebowitz Mon, 15 Nov 2004 --snip Well, there's a question that has me baffled! My google-search has yielded lots of differential exploitation of moths, fruit resources, blue crabs, even the commons--- ie., it must be a familiar concept in biology; but, I don't see any use of it

Re: [PEN-L] Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

- Original Message - From: Patrick Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] I am NOT at all surprised by his Shamanic interests. One day I will right an ethnography of the American Caucasian tribal pursuit of native wisdom. These kinds of seekers are a dime a dozen in Ecuador and much of the

[PEN-L] The Secret War

Title: Message The Secret War Frustrated by intelligence failures, the Defense Department is dramatically expanding its `black world' of covert operations by William M. Arkin 27 October 2002 Los Angeles Times SOUTH

[PEN-L] URGENT: Stop GERMAN NAZI SCHWARZENEGGER before it is too late!

Title: Message This is an exchange from Marxmail around a parody-comment I wrote about the hysterical character of much of the liberal campaigning in 2004, which may actually have contributed a little to their defeat. I am certain that all the yelling about Bush's "stupidity" was

[PEN-L] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Encompassing elements of Patrick O'Brian's first and final novels, Peter Weir's exciting but reactionary Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World might strike one as the dialectical opposite of Herman Melville's sea-going tales. Melville's anti-authoritarianism and sympathy for workers

[PEN-L] Pat Leahy likes Alberto Gonzalez

NY Times, November 17, 2004 Leading Democrat Senator Won't Block Confirmation of Gonzales By DAVID STOUT WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 - President Bush's nominee for attorney general, Alberto R. Gonzales, was all but guaranteed Senate confirmation today when a leading Democrat expressed fondness for the

Re: [PEN-L] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Louis Proyect writes: In the climax of the film, Aubrey rouses his men with the cry, Do you want to see a guillotine in Piccadilly? Do you want your children to grow up singing the 'Marseillaise'? Oddly enough, this evokes the climactic scene in Shakespeare's Henry V, when the British monarch

[PEN-L] democrat/liar

Today at basketball, there was a dispute about a foul. When I made my case, a young man, whose father is a fundamentalist preacher said that I was a liar because I was a Democrat. He knows nothing about politics, but just assimilates stuff like that. When someone fell a few weeks ago, his

[PEN-L] on the subject of China

China to invest $20 billion in Argentina Wednesday, November 17,2004 BUENOS AIRES: China's President Hu Jintao and Argentine President Nestor Kirchner signed cooperation agreements as Chinese companies pledged investments of 20 billion dollars. Chinese companies would develop railway and

Re: [PEN-L] Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

From: Patrick Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... It is disappointing to hedge a bet that the Marxist/materialist blinders would lead one to think that EHM was a hoax, because he's a new-ager. That may help explain, sadly, why the US-left may never win hearts and minds of Christian-middle-America...woe

Re: [PEN-L] in hock to the Chinese

I do not see the situation as the U.S. in hock to or dependent on China. One could just as well see the situation as the Chinese are dependent on a steady flow of FDI, increasingly from the U.S., and access to the U.S. market which is where a growing percentage of their output is going. The more

Re: [PEN-L] on the subject of China

Yes CNN are just running an interview with Lagos of Chile, following the signing of an agreement with China. I could not quite understand what was being said about APEC. At first it seems intuitively strange to think of a free trade area, even one that takes 20 years to develop that actually

Re: [PEN-L] in hock to the Chinese

I can see how the enmeshments could on both sides lead to instability and vulnerability. But I am having a hard time imagining how the Chinese are not benefiting from this massive growth. Perhaps if we broke down the beneficiaries (in class terms if you like or by residency and age) we will get

Re: [PEN-L] Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

On Nov 17, 2004, at 3:37 PM, Devine, James wrote: From: Patrick Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... It is disappointing to hedge a bet that the Marxist/materialist blinders would lead one to think that EHM was a hoax, because he's a new-ager. That may help explain, sadly, why the US-left may never win

Re: [PEN-L] in hock to the Chinese

The issue here is whether Chinese workers are benefiting from this ongoing shift to a foreign driven export led growth model. I certainly agree that there is a rising middle and upper class that is enjoying great new wealth. And I also agree that China at the end of the Mao period was in need of

Re: [PEN-L] Pat Leahy likes Alberto Gonzalez

[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/17/04 4:23 PM NY Times, November 17, 2004 Leading Democrat Senator Won't Block Confirmation of Gonzales By DAVID STOUT WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 - President Bush's nominee for attorney general, Alberto R. Gonzales, was all but guaranteed Senate confirmation today when a leading

[PEN-L] China again

Lester Brown visited our campus yesterday. He said that he had been asked before Nader to be the Green party candidate in 2000, but he declined. His statistics about China were frightening. 24,000 villages have been abandoned in the Northeast because of desertification. The water table at

Re: [PEN-L] overwork for gamers

Eubulides wrote: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-sweat17nov17,0,6197150.story?coll=la-home-business The love of my life comes home late at night complaining of a headache that will not go away and a chronically upset stomach, she wrote. My happy supportive smile is running out.