[PEN-L] new school in NYC

(Please feel free to forward to interested individuals and relevant lists) Announcing the opening of a new anti-capitalist education project in New York City: *** *** The New SPACE (The New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist

[PEN-L] Moves afoot to fire Ward Churchill

Chronicle of Higher Education, Friday, February 4, 2005 Colorado Regents Will Investigate Professor Who Compared September 11 Victims to Nazis By SCOTT SMALLWOOD As a first step toward possibly firing him, the University of Colorado will investigate the writings and speeches of a professor at its

[PEN-L] You Got Game Theory!

So, they are committed to the logic of self-interest as defined by game theory, but that is not considered one of the commitments that binding commitments concerning behavior refers to (?) ( and cooperative behavior is defined as being worse off ?) I guess , if the above are accurate deductions,

[PEN-L] Facing South - 02/03/05

F A C I N G S O U T H A progressive Southern news report February 3, 2005 * Issue 102 Facing South is published 30 times a year by the Institute for Southern Studies and Southern Exposure magazine. For more information visit www.southernstudies.org _ INSTITUTE INDEX * Southern

Re: [PEN-L] new school in NYC

Anne Jaclard wrote: (Please feel free to forward to interested individuals and relevant lists) Announcing the opening of a new anti-capitalist education project in New York City: *** *** The New SPACE (The New School for Pluralistic

Re: [PEN-L] new school in NYC

In a message dated 2/4/05 12:34:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cde Kliman's catalog copy What was edited out? Brian

[PEN-L] Collapse of anti-communism

It is little consolation to socialists but alongside the collapse of the spectre of communism, there has been a collapse of anti-communism. The BBC radio this morning was noting how the European Union appears intent on lifting the embargo on selling arms to China (no doubt for highly prinicpled

[PEN-L] Political firing at U. of Colorado (but not Ward Churchill)

(This just showed up on Leo Casey's mailing list.) FYI--with all attention focused on Churchill, the Environmental Studies Department fired Adrienne Anderson yesterday. As you know AA has been an outspoken critic of corporate polluters and defender of environmental justice and communities of color

[PEN-L] How does privatization threaten Social Security?

Remind me again how privatizing a small portion of Social Security threatens it? Sorry to be so pig-headedly stupid, but I've been working overtime and my brain is foggy. Bill

Re: [PEN-L] How does privatization threaten Social Security?

The benefits of the current retirees (etc.) come from the taxes on current wage-earners. If some of the wage-earners' taxes go into government-sponsored personal accounts instead, that means that there are fewer tax revenues to go to pay the current retirees. Jim Devine, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [PEN-L] Political firing at U. of Colorado (but not Ward Churchill)

She has been active with the Rocky Flats scandel. On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:50:55PM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote: (This just showed up on Leo Casey's mailing list.) FYI--with all attention focused on Churchill, the Environmental Studies Department fired Adrienne Anderson yesterday. As you

Re: [PEN-L] How does privatization threaten Social Security?

For two-thirds of the elderly, social security provides the majority of income. For the poorest 20%, it's all they have. Or to put it another way, 8% are currently poor, but 48% would be poor were it not for Social Security. Joel Blau Bill Lear wrote: On Friday, February 4, 2005 at

Re: [PEN-L] Political firing at U. of Colorado (but not Ward Churchill)

Huge plutonium contamination covered up by the FBI. On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:54:43PM -0600, Carrol Cox wrote: Michael Perelman wrote: She has been active with the Rocky Flats scandel. Could someone describe what the Rocky Flats scandal is/was. Carrol -- Michael Perelman Economics

Re: [PEN-L] How does privatization threaten Social Security?

Title: Message In the context of the current administration and Congress, privatization is a recipe for profiteering by Wall Street. The administrative costs of the current SS are about 1% of benefits. Under a privatization scheme they would likely rise to at least 5%. (Think stock

Re: [PEN-L] How does privatization threaten Social Security?

Devine, James wrote: BTW, when has Congress decided not to pay SS benefits to some people? Who were these people? Someone else may remember the details better, but the first reform in Social Security included a ban on what was incorrectly called double-dipping. Some people who had both

Re: [PEN-L] Political firing at U. of Colorado (but not Ward Churchill)

I worked with an Adrienne Anderson in Denver a long time ago on low income issues. Pretty sure it is the same woman. Gene Coyle Michael Perelman wrote: She has been active with the Rocky Flats scandel. On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:50:55PM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote: (This just

Re: [PEN-L] Political firing at U. of Colorado (but not Ward Churchill)

Rocky Flats was a for-profit plutonium processing facility that lost track of some pounds of plutonium. Maybe it it outside on the ground, maybe in the piping. I went to a demo there once, probably 1979. The place was shut down and the contractor ( ?? can't remember who) walked away without

Re: [PEN-L] Political firing at U. of Colorado (but not Ward Churchill)

The grand jury was silence. Some protested. She wrote a book with the foreman. He was just elected as a state rep. On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:26:44PM -0800, Eugene Coyle wrote: Rocky Flats was a for-profit plutonium processing facility that lost track of some pounds of plutonium. Maybe it

Re: [PEN-L] How does privatization threaten Social Security?

Bill asked: On Friday, February 4, 2005 at 13:13:49 (-0800) Devine, James writes: The benefits of the current retirees (etc.) come from the taxes on current wage-earners. If some of the wage-earners' taxes go into government-sponsored personal accounts instead, that means that there are fewer tax

Re: [PEN-L] How does privatization threaten Social Security?

The 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act did eliminate the $122 minimum monthly allowance granted since 1975 to poor and sporadically employed social security recipients. This change affected 3 million people, 3/4s of them women. But is the Cato Institute citing Reagan's cuts as evidence that

[PEN-L] Ossie Davis Has Died

Actor Ossie Davis Found Dead in Hotel By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer February 4, 2005, 9:56 PM EST NEW YORK -- Ossie Davis, whose rich baritone and elegant, unshakable bearing made him a giant of the stage, screen and the civil rights movement -- often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee --

[PEN-L] Evolutionary Biologist Ernst Mayr Dies

[tears] CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) - Ernst Mayr, a Harvard University evolutionary biologist called the Darwin of the 20th century, has died, the school said Friday. He was 100. A member of the Harvard faculty for more than half a century, Mayr was considered the world's most

Re: [PEN-L] World Order, Failed States and Terrorism

In a message dated 2/4/2005 5:22:16 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Generally, I have been a admirerer of Henry Liu's writings and haveoften quoted him in my lectures and in writing on current worldpolitical-economic events. Then, today, I came upon this

Re: [PEN-L] Collapse of anti-communism

Sorry for the fuzzy logic. Sentence should read Flags illustrated the simple point: already the sixth largest economy in the world, this year, the British public were told, it is about to overtake Britain and France. But in a way this illustrates that there are such sophisticated ways of