[PEN-L] Pentagon recruiting

2005-03-30 Thread Devine, James
...with enlistment levels falling, the Pentagon said it would focus its recruitment effort on people who had not read a newspaper in the past two years. [by Andy Borowitz] Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine

[PEN-L] Comments by Jim Farmelant on Nazi economics

2005-03-30 Thread Paul
Jim D. writes, replying to me: 1) OK, I can take a joke (I am thinking of David Landes of Harvard and his cultural superiority theories, have I got it wrong?). But I want to reassure you my question was serious. I was serious. I don't think Landes' UNBOUND PROMETHEUS is significantly marred by

[PEN-L] moral framing, vision

2005-03-30 Thread Charles Brown
One thing that makes me hesitate on the left learning from the successful right strategy and tactics is , as I mentioned, it might not have been better strategy and tactics, but basically infinitely more money than the real left that made the right's method work. The left activities from 1964 -74

[PEN-L] Fwd from Jim Craven: US Trade Deficits, the Dollar and Neoclassical Theory

2005-03-30 Thread Louis Proyect
The recent trands and interrelationships between U.S. trade deficits and the general exchange rated of the dollar are once more serving to trash neoclassical theory. In neoclassical theory, there is, ceteris paribus, a two-way relationship between extent trade deficits and the general exchange

[PEN-L] Argentina and Brazil: Regaining Sovereignty

2005-03-30 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Argentina and Brazil: Regaining Sovereignty: http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/03/argentina-and-brazil-regaining.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * OSU-GESO:

Re: [PEN-L] [Marxism] Argentina and Brazil: Regaining Sovereignty

2005-03-30 Thread Louis Proyect
Argentina and Brazil: Regaining Sovereignty: http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/03/argentina-and-brazil-regaining.html -- Yoshie From the above: Good news for Argentina. Judge Thomas Griesa sided with Argentina, lifting a freeze on $7 billion in bonds challenged by NML Capital Ltd. (Erin

Re: [PEN-L] Argentina and Brazil: Regaining Sovereignty

2005-03-30 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Argentina and Brazil: Regaining Sovereignty: http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/03/argentina-and-brazil-regaining.html -- Yoshie From the above: Good news for Argentina. Judge Thomas Griesa sided with Argentina, lifting a freeze on $7 billion in bonds challenged by NML Capital Ltd. (Erin

Re: [PEN-L] Argentina and Brazil: Regaining Sovereignty

2005-03-30 Thread Louis Proyect
Wow, I didn't know that at all. How old is the judge? -- Yoshie Griesa is 75. Here is some more info: The Militant, Vol.63/No.11 March 22, 1999 FBI On Trial: SWP Case Against Gov't Harassment BY MARGARET JAYKO From the frame-up trial of Puerto Rican nationalist José Solís now under way

Re: [PEN-L] Notes for Votes: Blair and Bono Sitting in a Tree...

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel Davies
surely if the man who claimed Saddam could launch WMD within 45 minutes is going to use a U2 song, it ought to be I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For? dd -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Hoover Sent: 31 March 2005 00:55 To:

[PEN-L] Christian Fascists

2005-03-30 Thread Chris Burford
There is an ecological niche in politics for groups with titles like Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigades and for journalists who get the permutations slightly wrong and don't care. The title does not come up on Google as clearly linked to any organisation, though I see another commentary links

[PEN-L] check

2005-03-30 Thread Dan Scanlan
Bobby Fischer arrives in Iceland That country, the United States, belongs to the red man, the American Indian. ... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American because everybody living there is ... an invader, Fischer said. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) ­ Bobby Fischer's latest audacious gambit

[PEN-L] Notes for Votes: Blair and Bono Sitting in a Tree...

2005-03-30 Thread Michael Hoover
Notes for votes Labour has appropriated U2's hit Beautiful Day for its election campaign. But when politicians turn to pop songs, the results almost always strike the wrong chord, says John Harris John Harris Tuesday March 29 2005 The Guardian At the close of Tony Blair's speech at last year's

[PEN-L] Mamdani tells it like it is

2005-03-30 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Observer, March 30, 2005 Mamdani Uproar: Scion Of Ed Said Rocks Columbia by Andrew Rice On a recent Tuesday evening, Mahmood Mamdani, a bookishly handsome and relentlessly incendiary political theorist, spoke at a forum on the subject of academic freedom held at Columbia University, where he

[PEN-L] Commemorating Land Day

2005-03-30 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Commemorating Land Day: http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/03/commemorating-land-day.html -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: http://montages.blogspot.com/ * Greens for Nader: http://greensfornader.net/ * Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/ * OSU-GESO: http://www.osu-geso.org/ *