Britain/US split?

I tried sending this, and a few other messages, yesterday, to no avail. I apologise if it pops up again later, but there are certainly technical issues concerning why the list should be so quiet just now. = Mark Jones wrote: US hegemony was built in the 20th century on European fragmentatio

UK political realignment?

on behalf of an electorate that will become increasingly disenchanted. The Lib Dems have the credentials to make this analysis work. For the first time, their conference is not whingeing on the sidelines. They move, as Jo Grimond told them, towards the sound of gunfire. But first we must see what kind

The Guardian

re he wanted it to stop. He still liked a degree of decorum. His marriage to Miranda Oliver, with whom he had two sons and two daughters, was dissolved in 1978, and the following year he married Sheila Janet Cameron, with whom he inherited three step-children. * Hector Alastair Hetherington, journalist, born October 31 1919; died October 3 1999 Full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3908911,00.html Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hallucinating

mujahideen and the 8000 mainly Arab and Chechen volunteers aiding their war effort have never had to endure the physical or psychological impact of such concentrated firepower, a relative handful of strikes could be militarily decisive. Full article at: http://w

If dumb hacks can figure it out...

t." Senior military officers have been taken aback by the accuracy of some of the situations foreseen in the press. Full article at: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=96292 Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reaping what you sow

e parochial interests of a handful of life science companies. Jeremy Rifkin is the author of The Biotech Century (Penguin, 1998) and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, DC Full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,558812,00.html Michael Kean

New Labour consolidation

n its extensively re-vamped Scottish HQ in Glasgow's West Regent Street. Full article at: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/1-10-19101-0-1-53.html Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Guardian state

hans seeking but asylum? It will demand a democratic monitoring which has a heart as well as a head. The card, in our fractured world, is only a beginning. The debate has indeed moved on - past "whether" and "why" to the hard rocks of "how". Full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,561016,00.html Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The return of nationalism

Chris B. wrote: I in fact generally agree with the arguments of Peter Preston. In a radically democratic and humane society our identities should not need to be secret. We should all have as much privacy as in a village. The class that would really be hit by that is the capitalist class, who n

Oil be darned

s probably increases the chance of opening a small portion of Alaska," he says. "The fact is that we are short of natural gas," says Conoco's Mr Dunham. The US can choose to open Alaska further, he says, or rely increasingly on imports Full article at: http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=true&id=01 0928001213 Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Another blow to MI5

difficult for MI5 to maintain blanket refusal of access to personal files or even say whether it had a file on someone. Full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,561513,00.html Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The superiority of Western civilization

tary system than to subvert it from outside. In a half-hearted apology to the Italian senate, Mr Berlusconi called on Italian citizens to "hang me". Curiously, no one took him up on the offer. Full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,561651,00.html Michael Keaney

The Guardian and MI5

lofeld stroked his white cat and laughed again. "Oh no, Mr Bond. I have something worse in mind. I am going to read you extracts from Stella Rimington's memoirs." "You bastard," whimpered Bond as Blofeld produced a copy of the Guardian from behind his back and cleared his throat. "The day I ordered more paper clips..." = Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Privatisation Eye

y." In an imaginative pairing Mark Jennings of British American Tobacco spent a year in the DTI as an "export promoter" -- selling fags to Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania -- while Roger Johnson of the British Association of Healthcare Industries worked for the DTI as an "export promoter" of healthcare. = Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

War on terrorism

systems, including Roke Manor Research, a British firm which recently announced a product which will detect that symbol of NATO power, the stealth bomber. According to Roke, a Hampshire-based subsidiary of Siemens, its new detection system means "stealthy aircraft will be rendered useless". ==

comments, please

Jim D. wrote: >Mark was also asking, if I understand him correctly, how, in light of the >2d law of thermo., we could maintain anything like life as we know it. Yes, Mark puts a big emphasis on natural constraints: it seems that he believes that we're running out of oil and that this is inevita

The Guardian and MI5

Jim D. reasonably asks: Michael, shouldn't it be basic that we should distrust all of the bourgeois media -- not just the GUARDIAN -- because they have clear bourgeois biases, including favoring the national security state, etc.? Even though the New York TIMES doesn't seem to be connected with

War on drugs

ra Makarenko's warnings that the traffickers have opened a new northern route through the old Soviet republics may mean a new strategy is called for. Full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,562238,00.html Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The superiority of Western civilisation

June. Full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,562101,00.html Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

"There you go again!"

less elderly king might be trucked back to Afghanistan. And now this is exactly what we are offering once again. And, dare I ask, how many bin Ladens are serving now among our new and willing foot-soldiers? America's "new war", indeed. Full article at: http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=97281 Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Informed opinion?

ot existed these two decades past, and may not easily recur. Fred Halliday is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and the author of The World at 2000 Full article at: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/4-10-19101-1-4-26.html Michael Keaney Merc

Very informed opinion

of things, is the matter of the currency. This will make sense to more people, in these new times. Whatever else, we can say the pro-euro campaign has begun, out of the mouth of the man who saw his chance to make it start to sing. Full article at: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnis

The superiority of Western civilisation

ble incident, over 1,500 of them were Muslims. The Muslim community has had to suffer twice - once when someone dear to them died, the second time when people say things like this." Full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,563083,00.html Michael Keaney Mercuria Business

Die Neue Mitte

be across a "broad range of issues" including "terrorism, drug trafficking, and organised crime" as well as "peace-keeping and emergency situations". The Russian President's contribution was generally welcomed by Nato officials. Full article at: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/europe/story.jsp?story=97632 Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New economy bull

.strategy-business.com Full article at: http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3PU0FJ0SC &live=true Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Britain/US split

[was "Very informed opinion"] Carl Remick writes of Hugo Young: What a carnival of conflation this column is. It seems to me that it's the UK, not Europe, that feels such a desperate need to "mean something ... "to matter to itself." = It's merely a reflection of the carnival of conflat

'globalisation' of beaks and peepers

Rob on a BBC "experts" panel: Globalisation they called this self-loathing self-butchering. Look how it's allowing those poor maligned Eurasians back in from the cold, they trumpeted. Suddenly they're trendy! Well, yeah, that's good, natch. But not even a hint of irony as Mr Brit Reporter, Ms

International civil society

ing up a gear in the months to come. You can check out its site at http://www.iews.org./ Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Capitalism fails conservatives

estors) have assumed that the market is going to bounce back, I think they have got to ask the question, what if it does not?" Full article at: http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=true&id=01 1004002133 Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Shareholder value vs. corporate governance

Full article at: http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=true&id=01 1003001991 Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

New economy bull

then, the rationality of financial markets in the short term has always been suspect, whatever the modern Nobel prize-winning generation of market theorists has postulated. Full article at: http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT34WZHVESC &live=true&useoverri

A pattern emerges?

run into tens of millions. The new trust will be self-standing, incorporated as a company, limited by guarantee, and contracted to Hackney council, which will have to pay for its services. Full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,576107,00.html Michael Keaney

Backtrack: view from the City

vernment should have done so cleanly, not with this ill-conceived, underhand, disastrously executed mess. Full article at: http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3VDX1BQSC &live=true&useoverridetemplate=FTD1OUN2DNC&SectionTag=na/column&PageTag= 2comadi&am

Backtrack: view from the City

SC &live=true&useoverridetemplate=FTD1OUN2DNC&SectionTag=na/column&PageTag= 2cobari&imgID=FTDVQRKBONC Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Stiglitz

ndex reached its peak (maximum misery) during the presidency of Gerald Ford - when the CEA was headed by none other than Alan Greenspan. Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

UK political realignment?

e James Cran gave up his post as deputy to Eric Forth, the shadow Commons Leader. Full article at: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=100273 Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Strategy of tension

aper's offices have been closed while emergency services investigate. Firefighters, wearing germ-proof suits, decontaminated the interior of a book club in Swindon, Wiltshire, after workers discovered white powder hidden inside a book. Full article at: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_br

Strategy of tension

forced building evacuations in several states. Full article at: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/story.jsp?story=99932 Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Strategy of tension

Bill Rosenberg writes: None of the New Zealand alerts have proved to have any basis. = As didn't those in Britain, Belgium, Finland, Sweden, Lithuania (!), etc. The sudden, supposedly spontaneous outbreak of hoaxes involving talcum powder, baby milk, etc., is probably a mixture of genuine

New Labour's take on history

nes flying into the twin towers and remember the mobile phone messages, and focus on the al-Qaida terrorists broadcasting in the last week, saying that they were prepared to do it again." Full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,578480,00.html Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Britain/US split?

e up overnight. "Nevertheless, we do expect that the kind of pressure that's being brought to bear from the air strikes will have some results and we anticipate these results will come sooner rather than later." Decisions on how to conduct the campaign during the Islamic holy month of

New Labour's take on democracy

do realise that everything that is said in here is private and confidential, don't you? You cannot go out and tell the media. PM: I haven't got the media outside and I won't go to them. But if they come to me I will talk to them. Full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,578379,00.html Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FW: Three paragraphs which condense it all

Forwarded by Nestor to the Marxism list, reply to follow: On May 1st., 1974, Perón delivered his last Presidential address to the Chambers. During this speech, he established which were his goals and the objectives that he set to his third term in government (unfortunately he was to die in a c

New Labour's take on democracy

ton): "I support what the government is doing in Afghanistan and I support the chief whip." Anonymous minister: "I got far worse tickings off from the whips when I was a backbencher. Hilary Armstrong couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding." Full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,579092,00.html Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Conditions and the Taliban

Jim D. writes: 1) there was a unified -- and unifying -- state in Afghanistan before the Taliban. (It was also modernizing, educating women, etc., which stimulated the ire of the fundamentalist men.) This, of course, was destroyed in the Russo-Afghan war. = Slings and arrows and accusati

Whiteout, part 2

n, Nezavismaya Gazeta reported. Full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,578954,00.html Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unimpeachable source

on its history of robust biological and chemical weapons programs. "Creating this form of anthrax isn't easy. ... You need a sophisticated individual, sophisticated equipment or both," he said. Full article at: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=101023 Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Open government vs. capital shortage

, a number of schools and colleges and various training projects for the Ministry of Defence. Full article at: http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=100694 Michael Keaney Mercuria Business School Martinlaaksontie 36 01620 Vantaa Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Conditions and the Taliban

Jim D. writes: Michael K writes: >Slings and arrows and accusations of pedantry aside, I think it's >important not to allow history to be glossed over by the use of >misleading terms like "Russo-Afghan war". Afghanistan was used as a >proxy for the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union, an

Conditions and the Taliban

I wrote: That the USSR had its own less than admirable reasons for going in is absolutely true, Charles Brown: What were those less than admirable reasons ? Seemed like they were defending a government like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua or the Dos Santos government in Angola from US

RE: Three paragraphs which condense it all

mic ramifications, but also of the wider context in which it took place, and the connections between these apparently separate events in Britain, Germany, Australia, Argentina, Chile, etc., and how these all lead back to Washington DC and New York. Michael Keaney

[PEN-L:6957] Re: Doug Orr on the improtance of Program

as a distinct, narrowly defined phenomenon, as in the Simmel quote recently shared. These are not placed in any order of importance, or with any promise of coherence. But it would be a useful exercise to have some kind of constructive debate as to how we might get ourselves out of this impasse.

[PEN-L:6969] Re: Re: Doug Orr on the improtance of Program

sure that it's around or about the section where he speaks of everyone being their own theorist, methodologist, etc. A fine tonic for our times. Michael Michael Keaney Department of Economics Glasgow Caledonian University 70 Cowcaddens Road Glasgow G4 0BA Scotland, U.K.

[PEN-L:7192] Re: Re: jim o'connor on harvey review

(Left or otherwise) could do with lessons in that sort of diplomacy. Nevertheless, you risk sounding overly petulant whenever someone criticises your arguments and you respond with invective. Generally I have enjoyed reading your contributions to PEN-L. I especially liked your take on Al Sharpton. And any serious effort to get beyond what is being disseminated by our masters re Kosovo is very welcome indeed. Peace, Michael Michael Keaney Department of Economics Glasgow Caledonian University 70 Cowcaddens Road Glasgow G4 0BA Scotland, U.K.

[PEN-L:6815] Re: Re: Old "foggies"/"fogeys"

On Fri, May 14, 1999, 2:42 pm, Tom Walker wrote: >>Michael Keaney wrote: >> >>>One possible advantage accruing from present circumstances - more an >>>unintended side effect - is that the so-called old fogeys preserve what >>>remains of heterodox teachi

[PEN-L:6801] Old "foggies"/"fogeys"

de grinding incessantly onward in Yugoslavia. Michael Keaney Department of Economics Glasgow Caledonian University 70 Cowcaddens Road Glasgow G4 0BA Scotland, U.K.

[PEN-L:7894] Re: Re: Galbraith: schizophrenic apologist?

e. As for the Party leadership, and those in any position of power, they require the greatest transparency and accountability of all. Would I trust myself if I were President of the United States? Michael Michael Keaney Department of Economics Glasgow Caledonian University 70 Cowcaddens Road Glasgow G4 0BA Scotland, U.K.

[PEN-L:7912] Re: Re: Re: Re: Galbraith: schizophrenic apologist?

Rod Hay wrote: >Galbraith came from a agricultural setting but hardly from the backwoods. He >grew up in a rich agricultural area in south western Ontario, about 30 >minutes drive from Detroit. Please forgive my poor knowledge of Canadian geography, and the implication of my evocative phraseol

[PEN-L:7913] Re: technocracy

Jim Devine wrote: > >Michael Keaney wrote: >More generally, this demarcation of intellectuals >and the masses is not very helpful.< > >I was pointing to the demarcation as being in Galbraith, not one that I was >applying. However, let's apply it. No, I apologise

[PEN-L:8136] Quotation

Howdy y'all Has anyone ever come across this quote before? "War is the locomotive of history" Cheers, Michael

[PEN-L:8575] Re: Re: China

Henry wrote: >The current direction of China is another issue which we have discussed at some >legenth on this and other lists. >This particularly debate is focused on an historical issue: whether Mao >purposefully murdered 30 million of his countrymen with an egotistic policy of >the Great Leap

[PEN-L:8576] Re: Socialism, Social Democracy, Democracy

Louis Proyect wrote: >John Dewey, like John Maynard Keynes, was an honorable man. He was one of >the few liberals in the US who had the guts to stand up to Stalinist >political hegemony and defend Trotsky. The timidity I am referring to does >not have to do with taking courageous stands on civil

[PEN-L:8507] Socialism, Social Democracy, Democracy

Louis Proyect wrote: Nietzschean ideology, channeled through pomos such as >Deleuze-Guattari, views the socialist project as one of self-liberation. >Structural, economic tasks fade into the background. When all is said and >done, the post-Marxists really represent a highly sophisticated version

[PEN-L:8506] China

Howdy y'all Please forgive me if I'm missing something, but a little clarification would not go amiss. I have been following the discussions re Mao and Lin Biao et al. I would like to know whether Charles and Henry believe that the present government of China is at all representative of the kind

Marx and Malleability

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 19/5/00 4:16 am, Brad De Long at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Brad De Long wrote: >> >>> So why, then, is the first Marx so weak in post-Marxian Marxism? >>> Why was the world afflicted with, say, Paul Sweezy's cla

Re: U.S.Monetary Policy

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 23/3/00 12:18 pm, Rob Schaap at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyway, if the problem is daft values on the NASDAQ rather than on the DJI, > a gutsy hike might slow investment and production whilst leaving the problem

Re: Bilderbergers

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 10/4/00 12:00 pm, Rob Schaap at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But seriously folks, DO we still speak of the Bilderbergers/Trilateral > Commission as either symbolic of, or central to, the role of > trans-national, tra

New Left Review

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Listers, Whatever the inadequacies of the editorial line espoused by Anderson, the latest NLR contains a fine article by Leo Panitch on "The New Imperial State". I heartily recommend it. The Taggart Murphy article on

Jeffrey Sachs et al.

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Greetings The current issue of that fine radical journal, "The National Interest", has a fascinating account of the roles played by the personnel of the now defunct Harvard Institute for International Development in t

Re: commies in New Hampshire

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 1/2/00 2:05 am, Louis Proyect at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Trotsky himself seems like not an entirely bad sort, but Trots are >> another story entirely, except maybe for the Mpls general strike. I >> can't imagin

Re: Re: The Bill of Gates fallacy

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 11/2/00 3:19 pm, Brad De Long at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, we haven't, have we? The physiocrats in 1770 were really > worried about mass urban unemployment that would follow should the > agricultural share

Re: Weber Help

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable on 23/2/00 2:46 pm, Brad De Long at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Brad De Long wrote: >>=20 >>> I would point out that all of us--no matter what our >>> nationality--should get down on our knees and thank

Re: Ritualistic chantings, the stock market,and the right toprivacy

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Howdy Penellers, Brian Souter has just donated half a million pounds to finance an insidious poster campaign aimed at protesting the repeal of Section 28 of the previous Conservative government's Local Government Act,

Re: RE: RRPE

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Having just renewed my sub directly with Elsevier, does this include my URPE membership? Michael K.

Re: intro textbooks

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Doug's review will most likely appear in the Monthly Review in the not too distant future. As I've said before, this book is well worth consulting. Michael K. on 13/3/00 8:47 pm, Eugene Coyle at [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Sanctions against Iraq to ease?

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Howdy Penellers On 6 March on prime time UK commercial TV John Pilger broadcast a 90-minute documentary devoted to the appalling consequences of the sanctions. He was given unparalleled latitude in his film, interview

Re: Re: Pro-ITN Libel Suit Post

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 17/3/00 9:54 am, Yoshie Furuhashi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As you know, LM (formerly Living Marxism), the iconoclastic British > magazine edited by Mike Hume, was found guilty of libel against ITN, the > Briti

Re: LM's Truth (was Re: Pro-ITN Libel Suit Post)

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 17/3/00 11:14 am, Yoshie Furuhashi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > LM's coverage of the Yugoslav affairs & the role of imperialism in it is > absolutely truer than ITN's. Possibly. Over the piece I would not look to

Re: Pro-ITN Libel Suit Post

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 17/3/00 1:51 pm, Doug Henwood at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael Keaney wrote: > >> I recall correctly Louis Proyect has already highlighted the dubious >> activities of LM to

Re: LM's Truth (was Re: Pro-ITN Libel Suit Post)

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 17/3/00 2:14 pm, Doug Henwood at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael Keaney wrote: > >> And speaking of questionable friends, among those rallying to the support of >> LM, or at th

Re: Sudan

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 6/7/00 3:34 pm, Jim Devine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 12:28 PM 07/05/2000 +0100, you wrote: >> The civil war in Sudan is a product of the reactionary nature of the Islam >> regime that has dominated this coun

Re: Excess Capacity in Auto Industry

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 5/6/00 6:28 am, Anthony D'Costa at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could anyone suggest some "good" books on auto industry restructuring > globally that specifically ties it to (or discusses) excess > capacity? They co

Marx's life and theory

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 24/5/00 1:54 pm, Carrol Cox at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Louis Proyect wrote: > >> . For example, only 4 years ago Joel Kovel wrote a lengthy piece in >> CNS that argued that Marxism is weak on ecological q

Marx's life and theory

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Howdy Rob I would distinguish spirituality from "religion" -- not necessarily mutually exclusive, but qualitatively different. I think that the sort of spontaneous solidarity that you describe is spiritual, whereas a

Henry Wallace

K Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit on 25/5/00 10:39 pm, Nathan Newman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just don't see what is gained by the campaign. Third party folks make > so many wondrous claims for such third party efforts, yet historically > Lafa

[PEN-L:7911] Re: Re: Re: Galbraith: schizophrenic apologist?

Charles Brown wrote: > >Charles: I don't know if you meant this, but Marxism does not pose an >uncrossable demarcation between intellectuals and the masses. Engels, Marx, >Lenin and Mao were all intellectuals connecting with the masses . I didn't mean this at all. I am concerned, however, with

[PEN-L:8699] Re: (Fwd) Review of *Hegel and MarxAfter theFall of Communism*

Charles Brown wrote: >However, it is not just any old "Other" or an abstract "Other". It is the >Black African as Other, the Indian as Other. The posties need to focus >more on Black and African and Indian as "Other". The work of historian Francis Jennings is very good, in this regard. His "T

[PEN-L:9705] Re: Mumford

One very current author who uses Mumford is sociologist Eugene Halton, based at Notre Dame. His "Bereft of Reason: On the Decline of Social Thought and Prospects for its Renewal" (Univ Chicago Press, 1995) is well worth reading. He berates postmodernism and Rorty, labelling them "fragmatists", and

[PEN-L:9494] Cambodia

ch of the difficulty faced by the Vietnamese and post-Khmer regimes has emanated from sources which extend beyond the more usual suspects/capitalist hegemons, to include the paradox which we are all striving to make some sense of, namely China. And this is where simple reasoning of the kind capitalist=bad, noncapitalist=good simply does not work. Just my tuppeny. Michael Keaney

[PEN-L:8921] China looks to guarantee incomes

cise to prejudge China, or anything else for that matter. But I assume that such peril attaches to both positive and negative prejudice. Or is that just my prejudice? Michael Keaney

[PEN-L:8922] News from the "Dark Land" 1

Friends We can all do with some good news from time to time, given our usual predicament involving withstanding the onslaught of discouragement and propaganda. I thought that in this pleasant summer season a little lightening would not go amiss, and I would treat you all to news of an important s

[PEN-L:8924] News from the "Dark Land" 3

Revolt spreads over TV preacher Bank of Scotland customers are up in arms against its links with American evangelist Pat Robertson, says Tony Levene The Guardian, Saturday March 27, 1999 The outcry led by Scottish churches and Edinburgh City Council against the Bank of Scotland's joint venture

[PEN-L:8925] News from the "Dark Land" 4

No pat answer in God's pact with Mammon By Lisa Buckingham The Guardian, Thursday April 22, 1999 It is a fight that has reached biblical proportions. Homosexuals have hit the streets, women have manacled themselves to railings and the churches have issued warning edicts. Bank of Scotland is g

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'I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist' Right-wing TV evangelist and former Presidential candidate PatRobertson is the man Bank of Scotland has chosen to spearhead its US subsidiary. Why? By Gregory Palast, Inside corporate America The Observer, Sunday May 23, 1999 It's ti

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Foolish bankers Madeleine Bunting The Guardian, Saturday June 5, 1999 The Bank of Scotland has made two big mistakes. The first was to hop into bed with Pat Robertson, the US TV evangelist; the second was to be so laggardly in admitting that you shouldn't sleep around with his ilk. It's a pit

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Bank's £10m pay-off to anti-gay 'bigot' Emily Bell and Douglas Fraser The Observer, Sunday June 6, 1999 Bank of Scotland yesterday pulled out of a multimillion-pound deal with the American television evangelist, Pat Roberston, after he claimed last week that Scotland was a 'dark place' overru

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Bank of Scotland faces investor wrath Julia Finch The Guardian, Monday June 7, 1999 Bank of Scotland last night battened down the hatches in the wake of the public relations disaster that has engulfed its planned joint venture with controversial American television evangelist Pat Robertson. Th

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Preacher quits Laura Ashley Short shrift for Robertson as second British firm bows to public pressure Julia Finch The Guardian, Thursday June 10, 1999 Controversial American evangelist Pat Robertson's anti-gay opinions cost him his second British business link in a week yesterday when he resi

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Lesson in humility for Bank of Scotland Jill Treanor The Guardian, Friday June 11, 1999 Bank of Scotland yesterday issued a humiliating apology for its involvement with anti-gay American evangelist Pat Robertson but insisted that it would still pursue its strategy to set up a banking operation

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Martin Watts wrote: >Michael, Can you explain why you are posting all this stuff about the Bank of >Scotland & PR on PenL? When I was in the UK I understood that the deal was off. >Martin Martin, I offered an explanation for posting this in my first message. And in any case, why should PEN-L be

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