http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003696
Six Questions for Eric Janszen on the Economic Collapse
By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi
Angel investor and iTulip.com founder Eric Janszen contributed to this
month’s Forum, “How to Save Capitalism: Fundamental fixes for a
collapsing system,” and wrote
A few months ago I was crossposting items about Henryk Grossman from
the Intro to Marxism mailing list here. Grossman was a Marxist
economist who believed that overaccumulation led to crisis. Rick
Kuhn, who received the Isaac Deutscher prize for his biography of
Grossman, has an article on
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The Rising Body Count on Main Street
The Human Fallout from the Financial Crisis
By Nick Turse
On October 4, 2008, in the Porter Ranch section of Los Angeles, Karthik
Rajaram, beset by financial troubles, shot his wife, mother-in-law, and
three sons before turning the gun on himself. In one of
http://www.newstatesman.com/business/2008/10/economy-world-crisis-financial
Guided by an invisible hand
Joseph Stiglitz
Published 16 October 2008
The bank meltdown marks a turning point in our thinking about how the
world works writes the Nobel Laureate. In some ways this is the biggest
crisis
(Dean Baker is making the same points that I made on October 5th:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/financial-crisis-the-welfare-state-and-disaster-capitalism/)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/oct/20/social-security-peter-peterson
The quest to cut social
As many of you know, the Republican Party and particularly its
operatives on talk radio and cable TV news have all been hammering away
at the idea that Barack Obama is a “socialist”. For most the proof is
found in an off-the-cuff remark made by the Democratic Party hopeful
with a rightwing
http://hnn.us/articles/55548.html
10-21-08
Bring Back Glass-Steagall?
By Robert Buzzanco
Mr. Buzzanco is Professor and Chairman, Department of History,
University of Houston. He is the author of Masters of War: Military
Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era and Vietnam and the
That doesn't make him a bad guy, does it? (especially if the decline is
primarily above the median).
--ravi
Volcker is a very bad guy. In fact, anybody who has ever run the Federal
Reserve is a skunk.
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After Robert Brenner wrote his attack on dependency theory in the 1977
NLR, the impact was immediate. Marxists in the academy found the appeal
to return to a class-based Marxism very seductive, especially among
Latin American specialists. The Marxist-oriented journal called Latin
American
Fair enough but I am not inclined to say the guy is pure evil and
every word of his should always be interpreted with the utmost
cynicism. Maybe if you can provide the context in which he made the
remark, we may be able to evaluate it better.
-raghu.
Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of
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Grave Diggers
by Stephen Fleischman | October 18, 2008 - 12:40pm
I didn't believe I'd ever see it.
Grave diggers at work.
It's an honest profession, I know. Bodies need to be buried. Right
now they're working at a frantic pace. You can barely hear the
http://www.slate.com/id/2202879/
The 20-Hour Workweek
The unemployment rate seems low. That's because it's not counting all
those underemployed workers.
By Daniel Gross
Posted Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008, at 3:59 PM ET
It's hard to overstate the poor numbers coming out of Wall Street in
recent
http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/10/5990n.htm
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Today's News
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
2 College Presidents Had Ringside Seat to Wall Street Meltdown
By PAUL FAIN
The collapse of the investment bank Bear Stearns has led to some of the
first repercussions over
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-autos28-2008oct28,0,1118586.story
The end of the road for U.S. carmakers?
Some analysts suggest failure may not be such a bad thing for Detroit's
Big Three. Others, especially Michigan politicians, warn of calamity.
By Ken Bensinger
October 28, 2008
Are
(Posted originally to the Introduction to Marxism mailing list on Yahoo.)
I want to wrap up the discussion on dependency theory by referring to a
jewel that I stumbled across on the Marxism Internet Archives a week or
so ago. Written in 1973, Walter Rodney’s “How Europe Underdeveloped
Africa”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/29/climatechange-endangeredhabitats
The Guardian, Wednesday October 29 2008
by Juliette Jowit
World is facing a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch
• Two planets need by 2030 at this rate, warns report
• Humans using 30% more
Regular readers of my movie reviews must know by now that I can’t stand
hype, particularly when it involves the latest Hollywood blockbuster.
But I would be loath not to describe the two DVD package released under
the title “The Last Bolshevik” as the event of the decade, at least for
the small
http://www.marxist.com/top-economic-strategists-warns.htm
Top Economic Strategist warns of ‘Catastrophe and Revolution’
By Rob Sewell
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
top-economic-strategist-warns-thumb.jpg“At stake could be the legitimacy
of the open market economy itself… the danger remains huge
Max Sawicky wrote:
The author is John Quiggin of Oz, an outstanding social-dem economist
and blog-acquaintance of mine.
From http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/rotten-timber/
Since Serb-bashing is fairly well entrenched at Crooked Timber, I was
surprised to discover that one of
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/pollin
We're All Minskyites Now
Comment
By Robert Pollin
I thought that Pollin was a Marxist.
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NY Times, November 2, 2008
The Reckoning
From Midwest to M.T.A., Pain From Global Gamble
By CHARLES DUHIGG and CARTER DOUGHERTY
People come up to me in the grocery store and say, 'How did we get
suckered into this?'
Marc Hujik, of the Kenosha, Wis., school board
On a snowy day two years
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Volume 55, Number 18 · November 20, 2008
Trapped in the New 'You're on Your Own' World
By Robert M. Solow
High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families
by Peter Gosselin
Basic Books, 374 pp., $26.95
When the Bush-Cheney administration
NY Times, November 3, 2008
Debt Linked to Buyouts Tightens the Economic Vise
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
Private equity firms embarked on one of the biggest spending sprees in
corporate history for nearly three years, using borrowed money to gobble
up huge swaths of
Recently somebody who shares my distaste for Jared Diamond alerted me to
an article that appeared in the April 21, 2008 “New Yorker”. Titled
“Vengeance is Ours: What can tribal societies tell us about our need to
get even?“, it is focused on so-called tribal wars in the highlands of
Papua New
Odd how Obama's victory evokes references to Hollywood struggles between
Good and Evil. Here's something else I received this morning from
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/editorsblog
Mordor Brightens; Obama's Challenge -- And Ours
By Robert Weissman
November 5, 2008
Good morning, America.
Last night as I was listening (or trying to listen) to Obama’s vaporous
victory speech, I heard a steady procession of young people walking up
Third Avenue cheering and yelling “Obama” over and over. For all
practical purposes, it was just the kind of display that attends a World
Series or
Jim Devine wrote:
It's true about Baum. He was a populist (favoring a bimetallic
monetary system) and 19th 20th century populism had major baggage,
such as so-called nativism, which involved racist attitudes toward
the real natives.
Not everybody felt that way. I have recently discovered the
Changes
David Bowie
I still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm
Jim Devine wrote:
I think it's good for people on the left to actually talk to such
people and ask such questions, though it doesn't have to be around
this issue. We tend to be too insular.
No need to really. I rely on Julio Huato's posts.
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Joanna wrote:
I think it was Marx who said that socialist revolution would not be
possible in the United States until we have solved the race question.
I imagine you are referring to Ireland. Marx never wrote much about
socialism in the U.S.
Obama's election is a first step in that process.
Julio Huato wrote:
But, is that all? Avoiding sectarian Marxism-Leninism and
denouncing Obama as a Rockefeller Republican is what's required to
advance Marxist (TM) socialism in the U.S.?
More or less.
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Sandwichman wrote:
In advance I will christen the first phase of the Obama
administration's economic policy as the phony war. It will pursue a
moderate, conventional path of economic stimulus and it will fail.
Not only is the recession not over yet, it has hardly begun.
On the heels of
Charles Brown wrote:
CB: Yep, especially since such people are the new left. Old left meet the new
left.
I think this describes the people on the street better:
Some notes and thoughts:
---Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT is known as a seat of the
counterculture in the northeast,
Sandwichman wrote:
It's all very well to connect the crisis to the underlying capitalist
system. The proof, though, comes in whether one presents a program
for BOTH responding to the current crisis within the constraints posed
by that system while at the same time moving beyond those very
Charles Brown wrote:
The what-is-to-be-done question of the day isn't about the
deficiencies of the Obama programme. That's a no-brainer. The question
should be about what's going on beneath the surface and how the
phenomenal embrace of vague change can be channeled into struggle
for
Sandwichman wrote:
Exactly. Fat chance especially if there is no popular agitation and
absolute silence/hostility on the issue from trade unions.
If th trade unions in the U.S. did little to oppose Bush, how can we
expect them to conduct a struggle against Obama?
I suspect that it will only
Max Sawicky wrote:
Sure, bullshit is easy.
How about free ice cream every Sunday?
How about the government not forcing me to pay for bail-outs of Wall
Street firms and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? I'd be happy to pay
for my own ice cream if these scumbags would let Goldman-Sachs and
So you think EFCA is trivial?
No, it is not trivial but the main problem facing workers today is
job loss compounded by the loss of good paying jobs. If GM merges
with Chrysler, leading to tens of thousands of firings, what good is EFCA?
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Can people recommend some critiques of FDR and the New Deal? Ideally,
I am looking for the kind of thing that Seymour Hersh did with JFK in
The Dark Side of Camelot.
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One test case for BHO the Ds is the Employee Free Choice Act,
which makes it easier for
unions to form with card check rather than secret ballot. It's on
the top of the unions' wish list.
Assuming you think this is not a trivial piece of legislation, where
do all you hot lefts stand
on
Zinn wrote:
Obama, like Lincoln, tends to look first at his political fortunes
instead of making his decisions on moral grounds.
Obama has more in common with Jefferson Davis since wage slavery is
the chattel slavery of our epoch.
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It was not until 1863 that Lincoln was won over to the cause
emancipation. Until then he prosecuted the Civil War to preserve the
Union, NOT TO FREE THE SLAVES. It is not the intention of Obama and
the Democrats to emancipate wage labor. But they have undertaken a
problem, the solution of which
Now that the intoxication of the Obama victory is over (or should be
over), one wonders how long it will take the pro-Obama left to wake
up to a hangover. For the last few days, news reports should have
given them an Excedrin-sized headache. Instead of ushering in a new
New Deal, Obama seems
NY Times, November 10, 2008
Paterson Says Schools and Medicaid Face Cuts
By DANNY HAKIM
SAN JUAN, P.R. — Gov. David A. Paterson said in an interview on Sunday
that he would almost certainly seek billions of dollars in cuts to
Medicaid, as well as midyear reductions in school aid, to address
NY Times, November 10, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
Franklin Delano Obama?
By Paul Krugman
Suddenly, everything old is New Deal again. Reagan is out; F.D.R. is in.
Still, how much guidance does the Roosevelt era really offer for today’s
world?
The answer is, a lot. But Barack Obama should learn from
Let's see, in the past 8 years, we have had tax reductions, two wars,
and huge increasing budget deficits. Who among you is going to say with
a straight face we have not had a huge fiscal stimulus? The stimulus
worked great for 6 and 1/2 years until we all realized the stimulus had
gone into
Rahgu wrote:
How is wage slavery like chattel slavery?
Huh? That's like asking how serfdom is like wage slavery. The workers
produce surplus value differently in different modes of production. A
serf turned over a portion of his crops to the lord and did corvee
labor. Slaves produced
Wage slaves are not kept shackled in a barn or branded and sold at
auction like farm animals, are they?
-raghu.
Of course not. That's why Marx supported Lincoln. In 2008 Marxists
would support a presidential candidate who took strong stands against
wage slavery, a system that may not sell
I have one test about whether the American economy is
working: whether people are coming or leaving. As of today, or at
least until a month ago when Paulson and Bernanke decised to
socialize the economy, America remains the place to be if you are an
entrepeneur with ambition and an idea,
When candidate Obama selected Samantha Power to be his foreign policy
adviser, this was a clear signal that he endorsed the idea of liberal
imperialist intervention that she embodied. In contrast to Bush’s
“failed” interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, Power stood for a more
adroit
The timing of the PBS documentary on Lee Atwater titled “Boogie Man”
last night could not be better. As the inventor of the kind of dirty
tricks that John McCain used unsuccessfully, Atwater is a symbol of the
kind of bare-knuckle politics that has worked so well for Republicans
since Reagan’s
Counterpunch, November 12, 2008
Obama's Economic Advisors
Against Volcker
By PATRICK BOND
One of Barack Obama's leading advisors has done more damage to Africa,
its economies and its people than anyone I can think of in world
history, including even Cecil John Rhodes. That charge may surprise
The NY Times has an interactive feature that allows readers to enter the
names of people to serve in Obama's cabinet.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/11/us/politics/2008_CABINET_PICKER.html
My choices:
Secretary of Defense: Bill Ayers (I cribbed this)
Secretary of State:
(An excerpt from an interesting article by Michael Lewis, whose
investment banking job at Salomon Brothers provided the material for
Liar's Poker. I worked under John Gutfreund at Salomon Brothers and
even fairly closely with Michael Bloomberg when I was developing a
system to automate their
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/nov/10/obama-white-house-useconomy
The high priests of the bubble economy
If Barack Obama really wants things to change, he shouldn't be seeking
economic advice from Clinton-era officials
by Dean Baker
Those following the meeting of
(A surprisingly informed review of 2 new books by Bill Clinton's chief
speech-writer.)
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/015_04/3002
Dec/Jan 2009
WORKING, STIFFED
Two books plumb the all-American struggle to make do
By DAVID KUSNET
Trucking Country:
The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy
Links and forum to comment on this and other columns at:
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/editorsblog
Not Yet at the Promised Land
By Robert Weissman
November 13, 2008
Over the past week, Americans -- and people around the world --
rightfully celebrated the breakthrough election of an
Julio Huato wrote:
Test of what? Are we testing whether Obama is a true communist or
not? Or whether he is a true feminist or not?
How about true liberal in the sense of George McGovern or even Jimmy
Carter (in some respects)? What's obvious now is that he is a true
Clintonite. Frankly,
ravi wrote:
I still think it is too early to say... we should consider the simple
possibility that Obama is a young, non-pedigreed (in blue blood sense)
-- and yet a product of the meritocracy (in the Harvard sense) -- black
man who has been (even against his wishes) cast as a Messiah by his
Julio Huato wrote:
Obama cannot be another Clinton just like an apple cannot be an
orange.
I don't know about apples and oranges but it seems excluded that he will
operate as some kind of progressive.
Is Obama fit to advance the interest of working people in the U.S. in
our times? You
Julio Huato wrote:
I don't understand. Is Robert Samuelson in the short list for
treasury secretary?
I was referring to Paul Volcker.
Counterpunch, November 12, 2008
Obama's Economic Advisors
Against Volcker
By PATRICK BOND
One of Barack Obama's leading advisors has done more damage to
NY Times, November 14, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
Bailout to Nowhere
By DAVID BROOKS
Not so long ago, corporate giants with names like PanAm, ITT and
Montgomery Ward roamed the earth. They faded and were replaced by new
companies with names like Microsoft, Southwest Airlines and Target. The
U.S.
NY Times, November 16, 2008
On the Farm
A Seafood Snob Ponders the Future of Fish
By MARK BITTMAN
I suppose you might call me a wild-fish snob. I don't want to go into
a fish market on Cape Cod and find farm-raised salmon from Chile and
mussels from Prince Edward Island instead of cod,
Today one of the sharper subscribers on Doug Henwood's LBO-Talk
mailing list, who goes only by the initial B., wrote:
startquote
Just for giggles I set up Google to email me a news article every
time it contained the words 'obama, fdr, and new deal in the same piece.
The result is that I
Gilles d'Aymery's critique and implemented the Aymery Plan, which of course
does little to safeguard the Wall Street lifestyle of yore... You'll
certainly not find such criticism in The Nation magazine, which Louis Proyect
notes has always been funded by members of the capitalist class who would
never
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Are psychologists experts for hire, or is it understood, as a matter of
professional self-definition, that their expertise is to be deployed
only for benign purposes?
As a matter of fact, psychological skills are purchased and deployed as
commodities all the time. Law firms employ jury
(Swans - November 17, 2008) For people trying to understand the
bankruptcy of American liberalism, there is probably no better place to
start than The Nation magazine. I first began subscribing to The Nation
in the 1980s when Reagan was in the White House. As a general rule of
thumb, the
Loan Sharks and Interest Hounds, I have addressed every form of
organized Graft in the U.S. excepting Congress. So it's naturally a
pleasure for me to appear before the biggest.
You are without a doubt the most disgustingly rich audience I ever
talked to, with the possible exception of the
Jim Devine wrote:
-- Forwarded message --
From: Juan Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:04 AM
The reviews of director Mark Forster's Quantum of Solace have
complained about the film's hectic pace ..., about the humorlessness
of Daniel Craig's Bond, and even
As should be obvious by now, much of the material that I have been
forwarding material is connected to major debates within Marxism, such
as underconsumption/overaccumulation, dependency theory/Brenner
critique, etc. This was not my original intention, but I have become
persuaded that this is
This approach has a better chance of marginalising the dogmatic right of the
Republican party and making it difficult for them to regroup for a couple
more terms.
No it doesn't. When Clinton was in office, he stuck to the rightist
agenda of the DLC and was constantly triangulating with
http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman171108.htm
Worse Than The Great Depression?
By Stephen Lendman
17 November, 2008
It's a minority but growing view, including from 86-year old former
Goldman Sachs chairman, John Whitehead, at the November 12 Reuters
Global Finance Summit in New York. As
An edgy movie that makes jokes about old age and death.
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/synecdoche-new-york/
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Stocks Slump As Signs Point To Harder Times
Key Indicators Suggest Deep Recession
By Neil Irwin and David Cho
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, November 20, 2008; A01
Businesses cut prices at a record
Jim Devine wrote:
the NYT's reputation has always been determined relative to the
journalistic herd, They're seen as being more liberal and more
intellectual than most other newspapers. In a Gothamocentric
universe, that reputation is defined relative to the NY POST and the
NY
You have to
The pro-Obama, self-described Marxist left has a tough job on its hands.
Well before taking office, Obama has made it painfully obvious that his
administration will be in effect Clinton’s third term. With Mrs. Clinton
about to assume the office of Secretary of State, a perfect symbol of
the
Obama Reaches Out to Former Foes
Deadline Poet
By Calvin Trillin
Like Lincoln, he asks foes to help the nation
(The word we used to use was co-optation).
McCain and Clinton both approached the throne.
Now Joe the Plumber's hanging by his phone.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/fun/bbco/lawcol/lawcol1_01.html
Mon, 2 Feb 1998, 11:32pm EST
Dow Corning Bankruptcy Solves Year 2020 Problem: Legal Affairs
Bay City, Michigan, Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) --
When Dow Corning
Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1995, it
sought solutions to two
One week after seeing the irony-drenched, terminally depressed and
postmodernist Synecdoche, New York at Lincoln Plaza Cinema, I
returned to the scene of the crime and watched the altogether
marvelous Bollywoodish Slumdog Millionaire. An entire book could be
written by a film scholar about the
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/scotus/la-na-napolitano23-2008nov23,0,7295300.story
From the Los Angeles Times
Napolitano: a border-law enforcer in D.C.?
The governor of Arizona, who has long complained about federal
immigration law, is expected to be named Obama's secretary of
Capitalism the Edge of a Vortex
By Fawzi Ibrahim
[Fawzi Ibrahim, Senior lecturer (retired) and author of several books
on electronic engineering, television and video technology and
computers. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When the crisis of 1973-74 was upon us, Anthony Crosland, the then
Counterpunch Weekend Edition
November 21 / 23, 2008
Changing With Retreads
The Third Clinton Administration
By RALPH NADER
While the liberal intelligentsia was swooning over Barack Obama during
his presidential campaign, I counseled “prepare to be disappointed.” His
record as a Illinois state
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/study-obamas-small-donors-really-werent/
November 24, 2008, 1:34 pm
Study: Many Obama Small Donors Really Weren’t
By Michael Luo
A new analysis of President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign fund-raising
punctures one of the most enduring pieces of
NY Times, November 25, 2008
Editorial
Mr. Obama’s Economic Advisers
In introducing his economic team on Monday, President-elect Barack Obama
said that he had chosen leaders who would offer sound judgment and fresh
thinking. Was that an order?
In various high-level government positions,
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1126/p25s11-usgn.html
In switch, Obama emphasizes belt-tightening
Once the economy starts growing again, he wants to cut programs that
have 'outlived their usefulness.'
By Ron Scherer | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the November 26, 2008
Obama Chooses Wall Street Over Main Street
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081125_obama_chooses_wall_street_over_main_street/
Posted on Nov 25, 2008
By Robert Scheer
Maybe Ralph Nader was right in predicting that the same Wall Street
hustlers would have a lock on our government no matter
Over on alternet.org, a website occupying a place on the political
spectrum a bit to the left of Huffington Post, there's an article
that has been generating a bit of controversy. Titled rather
provocatively Enough of 'Barbituate' Left Cynicism, Obama Is a
Victory over White Supremacy, it is a
That article was an unfortunately poor explication of a promising
tagline: We don't need the everything sucks analysis; Obama has
mobilized millions of activists and that energy is looking for an
outlet.
Who exactly has written everything sucks? Where does this
temptation to put words in
Recently I have noticed an interesting but disturbing phenomenon in
New York City. On the streets, subways and buses, you can see people
still wearing Barack Obama buttons even though the election is long
over. I wonder to myself whether these buttons express an inchoate
Time for another Two Minute Hate?
Well, the 2 minutes of hate in Orwell novels was based on whipped up
propaganda campaigns against the Oceania. I think you are projecting
into my post what we can expect from the White House over the next 4 years.
Jim D. wrote:
I must admit that I don't like the tone of a lot of LP's
contributions, but I wouldn't call it hate.
What a disappointment. Considering the fact that I have done
everything possible to become the Barry Manilow of Marxism, my
efforts seem to have been in vain.
This is the time of the year that I receive batches of DVD's from PR
firms on behalf of major Hollywood studios and distribution companies
in anticipation of the December awards meeting of NYFCO (New York
Film Critics Online). No batch was awaited more eagerly (at least by
this NYFCO member)
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Beyond the Bailout State
Roosevelt's Brain Trust vs Obama's Brainiacs
By Steve Fraser
On a December day in 1932, with the country prostrate under the weight
of the Great Depression, ex-president Calvin Coolidge -- who had
presided over the reckless stock market boom of the Jazz Age Twenties
I just listened to Doug Henwood's interviews with Richard (Lenin's Tomb)
Seymour and Bill Ayers at http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html.
What a contrast. Richard is erudite and razor-sharp and Ayers is an
oozing pile of platitudes. When Doug asks Ayers what he hoped to
accomplish by
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