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15781 [lbo-talk] The raids against immigrant workers -- rank: 1000
On Dec 16, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > boddi satva wrote: > >> Lefties have to stop getting so hysterical about deportations. > > How cool would you be if, out of necessity, you had to move to another > country, the bigots in that country called you a scab, and the > government of that country jailed you and kicked you out? > > I mean, you wouldn't be doing anything criminal -- unless the > legislators in that country make the basic conditions for sur ...
Document Size: 5931
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 16 09:53:55 PST 2006
15782 [lbo-talk] Hugo's Finest in the Bronx - and video of LF! -- rank: 1000
[see a video of Liza at the URL below!] <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070101/featherstonev> Chávez's Citizen Diplomacy Liza Featherstone "A Kennedy!" The older ladies of Spofford Hills, a housing cooperative in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx, are brandishing cameras, thrilled to see the son of Robert F. Kennedy outside their building on this radiantly sunny day just before Thanksgiving. It doesn't hurt that Joe Kennedy is also president of Citizens Energy, a no ...
Document Size: 16516
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 15 15:12:27 PST 2006
15783 [lbo-talk] Slaves and their instruments - was/ poor underpaid CEOs -- rank: 1000
On Dec 15, 2006, at 12:59 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote: >> So, I'm curious if there's any research to back this up Doug -- >> the stuff about prison labor. > > > This is from a 1999 interview with Christian Parenti. A much > fuller version of this argument is in his book "Lockdown America" I should have said that I first came up with the "you can't beat free labor" formulation after talking with Christian when I was first getting to know him - it was pr ...
Document Size: 5941
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 15 05:16:58 PST 2006
15784 [lbo-talk] Slaves and their instruments - was/ poor underpaid CEOs -- rank: 1000
On Dec 14, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > But since I read this passage carefully I have read a lot about > slavery in Rome during the time of the Repubic and empire and I have > to say it does not match what I have read. I know very little about this history of slavery, but doesn't it matter what kind of larger system slavery is embedded in? While slavery in the US south provided important cotton feedstocks to the mills of Manchester, I'm guessing that it was not something ...
Document Size: 5689
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Dec 14 13:06:54 PST 2006
15785 [lbo-talk] Andrei Shleifer -- rank: 1000
On Dec 14, 2006, at 11:53 AM, Willy Greenfields wrote: > This is old news, and the article below is almost a > year old, but I cannot figure out how this guy is > still received in polite society, much less how he > holds onto a professorship at one of the world's most > prestigious universities. Is cleverness really so > scarce in the world? > > http://www.dailyii.com/print.asp?ArticleID=1039086 Maybe he's got something on Summers or some other Harvard poobahs. Doug
Document Size: 5076
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Dec 14 09:02:25 PST 2006
15786 [lbo-talk] poor underpaid CEOs -- rank: 1000
On Dec 14, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > 1) Is it always inefficient? I never say always (though I suppose I should never say never either), but it mostly is. Isn't there a footnote in K v 1 where Marx wrote about how planters wouldn't have slaves work with anything but the crudest equipment because of the risk they'd sabotage it? > 3) A modest proposal: Treat the labor power and bodies of people as > a "bundle of property rights" and then you can contract for th ...
Document Size: 5692
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Dec 14 08:58:29 PST 2006
15787 [lbo-talk] Borat revisited -- rank: 1000
[from Popbitch] Chaz Yap Borat's royal seal of approval Prince Charles is a huge fan of Borat. William and Harry set up a private screening of the movie for him and he loved it, saying he "couldn t believe the Americans even understood why it was funny .
Document Size: 4789
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Dec 14 06:00:58 PST 2006
15788 [lbo-talk] IraqSlogger -- rank: 1000
This is from Eason Jordan, the former CNN exec who was flamed at Davos for suggesting that the U.S. was targeting journalists in Iraq: <http://www.iraqslogger.com>
Document Size: 4735
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 13 20:49:59 PST 2006
15789 [lbo-talk] poor underpaid CEOs -- rank: 1000
On Dec 13, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > The > next issue will feature an article arguing that we should bring back > slavery, but perhaps only in extreme circumstances. Slavery is inefficient! From a purely business point of view, I mean. For efficiency, you can't beat free labor. Doug
Document Size: 4805
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 13 19:44:12 PST 2006
15790 [lbo-talk] poor underpaid CEOs -- rank: 1000
<http://www.nysun.com/article/45118> New York Sun - December 13, 2006 Money Magazines Get Smart Publishing BY MYRNA BLYTH "Business is a glorious subject," the editor of the new business magazine the American, James K. Glassman, said. Launched recently by the American Enterprise Institute, the magazine is called the American, Mr. Glassman explained, so no one would think it is merely "a house organ" for AEI, the Washington-based conservative think tank. "Besid ...
Document Size: 10828
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 13 14:54:04 PST 2006
15791 [lbo-talk] National Accounts (Was Primitive Accumulation) -- rank: 1000
On Dec 13, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Paul wrote: > I just quickly picked up the book, turned to the "Summary & > Conclusions" and then to the section "Empirical Results" (pp > 221-224). Shaikh&Tonak start by saying "...Marxian "total product" > is roughly... about 1.5 times GNP...Marxian "gross final product" > is about 15% smaller than GNP..."Surplus value" is almost double > the most inclusive measure of profit type inco ...
Document Size: 9172
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Dec 13 14:23:19 PST 2006
15792 [lbo-talk] how not to run an occupation -- rank: 1000
On Dec 12, 2006, at 6:14 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Seeing the White House's complete non-reaction to the Iraq Study > Group Report, what's dismaying is Bush & Co.'s total inability to > understand plain English. Cockburn says the ISG report is politically important because it's the first official doc to say openly how fucked things are in Iraq. Doug
Document Size: 4959
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Dec 12 16:45:30 PST 2006
15793 [lbo-talk] a fresh view on the Persian Prince -- rank: 1000
[from one of the steamier Pacifica lists - name redacted to prevent embarrassment - a comment inspired by a wire story on Iran's Holocaust conference - all (sic)] I think this conference is a stupid idea. What does heAhmadinejad think he'll gain. Israel laughs, Zionists love it, it drives more people into being even more blindly supportive of Israel, and Israel can say, 'You see they all hate us, why we must keep killing Palestinians.' In fact, I suspect that Ahmadinejad is really an Israeli a ...
Document Size: 5050
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Dec 12 14:59:24 PST 2006
15794 [lbo-talk] how not to run an occupation -- rank: 1000
On Dec 12, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Carl Remick wrote: >> From: Doug Henwood <DHENWOOD at panix.com> >> >> Just recorded my interview with Patrick Cockburn on his new book >> on The Occupation. He says: "There are 1000 people in the US >> embassy in the Green Zone in Baghdad, and six of them are fluent >> Arabic speakers." > > I hope he gave proper credit to Baker, Hamilton et al. -- i.e., > from the Iraq Study Group Report, pg 60 Pedant! H ...
Document Size: 5282
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Dec 12 14:41:59 PST 2006
15795 [lbo-talk] yet another poll -- rank: 1000
ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: WAR and POLITICS 12/11/06 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006 A Skeptical and War-Weary Public Doubts Bush Will Change Course on Iraq Barely over a third of Americans expect the United States to win the war in Iraq, a bleak assessment that's chasing the Bush administration into ever-deeper political disfavor. As he struggles to find a new course, George W. Bush faces a skeptical and war-weary public: Not only do a record 70 percent disap ...
Document Size: 14407
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Dec 12 14:09:56 PST 2006
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