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24991 [lbo-talk] RE HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT: -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >For that matter, the only reason we landed on Africa is because you know >it's got the smallest ties to U.S. economic statistics. Is Mexico's poverty >vital to American business elites? That's a rather more pungent problem for >you, isn't it? In the official taxonomy, Mexico is an upper-middle-income country. Its per capita income is about six times that of sub-Saharan Africa on a PPP basis. Sure there are many of poor Mexicans, but Mexico's social indic ...

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24992 [lbo-talk] RE HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT: -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >Wojtek: "[T]here is no causal link >between African poverty and Northern prosperity." > >Truly astounding -- truly. Slavery had no impact on either side, left no >legacy? The IMF is independent of U.S. business interests? The fact that >the North has imposed and won the poker game of global income distribution >has no causal connection to Africa? Given your views, then, by definition, >the only obstacle to African development is A ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 3 12:48:32 PST 2003

24993 [lbo-talk] HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT: REVISITED -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Yeah, he's anti-democratic, anti-socialist, and misogynist. I >understand the gagging. However, he is still a brilliant philosopher. >He introduced many provocative ideas that still influence >social theory and research (e.g., the fiction of the unified, >individuated self; the "genealogical" method). In short: >he's important to understand, just skip the goofy stuff >("when you go to woman, bring your whip--"). Great prose stylis ...

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24994 [lbo-talk] Does 21st Century imperialism profit by military control of the world ? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Does imperialism profit by its colonies or is imperialism just a control >freak ? Why is the U.S. military in 100 countries around the world ? Is >it just US totalitarianism ? Nietschean irrationality ? Leftover from the >Cold War ? Exactly the questions I'm trying to get after. Steven Kinzer has a piece in the current American Prospect about the CIA in Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s. As he tells it, the U.S. was obsessed with Communism. The Brits wanted to ...

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24995 [lbo-talk] RE HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT: -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >A: In the partially declassified records of the U.S. government, and in the >vast secret records of the TNCs and their think-tanks/trade associations. >Why did the U.S. endorse the Venezuelan coup last year? Not very hard to >figure out, and undoubtedly mirrored and encouraged by the petro-corps' >boardrooms/think tanks/industry groups. > If one is going to say Third World dependency is minor stuff, then one >has to ignore actual history, whi ...

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24996 [lbo-talk] Superexploitation (Was HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT:) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Doesn't this at least suggest that the idea that first >world capitalism depends upon, i.e., would collapse >without, superexploitation of the third world is >false? It does. But why, then, is the U.S. security establishment so eager to prevent any departure from the orthodoxy? Do they not understand their own material interests? Or do they see something we're not seeing here? These are all real, not rhetorical, questions. Doug

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24997 [lbo-talk] RE HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT: -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Doug, correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding >is that almost all capitalist foreign investment is in >other advanced capitalist countries, and not in the >third world. Is that so? About 70%, with most of the balance in the old NICs plus "upper-middle income" countries like Mexico. Doug

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24998 [lbo-talk] RE HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT: -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >I think the answer is: much greater than appears in the economic numbers, What's better evidence then? >which, judged from the vantage point of Peru, Malaysia, Ghana, etc, are >quite large anyhow. > >Personally, I am convinced that the biggest contribution of undemocratic and >inegalitarian maldevelopment (i.e., U.S. imposed normalcy) in the Third >World is the suppression of "the threat of a good example." If the Third >World were a ...

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24999 [lbo-talk] Fisk profiled -- rank: 1000

San Francisco Chronicle - November 2, 2003 A reporter who thinks objective journalism is a synonym for government mouthpiece by Jonathan Curiel Robert Fisk is used to readers' derisive letters. Usually he ignores them, like the one last month from Atlanta that said his article about dead Iraqis was as "appalling" and "subversive" as a speech by Osama bin Laden. For the piece in question, Fisk -- a foreign correspondent with the London paper the Independent -- interviewed fami ...

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25000 [lbo-talk] Chomsky: USA "best country in the world -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >It is my understanding (again, corrobroation is, of >course, required) that Chomsky's belief in this regard >is based upon a few observations about the US's >political and social culture. > > >Among these are: > > >* Surprisingly wide space (outside of media circles) >for dissent and difference. > >* Positive cultural and moral evolution of the general >population since WW2 > >* Remarkable cultural malleability and fluidness. ...

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25001 [lbo-talk] me and some Nobelist, tonight -- rank: 1000

Curtiss Leung wrote: >is this first-come, first-served, or can folks buy tix in advance? Dunno. "For more information: Polly Cleveland (212) 873-2982, pcleveland at prdi.org" Doug

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25002 [lbo-talk] me and some Nobelist, tonight -- rank: 1000

On Monday November 3, 6 to 8 PM, at St Peter's Church at 53rd & Lexington, NYC Nobel Prize Winner in Economics Prof Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University will discuss his new book, The Roaring '90's. "How one of the greatest economic expansions in history sowed the seeds of its own collapse." Joining him will be: Editor and publisher of Left Business Observer, Doug Henwood speaking on his new book: After the New Economy "While modern mythmakers held that technology would lead ...

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25003 [lbo-talk] pain & development -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Hasn't the human population doubled in 150 years ? What is the absolute >number of poor people today compared with 150 years ago ? Charles, that's silly. The absolute numbers don't matter anywhere near as much as percentages. There are probably more rich people in China today than there were immiserated proles in Engels' Britain. Does that tell us much about the two social systems? Doug

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25004 [lbo-talk] Japan -- rank: 1000

[The summary of a research note from Merrill Lynch] The Global Strategist Buy the Mystery, not the History! Highlights *The past two weeks have seen a deluge of data indicating an extraordinarily strong global economy. Analyst revisions momentum is at a record high; the US economy expanded at 7.2% in the third quarter; and official projections for Japanese industrial production growth suggest an expansion in the three months to November at a rate not seen in Japan in forty years. Is this the cyc ...

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25005 [lbo-talk] Chomsky: USA "best country in the world" -- rank: 1000

boddhisatva wrote: >No >other country that I know of is based on as sophisticated a conception of >rights and law as the United States. And the highest incarceration rate except for Russia, right? Doug

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