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Jim Farmelant | 1 Aug 2007 02:13
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Re: Sweden, Germany and socialism


On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:35:04 -0300 "Nestor Gorojovsky"
<nestorgoro <at> fibertel.com.ar> writes:
> > Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:02:04 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: "farmelantj <at> juno.com" <farmelantj <at> juno.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Marxism] Ingmar Bergman 1918-2007
> > To: marxism <at> lists.econ.utah.edu
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I am reminded of something
> > that I posted on the Marxism-Thaxis list some years ago concerning
> > Bergman. There I wrote:
> > 
> > Sweden has long harbored many people with pro-Nazi
> > outlooks and that during WW II, Sweden although officially
> > neutral, in fact sold Germany iron ore and other raw materials
> > while also permitting German troops to cross Swedish territory.
> 
> Well, we may like this or not, but that's one of the possible paths 
> that a "neutral" country was allowed to take. Swedish neutrality, 
> and 
> the pro-German position of its upper classes (where being pro-Nazi 
> was simply a consequence), is basically the result of the particular 
> 
> position of the country, which tends to see Russia as the main 
> enemy. 
> There is a statue of a very beloved Swedish king in Stockholm, don't 
>
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Dbachmozart | 1 Aug 2007 02:57
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European Hypocrisy on Palestine


<_http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18099.htm_ 
(http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18099.htm) >

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Dbachmozart | 1 Aug 2007 03:08
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US Methodists concerned with Israeli occupation


The New England Conference of the United Methodist Church is advising  
congregations and individuals to divest their holdings from a wide variety of  
American corporations that the United Methodists believe support the Israeli  
occupation of Palestinian land.
_http://tinyurl.com/yp7f4z_ (http://tinyurl.com/yp7f4z) 

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Sukla Sen | 1 Aug 2007 03:19
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Breaking News: Britain will take troops out of Iraq?

 www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Britain will take troops out of Iraq regardless of US,
says PM

[Published: Tuesday 31, July 2007 - 11:33]

By Andrew Grice

Gordon Brown has paved the way for the withdrawal of
British troops from Iraq by telling George Bush he
would not delay their exit in order to show unity with
the United States.

After four hours of one-to-one talks with the US
President at his Camp David retreat, Mr Brown told a
joint press conference he would make a Commons
statement in October on the future of the 5,500
British troops in the Basra region.

The Bush administration, under mounting domestic
pressure to produce an exit strategy from Iraq, has
been nervous that a full British withdrawal would add
to the criticism. But Mr Brown made clear - and
President Bush accepted - that Britain would go its
own way, even if that gave the impression the two
countries were diverging.

Mr Brown's willingness to pursue an independent
British policy in Iraq will be seen as an important
break with Tony Blair. Mr Brown said the two leaders
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Sayan Bhattacharyya | 1 Aug 2007 04:01
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"Death by government"

<http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/7/31/153411/700>

Also:

<http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1874496/posts>

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Sayan Bhattacharyya | 1 Aug 2007 05:08
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Cooperation and game theory

This has important consequences for the feasiblity of socialism....

Full: <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/science/31prof.html?ref=science>

"In experiments conducted by other scientists with people and animals,
Dr. Nowak's mathematical models seem to fit. Reputation has a powerful
effect on how people play games. People who gain a reputation for not
cooperating tend to be shunned or punished by other players.
Cooperative players get rewarded.

" "You help because you know it gives you a reputation of a helpful
person, who will be helped," Dr. Nowak said. "You also look at others
and help them according to whether they have helped." "

Full: <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/science/31prof.html?ref=science>

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Peter McLaren | 1 Aug 2007 05:39
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Re: Marx's _Capital_

ouch, normblog --  the vile Norm Geras...
On Jul 31, 2007, at 10:16 AM, RicardoStarkey <at> aol.com wrote:

> Here's an excellent short discussion of  it by Francis Wheen:
>
> _normblog:  Writer's choice 1: Francis Wheen_
> (http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2005/06/writers_choice_.html)
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Walter Lippmann | 1 Aug 2007 06:19
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Democrats Scrambling to Expand Eavesdropping

August 1, 2007 
Democrats Scrambling to Expand Eavesdropping 
By JAMES RISEN

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/washington/01nsa.html

WASHINGTON, July 31 — Under pressure from President Bush, Democratic
leaders in Congress are scrambling to pass legislation this week to
expand the government’s electronic wiretapping powers.

Democratic leaders have expressed a new willingness to work with the
White House to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to
make it easier for the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on some
purely foreign telephone calls and e-mail. Such a step now requires
court approval.

It would be the first change in the law since the Bush
administration’s program of wiretapping without warrants became
public in December 2005.

In the past few days, Mr. Bush and Mike McConnell, director of
national intelligence, have publicly called on Congress to make the
change before its August recess, which could begin this weekend.
Democrats appear to be worried that if they block such legislation,
the White House will depict them as being weak on terrorism.

“We hope our Republican counterparts will work together with us to
fix the problem, rather than try again to gain partisan political
advantage at the expense of our national security,” Senator Harry
Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, said in a statement Monday
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Angelus Novus | 1 Aug 2007 11:43
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Re: Marx's _Capital_


--- Peter McLaren <drpetermclaren <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> ouch, normblog --  the vile Norm Geras...

Aside from the laptop bombardier politics of the
website, I also find it is just not a very
satisfactory approach to Capital, i.e. as simply a
Victorian novel.  Yes, Marx was an excellent writer,
and yes, the various historical and literary allusions
make reading Capital an enriching experience, but it
is first and foremost a serious interdisciplinary work
in sociology, philosophy, and economy.  I defy anyone
to provide a better account of the dynamics of
capitalism in its "ideal average".

       
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Sukant Chandan | 1 Aug 2007 12:27
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IRAQ: 1974 Iraqi Baath political report

<http://ouraim.blogspot.com/2007/08/1974-iraqi-baath-political-report.html>

See many more articles updated daily
from Arab language and Middle Eastern
press on this and other subjects at the
OURAIM Archive:
<http://groups.google.com/group/ouraim_archive>
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