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24301 [lbo-talk] Re: fascism in the usa -- rank: 1000

Devine, James wrote: >what is the daily limit on lbo-talk posts, Doug? It's supposed to be three. Some people think they're exempt. Doug

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24302 [lbo-talk] BDL on DH on jobs: end of an era? -- rank: 1000

Paul wrote: >Hmm. I don't want to draw you in too much - asking for precision on >this crystal ball stuff is not fair. > >But usually the profit rate perspective is more like a 35 year half >cycle. Of course there is NO reason it has to be that way (unless >you are a Kondrotieff fan) - but we are talking about major >era-defining changes - you tend not to miss their end. I would >think they get undone by changes in the very core of the ame process >that helped build ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 16 13:19:19 PDT 2003

24303 [lbo-talk] Re: joined at the hip? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Why stop with nuclear and anti-personnel bombs. What about all of >the other modern tech we use? How can you "use it for good" when it >depends on an international system of capitalism, colonization, >globalization, and neoliberalism? Why should the Hopi >traditionalists move off of their land so that the corporations can >get materials to make technology that you will use for "good"? Why >should the Uwa accomodate capitalists who want to t ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 16 11:50:09 PDT 2003

24304 [lbo-talk] Anti-War Discussion in Central Illinois -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >There is an old chestnut of red-baiting: Wherever you find them, >Communists came from someplace else. [Adorno, Minima Moralia] 32 Savages are not more noble. There is to be found in African students of political economy, Siamese at Oxford, and more generally in diligent art historians and musicologists of petty-bourgeois origins, a ready inclination to combine with the assimilation of new material, an inordinate respect for all that is established, accepted, acknowledge ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 16 09:39:45 PDT 2003

24305 [lbo-talk] Krugman: U.S. the Next Argentina -- rank: 1000

Curtiss Leung wrote: >an Argentinian state >of affairs was, in fact, the *GOAL* of the administration's >economic policies That may be too charitable towards the admin - assuming that they have an economic policy and that they have a goal (other than getting re-elected and putting lots of money in the pockets of their friends). Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 16 09:14:05 PDT 2003

24306 [lbo-talk] The Cancun Delusion -- rank: 1000

Willy Greenfields wrote: >Consensus for Pilgrim means ratification of the US >program. During the run-up to the Iraq war, there were some anguished articles in the NYT and such about the "crisis in NATO" - because the European members weren't following U.S. orders. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 16 09:12:01 PDT 2003

24307 [lbo-talk] Amanpour taken to woodshed? -- rank: 1000

[it's hard to tell whether the headline is the truth, or the Post's spin - as another Murdoch property, it loves to promote Fox and make fun of CNN] New York Post - September 16, 2003 CNN GIVES CHRISTIANE 'PRIVATE' DRESS DOWN September 16, 2003 -- CNN news chief Jim Walton had a "private converation" with reporter Christiane Amanpour after she accused her own network of being "intimidated" in its coverage of the Iraqi war. Amanpour, a guest on last week's "Topic A with T ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 16 07:20:08 PDT 2003

24308 [lbo-talk] The Cancun Delusion -- rank: 1000

Willy Greenfields wrote: >Somewhat off topic, but last night on CNN the >melonheads were wondering aloud whether the WTO is >irrelevant. A remarkably simple way to marginalize dissent. I tell you, it's the one-country one-vote system. This is already being described as "unwieldy." The U.S. is going to do its own trade deals and do its best to ignore the WTO. It wouldn't surprise me to see the Bush admin ignore a WTO ruling against the U.S. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 16 07:08:32 PDT 2003

24309 [lbo-talk] The Cancun Delusion -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Are we calling for a radical reduction in Third World peasant >populations back to the 'sustainable' levels of a century and a half >ago, or what? That's a question that IFG types don't like to answer. They also don't like to talk about the population reduction that would be required in the North to match their vision of deindustrialization. At least Dave Foreman was honest about it. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 15 18:09:54 PDT 2003

24310 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Oct. 25th: March for an end to the occupation of Iraq! -- rank: 1000

>Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:03:17 -0700 >Subject: Oct. 25th: March for an end to the occupation of Iraq! > >United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) and Act Now to Stop War & End >Racism (ANSWER) are joining forces to call on all those who oppose >the war, invasion and occupation of Iraq, to unite on Saturday, >October 25 in Washington, D.C., for a truly massive outpouring >reflecting the growing popular opposition to the Bush >Administration’s foreign and domestic progr ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 15 12:08:30 PDT 2003

24311 [lbo-talk] job available at WBAI -- rank: 1000

>Position: DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT > >WBAI Radio is seeking a full-time Development Director to create and >manage a comprehensive off-air fundraising program that will include: > >* Major Donors: Increasing the giving level of existing donors and >identifying and cultivating new major donors; creating an >acknowledgement process for all donors (i.e., letter templates, >language, gifts, etc.). >* List management: Director candidate must know how to identify >pros ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 15 11:32:59 PDT 2003

24312 [lbo-talk] Amanpour on self-censorship -- rank: 1000

[gotta love the Fox response, which only confirms the charge] USA Today - September 14, 2003 Media Mix Peter Johnson Amanpour: CNN practiced self-censorship CNN's top war correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, says that the press muzzled itself during the Iraq war. And, she says CNN "was intimidated" by the Bush administration and Fox News, which "put a climate of fear and self-censorship." As criticism of the war and its aftermath intensifies, Amanpour joins a chorus of journal ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 15 11:22:56 PDT 2003

24313 [lbo-talk] BDL on me on jobs -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I agree with the last part, but I'm also worried that the U.S. economy >> has come down with a case of accumulation crisis > >Just out of curiousity, what do you mean by an accumulation crisis? I was kind of making a joke, based on O'Connor's book title, but what I meant was that the great increase in the U.S. profit rate that ran from 1982 to 1997 reversed during the recession and has partly reco ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 15 10:51:02 PDT 2003

24314 [lbo-talk] Re: Learning to be stupid -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >As for throwing people out of work, that's already happening and it >will continue to happen in the neo-imperialist pursuit of lower and >lower labor costs. Some of that will happen, but the history of capitalism is about drawing an ever-larger share of the population into paid work, and marketizing formerly nonmarket production. Also, it would be very difficult to prove a generalized race to the bottom. Real wages are positive in most of the First World. The U.S. w ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 15 10:13:55 PDT 2003

24315 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: > > This particular hobbit has a computer printout above his desk which reads, >> "MORDOR SHALL FALL". >> >> -- DRR > >I watched the second "Rings" last night, and just couldn't follow it (much >to my daughter's chagrin: "Come on, Dad!"). Could you or anyone here explain >the plot and why it's such a successful enterprise? And who the hell is Mordor? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 15 10:06:32 PDT 2003