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24316 [lbo-talk] The Cancun Delusion -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, boddhisatva wrote: > >> The challenge is to modernize agriculture in the best way feasible. > >I don't think anyone by a straw man would argue with that. Not necessarily. Walden Bello told me that the consensus at Porto Alegre was against industrialization and in favor of the preservation of the rural third world. (Others disagree that that was the consensus.) That rules out "modernization," which would inevitably mean ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 15 09:45:37 PDT 2003

24317 [lbo-talk] Bring the Troops Home! NOW! -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Take up the White Man's burden-- By the way, Carrol. The secular Iraqi left, such as it is, has called for UN administration. A retired English professor in the American Midwest thinks he knows better. Who's the one taking up the white man's burden here? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 15 06:38:08 PDT 2003

24318 [lbo-talk] Bring the Troops Home! NOW! -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox perseverated: >Take up the White Man's burden-- > Ye dare not stoop to less-- Wow, you're sooooo radical. And clever too. You put us all to shame.

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Date:	Mon Sep 15 06:31:03 PDT 2003

24319 [lbo-talk] Cancun Talks End in Failure -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >It was, but is no more. Seattle fell apart too, and not just because of folks in the streets. >Who defined the standard view of the WTO anyway? Lori Wallach, the IFG, William Greider, etc. >And what do we do about making something similar happen to the IMF/WB? Change the voting structure! Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 14 16:14:15 PDT 2003

24320 [lbo-talk] CA Passes Raft of Progressive Laws -- rank: 1000

Devine, James wrote: > >Krugman said that Rove's desire >was to bring us back to the McKinley era. < > >so now Krugman agrees with William Greider? Did Greider say that? I haven't read his stuff lately - several unremarkable observations buried in a million cubic feet of hot air. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 14 15:49:39 PDT 2003

24321 [lbo-talk] Sweden rejects euro -- rank: 1000

[is the neoliberal era over?] Sweden rejects euro membership STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Swedes voted not to adopt the euro in a referendum, dealing a major blow to Prime Minister Goeran Persson, the leading campaigner for Swedish membership of the European single currency. "I can now state that the result is clear, very clear," a grim-faced Persson said on public television after an exit poll and a partial count of the vote pointed to a clear victory for opponents of Swedish euro membership. Th ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 14 15:04:30 PDT 2003

24322 [lbo-talk] CA Passes Raft of Progressive Laws -- rank: 1000

nathanne at nathannewman.org wrote: >I agree that Arnie might sign the more social issue stuff (but wanted to >include it to remind folks of the good stuff coming out of the >legislature) and of course the legislators get the credit. I don't like >Davis much more than anyone else-- the point is that he can be forced to >sign the bills because he's ultimately dependent on the labor and >progressive folks for survival. > >That's all I've ever argued makes the Dems as being ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 14 14:32:44 PDT 2003

24323 [lbo-talk] Collapse -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >"...the WTO continues to operate in business-as-usual mode, with the EU and >the United States calling [all] the shots." If that were true, the talks wouldn't have collapsed, would they? Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 14 14:24:58 PDT 2003

24324 [lbo-talk] Cancun Talks End in Failure -- rank: 1000

This should seriously call into question the standard view of the WTO as a tool of the U.S. and other rich countries. This could never have happened in the IMF. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 14 14:21:21 PDT 2003

24325 [lbo-talk] Liberals and Lefties Crash the Bestseller Lists -- rank: 1000

I was just noticing this morning that the NYT's business bestseller list includes Stupid White Men, Nickel and Dimed, and Fast Food Nation. Poor Tom Peters... Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 14 11:35:04 PDT 2003

24326 [lbo-talk] poll numbers turn against W -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - September 14, 2003 Public Says $87 Billion Too Much By Richard Morin and Dan Balz, Washington Post Staff Writer A majority of Americans disapprove of President Bush's request to Congress for an additional $87 billion to fund military and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan over the next year, amid growing doubts about the administration's policies at home and abroad, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Six in 10 Americans said they do not support the pr ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 14 11:32:06 PDT 2003

24327 [lbo-talk] One in three Israelis wants Arafat dead Poll -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >One in three Israelis wants Arafat dead: Poll Wow, I'd have guessed it would be higher. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 14 09:15:54 PDT 2003

24328 [lbo-talk] Hitchens' Anti-Imperialism -- rank: 1000

Peter, not Christopher. Are you reading this as a characterization of his brother? Doug Max B. Sawicky wrote: >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60116-2003Sep11.html > >Here's a choice bit: > ><i>American pseudo-conservatives, having lost or preferred not to fight the >great cultural and moral battles over marriage, education and morality, and >robbed of a genuinely evil empire by Mikhail Gorbachev, scan the globe for >replacement Kremlins to confront a ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 14 09:07:39 PDT 2003

24329 [lbo-talk] West Coast tour -- rank: 1000

I'll be making a western publicity pilgriage in November, hawking After the New Economy: 11/18 Seattle, Elliott Bay 11/19 SF, Modern Times 11/21 LA, Midnight Special More to follow.... Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 13 16:01:50 PDT 2003

24330 [lbo-talk] Re: CA Passes Raft of Progressive Laws -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Jim Devine wrote: > >TmF0aGFuLCBob3cgIGRvIHlvdSBrbm93IGhvdyBBcm5vbGQgc3RhbmRzIG9uIHRoZXNlIGlzc3Vl >cyAoYXMgb3Bwb3NlZCB0byBob3cgaGUgc3RhbmRzIG9uIHBvc3QtZWFydGhxdWFrZSBjb25zdHJ1 > >Is Jim mocking someone else's lucid prose, or did his machine create >this? Here's the culprit: At 7:33 AM -0700 9/13/03, Devine, James wrote: ><x-charset utf-8>Nathan, how do you know how Arnold stands on these >issues (as opposed to how he stands on post-earthquake ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 13 14:33:44 PDT 2003