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25051 [lbo-talk] decentralization, Whole Foods style -- rank: 1000

And this delightfully anti-union company has been on the Business Ethics magazine top 100 list for three years running!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 28 10:45:53 PDT 2003

25052 [lbo-talk] Chalabi's niece helped set up NYT Kuwait bureau -- rank: 1000

New York Observer - June 2, 2003 by Sridhar Pappu The New York Times has quietly ended its relationship with Sarah Khalil, who helped set up the paper's Kuwait bureau for the war-and who is also the niece of Ahmed Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National Congress. Mr. Chalabi, an international businessman and perhaps Iraq's most famous émigré, is the odds-on favorite to serve as the next leader in a new Iraq and, even before the war, served as the inspiration for many neoconservative pundits' argum ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 28 10:42:02 PDT 2003

25053 [lbo-talk] Japanese banks hemorrhage -- rank: 1000

The people who borrowed the money who can't pay it back. BrownBingb at aol.com wrote: >ICharles: Who'd they lose it to ? > >>Japanese banks hemorrhage >> >>By Shane Green, Herald Correspondent in Tokyo >>May 27 2003 >> >>Japan's troubled top seven banks reported a combined >>record loss of about ¥4.62 trillion ($60 billion) late >>yesterday, reinforcing warnings from the country's >>central bank that the world's second largest economy & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 28 09:55:06 PDT 2003

25054 [lbo-talk] no WMD? well there was "intellectual capacity" for such -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Actually this assertion by Bolton is the perfect argument of why the >invasion approach is doomed: because what it is that you finally want to >wipe out because you feel threatend by it cannot by nature be wiped out >even by invasion and occupation. > >So while we don't know for sure whether a soft approach can work, we do >know for sure, without even trying it out, that a hard approach can't. >The soft approach is the only possible option. Yeah, bu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 28 09:54:07 PDT 2003

25055 [lbo-talk] no WMD? well there was "intellectual capacity" for such -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >And they've still got it. Are we saying we're planning on destroying it? But doesn't every physics department of every university in the world have it? Should we destroy all those too? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 27 20:38:47 PDT 2003

25056 [lbo-talk] war councils -- rank: 1000

[I'm sending the full text of this rather long article becvause I think it's not available to nonsubscribers.] Financial Times - May 27, 2003 COMMENT & ANALYSIS: War in Iraq: how the die was cast before transatlantic diplomacy failed In the first week of January, when most of the Paris elite was still on the ski slopes, a top French diplomat delivered a blunt warning to his boss at the foreign ministry in the Quai d'Orsay. Gérard Araud, director of strategic affairs and security, told Domini ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 27 16:58:21 PDT 2003

25057 [lbo-talk] Europeans unhappy in general -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >''The big picture is that Americans are much more satisfied with their lives >than Europeans,'' said Harris Interactive polling chairman Humphrey Taylor. I was feeling sick Losing my mind I heard about these treatments From a good friend of mine He was always happy Smile on his face He said he had a great time at the place. Peace and love is here to stay And now I can wake up and face the day Happy happy happy all the time Shock treatment, I'm doing fine. Gimme gimme shock t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 27 16:00:47 PDT 2003

25058 [lbo-talk] no WMD? well there was "intellectual capacity" for such -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/newswires/2003_5_23.html#1> Iraqi "Intellectual Capacity" Justified War, Official Says By David Ruppe Global Security Newswire WASHINGTON - Iraqi "intellectual capacity" for producing unconventional weapons was sufficient justification for the successful U.S.-led war against the country, a senior Bush administration official said today, addressing criticism that U.S. forces so far have found no illicit weapons there. In the past yea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 27 15:54:50 PDT 2003

25059 [lbo-talk] Fwd: I can't be expiring -- rank: 1000

>From: "Phil Tomescu" <ptomescu at charter.net> >To: <dhenwood at panix.com> >Subject: I can't be expiring >Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:15:22 -0700 > >I just got a notice that says my sub expired. I sent you a check >for $40 for two years worth back in December 2002. Did the >publishing schedule suddenly accelerate and two years worth get sent >out in six months? > > > >Let me know what's up. > > > >Thanks > > > &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 27 15:23:14 PDT 2003

25060 [lbo-talk] anti-worry talk on the dollar -- rank: 1000

Merrill Lynch wrote (in a feature called "Debunking Some Myths"): >"The Dollar is an Accident Waiting to Happen" We hear this a lot - >that the greenback's descent will ultimately come home to roost in a >bad bond and stock market. First, there is no evidence, at least >during the Greenspan Fed era, that the central bank ever altered >monetary policy just because of the greenback. This isn't the Bank >of Canada. Second, while it is true that the foreign-held ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 27 13:28:48 PDT 2003

25061 [lbo-talk] Latin billionaires meet -- rank: 1000

<http://www.forbes.com/2003/05/23/cz_kd_0523mexico.html> International Secret Meeting Of Latin American Billionaires Kerry A. Dolan, 05.23.03, 11:20 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO - Maybe a cabal of billionaires really does secretly run the world after all. Beginning last night, some 30 of Latin America's biggest businessmen--many with their sons or nephews in tow--convened in Mexico City for a three-day gabfest hosted by Carlos Slim Helú, Latin America's richest man. Among the guest list are eight m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 26 13:16:56 PDT 2003

25062 [lbo-talk] Michael Moore's site hacked - Replaced with links to debunking articles! -- rank: 1000

Well it ain't no longer. How hard is it to hack a web site anyway? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 26 12:59:22 PDT 2003

25063 [lbo-talk] the NYT & WMDs -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 26, 2003 Intra-Times Battle Over Iraqi Weapons By Howard Kurtz A dustup between two New York Times reporters over a story on an Iraqi exile leader raises some intriguing questions about the paper's coverage of the search for dangerous weapons thought to be hidden by Saddam Hussein. An internal e-mail by Judith Miller, the paper's top reporter on bioterrorism, acknowledges that her main source for such articles has been Ahmad Chalabi, a controversial exile leader who is clos ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 26 09:14:18 PDT 2003

25064 [lbo-talk] affinity groups -- rank: 1000

Talk about micropolitics: >http://www.forumo.hpg.ig.com.br/angla.htm >LSG (Ligo de Samseksamaj Geesperantistoj) >LSG-League for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Trans Esperantists

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 26 08:59:41 PDT 2003

25065 [lbo-talk] Nye on empire -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 25, 2003 Ill-Suited for Empire By Joseph S. Nye The military victory in Iraq seems to have confirmed a new world order. Not since Rome has one nation loomed so large above the others. Indeed the word "empire" has come out of the closet. Respected analysts of both left and right are beginning to refer to "American empire" approvingly as the dominant narrative of the 21st century. But those who openly welcome the idea of an American empire mistake the unde ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 25 17:13:42 PDT 2003