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25711 [lbo-talk] Guardian correction -- rank: 1000

Is this British libel law at work, or a real retraction?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 5 08:58:57 PDT 2003

25712 [lbo-talk] Re: Krugman -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >The crude choice dynamics emerges between an apparently positive, >smooth, orderly, and established system of assurances and >consistencies perpetrated by the Right, as opposed to an >argumentative, messy, contentious, disorderly and negative Left. The left isn't immune to the easy consistency, even at the high end. Some Marxisms purport to explain everything as emerging from the laws of motion of capital; "it is no accident that...," as the vulgar Marx ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 5 08:15:16 PDT 2003

25713 [lbo-talk] Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

Back after a fundraising break... On my radio show today, 5-6 PM EDT, WBAI 99.5 FM New York and <http://www.wbai.org>: * Hilary Wainwright on Tony Blair's troubles * Hamid Dabashi on Iran ...plus a clip from Heaven 17's 1980 classic, "[We Don't Need This] Fascist Groove Thing." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 5 06:55:58 PDT 2003

25714 [lbo-talk] Iraqi debt -- rank: 1000

A generous friend who wishes to remain anonymous pointed out this source of the estimates of Iraqi debt (a Deutsche Bank research paper leaked to Friends of the Earth): <http://www.stopesso.com/pdf/baghdad_bazaar.pdf>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 5 04:30:38 PDT 2003

25715 [lbo-talk] The Markets and Reality: What, If Anything, Is the Linkage? -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Color me pessimistic, but it looks to me like we're rolling into >an extended Japanese-style economic stagnation. How much more >home equity can people float to keep the economy kicking? There are stimulative forces afoot. "Childful" families will soon get checks in the mail - $400 per kid. Some $150 billion in stimulus will hit the U.S. economy in the coming months. That will be countered to some degree by budget cuts at the state and local levels, but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 4 17:02:41 PDT 2003

25716 [lbo-talk] Wolfowitz Speaks Plainly: Oil Was The PrimeMotivation -- rank: 1000

Gregory Geboski wrote: >I know many (most? all but me?) on this list see these people as >acting within the admittedly horrendous parameters of "normal" >capitalist imperial brutality. Simply, I respectfully disagree; I >see them as beyond that, and I'll leave it there for now. I'm with you on this. They seem egregious to me, and terrifying in a way that more normal executives weren't. They make me nostalgic for Reagan almost. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 4 15:37:42 PDT 2003

25717 [lbo-talk] Bush & the Nazis -- rank: 1000

Polish Newsweek has a story on the Bush-Nazi connection: <http://newsweek.redakcja.pl/archiwum/artykul.asp?Watek=7159&WatekStr=1&Artykul=4903>. Woj or any other Polish speakers wanna take a look? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 4 14:55:55 PDT 2003

25718 [lbo-talk] The Markets and Reality: What, If Anything, Is the Linkage? -- rank: 1000

Barkley Rosser wrote: > The economy as a whole does not need to do well. >The tax cut helps capital incomes. The falling dollar helps >US exports and profits, as long as it does not get out of >hand, which it could. Also, still living in happy talk land >of post-Iraq "victory" (those polls show most Americans >don't give a hoot about the mess over there), and Big >Al is talking about an interest rate cut. Yields on bonds >suck right now compared to yiel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 4 14:09:40 PDT 2003

25719 [lbo-talk] Wolfowitz Speaks Plainly: Oil Was The Prime Motivation -- rank: 1000

Gregory Geboski wrote: >He may want to screw Blair Leaving the U.S. with no allies of any consequence? Can they be that demented?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 4 12:59:36 PDT 2003

25720 [lbo-talk] censorship in Iraq -- rank: 1000

Middle East - AP Occupiers Propose New Media Code in Iraq 37 minutes ago By BORZOU DARAGAHI, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - Faced with a freewheeling Iraqi media, the U.S.-led occupation authority is devising a code of conduct for the press, drawing protests from Iraqi journalists who endured censorship under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and worry for their newfound freedom. Coalition officials say the code is not intended to censor the media, only to stifle intemperate speech that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 4 12:16:53 PDT 2003

25721 [lbo-talk] The Markets and Reality: What, If Anything, Is the Linkage? -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Is it possible for the Dow to look good while the >countryís economic health is really quite bad? Not for very long, no. The market is anticipating a recovery in the second half of the year. It's also celebrating Greenspan's strong implication that the Fed is likely to ease further, even if the economy recovers, as a "firebreak" against deflation. He's playing the markets beautifully; talking deflation excites the bond market, while talking ease excites the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 4 12:06:06 PDT 2003

25722 [lbo-talk] 14 characteristics of fascism -- rank: 1000

[From the Debate list. How's the U.S. score?] Dr. Lawrence Britt, a political scientist, wrote an article about fascism which appeared in Free Inquiry magazine, a journal of humanist thought. Dr. Britt studied the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile). He found the regimes all had 14 things in common, and he calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The article is "Fascism Anyone?," Lawrence Britt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 4 12:03:39 PDT 2003

25723 [lbo-talk] Wolfowitz: war was about oil -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - June 4, 2003 Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil George Wright Oil was the main reason for military action against Iraq, a leading White House hawk has claimed, confirming the worst fears of those opposed to the US-led war. The US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz - who has already undermined Tony Blair's position over weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by describing them as a "bureaucratic" excuse for war - has now gone further by claiming the real motive was t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 4 10:02:39 PDT 2003

25724 [lbo-talk] divine spam -- rank: 1000

[anyone else get this? graphics omitted, which is too bad...] From: "The Messiah comes" <Caramba538 at compuserve.de> To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: Signs from God Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 04:12:06 Message (Botschaft) <http://home.t-online.de/home/520017418617/111.htm>http://www.messiah.comes.de.ms Signs from God. The Messiah comes. We have the end of the World Signs from God. The Messiah comes. We have the end of the World and already 3th World war. The Mankind faces the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 4 06:32:40 PDT 2003

25725 [lbo-talk] Apologies -- rank: 1000

Yup. Chill all around, comrades. Michal, Chris apologized for telling you to fuck off. That should end the truculent part of the proceedings. It might be best if you ignored each other for a little while.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 3 14:24:46 PDT 2003