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26266 More on Hardt & Negri from Brennan -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Now what do you think that this means? I have never >read any such thing from Michael Hardt or Antonio >Negri. It certainly cant mean that Hardt and Negri >dont support strikes, etc or that Hardt and Negri dont >support workers struggles against capital, Because >that isn't true. So what does it mean? Yeah, I'm wondering just what's so evil about Empire. You can find it wrong or silly or beside the point or otherwise icky, but why the intense hostility? ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 9 08:10:04 PST 2003

26267 Rumsfeld: We don't need to justify war -- rank: 1000

Times (London) - January 9, 2003 US weapons dossier may remain a secret Roland Watson in Washington DONALD RUMSFELD, the US Defence Secretary, has suggested that Washington may present little or no evidence of Iraq's quest for banned weapons even if President Bush decides to go to war. Mr Rumsfeld said that disclosing such details to the world or even to the United Nations Security Council could jeopardise any military mission by revealing to Baghdad what the United States knows. When weighing t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 9 07:58:14 PST 2003

26268 Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO... -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >I dont think you are right about that, however even if >you are, there is certainly one huge distinction. The >anarchists do not aim to unite everybody under one >monotheistic party. No, but it's as if they hot about the very opposite - rejecting anything that smells of the Leninist Party. Isn't there way of doing party that is neither Leninist or upper case? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 8 21:31:18 PST 2003

26269 Deleuze & Guattari, Zizek on Arendt (More from Brennan) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Why are you so much more interested in personalities than in ideas or >politics? Because you've pounded this one into the dirt, and it's gotten rather tedious. It doesn't have much to do with ideas - it's political psychopathology. I find it fascinating how some people find the need to kick Empire around on an almost daily basis. If you really thought it was so worthless, you could leave it alone. It's like the dinosaurs' old obsession with postmodernism, except directed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 8 21:30:11 PST 2003

26270 More on Hardt & Negri from Brennan -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >How about responding to Brennan, rather than Carrol? Because I pretty much already said all I have to say about Empire long ago <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Empire.html> and don't feel like repeating myself. It's not like either Brennan or Carrol is making a point I haven't heard before. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 8 21:24:00 PST 2003

26271 More on Hardt & Negri from Brennan -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The following paragraphs from Brennan identify some of the features of >_Empire_ that make it, in my estimation, utterly useless as political >analysis. You don't like the book, Carrol? I'm surprised to hear this! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 8 17:47:23 PST 2003

26272 more tax games -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Who will support this proposal? The Fords, for one. They've got millions of shares in the family biz. Probably the Bancrofts (Dow Jones), too. Fox reported a poll last night saying that 2/3 of the U.S. public believes that when the stock market does well, the economy does well. So if the Bushies can convince people this is good for stocks, they may get away with it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 8 15:17:03 PST 2003

26273 Color of Anarchism Re: Protest ISO... -- rank: 1000

It's been amusing to watch the anarchists squabble among themselves lately. You guys are as fractious as Trots! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 8 14:49:07 PST 2003

26274 Self-determination -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >But not back to the 1973 level, are they? Nope, still about 8% below (though the real hourly wage has risen about 10% from the 1995 low). One important point: the average wage is an average of all wages, obviously enough - but relatively few individual workers have seen steep real wage declines, and many have seen increases as they aged (though not as steep as their generational predecessors). This diluted the political effects of a declining average wage. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 8 15:07:35 PST 2003

26275 paleos against Iraq war -- rank: 1000

From: "Mises Daily Article" <article at mises.org> Subject: Does Oil Require Blood? Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:08:37 -0600 <<http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1134>http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1134> Does Oil Require Blood? By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [Posted January 8, 2003] It's obvious Iraq doesn't want war and the Bush administration does. The administration claims war would be a preemptive strike, but more honest commentators freely admit, a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 8 14:45:13 PST 2003

26276 lardy lefty lays an egg -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - January 8, 2003 Disgrace of 'stupid' windbag PORCINE provocateur Michael Moore has left Britain in a huff after horrifying audiences and feuding with theater owners on his live tour. Moore, who staged a show called "Michael Moore - Live!" in support of his book "Stupid White Men," shocked the crowd at North London's Roundhouse Theater a couple of weeks ago by ranting that passengers on planes hijacked on Sept. 11 were "scaredy-cats because they ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 8 14:36:09 PST 2003

26277 work, anyone? -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >Doug -- want to "transform culture" from the other side of the world? Mighty tempting, but I ain't got no PhD! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 8 14:26:23 PST 2003

26278 Self-determination -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Doug said: > >>It's a staple of the antiglobalization literature, at least in the >>U.S. and other high-income countries: nations and regions compete >>against each other to see who can offer the most attractive deal to >>hypermobile capital, resulting in markdowns in wages and >>environmental/social standards. > > >>Doug > >Does this happen? > >(I'm wildly guessing you have doubts about it, considering the >hesit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 8 14:21:16 PST 2003

26279 more tax games -- rank: 1000

[This is from Ed Hyman's guy in DC, Tom Gallagher] Today's Wall Street Journal mentioned an important aspect of Bush's proposal that we had previously not heard of, but we have verified that it will be part of his plan. It changes the kinds of stocks that would benefit in a major way. In addition to excluding dividends from individual taxation, Bush will propose allowing companies to treat retained earnings essentially as "reinvested dividends." Shareholders would increase their basi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 8 13:01:41 PST 2003

26280 Self-determination -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Then again, many in "the South" are beginning to >reject the "development" discourse entirely My impression is that some of the most forceful advocates of this POV are people with advanced degrees and lots of miles on their frequent flyer accounts. The Nigerian women who took over the ExxonMobil facility last year wanted electricity and schools, not a return to Eden. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 8 12:07:47 PST 2003