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26461 happy birthday Roy Cohn... -- rank: 1000

...who would have been 73 today. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 20 11:36:41 PST 2003

26462 Bina on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I'm really not sure I want to read any more binaprose (that was *after* >you broke it up?), but where does Bina lay out this "proof" that the oil >market is completely competitive? He thinks the whole quota system is an >epiphenomenon? He cited a book, The Economics of the Oil Crisis (1985). He's got several longish articles on the topic too, but I don't have any cites handy. As I recall the argument, all the various price-fixing schemes were rendere ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 20 11:22:42 PST 2003

26463 Ramsey Clark & mass murder -- rank: 1000

[Whatever credibility Ramsey Clark had - and it wasn't much - is now thoroughly shot. Sure everyone needs a lawyer, but these guys? Or is there some subtle anti-imperialist struggle that I'm missing here?] New York Times - February 20, 2003 Rwanda Pastor and Son, a Doctor, Convicted of Genocide By MARLISE SIMONS A Protestant clergyman and his son, a physician, were convicted yesterday of genocide and sentenced to prison by the United Nations tribunal dealing with the Rwandan killing frenzy of 19 ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 20 06:46:48 PST 2003

26464 Bird brained in Quebec -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >At 09:07 AM 2/20/03 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Funny, though, how often nationalism produces this stuff, > >in the context of class society, solidarity in general produces this stuff. Well yeah, but nationalism also obscures class differences, by positing a unitary Us vs. the multiple Them. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 20 06:43:23 PST 2003

26465 Bird brained in Quebec -- rank: 1000

N P Childs wrote: >This from the guy who was a cabinet minister when separatists lost >the referendum in 1995, was checking into a hotel the night of the >loss, and felt the need to berate a Hispanic house staff member, >accusing her people' of losing the referendum for the real >Quebecios. Earlier that evening his party leader, hammered at the >time, launched his 'concession' speech by blaming 'money and >ethnics' for the loss. This latter comment was understood in Quebec & ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 20 06:07:46 PST 2003

26466 Don't forget Yemen! -- rank: 1000

[Don't leave Yemen off the list of countries the Bush admin is taking over.] Independent (London) - February 20, 2003 By Frank Gardner in Djibouti Largely unseen by the rest of the world, America has opened up a new military front in the so-called war on terror. From a warship off Yemen, and from a heavily guarded base in East Africa, the Pentagon is running the "Joint Task ForceÐHorn of Africa". On a windswept ridge on an extinct volcano crouches a team of US Special Forces. Hunching ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 20 05:45:19 PST 2003

26467 Bina on Iraq -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >What I want to know, and I am surely no economist, what does >the price of oil have to do with the US ecenomy when >consumers in the US pay oh (guessing now) about 1/4 of what >anybody else pays for it, including residents of producing >nations (Nigeria comes to mind, more that the EU in my >perspective). The level of prices doesn't have much effect, but changes do. When oil prices collapsed in 1986, it helped extend the 1980s boom; when they rose a few years ago, ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 20 04:59:31 PST 2003

26468 Unions Representing 130 Million Workers Say NO to War! -- rank: 1000

Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:07:52 -0800 From: OWC <ilcinfo at earthlink.net> Subject: Unions Representing 130 Million Workers Say NO to War! OWC CAMPAIGN NEWS - distributed by the Open World Conference in Defense of Trade Union Independence & Democratic Rights, c/o S.F. Labor Council, 1188 Franklin St., #203, San Francisco, CA 94109. to SUBSCRIBE, contact the OWC at <ilcinfo at earthlink.net>. To UNSUBSCRIBE, contact the OWC at <ilcinfo at earthlink.net>. Phone: (415) 641-86 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 19 19:05:53 PST 2003

26469 copyright -- rank: 1000

Sorry, but I inadvertently clipped Cyrus Bina's copyright on that piece I forwarded. It should have read Copyright (C) 2003 Cyrus Bina. All rights reserved. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 19 19:01:39 PST 2003

26470 Balochistan In Iraq's Shadows -- rank: 1000

Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >If the US decides to overthrow the Iranian regime after getting rid of the >Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq It's a lovely world, isn't it? I forget, though - where does Syria fit in the sequence? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 19 17:16:06 PST 2003

26471 Using the "UN Process" to Help Organize a Massacre--Ed Herman -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >You've attacked me a few times now and perhaps it's my midwestern >backwardness but I can't get worked up over a guy named Sergio. >Makes me think of tight-fitting Sergio Valenti designer jeans or of >guys who drive around on Vespas saying "chow" in a sexy voice. All those years acting as Hitch's towel boy haven't taught you more wit than this? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 19 16:52:06 PST 2003

26472 "Average Joe" -- rank: 1000

Chiang Ching wrote: >One problem is that there is no 'Average Joe'. He's a myth, not a reality. I >like the following description much better-- > >http://2changetheworld.info/docs/part2-05-uflp-2-friends-en.php#a05tms > >Its too long to quote here, but if you look at it you can see that to come >up with an 'average' out of that clearly just obscures who the class is and >what their potential is. So you're RCP? What's Bob Avakian up to these days? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 19 16:33:18 PST 2003

26473 Bina on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Oh yeah, I'm guessing Bina's argument about the economics of oil is too complicated for some of our populists, who prefer simple narratives and slogans, and identifiable hierarchies of evil. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 19 16:31:47 PST 2003

26474 Bina on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Anyway, I would be interested in hearing what some of >the economists on this list have to say about this >piece. I'm not an economist, but I think Bina is right about the oil market - it's a mostly competitive market, not one with administered prices. I think he exaggerates U.S. economic decline, but that's my particular bete noir. And he doesn't have much to say about the political angle - U.S. desire to have a chokehold over world oil supplies, to exert control ov ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 19 16:29:44 PST 2003

26475 Bina on Iraq -- rank: 1000

[Rakesh Bhandari forwarded this analysis of the Iraq crisis to me for forwarding here. I added some paragraph breaks to 3, since it was one forbidding block in the original.] Let me take this opportunity and write up a few lines on the issue of oil and its real (not alleged) connection with the past and present impending war with Iraq. You have indicated, among others: "That is, the US propaganda machine is now selling the invasion of Iraq as an attempt to break up putative monopoly power a ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 19 15:54:59 PST 2003