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26581 US a "nation of warmongers," say Germans -- rank: 1000

Poll: Germans Believe U.S. a Nation of Warmongers Feb. 10 BERLIN (Reuters) - A majority of Germans believe the United States is a nation of warmongers and only six percent think President Bush is interested in keeping the peace, according to a survey published Monday. The poll by the respected Forsa institute, published in the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper, also found 97 percent of those questioned believed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was ready to go to war. The survey found 57 percen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 11 12:25:02 PST 2003

26582 no marches in Manhattan, ever -- rank: 1000

Newsday - February 10, 2003 Sweeping Away Street Marches Leonard Levitt Without announcement or explanation, the Police Department since the fall of 2002 has been denying all permits for protest marches in Manhattan. Deputy Commissioner Michael O'Looney confirmed Friday that this was, in fact, the department's practice after he was asked about it by Newsday. After conferring with Deputy Chief Bruce Smolka, the executive officer of Patrol Borough Manhattan South, O'Looney attributed the ban to &q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 10 17:57:59 PST 2003

26583 Speaker Wanted -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >Meaning that in this day and age friends do not let friends read >volumes II and III of _Capital_? (Certainly I would recommend >against letting a friend read them: you get all there is to be >gotten out of volume I, "Value, Price, and Profit," "Wage Labor and >Capital," the 1859 Preface, the "Critique of the Gotha Program," and >the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844.) Vol. 1 is a masterpiece, veering between fa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 10 05:18:02 PST 2003

26584 Change in method for computing unemployment rate? -- rank: 1000

Matt Pico wrote: >Hope this hasn't already been discussed on list, but >I heard that starting in January there was a change in the >way the unemployment rate is calculated. Does anyone know >what the new method us, and what the effect is likely to be >on the putative rate? Without knowing anything about it, >and given that the Bush administration already stopped issuing >"mass layoff" stats, my guess is that the new method will >make the economic outlook seem ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 9 12:38:32 PST 2003

26585 Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk -- rank: 1000

Just what is the point of all this taxonomy? It reminds me of junior high school, sorting out the cool kids from the dorks. I forget - are the Marxists the cool kids or the dorks? Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 9 10:14:37 PST 2003

26586 Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk -- rank: 1000

So Yoshie, looks like a lot of people don't want to be excluded from the Marx club, even Catherine Driscoll! So what is it? They just not your kind of Marxists? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 9 10:09:23 PST 2003

26587 Speaker Wanted -- rank: 1000

Horse Badorties wrote: >>I am teaching a course on Marx's _Capital_, Vols. II and III at >>the Brecht Forum in New York City. Although most of the sessions >>are strictly on the texts, a couple will be devoted to "Critiques >>and Defenses of Marx." To make things fair, balanced, evenhanded, >>I am interested in conducting such sessions as debates. The >>questions to be debated are: >> >>(1) Marx's account of the transformation of valu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 9 08:19:49 PST 2003

26588 Andy Breckman -- rank: 1000

Reed Tryte wrote: >I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess Dennis >Perrin and I are the only ones in the room who are >aware of Andy Breckman's fine album, "Don't Get >Killed." Is this the Andy Breckman who does (did?) a show on WFMU? He's funny. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 8 13:17:18 PST 2003

26589 better world -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >I presume the decision was made and implemented. So, who did ya pick? Not yet. I've got the Walden Bello and Naomi Klein interviews in the can, but the third is still open. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 8 13:15:01 PST 2003

26590 Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I thought you would object to being in any camp, much less a >"Marxist Camp," except maybe in the sense of being a connoisseur of >Camp (as in Susan Sontag's "Notes on 'Camp'"). To my occasional regret, there's little that's campy about me. I always feel ploddingly inadequate next to a true campmeister. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 8 12:49:35 PST 2003

26591 a better world? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Satanic paedophilic S&M rites Wow. Forget the pedophilia, but do you have to go to Bohemian Grove, or is there action elsewhere? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 8 10:34:10 PST 2003

26592 Feb15: Gather 49th St & 1st Avenue! -- rank: 1000

PLEASE FORWARD Dear Friend of United for Peace & Justice: Good news! We have secured an assembly point for the "World Says No to War" protest on February 15. The New York City Police Department has offered a permit for a noon rally on First Avenue stretching north from 49th Street, which is within sight of the United Nations. This is an important victory, and we are confident that February 15 will be a day of massive, peaceful, powerful protest in New York City. The downloadable le ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 8 10:32:05 PST 2003

26593 Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Perhaps, what I'm seeing here is the disappearance of not just >Marxists but most interesting leftists from LBO-talk. Eye of the beholder, I guess, but I'm very happy to see Chuck0 and Lou Paulsen talking things out in a rather calm and reasonable way. I'll bet there are a lot of people lurking who keep hearing all about the ANSWER/anti-ANSWER controversy and really wonder what it's all about, and haven't made up their minds on everything yet. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 8 10:30:22 PST 2003

26594 suicide/homicide >tags -- rank: 1000

martin wrote: >Why not accept the common term - martyr? It is decidedly simpler (for >communication) to share a commonly recognized name for a known, >experienced phenomenon. Much more enabling to moving the process of >understanding forward. You're kidding, right? You want to endorse the religious message behind the use of the word "martyr" - that killing people in a pizzeria will earn you a trip to paradise? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 8 10:20:00 PST 2003

26595 Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >But I still intend to exclude "mind readers" from it. At 9:10 PM -0500 10/17/01, Carrol Cox wrote: >I say that in fact nothing is being done or can be done about the WTC >attack, and therefore it is in bad faith to demand that I or anyone else >give what no one can give, an explanation of what should be done. At 10:04 AM -0500 10/19/01, Carrol Cox wrote: >If arguing for such solutions won't bring about an early >(virtually instant) cessation of bomb ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 8 10:06:49 PST 2003