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27556 Fwd: No Logo vs. Pro Logo -- rank: 1000

[This isn't hype - Naomi Klein did smoke her adversary, Sameena Ahmad of The Economist, who wrote a Pro Logo piece for the mag - just before 9/11/01, so it was quickly forgotten. Later they're joined by some idiot investment manager and by Owens Wiwa, brother of Ken Saro Wiwa, who was hanged by the Nigerian government for giving Shell too hard a time.] >Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:22:20 -0400 >From: Peter Rothberg <prothberg at mail.thenation.com> >Subject: No Logo vs. Pro Logo > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 26 15:39:56 PDT 2002

27557 The nature of anarchism (Lefty Despair etc.) -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: > > What's up with my old pal Samuel E Konkin III? We used to correspond >> about 10 years ago, but I haven't heard a word about him since. >> >> Doug > >Wow. Haven't heard that name mentioned in over a decade. Wasn't he the >editor of The Libertarian, a big gold buff and somehow connected to >Anarcho-Village in CA? Something like that - right libertarian. Pro-capitalist. I think the anarchists here are a bit too glib in dismissing thei ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 26 11:15:38 PDT 2002

27558 Nathan and Imperialsim -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >That's why I'm a micro-economist. > >But the rest of my argument doesn't collapse >because of that mistake, does it? No, I was just picking nits. Which isn't a very attractive characteristic, I know. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 26 11:09:34 PDT 2002

27559 Whores on Hitch -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin quoting the Media Whores: >We will not belabor the point that the Nation lost not only >subscribers but credibility as a progressive magazine because of >Snitch. Nation subscriptions are up, way up, in the last few years. So this is a hard point to prove. >Maybe, just maybe, the Nation will stop its liberal-hating and, >after some rest and recuperation, come to its senses. We don't >expect it to happen -- but hope for the best. Liberal hating? Don't they read the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 26 10:48:11 PDT 2002

27560 The nature of anarchism (Lefty Despair etc.) -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >"Anarcho-capitalism" is an oxymoron. There are a few mutualist >anarchists who advocate economics that could be viewed as quasi >forms of small "c" capitalism, but those people who call themselves >"anarcho-capitalists" are just deluded. What's up with my old pal Samuel E Konkin III? We used to correspond about 10 years ago, but I haven't heard a word about him since. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 26 10:40:53 PDT 2002

27561 encouraging consumption -- rank: 1000

I hadn't visited Slate's Bushisms page <http://slate.msn.com/?id=76886> in a while, but right near the top I caught this. And uttered in NJ, no less! >"We need an energy bill that encourages consumption."-Trenton, N.J., >Sept. 23, 2002

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 26 10:12:34 PDT 2002

27562 Nathan and Imperialsim -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >The U.S. runs a trade deficit. This means foreigners >accumulate claims to U.S. dollar-denominated assets. >(It says nothing about whether the stock of such >assets is growing or declining.) How can it not grow? Unless the U.S. runs a large surplus on investment income, which it doesn't, then the deficit has to be financed by borrowing. The annual deficit on the current account has to be matched by some form of capital inflow, so the stock of debt has to incre ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 26 09:22:42 PDT 2002

27563 Iraq & the UN -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr020924.asp> [...] >The new survey also demonstrates that the United Nations has the >potential to strongly influence how Americans respond to this issue. >Previous polling has shown that about two-thirds of Americans want >the U.S. to wait until the United Nations votes on the issue before >taking military action. Public support for invading Iraq could rise >to as much as 79% if the United States secures the support of the >United ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 26 07:05:43 PDT 2002

27564 Standing Up -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >Real wages are rising in Vietnam and >China, especially in the cities, thanks to strong state intervention in >the economy Dennis, you're a big fan of both Adorno and East Asian state-led development. Wouldn't Teddy regard them as administered societies of the most conformist and instrumental sort? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 26 06:57:05 PDT 2002

27565 Fat's where it's at in NYC -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Haven't lived in the city for three years now (and do miss it so), but I >highly doubt that Manhattan is being weighed down by the heavy set -- seems >this is a seasonal fashion choice by editors: "Fat's the New Slim." > >Wanna see fat? Come to Michigan. You don't have to travel that far from NYC - just cross the Hudson. And you're right, this looks entirely like one of those spurious trend pieces. Attendance is slighly up over the last year at my n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 25 13:34:02 PDT 2002

27566 conservative kids? -- rank: 1000

San Francisco Chronicle - September 25, 2002 YOUTHFUL CONSERVATISM Baby Boomers' kids take right turn on prayer in school, abortion, survey says Charles Burress, Chronicle Staff Writer Apo logies to Bob Dylan, but the times they may be a-changin' -- again. A new nationwide survey shows today's youth have become more conservative than their elders about religion in schools and abortion. High-school and college-age youth show stronger support than their parents' generation for school prayer, feder ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 25 13:28:36 PDT 2002

27567 Nathan and Imperialsim -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >> >> >> Or is the problem that Marx's Labor Theory of Value doesn't >> fit well on a placard? >> > >Bingo! Neither does Lenin's _Imperialism_ or Wood's _Democracy against >Capitalism_! Even the fine post Chuck Grimes wrote recently (on pig >capitalists etc) quite fit. You'd be surprised how hard it is to figure >out in a given context what should go on the placards. > Back around 1981, there was a b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 25 11:33:02 PDT 2002

27568 Nathan and Imperialsim -- rank: 1000

Apropos the popular appeal of the word "imperalism" - there's a lot of evidence that the U.S. public doesn't like it (not, of course, that it's up to them to decide, so no lectures please on the limits of bourgeois democracy). Elite opinion leaders are always worrying about the masses' indifference to foreign policy - they have to be scared into going along. So I wouldn't misunderestimate, as our president once said, the popular appeal of a critique of empire. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 25 11:29:08 PDT 2002

27569 Greenspan against transparency -- rank: 1000

This just in from the Chairman: <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2002/200209252/> >No one can deny that fully informed market participants will >generate the most efficient pricing of resources and the most >efficient allocation of capital. Moreover, it could be argued that, >if all information held by individual buyers or sellers became >available to all participants, the pricing structure would more >closely reflect the underlying balance of supply and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 25 10:43:41 PDT 2002

27570 Will The Real March Please Stand Up? -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Egads. >Doug > >Doug, >Where does that word egads come from? >My grandmother used to use it and I associated it with her - thought >it was a southern thing. It's a euphemism for O God! I use it, and other mild epithets like gosh, because my normal instinct is to turn to some variant of fuck. Since I sometimes worry about sounding too much like Tony Soprano, a little mildness now and then never hurts. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 25 10:33:36 PDT 2002