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27586 Saddam's successors? -- rank: 1000

Sunday Herald (Glasgow) - September 22, 2002 Unveiled: the thugs Bush wants in place of Saddam If Saddam Hussein is America's frying-pan, these men are the fire into which President Bush may be jumping. Foreign Editor David Pratt runs the rule over some of the highly assorted and far from loveable would-be beneficiaries of Iraqi 'regime change' CORRUPT, feckless and downright dangerous. Some say they make the Butcher of Baghdad himself look good. Who are they? The contenders for Saddam Hussein's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 23 15:09:31 PDT 2002

27587 Levitt's book -- rank: 1000

Excuse me for serially posting bits from this week's ish of Business Week. The mag features excerpts from Arthur Levitt's book on his years at the SEC. Two choice excerpts, chosen for partisan balance: >When I arrived at the Securities & Exchange Commission in mid-1993, >I found nearly all of Corporate America lined up against the "gnomes >of Norwalk," otherwise known as the Financial Accounting Standards >Board. The controversy raged over whether companies should treat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 23 14:12:23 PDT 2002

27588 Christian scholars say no war -- rank: 1000

Barry Deutsch wrote: > > The U.S. nukings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were as much terrorist >> acts as anything else. I think they were justified terrorist >> acts--they succeeded in bringing an end to the Japanese militarist >> government, and did so with a much lower butcher's bill than any >> conceivable invasion of Honshu. But that doesn't change their >> character... > >This assumes that it would have been implausible to end the war without > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 23 12:47:09 PDT 2002

27589 U.S. supplied Iraq with West Nile virus -- rank: 1000

Business Week - SEptember 20, 2002 NEWS ANALYSIS A U.S. Gift to Iraq: Deadly Viruses A 1995 letter from the Centers for Disease Control lists all the biological materials sent to Saddam's scientists for 10 years As the West Nile Virus spreads nationwide, some congressional leaders are asking whether the mosquito-borne illness could be linked to terrorism or to Iraq's bioweapons program. If so, a more troubling question may be whether Iraq's weapons efforts were unwittingly helped by U.S. scienti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 23 12:22:52 PDT 2002

27590 bear culture -- rank: 1000

The folks at the Elliott Wave Theorist have just put out a special report, saying that the bear market in U.S. stocks is about to get very nasty - what we've seen so far is merely prelude. They include this bit of cultural criticism: >The social scene is littered with additional signs of the >polarizing, dissonant, ugly and destructive themes of a bear market >in social mood. The results range from an emerging interest in >unions and a return of labor strife to escalating levels of o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 23 11:41:17 PDT 2002

27591 Wedding Announcement -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >I shall not be happy until a giant bronze statue of Doug stands >glowering down over the central square of Henwoodgrad, shining in >the sun. Can I have some people shot too? I'm so excited I'm already making up a list. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 23 11:24:17 PDT 2002

27592 Wedding Announcement -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >I've told this story bunches on this list(in different contexts, usually my >limited experience with The Left) and assumed that the no comment just meant >no one believed me. Anyway, back when CounterPunch went to that logo about >Babylon I was rather drunk one night as I was getting my sub renewal >together(before I was on the internet or had managed to express myself some, >while sober) and I wrote a note on the renewal form saying something like >the Babylon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 23 11:19:56 PDT 2002

27593 Lefty Despair and Re: More Michael Parenti Re: Deserving Americans -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Sorry, sounds religious to me. Oh grand and mighty Marx, you have shown us >the way! Doesn't have to be. No one has come close to Marx in analyzing the workings of capitalism as a broad social system. Even the stuff about finance in vol. 3 of Capital and Theories of Surplus Value, though mostly unfinished and dealing with a relatively unevolved financial system, are brilliant. Of course, people treat his writings as scripture sometimes, in a very mechnical and brainde ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 23 08:58:02 PDT 2002

27594 Christian scholars say no war -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - September 23, 2002 100 Christian Ethicists Challenge Claim That Pre-Emptive War on Iraq Would Be Morally Justified By SCOTT McLEMEE One hundred Christian scholars of ethical theory have issued a statement opposing pre-emptive military action against Iraq. Most of the signatories are affiliated with American universities and seminaries. They represent a wide range of religious and political perspectives, according to Shaun Casey, an assistant professor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 23 08:29:21 PDT 2002

27595 Wedding Announcement -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Congratulations to both! Who says there's no joy on the left? ;-> Not us! Thanks for the congrats, comrades. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 23 08:13:22 PDT 2002

27596 Wedding Announcement -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Does this mean there's something between Alex and Ken? Nothing very affectionate, if that's what you mean. > You know, the >guys who stole my logo for their mag? Eh? Do tell. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 23 08:12:49 PDT 2002

27597 Lefty despair -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Perhaps, Doug wishes to commend the prose style of >Louis Proyect then? I'm certainly no fan of Proyect Thought, but he writes well (though he can be disgracefully inaccurate in presenting the opinions of those he disagrees with) and can be very funny. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 22 17:32:31 PDT 2002

27598 Japan -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: > >For the United States, the IMF said, authorities should tighten medium-term >>fiscal policy, encourage private saving and take measures to boost investor >>confidence. > >[Fiscal tightening? Perhaps we should ignore them Of course. As Stiglitz pointed out, when these things came in from the IMF, the Clinton admin would just throw them in the trash. Fiscal tightening with a near-dead "recovery" would make no sense at all. Of course, Argentina ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 22 16:56:02 PDT 2002

27599 Socialist Planning -- Liberation from the Market -- rank: 1000

windy storm wrote: >Raymond Lotta wrote the following reply to Dennis Richmond and asked >me to post it here. > >Windy >___________________________ > >REPLY TO DENNIS ROBERT RICHMOND When someone can't reproduce correctly the name of someone appearing right in the document in question, it puts you in the mood to doubt everthing that follows. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 22 16:58:40 PDT 2002

27600 progress in branding -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 22 16:53:00 PDT 2002