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27916 Decline of American Power? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I don't dispute the point about all the capitalist elites' interest >in and willingness to maintain "the last resort." What I question >is their capacity. Are all crises amenable to such management? No >possible crisis of capitalism that cannot be resolved by >politico-economic interventions by the capitalist elites? Not in theory, but the historical record is on their side. Which isn't to say there can't be that one time.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 10 16:11:07 PDT 2002

27917 Fwd: Connie Chung: Skeptical of Skepticism -- rank: 1000

[As Hitchens said during the first Gulf War, before he fell in love with imperial power, a state broadcasting system could do no better.] FAIR-L Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Media analysis, critiques and activism ACTION ALERT: Connie Chung: Skeptical of Skepticism October 10, 2002 On her October 7 broadcast, CNN's Connie Chung took a U.S. congressmember to task for doubting George W. Bush. After Rep. Mike Thompson (D.-Calif.) told Chung that there seemed to be no evidence that Iraq posed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 10 15:55:27 PDT 2002

27918 sit-in at hillary -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >At 03:02 PM 10/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: >>hilary has voted against byrd's filibuster, and >>apparently is releasing a statement at 4pm today in >>support of bush's war. unreal. > >Nothing unreal about it. Completely consistent with everything she >is and everything she has done to date. Would further characterize >the #$%#&, but it's all unprintable. Yeah, don't blame me, I just forwarded it. If she wants to run for pres in 2008, there' ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 10 15:00:43 PDT 2002

27919 US Out of Everywhere -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com > > >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>At 11:09 AM -0400 10/9/02, Nathan Newman wrote: >>>I am against the war in Iraq but a war there is pretty damn irrelevant to >>>global suffering-- over 30 million people are projected to die of AIDS in >>>coming years, millions more will die each year from poverty, lack of >decent >>>water, lack of ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 10 14:34:45 PDT 2002

27920 Bush Threatens Veto of Defense Bill -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >> >Zizek says in his Lenin book that one should only make the argument >>>that there's no difference between the two parties (two principal >>>parties in countries outside the U.S., like the CDU and the SDP in >>>Germany) when the more liberal party is in office. When the rightwing >>>party is in power, too many additional people are being damaged. I >> >think there may be something to that. > >In short, that o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 10 14:27:41 PDT 2002

27921 release Milosevic! -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >That's very Ace Cockburn of you. US desegragation is a good >argument against those who say the US Federal government >is uniquely evil and can never do any good anywhere at anytime. But I never said that. So your argument ain't with me. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 10 14:24:09 PDT 2002

27922 Corn fed empire -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Why do you think we don't have what "all the capitalist countries" >have? What's the difference? How did the "shadow welfare state" >come about here, rather than social democracy, and how do we >overcome it? What answers do you give to good questions asked by >those who want health care? I'm guessing your answer involves something about the empire. I thought that one of the standard Marxist lines about empire was that it allowed a ru ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 10 14:22:13 PDT 2002

27923 sit-in at Hillary's NYC office -- rank: 1000

[from the Reclaim The Streeets-NYC list] right now there are 10 people, students and seniors, sitting in at hilary's office. they've met with her staff, who are not kicking them out. BUT the office closes at 5, at which point our anti-war pals will be arrested. hilary has voted against byrd's filibuster, and apparently is releasing a statement at 4pm today in support of bush's war. unreal. ***please head over to 49th and 3rd between 4 and 5 p.m. to support these folks.***

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 10 10:55:27 PDT 2002

27924 LBO indicator -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >So, Doug, any calls yet? Not really, no. One call from a lurker on this list (who really doesn't count for that and similar reasons), and one call from someone who used to work with Cooper at KPFK and who's now at Marketplace (so that doesn't really count either). Otherwise, the phone has been still. >Gotta love the headline in the "Companies and Markets" section of the >Financial Times: "Investors hope the great bear will not return -- >Parallel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 10 09:55:47 PDT 2002

27925 Demonstration to Stop the WAR (Fri., Oct. 11) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >That balance willstart to tip only if their _personal_ cost/benefit >balance of supporting the war will be outweighed by that of opposing it Heavens, Woj, you have the most cynical view of your fellow humans that I've come across in some time. Do you think we all live our lives according to what Keynes called the Benthamite contraption, busily rank-ordering our tastes and preferences and self-interests and hang the rest? Is there no room for human sympathy or soli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 10 09:51:22 PDT 2002

27926 US Out of Everywhere -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >At 11:09 AM -0400 10/9/02, Nathan Newman wrote: >>I am against the war in Iraq but a war there is pretty damn irrelevant to >>global suffering-- over 30 million people are projected to die of AIDS in >>coming years, millions more will die each year from poverty, lack of decent >>water, lack of food, and so on. > >The war against Iraq and global suffering (poverty, AIDS, etc.) -- >surely not unrelated developments, whether you see them ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 10 09:37:24 PDT 2002

27927 more on Harken & Harvard -- rank: 1000

[HarvardWatch is at <http://www.harvardwatch.org/>.] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - October 10, 2002 Harvard Management Co. Helped Energy Company Shroud $20-Million in Debt, Report Charges By AUDREY WILLIAMS JUNE The company that manages Harvard University's endowment formed an "off the books" partnership with President Bush's former energy company that kept $20-million in debt off its financial records, according to a coalition of Harvard students and alumni that mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 10 09:33:41 PDT 2002

27928 abortion -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Wow -- a new hotbed for NOW and NARAL! Seven abortions per lifetime? Hot >damn! Dennis, that's exceedingly unfair. No abortion rights supporter wants to encourage abortions as a substitute for contraception. You sound like Cockburn going on about "fetus killing." Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 10 09:07:04 PDT 2002

27929 release Milosevic! -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Yes, I saw that. So why bring in US desegregation? It's funny the way that keeps popping up. It's as if those making the comparisons view the U.S. south as foreign territory - backward, primitive, and uniquely racist - and not an integral part of the U.S., though subject to federal jurisdiction. And as if the rest of the world is equally subject to U.S. jurisdiction, for being backward, primitive, and uniquely violent. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 10 09:28:40 PDT 2002

27930 a word from the Tarot lobby -- rank: 1000

New York Post - October 10, 2002 TAROT-CARD READERS UP IN ARMS By MARSHA KRANES Tarot-card readers are up in arms about the death card left near the scene of the last Beltway sniper attack. "Our organization was set up to get rid of our swindler-fortuneteller image - and now someone has added 'murderer' to the list," groused Rickey Hite, membership coordinator for the American Tarot Association. "Whoever did this has no idea about tarot cards," he said. "The death card u ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 10 09:17:17 PDT 2002