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27931 "Workers are fed up" -- rank: 1000

Brian O. Sheppard x349393 wrote: >from http://bari.iww.org/~bsheppard/fedup.html > >Workers are fed up >by Jon Bekken This is from IWW, and you write from an IWW address. So what is the IWW up to these days, anyway? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 10 09:09:56 PDT 2002

27932 Bush War on Labor: ILWU Injunctions and Links for Action and Legal Background -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Slowdowns are illegal under the injunction What about work-to-rule? Isn't the definition of slowdown contestable? Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 10 09:04:48 PDT 2002

27933 Kennan on W -- rank: 1000

[via Johnson's Russia List] The New Yorker October 14 and 21, 2002 THE BIG IDEA A DOCTRINE PASSES by Jane Mayer For more than fifty years, the security of the world has been kept in fragile balance by an elegant idea, shaped in large part by a man who is a skeptic about big ideas. George F. Kennan, who is now ninety-eight years old, coined the phrase "containment," and with it the doctrine of deterrence designed to keep the world's superpowers poised in a perpetual standoff, relegated ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 10 08:56:52 PDT 2002

27934 ENE, GWB - cooking the books -- rank: 1000

Houston Chronicle - October 8, 2002 Some administration officials expressing misgivings on Iraq By WARREN P. STROBEL and JONATHAN S. LANDAY Knight-Ridder Tribune News WASHINGTON -- While President Bush marshals congressional and international support for invading Iraq, a growing number of military officers, intelligence professionals and diplomats in his own government privately have deep misgivings about the administration's double-time march toward war. These officials charge that administrati ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 16:19:58 PDT 2002

27935 Decline of American Power? -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >The outs have been pretty pragmatic when wagging the dog is useful. >Like, Croat nationalism was totally a right - in fact nutty right - >obsession until its beauties were discovered by Clinton & co. But while >looking at the lovely Lieberman isn't too reassuring, it's totally >arguable the outs wouldn't be quite as godawful. I feel like a vulgar Marxist when I say this, but Iraq has lots of oil and so does its neighbors. For an administration that literally ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 15:29:50 PDT 2002

27936 Harken & Harvard -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - October 9, 2002 Harvard Was Unlikely Savior Of Bush Energy Firm Harken University's Endowment Arm Injected Cash Into Off-Balance-Sheet Deals to Save Harken By GLENN R. SIMPSON Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL When the small company that helped make George W. Bush a multimillionaire verged on bankruptcy in 1990, newly unearthed documents show an unlikely financial archangel came to the rescue: Harvard University. It long has been known that the school's endowment ar ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 15:28:29 PDT 2002

27937 Decline of American Power? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I agree with Gowan on the US capitalist empire having been in the >self interest of all the ruling power elites on the globe. What I >wonder about is whether we may not be in for the kind of crisis that >cannot be managed by usual economic instruments at the elites' >disposal, for all the central bank interventions on behalf of the >dollar regime that the empire can enlist. Then, what we are left >with is "a military emergency." Are we - ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 15:06:32 PDT 2002

27938 release Milosevic! -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >The world is becoming one economy, what with the Japanese producing >and selling us key components >for our imperial Tomahawk missiles, etc. The closing of the western >ports were hurting the economy >significantly, so maybe world trade *is* crucial to the economy, at >least during these fragile >times. Anyway, if it is becoming one economy, why not try to make it >one - just and equitable of >course - society? Isn't that what internationalism is all a ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 13:59:41 PDT 2002

27939 release Milosevic! -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Um, I thought the argument was about US intervention (specifically >unilateral intervention) in OTHER countries . . . . Cleaning your >own house is another ballgame, isn't it? "We are the world...." Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 13:10:30 PDT 2002

27940 Senator Byrd -- rank: 1000

Steven Hertzberg wrote: >While I was unable to locate the text of Byrd's speech on the Senate >floor Tuesday, the link link below is from an earlier speech that >closely resembles Byrd's remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday. The conclusion of a story by Todd Purdum and David Firestone in the Oct 5 NYT: >The Bush administration wants Congress to put its stamp of approval >on the Bush doctrine of preemptive strikes," said Mr. Byrd, whipping >out his copy of the Constitution a ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 12:33:50 PDT 2002

27941 release Milosevic! -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >I believe it was the Civil Rights movement that actually >bullied the Southern segregationists. I am kind of surprised >to see this role attributed to the U.S. government. It's often argued that the USG pushed for desegration in the South for Cold War reasons - it would have been hard to make friends in the Third World while Jim Crow still ruled. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 12:24:04 PDT 2002

27942 Abortion Rate in the US -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Just in the interests of comparison, abortion rate in Russia is about 80%. The USSR used to have a high abortion rate because no contraceptives were available. Has this continued into the post-Soviet era? Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 11:26:55 PDT 2002

27943 Jude W discovers Norman F! -- rank: 1000

Donít Forget the Palestinians! Memo To: J.J. Goldberg, Forward Editor From: Jude Wanniski Re: A new essay by Norman Finkelstein As the editor of the most important Jewish newspaper in America, Mr. Goldberg, you are also one of the most important men in the world. On the margin, at a time when the entire Middle East is edging toward catastrophe, the Forward has been doing a great job of dealing with the issues in a responsible way, as balanced as you can be. You might think of extending your infl ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 10:21:22 PDT 2002

27944 Edwards wants our own MI5 -- rank: 1000

============================================= THE NEW DEM DAILY, 09-OCT-02 Political commentary & analysis from the DLC ============================================= [ New Democrats Online: http://www.ndol.org ] Edwards Calls for New Domestic Counter-Intelligence Agency Most of the Washingtonians who watched or listened to the President's speech on Iraq Monday night probably had some difficulty focusing on the threat to our security posed by Saddam Hussein when there was a much more immediat ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 10:33:08 PDT 2002

27945 Decline of American Power? -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >The ins (Bushees) management of the US hegemony under conditions of >bubblebursting is way more difficult than was the outs (Clintees) under >conditions of bubbling. With counterfactuals there's no point in >arguing, but my guess is that the outs would have also gone for creating >a military emergency as one of the tools available to manage the US >capitalist empire system at this potentially nasty stage of things. But Cheney & Co. have been gunning for Ir ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 10:25:05 PDT 2002