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28501 Double Standard -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Look: When we had power we *tried* to do national health insurance You tried to do "managed competition," a dreadful abomination that few people outside the Jackson Hole group cared about. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 14 13:55:03 PDT 2002

28502 Hotbeds of dissent -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Was that the thesis of, "Nixon Agonistes, " by Garry Wills? Yup. Wills called Nixon "the last liberal." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 14 13:27:36 PDT 2002

28503 Nixon's the One -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Unemployment was down considerably in the 1990s despite tight fiscal policy >by Clinton and is rising despite the massive deficit being taken on right >now-- I've just entered their ranks Sorry to hear that. What happened? > and half my friends are unemployed, so I >am rather unconvinced. What I do know is that we will be paying through the >nose in the future in interest rate payments for these deficits that are >primarily benefitting the wealthy in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 14 13:21:01 PDT 2002

28504 Stopping the crimes (offlist) -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Doug, do you intend by this statement that since the >Soviet Union is no longer "alive" that we should just >stop talking about it...that it is useless to discuss >what happened there and the model upon which it was >built? Did Stalin give rise to the undemocratic >nature of the Soviet Union or did the undemocratic >nature of the Soviet Union give rise to Stalin? Isn't >it important to study and discuss this phenomena >whether we defend ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 14 13:04:09 PDT 2002

28505 poison pills on CDs -- rank: 1000

The Age (Melbourne) - May 14, 2002 'Poison' CD to catch copyists By Garry Barker The writing could be on the wall for computer buffs who copy music CDs for their friends. Sony Music has planted a "poisoned pellet" of software in Celine Dion's latest CD, A New Day Has Come, that is capable of crashing, and in cases permanently freezing, the optical drives of personal computers into which the discs are inserted. Michael Speck, of the Australian Record Industry Association, confirmed yest ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 14 13:08:21 PDT 2002

28506 Nixon's the One -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >"Fiscal policy would be tighter"-- yep, a trillion dollars would not have >been given away to the wealthy and the deficit would not be heading for $170 >billion this year. I understand Keynesianism, but a lot of leftists take it >to a point of fetishism, as if running a deficit shows some kind of virtue by >the Reagans and Bushs of the world. Nathan, the U.S. economy is in a rather vulnerable state. The tax cuts were skewed to the wealthy, but not ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 14 12:41:57 PDT 2002

28507 Stopping the crimes (offlist) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Tariq Ali, no stooge of imperialist reaction he, edited, "The Stalinist >Legacy: It's Impact On World Politics, " in '84 for Penguin. Lynne-Rienner >pubs. in Boulder reissued it a few yrs. ago. And do you hear Tariq going on now about the crimes of Stalin? No. I hear him going on, usually quite eloquently, about the crimes of U.S. imperialism. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 14 12:16:21 PDT 2002

28508 Nixon's the One -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >P.S. I suspect that Nathan would really be a much happier person if he >could throw off the nightmarish weight of having to defend the DP and >the AFL-CIO. I sort of feel sympathy for him. The upside of having Dems in office is that we don't have to listen to people explaining how much better things would be were Dems in office. If Gore were prez, Afg and Jenin would be pretty much as they are now and fiscal policy would be tighter, but there might be fewer illusions ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 14 12:13:44 PDT 2002

28509 Why U.S. supports Israel -- rank: 1000

<http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/papers/usisrael.html> [...] There is a broad bipartisan consensus among policymakers that Israel has advanced U.S. interest in the Middle East and beyond. * Israel has successfully prevented victories by radical nationalist movements in Lebanon and Jordan, as well as in Palestine. * Israel has kept Syria, for many years an ally of the Soviet Union, in check. * Israel's air force is predominant throughout the region. * Israel's frequent wars have provid ...

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Date:	Tue May 14 12:00:53 PDT 2002

28510 Nixon's the One -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >I have no doubt that Nixon with >>a rightwing Congress would have terrorized minorities and the poor and >>Clinton with filibuster-proof majorities in Congress would now be remembered >>as the savior of labor and health care in this country. That is the true >>measure of the difference between the men. >> > >A counterfactual difference. No doubt, Clinton's a nice guy in sme >ways and if he had spine and sopport he woulda do0ne th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 14 10:38:48 PDT 2002

28511 Sullivan out at NYT -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - May 14, 2002 Columnist Andrew Sullivan Bites Paper; Paper Bites Back By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Andrew Sullivan, the confrontational conservative columnist, has been attempting the high-wire act of writing for the New York Times while frequently whacking the Times for liberal bias on his Web site. Now the tightrope has snapped. Sullivan, who once wrote a biweekly column for the New York Times Magazine, says he has been "barred indefinitely from writing an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 14 09:32:15 PDT 2002

28512 Fisk on his correspondents -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - May 14, 2002 Robert Fisk: Why does John Malkovich want to kill me? He might be denied any further visas to Britain until he apologises for his remarks. But the damage has been done It used to be just a trickle, a steady drip-drip of hate mail which arrived once a week, castigating me for reporting on the killing of innocent Lebanese under Israeli air raids or for suggesting that Arabs -- as well as Israelis -- wanted peace in the Middle East. It began to change in the late ...

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Date:	Tue May 14 08:17:48 PDT 2002

28513 Nixon's the One -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Mon, 13 May 2002, Brad DeLong wrote: > >> Brad DeLong, who is suddenly contemplating the virtues of the New > > Hampshire license plate... > >You mean the irony that they say "Live Free or Die" -- and are >manufactured by prison labor? Another irony being, as Tip O'Neill pointed out, that people from NH hate paying taxes so much that they drive to Massachusetts when they're looking for a public service like a library. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 14 08:01:21 PDT 2002

28514 art students? spies? -- rank: 1000

Ha'aretz - May 14, 2002 Spies, or students? Were the Israelis just trying to sell their paintings, or agents in a massive espionage ring? By Nathan Guttman WASHINGTON - It could be the biggest espionage scandal of the century, or the greatest journalistic non-starter in many a decade, but it's clear that the story of the Israeli art students in New York - dozens of alleged spies living in the United States - refuses to die down. Anyone who believes the story says that everything is accurately do ...

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Date:	Tue May 14 07:51:06 PDT 2002

28515 Nixon's the One -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I'm not going to give a big defense of Truman's foreign policy given the >bloodiness of the Korean War, but he did risk his Presidency to >fireMacArthur to prevent a broader war with China. And comparing Nixon >versus Truman on civil rights is no contest-- Truman was probably the most >daring defender of civil rights in our history, given he proposed >desegregation of schools and public accomodations in 1948 and was willing to >see the Dixiecrats walk ...

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Date:	Tue May 14 07:43:50 PDT 2002