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28651 Readings -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >>What are the best books/essays on Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge? >> >>-- Luke > > >Ben Kiernan's book, title I forget, from Verso; Michael Vickery, >Democratic Kampuchea, I think South End Press. Those are the best >I've reda, nayway. Depressing stuff. Haven't read it in years, but I remember good things about Nayan Chanda's Brother Enemy, too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 31 17:12:37 PST 2002

28652 Israeli war crimes in Ramallah -- rank: 1000

What's the point of these comparisons, anyway? Israel [is/is not] [as bad as/worse than[ the [Nazis/Khmer Rouge]. Seems distracting and unhelpful to me. Israeli behavior has been criminal, and it comes with the full support of the U.S. (including the check I'm going to write on April 15). Where it stands in the hierarchy of state-sponsored crimes hardly matters. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 31 10:07:19 PST 2002

28653 Chicago Events -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >Fanning the Flames: >1. Monday, April 1st >"Corporate Culture in the Age of Enron" >Barabara Ehrenreich, Baffler editor >Tom Frank, and University of Chicago >sociologist Saskia Sassen will discuss >globalization. >6 p.m. at the Harold Washington Library >Center 400 S. State Street. It's free >but reservations are requested; call >847-242-9279 Wow, I'd love to hear a report on that. Sassen must be there because it's April Fool's Day - w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 30 15:29:19 PST 2002

28654 Russia, Ukraine, CIS -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >St. Petersburg Speaking of which, do people ever still call it Leningrad? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 30 15:29:19 PST 2002

28655 LBO quotable notables -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From today's Wall Street Journal, "Mood Swings in Favor of Regulation": > >"'The news cycle is driving the Bush administration toward >re-regulation in the interest of promoting corporate citizenship,' >says Brad DeLong, an economic historian at the University of >California at Berkeley and an economic adviser in the Clinton >Administration. 'They're not trying to hold back a backlash. >They're trying to lead it, to say, "We're ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 30 11:00:05 PST 2002

28656 Hitchens worries about aging fan base -- rank: 1000

[CH is Christopher Hitchens; RB is Robert Birnbaum] <http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum36.html> RB: Amongst the gems in this book, I liked: "Innocence only takes you so far. You have to be sophisticated by experience before you are old enough to argue that, say, it might be wrong to launch a thermonuclear war but not wrong, indeed only prudent, to prepare the weaponry of extermination. Or that an act that would be a loathsome crime if committed by an individual is pardonabl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 29 07:34:56 PST 2002

28657 Indian GDP -- rank: 1000

Any comments on this? Is this real growth or hothouse growth? At 9:33 AM -0500 3/28/02, The Dismal Scientist wrote: >GDP for India (6.3%) > >The Indian economy grew by a spectacular 6.3% in the third quarter >of 2001-2002, besting analyst expectations. Strong growth in the >agricultural sector provided much of the strength, even as >manufacturing activity remained lackluster. India will remain among >the faster growing economies in the coming year, barring major >politica ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 28 08:14:37 PST 2002

28658 zoning free speech -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 28, 2002 Florida State Students Move Demonstration to 'Free Speech' Zone After Trespassing Arrests By ALEX P. KELLOGG A group of Florida State University students on Wednesday continued an anti-sweatshop protest on the campus, despite the arrests of several protesters earlier in the week. The demonstration is being led by the United Students Against Sweatshops, 12 of whose members were arrested by campus police on Monday and charged with trespas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 28 07:47:18 PST 2002

28659 2.2% 25-yr loan -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >Anyone know rate the IMF charges for a loan? 2.33% on SDR loans <http://www.imf.org/external/np/tre/sdr/burden/2002/032502.htm>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 28 07:20:36 PST 2002

28660 "ascriptions jostling forward" -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Please. "Cop" here appears to mean, metaphorically, "ideological >police", surely this usage has been seen before? But it fits the >mbsers and Chip Berlets of the world to a tee (especially the >latter) who, when they can't deliberately ignore context in order to >slander their political opponents as "anti-semites", seek to >accomplish the same by pretending to have been charged with being >actual police agents. And then, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 27 15:36:30 PST 2002

28661 Greenspan: premature expostulation? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >This is what the Wall St. Journal quotes Greenspan as saying at New >York University yesterday: "We have to be careful ... not to look >to a significant expansion of regulation as the solution to current >problems, especially as price/earnings ratios increasingly reflect >the market's perception of the quality of accounting. Regulation >has, over the years, proven only partially successful in dissuading >individuals from playing with the rules of a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 27 14:27:37 PST 2002

28662 Oscars...Randy Newman -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >They don't respect us, so let's surprise 'em >Drop the Big One, and pulverize 'em. Let's leave Chicago to the Eskimos That town's a little to rugged for you & me -- "I Love L.A."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 27 12:12:12 PST 2002

28663 refusenik site -- rank: 1000

Names and some pix of Israeli soldiers who've signed a pretty tough statement of refusal ("We shall not continue to fight beyond the 1967 borders in order to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate an entire people"): <http://www.seruv.org.il/defaulteng.asp>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 27 10:37:19 PST 2002

28664 Fwd: Reparations Authority: Suits Legally Flawed -- rank: 1000

[you think they might pick a law firm that didn't have "White" in its name...] Media Advisory from White & Case LLP One of the world's leading practicing legal authorities on mass restitution claims stated that yesterday's litigation seeking reparations for descendants of African-American slaves is without legal grounding, but nonetheless is a serious threat to many businesses, because of the lawsuits' political and public relations implications. Owen C. Pell, a partner of White &a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 27 10:31:28 PST 2002

28665 Two from Brad -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Now, this is not because I buy the Von Misesian argument implied by >Doug Henwood that Keynesian full-employment policies are primarily a >secret way of redistributing real income away from workers... Eh? I think just the opposite - that full-employment policies are a way of increasing the wage share and squeezing profits, which is why capitalists don't like 'em. I'm 100% behind Kalecki on that one. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 27 10:28:39 PST 2002