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28816 Greenspan on U.S. foreign balance -- rank: 1000

Alan Greenspan, in a speech delivered today <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2002/20020313/>: >During the past six years, about 40 percent of the total increase in >our capital stock in effect has been financed, on net, by saving >from abroad. This situation is reflected in our ongoing current >account deficit, which, by definition, is a measure of our net >investment in domestic plant and equipment financed with foreign >funds, both debt and equity. But ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 13 10:59:42 PST 2002

28817 Ace on The Jews -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >On what can be said and not said in the US, and the political motives >behind it, Cockburn seems to me to have it right, and his critics >obfuscating that. Oh really? I haven't noticed much reticence on this list about criticizing Israel or U.S. support for Israel or the U.S. media's often disgraceful reporting on the Middle East. This isn't the Dissent editorial board, after all. The minute anyone starts going on about The Jews, though, alarms should be sounded ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 13 10:31:49 PST 2002

28818 Ace on The Jews -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Sure, I see what you mean. The whole subject is so vexed. In Cocky's case, I >don't suspect any real anti-semitism. He likes to break taboos and maybe he >failed to cultivate the right tone for this one. On the other hand, his >stuff about Jews and the media is just weird. He got some of it from Jude >Wanniski, though. How do you like that, Doug, you Jude-lover? Gave me the creeps. I didn't circualte that effort - in fact, I didn't finish reading it. >But ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 13 09:02:55 PST 2002

28819 Ace on The Jews -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Why does the "socialism of fools" survive the end of real socialism? 1) It wasn't "real socialism," and 2) when the socialism of fools is joined to inherited attitudes of the British upper class, you can get a particularly toxic mix. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 13 08:47:22 PST 2002

28820 al Qaeda watched too much Springer -- rank: 1000

New York Post - March 13, 2002 PREZ: TERRORISTS SAW TOO MUCH SPRINGER By DEBORAH ORIN March 13, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday said the Sept. 11 terrorists must have gotten the idea that America is "soft" by watching too much of "The Jerry Springer Show." Springer's TV show is a daily verbal mudfest that sometimes explodes into fisticuffs, often on sexually explicit topics - "Lesbian for a Day" and "Wild Sex Jobs 2" are on its latest schedul ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 13 06:42:03 PST 2002

28821 Ace on The Jews -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >You're referring to anti-semitism, I take it. Is anti-semitism contained in >the Cockburn passage you've quoted? Don't you find the tone of this a little weird? >It's supposedly the third rail in journalism even to have a >discussion of how much Jews control the media. Since some of the >prime founders of Hollywood were Polish Jews who grew up within 50 >miles of one another in Galicia, it's reckoned as not so utterly >beyond bounds to talk about Jewish ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 16:28:04 PST 2002

28822 nuclear rogue? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >The real question is, what would they do in the breach? It seems to me the >Bush crowd is balancing the same concerns as the Clinton people were - >reserving the nuke option in the event we got into a sticky battlefield >situation vs. the prospect of morally discrediting the US and breaking up >its alliances as a consequence. I don't think the Bush people would end up >acting much differently than the Clinton people. Maybe not, but there seems something di ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 13:53:49 PST 2002

28823 Ace on The Jews -- rank: 1000

[Alexander Cockburn clarifies the role of Jews in American life in his New York Press column <http://www.nypress.com/15/11/news&columns/wildjustice.cfm>] Wild Justice Alexander Cockburn Billy Graham: War Criminal There's a piquant contrast in the press coverage of Billy Graham's conversations with Nixon, as displayed on the tapes gradually released from the National Archive or disclosed from Nixon's papers. Back in April l989, a Graham memo to Nixon was made public. It was dated April ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 13:48:35 PST 2002

28824 depressed Taliban -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - March 11, 2002 Taliban Had the Blues, Says an Afghan Doctor By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Times Staff Writer MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan -- They strutted around in black turbans, they drove big pickups, they looked tough. But on the inside, the Taliban were actually a bunch of pretty depressed guys. At least that's what their shrink says. "I remember one Taliban commander telling me he hadn't seen a sunny day his whole life," said Dr. Nader Alemi, director of mental health ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 13:25:04 PST 2002

28825 nuclear rogue? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> [Evidently Bill Hartung, Edward Alden, and the NYT editorial board >> forgot to check with Carrol Cox, or they'd have known that there was >> nothing new about the new Bush nuclear doctrine.] > >--- > >Allies Unperturbed By U.S. Nuclear List >Iranians, Russians Criticize Report > >By Sharon LaFraniere >Washington Post Foreign Service >Monday, March 11, 2002; Page A14 Well they would say that, wou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 12:39:49 PST 2002

28826 Inadequate' US troops pulled out of battleground -- rank: 1000

Cian O'Connor wrote: >Presumably people have seen this bit of propoghanda >from the NYT: >http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/12/international/asia/12AFGH.html > >Lots of choice quotes, but my favourite is: > >"I think they're wimps," said Private Murphy, seated >on his bunk in Bagram's rapidly growing city of >American Army tents. "They come out of the caves for a >split second, hit you as hard as they can and then run >back in. What kind of fighting i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 11:57:49 PST 2002

28827 media under-concentrated! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_abstract.asp?tk=:1173:17&ar=1173&L2=17&L3=104&srid=27> <http://mckinsey.chtah.com/a/hA8jj9QAG8E6$AHixUQAAlYTHig/mkq71>Media mergers: The wave rolls on How much more merging and purging can take place before only one or two media juggernauts rule every television screen, radio wave, news rack, and Web page? Plenty, according to McKinsey's Michael Wolf. The industry is still fragmented compared with pharma and aerospace, and fin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 11:36:43 PST 2002

28828 nuclear rogue? -- rank: 1000

[Evidently Bill Hartung, Edward Alden, and the NYT editorial board forgot to check with Carrol Cox, or they'd have known that there was nothing new about the new Bush nuclear doctrine.] Financial Times - March 12, 2002 WAR ON TERROR: THE NEXT PHASE Concern greets new US nuclear doctrine Allies are already nervous about the widening war on terrorism, writes Edward Alden By EDWARD ALDEN For most of the cold war, the US and the Soviet Union largely accepted the doctrine that nuclear weapons were so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 11:24:18 PST 2002

28829 nukes - Hartung's view -- rank: 1000

I asked Bill Hartung of the World Policy Institute to comment on the novelty, or lack thereof, of the new Bush nuclear doctrine. He writes: >It's along the lines of what the right-wing ideologues in the >Bush camp had been pushing for, based on a January 2001 report of the >National Institute for Public Policy, a conservative think tank headed >by Dr. Keith Payne, who co-authored an infamous 1980 piece in Foreign >Policy called "Victory is Possible" about a "winnabl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 10:00:38 PST 2002

28830 U.S. subcontracting torture -- rank: 1000

The Guardian (London) - March 12, 2002 US sends suspects to face torture Duncan Campbell The US has been secretly sending prisoners suspected of al-Qaida connections to countries where torture during interrogation is legal, according to US diplomatic and intelligence sources. Prisoners moved to such countries as Egypt and Jordan can be subjected to torture and threats to their families to extract information sought by the US in the wake of the September 11 attacks. The normal extradition procedu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 12 08:57:40 PST 2002