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29161 failure at the top -- rank: 1000

New York Post - July 25, 2002 NEAL TRAVIS Looked before he leapt EVEN as Bob Pittman cleans out his desk at AOL Time Warner, a potential shareholder storm is brewing over his golden parachute. Pittman has a severance check of something more than $60 million coming to him - and it couldn't happen at a worse time for the embattled media giant. It doesn't matter that the compensation was settled on ages ago: stockholders who have seen their investment in the company melt away are going to revolt at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 25 09:01:03 PDT 2002

29162 Sifry on the Greens: offered red meat, the opt for tofu -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >American Green politics is, for the most part, a psychodelic dream >of trust fund kids with a small town envy No, I think American green politics is more petit bourgeois than that - professionals and small business types with a social conscience, but one much more tuned to corn-oil-powered cars than the needs of the working class. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 25 08:51:02 PDT 2002

29163 New Dealers Redux? -- rank: 1000

Archer.Todd at ic.gc.ca wrote: >What do you think about Kuttner's analysis of the '29 Crash? Doug? >Michael? Brad? > >http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6057 Kuttner overlooks one political inspiration for the New Deal - fear of communism. With no domestic CP and no USSR to worry about, there's a lot less pressure for New Deal-style reforms. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 25 08:29:54 PDT 2002

29164 Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

Today on my radio show, WBAI 99.5 FM NYC and <http://www.wbai.org>, 5-6 PM NYC time: * me, on the current disorder * Ken Silverstein, on his American Prospect piece denouncing oil-based explanations for the war in Afghanistan * Ron Hayduk and Ben Shepard, editors of a new Verso book, From ACT-UP to the WTO (protest today) Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 25 08:22:21 PDT 2002

29165 Wall Street political analysis -- rank: 1000

Wall Street's favorite economist, Ed "Newsboy" Hyman (as my late friend John Liscio dubbed him, because of his practice of pasting headlines onto a page and scribbling a comment in the margins) has two analysts based in DC to report on government actions that might affect the markets. Here's a gem from this morning's report, a comment on whether new laws or regulations will help or hurt the market: >Maybe the key is the direction of the >market - in a downtrend, government >ac ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 25 08:17:46 PDT 2002

29166 stock market facts -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >the Pod article By the way, I accidentally snipped the byline from the Poddy piece: it's by John Podhoretz, Norman's spawn. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 25 07:52:57 PDT 2002

29167 Sweeney Agonistes visits Wall St -- rank: 1000

[from the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981] >NO MORE BUSINESS AS USUAL! > >Rally, Tuesday, July 30, 12 noon, Wall Street > > >AFL-CIO President John Sweeney is taking the demands of working >Americans to Wall Street with a major address on Tuesday, July 30, >at noon. Join the New York Central Labor Council in force to say no >more lost jobs, lost savings and lost trust! More details will be >available over the next few days, call the Council at 212.604.9552 &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 25 07:55:12 PDT 2002

29168 U.S. blocks torture convention -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - July 25, 2002 Concern about observers entering its prisons puts America at odds with European allies again Oliver Burkeman in Washington The United States opened a new rift with its European allies yesterday about global standards of justice and human rights by threatening to block an international convention against torture which might allow foreign observers to visit US jails and the Guantanamo Bay naval base, where suspected al-Qaida fighters are held. Campaigners accused ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 25 07:50:58 PDT 2002

29169 Sifry on the Greens: offered red meat, the opt for tofu -- rank: 1000

LA Weekly - JULY 26 - AUGUST 1, 2002 Too Green for a Golden Opportunity America's third party still mired in the margins by Micah L. Sifry PHILADELPHIA -- THE DOW CRASHES ANOTHER 390 points, another one of the world's largest corporations files for bankruptcy, and half the country prepares to delay retirements or send the kids to community college. A new phrase, "corporate crime," replaces "white-collar crime" in the mainstream lexicon. And worried Democrats and Republicans h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 25 06:44:50 PDT 2002

29170 antiterrorism camp -- rank: 1000

At 6:05 PM -0400 7/24/02, PROGRESSIVE REVIEW wrote: >Matthew P. Blanchard, PHILADELPHIA Inquirer - Billed as one of the nation's >first "homeland security training summer camps for teenagers," a program >called Secure Corps in Bucks County is drilling 92 young men and women in >essential skills for this new, uncertain era. And those skills include math: >"If I have 40 acres of forest," runs a typical problem, "how many search >dogs will I need to find a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 24 16:23:33 PDT 2002

29171 industrial pollution & African famine -- rank: 1000

[pointed to by Sam Smith's Progressive Review] Study Links Pollution to Famine The Associated Press, Mon 22 Jul 2002 A new study says pollution from industrial nations was one of the possible causes of a devastating African famine that left 1.2 million people dead. The starvation brought on by the 1970-85 drought stretched from Senegal to Ethiopia until rains finally returned. It produced images that haunted people across the world: skeletal mothers staring vacantly, children with bloated bellie ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 24 16:16:46 PDT 2002

29172 market analysis -- rank: 1000

<http://www.albany.edu/projren/1997_98/student_projects/museum/history/before/greatdep.htm> >In 1987, another bull market stabbed itself. It came about this time >because of the selling of fake stocks and a handful of brokers >trying to cheat the system. They were caught, but the stock market >crashed and people lost a lot of money due to cheating. The stock >exchange now in the 1990's has become a place of honest high rolling >econimics. If you have money and want to tak ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 24 16:03:16 PDT 2002

29173 Poddy Jr: wag the dog, W! -- rank: 1000

[Missed this stinker until Michelangelo Signorile pointed it out in NY Press.] New York Post - July 16, 2002 OCT. SURPRISE, PLEASE GO on, Mr. President: Wag the dog. It would be good for the world, it would be good for America and it would be good politics as well. You've made it clear for 10 months now that you want to rid the world of Saddam Hussein's rule in Iraq. It is vitally important that the rogue states seeking to blackmail the world by acquiring weapons of mass destruction be taught a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 24 14:57:00 PDT 2002

29174 rally -- rank: 1000

So the Dow's up 456.21 as I type. My reporter indicator was a bit early; if you'd bought on Friday, you'd have regained Monday & Tuesday's losses. Gotta revive that bullish sentiment to prepare for the next downdraft! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 24 12:26:31 PDT 2002

29175 oil & Afghanistan -- rank: 1000

<http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/14/silverstein-k.html> No War for Oil! Is the United States really after Afghanistan's resources? Not a chance. By Ken Silverstein [...] There are plenty of grounds on which to criticize the Bush administration's conduct of the war, from its alliance with despots in Asia to its threats to attack a host of other states to its crackdown on civil liberties at home. But anyone dumb enough to believe that the war is all about oil and that Afghanistan holds the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 24 12:02:23 PDT 2002