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29401 RaiseTheFist.com raided -- rank: 1000

________________________________________________ A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ ________________________________________________ This was posted on San Francisco Indymedia. It is being forwarded here unmodified It was forwarded from Aron Kay's email and sent along by a credible local source. The original URL is here: http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/01/114428.php The nameserver for raisethefist.com is not responding to ping's. From: "ARON KAY" <xxxxxxx ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 27 14:50:36 PST 2002

29402 conference call -- rank: 1000

LAST CALL FOR PAPERS International Sociological Association Brisbane, Australia July 8-13, 2002 RC 36, Alienation Research and Theory, announces the final call for papers. Alienation was central to Marx's critique of capitalism in the 19th C. But today, the rapid economic changes of new technologies, new forms of work impacting various institutions and subcultures, new forms of mass mediated culture, new political realities of globalization, anti-globalization movements, and terrorism has p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 27 13:20:09 PST 2002

29403 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I heard from a friend that the outgoing board paid massive severance >payments to outgoing top staff -- amounting to hundreds of thousands (by one >count well over a million dollars). It seems like really sick >self-dealing-- a scale of Enron-like corporate malfeasance that makes the >outgoing board's previous actions look restrained. > >What's your information on the further bankruptcing of Pacifica by the old >board in their final hours? Don't kno ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 27 10:28:56 PST 2002

29404 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >doug, does your forwarding this message imply that you support marc >cooper's views and version of the story? i do not know anything >about kpfk but if what happened there is similar to what happened at >wbai, then there seem to be several flaws in his reasoning. to give >just one example, he suggests that half the blame for the drain of >funds can be placed on the dissidents because they caused the board >to hire expensive lawyers, etc and they are now concentr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 27 10:20:25 PST 2002

29405 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

From: Marc Cooper <mcooper at thenation.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:43:08 -0500 To: (Recipient list suppressed) Subject: A Note from Marc Cooper -- KPFK General Manager Removed Saturday Night Dear KPFK Supporter: I'm sending you this note because of my concerns about the future of KPFK. And I send it to you strictly on personal title, not claiming to represent anyone or any organization. But I can tell you that my concerns are shared by a great many of my fellow KPFK staff members. Aft ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 27 07:41:49 PST 2002

29406 Going Nazi -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Jeez Doug. It is slimy, and shows how mainstream Reed is, but it >hardly makes him a fascist or a Nazi. Of course not! I was just savoring it as a bit of scandal. Speaking of Nazis, what ever happened to Tom Metzger? Last time I called his hotline it sounded completely demented. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 26 13:30:41 PST 2002

29407 Habermas on 9/11 -- rank: 1000

This translation of an excerpt from a Habermas interview just passed through the Frankfurt School list. The full interview will be in the Feb ish of Blaetter fuer deutsche und internationale Politik. At 8:50 PM +0100 1/26/02, Christian Fuchs <christian at igw.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: >"Important in this context is also the manner and way of normative self >description in respect to other cultures. during the course of such a >revision of the self-image the west could e.g. learn h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 26 11:59:14 PST 2002

29408 Going Nazi -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Ralph Reed How about Rove getting him on the Enron payroll!?!?! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 26 10:22:07 PST 2002

29409 Cockburn defends Petrelis -- rank: 1000

Ace has a new cause - defending Michael Petrelis: <http://www.counterpunch.org/petrelis.html>. Michelangelo Signorile has a rather sensible-sounding column on this issue at <http://www.nypress.com/14/50/news&columns/.cfm>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 26 08:24:02 PST 2002

29410 Galbraith (the younger) on ENE -- rank: 1000

Mark McEahern wrote: > >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> >> Enron May Spark Revolt of Professionals >> >> By James K. Galbraith > >Is there a URL for this? I did a Google search and couldn't find it. <http://newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpgal252564567jan25.story>. For now - stuff disappears quickly from the Newsday site. I'm going to have Jamie Galbraith on the radio next Thursday to talk about this, and whatever else comes up. Also ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 25 15:27:00 PST 2002

29411 Is Socialism Still Relevant Today? -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Is Socialism Still Relevant Today? You going, Charles? If so, please report the answer. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 25 15:21:56 PST 2002

29412 health care inflation -- rank: 1000

At 3:05 PM -0500 1/25/02, KaiserUpdate at kff.org wrote: >The Sad History of Cost Containment as Told in One Chart >http://www.healthaffairs.org/WebExclusives/Altman_Web_Excl_012302.htm > >As the nation once again faces double digit increases in health care >costs, the seemingly unanswerable question of how to control the problem >has suddenly returned to the nationís radar screen. This analysis by >the Kaiser Family Foundation, published in the January 23, 2002 online > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 25 12:15:49 PST 2002

29413 George "Asbestos" Bush -- rank: 1000

Friday January 25 2:07 PM ET Stocks Up on Asbestos Speculation, Compaq By Haitham Haddadin NEW YORK (Reuters) - Industrial companies led blue chips higher on Friday on speculation the Bush administration may soon move to limit liability for asbestos lawsuits, and tech stocks rose after an upbeat forecast by Compaq Computer Corp. [...]

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 25 11:26:43 PST 2002

29414 Enron data retrieval -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >There seems to be a lot of techno savvy on the LBO list, so I'd like >to pose this question: How difficult would it be to reconstruct >electronic and paper Enron files that Arthur Andersen destroyed? My >impression is that federal security and intelligence agencies have >data-retrieval technology that could do this relatively easily. Remember the "students" at the U.S. embassy in Teheran? They reassembled shredded documents (and published the result ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 25 09:23:59 PST 2002

29415 Galbraith (the younger) on ENE -- rank: 1000

Newsday - January 25, 2002 Enron May Spark Revolt of Professionals By James K. Galbraith James K. Galbraith, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author, most recently, of "Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View." NOWADAYS there are three classes in America: working people at the bottom, professionals above them, a tiny elite at the top. Democrats represent the professionals, Republicans represent the CEOs. No one, much, speaks for working people, who must ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 25 09:14:45 PST 2002