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29806 Offlist Re: Venezuelan strike beginning to fail -- rank: 1000

David Schanoes wrote: >Thought I tried. Ruthless doesn't seem to be permissible. Ruthless isn't merely permissible, it's often welcome if well done. Doing it well, however, doesn't mean parachuting into a forum and lecturing people on topics they already know a lot about. Most participants (and nonposting subscribers) probably realize that class is very important, though they might not agree that it's the most important thing around. Many of us, including me, would accept the label Marxist, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 31 12:28:50 PST 2002

29807 US Outlines Strategy for WTO Decisions -- rank: 1000

Joe Smith wrote: >One of the the interesting things about the WTO is that the US has >less direct influence over the WTO decision-making process than it >has at the IMF and the World Bank. For more on this, of course, see the current ish of LBO, #103. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 31 12:21:52 PST 2002

29808 Marcos speaks -- rank: 1000

La Jornada (Mexico City) - December 30, 2002 Marcos on various and sundry Translated by irlandesa Zapatista Army of National Liberation Mexico, December 29, 2002. To Whom It May Concern: Greetings. Yes, the cold and rain are encircling us in their embrace, and not even a bonfire made up of all the criticisms they have sent me (us) can manage to even moderately warm one up. It must be because most of them are so mediocre. Of course, they are varied and sundry. Some are making great efforts to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 31 09:56:32 PST 2002

29809 Soros unbowed -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - December 31, 2002 Sightings GEORGE Soros at Opia being introduced to a tableful of beauties who were thrilled to meet the billionaire hedge fund manager . . .

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 31 09:50:48 PST 2002

29810 Fwd: Free Speech Movement of the Sixties -- rank: 1000

From: "joemaita at pop.ptld.qwest.net" <joemaita at pop.ptld.qwest.net> To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: Free Speech Movement of the Sixties Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:28:01 -0500 Hello, I am writing to let you know of an interview with Robbie Cohen, editor of "The Free Speech Movement: Berkeley in the Sixties." Perhaps your readers would find it interesting. The interview is published on the following page: http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=cohen.htm ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 31 09:39:15 PST 2002

29811 Fwd: Washington Post exposes Rumsfeld .. -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - December 30, 2002 U.S. Had Key Role in Iraq Buildup Trade in Chemical Arms Allowed Despite Their Use on Iranians, Kurds By Michael Dobbs High on the Bush administration's list of justifications for war against Iraq are President Saddam Hussein's use of chemical weapons, nuclear and biological programs, and his contacts with international terrorists. What U.S. officials rarely acknowledge is that these offenses date back to a period when Hussein was seen in Washington as a value ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 31 09:28:53 PST 2002

29812 Global Crossing's Chairman Gary Winnick Steps Down -- rank: 1000

[Along these lines, this item is from Business Week's year-end news quiz - not on their website so I had to type it.] Match the household item with the amount Tyco paid for it, on behalf of ex-CEO Dennis Kozlowski: a umbrella stand 1 $ 6,000 b shower curtain 2 1,650 c notebook 3 445 d wastebasket 4 6,300 e sewing basket 5 15,500 f pincushion 6 2,200 ------- answers a-5, b-1, c-2, d-6, e-4, f-3

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 30 15:15:15 PST 2002

29813 Halle goes west -- rank: 1000

This just in from list alum (and archive-watcher) John Halle: >High Art/Low Politics > >John Halle Plays Music and Talks Green Politics > >Jan 1, 2003 >8 PM >CNMAT >1750 Arch St. >Berkeley, CA >information: 203-906-6142 > > > John Halle is an Assistant Professor of Music at Yale and a >composer of works performed and recorded by, among others, the Bang >on a Can All Stars, the New Millenium Ensemble, the Common Sense >Composers' Collective and the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 30 12:16:17 PST 2002

29814 propaganda -- rank: 1000

DoreneFC at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 12/30/2002 8:30:50 AM Pacific Standard Time, >dhenwood at panix.com writes: > >>. . >>.... among people who thought of reading as an anti-social activity that >>could ruin your life." >> > > >I am feeling cynical. That sounds like a lot of public schools in the US > >;-) Not to mention the Bush White House. A. Cockburn once recounted a story of Brendan Gill visiting the Bush family compound at Ken ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 30 09:02:31 PST 2002

29815 Venezuelan strike beginning to fail -- rank: 1000

David Schanoes wrote: >Is there ever a point when you would abandon your lesser evil stategy? and >give up the weak reeds in favor of the abolition of an entire system of >exploitation? Of course. Why didn't we think of this before? Stepping into an established, active forum and issuing pronouncements like this may not be the most fruitful discursive strategy around. It's pretty funny that this pronouncement comes just after another: >But I think the color issue is more indicative of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 30 08:56:18 PST 2002

29816 Fwd: Holiday Poem -- rank: 1000

[Dennis Perrin asked me to forward this Allen Ginsberg poem, in the holiday spirit.] Kral Majales (King of May) And the Communists have nothing to offer but fat cheeks and eyeglasses and lying policemen and the Capitalists proffer Napalm and money in green suitcases to the Naked, and the Communists create heavy industry but the heart is also heavy and the beautiful engineers are all dead, the secret technicians conspire for their own glamour in the Future, in the Future, but now drink vodka and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 30 08:46:53 PST 2002

29817 propaganda -- rank: 1000

[No mention, of course, of U.S. support for the dictatorship in the DR in the 1950s...] New York Post [Page Six] - December 30, 2002 WHILE pompous peaceniks like Sean Penn, Warren Beatty and Barbra Streisand babble their inarticulate opposition to a war with Iraq, the federal government is turning to some of America's best writers to tell the rest of world why the U.S. is the greatest. As part of a worldwide p.r. blitz to drown out the Hollywood nay-sayers, the State Department's International I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 30 08:29:33 PST 2002

29818 Protest ISO Cop-Baiting and Thuggery!/"Stanley Aronowitz, and his pro-imperialist "anti-war" position." -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >At 12:04 PM -0500 12/29/02, Doug Henwood wrote: >>Speaking from the experience of having been on a panel with Chuck, >>I've got to say he's right. You'd never guess he's an anarchist >>just from looking. >> >>Doug > >Is he dressed like a librarian? Yes. Or maybe I saw him on an unrepresentative day. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 29 13:43:51 PST 2002

29819 Zyuganov -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Lisa Taylor She's a raving Zionist, isn't she? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 29 12:07:58 PST 2002

29820 #103 -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Hey, man, I was jes' talking 'bout my generation! As Easy Rider put >it: "We blew it." Compared to what? Tom Brokaw's Greatest Generation? The Lost Generation? Xers? Gen Y? Gen A'? Yeah, I know it's fun to dis the 60s as a time of indulgence and stupidity and failure to stop the war machine. But most of those things that Chomsky says makes the U.S. a more civilized place now than 40 years ago started in the 60s, with folks in our cohort: feminism, Stonewall, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 29 09:38:45 PST 2002