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29926 US confident Lula won't do anything rash -- rank: 1000

United States confident Brazil won't stray from free-market path Fri Nov 22, 1:48 PM ET By MICHAEL ASTOR, Associated Press Writer RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The United States is confident that Brazil's new leftist president won't veer from the path of austerity and free-market policies, a senior U.S. Treasury official said Friday. U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Kenneth W. Dam said he was reassured by pledges from a top member of the leftist Workers Party that Brazil will honor all its commi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 4 13:16:26 PST 2002

29927 Fwd: Pew Research Center - New World Wide Poll -- rank: 1000

Date: 4 Dec 2002 20:04:52 -0000 Subject: Pew Research Center - New World Wide Poll From: mailprc at people-press.org Despite an initial outpouring of support for America after last year's terrorist attacks, discontent with the United States has grown around the world over the past two years. The U.S. image has been tarnished in all types of nations: among NATO allies, in developing countries, in Eastern Europe and, most dramatically, in Muslim societies. The slipping U.S. image is one of the maj ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 4 12:28:40 PST 2002

29928 Here We Go Again: Nathan Newman's Obsession With The Democrats -- rank: 1000

Anthony Kennerson wrote: >And finally....I didn't know that it was the duty of WBAI or any >"community-based" radio station to sacrifice their political >principles just to pander to any particular group. This was, of course, my point in the first place. Rather than enunciating explicit political principles, some Pacifica types only talk about the "community" or "communities," who are defined by demographics rather than political affinities. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 4 12:27:33 PST 2002

29929 Ex-Aide Now Grovels -- rank: 1000

[A look back at DiIulio's career....] <http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0205-02.htm> Published on Monday, February 5, 2001 in the Washington Post Will the Real John DiIulio Please Stand Up by Vincent Schiraldi In the heat of the controversy over the creation of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Groups, John DiIulio, the office's director, has been lauded as a man of intellect and science. But for those of us who have followed the politics of crime and punishment for the past decad ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 4 09:52:36 PST 2002

29930 Williams on Rieff -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >btw: is _The Nation_ Ian Williams the same one that i see on >ITN teevee sometimes? Is he working class English with a big face, reddish hair, and an ebullient demanor? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 3 15:51:25 PST 2002

29931 Israel #2 in inequality -- rank: 1000

[I'm going to have Jonathan Nitzan, co-author with Shimshon Bichler of a new Pluto book called The Global Political Eocnomy of Israel, on the radio Thursday. They describe a very concentrated society with a small, almost incestuous ruling class.] <http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=236988&contrassID =2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y> Ha'aretz - December 4, 2002 Israel No. 2 in West in social inequality By Ruth Sinai Israel is now rated s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 3 15:25:24 PST 2002

29932 rooting out evil -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 3 14:49:09 PST 2002

29933 How Hate Media Incited the Coup: Venezuela's Press Power -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Didn't Doug vote for Aronowitz, though? Yup, despite the fashion crime, and Stanley's other gaffes as well. Not because I'm a fan of his, but because I wanted my puny vote to count towards the 50,000 necessary to keep the Green Party on the ballot. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 3 14:33:05 PST 2002

29934 How Hate Media Incited the Coup: Venezuela's Press Power -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I'm not sure what you mean when you say that "for these purposes, >the 'black community' largely excludes that portion of the black >population that votes Democratic and goes to church." Who is doing >the excluding? WBAI? Yes, and people who talk like that generally. Including our very own Carrol Cox, who talks about the necessity of following black leadership, but never so far as voting Democratic. I've asked him many times to explain this contra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 3 13:07:33 PST 2002

29935 How Hate Media Incited the Coup: Venezuela's Press Power -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi quoted Robert McChesney: >Who do you want to reach? You want to expand your audience. There >are a thousand different directions to go. Let's say that there are >groups you want to reach that you're not currently reaching in the >community, go into those communities, get programmers, give them >training, see what they want to do. Engage in a process of bringing >people aboard. That's the only way you can really do it that I can >think of. The way not to do i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 3 11:57:23 PST 2002

29936 riots vs revolutions -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >That must have been before all that gangsta hip hop crap - a "black" >identity invented by white media moguls. I hope you're not dis'ing Fat Joe with this remark. I love Fat Joe. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 3 11:47:28 PST 2002

29937 extreme nonsense! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Is this the Robert Lederman who used to be Ghouliani's bete noire? > >Is he serious about this stuff? Yes. He seems to have gone way around the bend into the rankest conspiracism. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 3 11:45:50 PST 2002

29938 extreme nonsense! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Brooklyn Green loon, Mitchel Cohen Of the Red Balloon Collective? What a hilarious dude - the very image of the thoughtless hyperactivist. In his appearance at the Brecht Forum, former NYS gubernatorial (goobernatorial?) candidate Stanley Aronowitz singled out Mitch for praise. With that kind of political sense (and his stained shirt), it's no wonder that Stanley couldn't hit the 50k vote mark to keep the Greens on the ballot. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 3 11:44:09 PST 2002

29939 How Hate Media Incited the Coup: Venezuela's Press Power -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Why is the Venezuelan experience irrelevant? Left-wingers in >Venezuela -- with the president himself a left-wing populist -- are >larger, more militant, and far better organized than in the USA. >What makes you think that we can succeed in "owning" commercial TV >communication when left-wing Venezuelans can't? So what's your vision? The U.S. left is very very weak. How to make it even as strong as the Venezuelan left? Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 3 11:39:43 PST 2002

29940 end of American empire? -- rank: 1000

The decline and fall of the American empire An expert on geopolitics says forget Islamic terrorism -- the real future threat to America's supremacy will come from Europe. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Suzy Hansen Dec. 2, 2002 | The title of Charles A. Kupchan's new book, "The End of the American Era," sounds grim, but after a year of terrorist violence, "spectacular" attack warnings and ominous analyses of fundamentalist Islam, his argument is almost refreshing. According to Kup ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 3 11:16:48 PST 2002