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29986 W evaluated -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military and diplomatic illiteracy. - Gerald Kaufman, former foreign affairs spokesman of Britain's ruling Labor party

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 29 08:46:16 PDT 2002

29987 Jacko backup-o -- rank: 1000

New York Post - August 29, 2002 [Page Six] NOW that Sony has "indefinitely" delayed the last two albums Michael Jackson owes them, the one-time King of Pop is trying to "keep his name out there" by doing backup singing. Jacko is vocalizing behind Monica, the hot new Arista artist, on her new album, "All Eyes on Me." As one source said, "Michael is allowed to do duets and background stuff - he just can't do solo projects until his Sony contract is up. He knows h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 29 07:04:46 PDT 2002

29988 The Nation: "dreary" -- rank: 1000

[If this guy finds PJ O'Rourke funny, you gotta wonder...] LA Weekly - AUG. 30 - SEPT. 5, 2002 ON Bubble Wrap The Nation vs. The Weekly Standard by John Powers An audience is like a broad. If you're indifferent, Endsville. --Frank Sinatra AS FAR BACK AS I CAN REMEMBER THE NATION HAS been the journalistic lodestar of the American left. Now, in its 137th year, the magazine is on a commercial roll. Its subscriptions have risen steadily in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks. Its finances may ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 28 19:09:47 PDT 2002

29989 inspections won't still Bush's lust for Saddam's head -- rank: 1000

U.S. Wants Saddam Out, with or Without Inspections Wed Aug 28, 6:22 PM ET By Randall Mikkelsen CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The United States will seek the removal of President Saddam Hussein ( news - web sites) whether or not he allows a resumption of U.N. weapons inspections in Iraq, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. "The case for regime change is broader than just WMD (weapons of mass destruction)," the official told Reuters, speaking on condition that he not be identified. In remar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 28 18:09:45 PDT 2002

29990 Caldwell on class & space -- rank: 1000

New York Press - August 28-September 3, 2002 Hill of Beans Christopher Caldwell Sea Change This is not to say the Bobos haven't effected a permanent social change. You cannot spend all of August on Boston's North Shore, where I grew up, without being alarmed at the way much of it has been wrested from its-i.e., my-local culture, and now constitutes one of those little duchies of international wealth. It's never exactly been a place you would confuse with the Third World-but today's is a very dif ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 28 14:28:26 PDT 2002

29991 new stuff in radio archive -- rank: 1000

I've just posted two shows and an interview to my radio archive - <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. The shows are: August 22, 2002 DH on Jack Grubman & the telecoms bubble * Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, editors, After the World Trade Center, talking about where those buildings came from and what might take their place April 4, 2002 Greg Palast, author The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, on the Florida election scandal, the World Bank, and the journalism racket. * Norm ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 28 14:02:21 PDT 2002

29992 ADA launches attack on Greens -- rank: 1000

rickling at softhome.net wrote: >The site is sponsored, funded, and updated solely by Americans for >Democratic Action (ADA) Max, comrade, you still involved with this gang? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 28 12:19:19 PDT 2002

29993 comedy in America: no Palestinians, please -- rank: 1000

Palestinian comic told he can't go on at club Associated Press Posted on August 28, 2002 A Chicago comedian scheduled to open for comic Jackie Mason was told hours before the show he couldn't perform because he is of Palestinian descent, Mason's manager said. Ray Hanania, a 49-year-old fledgling comic, was supposed to open for Mason's Tuesday night show at Zanie's comedy club in Chicago. Instead, the club phoned him a few hours before to tell him his act was canceled. "It's not exactly like ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 28 09:43:17 PDT 2002

29994 Mass Movements and "The Left" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >But in all that literature there is not one single word on the subject >of how marxists should _start_ a mass movement. And who said that was a goal? There are plenty of movements, though how mass they are is subject to debate. Even in the dismal U.S. we've got the globokids, unions, greens, community organizers, etc. I don't always like their analysis and wish more of them would act in common. But it's not a matter of creating a movement ex nihilo. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 27 13:31:41 PDT 2002

29995 Calling in the loons -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >I don't think that theory is paramount, but business has spent hundreds of >millions of dollars to deform the study of economics. The main thrust of >economics in the US during the early 20th C. was relatively progressive. >Many economists were fired. Ford and Rockefeller gave many millions to >elite departments to change what they taught. > >Why bother if the stakes were nil? I never said the stakes were nil. Just because I said NCE was mostly &qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 27 10:18:09 PDT 2002

29996 calling in loans -- rank: 1000

eric dorkin wrote: >then, if you debunk the econ, the bidniz folks lose >their "intellectual legitimacy." Therefore, debunking >neoclassical econ is of paramount importance. You >need to make it clear that the emperor has no clothes > >This is what I take to be Franks' argument -- >persuasive too. But it doesn't matter. Neoclassical econ isn't about rational argument or belief - it's a form of ideology. Efficient market theory is clearly nonsense, but that hasn't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 27 09:22:08 PDT 2002

29997 calling in loans -- rank: 1000

eric dorkin wrote: >As for Shrub's policy, it is a hands-off business >knows best approach which seems to me derived from the >assumptions of neo-classical econ. Not to devolve into a vulgar Marxist or anything, but I think you've got the cause-effect sequence reversed here. Bidniz wants tax cuts and dereg, and the economists are always there to help out with some mystical equations explaining why this is a good idea. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 27 08:46:18 PDT 2002

29998 Global Day of Action against WSSD repression to go ahead tomorrow -- rank: 1000

Global Day of Action against WSSD repression to go ahead tomorrow 27 August 2002 4pm In the last week, over 200 protestors from South African social movements have been arrested. A peaceful candle-light procession has been met with stun grenades. Demonstrators have been assaulted, injured and demonised by the government. Tomorrow groups from around the world will take action in protest. Protests are planned for Cape Town, Paris, London, Toronto and Buenos Aires. It all started last week Wednesda ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 27 08:34:33 PDT 2002

29999 calling in loans -- rank: 1000

Joe R. Golowka wrote: >I think it's important to refute ideaologies that give cover to >reactionary policies like neoclassical economics. If astrology were >used to defend gutting welfare and the like then it would need >refuting too. The most powerful and prominent justifications for gutting welfare were moral - they eroded character, undermined marriage, bred dependency, etc. And fiscal - it cost too much money. How does an anarchist support welfare, anyway? It's a state program a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 27 08:02:52 PDT 2002

30000 calling in loans -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >Astrology hardly rules our lives -- at least, not yet, until the >goons in Washington and at the so-called international institutions >pick up on it and make decisions based on it. Meanwhile, >neoclassical economics rules -- and with ever greater vigour and >extension as more and more future rulers and decision makers get >their training in the US. Over in Vietnam, there are all these young >economists, US trained, pushing for big bang, even po ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 27 07:54:42 PDT 2002