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30106 economic & political attitudes -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr020814.asp> POLL ANALYSES August 14, 2002 Five Different Reactions To Economy Among The Public Economic and political attitudes highly correlated by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE Send to a Friend Printable Version Message to the Author PRINCETON, NJ -- At the end of July, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll showed that Americans in general are giving the current economy low ratings, and a majority believes that the economy is getting worse, rather than b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 14 16:44:00 PDT 2002

30107 unions -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Doug, what I was interested in hearing was your reasoning behind why >you feel socialization of control of capital seems to "change" the >analysis of who controls capital. I'm trying to figure out 1) who, if anyone, controls the system we call capitalism and how, 2) how to go about expropriating the expropriators, and 3) what in the modern capitalist firm is a foretaste of a better world, and how we might get there from here. When populists (like the analyt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 14 15:46:43 PDT 2002

30108 posted to radio archives -- rank: 1000

I've just posted two more individual interviews to my radio archive site: >Bill Robinson (recorded February 2002, broadcast March 14, 2002, >15:05, 5.2 mb) Robinson, a professor of sociology at the University >of California-Santa Barbara, talks about the emergence of a global >ruling class. He is the author of Promoting Polyarchy. An essay by >Robinson and Jerry Harris, "Towards A Global Ruling Class?," >published in Science and Society, is available here. Apologies f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 14 14:56:00 PDT 2002

30109 unions -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I think that the grouping that you are talking about is what C. >Wright Mills calls "the power elite." It is indeed the power elite >who make decisions on "the deployment of US imperial power abroad," >but is it the power elite who determine "the conditions of social >labor"? I prefer the term ruling class to power elite, but it's a class with several subspecialties. A bunch of CEOs might say, "W, I think you need to do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 14 14:10:49 PDT 2002

30110 Negri on Italy today -- rank: 1000

Le Monde diplomatique - August 2002 WHAT HAPPENS BEYOND DEMOCRACY? Italy's postmodern politics by ANTONIO NEGRI * _______________________________________________________________________________ A year ago the Genoa demonstrations against the G8 summit shocked Italy: they upset the plans of Sylvio Berlusconi, who had thought, with the overthrow of the traditional left, that he had carte blanche. By bringing people on to the streets, the victory of the right has raised hopes about the possibiliti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 14 12:08:21 PDT 2002

30111 From Empty to full Auditoriums: How, was post-leftism or something -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >"Important" is an understatement. It is also important to recognize that >we not only do not know where the next movement will come from or what >will trigger it, we don't have a very deep understanding of where _past_ >movements (revolutionary or otherwise) have come from. [...] >This is related to my continuing attempt to explain that it is of no use >to give a lecture or sermon (no matter how brilliant in content and >masterfully articulated) ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 14 10:53:51 PDT 2002

30112 Blurry Lines 1, was Re: unions -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > "Now such a minimal list of such maximal centrality and importance >bears a description in ordinary language -- but its proper designation >requires that evolutionary biologists utter a word rigorously expunged >from our professional consciousness since day one of our preparatory >course work: the concept that dare not speak its name -- essence, >essence, essence (say the word a few times out loud until the fear >evaporates and the laughter recedes). ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 14 09:44:15 PDT 2002

30113 Donahue a flop? -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - August 14, 2002 Donahue ratings grim for MSNBC One month after launching a new prime-time lineup crowned by talk show veteran Phil Donahue, MSNBC is still struggling in the ratings and has seen "Donahue" get crushed by CNN's "Connie Chung Tonight." The mood at MSNBC has turned from hopeful to grim over the last four weeks, insiders said, as Donahue's ratings spiralled down, last week falling to 393,000 viewers from a start of 660,000 viewers. For the mon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 14 09:31:37 PDT 2002

30114 unions -- rank: 1000

billbartlett at dodo.com.au wrote: >OK, I'll bite. > >On 13/8/02, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>It matters because it's not that easy to specify how corporations >>are run - for whom, by whom, under what principles. > >These questions are elementary. Corporations are run in the >interests of their shareholders, they are managed by the managers >and their Boards. The principle is profit. Having written a 400-page book on these matters, maybe I'm biased in thinking th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 14 09:02:11 PDT 2002

30115 unions -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >but power not exercised is still power none the less. the >'idle rich' are not harmless because they are down with the >folks. they are (relatively) benign due to their own whims. >they still benefit from their fellows who do run things. Fer sure. At best, they're mere bloodsuckers, living off the labor of others. At best. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 14 08:40:06 PDT 2002

30116 NYC to recognize gay marriage -- rank: 1000

New York Sun - August 13, 2002 Gay Marriages To Be Recognized New York City could become the first jurisdiction in America to apply the word "marriage" to gay and lesbian unions, a move that would shatter a taboo in the legislation of homosexual relationships. The City Council is expected to vote to approve a bill Thursday that would give formal recognition to "members of a marriage that is not recognized by the state of New York, domestic partnership, or civil union, lawfully ent ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 13 16:02:25 PDT 2002

30117 unions -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >There're certainly not as many individual capitalists as there used >to be (along the lines of J P Morgan et al., right?), and more >people can and do get a share of the capitalist "pie" by owning >shares in companies (is this what you mean by "socialization"?). >But wouldn't the vast majority of those share-holders get very >little out of their stocks, assuming they keep them for dividends? >Wouldn't they have to work "9-5" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 13 16:00:10 PDT 2002

30118 libertarianism & left/right -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher quoted: >"You say, away with you Communists; we say, away with you >imperialists," Mao says, laughing. > >"I think both of us must be true to our principles," is Kissinger's >sour reply. Wow. Have any of the Maoist groups weighed in with commentary on this exchange? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 13 15:36:55 PDT 2002

30119 FOMC: rate same, bias towards ease -- rank: 1000

Nomiprins at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 8/13/02 5:58:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >dhenwood at panix.com writes: > >>It wouldn't surprise me if they're setting us up for a surprise - >>just when people give up on a rate cut, they spring on on us. Maybe >>before the meeting, if the August employment report is ugly. >> > >Yeah - but, first they'd pretend it wasn't ugly enough and then >they'd cut rates after more hope was lost. I've often thought & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 13 15:21:18 PDT 2002

30120 FOMC: rate same, bias towards ease -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: Nomi, why could you not say that the rate cuts prevented a more serious implosion? <http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/ifdp/2002/729/default.htm> Preventing Deflation: Lessons from Japan's Experience in the 1990s Alan Ahearne; Joseph Gagnon; Jane Haltmaier; Steve Kamin 2002-729 (June 2002) Abstract: This paper examines Japan's experience in the first half of the 1990s to shed some light on several issues that arise as inflation declines toward zero. Is it possible ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 13 15:02:16 PDT 2002