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30271 meanwhile, inside the meeting... -- rank: 1000

[The anti-WB/IMF protests - which, wonderfully, have been much larger than expected - have obscured events inside. Here's a report from the WB's news service.] WORLD BANK IN WARNING ON SLOW PROGRESS ON POVERTY REDUCTION. The World Bank has warned in a new report that many developing countries are at risk of not achieving poverty goals established by the international community, writes the BBC Online. In response, the Bank is urging both rich and poor nations to recommit themselves to halving the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 21 09:22:48 PDT 2002

30272 Cooper interviews Fisk -- rank: 1000

LA Weekly - April 19 - 25, 2002 Beyond Disappointment The Middle East, according to Robert Fisk by Marc Cooper IN THE AGE OF GERALDO, IT SEEMS almost an anomaly that a rumpled, 56-year-old professorial British-newspaper foreign correspondent could draw a string of standing-room-only throngs to American university auditoriums. But that's exactly what the London Independent's Middle Eastern correspondent Robert Fisk has been doing from Chicago to Los Angeles, generating an often rock starlike rece ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 21 09:18:23 PDT 2002

30273 200,000 Protest the "War Without End" -- rank: 1000

Tom Wheeler wrote: >http://www.counterpunch.org >200,000 Protest the "War Without End" Wow. That's the most outlandish estimate I've heard yet. Where'd that one come from? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 21 09:07:40 PDT 2002

30274 Fwd: question about Manuel Castells -- rank: 1000

Reply-To: wideye at ziplink.net From: "* aml *" <wideye420 at hotmail.com> To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: question about Manuel Castells Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 06:52:24 -0700 Doug, would you be kind enough to post this to the list. I'm away from home and am using my unsub'd hotmail account. Thanks --------------- I'm looking for opinions on Manuel Castells. I've been using a bunch of his work in some research I'm doing as well as taking one of his classes next fall and wou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 20 14:02:55 PDT 2002

30275 compare & contrast -- rank: 1000

Two newspapers, two headlines in virtually same front-page position, same day (April 19): NY Times: "Israelis Mourn Their Dead In Long Search for Solace" Financial Times: "UN envoy condemns Jenin destruction as 'horrific'"

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 19 08:00:48 PDT 2002

30276 DC protest map -- rank: 1000

The Washington Post has helpfully provided a map & schedule of events in DC this weekend: <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/graphics/protests_041502.html>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 19 06:33:41 PDT 2002

30277 Sullivanians -- rank: 1000

Anyone know anything about a weird NYC-based psychotherapy cult known as the Sullivanians? They had a brush with fame in the 1980s. Someone wrote me asking if I knew anything about them. I only remember their moment of fame and not much more. If anyone does know, please contact me offlist. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 19 06:05:10 PDT 2002

30278 Greenspan, thinking -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >No, even after he dies, they'll leave him propped up in a chair, >contemplating interest rate hikes. "I would not only reappoint Mr Greenspan, but if Mr Greenspan should die, God forbid, I would do like they did in the movie Weekend at Bernie's. I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him." - John McCain, during the 2000 campaign

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 18 16:16:59 PDT 2002

30279 rate of return on capital -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >I'm still trying to see why if the U.S. firms reach a point where >they can't make a high enough rate of profit in the U.S and >therefore invest in foreign countries ( developed or developing), >that the other developed countries can invest here and make a profit >that seemed to have reached a limit for the U.S. firms (causing them >to invest over there). And alternatively, why can the U.S. firms >make satifactory profit in the the other developed coun ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 18 15:49:04 PDT 2002

30280 rate of return on capital -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Why is it the the U.S. direct investment in those other developed >countries is able to make more profit than the capital that those >countries send away to the U.S. ? Why is the direct investment from >the other developed countries in the U.S. able to make more profit >in the U.S. than the capital that the U.S. invests in other >countries ( because it no longer makes enough profit in the U.S. ) ? Generally, U.S. assets abroad are more profitable than fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 18 12:16:17 PDT 2002

30281 HRW to Israel: Don't Coerce Civilians to Do Army's Work -- rank: 1000

From: Human Rights Watch <hrwatchnyc at igc.org> Subject: Israel: Don't Coerce Civilians to Do Army's Work Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:26:14 +0000 Israel: Don't Coerce Civilians to Do Army's Work The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) routinely compel civilians to assist in its military operations, Human Rights Watch charged in a new report released today. The twenty-four page report, In a Dark Hour: The Use of Civilians During IDF Arrest Operations, documents how the IDF routinely has taken civil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 18 11:41:13 PDT 2002

30282 corruption in Russian universities -- rank: 1000

[apropos a recent thread] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - April 18, 2002 Reports of Bribe-Taking at Russian Universities Have Increased, Authorities Say By BRYON MACWILLIAMS Moscow Reported instances of bribery and corruption increased dramatically last year on campuses throughout Russia, according to law-enforcement officials. More than 1,000 incidents of bribe-taking and related abuses by administrators and professors were confirmed last year, an increase of 32 percent over the 200 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 18 11:20:23 PDT 2002

30283 'outside the circuits of trade and capital' -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >Doug writes: > >"Many poor countries are poor not because of foreign investment, but >because they're largely outside the circuits of trade and capital. I >can think of at least one person who gets very upset when I say >that, but it's true." > >You can say that, but I don't think it is right to take the next >step and argue that these areas of the world are outside the >capitalist system altogether. Rather the terms of their integ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 18 11:07:24 PDT 2002

30284 let's crash office for macs with lamer HTML email -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >i just thort it's funny b/c dougdaddy likes to imagine he's >invincible b/c he has a mac. heh. No, I am invicible because I have righteousness on my side. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 18 08:40:43 PDT 2002

30285 Bush on history -- rank: 1000

And in galactic time, the 100 Years War wasn't even an eyeblink.... At 11:21 AM -0400 4/18/02, Yahoo! Alerts - Breaking News wrote: >WASHINGTON Bush says of Israel: "history will show that they >responded" to call for end of incursions.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 18 08:41:48 PDT 2002