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30316 Fwd: ICFTU on-line: Israel-Palestine- "Stop the carnage now" -- rank: 1000

[wonder if the AFL-CIO would issue something this "balanced"?] ICFTU OnLine... 076/020412/ND "Stop the carnage now", demands ICFTU General Secretary on his return from Israel and Palestine. Brussels, 15 April (ICFTU OnLine): "My visit revealed the full tragedy of two peoples who want peace, but who are locked into a conflict which is causing untold human suffering, can have no useful outcome, and threatens still greater calamity if it is not stopped immediately. The inte ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 15 09:15:57 PDT 2002

30317 sweeney is speaking monday at the pro-israel rally with netanyahu -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: > >You may have noticed that all this nationalist protectionism hasn't >done anything to save jobs in the U.S., and that labor has pretty >much lost all the major trade battles. You'd think that might lead to >a strategy rethink, but apparently not. >Doug > >mbs: I don't think labor has any choice but to defend >jobs. But the strategy has been a complete failure - as UNITE! people will concede in private. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 14 17:48:30 PDT 2002

30318 Venezuelan Interim President Resigns -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >As Tim's comments show, there are a bunch who, despite China's nearly >complete capitulation to capitalist economics, continue to defend their >brutal anti-labor policies. No wonder you don't object to Michael Moore's bending the facts in the interest of portraying a Higher Truth. One can object to the demonization of China - with all the ancient anti-communist rhetoric joined to even more ancient Yellow Peril rhetoric - without "defending" China's labor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 14 14:44:45 PDT 2002

30319 sweeney & netanyahu -- rank: 1000

Tim Shorrock wrote: >The pro-Likud faction in labor and among many Dems is more to the right of >many Repubs. Here's Joe Lieberman weighing in, according to an AP story: >By pressuring Israel not to strike back, Lieberman said, President >Bush (news - web sites) had "muddied" the moral clarity gained by >the United States after the attacks. > >"The Bush administration has publicly and persistently pressured >Israel not to do exactly what we have rightly don ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 14 13:02:15 PDT 2002

30320 sweeney is speaking monday at the pro-israel rally with netanyahu -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >This is not new. There is a long-standing left-right anti-free >trade coalition in the Congress, with parallels among advocates. > >The left components may delude themselves as to their separateness >and purity, but the fact remains. > >I don't have a problem with it. You take votes where you can get >them, as far as Congress goes. More to the point is the policy in >question. Well, isn't that the danger of Washington-based politics? You're so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 14 12:58:12 PDT 2002

30321 Berube, Part Two -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese quoted: >But when the narrative of the attacks became more complex, the >Chomskian left did not. Slowly it became clear that for all its >past crimes, the U.S. government wasn't nearly as proximate a >cause of the attack as were, say, the governments of Saudi Arabia >and Egypt, U.S. "allies" who'd been dancing a dicey pas de deux >with their own Islamist radicals for twenty years in order to >keep the lid on the domestic unrest created in part by t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 13 08:51:28 PDT 2002

30322 One Moore stupid white man -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Yeah, Moore played with the timelines in Flint for dramatic effect, but the >real truth of despair and decline he documented was far more "true" than the >nitpickers who capture the prose of life without its poetry. No one should >take Moore too seriously as a scholar but he operates far more in the world >of art, so people rightly give him a lot more slack. It's one thing if Moore makes movies with complicated characters that viewers see in compli ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 13 09:37:07 PDT 2002

30323 sweeney is speaking monday at the pro-israel rally with netanyahu -- rank: 1000

Tim Shorrock wrote: >Sweeney's 'progressive' foreign policy at work. What a disgrace. He doesn't >speak for me, that's for sure. More great progressive moves by U.S. labor. This is from Jackie Calmes's WorkWeek column in yesterday's Wall Street Journal: >GOP PROTECTIONIST and textile magnate Roger Milliken forms a new >lobbying group, Attac, to oppose both "fast track" trade-negotiating >power for Bush, and the president's bid to give trade preferences to >Andean nati ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 13 09:23:28 PDT 2002

30324 Shock therapy -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >I post this because I was harping on the pernicious affects of shock therapy >in Russia. From an interview with Gorbachev (I know I post a lot of Gorby >stuff, but, dammit, I like him). Why? Does everyone in Russia still hate him? Back during Gorbymania days, Spy mag did a story saying that he was rather crude, and his Russian sounded like a rube's. Is there any truth to that? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 12 12:40:21 PDT 2002

30325 One Moore stupid white man -- rank: 1000

Charles Jannuzi wrote: >About the inaccuracies in Moore's book. Those who might need more accurate >information wouldn't likely turn to a book like that for it, would they? C'mon. People who write from the left should be extremely careful with their facts. There's nothing worse than having some right-wing or centrist wiseguy point out all the errors - who wants to look like an uninformed ranter, which is what lots of people think lefties are. A millionaire with a big Judith Regan-sized adv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 12 11:44:09 PDT 2002

30326 workers gains in the nineties -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >I am extremely skeptical about the worker's gains in the nineties article. > >1: these gains came during the biggest economic expansion in U.S. >history--they will as quickly be lost should a long >recession/unemployment follow But a) the long 1980s expansion produced real wage losses, and b) real wage gains accelerated during the period of formal recession. Should the recovery peter out and unemployment drift higher (like it did in the early 1990s), the wage ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 12 11:32:56 PDT 2002

30327 anti-globalization label -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >>Brad DeLong wrote: >> >>>We neoliberals at least have broad agreement that >>>developing-country governments are corrupt... >> >>Multinational corporations, however, are all fine, upstanding >>global citizens, who pay human wages, provide safe working >>conditions, tend carefully to the earth, pay their fair share of >>taxes, and publish honest accounts. Right? > >You seem to have me confused with Larry Li ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 12 08:45:22 PDT 2002

30328 What Kyoto means.... -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Frankly, if I had a choice between organic farming and writing >computer manuals, I'd rather farm. But, be that as it may, > >The point about organic farming is that: >-- it's based on a sustainable model >-- it does not use poisnous chemicals >-- it is more nutritious, recent studies show that organic produce >has up to twice the nutrients/vitamins as industrially produced food. >-- the food tastes good You forgot: -- requires more stoop labor, un ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 12 08:39:18 PDT 2002

30329 IMF special ops team in Argentina -- rank: 1000

I hadn't realized the IMF had special ops forces: At 3:20 PM -0400 4/11/02, contentservice at imf.org wrote: > Introductory Remarks on the Role of the IMF Mission in >Argentina by Anoop Singh, Director for Special Operations, IMF, >http://www.imf.org/external/np/tr/2002/tr020410.htm Guess what this highly trained professional is recommending? Tight fiscal and monetary policy and measures to reassure foreign investors. Bold, original stuff. And the IMF's critics have the nerve to say the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 12 08:31:32 PDT 2002

30330 What Kyoto means for personal incomes -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >You miss the point. Englishman Richard Barry calculated his own >personal production of greenhouse gases and compared it with the >Kyoto target divided by the number of people. Barry's conclusion is >that his consumption habits gave rise to three times as much CO2 as >Kyoto allowed him. Translate that into the expected change in >income, his wages fall by two thirds. > >Being honest, as opposed to wilfully vague, Barry - who plainly >sympathise ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 12 08:27:44 PDT 2002